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knowledge collected by the Society for Psychical Research which was made by Mr. H. F. Saltmarsh in 1934, it was found that 349 cases existed which had been considered good enough for publication. Mr. Saltmarsh drastically criticised these and rejected 166 on the score of slight vaguenesses or other features he did not consider quite satisfactory. An irreducible score of 183 remained. There is also a mass of cases in the files which do not reach publication-standard, and it must be remembered that the number of cases in which people observe the precautions necessary for evidence form only a small proportion of the total number which occur. There can be little doubt that if all the cases of telepathy and fore-knowledge were properly evidenced and duly reported, the weight of evidence would be overwhelming. In any case a study of these 183 cases is indispensable for anyone who wishes to make up his mind regarding pre-cognition. All these evidences can be considered good enough to establish the fact that such thing as extra-sensory perception does exist. Clairvoyance and telepathy which are the cases of extra-sensory perception, are now-a-days regarded as an established fact by all the psychic investigators. All students of Psychical Research who have devoted a considerable period of their life to the study of super-normal phenomena have become convinced that super-normal cognition does occur. Many of these investigators believe that it occurs more often than we know. Telepathy, clairvoyance, clairaudience, psychometry, etc., which are comprised now-a-days under extra-sensory perception are some of the most undisputed facts of modern age. "The term 'telepathy' has acquired a respectable status among scientific terms particularly, when more mysterious facts like psychometry and spirit-communication are in question for explanation.'2 Having recorded the facts and figures regarding extra-sensory perception investigated by Psychical Research (which is also called Parapsychology) we, now, come to the Jaina conception of extra-sensory perception which, according to the tradition of Indian thought, is conditioned by speculative arguments and to a great extent establishes the same facts that have been accepted by Parapsychology on the basis of experimental investigations. Just like Parapsychology, Jaina psy
1 Personality of Man, p. 26. 9 Introduction to Parapsychology, p. 134.
