percipient

• On the other hand, maybe Michelle Malkin's question is more percipient: —  Health Care BS
• If both agent and percipient were placed in a strong magnetic or high-tension electric field, might not this in some way influence communication? —  The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal
• The whole theory of apparitions at the moment of death depends upon this established rapport_, since, if it did not exist, and affect the results, the apparition might just as well appear to Tom, Dick, and Harry as to the percipient--and the percipient is such (supposedly) simply by reason of this pre-established rapport There might be, then, a certain rapport between some sitters and a plane of activity upon which such hands manifest, enabling these individuals to see the hands, while prohibiting others from seeing them. —  The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal
• This explanation applies only to those telepathic manifestations observed when the percipient is in a state of trance; and even here the theory cannot be said to explain, for it explains one mystery by propounding another 2. —  The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal
• [11] It has been taken up again in recent years, by a profound and subtle philosopher, M. Bergson, who, unable to admit that the nervous system is a substratum of knowledge and serves us as a percipient, takes it to be solely a motor organ, and urges that the sensory parts of the system--that is to say, the centripetal, optic, acoustic, &c;, nerves--do not call forth, when excited, any kind of sensation, their sole purpose being to convey disturbances from periphery to periphery, or, say, from external objects to the muscles of the body. —  The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps

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