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Journal of the Society for Psychical Research V31 1939-40 JOURNAL OF THE Society for Psychical Research VOL. XXXI 1939— 1940 For Private Circulation among Member;; and Associates only THE SOCIETY'S ROOMS 31 TAVISTOCK SQUARE, LONDON, W.C. i All rights reserved CONTENTS PAGE A Well-Evidenced Precognitive Dream - . - - 2 Mr Tyrrell's Electrical Apparatus - _ - . g - Case : A Coincidence of Dreams - - - - - 14 Annual Report of the Council for 1938 - - - - 16 Case : An Apparition of a Dead Person Seen in Daylight by Two Percipients -------- 33 Case : A Doctor's Impression Suggesting Distant Telepathy from a Patient -------- 34 Case : A Dream Anticipating Future Event - - - 47 Case : A Veridical Impression of Non-Existent Words in a Letter ---------- 53 Experiments in Automatic Writing ; by Geraldine Cummins 62 Incidents of Bygone Days ; by Count Perovslcy-Petrovo- Solovovo - -- -- -- --79 Case : The Detection of a Theft through Information Given by a Medium - -- -- - ..g]^ Case : The Question of Motive in an Apparently Precognitive Dream by Zoe Richmond ; ------ 33 Case : A Communicator Introduced in Automatic Script - 91 The Case of - the Stolen Jewels : A Further Note - - 95 A New Type of Proxy Case - - ; by C. Drayton Thomas 103 The Position of Psychical Research - - ; by W. H. Salter 106 A New Type of Proxy Case—Some Further Details - - 120 Case : Missmg Papers Located by an Apparently Paranormal Process - - - - - - ; by W. H. Salter 123 Annual Report of the Council for 1939 - - - - 134 o iv Contents • ; „• .•>.,''•' '•'>•> PAGE " i " A Case for Survival < -" i : . - 142 Case: Coincident DrfeaiHi&;' '' -r.. "I'^i''-] _ . 161 A Glimpse into the Future? By 1\R.C. - - - 163 - - - Case : The Missing Water Valve - - - 178 Freak Bridge Hands by AV. Whately Carington - - 181 ; " " Sir Ohver Lodge's Sealed Envelope - - - _ 192 A New Research Fund ------- 203 Paranormal Cognition : Some Comments on Mr Carington "s and iVIr Soal's Recent Experimental Results - - - 204 New Members - - - 14, 30, 46, 78, 101, 118, 177, 191, 203 Meetings of the Council - 14, 30, 46, 78, 90, 102, 158, 177, 178 Meetings of the Society - 14, 24, 31, 46, 62, 79, 90, 159, 160, 178, 191 Correspondence - - 8, 25, 37, 54, 106, 125, 166, 183, 192, 209 Reviews - 10, 41, 56, 75, 96, 113, 126, 153, 174, 187, 194, 210 Obituaries ------ 118, 134, 160, 190, 191 Erratum - - - - - - - - - - 176 Index - 216 — No. 551.— Vol. XXXI January 1939 JOURNAL OF THE Society for Psychical Research NOTICE OF MEETING A Private Meeting of the Society WILL BE HELD IN THE SOCIETY'S LIBRARY 31 TAVISTOCK SQUARE, LONDON, W.C. i On WEDNESDAY, 25 January, 1939, at ^.jo p.m. • - . WHEN Mr C. V. C. HERBERT WILL SPEAK ON " " Recent Work Carried Out by the Society N.B. No Tickets of Admission zvill be issued for this Meeting. Members and Associates will be admitted on signing their names at the door. Tea will be served from ^.45 p.m., to which Members and Associates are invited. 2 Journal of Society for Psychical Research January 1939 NOTICE OF FEBRUAEY MEETING The attention of Members is called to the statutory notice of the Annual General Meeting of the Society, which accompanies this issue of the Journal. The Meeting mil be held on the 22nd February. A WELL-EVIDENCED PRECOGNITIVE DREAM Dr. W. H. C. Tenhaeff, the holder at Utrecht University of the first academic appointment to be allotted to psychical research, and an Hon. Associate of the S.P.R., reports below a case which has come under his own observation. Most of our readers cannot avail themselves of the account in Dutch ^ which was briefly mentioned in " " our Notes on Periodicals last November ; and besides the evi- dential interest of the case Dr Tenhaeff puts forward an interesting problem about the kind of precognition that may be involved. In dreaming of an accident much resembling one which occurred two days after the dream, is the dreamer to be thought of as making use of her own future knowledge of the event—that is, as anticij^ating the impressions that she herself will later receive on learning of the acci- dent—or as making use of some clairvoyant prevision of the scene, which she did not in fact see when it subsequently occurred ? The acci- dent was not fatal in reality, but in the dream it was. Dr Tenliaeff and a co-worker of his point out that a confused impression that the accident was fatal could well be received by an eye-witness, whereas the published news of the accident did not convey the idea of a fatality. The point cannot be definitely judged in this case, since