{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3167", "width": "2179", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "\u00e2\u0080\u00a2w\\ne\\nr^t*.\\n1 C* ^n\\nAT\\nMfe* W -Sfe %/#fe* r\\nk% ***tiak** *V Sk%\\n^o 1\\n*V K V\u00e2\u0084\u00a2V V #T ^V\\n^\u00e2\u0080\u00a2v\\nVA\\n6 V", "height": "3480", "width": "2289", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "\u00e2\u0096\u00a0v\\n6 V V\\nt\\n*hs*\\nv\\nV", "height": "3595", "width": "2442", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3535", "width": "2349", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3535", "width": "2202", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "WORKS BY\\nDR. HALPHIDE.\\nMIND AND BODY.\\nHypnotism and Suggestion applied in\\nTherapeutics and Education.\\n12mo., silk cloth, gilt edge, 231 pages, $1.00.\\nTHE PSYCHIC AND PSYCHISM.\\nA Study of the Inner Life of Man.\\n12mo., silk cloth, gilt edge, 228 pages, $1.00.\\nTHE QUEST OF AN IDEAL.\\nA STORY.\\n12mo., silk cloth, g-ilt edge, in preparation.\\nFor sale by booksellers everywhere and by\\nthe Authors Publishing Co.,\\n3217 Wabash Avenue,\\nCHICAGO.\\nBooks sent postpaid on receipt of price.", "height": "3548", "width": "2264", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "THE\\nPSYCHIC AND PSYCHISM\\nA. C. HALPHIDE\\nA. B., M. D., B. D., Etc.\\nauthor of mind and body, the theory and\\npractice: of suggestive therapeutics,\\nCLIN^CaL hypnotism, etc., etc\\nFIRST EDITION\\nPUBLISHED BY THE AUTHORS PUBLISHING CO.\\nCHICAGO\\n1901", "height": "3541", "width": "2247", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "THE LIBRARY OF\\nCONGRESS,\\nTwo Copies Received\\nMAY. 20 1901\\nCopyright entry\\nS^*- V, e f\\nCLASS O/XXc. N\u00c2\u00ab.\\nCOPY B.\\nCOPYRIGHT\\nBY THE AUTHOR\\nMCMI.", "height": "3541", "width": "2552", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "TO\\nMY PARENTS\\nTHIS LITTLE VOLUME IS MOST\\nAFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED BY\\nTHE AUTHOR.", "height": "3557", "width": "2349", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3537", "width": "2442", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "PREFACE.\\nAt the beginning of the Psychic century, as\\nthe 20th century is called, it is fitting that a\\nwork dealing with the elements of Psychic Phe-\\nnomena should be forthcoming. The need has\\nbeen felt by many who like myself have been\\nstudying and teaching these subjects and have\\nrepeatedly been asked by students to refer them\\nto such a work. This volume is offered to\\nmeet the demands for a simple, concise state-\\nment of the elements of Psychism.\\nThe author has made no attempt to write an\\nexhaustive treatise. For several years, as a\\nmember and director of the Esoteric Extension\\nhe has led groups of students in their studies\\nin this department. This book is the outcome\\nof these courses of study, and is given to the\\npublic practically in the same form that it was\\npresented to the Groups.\\nIn preparing the work, everything has been\\nsacrificed to simplicity and plainness. No meta-\\nphysical discussions have been indulged in,\\nalthough the temptation to do so was great.\\nAnd if it does for the general reader, what his", "height": "3557", "width": "2288", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "PREFACE.\\nstudents say it has done for them, namely,\\nsimplifies and explains a rather mysterious sub-\\nject, he will be satisfied.\\nThe many readers of the author s work Mind\\nand Body, An application of Hypnotism and\\nSuggestion in Therapeutics and Education, who\\nhave favored him with letters enquiring about\\nvarious Psychic Phenomena, it is thought, will\\nbe fully answered in the present volume. Hop-\\ning that the same generous treatment and favor-\\nable reception may be accorded to this work-\\nthat was given to Mind and Body, the author\\nintrusts it to the hands of his readers.\\nA. C. H.\\nNo. 3217 Wabash Avenue, Chicago.\\nJanuary, 1901.", "height": "3524", "width": "2442", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER I.\\nPSYCHISM.\\nPsychism an unexplored country The Psychic The\\nway he is developed The power of Suggestion\\nPsychic Healing Thought Transference Clear\\nseeing and hearing Soul measurement Sleep and\\nDreams Somnambulism and Trances Is there a\\nfuture life? Psychism a study of man s inner life.\\nCHAPTER II.\\nTHE PSYCHIC.\\nMan the highest product of evolution A physical and\\nmental being The Psychic described The defini-\\ntion of mind The duality of the mind The Psychic\\ndefined He functions at will on the subconscious\\nplane The Psychic not a new creation A classi-\\nfication of Psychics Modern Psychics The His-\\ntory of the Psychic The extreme estimates of the\\nPsychic The personalities of the Psychic The\\nPsychic a marked character The Psychic not\\nwholly objectionable He aims high The Yogi as\\nan example Jesus a better example.\\nCHAPTER III.\\nPSYCHIC DEVELOPMENT.\\nThe Psychic is a development Exercise is the condi-\\ntion of all development There is no best method\\nMany methods have been used The ancient meth-\\nods An ancient method quoted Modern methods\\nare modifications of the old Sitting in the Silence\\nThe power of silence The breathing exercises A\\ncaution Suggestion is a means of soul-culture\\nThe use of Hypno-Suggestion Ascetic austerities in\\ndevelopment The Japanese ascetic The Yogi All\\nshould understand Psychic development.", "height": "3557", "width": "2288", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "viii CONTENTS.\\nCHAPTER IV.\\nSUGGESTION.\\nIdeas are contagious Suggestibility constitutional\\nTwo laws of mind Suggestion defined Sugges-\\ntion in the waking state The idea of free will\\nmust be modified The power of Suggestion The\\nschool boy The student of music Suggestion as a\\ncure A case Hypno-Suggestion Hypnotism de-\\nfined Hypnotic versus waking Suggestion Hyp-\\nnotism as a Cure Illustrative cases Suggestion in\\nPsychiatry Autosuggestion The manner of self-\\nsuggestion Its value A living monument of Auto-\\nsuggestion Illustrative cases The limitation of\\nAutosuggestions Suggestion in subconscious con-\\nditions The cases selected for illustration.\\nCHAPTER V.\\nTHE RATIONAL OF PSYCHOPATHY.\\nThe importance of the subject The existence of a\\nPsychic power Mental medicine A half dozen\\nsystems of the same An underlying law common\\nto all A question of Psychology The duality of\\nmind explained Proofs of double consciousness\\nIllustrative cases The amenability of the mind to\\nsuggestion Manner of increasing suggestibility\\nThe subconscious mind suggestible Subconscious\\nmind controls the bodily functions Power of the\\nmind over the body The law of Suggestion the law\\nof cure An illustration of the same Absent treat-\\nments The value of faith Necessary conclusions.\\nCHAPTER VI.\\nTELEPATHY.\\nTelepathy a central factor in Psychic Research\\nThoughts are mental creations Telepathy defined\\nTelepathy in the waking state Thought-Trans-\\nference a common experience It was known in an-", "height": "3529", "width": "2442", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "CONTENTS.\\ncient times Rapport facilitates its operation A\\nwell known author s experience Unintentional\\nplagiarism A Telepathic experiment with cards\\nThe theory of absent treatment Telepathy easy to\\nstudy Telepathy in natural sleep It usually\\noccurs in dreams Sees a brother murdered Ex-\\nperiments A Telepathic phantasm Telepathy in\\nHypnosis Hypnotism a great aid to its study A\\ncase of mind lcaamg The notes of an evening s\\nexperimentation Delayed perception The Profes-\\nsor s opinion Telepathie a trois.\\nCHAPTER VII.\\nCLAIRVOYANCE AND CLAIRAUDIENCE.\\nClairvoyance and Clairaudience real facts The avenues\\nwhich lead to the mind Sense perceptions depend-\\nent upon the mind The seen and the unseen relative\\nterms The impenetrability of matter and the X-\\nray Clairvoyance and Clairaudience in con-\\nscious states The phenomena intimately related\\nwith Telepathy Natural and developed power The\\nAuthor s experience A Clairvoyant reading veri-\\nfied Clairvoyance and Clairaudience in the\\nsubconscious state Intentional and unintentional\\nexperiences The subconscious states Experiments\\nwith hypnotized subjects A young man sent to\\nCuba A young lady sent home A trip to South\\nAfrica Describes a Battle She tells the time\\nConclusion.\\nCHAPTER VIII.\\nPSYCHOMETRY.\\nThe intimate relationship between supersensuous facul-\\nties Definition of Psychometry Mysterious consti-\\ntution of nature Dr. Brewster quoted The book\\nof nature History of Psychometry The Psy-\\nchometrist s development Psychometry in the\\nwaking state Its application A Mineral Psy-\\nchometrist Psychometry in Medicine An experi-", "height": "3560", "width": "2442", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "CONTENTS.\\nment with a piece of wood from the Mount of\\nOlives Psychometry deals only with the past\\nSome unscrupulous Psychometrists Psychometry\\nin Hypnosis The states compared Experiment\\nwith a souvenir from Niagara Falls The Hypnotic\\nvisits the falls The Psychic atmosphere of coun-\\ntries America s position Psychometry needs care-\\nful study to place it upon its proper footing.\\nCHAPTER IX.\\nSLEEP AND DREAMS.\\nThe importance of the subject Sleep and Dreams com-\\nmon to man and animals The cause of errors\\nSleep Nature s sweet restorer Definitions\\nPhysiology versus Psychology in sleep Sleep a\\nsubconscious condition An experiment showing\\nthe relation of Sleep to Hypnosis The key to the\\nPhenomena of Sleep Dreams The ancient concep-\\ntion of Dreams The stuff that Dreams are made\\nof -*-Dreams defined The causation of Dreams\\nPhysiologic Causes Psychologic causes An An-\\ncient illustration A Suggested Dream Telepathic\\nDreams A Clairvoyant Dream The influence of a\\nroom or place The meaning and value of Dreams\\nThe study of Dreams.\\nCHAPTER X.\\nSOMNAMBULISM AND TRANCES.\\nThe Subconscious States\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The Eastern classifications\\nof them Somnambulism It belongs to the phe-\\nnomena of Sleep Definition Natural Somnam-\\nbulism Two examples of Sleep-walking Professor\\nMcClure s opinion Morbid Somnambulism The\\ncase of a French lady Artificial Somnambulism\\nHypnotic experiments The power of divination\\nAmnesia Trances Kinds of Trances Definition", "height": "3521", "width": "2442", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "CONTENTS.\\nSpontaneous Trances Wrapped into visions\\nAutotrances They are self-induced and self-\\nlimited The profound Trances of the Yogis\\nHarides test Trances and Theosophy The Eng-\\nlish Teacher Induced Trances Suggestion in\\nTrances The unreliability of Trance revelations\\nSpiritistic Trances Mediums hypnotized by Spirits\\nDoes the soul leave the body?\\nCHAPTER XL\\nSPIRITISM.\\nThe interest in the subject Spiritism defined Its re-\\nlation to immortality The phenomena A list of\\nthe same Fraudulent Phenomena Genuine Phe-\\nnomena The means of the productions The\\nMedium Kinds of Mediums All Mediums Psy-\\nchics Going under control The manner of their\\nproduction The Seances Fortune Telling\\nThe Spiritistic circle Slate writing The messages\\nLevitations\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Materializations Explanations of\\nthe production Spiritists theory discarded Hal-\\nlucination and Telepathy This theory insufficient in\\nsome instances Indian fakirs The mind creation\\ntheory Thoughts are things Psychics can pro-\\nduce phantasms Witchcraft Some conclusions.\\nCHAPTER XII.\\nTHE FUTURE OF PSYCHISM.\\nA forecast of Psychism Some problems to be solved\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nThe Psychic s character must be exalted \u00e2\u0096\u00a0Psychism\\nmust prepare the way for the development of such a\\ncharacter No Psychic influence without its power\\nfor good or ill The study of the future will be the\\nstudy of the forces within man Do coming events\\ncast their shadows before them? If a man die\\nshall he live again? Our banner bears the motto\\nPsychism.\\nAppendix 213-228", "height": "3557", "width": "2442", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3527", "width": "2442", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER I.\\nPSYCHISM.\\nPsychism an unexplored country The Psychic The\\nway he is developed The power of Suggestion-\\nPsychic Healing Thought Transference Clear\\nseeing and hearing Soul measurement Sleep and\\nDreams Somnambulism and Trances Is there a\\nfuture life? Psychism a study of man s inner life.\\nPsychism is still largely an unexplored\\ncountry supposed to be peopled by all sorts of\\nmysterious dangers and promising prospects.\\nTo be sure, excursions have been made into its\\nunknown regions by venturesome explorers; \\\\j\\nsome have returned with the report that the\\ncountry is uninviting, full of dangers, and that\\nthe Anakim possess the land and have advised to\\navoid it; others have brought back the report\\nthat it is a beautiful land, most desirable and\\nflowing with milk and honey, and have advised\\nto go up and possess it. These reports deserve\\nfurther consideration, and it is purposed to make\\na more careful study of the subject.\\n19", "height": "3560", "width": "2442", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "20 THE PSYCHIC AND PSYCHISM.\\nA study of Psychism includes an investiga-\\ntion into the character of the people who pro-\\nduce its phenomena, and a careful review of the\\nwonders and works performed. The reduction\\nof any subject to a scientific basis includes the\\ncollection of its body of facts and an investiga-\\ntion of the laws and conditions governing the\\nfacts. Let us adopt this method in the treat-\\nment of the subject of Psychism.\\nThe people who produce the unusual phenom-\\nena form a most interesting body, and as we\\nconsider them we are led to wonder whether\\nthey are endowed with any unusual peculiarities,\\nor have by some means developed their occult\\npower. It seems that the latter supposition is\\ntrue, namely, that they have developed by pa-\\ntient, persistent practice psychical power suffi-\\ncient to differentiate them from the ordinary\\npeople. The Psychic is the center around which\\nis arranged all of the facts and phenomena of\\nPsychism, therefore, he is a most important\\nfactor in our investigation. It is worth while to\\napproach as near to him as possible and study\\nhim in various lights, so that we may understand\\nwhat sort of a person he is. This is not diffi-\\ncult for one who has the patience and can do\\nso with an unprejudiced mind. He may be\\nwatched as he works, conversed with about his", "height": "3531", "width": "2442", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "PSYCHISM. 21\\nachievements, and often he will explain by what\\nmethods he attained to his enviable position.\\nThose who will may follow him if they are\\nwilling to pay the price in self-sacrifice and per-\\nsevering practice, and duplicate his develop-\\nment. The development that one has attained is\\nwithin the possibilities of another.\\nSuggestion, Simple, Hypnotic and Auto, is a\\nmost important factor in the production of\\nPsychic Phenomena, for it furnishes the means\\nof opening the door which leads to the heart\\nof Psychism. By its aid the mind may be studied\\nin its most intimate operations, and by its aid\\nthe constitution of the mind may be revealed.\\nIts artificial somnambulism and trances duplicate\\nspontaneous subconscious conditions and ex-\\nplain many of their mysteries that without it\\nwould be inscrutable. Any attempt to unravel\\nthe wonders of Psychism without its aid must\\nalmost certainly fail, but we have and may use\\nit let us do so conscientiously.\\nThis is illustrated in Psychism, in no connec-\\ntion better than in Psychic Healing. Psychopa-\\nis a young science, but it has already abundantly\\nproven its worth. Many persons who were\\nsuffering from so called incurable mala dies are\\nindebted to it for their present state of health.\\nThere are many different schools of Psycho-", "height": "3551", "width": "2332", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "22 THE PSYCHIC AND PSYCHISM.\\ncurative systems, all of which might be classified\\nunder the title Mental Medicine. The theories\\nof their curative action vary almost infinitely,\\nbut surely the mind cannot have so many dif-\\nferent modes of cure. Is it not possible to unify\\nthese under one all-embracing law of mind?\\nThere is as much need of unity here as there is\\nin religion. Let us hope that a solution of these\\nproblems may soon appear. That man s mind,\\nor soul if you will, with its powers and destinies,\\nmay soon be more fully understood.\\nThat the mind has other modes of communi-\\ncation besides those depending upon the special\\nand general senses no longer admits of a reason-\\nable doubt. Thoughts speed from soul to soul\\nacross wide distances of space independently of\\nsense connections. Telepathy is a fact. The\\nsenses are not the only avenues that lead to the\\nsoul many other windows exist if only they are\\nunbarred and opened. Open the windows of\\nyour soul and let in the whole truth The win-\\ndow of one narrow creed is too meager to\\nsatisfy the longings, aspirations and hopes of the\\nhuman soul.\\nThe mind can look far away and see without\\nthe use of the physical sight. The mind can\\ncatch far distant sounds, without the aid of the\\nphysical hearing. The beauties, pleasures and", "height": "3511", "width": "2442", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "PSYCHISM. 23\\nknowledge of the world are not kept from the\\nmind though separated from it by many leagues\\nof space. Friend sees friend across distances of\\nthousands of miles, looking into the dear face\\nwith loving felicitude, and hearing the sweet,\\nfond voice speaking words of comfort and cheer.\\nIs it too much to hope that the time may come\\nwhen these things may be done not occasionally\\nby the few, but frequently by the many I think\\nnot. What man has done man may do, and it\\nseems that all men have been endowed with\\nfaculties sufficient for these things.\\nThings as well as persons, it is said, speak to\\nthe receptive mind. A bit of stone, wood or\\ncloth will tell its history to him who has faculties\\nkeen enough to receive the message. A lock of\\nhair or a garment is sufficient material for the*\\nPsychometrist to tell the whole history of the\\nperson who wore it. To such a person the walls\\nof a room reveal the secrets known to none but\\nthose who took part in them. All pronounce\\nthis development wonderful. Surely man is\\nwonderfully and fearfully made mentally. How\\nfine are his perceptions when properly devel-\\noped!\\nSleep may serve not only as a period of rest,\\nbut also serve as an opportunity to aid others.\\nWe may lie down to sleep, to recuperate our", "height": "3530", "width": "2302", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "24 THE PSYCHIC AND PSYCHISM.\\nown bodily forces, and at the same time lie down\\nto send helpful messages, encouraging and cura-\\ntive thoughts to persons who may be in need of\\nthem, though separated from them by many\\nmiles. Also, we may receive help from others.\\nWhile we sleep they may send us the same\\nhelpful thoughts that it is possible for us to\\nsend to them. Not only is this true, but it is\\npossible to do it in such a way that we may be\\nconscious of the exchange of friendly thoughts\\nor messages. One may waken in the morning\\nto find that he has a message from a far distant\\nfriend or loved one brought not by post, but by a\\nfar speedier carrier, one that speeds with the\\nwings of thought.\\nSomnambulists and Trance Mediums, when in\\nthat subliminal condition become the receivers of\\nthe thoughts of the world. Having put aside for\\nthe time being the grosser sensibilities of the\\nmind, they are able to catch the subtle waves of\\nthoughts that come from various sources and\\ndirections that are constantly knocking at the\\ndoor of the subconsciousness during their wak-\\ning hours, but the gentle knocking is rarely no-\\nticed during the ordinary conscious state. The\\ninformation and messages brought back from\\nthese states of subconsciousness are often misun-\\nderstood and misinterpreted, but they are none", "height": "3521", "width": "2442", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "PSYCHISM.\\nthe less important, and it behooves us to find\\nsome method by which a proper understanding\\nand true interpretation of them may be made.\\nHe who does this will render mankind a great\\nservice, which will not soon be forgotten.\\nThe messages brought back from sleep, som-\\nnambulic and trance conditions are most impor-\\ntant. Their importance cannot be overstated if\\nit be true, as many claim it is, that they emanate\\nnot only from the minds of the living, but from\\ndiscarnate souls, who have gone on before us\\ninto the great unknown. It is said that these mes-\\nsages answer the ancient question that has re-\\nverberated and echoed down through the ages,\\nnamely, If a man die, shall he live again? How\\nmany of us have voiced this query as with aching\\nheart and tear-blinded eyes, we have stood over\\nthe dead bodies of our loved ones Is it possi-\\nble that by long search and careful investigation\\nwe may find the answer, to the satisfaction of the\\nwhole world of this momentous question? It\\nmay be so. It may be so, but who can foretell\\nthe future?\\nThere is no science today confronted by such\\nmomentous questions as those presented to\\nPsychism for solution. The answers to these\\nproblems are demanded by an impatient, anxious\\nmultitude to whom the answers mean more than\\nJ", "height": "3560", "width": "2442", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "26 THE PSYCHIC AND PSYCHISM.\\nlife or death. How long must they wait or will\\nno answer be forthcoming? The future alone\\ncan answer these questions, but we hope that\\nPsychism will be equal to the task.\\nIf Psychism is made up of such facts and it is\\npossible to learn the laws governing their rela-\\ntionship, it is amply worth any man s while to\\nstudy and try to understand it. In the interest\\nthat has been bestowed upon the physical sci-\\nences man has too much overlooked and neg-\\nlected the study of his own mind. Is it not pass-\\ning strange that we should spend our time on the\\nstudy of everything under heaven outside of self\\nand almost ignore the greatest thing in the world\\nthe mind? Let us not do so longer; let us re-\\ndeem the past. If the things that attention has\\nbeen called to above are important and interest-\\ning, begin to study them and if no better oppor-\\ntunity is available, follow the outline laid down\\nin the chapters which follow. Let us first study\\nthe Psychic.", "height": "3509", "width": "2546", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER II.\\nTHE PSYCHIC.\\nMan the highest product of evolution A physical and\\nmental being\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The Psychic described The defini-\\ntion of mind The duality of the mind The Psychic\\ndefined He functions at will on the subconscious\\nplane The Psychic not a new creation A classi-\\nfication of Psychics Modern Psychics The His-\\ntory of the Psychic The extreme estimates of the\\nPsychic The personalities of the Psychic The\\nPsychic a marked character The Psychic not\\nwholly objectionable He aims high The Yogi as\\nan example Jesus a better example.\\nEvolution has given us man as its highest\\nproduct first, it gave us man with a body only\\nand then after an almost infinite stride it gave\\nus man with a body and a mind. Man is neither\\nwholly body nor wholly mind, although there\\nare some thinkers and teachers who hold and\\nteach these extreme notions. The one degrades\\nman to a mere animal without a soul, the other\\nexalts him to a divinity equal with his maker.\\nMan is neither physical nor mental only; he is\\n27", "height": "3560", "width": "2442", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "28 THE PSYCHIC AND PSYCHISM.\\nmore he is a synthesis of both. His life is not\\nlived on the low plane of the physical nor upon\\nthe high plane of the mental, but upon an inter-\\nmediate plane where the physical and the mental\\noverlap and blend. Man may vary his plane of\\nliving, he may cater to the body and live very\\nnear the physical plane, or he may cater to the\\nmind and live very near the mental plane, but he\\ncan by no means reach either extreme. Man s\\nlife must ever be psycho-physical.\\nBetween these wide limits all human beings\\nare found during their sojourn upon the earth.