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The Masquerade of Esp

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2022

Robert K. Nabours*
Affiliation:
Kansas State College

Extract

The supposed communication of one mind with another at a distance, without any means known to physical or psychological science, is a generally accepted definition of telepathy. Thus when persons sensorially isolated from each other experience congruence and coincidence of thoughts, emotions or actions they are considered as being in telepathic communication. Clairvoyance surmises the apprehension of particular objects and stimuli also without the employment of any of the agencies of the five senses. Although telepathy and clairvoyance have been thus recognized as distinct conjectures, either or both comprise features of Extra Sensory Perception (ESP). Both are conceived of as transcending the anatomical structures and physiological functionings that comprise the five senses. They therefore constitute a mysterious, additional sense which as yet cannot be ascribed to material bases or causes. However, the operations, if not the exact natures, of these recondite abilities have been, it is claimed, experimentally and precisely ascertained.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Philosophy of Science Association 1943

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References

1 New Frontiers of the Mind, J.B. Rhine, 1937; Extra Sensory Perception After 60 Years, J. B. Rhine and others, 1940; other books; Reports of the Soc. for Psychical Research and references therein; The Journal of Parapsychology, other journals and periodicals, and a profuse press.