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1884 E. Gurney & F. W. H. Myers in Proc. Soc. Psychical Res. 1883–4 2 135 Unless some such relation [of telepathy to space and to matter] can be demonstrated we cannot reasonably speak of a psychical telergy—an action of mind on mind at a distance—as correlated with any energy which we have learnt to measure.

1919 Unpopular Rev. Apr. 421 Here then we have evidence of what appears to be either telepathy..or more probably of telergy, the direct influence of an extraneous mind on the brain and organism of the distant sitter.

1960 New Scientist 28 July 306/2 Prosopopesis, metagnomy, telergy and teleplasty: if these are accepted, what remains of the ‘laws’ of physics, chemistry, biology and psychology?

1886 E. Gurney et al. Phantasms of Living II. xviii. 270 A scheme whose relation to the telergic influence somewhat resembles that of the physical world to electricity.

1909 O. Lodge Survival of Man iv. xi. 163 This is the hypothesis of actual telepathic or telergic influence from some outside intelligence.

1995 D. J. Hess in D. J. Hess & R. DaMatta Brazilian Puzzle viii. 188 His spirit-intervention theory and the Jesuits' psychic (telergic) energy theory represent two alternative explanations within parapsychology.

a1901 F. W. H. Myers Human Personality (1903) II. 545 The disembodied spirit..sees one incarnate spirit telergically affecting another incarnate spirit's brain.

1908 Sir O. Lodge in Hibbert Jrnl. Apr. 575 A foreign intelligence, acting either telepathically through the mind or telergically by a more direct process straight on the brain.

1920 McClure's Mag. Nov. 38/4 Whether the operation be performed telepathically or telergically, in any given case, is a detail.