\\nThose who approximate the plane of the body\\nare said to live physical lives and those who\\napproximate the plane of the mind are said to\\nlive psychical lives. The one turns back to the\\ntime when man was a savage whose whole atten-\\ntion was occupied with a struggle for existence\\nand he was simply a hunter for food the other\\nforges forward toward a time when man shall\\nbecome an enlightened being whose whole at-\\ntention will be occupied with a struggle for\\nknowledge and he will be chiefly a hunter for\\ntruth. These two classes of people are not sep-\\narated by any sharp line of demarcation they\\nare simply the extreme borders of the stream\\nof human life. The one being largely depend-\\nent upon the physical senses, while the other", "height": "3509", "width": "2558", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "THE PSYCHIC. 29\\nhas learned to depend more or less upon the\\nintuitive faculties of the mind. It is among\\nthese last that the Psychic is found; he is a\\nperson who has learned to function upon the\\nmental plane more or less independently of the\\nphysical senses.\\nIn order that this conception of the Psychic\\nmay be perfectly plain, it will be necessary to\\ndefine mind. Mind is the subject of all of our\\nconscious activities, the whole of the psychical\\nbeing of man. By mind we mean the soul, the\\nego, the spirit, the conscious self which is self-\\nactive and self-existant. Mind is double in its\\nnature and functions upon two planes, namely,\\nthe conscious and the subconscious. The con-\\nscious plane is largely dependent upon the\\nsenses and may be characterized as sensorial;\\nthe subconscious plane or subliminal conscious-\\nness is largely dependent upon the intuition and\\nthe immediate perceptions and may be charac-\\nterized as intuitional. These planes of con-\\nsciousness will be more fully considered in an-\\nother chapter. Enough has been said to call\\nattention to their existence and explain their\\nrelation to this subject.\\nThe Psychic is a person who by natural en-\\ndowment or mental development is able at will\\nto function upon the subconscious plane more", "height": "3560", "width": "2323", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "30 THE PSYCHIC AND PSYCHISM.\\nor less independently of the sensorial. In short\\nhe is able to see without the aid of the physical\\norgans of sight, to hear without the physical\\norgans of hearing, to communicate over wide\\ndistances without the aid of the physical senses,\\nand in many other ways justify his right to the\\nname by producing abundant psychic phenom-\\nena. Let us approach and study this interest-\\ning personage, enquiring into I. His classifica-\\ntion, 2. His history and 3. His personal charac-\\nteristics.\\nThe Psychic is not a new creation unless it\\nbe in name, for under various appellations he has\\nfigured upon the pages of history since the be-\\nginning of its record. In ancient times we\\nrecognize him as the Seer, the Prophet, the\\nSooth-Sayer, the Yogi, the Magician and many\\nothers. It is unnecessary to more than call at-\\ntention to these, but there is a modern group\\nt) a! it will be necessary to more exactly define.\\nA complete list will not be attempted, and\\ndoubtless every reader will be able to add others,\\nbut enough will be given to indicate the con-\\nception of the modern Psychic.\\nThe Psychic was for some time and is still\\nby some writers conceived to be a Spiritistic\\nMedium. The Medium is undoubtedly a Psy-\\nchic, but the Psychic is much more than a", "height": "3505", "width": "2442", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "THE PSYCHIC. 31\\nMedium. The Medium is the Psychic whb is\\nsaid to be able to communicate with disem-\\nbodied spirits and to occupy a position as inter-\\nmediate between the living and the dead; he is\\nthe one whose psychic force supplies the power\\nthe spirit uses to produce the various phenom-\\nena.\\nA Clairvoyant is a Psychic who is able to see\\nbeyond the range or without the aid of the\\nphysical organs of sight; that is, he sees with\\nthe mind, and more often than not does so with\\nhis eyes closed. A Clairaudient is a Psychic\\nwho is able to hear beyond the range and with-\\nout the aid of the physical organs of hearing;\\nthat is, he hears with the mind.\\nThe Telepathist is a Psychic who is able to\\ncommunicate with others by the use of occult\\nmind forces beyond the range of and without\\nthe aid of the physical senses. He sends thought\\nmessages across wide distances of space, thou-\\nsands of miles, with none other than mind con-\\nnection.\\nThe Somnambulist is a Psychic who in normal\\nor induced sleep produces the phenomena com-\\nmon to the waking state and usually has no\\nmemory of his somnambulistic experience after\\nwaking. A Hypnotic is a somnambulist who\\nwhen hypnotized is able to produce the phe-\\nnomena peculiar to hypnosis.", "height": "3560", "width": "2309", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "32 THE PSYCHIC AND PSYCHISM.\\nThe Psychometrist is a Psychic who has the\\npower of divination who can tell by being near\\nor in contact with a person, place, or thing, the\\npast history of the subject by simply holding it\\nin his hand.\\nThroughout the pages of history where ref-\\nerence has been made to the Psychic we every-\\nwhere find him misunderstood and consequently\\nmisrepresented. Sometimes he was favorably\\nreceived by the people as a divine messenger\\nand his unusual and mysterious deeds were\\nascribed to the aid of Divine power; at other\\ntimes the people would have none of him, be-\\nlieving that he was in league with the powers\\nof darkness and that his works so strange and\\nweird was performed by the aid of his satanic\\nmajesty. In the one case the people were ready\\nto worship the performer and treated him with\\nthe utmost consideration, showering gifts and\\nbenefactions upon him and in the other case\\nthey feared and shunned him and were ready\\nto heap all sorts of abuse and persecutions upon\\nhim, even to the extent of putting him to death.\\nThe history of the past is repeated in the his-\\ntory of the present, modified only by the degree\\nof civilization. The performers of occult phe-\\nnomena and psychic wonders are considered by\\nmany today to be especially gifted with Divine", "height": "3505", "width": "2532", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "THE PSYCHIC. 33\\npower and their works considered authentica-\\ntions of a Divine mission. By others, all per-\\nsons able to perform these mysterious mental\\nfeats are considered as workers of black magic\\nand are shunned and feared, if not persecuted\\nto the aforetime degree.\\nThe present estimates of the Psychic results\\nfrom two causes; first, the prejudice that sur-\\nrounds the phenomena, and second, the mys-\\ntery with which the performer surrounds them.\\nThe past has given us the prejudice as its legacy,\\nbut the mystery with which the Psychic inten-\\ntionally or otherwise has shrouded it, is by far\\nthe greater hinderance to a popular understand-\\ning of the subject. Many performers deck\\nthemselves with a mantle of mystery and pre-\\ntend they have some occult power. It is time\\nfor them to throw off the mantle of mystery\\nand to stand forth as men and women who have\\nsimply developed unusual mental powers. The\\nmysterious is always feared. Let us make this\\nsubject so plain and simple that any one who\\nwill may understand it.\\nThe personalities of Psychics are peculiar;\\neither the natural endowment or developmental\\nexercises necessary to the practice of their cult\\nrenders them marked people. One is rarely\\nfound who is not peculiar, not to say eccentric.", "height": "3560", "width": "2201", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "34 THE PSYCHIC AND PSYCHISM.\\nMoreover, most of them have characters in\\nwhich there is a moral twist. This twist may\\nbe considered by some to be an ornament, but\\nothers will surely think it otherwise. Undoubt-\\nedly the strain of the psychic work laid upon\\nthem may account for much of their moral lax-\\nity. The Psychic after a seance is more or less\\nexhausted and feels the need of a stimulant\\nwhich he too often takes, with the result that\\nhe not infrequently develops drug and liquor\\nhabits. The physical condition of Psychics is\\nphenomenally bad, especially among those who\\npractice many ascetic austerities. There is a\\nbelief more or less common among them that\\nthe body must be etherealized by asceticism in\\norder to secure mental development. This is\\nespecially true of Oriental Psychics. They are\\nusually pale and emaciated and might be de-\\nscribed as having a lean and hungry look,\\nbut their eyes, through which the soul looks,\\nare generally bright. These practices will be\\nmore fully discussed in the next chapter.\\nNotwithstanding the truth of all that has been\\nsaid above, the Psychic is not always or wholly\\nobjectionable. Indeed, he has many good quali-\\nties, qualities that are thought by many to abun-\\ndantly offset the questionable ones. The law\\nof compensation not only demands payment for", "height": "3505", "width": "2442", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "THE PSYCHIC. 35\\nthis peculiar development, but also rewards him\\nfor the losses he sustains by the quality of the\\npower he gains. What the Psychic gains and\\nthe marvelous feats he is able to perform will be\\namply set forth and illustrated in the subsequent\\nchapters. If Psychism is the latest and highest\\ndevelopment in the evolution of the mind, it is\\nworth the high price that must be paid for it.\\nThis it seems to be, although there are some\\nwho see in it only a vestigeal remnant brought\\nup from a lower plane of existence. It will be\\npossible to make a better judgment of this after\\nour study has been completed.\\nThe pure life demanded of the aspirants after\\nsoul culture by many of the methods of devel-\\nopments often bears fruit in a most beautiful\\ncharacter. Renunciations are neither infre-\\nquent nor few. Selfishness, which is the es-\\nsence of sin or error, is uncompromisingly\\nstamped out. The Psychic aims high, and to\\nreach the goal of his high ambition means no\\nless a thing than the development of a Christ-\\nlike life. Great is the reward of those who at-\\ntain this, for they become illuminated souls and\\nattain what is known as Cosmic Consciousness.\\nThe Eastern Yogi would serve as an example\\nof the extreme Psychic, and his powers are the\\nwonder of the world. He leaves his home, fam-", "height": "3560", "width": "2302", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "36 THE PSYCHIC AND PSYCHISM.\\nily and friends, for a home in a cave or arbor\\nin the jungles or mountains and makes kinsmen\\nand friends of all living beings. His home and\\ncountry are the wide world. His raiment is the\\ncheapest that may be had, and his food the\\npoorest, consisting of water and a small amount\\nof rice. His occupation is to do good and to\\nsit and meditate waiting for power to come to\\nhim, not from without, but from within. The\\nYogi s life is so simple, sincere and self-sacri-\\nficing that it is no wonder that the common\\npeople of his country give him the title of the\\nholy man. However, he does not meet our\\nidea of holiness, for while we admire his phys-\\nical control, psychic power and wisdom, we\\ndeprecate his improvidence and selfishness. He\\nshould come forth from his seclusion and teach\\nwhat he has learned at so great cost, instead\\nof wasting his life in solitude. He comes under\\nthe same condemnation that the Christian\\nascetic and hermit do who think only of\\nescaping the evils of the world and not correct-\\ning them. One had, appreciated and used the\\npowers and knowledge of an ideal Psychic, and\\nhe went about doing good and teaching. His\\nname was JESUS.\\nThe foregoing characterization of the Psy-\\nchic, it is thought, will give the reader a fair", "height": "3505", "width": "2550", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "THE PSYCHIC. 37\\ndelineation of that interesting character. In\\noutline it shows who and what he is, classifying\\nhis various departments of activity and pointing\\nout his weakness and strength of character.\\nThe methods and means by which the Psychic\\nis developed will be discussed in the next chap-\\nter.", "height": "3560", "width": "2183", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3521", "width": "2442", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER III.\\nPSYCHIC DEVELOPMENT.\\nThe Psychic is a development Exercise is the condi-\\ntion of all development There is no best method\\nMany methods have been used The ancient meth-\\nods An ancient method quoted Modern methods\\nare modifications of the old Sitting in the Silence\\nThe power of silence The breathing exercises A\\ncaution Suggestion is a means of soul-culture\\nThe use of Hypno-Suggestion Ascetic austerities in\\ndevelopment\u00e2\u0080\u0094 -The Japanese ascetic The Yogi All\\nshould understand Psychic development.\\nThe Psychic is developed, not born. What-\\never may be true of the poet, this is true of the\\nPsychic. While natural endowment may vary\\ngreatly in individual instances, none is so liber-\\nally endowed that he does not need further de-\\nvelopment. All are capable of some soul devel-\\nopment, many are capable of considerable\\ndevelopment and a few are capable of almost\\nlimitless development. The condition of all devel-\\nopment is exercise, and just as the athlete must\\nundergo prolonged and persevering exercise\\n39\\nJ", "height": "3560", "width": "2442", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "40 THE PSYCHIC AND PSYCHISM.\\nand training before he may hope to attain the\\ngoal of his ambition, even so must he who thirsts\\nfor soul-culture or psychic development pa-\\ntiently persevere in the exercise of the faculties\\nhe wishes to increase before he may hope to\\nattain any marked success. Symmetrical devel-\\nopment may be slow, but it is sure to those who\\npersevere.\\nMany have asked, What is the best method\\nto use in psychic development? It is safe to\\nsay there is no best method. Methods are\\nnumerous and varied; indeed, their name is\\nlegion; every country and every cult of the\\ncountry have their methods. Most of them are\\nmore or less mysterious and misunderstood, not\\nonly by some of us, but by most of those who\\npracticed them. Much light is thrown on some\\nof these methods by modern investigators of\\nPsychic Phenomena and Esotericism. As oc-\\ncasion offers, attention will be called to the oc-\\ncult aspect of these methods. It will be impos-\\nsible to even name, much less describe and ex-\\nplain all of them only a few of the more promi-\\nnent will be mentioned, and these because of\\ntheir use or abuse. In every case it is neces-\\nsary for the person who wishes to develop psy-\\nchic power to choose a method suited to his\\ncondition and requirements. A person who", "height": "3551", "width": "2551", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "PSYCHIC DEVELOPMENT. 41\\nwould become a Spirit Medium would need a\\ndifferent method from the one who wished to\\ndevelop telepathic powers, or the one who\\nwished to become a Somnambulist. This will\\nappear more clearly as we proceed with our\\nstudy of the several methods to be considered\\nimmediately.\\nThe ancient methods of soul-culture are so\\nsimilar as found described in the various an-\\ncient religious writings that they may be\\ngrouped and studied at the same time. It is\\nsurprising to those who have not made a study\\nof the subject to note how much the religious\\nrites of ancient as well as modern times depend\\nupon Psychic Development. This is significant,\\nas will appear as we proceed. The Brahmin\\nYogi, the Buddhist Samana, the Egyptian and\\nJapanese Priests all use similar methods for\\ntheir development. Specific directions are found\\nin the Vedas and other sacred books for the\\nYogi to follow, by which he may become an\\nAdept. In the Sixth Chapter of the Bhaga vad\\nGita the following directions are found:\\nHaving placed in a clean spot one s seat,\\nfirm, not very high nor very low, and formed\\nof skins of animals placed upon cloth, and Kuca\\ngrass upon that. Sitting on that seat, strive\\nfor meditation, for the purification^ of the heart,", "height": "3560", "width": "2308", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "42 THE PSYCHIC AND PSYCHISM.\\nmaking the mind one pointed, and reducing to\\nrest the action of the thinking principle as well\\nas that of the senses and organs. Hording the\\nbody, neck and head straight and unmoved, per-\\nfectly determined, and as if beholding the end\\nof the nose, and not looking in any direction,\\nwith heart in supreme peace, devoid of fear,\\nfixed in the Brahmacharis vow, with thought\\ncontrolled and heart in me as the supreme goal,\\nhe remains. Thus always tranquilizing the\\nheart in the Supreme, the sage, with thought\\ncontrolled, attains the supreme rest in Nirvana\\nthat is my essence.\\nThe Samana follows a similar course. Those\\nwho have read the life of Buddha will recall the\\nmanner of his sitting in the silence under the\\nBo Tree and meditating. Likewise the Egyp-\\ntian Priests by prolonged meditation and trance\\nexperiences attained to their adeptship. The\\nJapanese Priests, both Shinto and Buddhist,\\nreach a similar development by a somewhat dif-\\nferent method. However, in fact they are not\\nwide apart. They have schools in which they\\nteach their children how to become possessed\\nby the gods, incarnated, and a large part of the\\nnation are able to thus become temporary gods\\nby possession. It will be plainly seen, from\\nwhat has been said, that all of these religious", "height": "3555", "width": "2442", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "PSYCHIC DEVELOPMENT. 43\\nPsychics depend upon trance conditions. The\\nend of their developments, by whatever method\\nthey reach it, is the trance. To fall into the\\ntrance at will and in that condition perform their\\nwonders or obtain their information is the sum-\\nmit of their ambition.\\nThe methods of the ancients has served for\\nthe guidance of all ages that have followed.\\nThe principle is always the same, however varied\\nthe methods may be. It always depends upon\\nthe control of the mind. This is not always a\\nconscious control for the phenomena of Psy-\\nchism depends upon the subliminal powers\\nwhich are usually below the floor of ordinary\\nconsciousness. Briefly the more common mod-\\nern methods of Psychic Development will now\\nbe sketched.\\nSitting in the silence is the most common,\\nas it is the most fruitful, method of soul devel-\\nopment. It is copied after the ancient Yogi\\nmethod described in the quotation above. The\\ncharacter of the sittings is considerably varied,\\nand so the results obtained differ widely. With\\nsome it is simply a silent meditation where the\\nmind is made passive, the sensibilities so far as\\nis possible set aside, and the mind made recep-\\ntive to thought impressions. By patient prac-\\ntice of this method the mind becomes increas-", "height": "3599", "width": "2306", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "44 THE PSYCHIC AND PSYCHISM.\\ningly sensitive to thought vibrations. Some-\\ntimes the impressions received are visual, that\\nis Clairvoyance is developed at other times they\\nare auditory, that is Clairaudience is developed\\nbut more often the impressions do not take on\\nthe form of visions or sounds, but are simply\\nthought messages, that is Thought Transfer-\\nence or Telepathy is developed. The character\\nof the development is influenced by the desire\\nof the sitter this is especially true of those who\\nfall into trances. The persons sitting to develop\\nmediumship are likely to obtain phenomena\\npeculiar to mediums, such as hearing voices or\\nseeing thought forms, because such results are\\nexpected.\\nThose sitting in the silence with strained at-\\ntention instead of passivity of mind obtain quite\\ndifferent results. Some concentrate their atten-\\ntion upon a thought, an imaginary point in space\\nor upon the end of the nose, with the result\\nthat they sooner or later lose consciousness\\nand fall into more or less profound trances\\nThese are autohypnotic trances. This form of\\nsitting in the silence should be indulged in with\\nextreme caution, for it endangers the sitter s\\nsanity. Not a few have gone from these sit-\\ntings to asylums for the insane. When com-\\nbined with this form of sitting in the silence the", "height": "3537", "width": "2442", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "PSYCHIC DEVELOPMENT. 45\\nperson reduces his physical vigor by asceticism,\\nthe danger is still greater.\\nThe power of silence is rarely fully appre-\\nciated. However, sitting in the silence with\\npassive receptive mind could hardly be danger-\\nous. There is a society whose members sit\\ndaily in the silence during the noon hour. They\\nall hold the same thought in mind, but do not\\nconcentrate the attention upon it for the pur-\\npose of inducing hypnosis or self-entrancement.\\nMembers of this society have assured me that\\nthey have received great benefits from this prac-\\ntice.\\nAnother, one of the best modes of sitting in\\nthe silence, is that one which has for its aim\\ncomplete self-control and receptivity. The sit-\\nter having gone into retirement in a quiet place,\\nseats himself comfortably, relaxes himself body\\nand mind and then proceeds as follows Recall-\\ning all conscious efforts and thoughts by an ef-\\nfort of will, he gathers them into the innermost\\nrecesses of his mind and forces them to rest. He\\nrepeats this voluntary recall and control of the\\nactivities of his mind, saying mentally to him-\\nself as he does so, will and still. As he\\nvoluntarily gathers in his thoughts he says\\nwill, and as he quiets them he says still.\\nAfter continuing this for a little while his mind", "height": "3560", "width": "2268", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "46 THE PSYCHIC AND PSYCHISM.\\nbecomes composed; then he discontinues the\\neffort and commands, allowing his mind to re-\\nmain quiet and receptive. Patient practice of\\nthis method will not fail of good results.\\nA word of caution should be given against\\nany method that renders the mind incompetent\\nto judge of and to intelligently accept or reject\\nanything that comes to it in these silent sittings.\\nConditions of mind varying from passive in-\\nactivity to subliminal states are included in this\\ncaution. It is possible for one to develop a\\nreceptivity of mind in which none of the facul-\\nties that guard the integrity of the character is\\noff duty, but this is not a state of partial or\\ncomplete subconsciousness. The reason for\\nthis caution is that persons in the state of mind\\ndescribed are liable to be influenced by all sorts\\nof thoughts intentional or unintentional from\\npersons present or absent.\\nThe breathing exercises furnish another\\nmethod for psychic control of no small impor-\\ntance. There are a considerable number of\\nthese exercises scattered through the literature\\non this subject, but they consist of modifications\\nof three principal exercises. These three exer-\\ncises only need be mentioned in this connection.\\nThe first exercise consists of a simple rhyth-", "height": "3530", "width": "2442", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "PSYCHIC DEVELOPMENT. 47\\nmical breathing in which the inspiration is deep\\nand the expiration is somewhat prolonged. Be-\\nginning with inspiration four seconds and ex-\\npiration eight seconds, and then very gradually\\nlengthening the time. This exercise will soon\\nlower the number of respirations per minute\\nand give a better tone to the whole organism,\\nand should be practiced under the same favor-\\nable conditions that are observed for silent sit-\\ntings. In the East those who practice these ex-\\nercises usually repeat some sacred word, as\\nAum, which gives them a religious character.\\nThe second exercise consists of a similar deep\\nrespiration in the midst of which there is a re-\\ntention of the breath. A deep inspiration is\\nfollowed by a retention of the breath before the\\nprolonged expiration. The rhythm should be as\\nfollows: Inspiration four seconds, retention of\\nthe breath sixteen seconds, expiration eight sec-\\nonds the time to be very slowly extended as in\\nthe first exercise. This exercise is very stimu-\\nlating and must be practiced with caution, as\\nsoon as a slight dizziness is felt it should be\\ndiscontinued for the time being.\\nThe third exercise consists of a respiratory\\nrhythm similar to the second, with the differ-\\nence that the breath is held out instead of in.\\nThe deep inspiration is followed by a prolonged", "height": "3560", "width": "2291", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "48 THE PSYCHIC AND PSYCHISM.