Comparative and Critical Study of Mantrashastra

Author(s): Mohanlal Bhagwandas Jhaveri, K V Abhayankar
Publisher: Sarabhai Manilal Nawab

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RUDOLF TISCHNER ON TELEPATHY AND CLAIRVOYANCE
either conscious or subconsicous, independently of the normally recognized senses. Clairvoyance means (i) the vision of normally invisible, hidden objects near at hand, (ii) the knowledge of events happening at distance beyond the range of normal senses, and (iii) vision into the past or future. The last is sometimes called prophetic vision or prophecy.
Telepathy itself was unknown as a demonstrable fact before 1882. Rudolf Tischner in his work Telepathy and Clairvoyance says "some years ago, telepathy and clairvoyance were fully recognized facts. Philosophers like Hegel, Schelling, Schopenhauer, T. H. Fichte, Von Hartmann, and a number of prominent medical men spoke of them as accepted facts." P. 6.
Our readers will be interested to learn about the conclusions drawn by Rudolf Tischner and his psychic theory explaining Telepathy and Clairvoyance in his said work.
We give the same below.
RUDOLF TISCHNER ON TELEPATHY AND CLAIRVOYANCE
Tischner has given experiments* carried on by him jointly with Dr. W. Von Wasielewski in 1912-1913 dealing with telepathy and clairvoyance, and also his theory explaining the same which is a psychical theory. He criticises the physical theory and the views of othe writers. He says further that part from instances of sub-conscious memory, the mediums give us information really gained supernormally connected with their sub-conscious minds in some way but not belonging primarily to the life of their individual minds, and which they cannot have gained through their senses.
"It gives us the impression that the sub-conscious mind-to make use of a spatial image-is not so clearly separated from its surroundings, but represents a mental field which is connected with the 'non-individual' or super-individual mind. If we descend from our surface consciousness we gradually reach sub-conscious mental regions which cease to belong to a single individual-as when we follow a watercourse into the interior of a mountain we reach regions where we lose sight of the single
*A large number of instances of spontaneous telepathy are collected in the work "Phantasms of the Living' 2 vols. by Gurney, Myers and Podmore.