§ 1. As the study of any large amount of the evidence that follows is a task for which many readers will be disinclined, a selection of typical cases will be presented in this chapter, illustrative of the various classes into which the phenomena fall .......... 131-132

§ 2. The logical starting-point is found in the class that presents most analogy to experimental thought-transference - i.e., where the percipient's impression is not externalised as part of the objective world. An example is given of the transference of pain, and a possible example of the transference of smell; but among the phenomena of spontaneous telepathy, such literal reproductions of the agent's bodily sensation are very exceptional . . 132-135

§ 3. Examples of the transference of a somewhat abstract idea; of a pictorial image; and of an emotional impression, involving some degree of physical discomfort ........... 135-141

§ 4. Examples of dreams, - a class which needs to be treated with the greatest caution, owing to the indefinite scope which it affords for accidental coincidences. One of the examples (No. 23) presents the feature of deferment of percipience - the telepathic impression having apparently failed at first to reach the threshold of attention, and emerging into consciousness some hours after the experience on the agent's side in which it had its origin ..... 141-146

§ 5. Examples of the "borderland" class - a convenient name by which to describe cases that belong to a condition neither of sleep nor of provably complete waking consciousness; but it is probable that in many of the cases so described (as in No. 26), the percipient, though in bed, was quite normally awake . . . . . . . . . . . 146-151

§ 6. Examples of externalised impressions of sight, occurring in the midst of ordinary waking life. In some of these we find an indication that a close personal rapport between the agent and percipient is not a necessary condition of the telepathic transference; and another is peculiar in that the phantasmal figure is not recognised by the percipient ..... 151-162

§ 7. Examples of externalised impressions of hearing; one of which was of a recognised voice, and one of an inarticulate shriek .... 162-166

§ 8. Example of an impression of touch; which is also, perhaps, an example of the reciprocal class, where each of the persons concerned seems to exercise a telepathic influence on the other ....... 166-168

§ 9. Example of the collective class, where more percipients than one take part in a single telepathic incident . ...... 168-170

§ 10. Among the various conditions of telepathic agency, the death-cases form by far the commonest type. Now in these cases it is not rare for the agent to be comatose and unconscious; in other cases, again, he has been in a swoon or a deep sleep; and there is a difficulty in understanding an abnormal exercise of psychical energy at such seasons. The explanation may possibly be found in the idea of a wider consciousness, and a more complete self, which finds in what we call life very imperfect conditions of manifestation, and recognises in death not a cessation but a liberation of energy . . . . 170-172