Two minds may be as harmoniously
attuned and communicate each with each. Of course, in the case of the
lutes there are actual vibrations, physical facts. But we know
nothing of vibrations in the brain which can traverse space to another
brain.
Many experiments have been made in consciously transferring thoughts
or emotions from one mind to another. These are very liable to be
vitiated by bad observation, collusion and other causes. Meanwhile,
intercommunication between mind and mind without the aid of the
recognised senses--a supposed process of "telepathy"--is a current
explanation of the dreams in which knowledge is obtained that exists
in the mind of another person, and of the delusion by virtue of which
one person sees another who is perhaps dying, or in some other crisis,
at a distance. The idea is popular. A poor Highland woman wrote to
her son in Glasgow: "Don't be thinking too much of us, or I shall be
seeing you some evening in the byre". This is a simple expression of
the hypothesis of "telepathy" or "mental telegraphy".
{31} Perhaps among such papers as the Casket Letters, exhibited to
the Commission at Westminster, and "tabled" before the Scotch Privy
Council.
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