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...Garrett was capable of self-induced trance, which to Dr. Rhine seemed to be self-hypnosis. In the trance state she underwent a change of voice, manner, posture and her utterances made it appear that she was invaded by the spirit of a deceased Arab who called himself Uvani. Dr. Rhine was not much concerned with whether "Uvani" was in fact an Oriental ghost, or the alter ego of a Schizoid personality, or a simple hallucination. He wanted to know what Mrs. Garrett in her normal state and in her trance could do with his cards. Findings...
...Rhine knows that any sane insurance actuary would agree with him that chance is ruled out. To rule out other factors he has taken elaborate measures. And whenever possible Dr. Rhine had witnesses present?departmental colleagues, skeptical or friendly, frequently Dr. McDougall himself. He even invited Wallace Lee, a professional magician, to observe some tests and explain the scores if he could. Magician Lee came and observed but did not explain...
...basis of these tests Dr. Rhine has concluded: "The ability to exercise clairvoyant and telepathic perception has been fairly well shown to be a natural capacity of the human species." He finds that, like manual dexterity, this ability increases with practice, is diminished by illness, fatigue, drowsiness, narcotic drugs. He finds that most persons have the ability in some degree, that at least one person in four has it in marked degree...
Having finished this chapter, for the time being, Dr. Rhine decided to begin systematic investigation of the capacities of "mediums" (whom he calls parasychic sensitives), whose special field is supposed to be perception without help from the five senses. Accordingly he invited Eileen J,. Garrett, a medium well known in Britain, to Durham to take his tests. Last week he published the results of this inquiry in Character and Personality...
Although Dr. Rhine felt that these results added one more brick to his edifice of proof that extrasensory perception is a reality, he concluded that the medium's ability was by no means extraordinary. Her best scores in telepathy were high, but had been surpassed by one of Dr. Rhine's own students, a young man with no pretensions to special psychic equipment. Strengthened was Dr. Rhine's conviction that sight without seeing is a natural and commonplace faculty, exercised by "the reception of an unknown form of energy in an unknown manner" but nevertheless "an integral part of mental...