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/ˈfɑːfiːlɪŋ/ · noun
(parapsychology, science fiction, fantasy, puristic, dated) Telepathy..
But really one could not at the time resist the impression that the writers were amusing themselves at the expense of their readers, in gravely informing them that a brain could act telepathically an hour after the man was dead. Surely this was pushing the far-feeling theory a little too far.
With many it denotes a process of such far-feeling as is not caused in the natural way and as stands in contradiction to the mechanical interconnection of causes and effects in the universe.
I frankly find it inconceivable that at any period of man's history, this faculty of far-feeling, this cognisance of distant minds, should have been developed by the actual need and stress of earthly existence.
Farther-feeling as distinct from far-feeling, i.e., from a distance instead of from the sitter.
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Far-feeling means (parapsychology, science fiction, fantasy, puristic, dated) Telepathy..
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But really one could not at the time resist the impression that the writers were amusing themselves at the expense of their readers, in gravely informing them that a brain could act telepathically an hour after the man was dead. Surely this was pushing the far-feeling theory a little too far.
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