Telepathic connections
Antonia White is said to have established a telepathic connection or psychic rapport with a few people during her lifetime.
This is from her daughter Lyndall Hopkinson’s book Nothing to Forgive:
”...a strange telepathy...had again and again compelled me to leave for England just when Antonia most needed someone, although she had never appealed for help.”
Another link was with a young solder called Robert Legg. As Jane Dunn tells us in her biography Antonia White: A Life, they played a game in which they would not communicate verbally. Antonia White describes this phenomenon in her autobiographical novel Beyond the Glass:
“She had become so expert at ‘the game’ that he had only to will her and she went instinctively to the right place at the right time.”
This reminds me of what Joyce Collin-Smith said about the Maharishi Yogi:
“He seemed to have definite hypnotic power. Most of us could be summoned at a distance and would come at the inner command...”
Antonia White too had a telepathic link with an Indian guru, a mystic called Meher Baba. She too believed that he was sending her hypnotic commands.
Feeling different and copying others
Feeling that they are not real people, feeling different on the inside from everyone around them and imitating others for various reasons are common elements in the lives of Antonia White and Stella Benson - and many other creative people.
