International Library of Psychology, Philosophy, and Scientific Method GENERAL EDITOR: VOLUMES READY PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES THE MISUSE OF MIND CONFLICT AND DREAM SCIENTIFIC THOUGHT THE MEANING OF MEANING CHARACTER AND THE UNCONSCIOUS SPECULATIONS (Preface by Jacob Epstein) THE PHILOSOPHY OF MUSIC THE NATURE OF LAUGHTER THE NATURE OF INTELLIGENCE THE MENTALITY OF APES PSYCHOLOGY OF RELIGIOUS MYSTICISM PSYCHOLOGY OF A MUSICAL PRODIGY PRINCIPLES OF LITERARY CRITICISM PHYSIQUE AND CHARACTER C. K. OGDEN, M.A., Magdalene College, Cambridge. by G. E. MOORF, Litt.D. by KARIN STEPHEN. by W. H. R. RIVERS, F.R.S. by W. H. R. RIVERS, F.R.S. by W. H. R. RIVERS, F.R.S. by L. WITTGENSTEIN. by W. WHATELY SMITH. by C. G. JUNG, M.D., LL.D. by A. D. RITCHIE. by C. D. BROAD, Litt.D. by C. K. OGDEN and J. A. RICHARDS by J. H. VAN DER HOOP. by ALFRED ADLER by C. S. PEIRCE. IN PREPARATION REPRESSION IN SAVAGE SOCIETIES STATISTICAL METHOD IN ECONOMICS THE THEORY OF HEARING SUPERNORMAL PHYSICAL PHENOMENA THE INTEGRATIVE ACTION OF THE MIND PRINCIPLES OF PSYCHOPATHOLOGY LANGUAGE AS SYMBOL AND AS EXPRESSION A HISTORY OF ETHICAL THEORY SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY THE PHILOSOPHY OF LAW PSYCHOLOGY OF MUSICAL GENIUS SCOPE AND VALUE OF ECONOMIC THEORY THE PSYCHOLOGY OF MYTHS THE PSYCHOLOGY OF MUSIC PSYCHOLOGY OF PRIMITIVE PEOPLES THE PSYCHOLOGY OF TIME THE DEVELOPMENT OF CHINESE THOUGHT . by T. E. HULME. by EUGENIO RIGNANO. . . by R. POLE, F.R.S. by H. VAIHINGER. hy J. C. GREGORY. by L. L. THURStone. by R. TISCHNER by K. KOFFKA by W. KÖHLER by J. H. LEUBA by G. REVESZ by I. A. RICHARDS by ERNST KRETSCHMER by E. A. BURTT, Ph.D. by J. T. MACCURDY, M.D. by M. COLLINS, Ph.D. by F. PAULHAN by S. DE SANCTIS in honour of MORTON PRINCE by H. PIERON by E. ROHDE by F. A. LANGE by S. THALBITZER by R. G. GORDON, M.D. by B. MALINOWSKI, D.Sc. by B. MALINOWSKI, D.Sc. by BERTRAND RUSSELL, F.R.S. by W. H. R. RIVERS, F.R.S. by CHARLES FOX by P SARGANT FLORENCE by P. RADIN by JAMES WOOD by H. HARTRIDGE, D.Sc. by E. J. DINGWALL by J. VON UEXKÜLL by E. MILLER, M.D. by F. M. CORNFORD by WILLIAM BROWN, M.D., D.Sc. by F. G. CROOKSHANK, M.D., F.R.C.P. by E. SAPIR by M. GINSBERG, D.Litt. by M. GINSBERG, D.Litt. by A. L. GOODHART by G. REVESZ by W. J. H. SPROTT by BARBARA WOOTTON by G. H. HARDY, F.R.S. by E. VON HARTMANN by G. ELLIOT SMITH, F.R.S. by EDWARD J. DENT by B. MALINOWSKI, D.Sc. by M. STURT by LIANG CHE-CHIAO Clairvoyance By RUDOLF TISCHNER Translated by W. D. HUTCHINSON With an Introduction by ICIO NEW YORK HARCOURT, BRACE & COMPANY, INC. LONDON: KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH, TRUBNER & CO., LTD. Paychology Wahr 1-31-30 21012 INTRODUCTION THE subject matter of this volume is probably more familiar to English-speaking people than to students on the Continent. Through the work of the Society for Psychical Research in England a mass of fully documented material has been collected and partly published, whilst in the United States the labours of Dr. J. H. Hyslop, formerly Professor of Logic and Ethics, Columbia University, New York, resulted in a similar discussion of the same phenomena and the publication of selected cases. Dr. Tischner has devoted himself primarily to a consideration of certain obscure mental phenomena, which he groups into two main classes, naming them respectively Telepathie (telepathy) and Hellsehen (clairvoyance). By telepathy he means, roughly speaking, what Myers defined as "the communication of impressions of any kind from one mind to another, independently of the recognized channels of sense". On the other hand, by the term clairvoyance he includes practically all those mental phenomena which form the basis of the researches undertaken by students of this field of inquiry. Telepathy itself was unknown as a demonstrable fact before 1882, when the classic series of experiments with the Misses Creery were conducted by Sir William Barrett, Professor Henry Sidgwick, Mr. F. W. H. Myers, and Mr. Edmund Gurney. Since those days the Society has published a great number of cases, both those in which the faculty appeared spontaneously and also those where experimental methods were employed. In clairvoyance of the kind described by Dr. Tischner the apparent paucity of suitable subjects . |