Category Archives: VISUALIZATION TESTS
16.3.4. TEST NUMBER FOURTEEN: VISUALIZED DIAGRAMS
16.3.4. TEST NUMBER FOURTEEN: VISUALIZED DIAGRAMS
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This test has been highly successful under exacting conditions. Its very simplicity makes it all the more effective. It is the sort of experiment that two persons or a group can undertake almost any time, anywhere.
One person, the “sender,” draws a simple diagram or sketch. A “receiver” stationed elsewhere — even at a great distance — attempts to reproduce it, while both are concentrating on the diagram.
Results fall into these categories:
(a) exact reproduction, or nearly so;
(b) reproductions containing most of the essential elements;
(c) those with incomplete elements;
(d) those with little similarity and obvious mistakes.
The first two groups (a) and (b) are highly evidential. In addition, the third group (c) may be evidential with this proviso:
The receiver, in reproducing the diagram, should pause when he becomes uncertain and make a note to that effect. This shows that he is positive up to that point, but doubtful beyond it. Yet if he feels he should go on, he should have the right to do so, without jeopardizing what he has already accomplished. So the final result should be judged accordingly.
This is amply illustrated in:
16.3.3. NUMBER THIRTEEN: TRANSFERENCE OF SENSATIONS
16.3.3. NUMBER THIRTEEN: TRANSFERENCE OF SENSATIONS
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Here a “sender” or a group actually undergoes a physical sensation, hoping to transfer it mentally to a “receiver” or members of a group in another room. In this test, you can literally go “Hot” or “Cold,” as one favorite stunt is for the sender to pick up a hot cup or a cold glass, hold it a while, and find out if the receiver sensed “Hot” or “Cold.”
Because of the limit of two choices, such a test should be repeated, say five to ten times, to get away from the element of chance. The same applies to “light” or “heavy” objects, or those which are “sharp” or “blunt.”
Sensations of pain may be transferred; for example, a sender could pinch his right ear, or scratch his left ankle; the receiver would then seek to experience that sensation.
Transfer of taste has also figured in these tests. A person takes a pinch of salt, a spoonful of vinegar, or a bit of sugar, and endeavors to “project” the sensation. With certain senders and receivers, the “taste test” has been known to work surprisingly well.