the dreamer first learned of the accident through her husband's verbal report of the news, and we do not know what impression she first received from his words ; and in any case the dream-mind itself may be looked to as the most likely source of emotional and dramatic additions to the verifiable details in a dream. But it is a point for further observation, whether evidence for precognition suggests only a paranormal anticipation of the percipient's oAvn future experience, or requires a theory of " second sight " by which the percipient observes future event directly as it wll occur. The following is Dr Tenhaeff's report of the case : On 18 November 1937, Mrs 0. of Amsterdam was put in touch with me by a lady whom she had met. Dr J. D., a physician at Amsterdam, had also advised her to communicate with me. Mrs 0. is a very simple woman (her husband is a house-painter), mother of three children. From what she told me, she was in a nervous con- ^ Tijdschrijt voor Parapsychologie, x, 4. 161. January 1939 A Well-Evidenced Precognitive Dream 3 dition which certain people were inclined to attribute to medium- ship, developing and not understood. Mrs 0. seemed very susceptible to hypnosis. I made some simple ex- periments with her, intended as preliminary trials, advised her not to have deaUngs with certain dabblers in parapsychology who appeared to be anxious to commiserate with her, and promised that I would investigate the question of her possessing latent paranormal faculties. On 19 November 1937, Dr J. D. wrote to me as follows : " Mrs 0. —W. has requested me to write to you about her. I lay particular stress on the fact that I am not her family doctor, but only acted as go-between to obtain her admission some months ago to a women's clinic, for a shght uterine disorder. She was operated on imder h}qDnosis. Meanwhile I found that she had already been under treatment for a long time by a doctor in this place who had regularly hypnotised her. Recently she came to me spontaneously for advice about her psychical constitution. She felt, internally, extremely on edge and was anxious for some means of self-expression. I had a few interviews "with her and she proved to be very easily susceptible to hypnosis. The only thing I could do was to talk with her and to warn her as to the influence of others. When she asked me what I thought about her applying to you I immediately gave my approval. ... I can't tell anything more about her but I hope that she can get from you the help which she so ardently desires." On Saturday evening, 27 November 1937, I received a letter from Mrs 0. rujming as foUows : " I intended writing to you yesterday by way of a safety-valve. You will understand this, I expect, for of course I am in a very tense condition. But I have had to wait until to-day in order to write you something else. You had told me that I was to pay attention to my dreams. Now I had a dream last night, and every- thing was so clear that I have a vivid recollection of it." (Numbers are inserted iu Mrs O.'s foUowing account of her dream, for future reference.) "I saw a level-crossing (1) and a long road (2) and meadows (3). Behind the gate (4) to the left stood a working lorry (5). A car came driving very quickly (6) which was in a hurry to cross (7), but in the middle a tjTe burst and the car drove full speed into the gate (8) and into the lorry (9) which was standing behind. Someone was killed on the spot (10). I saw him lying there, and it was Prince Bernhard (11). "VMiat do you think of that? Also deception? I hope this letter wiU not be of any value and that it will be indeed a deception. I write this really for the same reason as that letter to that old lady (12). But as a safety-valve too, for otherwise I walk A 2 ; 4 Journal of Society Jot Psychical Research January 1939 about all day long with it and see it always before me. Now I sMft it on to you. You will certainly be able to deal with it better than I. Don't you think it silly that I have written all this to you but I am so glad that you will help me. ... I am glad that I have written to you, and it makes me somewhat calmer again.—Yours faithfully, (Signed) Mrs 0." " " This letter was dated : Amsterdam, 27 November 1937 and it appears from the postmark that it was posted in the morning hours (probably under the first impression of the dream). I put the letter away in my desk. On Monday morning, 29 November 1937, I heard, by chance, the wireless report (9.45 a.m.) that Prince Bern- hard had met with a motor accident.
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