This section is from the book "Phantasms Of The Living", by Edmund Gurney, Frederic W. H. Myers, Frank Podmore. Also available from Amazon: Phantasms of the Living.
§ 1. Emotional impressions, alleged to have coincided with some calamitous event at a distance, form a very dubious class, as (1) in retrospect, after the calamity is realised, they are apt to assume a strength and definiteness which they did not really possess; and (2) similar impressions may be common in the soi-disant percipient's experience, and he may have omitted to remark or record the misses - the many instances which have not corresponded with any real event. All cases must, of course, be rejected where there has been any appreciable ground for anxiety . . . . . . . . 190-191
§ 2. Examples which may perhaps have been telepathic; some of which include a sense of physical distress . ...... 191-195
§ 3. Examples of such transferences between twins . . . 195-197
§ 4, Examples where the primary element in the impression is a sense of being wanted, and an impulse to movement or action of a sort unlikely to have suggested itself in the ordinary course of things .... 197-202
The telepathic influence in such cases must be interpreted as emotional, not as definitely directing, and still less as abrogating, the percipient's power of choice: the movements produced may be such as the agent cannot have desired, or even thought of ........ . 202-204
 
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