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the inclination of my body in that direction that I would have fallen had I not put out one foot to save myself. Then another push and another step, and so I gradually approached a chair on which the key had been placed. When I reached the chair instead of veering away from it or going around it as I might have done, my whole body relaxed and I drooped over it with arms listlessly hanging until one hand touched the key. On another occasion the key was hung upon the wall, and when I reached the wall I felt a desire to stretch upward with one arm. I did so and touched the key where it hung upon a nail.

Now, had the action of those minds been directed to my mind, I might have had a definite idea of the position of the key. I would probably have thought, The key is on the chair or, The key hangs on the wall, but I had no such definite thought. It seemed more like a blind instinctive movement for which I could not account.

I was impelled to move, I knew not why. It therefore seemed as though the thought acted directly upon my body without passing through the medium of my mind. Still, had it first passed through the mind it would have confirmed the fact of thought transmission. The position of the key would have been conveyed to my mind without spoken word and the thought itself must have been transmitted directly