\\nexpiration, after which the air is held out of\\nthe lungs. The rhythm should be inspiration\\nfour seconds, expiration eight seconds, exclu-\\nsion of air sixteen seconds. This last exercise\\nis found to be the most difficult for Westerners,\\nand should be practiced with extreme caution,\\nas the exclusion of the air from the lungs favors\\nthe accumulation of carbonic acid gas in the\\nblood. A slight dizziness should be taken as a\\nwarning that the exercise has been continued\\nlong enough. Some practice these exercises\\nwith a nasal modification, controlling the nostrils\\nwith the thumb and forefinger, inspiring through\\nthe left nostril, with the right one closed, keep-\\ning both closed during the rest and expiring\\nthrough the right nostril. However, no advan-\\ntage is obtained in the use of this modification.\\nThe Hindus from whom these exercises have\\ncome have furnished a fanciful explanation of\\ntheir modus operandi, but their explanation\\nwould be out of place here. Let it suffice to say\\nthat the exercises are very stimulating and en-\\nable the practicers to perform many wonderful\\nfeats. They develop a muscular and psychic\\ncontrol difficult to obtain in any other manner\\nIt will be observed that these breathing exer-\\ncises primarily influence the muscular control,\\nbut at the same time they develop an electro-", "height": "3525", "width": "2442", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "PSYCHIC DEVELOPMENT. 49\\nvital force which may be directed to any part\\nor even outside of the body. If while exercis-\\ning one directs the attention to any one part\\nof the body, that part almost immediately is\\nfilled with warmth and vital force. This ob-\\nservation will be followed by the knowledge\\nthat not only physical but mental control\\nmay be obtained especially by the third exercise.\\nThe practice in order to be thoroughly effica-\\ncious should be continued for a number of\\nmonths, but even a brief practice will not be\\nbarren of results.\\nThe extreme potency of the breathing exer-\\ncises is shown most plainly in the Yogis, who\\nare able to simulate death. Authentic cases are\\non record in which Yogis were able to be buried\\nfor weeks and even months and afterwards be\\nresuscitated. These cases, if they do no more,\\nplainly illustrate the almost unlimited control\\nthat may be had over the bodily and mental\\nfunctions.\\nBefore leaving this subject let me repeat my\\nwarning not to practice these exercises too often\\nor too long; twice a day is often enough. The\\nmorning and evening hours, before eating and\\nbefore bedtime, are preferable. A very few\\nminutes at first will be long enough; the time\\nmay be gradually increased, but even a slight", "height": "3560", "width": "2261", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "50 THE PSYCHIC AND PSYCHISH-\\ndizziness will be an indication that the practice\\nhas continued long enough.\\nSuggestion furnishes a means for soul-culture\\nof considerable importance to the Psychic. In-\\ndeed, Autosuggestion enters more or less prom-\\ninently into all of the methods mentioned, but\\nHypno-Suggestion is referred to here. Only a\\nbrief reference to suggestion may be made in\\nthis connection, but a fuller discussion will ap-\\npear in another chapter.\\nHypnotized subjects not infrequently exhibit\\npronounced psychic powers. In cases hypno-\\ntized for therapeutic purposes not a few in-\\nstances have been noted where the patient ex-\\nhibited supernormal powers of perception.\\nTelepathy, Clairvoyance, Clairaudience and\\nPsychometry have all been manifested. Two\\nmethods have been used to develop these facul-\\nties i. Direct Suggestion during hypnosis,\\nand 2. Posthypnotic Suggestion.\\nThe direct suggestion that the subject is able\\nto see or hear or know things occurring at a\\ndistance is accepted, with the result that a re-\\nport is soon forthcoming from the subject. The\\nreport may be a true account of the occurrences\\nor it may be simply a fabrication with no basis\\nin truth. If the subject is able to get the in-\\nformation he will do so and report it correctly;", "height": "3533", "width": "2442", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "PSYCHIC DEVELOPMENT. 51\\nif not, he will draw upon his imagination for his\\nreport. Any phenomena produced through\\nhypnotized subjects should be carefully verified\\nbefore accepting them as genuine for the rea-\\nson just mentioned. It is my experience that\\nmany undoubted phenomena may be obtained,\\nbut not a few will be the result of pure imag-\\nination. Subjects dominated by the suggestion\\nthat they can obtain the information desired\\nwill report to the best of their ability true if\\npossible, false if necessary. This is a common\\nphenomenon in hypnosis.\\nPosthypnotic Suggestion operates in quite a\\ndifferent way. Suggestions are given to a hyp-\\nnotized subject to the effect that he will be able\\nto develop psychic powers, that he will be able\\nto control his mind in such a way that he will\\nbe able to disregard ordinary sense perceptions\\nand obtain knowledge by immediate perception\\nor intuition. These suggestions have a post-\\nhypnotic effect, enabling the subject to speedily\\nacquire psychic control. They act by inspiring\\nconfidence in the person s mind and stimulating\\neffort and practice. There is no doubt that\\nmuch of the psychic power depends upon the\\nexpectant attention. He that hath ears to hear\\nmay hear, he that hath eyes to see may see, he\\nthat hath a mind to understand may know for\\nwe hear and see and know with the mind.", "height": "3560", "width": "2291", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "52 THE PSYCHIC AND PSYCHISM.\\nThe influence of autosuggestion is well shown\\nin the incarnation trances of the Japanese. A\\nlarge proportion of that people, both male and\\nfemale, practice what is known as the posses-\\nsion trance. On various occasions and for\\nmany purposes they become possessed of one\\nor other of their gods. The divine possession,\\nupon careful investigation, proves to be none\\nother than an autohypnosis, in which a sugges-\\ntion has been given that the hypnotee has be-\\ncome the dwelling and mouthpiece of a god.\\nThe practice of autohypnotization is begun in\\nchildhood and continued through adult life.\\nj Schools for this purpose are conducted under\\nthe direction of the priests, in which the children\\nperform all sorts of antics. A boy will be called\\nI out of a class by the priest and he will seat him-\\nself upon a little mat, and closing his eyes will\\nproceed to fall into a state of autohypnosis. At\\nthis point a wand is placed into his hand,\\nthrough which the god comes to take possession\\nof his body. The arrival of the god is an-\\nnounced by a shaking of the wand, followed\\nby a more or less convulsive spasm of the body.\\nThe boy is now possessed, and immediately acts\\nlike one possessed. He springs to his feet,\\nthrows the wand violently away and proceeds\\nto perform all manner of acrobatic feats.", "height": "3532", "width": "2442", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "PSYCHIC DEVELOPMENT. 53\\nWhat is true of the child is true of the adult\\nthe god incarnates in him in just the same way,\\nexcept that a little more decorum is preserved.\\nWhen the god has arrived he may be consulted\\nby the proper person, and he will speak his an-\\nswers with the lips of the possessed. It is plain\\nwithout an extended discussion or explanation\\nthat the divinity in these cases is none other\\nthan the subliminal self. It would be interest-\\ning to give more details, but space will not per-\\nmit.\\nThe ascetic austerities practiced in connection\\nwith the various methods of psychic develop-\\nments are well known, but their importance de-\\nserves a brief discussion. Most of the ancient\\ndirections for soul-culture insist upon the ob-\\nservance of these austerities. All meats were\\neliminated, and the diet limited to one of the\\nplainest and simplest sort, and in many cases\\nthe renunciation of all society and the adoption\\nof a solitary life were insisted upon. These re-\\nquirements were doubtless based upon the\\nknowledge that some sorts of psychic phenom-\\nena were more easily developed when the phys-\\nical man was reduced to a low state of vitality.\\nDoubtless weak, hungry persons can more read-\\nily fall into trances and see visions and dream\\ndreams, but the reliabilities of these visions and\\ndreams is not so certain.", "height": "3560", "width": "2290", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "54 THE PSYCHIC AND PSYCHISM.\\nPerhaps no better example of these* ascetic\\nausterities can be given than the present prac-\\ntice of the Japanese aspirants after divine asso-\\nciations. They almost starve themselves and\\nindulge in innumerable washings. An adult\\nman s diet consists of water and a small bowl\\nof rice once daily. His washings are more gen-\\nerous these are taken when convenient in the\\nopen air under a natural waterfall, summer and\\nwinter alike. At sunrise he bathes, in mid-\\nforenoon he bathes, at noon he bathes, in mid-\\nafternoon he bathes, at sunset he bathes, before\\nretiring he bathes, and at the ghastly hour of\\ntwo in the morning he gets up from his warm\\nbed and bathes. Where possible, these ablu-\\ntions are taken in natural water courses or under\\nwaterfalls, through all the seasons of the year.\\nHis diet and ablutions in due time reduce him\\nto the proper state of spirituality, but he con-\\ntinues them far longer than a Westerner would\\ndare to follow him. Thus he becomes a holy\\nman worthy and able to become possessed of\\nthe gods. Any method which demands such\\npractices, or similar austerities, should be\\nshunned, for any psychic power that may not be\\ndeveloped by men and women in a normal state\\nof health would better be left undeveloped.\\nIt would be interesting to review many other", "height": "3527", "width": "2442", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "PSYCHIC DEVELOPMENT. S5\\nmethods used for psychic development, but\\nspace forbids. It is plain from the methods\\nmentioned above that the road the Psychic must\\ntravel to reach the goal of his high aim is not\\nstrewn with roses. It is a serious undertaking\\nand he who would become a Psychic worthy of\\nthe name must attain this end by patient, per-\\nsevering practice. A Yogi makes it a business\\nof a lifetime. He leaves all distracting influ-\\nences behind. Home, relatives, friends and\\nworldly cares are forever forsaken. His wants\\nare reduced to a minimum a cheap linen gar-\\nment, a few handfulls of rice and a supply of\\nwater suffice for his needs. His home is an\\narbor in a jungle or a cave in the mountains,\\nwhere removed beyond the disturbing voices of\\nhis fellowmen he meditates and waits for the\\nmarvelous power that sooner or later comes to\\nhim. What he develops and obtains of power\\nand wisdom exists for all who are willing to\\npay the cost in self-sacrifice and practice. All\\nhave more or less psychic power, and a tittle use\\nwill increase it.\\nIn many instances all that is necessary to an\\nappreciation and understanding of psychic phe-\\nnomena produced by others is a little experience\\nof our own. It is not possible or expedient for\\nall to make a special development of their psy-", "height": "3560", "width": "2241", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "56 THE PSYCHIC AND PSYCHISM.\\nchic forces, but it is necessary and expedient\\nfor all to have a competent knowledge of the\\nsubject, and we may have one if we will use our\\nperceptive faculties. In the succeeding chap-\\nters we will endeavor to substantiate this state-\\nment. Let us first turn our attention to Sug-\\ngestion.", "height": "3529", "width": "2543", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER IV.\\nSUGGESTION.\\nIdeas are contagious Suggestibility constitutional\\nTwo laws of mind Suggestion defined Sugges-\\ntion in the waking state The idea of free will\\nmust be modified The power of Suggestion The\\nschool boy The student of music Suggestion as a\\ncure A case Hypno-Suggestion Hypnotism de-\\nfined Hypnotic versus waking Suggestion Hyp-\\nnotism as a Cure Illustrative cases Suggestion in\\nPsychiatry Autosuggestion The manner of self-\\nsuggestion Its value A living monument of Auto-\\nsuggestion Illustrative cases The limitation cf\\nAutosuggestions Suggestion in subconscious con-\\nditions The cases selected for illustration.\\nSuggestion as we understand it today depends\\nupon the fact that ideas are contagious. All\\npersons are suggestible because they are liable\\nto be infected by ideas propagated by other peo-\\nple. There are no ideas so foolish or fanciful\\nthat they will not be accepted by some if they are\\npowerfully and persistently proclaimed; witness\\nthe hair-brained schemes hatched and pro-\\nclaimed by fanatical persons that are accepted\\n57", "height": "3560", "width": "2233", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "58 THE PSYCHIC AND PSYCHISM.\\nand fostered by practical business men who sink\\nlarge sums of money in them. There are gold-\\nbricks for the unwary farmer and gold-makers\\nfor the wary millionaire. There is no mind that\\nis proof against infectious ideas if only it be\\nexposed to the right kind.\\nSuggestibility depends upon the constitution\\nof the mind. There are two conditions or pecu-\\nliarities of mind so common that they might be\\nconsidered laws of the mind. I. Credulity or\\nthe disposition to believe things that have not or\\ncannot be proven. 2. The tendency of the thing\\nthe mind expects to occur whether it be psycho-\\nlogic or physiologic in character. It will be\\nnecessary to briefly illustrate these two condi-\\ntions. That people believe what has not been\\nproven to them is not only true but necessary.\\nLittle progress could be made in any social or\\nbusiness relation if it was necessary to stop and\\nprove every step. Men accept their religious\\nfaiths ready made upon the testimony of\\nothers. Faith is the back-bone of all business\\nenterprises. All sciences are built upon hypo-\\nthetical theories and beliefs. Happy is the man\\nwho early learns to say with one of old, I be-\\nlieve, help Thou mine unbelief. Credulity is\\nthe condition of expectation, if we believe we ex-\\npect certain things to follow and this expectation", "height": "3520", "width": "2442", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "SUGGESTION.\\n59\\nworks itself out in the development of the thing\\nexpected in body or mind. We expect certain\\nfood to make us ill and it does so we expect cer-\\ntain conditions to cause an headache and they\\ndo, we expect certain remedies or treatments to\\ncure us and they do. All have witnessed or have\\nheard of the experiments made upon perfectly\\nwell persons which illustrates both of these laws\\nof mind, namely, the concerted action of several\\npersons who tell an unsuspecting acquaintance\\nsuccessively at brief intervals, that he is looking\\nbadly, that he must feel ill, that he certainly\\nmust be sick, and so on, with the effect that he\\nspeedily becomes ill. They make him believe he\\nis ill and believing that he is ill he expects to fee!\\nso and shortly does. This will suffice to show\\nwhat is meant by the two conditions of mind un-\\nderlying suggestibility.\\nSuggestion, it is plain from what has been\\nsaid, includes more than used to be understood\\nby that term. Suggestion was formerly used to\\nmean the offering of an idea to the mind with-\\nout any condition of acceptance, but it is used\\nhere to mean the offering of an idea to the mind\\nin such a way that the mind will accept it. The\\noffer and the acceptance are complementary in\\nfilling out the idea. These general considera-\\ntions lead up to a more detailed discussion of", "height": "3560", "width": "2255", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "60 THE PSYCHIC AND PSYCHISM.\\nthe subject which will be continued under three\\ndivisions for the sake of plainness and brevity.\\nI. Suggestion in the waking state. 2. Hypno-\\nsuggestion. 3. Autosuggestion.\\nSUGGESTION IN THE WAKING STATE.\\nSuggestion is one of the most important fac-\\ntors in Psychology and aids in the solution of\\nmany of the more mysterious and heretofore in-\\nscrutable phenomena of Psychism. The sus-\\nceptibility of Psychics to Suggestion is phe-\\nnomenal; the slightest hint often unintention-\\nally given will serve to give direction to the\\nwhole experiment. A failure to observe this\\nhas misled many investigators. Therefore, it\\nwould be almost impossible to overestimate or\\nunduly emphasize its importance in Psychism.\\nThe idea of free will must be modified or given\\nup, for it is little more than a name. What one\\ndoes of his own free will depends largely upon\\ncircumstances and environment. What he thinks\\nhe does of his own volition is usually due to the\\ninfluence or more properly the Suggestions of\\nothers. A boy or a man thrown among evil\\ncompanions becomes like them not of his own\\nfree will, but of necessity. To be sure, he had\\nan opportunity to choose between right and\\nwrong and we condemn him because he chose\\nthe wrong. As a matter of fact, at the time that", "height": "3501", "width": "2442", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "SUGGESTION. 61\\nhe made the choice it was morally impossible\\nfor him to choose other than he did, the only\\ntime that he could have chosen otherwise was\\nbefore the evil Suggestions had found lodgment\\nin his mind. It is and will ever remain true that\\nevil associates corrupt good morals. When a\\nbeautiful young woman goes wrong and drags a\\nonce honored name through the mire, the prob-\\nabilities are that she did not act upon her own\\nvolition, and a more or less careful inquiry would\\nreveal the fact that some subtle influence or Sug-\\ngestions had been insinuated into her mind be-\\nfore it was possible for her to act so. The Sug-\\ngestion might have come from a trusted friend\\nor associate, or from some corrupting book, but\\nno matter whence they came, they were con-\\ntagious and being susceptible she succumbed to\\ntheir infection. Do not say the taint was in her\\nblood that would be absurd. The case is alto-\\ngether analogous to a contagious disease. No\\nmatter what the condition of the person, if the\\ninoculation is sufficiently large she will certainly\\nsuccumb to the disease.\\nAn appreciation of the subtle and far-reaching\\npower of Suggestion for both good and evil en-\\ncourages us to make use of it for educational\\nand curative purposes.\\nIts use in education is great, so great that the", "height": "3560", "width": "2272", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "62 THE PSYCHIC AND PSYCHISM.\\nsuccessful teacher is the one who consciously or\\nunconsciously applies it. A few examples will\\nserve to explain what is meant.\\nA young lady teacher, an acquaintance of\\nmine, told me of one of her pupils who was\\nunable to learn mathematics.\\nWhen I chided him, she said, for doing\\nsuch poor work he vehemently protested that he\\ncould not learn numbers.\\nI cannot learn numbers, he said, and there\\nis no use trying. My grandmother was unable\\nto learn mathematics and I have inherited my\\ninability from her.\\nNow, what can be done in such a case? tha\\nteacher asks.\\nThe case illustrates the susceptibility of chil-\\ndren to Suggestions and was explained some-\\nwhat as follows: The boy had heard of his\\ngrandmother s deficiency and when he found\\nmathematics difficult was lead by his parents,\\nwho believed in the orthodox theory of heredity,\\nto believe he had inherited that trait from her.\\nHe believed he was unable to learn numbers and\\nhis expectation was fulfilled. The teacher was\\nadvised to give the boy direct Suggestions to\\ncounteract those unintentionally given. He was\\ntold that his grandmother had nothing to do\\nwith his learning numbers any more than she", "height": "3512", "width": "2442", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "SUGGESTION. 63\\nhad with a thousand other things he had\\nlearned readily enough. For example, she could\\nnot learn to swim, but he did; she could not\\nskate but he could; she could not play marbles\\nbut he could she could not turn a handspring or\\nwalk on her hands, but he could, and she could\\nnot whistle, but he could. These and similar\\nSuggestions were given for several weeks to-\\ngether with positive Suggestions to the effect\\nthat he could learn numbers and would learn to\\nlike them and excel in that branch of study. The\\nresult was as expected, the intentional Sugges-\\ntions overcame the unintentional ones and the\\nboy was soon making good progress in mathe-\\nmatics, and had no further trouble in that di-\\nrection.\\nThe application in the study of music is often\\nmost helpful. I recall the case of a young girl\\ntwelve years of age who had in some way ac-\\nquired a dislike for her work in music this dis-\\nlike grew until her practice became a hardship.\\nHer mother having heard of Suggestion and be-\\nlieving in its efficacy, brought the child to me to\\nsee if anything could be done for her. She was\\na bright, winsome girl and inclined to be friendly,\\nso we soon became fast friends and she told me\\nof her difficulty with music. I assured her that\\nI could and would help her. I seated her in an", "height": "3560", "width": "2281", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "64 THE PSYCHIC AND PSYCHISM.\\neasy chair and told her to close her eyes and lis-\\nten while I talked to her. Then I made Sug-\\ngestions to the effect that music was beautiful\\nand a most interesting study, that she did not\\nreally dislike it but had become prejudiced\\nagainst it that she would think the matter over\\nfor herself and find that she had been mistaken\\nthat she would learn to love music and be fond\\nof studying it and that her whole difficulty with\\nmusic would soon disappear. Such Suggestions\\nwere repeated every other day for two weeks\\nwith the most satisfactory results.\\nDoctor, you have taught me to love music\\nand I rather enjoy my practicing now, thanks to\\nyour help, the little lady said to me a few\\nweeks later.\\nMany more examples of the successful use of\\nSuggestion in education might be given if space\\npermitted. It is most helpful as a means of\\ndeveloping backward children.\\nAs a therapeutic agent Suggestion has no su-\\nperior, but only a single example may Be given.\\nObservation teaches that many drugs depend\\nupon the Suggestion accompanying the adminis-\\ntration for their remedial effects. Attention has\\nbeen called to the fact that persons may be made\\nill by intentional Suggestion and it might have\\nbeen added that they are often made so by unin-", "height": "3514", "width": "2442", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "SUGGESTION. 65\\ntentional Suggestions it is equally true that per-\\nsons who are ill may be speedily cured by Sug-\\ngestions. When it is borne in mind that a large\\nproportion of the sickness suffered by man is\\ndue to nervous shocks or other psychic causes\\nit will not be so surprising that an equal propor-\\ntion of man s maladies may be relieved through\\nthe influence of the mind. Out of a great many\\ncases observed let me cite one.\\nA young man, a jeweler by trade, came to me\\nfor relief from an aggravated condition of self-\\nconsciousness. For several years this condition\\nhad grown upon him until he was unable to go\\ninto society without experiencing the utmost\\nconfusion and embarrassment he could only\\nstammer, blush and perspire when any one ad-\\ndressed him or he attempted to address any one.\\nHe was assured that he could be relieved and\\nthat speedily. He was seated in an easy chair\\nand instructed to allow himself to sink into a\\nrestful passive condition with eyes closed. This\\nhe did, and while in this receptive state Sugges-\\ntions were given to him to the effect that his\\ntrouble was only a habit which could be easily\\nbroken, that he had a strong mind and would\\nassert it in the matter, that he had made up his\\nmind to break the habit and would readily suc-\\nceed, that he would gain a perfect self-control", "height": "3560", "width": "2208", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "66 THE PSYCHIC AND PSYCHISM.\\nand self-possession, that he would feel perfectly\\nat ease in company and have no difficulty in car-\\nrying on a conversation with any one, and that\\nhe would go into society to prove these things.\\nThese and similar Suggestions were repeated to\\nhim several times at intervals of two or three\\ndays. In about two weeks the young man was\\nentirely relieved of his uncomfortable condition.\\nHYPNO-SUGGESTION.\\nHypno-Suggestion includes all of the Sugges-\\ntions given to persons while in a state of hyp-\\nnosis, or hypnotic trance. This is by far the\\nmost important branch of Suggestion. In order\\nto understand it thoroughly a knowledge of Hyp-\\nnotism is necessary. Hypnotism is the means\\nof inducing an artificial state of mind in which\\npersons are readily susceptible to Suggestions.