![]() But as our studies progressed it gradually became more and more evident that E. P.) at first with the more tentative meaning, "perception without the function of the recognized senses". I began using the term "Extra-Sensory Perception" (E. How long this may require one cannot estimate but it is the only truly scientific course to take. By proceeding always from already organized territory out into the phenomena on trial, never lowering the standards of caution in the face of the desire to discover or the need to generalize, the field of these unrecognized mental occurrences can and will ultimately be organized and internally systematized to a degree that will simply compel recognition. It is the more general purpose behind this work to push on with caution and proper systematization into all the other seriously alleged but strange phenomena of the human mind. This work is, then, a step, a modest advance, in the exploration of the unrecognized boundaries and reaches of the human personality, with a deep consciousness of what such steps might lead to in the way of a larger factual scheme for a better living philosophy. Rather it seems to me the great fundamental question lying so tragically unrecognized behind our declining religious system, our floundering ethical orders and our unguided social philosophies. The need felt for more definite knowledge of our place in nature is no mere academic one. By a cautious study of the unusual we come most readily into an understanding of the more usual and common.īut it is a "philosophy for use" that these studies are meant to serve. ![]() Studied here promise more of such "philosophical fruit" as that mentioned than any other inquiry I can conceive of. The somewhat unknown and unrecognized features of mind such as are Ever since reading, ten years ago, of the telepathy experiments carried, out by Professor Lodge when he was a young Professor of Physics at Liverpool I have been bent upon this quest. The work reported here is motivated largely by what may be termed an interest in its philosophical bearingby what it can teach us of the place of human personality in nature and what the natural capacities are that determine that place. There is today much more natural inquiry as a consequence and less of the older blind intolerant credulityfor or against. Bulletin XVI) popular tests for telepathy conducted by the Scientific American Magazine favorable expressions by Freud, Whitehead and other prominent intellectuals in their lectures and other features and facts that reach and impress the minds of the people at large. There have been broadcasting telepathy experiments by radio in England and America the popular presentation of some remarkable evidence in Upton Sinclair's "Mental Radio", with introductions by William McDougall (here) and Albert Einstein (in Germany), (and with a splendid analysis by Walter Franklin Prince in B.S.P.R. In it we have had many features contributing to popular interest and enlightenment. Even so short a period as the last ten years has been one of marked transition. It is to be expected, I suppose, that these experiments will meet with a considerable measure of incredulity and, perhaps, even hostility from those who presume to know, without experiment, that such things as they indicate simply cannot be! But this inevitable reactionary response to all things new and strange, which is as old as the history of science, already shows many signs of decline, as the scientific world turns a "scientific attitude", one of open-minded but cautious inquiry, toward the facts. We need, of course, to have them discussed before a larger forum. Now that we are fast approaching the mark of 100,000 trials or individual testswill doubtless be beyond it before this leaves the pressit seems entirely safe to publish these experiments. These two years have been spent in making sure "ten times over", in testing and re-testing at every reasonable point of doubt, and in going on beyond the point of proof into the discovery of natural relationships or laws that will make the capacity for this mode of perception more understandable and acceptable to those who must understand somewhat before they can believe. It is three years since it was begun, and more than two years since the results began to be so striking as to move some of my interested friends to urge publication. THERE has been considerable deliberation prior to the publication of this work on perception-without-the-senses. ![]() Sacred Texts Parapsychology Index Previous NextĮxtra-Sensory Perception, by J.
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