The Invention of Telepathy - Luckhurst

2002

“Telepathy was not just an absorbing journalistic object or passionate belief for Stead but a potential vehicle of transmission, a means of intensifying the affective bond with a mass readership. Telepathy was a democratic prosthesis existing somewhere between an emerging organic potential and a new fin-de-siècle technology. He figured telepathy through technology, and this technologization of the occult widened the network of connections made by Stead.” (P.135)

Luckhurst, Roger. Page 1, 12, 61, 135, The Invention of Telepathy, 2002, Oxford University Press, 2007.