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Most college men regard the realm of the psychic only as an inexhaustible mine of rather interesting stories, and a "medium" as a species of charlatan earning a living by making giggling girls jump. In view of this wide-spread "he-man" contempt of such stories "authorized by a grandam", it is surprising that Professor MacDougall received as many as six hundred replies out of the fifteen hundred questionnaires which he sent forth...
...been confronted with the evidences of psychic phenomena can say that there is no case for investigation," declared Professor William Mc Dougall of the department of psychology at a meeting of the Graduate Schools Society in Phillips Brooks House yesterday afternoon...
...then described the various types of phenomena known as psychic. He said in part: "The first group,-- physical phenomena includes rappings, strange voices, the movement of inanimate objects "hauntings" and other outward manifestations of the supernatural--all the things, in other words, which constitute the stock in trade of an ordinary spiritualistic medium...
...explaining this type of phenomenon, there comes a rift in the ranks of the psychic investigators. Some believe that these messages come from the souls of the deceased in the next world. Others, the more rational group, believe that such messages are due rather to the subconscious transmission of thought from the mind of one living person to that of another. The first theory is known as the spiritualistic, the second as the telepathic...
...Both theories may be applied to the same psychic phenomenon; a mother for example, awakes from a dream with the terrifying realization that her son has been drowned in a shipwreck. According to the spiritualist, the soul of the dead man passes over head and conveyed the impression; according to the telepathist, a strong impression in the mind of the drowning man the moment before his death, is communicated to the mind of his mother, thousands of miles away by telepathic thought transference...