RADIO TELEPATHY TEST

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 26, 30 July 1927, Page 20

RADIO TELEPATHY TEST

SOME REMARKABLE POINTS,

Some remarkable points are raised in the English "Radio Times" by Dr. V. J. Woolley, hon. secretary of the Society for Psychical Research, who, with feir Oliver Lodge, recently conducted the wireless telepathy experiment from the Daventry and London stations. Dr. Woolley states that 25,320 replies were received from all over the British Isles, the Continent, and America, and at least one from Australia. Discussing the second subject, a Japanese print of a human skull, resting on grass, with two birds, Dr. Woolley states thc.t only four people described the picture as a picture of a skull, onoe of whom added tho remarkable detail that it represented a skull in a garden. Two others described it as a picture of a skeleton. There were also eight listeners who recorded an emotion of fear or repulsion, and 30 who described a picture of birds. Dr. Woolley points out that "previous attempts at experimental telepathy have shown us that when a scries of objects is used there may be a tendency I for the impression of a given object to be delayed so that -it is received by the 'percipient' at a later stage in the, series, and thus appear to synchronise with a later and different object which the agent is trying to transmit. In view of this, it seems of interest to note that No. 3 object was given by no fewer than 687 listeners as a skull, and by 41 as a skeleton, while No. 5 was given by 148 as a skull, and by 4S as a. skeleton. With respect to No. 3, scented sprays of white lilac, only one person named white lilac and one mauve lilac, but 'scented flowers' or 'white flowers' were given by 151 people for No. 3 and by 26 for No. 5." Dr. Woolley, wearing a grotesque mask and a bowler hat, -was the fifth object. Sev-enty-six people recorded feelings of amusement, 51 gave an impression of a bowler hat, 25 of a black or man's hat, and seven of a definitely wrong kind of hat. Eighty-three others recorded an impression of a mask. Objects one and four were the two of Clubs and nine of Hearts respectively, cut by chance from a full pack. "InH our counting," states Dr. Woolley, "we kept a note of the numbers of records giving the two of Clubs in either position, since we wished to see how often the first card appeared as a delayed impression in the wrong place. It seemed, however, impossible that an impression of No. 4, the nine of Hearts, as occurring in the first place, could be due to more than chance, and such records were counted as complete failures. The figures for the two of Clubs, however, are available, and subject to a recount now in progress, are as follow:—Two of Clubs, given as No. 1, 148 records; two of Clubs, given as No. 4, 39 records; nine of Hearts, given as No. 4, 93 records. Now these numbers are much below what would bo given by merely chanco guessing, which would be about 500 in each case, but our recount, so far as it has gone, shows that in tho vast majority of records wo have not got to do with really chanco guessing, and the laws of chance give us very little help. Literally thousands of listeners choose Aces, generally the Ace of Spades, and hundreds more choose Kings and Jokers."