\\nIt has been said that all persons are susceptible\\nto Suggestions but by Hypnotism the suggest-\\nability is increased. The methods of hypnotizing\\nare various, but they all depend for their efficacy\\nupon the direction of the psychic forces of the\\nsubject, in short, they depend upon the same\\nfactors as Suggestion and Hypnotism is properly\\nsimply a branch of that subject. A person who\\nis led to believe that he can be hypnotized and\\nthat he is about to be hypnotized will respond to\\nalmost any method and promptly fall into a state", "height": "3511", "width": "2542", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "SUGGESTION. 67\\nof hypnosis. In this state of induced somnam-\\nbulism he becomes more or less suggestable ac-\\ncording to the depth of the trance.\\nIt would be interesting and instructive to give\\na detailed account of the methods of inducing\\nhypnosis and a full description of the phenomena\\nof that state, but space will not permit it in the\\npresent writing. The reader is referred to the\\nwriter s work entitled Mind and Body, where\\na detailed account is given of Hypno-Sugges-\\ntion.\\nHypno-Suggestions do not differ in kind from\\nSuggestions given in the waking state, but they\\ndo differ most profoundly in degree. Some\\nteachers and schools hold and teach that waking\\nSuggestions are all that are worthy of serious\\nconsideration, but these teachers and schools\\nare undoubtedly wrong. As well might one\\nsay that the vest-pocket pistols were the only\\nfire-arms worthy of consideration, leaving out\\nof account the Maxim, Krupp and other power-\\nful guns. What may be and often is done by\\noft repeated and long continued Suggestions in\\nthe waking state may be done speedily by a sin-\\ngle Suggestion given in profound hypnosis. All\\npatients are not susceptible to the deeper states of\\nhypnosis. It is necessary to adapt the treatment\\nto the conditions found in individual cases, giv-", "height": "3560", "width": "2442", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "68 THE PSYCHIC AND PSYCHISM.\\ning the Suggestions in the lighter states of hyp-\\nnosis or in the waking state as may be needful.\\nThe matter of giving the Suggestion does not\\nmaterially differ but the Suggestions must be\\nrepeated more or less persistently according to\\nthe degree of susceptibility. A few examples\\nwill suffice to illustrate our contention.\\nA young lady stenographer came to me not\\nlong ago complaining that she was not able to\\nattain the requisite speed in taking notes. When\\nher speed was all right her notes were not plainly\\nlegible, and she found it difficult to transcribe\\nthem.\\nCan you help me, Doctor she asked. I\\nunderstand that you can do almost any marvel\\nby Suggestion.\\nIt will do no harm to try what we can do\\nby the aid of Suggestion, was the reply.\\nThe young lady was hypnotized and passed\\ninto a profound state of hypnosis. Suggestions\\nwere given to her while in this receptive condi-\\ntion to the effect that she had as nimble fingers\\nas any one and could take notes just as rapidly,\\nthat with a little practice her speed might be\\ngreatly accelerated, that she would write her\\nnotes plainly and legibly and that she would be\\nable to readily transcribe them. These Sugges-\\ntions were accepted and so stimulated her mind", "height": "3513", "width": "2442", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "SUGGESTION. 69\\nthat she greatly increased her speed and wrote\\nher notes more rapidly and more distinctly. In\\na couple of weeks after aiding her with the speed\\nshe was similarly aided in her ability to concen-\\ntrate her attention in transcribing her notes.\\nThere was much noise and confusion in the of-\\nfice where she was employed which tended to\\ndistract her attention from her work. A couple\\nof Suggestions sufficed to enable her to disre-\\ngard the confusion and attend to her duties and\\nshe has had no further trouble in taking notes\\nor transcribing them.\\nA few weeks ago a lady came to me saying\\nthat she had been advised by a mutual friend to\\ncome and be relieved from an annoying drug\\nhabit. Some years before she had been ill and\\nduring that illness fell into a condition of in-\\nsomnia and at the advice of her physician had re-\\nsorted to the use of hypnotic drugs. Now for\\nmore than three years she had been in the habit\\nof taking such drugs every night. She could\\nnot sleep without them. Her general health was\\ngood and she was assured that she could be\\nspeedily and permanently relieved from her drug\\nhabit.\\nThe lady when hypnotized fell into a profound\\nhypnotic trance. While in this condition Sug-\\ngestions were given to her to the effect that her", "height": "3560", "width": "2269", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "70 THE PSYCHIC AND PSYCHISM.\\nhealth was good and natural sleep would be re-\\nstored, that she had a strong mind and had re-\\nsolved to take no more sleeping potions, that\\nshe would expect to go to sleep at night when\\nshe went to bed and would readily do so; that\\nshe would sleep soundly all night and wake up\\nrefreshed in the morning, and that she would\\nhave no more difficulty in sleeping. During the\\nnight after the first treatment she slept soundly\\nand naturally without the aid of any drug and\\nwas delighted with the result.\\nDoctor, it is marvelous, she exclaimed the\\nnext morning when she called at the appointed\\nhour, for I did not expect it I did not believe\\nthat it was possible for you to relieve me so read-\\nily and without drugs after I had tried almost\\neverything that the Doctors could suggest. I\\nhave spent hundreds of dollars without getting\\nthe least permanent relief. There was no re-\\nlapse the cure was permanent. The lady sleeps\\nas peacefully as a child now and that, too, with-\\nout the use of any harmful drugs.\\nThis spring a young man was brought to me\\nby his friends from the West Side of this city,\\nsuffering from extreme alcoholism. It is un-\\nnecessary to describe his symptoms, suffice it to\\nsay, they were those of every confirmed ineb-\\nriate, not excepting the snakes to use his ex-", "height": "3501", "width": "2542", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "SUGGESTION. 71\\npression, he had seen a whole menagerie. He\\nhad taken the Keeley Cure at Dwight and been\\nsent to the Washingtonian Home no less than\\neight times during his fourteen years of slavery\\nin the toils of strong drink. Every known cure\\nhad been tried on him, not excepting the putting\\nof dope in his food and drink, with no permanent\\nresults. He and his friends both said they had\\ncome to me as a last resort and if I failed, then\\nthere was nothing left for him but to sink deeper\\nand deeper into a drunkard s perdition.\\nWhen he came to me he was considerably un-\\nder the influence of liquor; indeed, he had not\\nbeen free from its influence for many months,\\nbut he was in as good a condition as he was\\nlikely to be found, so I began his treatment in\\nthat state. He was hypnotized and went into\\na profound hypnosis. While in this condition,\\npositive Suggestions were made to him, to the\\neffect that he had a strong mind and could rid\\nhimself of any habit if he choose to that he\\nwanted to quit drinking and had made up his\\nmind to do so that the appetite for drink would\\nleave him and never return again; that drink\\nwith all its associations would be disgusting to\\nhim; that he would regain his self-control and\\nself-respect and become a respectable man once\\nmore that he would be proud of his victory, for", "height": "3560", "width": "2341", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "72 THE PSYCHIC AND PSYCHISM.\\nit was his own strong mind that was winning\\nit for him and that his cure would be permanent.\\nSimilar Suggestions were repeated to him daily\\nfor four days and two or three times a week for\\nthe balance of the month.\\nThe results were all that could be desired. He\\ndid not taste liquor after the first treatment and\\nsoon lost his appetite for it. Almost immedi-\\nately he began to take and retain nourishment\\nand gained ten pounds during the first month.\\nToday liquor has no temptation for him and it\\nwould be difficult for him to take up the habit\\nagain.\\nOne evening a young man, a machinist, came\\nto me and said that he wished I would hypnotize\\nhim and brace him up so that he would be able\\nto resist the attempts being made to force him\\ninto an unwilling marriage. He went on to in-\\nform me that there was an association of women\\nwho made it their business to provide husbands\\nfor unfortunate girls.\\nThey have me on their list and are after me\\nconstantly. I find them watching me every time\\nI go out and it makes me feel uncomfortable and\\nafraid, for I do not wish to be forced into any\\nsuch union. He went on and gave me the de-\\ntails of an imagined persecution he was suf-\\nfering from.", "height": "3525", "width": "2534", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0072.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "SUGGESTION. ?3\\nThe case was recognized as an aberration of\\nthe mind in which he was dominated by the\\nhallucination, an hallucination as indicated\\nabove. He was hypnotized several times and\\ngiven Suggestions which speedily returned him\\nto his normal condition of thinking, feeling and\\nacting.\\nPsychiatry furnishes innumerable cases sim-\\nilar to the above that may be successfully treated\\nby Hypno-Suggestion. It is plain that Sugges-\\ntion finds its greatest field for usefulness in the\\ntreatment of mental diseases and it would be in-\\nteresting to multiply instances but space forbids.\\nThe greatest service that Psychism could render\\nto humanity would be the solution of the prob-\\nlems of mental pathology such as pathologic\\ndouble and the like.\\nAUTO SUGGESTION.\\nAutosuggestion offers many alluring possi-\\nbilities for self-culture and self-treatment. The\\nSuggestions that are ordinarily given by another\\nin the waking, sleeping and hypnotic states may\\nbe as certainly and satisfactorily given to one s\\nself if one knows how to give them. The po-\\ntency of all Suggestions depends upon the afore-\\nmentioned belief and expectation. Suggestions", "height": "3560", "width": "2310", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0073.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "/4 THE PSYCHIC AND PSYCHISM.\\nfrom those we believe in are the most potent and\\nif we can inspire such a belief or confidence in\\ncur own power to give Suggestions they will as\\nreadily be accepted from ourselves and produce\\nthe same happy results. In the last analysis\\nevery Suggestion must be received and trans-\\nformed into an Autosuggestion before it can\\nreach and work out its effect in the mind. Noth-\\ning ministers more to our self-respect than the\\nknowledge that we are able to develop all sorts\\nof good qualities in ourselves and the proper\\nunderstanding of Autosuggestion furnishes this\\nknowledge.\\nThere are two principal ways of giving Sug-\\ngestions, namely, one in the waking state and\\nthe other in the natural sleep. Direct Autosug-\\ngestions made while one is awake differ in no\\nparticular from direct Heterosuggestions made\\nin the same state except that one makes the Sug-\\ngestion to himself. As Heterosuggestions are\\ndeepened by repetition, so are Autosuggestions\\nmore deeply impressed upon the mind by re-\\npeating them. And it is claimed that all that\\ncan be accomplished with Heterosuggestions\\ncan be duplicated with Autosuggestion. While\\nmuch may be accomplished by the use of Auto-\\nsuggestion it is doubtful if that statement is true\\nup to date however, it may become true in the", "height": "3537", "width": "2547", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0074.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "SUGGESTION. 75\\nfuture. By it one can make the most of his tal-\\nents he can educate and develop himself he can\\ninspire self-confidence and faith, and in short he\\ncan live a successful life.\\nA friend of mine who is a living monument\\nof the power of Autosuggestion, has told me\\nof many of his experiments, and his wife has\\ncorroborated his statements. One evening she\\nsaid to me: He is not the same man that I\\nmarried eight years ago. In a little conversa-\\ntion we had last week he spoke substantially\\nas follows\\nI am sure that all I have accomplished in\\na business way has been done bySelf-Suggestion.\\nI was naturally of a timid, retiring disposition,\\nbut I have overcome that and by Autosugges-\\ntion have developed a considerable self-con-\\nfidence so much, indeed, that some think me\\negotistic. I might give as an example of my\\nmethod of making the Suggestions, my curing\\nmyself of fear of darkness.\\nI began by reasoning with myself and as-\\nsuring myself that there is nothing more to fear\\nin the dark than in the light. I went into the\\ndark to prove this to myself. I shut myself up\\nin a dark room and stayed there until the feel-\\ning of fear vanished. I kept these Suggestions\\nup until I lost all fear of darkness.", "height": "3560", "width": "2329", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0075.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "76 THE PSYCHIC AND PSYCHISM.\\nBy a similar process I taught myself how\\nto go to sleep at any time in any place. I can\\nobtain rest and am often greatly revived by a\\nfew minutes sleep plus an Autosuggestion.\\nThe other way to make Autosuggestions is to\\nmake them so that they will take effect during\\nsleep. The Hypnotist speaks to his subject while\\nhe is in a subconscious state, but the one who\\nwould treat himself must speak to himself just\\nbefore going to sleep. However, to have them ef-\\nfective, they must be as confidently and positively\\ngiven and received as Heterosuggestions. Thi\u00c2\u00a7\\ncan only be done after one has learned by expe-\\nrience how to do it. He who would treat him-\\nself should impress the desired thoughts as\\nstrongly as possible upon his mind just before\\ngoing to sleep and after falling to sleep they will\\nfind their way into his dream-consciousness and\\nwork out the desired effect. This may be illus-\\ntrated by an instance.\\nA friend and patient of mine is able to cure\\nhimself of the various ailments that befall him.\\nHere is an example of his treatments For\\nyears he suffered with severe periodical head-\\naches due to inactivity of the digestive tract, un-\\ntil he heard of and used self cure or Auto-\\nsuggestion. In the midst of one of his severe\\nattacks he began giving himself Autosugges-", "height": "3531", "width": "2442", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0076.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "SUGGESTION. 77\\ntions which speedily and permanently relieved\\nhim of his malady. He used the following\\nmethod Before going to sleep, every night, he\\nrepeated several times to himself: My trouble\\nis a habit and my mind can and will cure it. He\\nbelieved what he said to himself and a cure was\\nthe happy result.\\nTheoretically Autosuggestion ought to be\\nable to cure every ill that flesh is heir to, but up\\nto date it has succeeded only in a limited num-\\nber of cases. Its failure is due no doubt to our\\nlack of confidence in ourselves, when we learn to\\nuse our psychic forces to the full we shall be\\nable to report better results.\\nSuggestion deserves a more detailed discus-\\nsion than it is possible to give it here however,\\nit is thought that the above outline sketch will\\nindicate its position in Psychism. Those wish-\\ning to make a more careful study of the subject\\nmust refer to works dealing with that subject\\nexclusively. It ought to be plain to all from\\nwhat has been said above that Suggestion occu-\\npies a most important place in Psychism. A fail-\\nure to recognize the subtle and the far-reaching\\ninfluences of unintentional Suggestions has led\\nmany experimenters to most erroneous con-\\nclusions. This is especially true in experiments\\nwith persons who go into a subconscious condi-", "height": "3560", "width": "2218", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0077.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "78 THE PSYCHIC AND PSYCHISM.\\ntion, all of the phenomena which they produce is\\ndirected and colored by either Hetero or Auto-\\nsuggestions sometimes they are intentional, but\\nmore often they are unintentionally given.\\nPersons who fall into subconscious conditions\\ntake with them all of the materials requisite to\\nthe phenomena they produce. When such phe-\\nnomena or the memories of them brought back\\nto the waking consciousness are absurd or im-\\npossible, an explanation of them will usually be\\nfound in some unintentional Auto or Heterosug-\\ngestion. More will be said on this subject in the\\nchapter on Somnambulism and Trances.\\nMost of the examples used as illustrations in\\nthe foregoing paragraphs have been selected\\nfrom among those whom I have had occasion to\\ntreat by Suggestion, not because there is any\\nlack of other examples, but because they will il-\\nlustrate what is to follow. In the next chapter\\nthe theory of various psycho-curative systems\\nwill be discussed and the above examples may\\naid to an understanding of their rational.", "height": "3507", "width": "2442", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0078.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER V.\\nRATIONAL OF PSYCHOPATHY.\\nThe importance of the subject\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The existence of a\\nPsychic power Mental medicine A half dozen\\nsystems of the same An underlying law common\\nto all A question of Psychology The duality of\\nmind explained Proofs of double consciousness\\nIllustrative cases The amenability of the mind to\\nsuggestion Manner of increasing suggestibility\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nThe subconscious mind suggestible Subconscious\\nmind controls the bodily functions Power of the\\nmind over the body The law of Suggestion the law\\nof cure An illustration of the same Absent treat-\\nments The value of faith Necessary conclusions.\\nPsychic research is making rapid progress\\nand the whole world is waiting with interest for\\nevery item of new data, but in the whole range\\nof psychologic investigation there is nothing of\\nsuch transcendent interest to the world today as\\nthe relation of the mind to the cure of disease.\\nThat there is a psychic power within man\\nwhich presides over the functions, sensations\\nand conditions of the body, and that this power\\n79", "height": "3560", "width": "2265", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0079.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "80 THE PSYCHIC AND PSYCHISM.\\nmay be directed at will, under certain conditions,\\nfor the relief of the manifold ills of mankind,\\nthere is no doubt, or need of proof. If proofs\\nwere needed it would suffice to call attention to\\nthe hundreds of healers and the army of those\\nwho have been healed, to be found upon every\\nhand. These are real cures, and just as well\\nauthenticated as those found in the reports of\\ncases cured by drug medicines. Many systems\\nof cure, all producing most positive proofs of\\ntheir efficacy, have been founded upon these\\nfacts, but they have as many theories of causa-\\ntion and as many methods of application, as\\nthere are different curative systems.\\nMental Medicine is broader than any one of\\nthe curative systems it is as broad as all of\\nthem combined as broad as the curative action\\nof the mind over the body. It is worth while\\nto consider Psycho-Therapeutics.\\nPsychopathic healing includes many schools,\\neach subdivided into various sects, but for the\\npresent purpose it will be sufficient to call atten-\\ntion to a half-dozen of the more prominent of\\nthem, namely: Christian Science, Mind Cure,\\nFaith Cure, Spirit Cure, Magnetism and Hyp-\\nnotism.\\nChristian Science, which has lately received\\na pretty thorough advertising at the hands of", "height": "3533", "width": "2442", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0080.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "RATIONAL OF PSYCHOPATHY. 81\\nMark Twain and others, claims that the body\\nis unreal, and that the mind is all; therefore\\ndisease has no existence except in the mind, and\\nshould be ignored and denied. They persuade\\nmany to believe this fallacy and show many\\npersons who have been cured by their treat-\\nment.\\nMind Cure makes the same statement. It\\nsays all diseases are conditions or states in-\\nduced by abnormal conditions of the mind, and\\nthe advocates claim that these states and condi-\\ntions of the mind, together with the diseases\\nincident to them, may be and often are cor-\\nrected by the power of the healer s mind.\\nFaith Cure is based upon the belief that reli-\\ngious faith will save man from sin ancl sickness,\\nand says that belief in and prayer to God will\\nsecure relief from pains and the cure of diseases.\\nThey point to those who have been healed and\\ntriumphantly exclaim in the words of the Mas-\\nter, By their fruits ye shall know them.\\nSpirit Cure is founded upon the supposition\\nthat the shades of the departed dead can and\\ndo come back from the spirit world and\\nthrough some medium give relief to the sick\\nand comfort to the afflicted. And many are\\nwilling to testify that some big Indian chief\\nor little Indian squaw or some other shade", "height": "3560", "width": "2242", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0081.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "82 THE PSYCHIC AND PSYCHISM.\\nthrough a medium has cured them of dis-\\ntressful diseases.\\nMagnetism teaches that there resides in man\\na subtle fluid of healing nature which may be\\nprojected at the will of the operator upon an-\\nother person with the effect of curing the func-\\ntional and organic diseases of his body, and\\nfrom the time of Mesmer until the present, mar-\\nvelous cures have been made.\\nHypnotism furnishes a power by which per-\\nsons may be placed in a condition of induced\\nsleep or hypnosis. While in that state it is\\nclaimed that they are suggestible and may be\\ngiven suggestions that will relieve them from\\npain and cure their diseases. Many profess to\\nowe their good health to this system of thera-\\npeutics.\\nThe above brief summary shows that there\\nare a considerable number of different systems\\nof Psycho-Therapeutics based upon as many\\nwidely different theories, each presenting in-\\ndubitable evidence of its ability to perform cures\\nmany of which appear almost miraculous.\\nBut they acknowledge only one thing in com-\\nmon, namely, that they all cure diseases. How-\\never, it requires only a superficial study of them\\nto discover that there must be a common un-\\nderlying principle or law upon which they all\\noperate.", "height": "3534", "width": "2442", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0082.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "RATIONAL OF PSYCHOPATHY. 83\\nNow, since all curative phenomena produced\\nby psychic influence under whatever name they\\noccur, must depend upon the same fundamental\\nlaw, it is of the utmost importance that this law\\nshould be discovered that we should find and\\nrecognize the law of Psycho-Therapeutics. It\\nis plain that the law must depend upon the con-\\nstitution of the mind, so we must turn to Psy-\\nchology for the key to the solution.\\nFortunately Hypnotism has recently come to\\nour assistance, enabling us to better understand\\nthe constitution and action of the mind. It has\\nrevealed, among other things, first, the dual\\nnature of the mind, and second, the amenability\\nof the mind to suggestion. Some intimations of\\nthese peculiarities had been observed in certain\\ntrance and other spontaneous conditions, but\\nit remained for Hypnotism to fully establish\\nthem. Hypnotism is of great aid to students of\\nPsychology, and its revelations will doubtless\\noverthrow many of the older doctrines of the\\npsychologists.\\nIt is thought that the two facts just men-\\ntioned, namely, the duality of the mind and its\\namenability to suggestions, furnish an explana-\\ntion of the principles underlying all of the\\nPsycho-Curative System or the Law of Mental\\nMedicine. It seems possible to justify these\\nfacts, as we shall now attempt to show.", "height": "3560", "width": "2227", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0083.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "84 THE PSYCHIC AND PSYCHISM.\\nThe duality of the mind is not a new idea, but\\nit has recently received new emphasis. The\\nseparate action of the two hemispheres of the\\nbrain is not what is meant, although that is pos-\\nsible, as is shown by the phenomena of unilateral\\nhypnosis. There is a duality in the sense that\\nthe mind possesses two distinct sets of func-\\ntions, with a double consciousness, operating\\nmore or less independently. This duality of the\\nmind would seem to be proven if the existence\\nof the dual consciousness with separate memo-\\nries can be demonstrated, namely, the primary\\nor waking consciousness and the secondary or\\nsubconsciousness. The usual distinction made\\nbetween them is that the first includes all knowl-\\nedge obtained by the aid of the five senses and\\nreason, and the second includes all knowledge\\ngained through intuition and immediate percep-\\ntion.