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198 THE BEGINNINGS OF SEERSHIP.
eight or nine descriptive points concerning a man’s house, but failed to obtain correct replies to questions concerning things about which he was thinking.
Briefly, the story is as follows :—
A sceptic called to see me, and I told him of the faculty which at times I possessed. He asked me to let “I” go to Ireland, and bring back a description of his house, “I” went, and obtained about nine points correctly.
After “1” had returned he asked me further questions, such as, “ What was the wall-paper like?” “Did you see a strange thing in the corner of the sitting-room ?” I replied, “ No, ‘I’ only saw what I have told you.” Clearly he must have been thinking of the fact that there was no wall-paper at all, for, otherwise, he would not have tried to catch me tripping by referring to it. Also, he must have been thinking of the “strange object” (an old spin- ning wheel, I believe), or else he could not have referred to it.
Hence we see that “I” saw that which was not necessarily in his mind, but failed to “see” what certainly was in his mind.
eight or nine descriptive points concerning a man’s house, but failed to obtain correct replies to questions concerning things about which he was thinking.
Briefly, the story is as follows :—
A sceptic called to see me, and I told him of the faculty which at times I possessed. He asked me to let “I” go to Ireland, and bring back a description of his house, “I” went, and obtained about nine points correctly.
After “1” had returned he asked me further questions, such as, “ What was the wall-paper like?” “Did you see a strange thing in the corner of the sitting-room ?” I replied, “ No, ‘I’ only saw what I have told you.” Clearly he must have been thinking of the fact that there was no wall-paper at all, for, otherwise, he would not have tried to catch me tripping by referring to it. Also, he must have been thinking of the “strange object” (an old spin- ning wheel, I believe), or else he could not have referred to it.
Hence we see that “I” saw that which was not necessarily in his mind, but failed to “see” what certainly was in his mind.
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