文档介绍：Sight Unseen
Sight Unseen
by Mary Roberts Rinehart
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Sight Unseen
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The rather extraordinary story revealed by the experiments of the
Neighborhood Club have been until now a matter only of private record.
But it seems to me, as an active participant in the investigations, that they
should be given to the public; not so much for what they will add to the
existing data on psychical research, for from that angle they were not
unusual, but as yet another exploration into that still uncharted territory,
the human mind.
The psycho-analysts have taught us something about the individual
mind. They have their own patter, plexes and primal instincts, of
the unconscious, which is a sort of bonded warehouse from which we
clandestinely withdraw our stored thoughts and impressions. They lay to
this unconscious mind of ours all phenomena that cannot otherwise be
labeled, and ascribe such demonstrations of power as cannot thus be
explained to trickery, to black silk threads and folding rods, to slates with
false sides and a medium with chalk on his finger nail.
In other words, they give us subjective mind but never objective mind.
They take the mind and its reactions on itself and on the body. But what
about objective mind? Does it make its only outward manifestations
through speech and action? Can we ignore the effect of mind on mind,
when there are present none of the ordinary media munication? I
think not.
In making the following statement concerning our part in the strange
case of Arthur Wells, a certain allowance must be made for our ignorance
of so-called psychic phenomena, and also for the fact that since that time,
just before the war, great advances have been made in scientific methods
of investigation. For instance, we did not place Miss Jeremy's chair on a
scale, to measure for any loss of weight. Also the theory of rods of
invisible matter emanating from the medium's body, to move bodies at a
distance from her, had only been evolv