\\nThe physiologists, Carpenter and others, rec-\\nognized two kinds of mental activity. The un-\\nusual kind, not belonging properly to the con-\\nscious phenomena, they called unconscious\\ncerebration for want of a better term. These\\nwe now know as the subconscious phenomena of\\nthe mind.\\nThere are no unconscious activities of the\\nmind, for the very essence of mind is conscious-", "height": "3524", "width": "2442", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0084.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "RATIONAL OF PSYCHOPATHY. 85\\nness. These are subconscious, but no? uncon-\\nscious phenomena. Many of the subconscious\\nphenomena never rise above the floor of ordi-\\nnary consciousness.\\nConsciousness may be illustrated by two cir-\\ncles, the smaller one within the other, both hav-\\ning a common center. The smaller circle repre-\\nsents the ordinary consciousness, for the waking\\nconsciousness contains only a small part of our\\nwhole conscious activity. The subconscious-\\nness is represented by the larger circle, for it\\ncontains all that is in the smaller circle and\\nmuch more that lies beyond the limit of its cir-\\ncumference.\\nThe double aspect of the mind is observed\\nalso in the blending with the physical and spir-\\nitual realms the mind, through the senses and\\nreason, adjusts itself to its physical environment\\nand through the intuition and immediate per-\\nception reaches its spiritual environments.\\nThe very latest statements of Physiology em-\\nphasize this duality, although strangely enough\\nmany of the physiologists stick to the old ma-\\nterialistic explanations. Vincent, in a chapter\\nupon the Physiology of Hypnosis, reaches the\\nfollowing conclusion Thus there seems to be\\nin the human nervous organism a dual nervous\\naction, one automatic and intuitive, the other\\nrational, volitional and deliberative.", "height": "3558", "width": "2335", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0085.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "86 THE PSYCHIC AND PSYCHISM.\\nA detailed discussion would be out of place\\nhere, but it can be easily shown that there is\\nabundant evidence to prove that the theory of\\ndouble consciousness is well founded. Three\\ngroups of phenomena are urged as proofs,\\nnamely, spontaneous, induced and diseased\\nstates of mind, in which subconscious activities\\nare observed. Let us examine examples of\\neach:\\nIn the normal states these subconscious phe-\\nnomena are seen in such actions as are common\\nin the so-called unconscious cerebrations, and\\nthe automatic and nervous activities, where\\nthe mind performs two acts at once, as adding\\nup a column of figures while carrying on a lively\\nconversation. Such actions require the con-\\nscious employment of two separate trains of\\nmemory in their performance, but we have only\\none conscious memory, hence the other must be\\nsubconscious.\\nThe phenomena of Dreams and spontaneous\\nSomnambulism and Trances point in the same\\ndirection, for Sleep is not merely an absence of\\nwaking activity, but it is a phase of personality\\nwith distinctive characteristics. The intimate\\nrelationship between sleep and hypnosis will\\nserve to emphasize this statement. The utter-\\nances and movements of Somnambulists prove", "height": "3528", "width": "2442", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0086.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "RATIONAL OF PSYCHOPATHY. 87\\nthat they are not automata, indeed they often\\nperform most complicated actions which would\\nbe impossible without consciousness, and yet,\\nafter awaking they usually have no conscious\\nmemory of their actions. A patient of mine, a\\nyoung lady, was accustomed to arise and dress\\nherself at night while asleep and walk about the\\nhouse, and only knew that she had been sleep-\\nwalking when she awoke in the morning and\\nfound herself in the bed fully dressed.\\nThe induced subconscious states are found in\\nhypnosis, and they go far to prove the duality\\nof the mind. The phenomena of hypnosis have\\nbeen given in detail by many writers, and may\\nbe referred to.\\nHypnotized subjects sometimes pass into an-\\nother personality and deny that they have any\\nrelationship with their conscious selves. Some-\\ntimes they deny any acquaintance with their\\nconscious selves at others they admit that they\\nare acquainted but deny the possibility of being\\nidentical with them. Indeed, they often have\\nentirely different personal characteristics. A\\nperson dull-witted and slow in the natural state,\\nsometimes becomes quick-witted and active\\nwhen hypnotized. They have been known to\\nchange their names and social position under\\nthe domination of the belief that they are differ-", "height": "3554", "width": "2236", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0087.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "88 THE PSYCHIC AND PSYCHISM.\\nent individuals. In these cases the segregation\\nof the mind appears to be complete.\\nSome writers say that the double personality\\nof hypnosis proves too much, for not two but\\nseveral personalities may be evoked. Careful\\nobservation, however, shows that these appar-\\nent personalities of hypnosis, with their memo-\\nries tend to run into one, the primary hypnotic\\npersonality and memory, and are undoubtedly\\ndue to unintentional suggestions of the oper-\\nator. If we bear in mind the hyperacuteness\\nof the subject, this will be readily understood.\\nMany examples of pathologic double person-\\nality are on record. The Rev. Ansel Bourne\\nof Greene, R. I., is a well known and typical\\nexample. He fell into what appeared to be a\\nspontaneous hypnotic trance at any rate it was\\na trance in which his personality was com-\\npletely changed. As the case is an entirely\\ngenuine one, it will be briefly recited.\\nMr. Bourne drew some money from the Prov-\\nidence bank with which to pay some bills, and\\nboarded a horse car for the purpose of return-\\ning home. These were the last incidents that\\nhe remembered before falling into the trance.\\nWhile entranced he made an excursion to New\\nYork and Philadelphia, and finally located in\\nMorristown, Pa., where he opened and stocked", "height": "3529", "width": "2442", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0088.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "RATIONAL OF PSYCHOPATHY. 89\\na small stationery and confectionery store under\\nthe name of A. J. Brown. He conducted his\\nbusiness in such a manner that no one sus-\\npected that he was entranced. One morning\\nsix weeks later he awoke in his normal person-\\nality and called to the people with whom he\\nwas boarding, asking them to tell him where he\\nwas. It seemed to him that he had only been\\nasleep for a few hours. He informed them that\\nhe was the Rev. Ansel Bourne of Rhode Island,\\nbut they and the physician who was called\\nthought he was insane at first however, a tele-\\ngram from his home convinced them that he\\nwas sane. His nephew, Mr. Andrew Harris,\\nwent after and took him home, where he had\\nbeen advertised for two months as missing. In\\nhis normal state he had no knowledge of nor\\nwould he have anything to do with his store.\\nHypnotism was used as a means to secure the\\nmemory of his second personality, and he readily\\ntold of his Brown existence, but while hyp-\\nnotized could not remember any of the events\\nof his normal life. He did not recognize his\\nfriends and declared when Mrs. Bourne was pre-\\nsented to him that he had never seen the woman\\nbefore/\\nIt was hoped by Suggestion, etc., to run the\\ntwo personalities into one, and make the memo-", "height": "3557", "width": "2206", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0089.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "90 THE PSYCHIC AND PSYCHISM.\\nries continuous, but no artifice would avail to\\naccomplish this, and Mr. Bourne s skull today\\nstill covers two distinct personal selves.\\nThese classical cases have been cited because\\nthey carry great evidential value, coming as they\\ndo from such distinguished and competent ob-\\nservers. The report of many similar cases are\\neasily accessible, and may be studied by any\\none who wishes to investigate the subject.\\nThe amenability of the mind to Suggestion\\nis so commonly accepted that it is only neces-\\nsary to state the fact but a few illustrations will\\nserve to emphasize it. The suggestibility of\\nthe mind is found in the waking state, in hyp-\\nnosis, and in pathologic states.\\nAll persons are more or less suggestible in\\nthe waking state. Many interesting facts illus-\\ntrating its influence are familiar to all. Per-\\nhaps no better example could be found than the\\noft-repeated experiment of playing a trick on\\na person, as was described in the last chapter.\\nSeveral persons by concerted arrangement suc-\\ncessively tell an unsuspecting person that he is\\nlooking badly and must be sick, with the result\\nthat he soon becomes ill.\\nWhile the suggestibility of the mind is con-\\nsiderable in the waking state, induced sleep or\\nhypnosis is the suggestible state. Hypnotism", "height": "3532", "width": "2442", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0090.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "RATIONAL OF PSYCHOPATHY. 91\\nis the pass-key that admits us to the study of\\nthe mind, and it is through it that we have\\nobtained the most positive proof of the Law of\\nSuggestion. It has not only demonstrated the\\nsuggestibility of the mind, but has also shown\\nthat it is the subconscious mind that is sugges-\\ntible.\\nThe susceptibility of the hypnotized subject\\nis phenomenal and almost unlimited in certain\\ndirections. It has been shown that speech,\\nmusic and signs, all have marked suggestive\\ninfluence over our subjects. Sad music, like a\\nsad story, will make them sad, and tears will\\nwell up into the eyes and course down the\\ncheeks. Comic pictures, like humorous stories\\nor lively music, will send them off into fits of\\nmerriment; their personalities may be changed\\nby a word. Suggest that they are other per-\\nsons, and they will accept and conduct them-\\nselves accordingly.\\nCertain diseased conditions, as hysteria, fur-\\nnish further evidence of the impressionability of\\nthe mind, if more were needed, but it is thought\\nthat enough has been given to abundantly estab*\\nlish the fact.\\nTogether with the control of the mind by\\nSuggestion, another important fact appears,\\nnamely, the functions, sensations and states of", "height": "3557", "width": "2263", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0091.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "92 THE PSYCHIC AND PSYCHISM.\\nthe body, are under the control of the sub-\\nconscious mind. The fact that the functions,\\nsensations and states of the body are beyond the\\ncontrol of the will, leads us a long way toward\\ncertainty that they are under subconscious con-\\ntrol, for they must be under the control of either\\none or the other. It would be absurd to say\\nthat they are not consciously controlled in the\\nlight of recent demonstrations. It is well\\nknown that the functions and sensations may be\\nchanged and controlled at will of the subjects\\nwho are in hypnotic subconscious states. Any\\none who will, can readily prove all that is stated\\nhere. In this induced state the voluntary and\\ninvoluntary actions are easily controlled and the\\nsensations varied as desired.\\nThe action of the heart may be depressed\\nor accelerated and the character of the respira-\\ntory rhythm altered as desired. The temperature\\nof the body may be increased or lowered. The\\nfunctional activities of the liver, kidneys, stom-\\nach, intestines and the other organs may be\\naffected at will. In short, not only functional,\\nbut organic diseases may be produced by Hyp-\\nnotic Suggestion. The power of the mind over\\nthe body is in keeping with its growth and de-\\nvelopment, for every cell in the complex fabric\\nis placed and controlled by mind processes", "height": "3515", "width": "2562", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0092.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "RATIONAL OF PSYCHOPATHY. 93\\ntherefore, it is not surprising that organic\\nchanges have been, and may be produced by\\nSuggestion.\\nTherefore, since the functions, sensations and\\nconditions of the body are controlled by the\\nsubconscious mind, and the subconscious mind\\nis controlled by Suggestion, it is plain that the\\nderangements of these bodily functions and\\nstates may be corrected by Suggestion.\\nWe are now prepared to understand the way\\nin which cures are effected by Suggestion, and\\nare not surprised to find that Suggestion is the\\nprinciple underlying Psychic-Healing. It is easy\\nto show that all cures effected by the various\\nsystems of Mental Medicine must find their ex-\\nplanation in this Law of Suggestion. A law\\nmust be universal in its operation, and the Law\\nof Suggestion seems to be broad enough to\\ncover and explain all of the cures resulting from\\nthe various psychologic systems.\\nThis is the way Suggestion operates: A re-\\nceptive state of mind is induced in the patient\\nthe Suggestion is given that he will soon be well\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094he believes that he is about to be cured, and\\nhis mind determines the result and he is cured.\\nIt is plain that it is faith or belief that is the\\nconnecting link that completes the circuit of\\ncurative powers. There is a law which appears", "height": "3560", "width": "2255", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0093.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "94 THE PSYCHIC AND PSYCHISM.\\nto be almost without exception, namely, that\\nwhat a person expects is likely to appear in\\nhim, whether it be physiologic or psychologic\\nin character.\\nThis is the way the various cures operate:\\nA man who has been ill for a long time becomes\\ndissatisfied with the treatment of his attending\\nphysician, in whose hands he has possibly suf-\\nfered many things, and dismisses him. He\\nhears of a healer and decides to consult him.\\nThe healer explains his system and assures\\nthe patient that he can cure him. The patient\\nis convinced pays the fees and passively sub-\\nmits to the treatment. The result is prompt\\nhe feels better after the first application of the\\ntreatment and soon fully secures his health.\\nNow this is what has happened in this case,\\nnamely, he believed, he became passive, he re-\\nceived curative Suggestions and his mind deter-\\nmined the result. All of these cases may be\\nshown to be simply suggestive treatment. They\\ndo not result from any merit in the cure/ but\\nfrom the belief in it. In like manner belief is\\nthe key-note in all of the Psycho-Curative Sys-\\ntems, for it furnishes the opportunity to make\\nthe curative Suggestions.\\nAbsent Treatments, even when they are not\\ninfluenced by the expectation of the patient, are", "height": "3531", "width": "2554", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0094.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "RATIONAL OF PSYCHOPATHY. 95\\nnot exceptions to this Law of Cure. The cura-\\ntive influence in these cases must be due to\\ntelepathic communication, whereby the Sugges-\\ntions are given and the results obtained. The\\nfact that the belief and expectation are sub-\\nconscious is an advantage, because it is through\\nthe subconscious mind that cures are effected.\\nLikewise in children, the amenability to Sug-\\ngestion is pronounced, and begins much earlier\\nin their lives than most people are aware. The\\nsubconscious mind is present from the begin-\\nning.\\nThe Great Physician used to say, According\\nto your faith be it unto you, and Thy faith\\nhath made thee whole, and again, He could\\ndo no mighty works (healing) because of their\\nunbelief.\\nParacelsus recognized the same law when Re\\nsaid\\nIt is faith which gives power unbelief is a\\ndestroyer. Whether the object of your faith be\\nreal or false, you will nevertheless obtain the\\nsame effects. Faith produces miracles, and\\nwhether it is true or false faith it will always\\nproduce the same wonders.\\nThese statements and many others like them\\nfrom recent writers explain how it happens that\\nsystems with such widelv differing: doctrines and", "height": "3557", "width": "2251", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0095.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "96 THE PSYCHIC AND PSYCHISM.\\nmethods have all secured such marvelous re-\\nsults. They have succeeded in winning the con-\\nfidence and inspiring faith in their followers and\\nin giving the Suggestions which have determined\\nthe mind in producing the cures.\\nIt seems plain that the conditions and pro-\\ncesses of all Psychopathic Healing are essen-\\ntially the same. The conditions are states of\\nreceptivity or suggestibility, and the processes\\nare the making of the needful curative Sugges-\\ntions to the patients. That these conditions\\nand processes have been induced and given un-\\nwittingly is rather confirmatory than otherwise\\nof the universality of the Law of Suggestion.\\nThe Law of Mental Healing will be progressively\\nmore appreciated as it is better understood and\\nmore used.", "height": "3533", "width": "2550", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0096.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER VI.\\nTELEPATHY.\\nTelepathy a central factor in Psychic Research\\nThoughts are mental creations Telepathy defined\\nTelepathy in the waking state Thought-Trans-\\nference a common experience It was known in an-\\ncient times Rapport facilitates its operation A\\nwell known author s experience Unintentional\\nplagiarism A Telepathic experiment with cards\\nThe theory of absent treatment Telepathy easy to\\nstudy Telepathy in natural sleep It usually\\noccurs in dreams Sees a brother murdered Ex-\\nperiments A Telepathic phantasm Telepathy in\\nHypnosis Hypnotism a great aid to its study A\\ncase of mind reading The notes of an evenings\\nexperimentation Delayed perception The Profes-\\nsor s opinion Telepathie a trois.\\nThe importance of this subject cannot be\\noverstated, for it is the central factor in Psychic\\nResearch. Wireless telegraphy is no more a fact\\nthan Mental Telegraphy, although it appears\\njust now that wireless telegraphy will be sooner\\nunderstood and sooner reduced to practical use\\nthan Mental Telegraphy; but later the reverse\\n97", "height": "3557", "width": "2200", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0097.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "98 THE PSYCHIC AND PSYCHISM.\\nmay be true, for many of our best students of\\nPsychology are experimenting along these lines.\\nTelepathy depends upon the fact that\\nthoughts are mental creations which are carried\\nby a subtle ether across wide distances from\\nmind to mind. Thought waves are similar to\\nthose set up by heat, electricity and light.\\nThoughts are not impalpable creations, lost as\\nsoon as created, but they are things sent out\\nto be felt and known by all who are sensitive\\nenough to receive them. The world is a whis-\\npering gallery, and all who will may catch the\\nwhispered messages. It is possible for all to\\ndevelop this receptivity that is, to get into tune\\nwith the world. The thoughts of the world are\\nmuch like the noises of a great city a mean-\\ningless din unless an effort is made to discrimi-\\nnate between them. By attention one sound\\nmay be separated from the rest and its location\\nand meaning determined. In like manner in-\\ndividual thoughts may be separated from the\\nmultitude that come to us and their source and\\nmeaning interpreted. The term Telepathy has\\nbeen defined to mean the communication of one\\nmind or person with another, beyond the range\\nof the physical senses, without the interposition\\nof any physical agent. Perhaps the exact mean-\\ning is better indicated by the expression,", "height": "3524", "width": "2581", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0098.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "TELEPATHY. 99\\nThought Transference. Many facts point to\\nthe existence of such a means of communica-\\ntion. Some facts are found in the phenomena\\nobserved; first in the waking state, second in\\nnatural sleep and third in hypnosis.\\nIN THE WAKING STATE.\\nAll persons have had experience in Thought\\nTransference. Doubtless every person who\\nreads these pages has had personal experience,\\nif he takes time to think and recall instances.\\nThought Transference is not something new;\\nso far back in history as the Sacred Record,\\nexamples have been recorded. It is said of\\nJesus that knowing their thoughts he an-\\nswered them or asked them questions, and it\\nappears that it was a common experience with\\nHim to use this means of communication.\\nBut we do not have to go back to ancient\\nrecords to find examples of Thought Transfer-\\nence, or Mind Reading; they are common ex-\\nperiences today. Two persons associated to-\\ngether often surprise each other by the one\\nspeaking of what the other has been thinking.\\nA patient of mine told me the other day that\\nwhen her sister came to her room and opened\\nthe door, before she spoke a word, she could\\ntell her what she was about to ask, and often\\nLofC.", "height": "3560", "width": "2238", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0099.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": "100 THE PSYCHIC AND PSYCHISM.\\nanswered her without the question being pro-\\nnounced.\\nClose sympathy or rapport greatly facilitates\\nthe transfer and interpretation of thoughts.\\nPersons have been known to be so thoroughly\\nin rapport that it was difficult to tell with which\\none the thought originated. A lady friend of\\nmine told me that she got so thoroughly in rap-\\nport with a public speaker that she could often\\nanticipate his words. On one occasion, when\\nin the midst of his discourse he suddenly stopped\\nand picked up his handkerchief from the desk,\\nfor an instant it seemed to have been her hand\\nthat picked up the kerchief, for she distinctly\\nfelt the silk texture of it.\\nRecently I read a very interesting account of\\nMental Telegraphy written by a well-known\\nauthor of his own experience with a friend. He\\nwas living in the East at the time, and his friend\\nwas living in Nevada. He says:\\nTwo or three years ago I was lying in bed\\nidly musing one morning, when suddenly a red\\nhot new idea came whistling down into my\\ncamp and exploding with such expansive effec-\\ntiveness as to sweep the vicinity clear of rub-\\nbishy reflections and fill the air with their dust\\nand flying fragments. The idea, simply stated,\\nwas that it was the time for the writing of a", "height": "3520", "width": "2542", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0100.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "TELEPATHY. 101\\ncertain book on the silver mines of Nevada, and\\nthis Nevada friend of his was just the man to\\nwrite it, and so he arose from his bed and im-\\nmediately set to writing a letter to his friend,\\ntelling him in substance that the time was ripe\\nand the market ready for such a book, and be-\\ncause he was a particular friend he made bold\\nto state what he considered the plan of the book\\nought to be, and, indeed, went into some detail.\\nAfter writing the letter he was a little concerned\\nabout the wisdom of advising his friend to\\nwrite a book before a publisher was found, so\\nhe pigeon-holed the letter until such a time as\\nhe could have a conference with his own pub-\\nlisher about getting out the book. A week\\npassed before he could have the desired confer-\\nence with his publisher, when one day a letter\\narrived and he recognized his friend s hand-\\nwriting on the outside of the envelope. He\\nturned to some friends present when the letter\\nwas received and said\\nI will do a miracle I will tell what this\\nletter contains before I open it. And he gave\\nan outlined statement of the contents of the let-\\nter and then opened the same and read it to\\nhis friends, and it tallied in a most remarkable\\nmanner with his previous statement. The red\\nhot idea apparently was not original with him,", "height": "3560", "width": "2221", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0101.jp2"}, "102": {"fulltext": "102 THE PSYCHIC AND PSYCHISM.\\nbut was telepathed to him by his friend in\\nNevada.