In addition to investigating the above mentioned classes of telepathic phenomena, the English Society for Psychical Research investigated many remarkable cases of a somewhat higher phase of telepathy.  They took down the stories told by persons deemed responsible, and then carefully examined, and cross-examined other witnesses to the strange phenomena.  The record of these experiments, and investigations, fill a number of good sized volumes of the Society’s reports, which are well worth reading by all students of the subject.  They may be found in the libraries of nearly any large city.  I shall, however, select a number of the most interesting of the cases therein reported, to give my students an idea of the character of the phenomena so investigated and found genuine by the committees having this class of telepathy under investigation.

An interesting case of spontaneous telepathy is that related by Dr. Ede, as follows:  “There is a house about a half-mile from my own, inhabited by some ladies, friends of our family.  They have a large alarm bell outside their house.  One night I awoke suddenly and said to my wife:  ’I am sure I hear Mrs. F’s alarm bell ringing.’  After listening for some time, we heard nothing, and I went to sleep again.  The next day Mrs. F. called upon my wife and said to her:  ’We were wishing for your husband last night, for we were alarmed by thieves.  We were all up, and I was about to pull the alarm bell, hoping that he would hear it, saying to my daughters, “I am sure it will soon bring Dr. Ede,” but we did not ring it.’  My wife asked what time this had happened, and Mrs. F. said that it was about half past one.  That was the time I awoke thinking that I heard the bell.”

In this case there was manifested simply ordinary physical plane telepathy.  Had the bell actually been rung, and heard psychically, it would have been a case of astral plane hearing, known as clairaudience.  As it was, merely the thought in the mind of Mrs. F., and her strong idea to ring the bell, caused a transmission of thought waves which struck Dr. Ede with great force and awakened him.  This case is interesting because it is typical of many cases of a similar nature within the experience of many persons.  It is seen that a strong feeling, or excitement, accompanied by a strong desire or wish to summon another person, tends to give great power and effect to the thought waves emitted.  They strike the mind of the recipient like the sudden ringing of an alarm clock bell.

Another interesting case is that of two ladies, both well known to members of the committee, and vouched for as of strict veracity.  This case is unusual for the reason that two different persons received the thought-waves at the same time.  Here is an abridgment of the case:  “Lady G. and her sister had been spending the evening with their mother, who was in her usual health and spirits when they left her.  In the middle of the night the sister