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Tycho, v. 1, issue 1, June 1942
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AN EXPERIMENT OF INTEREST SHERMAN SCHULTZ Quite recently, several students attending school here at the Northern Illinois College of Optometry became interested in hypnotism and the mysteries connected with it. We few who participated had had little or no experience in this mystifying field prior to this time, so the results were both amazing and exciting in the possibilities that presented themselves after we understood the subject a bit more. Our main intention was to delve into the subject of telepathy a bit deeper than one night in a science-fiction story. After reading a few articles on the subject in various magazines the general conclusion was that telepathy was dependent, in our rather undeveloped minds, on hypnotism to make the chosen subject concentrate on receiving thoughts from another person. After trying several fellows to test their receptive ability to concentrate on nothing -- hard enough to be put to sleep by another person, we finally found what we considered a perfect subject in that he can go under in about two minutes flat. The same subject was used in all succeeding experiments. We took things very easily, and slowly enough to increase our confidence, and we went ahead with firmer step. Our first experiments consisted of telling the subject to do certain things he would not do if he could possibly help it. We found his memory to be phenominal when he added up seven four-digit numbers in his head without a hitch. And after giving us the total of those numbers, he was even able to give us the total list of them just from memory. There was no doubt in our minds now that the subject we were using would prove to do well for our next experiments. The first telepathy test was held soon after. The subject was put to sleep as usual, and then told precisely what to do. He was told not to fight our will, but try to co-operate in every way possible to make this experiment a complete success. He was also told to concentrate on the hypnotist's thoughts as much as possible. The operator then took a pencil and paper and wrote down a number; 2. Then he concentrated on that number with all his will; lines furrowed the subjects brow, but he blurted: "Nine!" This looked bad. Try again, and the following answers were just as bad. Maybe we should try a definite object, such as a certain animal. We did. The first animal tried was a dog, as the operator tried to picture one in his mind. In a few moments, the subject murmured, "Dog." To say the least, we were a bit astonished. The next animal tried was a cat. Again we met with success, and we were agreeing that "This is much more like it!" The words, "man" and "elephant" were formed in quick succession, and with the same astounding results. Not to try to
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AN EXPERIMENT OF INTEREST SHERMAN SCHULTZ Quite recently, several students attending school here at the Northern Illinois College of Optometry became interested in hypnotism and the mysteries connected with it. We few who participated had had little or no experience in this mystifying field prior to this time, so the results were both amazing and exciting in the possibilities that presented themselves after we understood the subject a bit more. Our main intention was to delve into the subject of telepathy a bit deeper than one night in a science-fiction story. After reading a few articles on the subject in various magazines the general conclusion was that telepathy was dependent, in our rather undeveloped minds, on hypnotism to make the chosen subject concentrate on receiving thoughts from another person. After trying several fellows to test their receptive ability to concentrate on nothing -- hard enough to be put to sleep by another person, we finally found what we considered a perfect subject in that he can go under in about two minutes flat. The same subject was used in all succeeding experiments. We took things very easily, and slowly enough to increase our confidence, and we went ahead with firmer step. Our first experiments consisted of telling the subject to do certain things he would not do if he could possibly help it. We found his memory to be phenominal when he added up seven four-digit numbers in his head without a hitch. And after giving us the total of those numbers, he was even able to give us the total list of them just from memory. There was no doubt in our minds now that the subject we were using would prove to do well for our next experiments. The first telepathy test was held soon after. The subject was put to sleep as usual, and then told precisely what to do. He was told not to fight our will, but try to co-operate in every way possible to make this experiment a complete success. He was also told to concentrate on the hypnotist's thoughts as much as possible. The operator then took a pencil and paper and wrote down a number; 2. Then he concentrated on that number with all his will; lines furrowed the subjects brow, but he blurted: "Nine!" This looked bad. Try again, and the following answers were just as bad. Maybe we should try a definite object, such as a certain animal. We did. The first animal tried was a dog, as the operator tried to picture one in his mind. In a few moments, the subject murmured, "Dog." To say the least, we were a bit astonished. The next animal tried was a cat. Again we met with success, and we were agreeing that "This is much more like it!" The words, "man" and "elephant" were formed in quick succession, and with the same astounding results. Not to try to
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