the model investigation: Charles Richet

Charles Richet received the Nobel Prize in Physiology in 1913. This eminent scientist wrote a large work entitled "Treaty of psychic" book now difficult to obtain, and we owe to Dr. Hubert Larcher. The psychic was defined by C. Richet in these terms: "a science whose object of mechanical phenomena or psychological, caused by forces that seem intelligent or unknown powers latent in human intelligence."

By good science, C. Richet collect and analyze numerous accounts including related subjective psychic experiences, such as lucidity, telepathy, clairvoyance, experimental cryptesthesia (monitions, premonitions) and the animal psychic. In this reference book, we have selected some extracts relating stories that demonstrate exemplary and, if necessary, that the ECM are not fads, but rather, have always existed.

Treaty of psychic Charles Richet

Charles Richet in his book relates many experiences that refer cryptesthesia, etymologically, to "a hidden sensitivity, perception of things unknown about its mechanism, and we can not know the effects." This ability to be expressed during certain circumstances, often dramatic. Illustrations:

"Mrs. Van B. .. at Ypres, wakes with a start at 4:45 in the morning, taking a strange oppression. She imagines that her father is very ill, perhaps dead. She woke her husband and task to calm her, telling her that it's a nightmare. Now the father of Mrs. Van B. .. Brussels, died at the same time. "

"Captain M. .. is struck, August 27, 1914 with a bullet in plain chest, and left for dead on the ground, around 23 hours and a half. But that night, at the same time, a son, fifteen years old, who was fast asleep gets up, goes to wake his mother, and said, "Mom, dad is wounded, but he is not dead. "

However, such experiments are not always related to an event related to death:

"The Count Nicolas Gomanys, MD, Staff in the Greek army, is sent to the garrison of Zante. As it approaches the island, he hears a voice told him in Italian" Go see Volterra. "This sentence says it was repeated so often that I was stunned and even alarmed, because I believed in an auditory hallucination. Nothing made me think of the name who lived Voterra Zante, I had not seen for 10 years , and to whom I had never spoken. At the hotel, while I undid my trunk, the voice kept nagging me. Suddenly we came to warn me that Mr Volterra was there. He had to beg me to follow immediately, to give care to her son who was very ill. "

Personal testimony of the author

The author of the "Treaty of psychic" has not escaped this type of experiment. It tells such a wonderful experience:

"One evening in winter 1899, I was in my library to the street from the University, to work. My wife had been that night at the opera with my daughter Louise. Suddenly, at about 10:30 p.m. , I imagined (the first time in my life and without there being the slightest smell of smoke in the room) there was a fire at the Opera. My belief was strong enough so that I 'écrivisse on a piece of paper: "Fire! Fire! "Within minutes, I imagined that it was not enough and I wrote:" Attn! "(That is to say attention). Then, without concern for that matter, I resumed my work. Around midnight, when my wife and daughter returned right away, I asked:" Is Was there a fire? "They were extremely surprised." No "said my wife," there is no fire, but we were very afraid. At one point in an intermission, smoke rose from the orchestra, there was a rumor, I went out hurriedly from the lodge to see what it was and I told my daughter "When I back, go right away without expecting anything! "I was reassured, and the representation continued unhindered. "But this is not the only element of this singular cryptesthesia. As I wrote on my notes:" Fire! Fire! "Att." My sister, whose apartment is separated from mine by a door, imagine there was a fire at home. She goes to the door and, when open, realizing that his fear is chimerical, it ends by saying: "No, I'm not going to bother this nonsense my brother."

Charles Richet quote from a book before making any conclusions that he fully WAVES:

"Brierre of Boismont in his book on hallucinations, the story of a girl who sees in dreams his dying mother, who intends to call, describing a scene of death. But the details were true, and Mrs. R. .., mother of the girl, died at the same time. Brierre of Boismont adds: "If we wanted to mention all the names of famous people, having a high position in science, an excellent judgment, knowledge extensive, that took these warnings, these forebodings, it would matter more thought. "It is precisely because you think that this book was written."

"This new world is the unknown, what is the future, it is hope"

From all these testimonies, Charles Richet draws a number of relevant considerations. The last lines of his work perfectly summarize the thought of this man, thinking oh precursor which is similar to that which was behind the founding of WAVES:

"Everything will be much more surprising, more unexpected than our feeble imaginations can dream it. We must say that science will be transformed from top to bottom, beyond all that the brave can design (...) Here we envision a world unexplored, yet full of mystery, before which we remain dumb and stupid, and a Hottentot to the Poincaré vortices, waves of Hertz, the microbes of Pasteur or Einstein's relativity. This World Again, this is the unknown, what is the future is the hope (...) Still, we should not have too many illusions. fragments truths misunderstood, that we This science of the occult, we show the misery of our human intelligence. astronomer, studying these stars, is soon convinced that the man is a wonderfully small. Similarly, in the psychic, when pale and fugitive gleams reveal worlds intellectuals quivering around us and in us, we feel that these worlds we remain, perhaps forever, as distant and incomprehensible as incomprehensible and distant stars that populate the heavens. But that is not a reason not to redouble our efforts and labors. There's great mysteries deepen. The task is so beautiful that even if it should fail, the honor of having the company provide any price Life. "