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New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4330, 13 April 1901, Page 6 (Supplement)

In a lecture on“ Psychical Research: Its Aims and Results," delivered at the Durham College of Science, Newcastle, Professor W. F. Barrett. F.S.A., of the Royal College of Science, Dublin, said there were three ways in which the existence of telepathy had been proved to his mind- First, by experiments in that abnormal ftate which is called the hypnotic or mesmeric trance; secondly, experiments in the normal waking state; and thirdly, certain observations of sporadic phenomena which they- could not reproduce by experiment at pleasure, but which might be observed and classified. The lecturer quoted numerous cases of thought transference, and showed experiments to prove, physically, the .existence between inanimate* objects of sympathetic responsiveness and degrees of sensitiveness. He recorded instances of telepathic impact between living persons by way of simultaneous feeling, sounds, and sight. The appearance of apparitions was to be accounted for by telepathic impacts, the telepathic influence continuing to operate after the shock of death.