This is the case to which one pays the least attention, because it is the conscious ego which perceives this kind of influence, and the ego deliberates whether it will accept or reject the influence. Therefore the case is apparently normal.

The following is one of numerous examples taken from the collection entitled Telepathic Hallucinations.

Mr. A. Skirving, master-mason of the Winchester Cathedral, made the following deposition:

"I was working in Regents Park for Messrs. Mowlen, Burt and Freeman, who at this time had a contract with the government for all the masonry work of the Capitol. I think it was at Gloucester Gate - in any case, it was at that gate in Regent's Park to the west of the Zoological Gardens in the northeast corner of the Park. The distance from my house was too great for me to return for lunch so I carried my dinner with me and for that reason I had no need to leave my work during the day.

"One day, however, I suddenly felt an intense desire to return to my house. As I had nothing to do there, I tried to rid myself of this wish but it was impossible. The obsession to return home grew from moment to moment, but it was ten o'clock in the morning and there was nothing which should have called me from my work at that hour. I grew restless and ill at ease and felt that I should go, even at the risk of being laughed at by my wife: I could give no reason for leaving my work and losing six pence an hour for a stupid impulse. However, I could not rest. Finally I went home, moved by an urging which I could not resist.

"When I reached the door of my house, I knocked and my wife's sister opened it. She was a married woman who lived several streets farther away. She looked surprised and said to me, 'Well, Skirving, how did you know?' 'Know what?' I answered. 'Why, about Mary Ann?' 'I know nothing about Mary Ann' (my wife). 'Then, what is bringing you back at this hour?' And I answered her, 'I can hardly tell you, it seemed to me that I was needed here at home. But what has happened?' Then she told me that a cab had run over my wife about an hour ago and that she had been seriously hurt. She had not ceased calling for me since her accident and had several violent crises. I hurried up the steps and although she was very ill she recognized me at once. She held out her arms to me, wound them about my neck and pressed my head to her breast. The crisis passed immediately, and my presence calmed her visibly: then she slept and was better. Her sister told me that she had uttered heart-rending cries to call me to her although there was not the least probability that I would come. This brief story has but one merit: it is strictly true."

Alexander Skirving.

The action produced upon a brain at a distance and by an exterior agent becomes even more evident when two separated persons simultaneously obey the same impulse.

Here is a case given by a physician, Dr. Ede of Guilford:

Lady G. and her sister had passed the evening with their mother, who was in her usual health, physically and mentally, at the time of their departure. In the middle of the night Lady G.'s sister awoke, greatly frightened, and said to her husband, "I must go at once to my mother - please have the carriage called. I am sure that she is ill."

Her husband, after having vainly tried to persuade his wife that it was only imagination, summoned the carriage. When she drew near her mother's house, at the point of intersection of two streets, she saw Lady G. approach in her carriage.

Each sister asked the other why she was there and each gave the same reply, "I could not sleep, feeling sure that mother was ill. That is why I returned."

When they reached the house, they saw at the door their mother's personal maid and learned from her that their mother had been taken ill suddenly. She was dying and had expressed an ardent wish to see her daughters.1

There are hundreds of classic examples which I might cite. The following is from the investigation of M. C. Flammarion in his book:

L'Inconnu et les problemes psychiques. {The Unknown and Psychic Problems.)

27th Case: My great Aunt, Mme. de Thiriet, feeling that she was dying, appeared, four or five hours before her death, to be meditating deeply.

1 Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research. (After the pamphlet by Ed. Bennet.)

"Are you in greater pain?" asked the lady, who told me this incident. "No, my dear, but I have just called Midon for my burial."

Midon was a woman who had served her, and who lived at Eulmont, a village 10 kilometers from Nancy, where Mme. Thiriet was living. The lady who was present during her last moments thought that she was dreaming. But two hours later this lady was astounded at the arrival of Midon with black garments in her arm. She said that she had heard Madame call her to attend her deathbed and render the last services.

A. d'Arbois de Jubainville, Retired Custodian of Waters and Forests, Chevalier of the Legion of Honor at Nancy.

It will be noted that in this case the agent was conscious of the telepathic action produced upon the subject.