ABSTRACT
The Society for Psychical Research has accumulated a large number of cases, and, like all work done by that body, they rest on sound evidence. Expectancy is often cited as the cause of coincidence between a dream or waking apparition and the occurrence of a similar event in real life; and the possibility has certainly to be allowed for. The characteristic of apparitions when they appear in ordinary space is their remarkable likeness to persons in the flesh. Occasionally they have been known to react in their movements to the presence of those who are watching them. Collective perception of an apparition does not involve the objectivity of the apparition; for our minds are interrelated beneath the conscious surface, as the ample evidence for telepathy has proved. When comparing the large number of cases of apparitions recorded in the Proceedings and Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, it is interesting to collect and bring together those characteristics.
