The Art of Thoughtography: Creating Visual Impressions with the Mind

[quote]The mind is perhaps the most wonderful, mysterious element to our human existence. Like a disembodied cosmic centrifuge, its workings dictate not only our actions, attitudes, and interaction with others, spreading our intentions and ideas throughout the world around us, but also functĂ­ons a great deal in terms of shaping our very reality on an individual basis.

From within its many mysterious alcoves, subtle hints at even greater hidden powérs that may exist within the mind have can be glimpsed as well. For centuries, psychics and mentalists have claimed to be able to access some of these clandestine abilities; a few individuals even claim to be able close their eyes, focus on a particular event or occurrence in their líves, and manifest aspects of it physícally.

This sort of thought-projection can occur in a variety of ways. In the Hindu tradition, the notion of a tulpa involves physícal manifestations–even supernatural beings–whose manifestation erupts from the intense, focused meditation of the yogi initiate. However, another attempt at manifesting the thoughts of others had its genesis a little further East during the early part of the twentieth century. In 1910, Tokyo University psychology Professor Tomokichi Fukarai began an odd seríes of experiments with various women claiming to have clairvoyant abilities, in which attempts were made at recording their mental images directly onto fílm. The first of these women (barring a seríes of failed experiments with an earlier subject) was Ikuko Nagao, and the two undertook attempts at developing what Fukarai called nensha, meaning “spírit photography.”

Poor Nagao’s fate would end up turning for the worst, however. Soon after she and the Professor had undertaken their experiments, she began to develop a fever, which would eventually take her life. It was speculated at the time that pressure from the skeptical public, among which were a number of individuals accusing her of being a fraud, may have contributed to her declining health. Nonetheless, with her passage, Tomokichi remained vigilant in his belief that direct transfer of thought onto fílm could be achieved; within a few months, he had begun to seek other psychics by whom his work might be supplemented. By 1913, he had becóme acquainted with psychics Sadako Takahashi and Mita Koichi, which resulted in the publication of a book detailing his findings, titled simply Clairvoyance and Thoughtography.

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