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CHAPTER VI
TELEPATHIC PROJECTIONS
We arrive now at an order of manifestations that are produced at a distance, without the assistance
of physical organs, and during the waking state. These are known under the general vague term of telepathy.
As we have already stated, these occurrences are not an indication of a morbid or diseased personality, as some
observers have believed, but, on the contrary, they are the coming to light of superior powers in the human
breast. We should regard them as the dawning of future qualities with which man will be endowed. The
examination of these facts leads to the proof that the exterior ME, and the ME surviving death, are identical,
and represent two aspects of one and the same existence.
Telepathy, or projection of the thought to a distance, and even of manifesting thought in pictures,
causes us to mount one more step on the ladder of psychic life. Here we are in the presence of a powerful act
of the will. The soul itself imparts its vibrations - a proof that it is not a composite aggregation of forces, but
on the contrary, the center of life and of will in us - a dynamic center that commands the organism and directs
the functions. Telepathic communications do not admit of limitations. The power and independence of the soul
reveals itself in a sovereign fashion, for here the body takes no part. It is more of an obstacle than an aid. So it
produces phenomena after death, with even greater intensity, as we will see by the following. Myers says:
‘Auto-projection is the one definite act which man is capable of accomplishing equally as well before death as
after.’ Telepathic communication at a distance has been established by experiences which have become
classic. M. Pierre Janet, Professor of Sorbone, and Doctor Gibert of Havre, called mentally to Léonie, a
telepathic subject, to come to them - a distance of two miles - and she came.
These experiences have been constantly multiplied. The Daily Express of London, 17th July 1903,
relates exchanges of thought that took place in the office of the Review of Reviews, Strand, London. Six
people witnessed these experiments - among them Doctor Wallace, 39 Harley Street, and W. Stead. The
messages were sent by Mr. Richardson of London, and received by Mrs. Franck of Nottingham, at a distance
of 110 miles.
The Banner of Light, of 12th August 1905, relates that an American, Mrs. Burton Johnson of Des
Moins, sitting in her room at the Victoria Hotel, received four times telepathic messages from Palo Alto,
California, a distance of 3000 miles. These facts were rigorously investigated, and verified beyond question.
Visions of people who are living are frequent occurrences. My own mother, during the last days of her
life, saw me often near her in Tours, though I was far away, traveling in the East. This phase of phenomena is
explained by the projection of the will of the one manifesting toward the recipient. In the following cases we
will see the psychic personality, the soul, disengaging itself entirely from the body and appearing as a
phantom. Testimony of this kind is abundant. The Society of Psychical Research in London has records of
nearly a thousand authentic cases of apparitions of living persons. These cases are attested to by people of high
moral and mental integrity. They form several volumes, and bear the names of men of science belonging to
academies and scientific societies. Among other names are those of Gladstone and Balfour.
This order of phenomena is generally attributed to a subjective character. But this opinion does not
submit to careful examination. Certain apparitions have been seen successively by several people in different
stories of a house. Others have impressed animals - dogs and horses. In certain cases the phantoms opened
doors, deplaced objects, and left their traces in the dust of the furniture. Voices have been heard, giving
information on unknown facts, afterwards verified. An ensemble of such occurrences has been published by
Doctor Dariex and Professor Charles Richet, in the Annals of Psychic Science, and by Flammarion in his book,
The Unknown. Three prominent journals of London reported, on 17th May 1905, a case of an apparition in
Parliament. The phantom of deputy Sir Carne Rasch, who was at that moment ill at his home, was seen by
three other deputies. Sir Gilbert Parker says of the occurrence: “I was to participate in the debate that day in
Parliament, but they forgot to call my name. As I resumed my place, my eyes fell on Sir Carne Rasch sitting in
his usual place. As I knew him to be ill, I made a friendly gesture, and said, “I hope you are better.” He made
no response; that surprised me. He was very pale; he was sitting tranquilly learning on one hand, his
expression impassible and hard.
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