\\nIt is plain from the above how innocent per-\\nsons are apparently guilty of plagarism. Original\\nthoughts are not always original with the per-\\nson who publishes them; they may be uncon-\\nsciously obtained from another. Such a case\\noccurred with a couple of acquaintances. They\\neach wrote a book on the same subject, while\\nliving one in the United States, the other in\\nChina. The books were very similar in ar-\\nrangement, and whole pages were practically\\nidentical. Each thought that the other had\\ncopied his work, but an inquiry proved that\\nneither had seen the other s work before writing\\nhis own, and it was decided that it was a\\ncase of Thought Transference. One caught the\\nother s thoughts, or they both obtained them\\nfrom an unknown third party.\\nI have sometimes made experiments in Telep-\\nathy, and recall now an experiment made one\\nevening with cards. A professional gentleman\\nwas thoroughly blindfolded and turned with his\\nback to the table around which several of us\\nwere seated then a card was placed upon the\\ntable at random and the blindfolded gentleman\\nwas asked to tell what card it was. In several\\ninstances he announced speedily and correctly", "height": "3533", "width": "2550", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0102.jp2"}, "103": {"fulltext": "TELEPATHY. 103\\nthe suit and value of the card. Some of the\\nother members of the party tried similar experi-\\nments, and a sufficient number of successes were\\nobtained to convince us that the results could\\nnot be accounted for by guesses. Sometimes\\ninstead of using cards we drew geometrical fig-\\nures upon a sheet of paper, then passed the\\npaper from one to the other, each in turn witli\\na pencil tracing the outline of the figure, while\\nthe blindfolded man made his mind a blank or\\nreceptive and told what the figure was; in this\\nalso many successes were scored.\\nI recall a little incident that occurred several\\nyears ago when I was acting in the capacity of\\njudge of an election. One day while we were\\nsitting in the polling place, not having much to\\ndo we fell to talking of Thought Transference,\\nMind Reading and the like, when suddenly a\\ngentleman addressed one of the clerks, saying:\\nI can tell you what you had for breakfast.\\nI can tell you where you got that suit of clothes\\nand how much you paid for it. I can tell you\\nyour mother s maiden name, the name of the\\nfirst school teacher you ever had. and can tell\\nyou the number of your watch and I will wager\\nyou five dollars that I tell you all of these things\\nwithout making a mistake. He was unable to\\nget a wager, but to prove that he was not jestingf", "height": "3603", "width": "2232", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0103.jp2"}, "104": {"fulltext": "104 THE PSYCHIC AND PSYCHISM.\\nhe proceeded to tell these several things, and,\\nindeed, succeeded in telling them all without a\\nmistake.\\nThe theory of distant or absent treatment of\\nthe sick is based upon these facts. Undoubtedly\\nit is possible under certain conditions to send\\nhelpful suggestions to persons who are ill at\\na distance. I have in mind now a case in point.\\nA young lady patient of mine living not far from\\nmy rooms was seriously ill, and one night was\\nunable to go to sleep. She said to her friend\\nwho was attending her:\\nI am so dreadfully nervous I am sure that I\\nshall not sleep at all during the night.\\nAt about eleven o clock I returned to my\\nrooms and while preparing to retire was im-\\npressed, or in more accurate words received a\\nmessage telling me that my patient was nervous\\nand restless, and I immediately answered the\\nmessage, addressing these words to the patient\\nas though I were in her presence\\nYou will not be restless any more, and will\\nsoon go to sleep and rest comfortably all night.\\nThe result was that she did go to sleep and\\nrested well. The next morning when I made\\nmy regular call upon the patient she told me of\\nher experience the night before and asked me\\nif I had sent her a quieting message at about", "height": "3547", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0104.jp2"}, "105": {"fulltext": "TELEPATHY. ioS\\neleven o clock. I admitted that I had. In this\\ncase we have a positive demonstration of Mental\\nTelegraphy.\\nAny two persons can readily make a study of\\nTelepathy in the following manner: A con-\\nvenient time should be appointed when neither\\nis likely to be disturbed. One should send and\\nthe other should receive the messages. The\\nagent and percipient may exchange offices at\\ntheir pleasure. The sittings should not be too\\nlong thirty minutes is long enough. Divide\\nthe time into two or three parts and try to send\\na thought or an idea in each part. The receiver\\nor percipient should make a note of the thoughts\\nreceived at the time and later compare notes\\nwith the sender or agent. A telepascope has\\nbeen devised as an aid in these simple experi-\\nments. It is simply a long tube wide enough\\nto allow both eyes to look through it at once at\\nthe object or figure to be transferred. Any one\\ncan make one out of cardboard to serve that\\npurpose. It aids the agent in concentrating the\\nattention on a single object. We will now turn\\nto a study of Telepathy,\\nIN NATURAL SLEEP.\\nMost of the phenomena of Thought Trans-\\nference or Telepathy observed in natural sleep", "height": "3611", "width": "2249", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0105.jp2"}, "106": {"fulltext": "106 THE PSYCHIC AND PSYCHISM.\\noccur in dreams. Dreams which give a true\\naccount of happenings. You remember we\\nhave a very early account of such a dream and\\nits interpretation. Daniel of old, after all of\\nthe magicians and sooth-sayers in Nebuchad-\\nnezzar s court had failed to tell the King the\\ndream he had had, which he had forgotten, and\\nits interpretation, volunteered to tell the King\\nwhat he wanted to know, that is, to tell him his\\nwonderful dream and its interpretation, and\\nthereby saved his own life and glorified the God\\nof Israel.\\nThe instances in which dreams have brought\\nimportant revelations are too many to be ac-\\ncounted for by coincidence but do not under-\\nstand me to say that every dream of the night\\nis a revelation. Undoubtedly many dreams are\\nof little or no importance, but when it happens\\nthat a person dreams the details of some event\\nand it leaves an indellible impression upon the\\nmind, coincidence is not a sufficient explanation.\\nFor example, a lady recently dreamed that she\\nsaw her brother murdered. They were more\\nthan a thousand miles apart she in Indiana and\\nhe in Nebraska. The dream was so realistic\\nthat she seemed to take part in the struggle\\nbetween her brother and his murderer. The\\nnext morning she told her friends and declared", "height": "3559", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0106.jp2"}, "107": {"fulltext": "TELEPATHY. 107\\nthat she knew that her brother had been killed.\\nShortly thereafter she received a message telling\\nher that her brother was dead, having been mur-\\ndered in his own house upon his ranch. The\\nsister sent a description of the man she had seen\\ncommit the murder in her dream to the sheriff\\nof the county, who recognized from the descrip-\\ntion one of several persons and arrestee! him.\\nIt seems that this dream must have been due\\nto Thought Transference. Doubtless many\\nmessages come to us in this manner that are\\nnot interpreted, although we have a feeling of\\nuneasiness and apprehension.\\nExperiments are easily made upon sleeping\\nsubjects which certainly prove that external in-\\nfluences of various sorts make impressions upon\\nsleepers and direct their dreams. It is well\\nknown that a person sleeping in a cold draught\\nof air is likely to dream of experiences in cold\\nenvironments, as being out on a bleak prairie\\nor in an exposed position. Another experi-\\nment often made is the playing of music in the\\npresence of sleeping persons and afterwards\\nawakening and asking them of what they have\\nbeen dreaming. Almost invariably they tell of\\nhaving dreamed of attending a concert, opera\\nor some musical entertainment.\\nIt is as easy to cause visual hallucination by", "height": "3623", "width": "2234", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0107.jp2"}, "108": {"fulltext": "108 THE PSYCHIC AND PSYCHISM.\\ntalking to the sleeper as it is to cause bther\\ndreams, but more peculiar instances of hallu-\\ncination are those caused from a distance by a\\nperson purposely sending a telepathic message.\\nMany have made this sort of experiment, and\\nit is made as follows\\nJust before going to sleep the sender or agent\\nstrongly wills that during his sleep his presence\\nshall be felt or seen by some other person or\\npersons at a distance. The result which is fre-\\nquently obtained is, that the distant sleeper or\\npercipient either feels or sees the outline or\\nimage of the agent. I am aware that there is\\nanother explanation for this besides Telepathy,\\nnamely, that it is the astral body of the agent\\nprojected into the presence of the percipient, but\\nI prefer the former explanation. Thought\\nTransference and hallucination admirably ac-\\ncount for all the phenomena. The phenomena\\nof sleep will be more fully discussed in the chap-\\nter on Sleep and Dreams, so we will pass on to\\nthe consideration of Thought Transference,\\nIN HYPNOSIS.\\nHypnotism is a great aid to the study of all\\nof the supersensuous phenomena, and especially\\nof the study of the phenomena of Telepathy.\\nIn the various states of hypnosis we find inti-", "height": "3560", "width": "2570", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0108.jp2"}, "109": {"fulltext": "TELEPATHY. 109\\nmations of the explanation of the two classes of\\nphenomena recorded above, for hypnosis fur-\\nnishes an opportunity to study the operations\\nof the mind found in no other mental condition.\\nExperiments are readily made with hypnotized\\nsubjects, and the results will satisfy the most\\nskeptical that Thought Transference is a fact.\\nHypnotized persons frequently surprise us with\\nexhibitions of Mind Reading, Clairvoyance and\\nthe like. Let me cite such an instance.\\nOne evening while observing the effect of\\nmusic upon a young lady in hypnosis, I told\\nher that a gentleman present had told a very\\nhumorous story and began to laugh and she\\njoined me in my pretended mirth. Afterward\\nwhen questioned about the story she repeated\\nthe story in detail that she insisted she had\\nheard the gentleman tell. No story had really\\nbeen told, but she had read it in the mind of\\nthe gentleman who was supposed to have told\\nit. It was one of the few stories that he was\\naccustomed to tell, and she had never heard it.\\nEvidently she had read his mind, but the\\nstrangest thing about it was that in her memory\\nit had been told in detail.\\nMy experience with hypnotic subjects has\\nbeen large. I will recite the notes taken from\\nan evening s experimentation. There were", "height": "3615", "width": "2235", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0109.jp2"}, "110": {"fulltext": "110 THE PSYCHIC AND PSYCHISM.\\npresent three physicians, a high school super-\\nintendent, a druggist and two ladies. The pro-\\nfessor was chosen as the subject for the evening,\\ninrst, experiments were made with him in the\\nwaking state, and then they were continued\\nunder hypnotic influence.\\nThe subject was thoroughly blindfolded and\\nplaced so that all present could easily see his\\nface, but at no time was he in contact with any\\none. Then a playing card, the three of clubs,\\nwas placed against his forehead, partly under\\nthe bandage, with its face toward the company.\\nWe waited in silence, looking at and thinking\\nof the card, while he made his mind passive and\\nreceptive, with a view to telling what the card\\nwas. After a couple of minutes he said*:\\nI do not see anything, and I cannot think\\nof anything except the three-spot of clubs.\\nThe seven-spot of a red suit was next placed\\nin the same position, and after waiting a little\\nlonger than before he said\\nI can see the card. It is a red suit, but I\\ncannot tell whether it is a heart or a diamond,\\nnor whether it is a seven or an eight spot.\\nTwo or three other cards were placed suc-\\ncessively in the same position, but he was un-\\nable to tell the suit or the number of spots,\\nalthough he could regularly tell the color.", "height": "3560", "width": "2581", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0110.jp2"}, "111": {"fulltext": "TELEPATHY. HI\\nWishing to see if better results could be ob-\\ntained by the aid of hypnotism, I hypnotized\\nhim while he was still blindfolded and placed\\nhim in an easy chair with his back to the table\\naround which we were seated. He went into\\na condition known as lucid lethargy and was\\nwell aware of what we were doing and heartily\\ncarried out his part of the study.\\nNo one present spoke a word except the sub-\\nject and myself. The affair was altogether im-\\npromptu and the tests were as follows Various\\nobjects were placed noiselessly upon the padded\\ntable, and those of us assembled about it con-\\ncentrated our gaze and attention upon them\\nuntil he got a mental impression of them. The\\nobjects were selected by any one present hap-\\nhazard. Let me mention the objects in detail.\\nThe first object placed upon the table was a\\nlittle terra-cotta vase with three looplike han-\\ndles, like those upon a creamer. Almost imme-\\ndiately the professor said\\nI see it; it is a little brown creamer. A\\nside view only showed two of the fhree handles,\\nand it was manifest that he got the image of\\nthe object by Thought Transference from those\\nwho were looking at it.\\nOne of the doctors then placed his penknife,\\nwhich had a long black handle, upon the table.", "height": "3604", "width": "2215", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0111.jp2"}, "112": {"fulltext": "112 THE PSYCHIC AND PSYCHISM.\\nWhen asked what he saw, the subject replied:\\nI see something black; it is long and\\nstraight. The doctor at this point partly\\nopened one of the blades and at once the sub-\\nject added: No, it is not straight; it is turned\\nup at one end. Oh, yes, I see what it is it is\\na penknife.\\nA small, round call-bell was next placed upon\\nthe table and was at once recognized and named\\nby the subject. In like manner, a little salt-bot-\\ntle, glass with a silver top, filled with salt, was\\nquickly recognized and described as a small\\nwhite bottle with a silver top.\\nA silver tea-bell next found its way upon the\\ntable, and after a little delay the subject said:\\nI can see it, but I don t know what it is. It\\nlooks like a morning-glory with a portion of the\\nstem attached. At this juncture some one\\nquietly turned the bell so that it lay upon its\\nside, and in a moment the subject continued\\nOh, yes, I see. Now, I know what it is it\\nis a tea-bell.\\nA book was then placed upon the table, and\\nwe all expected he would at once announce that\\nhe saw a book but he did not. For a consid-\\nerable time he remained silent as if puzzled:\\nWhat do you see? I finally asked him, and\\nhe replied: The only thing that I can see is\\na stamp.", "height": "3557", "width": "2573", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0112.jp2"}, "113": {"fulltext": "TELEPATHY. 113\\nWe thought that he had made a flat failure,\\nbut the lady sitting opposite to me, without\\nspeaking, turned the book over and I saw that\\nit nad a library stamp stuck upon its back.. So\\nI asked:\\nWhere is the stamp?\\nIt is stuck on the back of a book, he in-\\nstantly replied.\\nThis led us to believe that he must have got-\\nten the image of the stamp from Mrs. B., who\\nwas the only one present who had noticed it\\nand had turned the book so that I could see\\nit and had called my attention to it. So we spent\\na little time in following out that idea, with\\nmost satisfactory results He could readily and\\ninfallibly tell in what part of the room Mrs. B.\\nwas, although she moved about noiselessly,\\nwhile the rest of us made plenty of noise and\\ncarried on animated discussions.\\nIt is hardly necessary to add anything to the\\nabove notes. They tell their own story, and\\nto my mind can only be explained upon the\\nhypothesis of Telepathy or Clairvoyance.\\nDelayed perception was in several instances\\nobserved, for instance, when we were about to\\nchange the subject, indeed, in one instance had\\nchanged it, he suddenly definitely saw its\\nimage and positively stated what it was. If the", "height": "3560", "width": "2201", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0113.jp2"}, "114": {"fulltext": "1 14 THE PSYCHIC AND PSYCH1SM.\\ntransfer of thought depends upon the subcon-\\nscious mind this delay is easily accounted for;\\notherwise it is not.\\nApparently better results are obtained with\\na hypnotized subject, and doubtless this is be-\\ncause the subject in hypnosis can to a greater\\ndegree disregard outside distracting influences\\nand become more passive and receptive.\\nA peculiar thing about the evening s study\\nwas the feeling that Professor S. had about it\\nsubsequently. A month or two later he was\\ninclined to doubt the whole matter, and said\\nthat he thought that we could easily explain it\\nall if we only knew enough. I am of the same\\nopinion about the explanation, but I feel cer-\\ntain that the explanation would be none other\\nthan Telepathy.\\nMany experimenters have investigated the\\nsubject of hypnotizing by Thought Transfer-\\nence i. e., hypnotizing a subject at a distance\\nor beyond the reach of sense communication,\\nand have succeeded to a remarkable degree.\\nMy own attempts along this line have not been\\nas successful as I could have wished; however,\\nI have found indications of partial success in\\na number of instances. Let me cite one. One\\nevening several years ago in the presence of one\\nof my classes I attempted to bring one of the", "height": "3557", "width": "2442", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0114.jp2"}, "115": {"fulltext": "TELEPATHY. 115\\nabsent members of the class by a mental com-\\nmand and afterwards learned that he had the\\nfollowing experience. At about eight o clock,\\nthe hour of the experiment, he suddenly re-\\nmembered that it was the hour for the meeting\\nof his class, and he went to the elevator and\\nasked the time. He lived about a mile from my\\nrooms and knew that he could not arrive\\nuntil very late, so although he had a strong in-\\nclination to come, he finally decided not to do\\nso. It appears that the mental command\\nreached him, but he did not obey. Perhaps if\\nwe had continued the command the result would\\nhave been different.\\nPersons who succeed best in Mental Teleg-\\nraphy are those who are naturally, or fry train-\\ning, Psychics. The Trance Mediums are all\\nPsychics and are able to interpret the telepathic\\nmessages sent to them from other minds. Prob-\\nably the reason that most of us fail in our at-\\ntempts to make practical use of Telepathy is\\nbecause we are unable to interpret the mes-\\nsages that reach our minds. Many persons\\nadmit that they have felt certain peculiar im-\\npressions and some presentiment of evil at the\\ntime of accidents to their friends, but while they\\nwere uneasy and anxious they were unable to\\ninterpret the messages that were doubtless sent.", "height": "3560", "width": "2242", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0115.jp2"}, "116": {"fulltext": "116 THE PSYCHIC AND PSYCHISM.\\nThese messages are probably stored in the sub-\\nconscious minds of the receivers and when they\\ngo to Mind Readers these facts or messages are\\nreadily secured and interpreted for them. In-\\ndirect messages are obtained in this way: A\\nsends a message to B, who afterwards goes to\\nC for a reading, and C reads the message,\\nthereby gaining knowledge of what was appar-\\nently known only by A. This is what is called\\nTelepathie a trois, or Telepathy by three. You\\nwill see that these facts offer the explanation of\\nmany of the phenomena of Spiritism, which will\\nbe discussed in the subsequent chapter.\\nMany other experiments made in Thought\\nTransference might be added, but it is thought\\nthat the above will suffice, for it will be further\\nillustrated in the discussion of Clairvoyance and\\nClairaudience, to follow immediately. The phe-\\nnomena of the supersensuous faculties can only\\nwith difficulty be separated, they are so inti-\\nmately related.", "height": "3560", "width": "2550", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0116.jp2"}, "117": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER VII.\\nCLAIRVOYANCE AND CLAIRAUDIENCE.\\nClairvoyance and Clairaudience real facts The avenues\\nwhich lead to the mind Sense perceptions depend-\\nent upon the mind The seen and the unseen relative\\nterms The impenetrability of matter and the X-\\nray Clairvoyance and Clairaudience in con-\\nscious states The phenomena intimately related\\nwith Telepathy Natural and developed power The\\nAuthor s experience A Clairvoyant reading veri-\\nfied Clairvoyance and Clairaudience in the\\nsubconscious state Intentional and unintentional\\nexperiences The subconscious states Experiments\\nwith hypnotized subjects A young man sent to\\nCuba A young lady sent home A trip to South\\nAfrica Describes a battle She tells the time\\nConclusion.\\nThese subjects are so similar and closely re-\\nlated that it seems best to consider them to-\\ngether. Little is known about them, so little\\nindeed that Clairvoyance and Clairaudience are\\nthought by some to be simply names. How-\\n117", "height": "3560", "width": "2188", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0117.jp2"}, "118": {"fulltext": "118 THE PSYCHIC AND PSYCHISM.\\never, they are real facts, as the large amount\\nof phenomena which they have produced clearly\\nshows. It will be worth while to carefully re-\\nview the phenomena and satisfy ourselves that\\nit is abundant and sufficient.\\nThe physical senses are not the only avenues\\nwhich lead to the mind; there are many other\\nportals that may be unbarred and opened. Open\\nwide the windows of your soul, let in the light\\nfrom every source. The narrow apertures ot\\nthe physical senses are too meager to let in the\\nwhole truth, and anything less will not satisfy\\nthe longings, aspirations and hopes of the\\nhuman soul.\\nThe eyes do not see it is the mind behind\\nthem that sees; the ears do not hear, it is\\nthe mind behind their mechanism that hears.\\nThe eyes recognize the waves of light and the\\near detects the vibrations of sound, but they do\\nnot limit the range of sight or hearing. An\\nobject that has passed beyond the range of the\\nunaided eye can be plainly brought into view\\nby the use of a telescope likewise, an object too\\nsmall to be seen by the unaided eye may be\\nclearly seen and studied with the aid of the\\nmicroscope. The sound that is beyond the\\nrange of the unaided ear can be plainly heard\\nby means of an audiphone. This would seem", "height": "3549", "width": "2550", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0118.jp2"}, "119": {"fulltext": "CLAIRVOYANCE. 119\\nto prove that sight and hearing both depend\\nupon the delicacy of the receiving instruments.\\nIf the instruments were keen enough no ray of\\nlight would be too small to be detected or no\\nsound too faint to be heard. Is not the mind\\nin its immediate perception unhampered by the\\nphysical senses subtle enough to meet these re-\\nquirements\\nIt is plain that the seen and the unseen are\\nsimply relative terms. What may be unseen by\\nme may be plainly seen by another. What I am\\nunable to see with unaided vision can be brought\\ninto view by the aid of instruments, the same\\nis true of hearing, the unheard may become\\nheard under other conditions. The vibrations\\nof light and sound do not stop where our ordi-\\nnary powers to detect them fail, but they go\\non and on. In childhood we were told that the\\nwaves started by a stone thrown into the water\\nnear the shore, would go on and on until they\\nbroke against the distant shore, though it were\\nthousands of miles away. Is it not equally true\\nthat the waves of light and sound when started\\ngo on and on until they break upon the shores\\nof eternity?\\nThe recent discovery of the X-ray has re-\\nvealed the existence of a subtle ether by means\\nof which the rays of light may be made to pene-", "height": "3589", "width": "2255", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0119.jp2"}, "120": {"fulltext": "120 THE PSYCHIC AND PSYCHISM.\\ntrate so-called opaque bodies. Indeed, the the-\\nory of impenetrability of matter no longer holds,\\naccording to many scientists. By means of\\nsome such subtle ether thought waves are car-\\nried from mind to mind across wide distances\\nof space, and messages are intelligently sent and\\nreceived by Telepathy. Is it not possible, not\\nto say probable, that light waves and sound\\nwaves may be conveyed by a similar if not the\\nsame ether across like distances? Whether we\\nadopt such a theory or not, the fact of seeing\\nand hearing by some means beyond the range\\nof the physical senses is indubitable. We are\\naware that discarnate spirit communications are\\noffered as explanations of these phenomena, and\\na discussion of them will be given in the chapter\\non Spiritism.