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534 Journal of the American Society .for Psychical Research.
EXPERIMENTS IN TELEKINESIS.
By }AMES H. HYSLOP.
BosToN, MAss., Dec. 30th, 1917.
Dr. Strong described to me Friday evening an experiment in
which rotatory motion was imparted to a cylinder of paper balanced
on a needle point so as to make it easily movable, and
apparently without any air currents or influence of heat, and
asked me to witness some of the experiments. I called on him
the next day and the experiment was made. The cylinder was
perforated near the top so that a piece of straw was put through
it and a needle put through the straw so that the cylinder would
be equally balanced on both sides and the cylinder would rest
supported on the needle point. By holding the two hands, one
on each .side of it about an inch or two inches from it, or even
four inches, the cylinder would revolve, sometimes from left to
right, or clockwise as he called it, and sometimes from right to
left, or contra-clockwise. The question was whether we could
exclude air currents from the cause of it. The cylinder was put
on the bureau some eight feet from the window to shut out currents
of air and the hands were carefully approached to the
cylinder and tho we could often remark a disturbance to the
cylinder by air currents, there was no tendency to make it revolve
by this disturbance. With Dr. Strong the cylinder revolved
from left to right for a number of times, and now and then
would start the other way. At times it might stop a few moments
or half a minute and then resume its rotatory motion.
There was no contact of the hands with the paper and while one
might suspect air currents from the heat of the hands or breathing,
it was evident that, whatever one's suspicions, neither source
was easy to believe. I tried the experiment and it was some
time before the cylinder would rotate, but it finally did so from
left to right for several revolutions and with some rapidity. It
stopped occasionally, but twice resumed and repeated the rotations.
I was careful to lower my head and to breathe through
my nose lightly so as to avoid producing air currents and the
fact that it ceased to rotate at times while there was no alteration
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