PEEPS INTO THE UNSEEN

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1033, 25 July 1930, Page 6

PEEPS INTO THE UNSEEN

MYSTERIES OF THE MIND MENTAL RADIO WITH A FORK Upton Sinclair, the famous American. novelist, says be beli* res he is on the brink of discoveries vfci- h " ill throw a new light on mysteries of the mind. In collaboration with his wife, Mary Craig Sinclair, lie has conducted a series of experiments in telepathy that have been attended by remarkable results. “Mental radio” is the name they give to a new pursuit. Robert L. Irwin, a young businessman, sat in his home at Pasadena at a specified hour and made a drawing of a table fork. He then concentrated his entire attention on it for a period of from 15 to 20 minutes. At the same agreed hour, says the “Sunday Chronicle,” New York correspondent, Mrs. Upton Sinclair lay in semi-darkness in her home at Long Beach, 40 miles away. She thought of “Bob” IrWin — her brother-in-law —and tried to receive a thought impression from him. An image came to her repeatedly.' and she took a pencil and wrote, “See z table work. Nothing else.” Then Upton Sinclair made a series of rough drawings of anything that came into his head. Each of these was placed in a sealed envelope. Mrs. Sinclair, who had no knowledge of what was in the envelopes, took them one by one and placed them on her solar plexus. Having received what she considered was a convincing telepathic “message,” or image of the contents qf the envelope, she sat up and made fetches of what she “saw. " Upton Sinclair drew a cow, crudely, of course, as the inexpert would, and Mrs. Sinclair, simply by “sensing” the contents of the sealed envelope in which the drawing had been placed, drew her version of the cow. Commenting on the value of his experiments, many of which are described in detail in his new book, "Mental Radio,” Upton Sinclair states: “My wife and I present a mass of real evidence, and we shall not be troubled by any amount of ridicule from the ignorant. 1 tell you—telepathy happens!”