\\nA study of the phenomena of Clairvoyance\\nand Clairaudience will aid in reaching a more\\nor less satisfactory conclusion as to what expla-\\nnation should be accepted. The phenomena in\\nquestion naturally arrange themselves in two\\ngroups, for part of them is produced while the\\nmind is in an ordinary conscious condition and\\nanother part of them is produced when the mind\\nis in a subconscious condition. And so we will\\ndivide the subject into these two groups, namely,\\nI. The phenomena produced by persons in", "height": "3555", "width": "2442", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0120.jp2"}, "121": {"fulltext": "CLAIRVOYANCE. 1 2 1\\nconscious states, and 2. The phenomena pro-\\nduced by persons in subconscious states.\\nIN CONSCIOUS STATES.\\nThe phenomena of Clairvoyance and Clair-\\naudience are so intimately associated and\\nblended with those of Telepathy that it is almost\\nimpossible to separate them. Indeed, the rela-\\ntionship is so close that many are inclined to\\nbelieve that they are all due to Thought Trans-\\nference. It is easy to see how this miscon-\\nception has arisen after a study of Telepathy\\nsuch as we have made. It was shown that many\\nthought communications were received in visual\\nor auditory forms. Not infrequently the visions\\nare allegorical in Thought Transference that\\nis, the transference of a picture of the ten-spot\\nof diamonds would not be a card with red\\ndiamond-shaped spots, but as likely as not a\\nseries of real diamonds arranged in that order.\\nThat is not true of Clairvoyance the picture is\\nusually quite natural and lifelike unless, as some-\\ntimes occurs, there is a blending of Telepathy\\nand Clairvoyance.\\nPsychics who have clairvoyant powers are of\\ntwo classes, called natural and developed. The\\nnatural Clairvoyant is one who has stumbled\\nupon the power and understands little of the", "height": "3596", "width": "2442", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0121.jp2"}, "122": {"fulltext": "122 THE PSYCHIC AND PSYCHISM.\\nlaw underlying it or the means of controlling\\nit. He is as much or more surprised at his\\nmarvelous power than his friends, and usually\\nruns off to some one who is supposed to know\\nto find out about it. The developed Clairvoyant\\nis quite a different character. He has acquired\\nhis psychic power by patient persevering prac-\\ntice and knows how to control and use it.\\nClairvoyant power is not limited to the per-\\nsons who bear the name; indeed, it is quite\\ncommon in others, so common that almost every\\none sometime, somewhere, has had an example\\nof it in his own experience. Let me relate such\\nan experience that occurred to me last summer.\\nOne Sunday evening, having retired very\\nearly, I was lying in a meditative mood when\\nsuddenly I saw clearly a young lady acquain-\\ntance sitting at a table writing. I recognized\\nher and decided that she was at that moment\\nwriting to me and I had seen her and known\\nit, although she was in a city seven hundred\\nmiles away. In the morning I said to my par-\\nents, with whom I was visiting at the time:\\nI will do a mystery for you.\\nWell, what is it? my father inquired.\\nI will predict the receipt of a letter from\\nChicago, which will arrive tomorrow, Tuesday,\\nafternoon.", "height": "3556", "width": "2442", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0122.jp2"}, "123": {"fulltext": "CLAIRVOYANCE. i23\\nPerhaps you have an appointment with some\\none to write to you so that it will arrive at that\\ntime, my mother suggested.\\nNo, was the reply; I have not heard from\\nthe young lady for several weeks, and have no\\nappointment to write.\\nWell, then, how do you know? was asked.\\nI had a clairvoyant vision last night, I re-\\nplied. Then I told them just how the vision\\noccurred, and also mentioned the name of the\\nlady who was to write.\\nTuesday came, but brought no letter, and\\n1 was heartily laughed at by my parents, who\\nwere skeptical about such things. Two days\\nlater I received a letter from the lady, in which\\nshe wrote: I have tried several times, she\\nsaid, to write to you lately, but have not suc-\\nceeded in doing so until now.\\nA few days later I returned to Chicago, and\\nshortly thereafter met the young lady in question\\nand she asked me if I had received her letter\\nbefore my return, and I replied:\\nYes, I received the letter you wrote on Tues-\\nday, but not the one you wrote on Sunday night.\\nI suppose you tore that one up.\\nHow do you know that I wrote to you on\\nSunday night? she asked, in evident amaze-\\nment.", "height": "3595", "width": "2442", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0123.jp2"}, "124": {"fulltext": "124 THE PSYCHIC AND PSYCHISM.\\nOh, I just know, I laughingly replied; but\\nshe would not be satisfied until I had explained\\nthe whole matter to her. She admitted that she\\nhad written Sunday night, as I had clairvoy-\\nantly known.\\nThe above is a fair sample of spontaneous\\nClairvoyance. The trained Psychic who has ob-\\ntained control of his mental faculties by sitting\\nin the silence or some other method described\\nin the previous chapters could do intentionally\\nwhat I did accidentally. I have had sittings\\nwith a considerable number of so-called Inde-\\npendent Clairvoyants, with various results. For\\nthe most part their readings consisted of the\\ncombined use of Telepathy, Clairvoyance and\\nPsychometry, but a few were true Clairvoyants.\\nI recall one experiment that was made for the\\npurpose of verifying the reading. It was as fol-\\nlows:\\nSomething over a year ago, when doing an\\nerrand in a distant part of the city I was\\nreminded that I was near the home of a promi-\\nnent Clairvoyant and decided to consult her. I\\nwent to her residence and asked for a sitting,\\nwhich was granted. Without telling my name\\nor residence or giving any clue as to my iden-\\ntity I seated myself in her consultation room.\\nShe asked for my handkerchief or a glove, and", "height": "3544", "width": "2442", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0124.jp2"}, "125": {"fulltext": "CLAIRVOYANCE. 125\\nupon receiving and holding my handkerchief she\\nreadily told me all about myself. I knew my\\nhistory already and wanted something more, so\\nI asked her to locate a friend of mine who was\\ntraveling in Iowa and tell me what he was doing\\nat the present hour. She asked me if I had\\nanything about me that he had owned or car-\\nried. I had a small leather card-case that had\\nbeen his, for we had exchanged card-cases\\nshortly before he went away. I handed her the\\ncard-case and after a few moments meditation\\nshe announced that she saw him.\\nHe is in an hotel sitting in a small bedroom\\nwriting. I will describe him and the room for\\nyou, she said.\\nShe gave a good description of my friend and\\nsaid the room was a small, plainly furnishd one,\\nand that it contained only one picture, and that\\none was an unframed campaign picture of Mc-\\nKinley.\\nHe has finished writing; he was writing a\\nletter to you; I can see your name on the\\nenvelope that he has just addressed and sealed,\\nshe continued.\\nI asked her to watch him for a few minutes\\nand tell me what he did. She did so, and in-\\nformed me that he was leaning back in his chair\\nwith his feet upon the table, smoking. That was\\njust like him.", "height": "3598", "width": "2442", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0125.jp2"}, "126": {"fulltext": "126 THE PSYCHIC AND PSYCHISM.\\nHe has called to some one to come in, she\\nresumed, after a brief pause. A short, middle-\\naged gentleman has entered the room. He is\\ncarrying a gun-case and asked your friend if he\\nis ready. He answers y es and has gotten up\\nand picked up his hat and gun-case, which were\\non the table. They have gone out and closed\\nthe door of the room.\\nI determined to verify her statements and\\nwrote my friend a letter as soon as I reached\\nhome, asking him to tell me what he did imme-\\ndiately after writing me a letter that day. The\\nletter that she said he had written came to me\\nthe next day and a few days later I received\\nanother letter answering my enquiries from\\nwhich I give an extract below:\\nI do not know why you want to know what\\nI was doing the other day and much less do I\\nknow how you became informed that I had\\nwritten you a letter, for I am not a very regular\\ncorrespondent. I suppose it is one of your\\neverlasting experiments, so it is all right, old\\nfellow. Let me see, after writing your letter I\\nsat and smoked for awhile and waited for an\\nacquaintance who was coming for me to go\\nchicken shooting with him. I did not have to\\nwait long for he was on time, two o clock, and\\nthen I took my gun and your letter and we\\nwent out together.", "height": "3556", "width": "2442", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0126.jp2"}, "127": {"fulltext": "Clairvoyance. 127\\nAbout the pictures upon the walls of my\\nroom, it will be easy to reply, for there are\\nnone well, that is no framed pictures, but\\nthere is an old, dilapidated campaign picture of\\nMcKinley. By the way, your description of my\\nacquaintance was very good, how did you get\\nit? We had some good shooting; I wish you\\nhad been along, for you would have enjoyed it.\\nThe above experiment gives good ground for\\nthe belief in the reality of Clairvoyance and\\nClairaudience, for the woman evidently saw and\\nheard what she described to me, as my verifica-\\ntion conclusively proves.\\nIN SUBCONSCIOUS STATES.\\nClairvoyants often fall into trances or into\\nmore or less subconscious conditions. The\\ntrained Clairvoyant does this at will but others\\nhave unintentional experiences. Some persons\\nduring sleep have dreams of a Clairvoyant or\\na Clairaudient nature, but to Sleep and Dreams\\na special chapter will be allotted. Let it suffice\\nhere to say that such experiences are not unlike\\nthose which occur in trances. The somnam-\\nbulist or sleepwalker performs feats with closed\\neyes which go far to prove that Clairvoyance\\nis a fact, but these too must be reserved for\\nanother chapter.", "height": "3590", "width": "2442", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0127.jp2"}, "128": {"fulltext": "128 THE PSYCHIC AND PSYCHISM.\\nHypnotics while in a state of hypnosis not in-\\nfrequently develop Clairvoyant and Clairaudient\\npowers. These may be readily and critically\\nstudied under the most careful test conditions.\\nAs examples and accounts of experiments are\\nmore interesting and convincing than theoretical\\ndiscussions, several such experiments will be\\nrelated.\\nOne evening last winter a young man whom\\nI had made some experiments with previously,\\nwas hypnotized and directed to go to Washing-\\nton and call upon the President and tell us\\nwhat he was doing at the time.\\nI see him, he said after a little pause, but\\nthat guy over there has his eyes on me, he\\ncontinued.\\nWho do you mean? was asked.\\nWhy, that porter over there he knows I\\nhave no business in here.\\nNever mind him, just observe the President\\nand see what he is doing and hear what he\\nsays, he was instructed.\\nThe President is sitting there with two\\nother gentlemen he is reading a cablegram.\\nWhat does the cablegram contain? Read it\\nfor us, he was instructed.\\nI cannot read it it is in cypher, but I heard\\nthe President say that it is unofficial, he replied.", "height": "3557", "width": "2442", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0128.jp2"}, "129": {"fulltext": "CLAIRVOYANCE. 129\\nIt was impossible to verify his statements\\nwith reference to the President, but other state-\\nments made a few minutes later were verified\\nin due time. The experiments were made dur-\\ning the Spanish-American war, at the time\\nwhen the whereabouts of Cervera s fleet was\\nunknown and there was considerable anxiety\\nabout the matter. The subject was instructed\\nto go to Cuba and locate the fleet. After a little\\nhesitation he announced that he saw them and\\nexplained that the Spanish Fleet was in San-\\ntiago Bay and that the American Fleet was\\nanchored in the open sea outside. Events a few\\ndays later proved the truth of his statements.\\nAfter coming out of his hypnotic trance he had\\nno memory of what he had seen, heard or said,\\nas is usually the case in profound hypnosis.\\nOne more experiment made and verified quite\\nrecently will suffice to illustrate our contention.\\nA young lady who had become much interested\\nin Psychic matters wished to be hypnotized and\\nif possible allowed to visit her home, in a city\\nover four hundred miles distant, while in hyp-\\nnosis. She was hypnotized and proved to be\\na very sensitive person. She readily visited her\\nhome and evinced a lively interest in things and\\npersons found there. She held an extended con-\\nversation with her mother and fell into a heated", "height": "3598", "width": "2442", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0129.jp2"}, "130": {"fulltext": "130 THE PSYCHIC AND PSYCHISM.\\nargument with some ladies who were at the\\ntime making her mother a call.\\nThe mother and the callers were preparing to\\ngo to a musical recital. She observed and made\\nremarks about the waist her mother wore on the\\noccasion; it was a lavender colored silk\\nwith white polka dots. The young lady in-\\nquired about the programme and learned the\\nseveral numbers that were to be rendered and\\nmade comments favorable or unfavorable upon\\neach and finally decided she did not care to at-\\ntend the function. The names of the persons\\nwho were to take part in the programme we\\nlearned from her conversation with her mother\\nto be as follows:\\nFirst, Mrs. J. was to sing a solo; Mr. G.\\nwas down for a select reading; Mrs. B. was to\\nsing a song, and Mr. C. was to render some of\\nhis characteristic negro selections.\\nAt my suggestion the young lady remem-\\nbered all of her conversations and experiences\\nwhile in the hypnosis. The following morning\\nshe wrote her mother, making inquiries about\\nher doings upon the night of her experiment,\\nhut before receiving the latter the mother wrote,\\nincidentally, telling just what we wanted to\\nknow. The part of the letter confirming our\\nexperiment is given below and is as follows", "height": "3560", "width": "2442", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0130.jp2"}, "131": {"fulltext": "CLAIRVOYANCE.\\nI am now going to answer your letter of last\\nSunday. You ask about home news. Well,\\nfirst I must tell you about a new waist I have;\\nit is lavender with white dots, which I think is\\nvery pretty.\\nMrs. C. and Dodo were up to spend the\\nafternoon yesterday and took tea with me. We\\nhad a pleasant chat about you and then went\\nto the first benefit concert of the season. Mrs.\\nJ. sang, Mr. G. read, Mrs. B. sang too, and\\nMr. C s. negro impersonations were enjoyed\\nvery much.\\nA good deal of the above experiment might\\nbe accounted for by Telepathy, but undoubtedly\\na part of it must have been due to Clairvoyance,\\nespecially the part referring to the mother s\\ndress. Beside other experiments made with\\nthis subject certainly establish her Clairvoyant\\npower. Let me record one more.\\nTwo weeks later she expressed a wish to be\\nsent to some unknown country and was sent to\\nSouth Africa to learn about the war between\\nthe English and the Boers. She went first to\\nCape Town and there attempted to make in-\\nquiry as to the location of the seat of war and\\nwas much distressed at being answered in\\na foreign tongue. She was instructed to find\\nsome one who spoke English and inquire of", "height": "3601", "width": "2311", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0131.jp2"}, "132": {"fulltext": "132\\nTHE PSYCHIC AND PSYCHISM.\\nhim, and she did, learning that the seat of war\\nwas near Kimberley. She went to Kimberley\\nand located the contending armies. Then she\\ndescribed in detail an engagement in which the\\nBoers were first repulsed but later rallied and\\ndefeated the English. This was an unexpected\\nreport, for the English had lately been regularly\\nvictorious. However, her description and an-\\nnouncement were confirmed by official reports\\npublished two days later.\\nMany other experiments might be recounted\\nsuch as telling the time by an open-face watch\\nthat no one present had seen, when it was placed\\nupon the top of her head but it is thought that\\nenough has been given to prove the existence\\nof Independent Clairvoyance and Clairaudience.", "height": "3560", "width": "2442", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0132.jp2"}, "133": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER VIII.\\nPSYCHOMETRY.\\nThe intimate relationship between supersensuous facul-\\nties Definition of Psychometry Mysterious consti-\\ntution of nature Dr. Brewster quoted The book\\nof nature History of Psychometry The Psy-\\nchometrist s development Psychometry in the\\nwaking state\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Its application A Mineral Psy-\\nchometrist Psychometry in Medicine An experi-\\nment with a piece of wood from the Mount of\\nOlives\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Psychometry deals only with the past\\nSome unscrupulous Psychometrists Psychometry\\nin Hypnosis The states compared Experiment\\nwith a souvenir from Niagara Falls The Hypnotic\\nvisits the falls The Psychic atmosphere of coun-\\ntries America s position Psychometry needs care-\\nful study to place it upon its proper footing.\\nThe supersensuous faculties include one more\\nmember which deserves separate consideration,\\nso it is thought best to give Psychometry a\\nchapter by itself. The intimate relationship be-\\ntween Telepathy, Clairvoyance and Psychometry\\nhas led many to consider them together as dif-\\nferent phases of the same subject. It is true\\nthat Psychometry is rarely observed alone; its\\n133", "height": "3594", "width": "2442", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0133.jp2"}, "134": {"fulltext": "134 THE PSYCHIC AND PSYCHISM.\\nphenomena are generally mixed with those of\\nthe other faculties. However, it appears that\\nthe phenomena peculiar to Psychometry are\\nsufficiently characteristic to differentiate them\\nfrom Telepathy and Clairvoyance. This is espe-\\ncially true in one particular, namely, that Clair-\\nvoyance and Telepathy are chiefly concerned\\nwith messages from persons while Psychometry\\nconcerned itself chiefly with things.\\nPsychometry may be defined as mind or soul\\nmeasurement, but it would be better to change\\nthe word measurement to read interpretation.\\nThe Psychometrist is a person who is able to\\ndivine, by physical contact or proximity the\\ncharacter and history of a thing and the things\\nby which it has been environed that is, to give\\nthe whole history of the thing from the vibratory\\ninfluences that emanate from it. For him the\\npast and the present are alike open books. The\\nkeenness of his perception is phenomenal and as\\nwe think of it we are forced to say with the\\nprophet of old that man is made in the image\\nof God and is only limited by his own ignorance.\\nThe marvelous power of man is little more\\nwonderful than the mysterious constitution of\\nnature. That all experiences leave their indeli-\\nble impressions upon man so that he is at any\\nstage of his development a living history of his", "height": "3560", "width": "2442", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0134.jp2"}, "135": {"fulltext": "PSYCHOMETRY. 135\\npast does not seem so wonderful as the fact that\\nso called inanimate things carry with them a\\nsimilar historical record. When the Psychom-\\netrist picks up a bit of stone, wood or shell, his\\nsensitive perception reads a historical record\\nwhich the subject contains. The means and\\nmanner of recording this history is well ex-\\nplained by Doctor Brewster, who says\\nAll bodies throw off emanations in greater\\nor less size and with greater or less velocities;\\nthese particles enter more or less into the pores\\nof solid and fluid bodies, sometimes resting upon\\ntheir surface, and sometimes permeating them\\naltogether. These emanations, when feeble,\\nshow themselves in images; when stronger, in\\nchemical changes when stronger still, in their\\naction on the olfactory nerves; and when\\nthrown off most copiously and rapidly, in heat\\naffecting the nerves of touch; in photographic\\naction, dissevering and recombining the ele-\\nments of nature; and in phosphorescent and\\nluminous emanations, exciting the retina and\\nproducing vision.\\nThese peculiar emanations and registrations\\ncontinue their operations day and night and have\\nbeen doing so since the beginning of things.\\nThey faithfully photograph others and are as\\nfaithfully photographed by others. So that each", "height": "3598", "width": "2442", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0135.jp2"}, "136": {"fulltext": "136 THE PSYCHIC AND PSYCHISM.\\nhas a complete and accurate history of all that\\nhas happened to it and near it. Nature by this\\nmeans becomes in truth a book of nature, and\\nhe who is the true naturalist is the one who can\\nread these records of the past. Communing\\nwith nature means something to the person\\nwho understands nature s power of communi-\\ncation and it is no wonder that many who have\\ncommuned with nature have been able to talk\\nand write as if inspired; they were inspired.\\nPlaces and things become more important when\\nwe know that every stone, brick and window-\\npane carries a record of the past and if they\\ncould speak to us they would be constantly\\ntelling us of things many of which have faded\\nfrom the tablets of memory. The walls of the\\nnursery in the old homestead would sing over\\nagain to us the lullabys that our sweet mother s\\nvoice crooned to us in our childhood days. Do\\nnot these things explain how it is that some\\nauthors are able to write of the secrets of na-\\nture? They have simply gotten into tune with\\nnature, and have been able to catch her vibra-\\ntions and translate them into sweet melodies.\\nThe poet of nature sings the harmonies he hears,\\nnothing more.\\nThe history of Psychometry as a science is\\nbrief, for only a few years have passed since its", "height": "3560", "width": "2442", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0136.jp2"}, "137": {"fulltext": "PSYCHOMETRY. 13^\\ndiscovery, however, the history is much shorter\\nthan the facts, for it has existed from the be-\\nginning of time. It was discovered by Professor\\nDenton, who found a Sensitive in his wife. When\\na piece of rock was placed in the lady s hand she\\nwas able to interpret its geologic history\\nand describe and draw pictures of the animals\\nliving at the place and time of its formation.\\nThe animals were unknown to natural history\\nwhen the lady s descriptions were given, but\\nfossil remains have been found since which ver-\\nify her statements. Many other investigators\\nhave experimented with Sensitives since and\\ntheir results serve to confirm the conclusions\\nreached by Professor Denton. The facts of\\nPsychometry have remained much the same, but\\ntheir application has been greatly extended\\nsince that time. The Psychometrist now finds\\nmany applicants for his services and he usually\\ngives value received for his fees. His work is\\nnot only interesting and wonderful, but it is also\\nuseful.\\nThe Psychometrist, like other Psychics, is the\\nresult of development. Natural endowment has\\nmuch to do with the development, sometimes\\nvery little effort or practice is sufficient to enable\\nhim to become a Sensitive. Undoubtedly all\\nhave more or less psychometric powers, that is,", "height": "3610", "width": "2185", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0137.jp2"}, "138": {"fulltext": "138 THE PSYCHIC AND PSYCHISM.\\nare sensitive to vibratory impressions which\\ncome from places and things, and if they took\\nthe trouble to study themselves they would ap-\\npreciate this fact. It is true that places and\\nthings have tendencies to stimulate or depress\\nus, and it is fair to suppose that these tendencies\\nare due to the vibratory emanations from them.\\nThe world is everywhere vocal with messages\\nfor him who has ears to hear and the meaning\\nof Psychometry will be understood when man\\nlearns to attend to these voices.\\nHypnotism furnishes a means of developing\\npsychometric power, as has often been shown by\\nexperimentation. Hypnotics often surprise us\\nby exhibiting these supersensuous faculties.\\nMost of the experience that I have had with\\nPsychometry has been had with persons in\\nhypnosis, some of which will be recorded pres-\\nently. First, let us consider the phenomena\\nobserved\\nIN THE WAKING STATE.