ABSTRACT
Owing to Brown’s discovery in 1875, the so called reading or guessing of thoughts, which makes an assumption about telepathic transmission of thoughts at a distance, was subjected to detailed investigation. There is also another class of phenomena on which spiritualists particularly insist, and which supposedly consists of the transmission of thoughts at a distance, represented by word telepathy. All the authors, led by their observations and studies, seem to be staunch defenders of the direct transmission of thoughts at a distance. The somnambu-list represented only a striking sensitivity of the organs of perception, allowing physician to capture the stimuli, imperceptible to others, through which the apparent guessing of thoughts occurred. In a question like the one about mental suggestion and transmission of thoughts over distance, only critical observations and studies permitting verification by other persons and yielding the same results can have significance.
