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16.1.2.TEST NUMBER TWO: COMPLETED ACTION
16.1.2.TEST NUMBER TWO: COMPLETED ACTION
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This is an extension of “picking the object.” It does
not stop at that point; instead, the demonstrator must do something with the object, as agreed upon by the group beforehand. For example, he might be “willed” to pick up a box of candy, open it, and offer some to specific Persons present.
Here, again, he will sense a restraint if he starts to do the wrong action; and will get the “go-ahead” if he is right. Oddly, he gets a sense of completion or incompletion during this procedure. How that can be written off as “muscle reading” is hard to say. There is no “push” or “pull,” but just a tension or relaxation, that will often cause the demonstrator to look up
triumphantly, knowing his job is done.
Even when beginners fail, these tests can prove impressive. In one case, a person was “willed” to pick up a pack of cigarettes — which was not his own brand — and take out a cigarette and light it with a pack of matches from another table.
After the person acting as transmitter had led him around the room a few times, the inexperienced demonstrator gave up, saying he was too nervous to proceed. He slumped into a chair for a few moments, then walked over and picked up the very pack of cigarettes that everyone had in mind. He took out a cigarette, lighted it with a match from the pack on the other table, looked about the group, and asked, earnestly:
“Tell me, just what was it I was supposed to do?”
16.1.1. TEST NUMBER ONE: PICK THE OBJECT
16.1.1. TEST NUMBER ONE: PICK THE OBJECT
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This is the simplest of tests. It should be performed in a fairly large room, where there are plenty of objects to pick from, all of a type belonging there, such as a lamp, a telephone, an ashtray, pack of cigarettes a few books and magazines some matches, a box of candy, and so on. A regular living room or a sun-porch makes a good setting.
The demonstrator leaves the room and the persons present decide upon the object that he is to pick. One of the group then acts as subject. The demonstrator is recalled, he grips the subject’s arm in whatever manner he prefers, and they start about the room together, until the demonstrator begins to “sense” certain objects until he finally decides on one and announces it to be the right one.
The demonstrator is allowed to pick up objects and reject them, but once he announces his choice it is final. Almost invariably, a capable demonstrator will pick the chosen object.
Beginners are apt to fail if they neglect the early stage of the test. An experienced demonstrator takes his time in going about the room, actually sensing some portions as “Hot” or “Cold.” If doubtful of any areas, he returns there, to see if the subject will mentally pull him away. Thus he finally settles on one small area and applies the “hot” and “cold” procedure to the objects there.