\\nThe basis and history of Psychometry would\\nseem to promise a wide usefulness for it. Psy-\\nchometrists themselves see no limit to its ap-\\nplication. In minerology and mining it would\\nseem to be of considerable value experiments\\nshow that a psychometric reading of a specimen", "height": "3560", "width": "2442", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0138.jp2"}, "139": {"fulltext": "PSYCHOMETRY. 139\\nfrom a lead will not only give the value and\\ncharacter of the ore it contains, but also describe\\nthe direction of the vein and locate deposits.\\nHowever, it is manifest that a knowledge of\\nminerology and mining must be added to the\\nSensitive s power, otherwise the expediency of\\nworking the lead might not be justified by the\\noutput. A number of cases of these mineral\\nPsychometrists are on record; recently my at-\\ntention was called to one of unusual interest.\\nThe lady could not only describe the lead and\\nvalue from a specimen but was peculiarly af-\\nfected when walking upon a ledge containing\\nore. The first sensation felt was a weakness in\\nthe knees, followed by a loss of the power of\\nlocomotion, then a loss of the power of speech,\\nand finally a loss of consciousness if she con-\\ntinued upon the ledge. The degree of the influ-\\nence was in proportion to the richness of the\\nledge in mineral. Mr. A. T. Robinson, who de-\\nscribes the case, says\\nIn reading a piece of ore an electric or\\nmagnetic current seems to travel from the ore\\nup to the brain. If the ore be very rich the\\ncurrent is correspondingly strong and vice\\nversa. The currents from various pieces of ore\\nvary not only quantitatively or in strength, but\\nalso qualitatively, copper and lead ore producing", "height": "3620", "width": "2442", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0139.jp2"}, "140": {"fulltext": "140 THE PSYCHIC AND PSYCHISM.\\nsensations very different from those of gold, sil-\\nver or iron. The current/ when it reaches her\\nbrain seems to dam back for the time the flood\\nof her own thoughts, so that, while she is con-\\nscious of her environment, she is not at liberty\\nto use her own faculties or to utter anything\\nother than the message given her.\\nThe above case, Madam X., as she is called,\\nseems to show the value of a Sensitive in min-\\ning experiments and undoubtedly many unprof-\\nitable mining ventures might be changed into\\nprofitable ones by the advice of such a Psy-\\nchometrist.\\nMuch is claimed for Psychometry as an aid in\\nmedicine and surgery. In the hands of a com-\\npetent Sensitive it is said to be practically infalli-\\nble. A lock of the patient s hair is placed in the\\nSensitive s hand, with the result that he is able\\nto give a correct reading of the case. The dis-\\nease is accurately described, both cause and\\ncourse being given and a diagnosis promptly\\nmade. At least one such case has come under\\nmy observation that was afterward verified. A\\ntubercular focus in the brain was located. The\\nPsychometrist had no knowledge of cerebral\\nanatomy and was obliged to locate the focus by\\ntelling its relative distances from the surface of\\nthe cranium. If this faculty can be so developed", "height": "3560", "width": "2550", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0140.jp2"}, "141": {"fulltext": "PSYCHOMETRY. 141\\nthat it may be perfectly controlled and relied\\nupon it would be invaluable in diagnosis. It\\nlooks as if the mind is likely to become more\\npenetrating in its perception than the X-Ray,\\nthe microscope or spectroscope. Hasten the\\nday!\\nA piece of olive wood from the Mount of\\nOlives was placed into the hand of a young man\\nSensitive, who immediately began to discourse\\nupon the life of Jesus. He spoke of His passing\\nover the hill on his way to Bethany, told of His\\neating and intercourse with the family at\\nBethany, and then told in some detail of the\\nraising of Lazarus from the dead. It is possible\\nthat this last case may have been telepathic in\\nits nature, for all of the above data were well\\nknown to me. This case illustrates what I have\\noften observed in Sensitives, namely, that they\\ngenerally give in their readings the things that\\nseem most important to them. The boy was of\\na religious character and so the Christian asso-\\nciations of the piece of wood were the ones that\\nwere detailed, although there were doubtless\\nmany other associations, that might have been\\nrevealed.\\nThe past is all that the Psychometrist concerns\\nhimself with. For him the past lives again in the\\npresent as he reads the historical records. The", "height": "3595", "width": "2442", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0141.jp2"}, "142": {"fulltext": "142 THE PSYCHIC AND PSYCHISM.\\nPsychometrist indulges in no predictions, or if\\nhe does he does so on his own responsibility, for\\nthe history of the future remains to be recorded.\\nMany so called Psychometrists indulge in for-\\ntune telling, claiming to be able to tell past,\\npresent and future. The past and present may\\nbe told by the competent Sensitive, but of the\\nfuture no man can speak with certainty. It is\\nalways a guess no matter who foretells it. To\\nthe untaught it seems possible for one who can\\nactually tell the past and present also to predict\\nthe future, but in the very nature of the case\\nit is impossible to foretell events where free\\nmoral agency is concerned. The most that can\\nbe done is to state probabilities, and a real Psy-\\nchometrist will confess this fact.\\nThese remarks are made because certain un-\\nscrupulous persons are practicing deception and\\nbringing Psychometry into disrepute. More\\nthan that, they often do serious harm to those\\nwho consult them by inspiring false hopes and\\nimpossible expectations. Naturally the one who\\npays a fee for a reading takes the matter seri-\\nously, and when the past has been faithfully told\\nconcludes that the predictions of the future are\\nequally true. These predictions which are sim-\\nply guesses, at most, often rob the unsuspecting\\nof their peace of mind by making them dissatis-", "height": "3560", "width": "2533", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0142.jp2"}, "143": {"fulltext": "PSYCHOMETRY. 143\\nfied with their present conditions and as uncer-\\ntain of their future. These things ought not to\\nso be. Now, let us consider the phenomena\\nproduced\\nIN HYPNOSIS.\\nSensitives developed by Hypnotism do not\\ndiffer in their results from those developed by\\nother means except in the fact that they speak\\nwhile in a hypnotic trance. Other Psychome-\\ntrists rarely if ever go into trances to produce\\ntheir phenomena; they simply become passive\\nand sensitive to the vibratory emanations from\\nobjects.\\nOne evening I placed a little souvenir from\\nNiagara Falls into the hand of a young lady\\nSensitive and asked her to tell us what impres-\\nsions she felt.\\nIt is cold and wet, she said, shivering. The\\nwater comes down in such great volumes that it\\nroars like thunder and its spray is making me\\nwet, and she drew her skirts about her as if\\nshe were actually being sprinkled by the spray.\\nAnd then she went on and gave a description\\nof the Falls that anyone who had seen them\\nwould have recognized at once. She spoke as if\\nshe were on the Canadian side below the Great\\nHorseshoe Fall, and told of the great height", "height": "3602", "width": "2442", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0143.jp2"}, "144": {"fulltext": "144 THE PSYCHIC AND PSYCHISM.\\nfrom which the water fell and the boiling, seeth-\\ning vortex into which it plunged. I told her\\nthat she would remember the experience after\\nshe came out of the hypnosis, and when she\\ncame out of it she said it was a most realistic\\nexperience.\\nSome months later she paid a visit to Niagara\\nFalls and at my advice went to the place where\\nshe seemed to be standing in her hypnotic ex-\\nperience, and subsequently assured me that the\\nscene from that point was quite familiar to her\\nand just what she had seen while in the hypnosis.\\nShe had never been to the Falls before the ex-\\nperiment, but I had, and it is possible that she\\ngot her information by telepathy from me, but\\nwherever she got the picture undoubtedly the\\nsouvenir had some psychometric influence and\\nat least called up the scene. Beside, other ex-\\nperiments proved her sensitiveness to such im-\\npressions.\\nMany other examples of psychometric power\\nare at hand and might be given, but they would\\nonly be repetitions of what has already been\\nstated and illustrated. However, there is an-\\nother phase of the subject which should not be\\nomitted, namely, the psychic atmosphere of\\ncountries. It is claimed by Psychometrists who\\nhave traveled widely that every country has its", "height": "3560", "width": "2442", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0144.jp2"}, "145": {"fulltext": "PSYCHOMETRY. 145\\ncharacteristic psychic atmosphere. Immediately\\nupon setting foot upon the soil of a country he\\nis impressed with its atmosphere. Frequently I\\nhave been informed that the psychometric im-\\npressions are quite different from what the po-\\nlitical and social conditions of the country would\\ngive to the ordinary observer.\\nIt would be interesting to have occasionally\\nthe psychometric readings of the various coun-\\ntries of the world in a published form so that\\nwe might compare them. America is thought\\nby many to stand first in psychic matters, but\\nit is only first in possibilities, not developments.\\nUndoubtedly a few of the foremost Psychics of\\nthe world are found in the United States, and\\nthey are the prophets of the future, but the na-\\ntion taken as a whole is sadly lacking. How-\\never, we are assured that America is the field\\nwhere the great battles of thought are to be\\nfought out. We are glad it is so\\nPsychometry deserves a fuller and better pre-\\nsentation, but it is impossible at present to make\\nmore than tentative statements. It needs and is\\nreceiving everywhere careful study and conscien-\\ntious students may be trusted to find and place\\nit upon its proper footing. Enough has already\\nbeen learned about it to make it certain that there\\nis much in it. Some go so far as to say that", "height": "3591", "width": "2271", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0145.jp2"}, "146": {"fulltext": "146 THE PSYCHIC AND PSYCHISM.\\neverything is in it, that it is the beginning of\\na new era, when man, like his Creator, shall be-\\ncome omniscient.\\nThe subconscious faculties, namely, Telepathy,\\nClairvoyance, Clairaudience and Psychometry,\\nare doors opening into the great store-house of\\nknowledge that were not dreamed of a few years\\nago. They seem to indicate a psychic develop-\\nment which points to the evolution of man to his\\nhighest possible perfection when he shall know\\neven as he is known by intuition or immediate\\nknowledge. Let us follow out these beginnings,\\ndevelop our latent powers, and become what it is\\nour privilege to be, Men.", "height": "3560", "width": "2541", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0146.jp2"}, "147": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER IX.\\nSLEEP AND DREAMS.\\nThe importance of the subject Sleep and Dreams com-\\nmon to man and animals The cause of errors\\nSleep Nature s sweet restorer Definitions\\nPhysiology versus Psychology in sleep Sleep a\\nsubconscious condition An experiment showing\\nthe relation of Sleep to Hypnosis The key to the\\nPhenomena of Sleep Dreams The ancient concep-\\ntion of Dreams The stuff that Dreams are made\\nof Dreams defined The causation of Dreams\\nPhysiologic Causes Psychologic causes An An-\\ncient illustration\u00e2\u0080\u0094 A Suggested Dream Telepathic\\nDreams A Clairvoyant Dream The influence of a\\nroom or place The meaning and value of Dreams\\nThe study of Dreams.\\nPsychic Research offers no subject for study\\nmore important or less understood than Sleep\\nand its phenomena. That men and animals peri-\\nodically lie down to rest and fall into somnolent\\nconditions has been observed by men from the\\nearliest times. It is only the unusual and myste-\\nrious that attracts much attention. Sleep was\\nnot sufficiently unusual to excite inquiry or mys-\\nterious enough to stimulate study. With Dreams\\n147", "height": "3591", "width": "2442", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0147.jp2"}, "148": {"fulltext": "148 THE PSYCHIC AND PSYCHISM.\\nit was different and so Sleep was overlooked\\nwhile the Dreams were wondered at. It was\\nmuch like neglecting to observe the foundation\\nin the admiration of the superstructure of the\\nbuilding; although the former is the condition\\nthat renders the latter possible. Let us make\\nno such blunder in the study of Sleep and\\nDreams. Let us first examine the foundation,\\nSleep, and then turn our attention to the super-\\nstructure, Dreams. The basis is\\nSLEEP.\\nSleep has been considered by most writers up\\nto date simply as a period of rest in which the\\nphysical organs and mental faculties pass into a\\nstate of relaxation and inactivity and has been\\nappropriately called nature s sweet restorer. It\\nhas been defined as a state of quiescence or som-\\nnolence, characterized by a condition of partial\\nor complete unconsciousness, in which the body\\nbecomes relaxed and the bodily functions greatly\\nreduced. This definition grew out of a physio-\\nlogic study in which the mind was considered\\nthe product of the brain. It was based upon the\\nobservation of a double nervous mechanism,\\nnamely, the voluntary, including the cerebro-\\nspinal axis, and the involuntary, including the\\nchains of sympathetic ganglia. And from their", "height": "3543", "width": "2442", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0148.jp2"}, "149": {"fulltext": "SLEEP AND DREAMS. 149\\nposition its definition served well enough, for\\nthey considered the involuntary or subconscious\\nactivities of the mind, reflex or automatic. With\\nthe psychologic study it is different, for it con-\\nsiders the brain the organ of the mind and recog-\\nnizes the duality of the mind. It is precisely in\\na failure to recognize this double consciousness\\nthat the old definitions fail. The fact of double\\nconsciousness has been explained and illustrated\\nin a previous chapter and may be referred to.\\nSleep is a state of bodily relaxation and quies-\\ncence, but not a condition of partial or complete\\nunconsciousness. That it is not an unconscious\\ncondition it is very easy to prove by calling at-\\ntention to the numerous instances on record\\nwhere difficult problems have been solved and\\nintricate plans for scientific work laid out\\nduring periods of profound sleep. It is a\\nsubconscious condition. It may be defined as\\na natural subconscious state similar to the in-\\nduced subconscious state, hypnosis. It should\\nbe recognized as a definite phase of personality\\nwith its distinctive characteristics and not sim-\\nply as an absence of waking activities as ft is so\\noften conceived. Natural and induced Sleep are\\nso similar that an understanding of one aids\\ngreatly in the understanding of the other. They\\ndiffer only in one particular, namely, attention.", "height": "3560", "width": "2289", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0149.jp2"}, "150": {"fulltext": "150 THE PSYCHIC AND PSYCHISM.\\nA person in natural Sleep attends to his own\\ncerebrations, that is, he is in rapport with him-\\nself while a person in hypnosis attends to the\\nsuggestions of the Hypnotist, that is, he is in\\nrapport with another. That attention is the only\\ndifference between natural and induced Sleep is\\nclearly shown by the following experiment\\nOne evening during my lecture a young lady\\nseated in a high-back easy chair fell asleep and\\nserved as an object lesson of what I had just been\\ntalking. I approached her and addressed her in\\na subdued tone of voice as follows\\nYou are having a restful nap and will not\\nawaken until I tell you to do so. You hear me\\nplainly and will understand and do what I com-\\nmand you.\\nThus I insinuated myself into her attention\\nwithout waking her and was able to make sug-\\ngestions to her just as I could have done if she\\nhad been hypnotized in the usual manner. She\\nresponded perfectly to every test of hypnosis. No\\nman can tell though he watch with the utmost\\ncare when a person passes from natural to in-\\nduced Sleep or the reverse.\\nAttention is the line of demarkation and\\nwhether one has that or not can only be told by\\naddressing the subject. Hypnotism adds one\\nmore to its long list of credits in furnishing the", "height": "3537", "width": "2442", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0150.jp2"}, "151": {"fulltext": "SLEEP AND DREAMS. 151\\nkey to the solution of the phenomena of Sleep.\\nThe knowledge that Sleep is a subconscious and\\nnot an unconscious state simplifies matters great-\\nly as will appear in the discussion of Dreams.\\nWe are now ready to pass to the consideration\\nof\\nDREAMS.\\nAnciently Dreams were considered to be earth-\\nly experiences with heavenly meanings, but the\\nfanciful conceptions of Dreams belong to the\\npast. Psychology recognizes that waking\\nthoughts and Dreams are similar phenomena.\\nWe Dream while awake and think while asleep.\\nThe waking experiences are properly called vis-\\nions, the sleeping ones, Dreams. The stuff that\\nDreams are made of is substantial although\\nfrequently incoherently joined together. Fancy\\nand imaginations play their parts in all states of\\nthe mind. In conscious state fantastic imagina-\\ntions are not wanting, but in Dreams and other\\nsubconscious states they are more common be-\\ncause the reasoning faculty and the will are set\\naside.\\nDreams may be defined as the subconscious\\nactivities of the mind during Sleep. They may\\nbe partially or completely remembered or they\\nmay be completely forgotten when the person\\nreturns to the waking consciousness. In this re-", "height": "3560", "width": "2291", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0151.jp2"}, "152": {"fulltext": "152 THE PSYCHIC AND PSYCHISM.\\nspect Dreams are like experiences had in hyp-\\nnosis. In the lighter states of hypnosis the sub-\\nject remembers more or less distinctly all of his\\nexperiences, but in the profound states amnesia\\nor forgetfulness of the experiences is the rule.\\nThe same is true of Sleep, the Dreams of a light\\nrestless Sleep are more or less clearly remem-\\nbered, but those experienced in profound Sleep\\nare often forgotten. The explanation is simple.\\nThe states of consciousness offer the explana-\\ntion. The experiences of the subconscious state\\nare with difficulty raised above the floor of ordi-\\nnary consciousness, so it is only the experiences\\nhad on the borderland of consciousness that are\\nwithin reach.\\nThe causations of Dreams are as numerous,\\nand the same as the causes of thought and it\\nshould be borne in mind that it is the same mind\\nthat is operating, no matter what state of con-\\nsciousness it is in. Thoughts are caused in two\\nways in the waking state and in like manner\\nDreams are caused in the same two ways during\\nSleep. The causes are Physiologic and Psy-\\nchologic. Let us consider them separately.\\nThe physiologic causes of Dreams are those\\nwhich reach the mind through the physical or-\\nganism. They may originate within or from\\nwithout the body. Those which have their or-", "height": "3542", "width": "2442", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0152.jp2"}, "153": {"fulltext": "SLEEP AND DREAMS. 153\\nigin within the body are generally due to uncom-\\nfortable or painful conditions. An overloaded\\nstomach, an uncomfortable bed and disease are\\nexamples of these causes. We have all had rest-\\nless, dreamful nights after eating a hearty sup-\\nper late. Soldiers and others obliged to sleep\\nupon the hard ground usually have Dreams this\\nexplains why it is that so many battle-field\\nDreams are recorded. Sometimes unsuspected\\ndiseases are revealed by the Dreams they cause.\\nThe Dreams that have their origin from physical\\nstimuli from without the body are those which\\ncome through the special senses. For example,\\na shot heard during sleep may cause the sleeper\\nto dream of an encounter with a burglar and of\\nfiring a shot at him. The whole Dream being\\nfabricated between the time of hearing the shot\\nand awaking, which was practically instantane-\\nous. It has been observed that time and space\\nin Dreams are inconsiderable, a moment of time\\nas we measure it is long enough for a sleeper\\nto dream long detailed experiences extending\\nover long stretches of time and space. Probably\\nthe same is true of those dreaming as occurs\\nwith persons drowning, in an instant of time the\\nwhole history of their past lives is flashed in\\nfull detail before the mind s eye. Exposure to\\nheat or cold will likewise cause Dreams.", "height": "3560", "width": "2260", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0153.jp2"}, "154": {"fulltext": "154 THE PSYCHIC AND PSYCHISM.\\nOne evening I made the following experiment\\nA fellow-student fell asleep on the couch in my\\nroom and I approached him while sleeping and\\nheld a lighted lamp near his face. He soon be-\\ncame restless and finally turned over, thus re-\\nmoving his face from the light and heat. After\\nreplacing the lamp upon the table I awakened\\nhim and asked him of what he had been dream-\\ning. He said that he had dreamed of a con-\\nflagration. It should be observed that the causal\\nrelationship of Dreams is not marked, especially\\nin those having their cause within the body.\\nTheir cause being discomfort they usually result\\nin distressful Dreams. More often those caused\\nby outside stimuli result in Dreams similar to the\\ncause; for example, music causes dreaming of\\nmusic.\\nThe Psychologic causes of Dreams are those\\nwhich reach the mind independently of the phys-\\nical organism. They may originate within or\\nfrom without the mind. Those which have their\\ncause within the mind have the same causation\\nas do thoughts in the waking state and are con-\\ntrolled by the association of ideas. Examples\\nof these are found in the various states of mind,\\nas in expectation, anxiety and fear. It is well\\nknown that expectation has much to do with\\nmany Dreams. The ancients knew this, and the", "height": "3553", "width": "2581", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0154.jp2"}, "155": {"fulltext": "SLEEP AND DREAMS. 155\\npriests used to instruct such persons to sleep\\non the floors of the temples, so that the gods\\nmight come to them in Sleep and tell them how\\nthey might be cured. The result was that fre-\\nquently the sufferers would Dream of remedies\\nsuch as were known to their untutored minds\\nand in the morning go and prepare the simples\\nof which they had dreamed, take them and re-\\ncover their health.\\nA lady who feared for the safety of a missing\\nbrother who had not been heard from for a long\\ntime dreamed three times at short intervals that\\nshe saw him dead, but a short time thereafter he\\nreturned alive and well. It appears that fear\\nand anxiety are fertile causes of Dreams and es-\\npecially of vague and unmeaning ones. The\\nvalue and meaning of Dreams will be considered\\npresently.\\nThose which have their causes from without\\nthe mind are due to Suggestion, Thought Trans-\\nference and the other supersensuous faculties.\\nThe briefest and best way to explain and illus-\\ntrate this class of Dreams will be to give exam-\\nples and experiments. Let us adopt that method.\\nSuggestion, especially Hypno-Suggestion, is\\nan important cause for dreaming because it fur-\\nnishes a means of study of the Dreams that it\\ncauses. I have frequently made experiments", "height": "3602", "width": "2442", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0155.jp2"}, "156": {"fulltext": "156 THE PSYCHIC AND PSYCHISM.\\nwith hypnotized persons similar to the following\\nA young man in hypnosis was told that he would\\nhave a peculiar Dream the following night, that\\nhe would dream that he was out in the woods in\\nthe winter time far away from civilization and\\nthat he was attacked by wolves, that .he escaped\\nfrom them by climbing a tree, and that he was\\nfinally rescued by an Indian girl. I saw him a\\nfew days later and he voluntarily told me of the\\nDream which he distinctly remembered as hav-\\ning occurred as detailed above. The converse\\nis also true. Those who are annoyed by grue-\\nsome and distressing Dreams may be relieved\\nfrom them by suggestion.\\nAutosuggestion, in like manner, is responsible\\nfor many Dream experiences indeed, many are\\nable to very accurately direct their dreaming. In\\nthis cause is found the explanation of many of\\nthe so-called astral exploits. These will be more\\nfully considered in the next chapter.\\nDoubtless the most fruitful cause for this class\\nof Dreams is Telepathy. In Sleep the subcon-\\nscious mind with its supersensuous intelligence\\ncatches the thought vibrations that come from all\\ndirections many of which find lodgment and set\\nup trains of dreaming. Sometimes they are\\nremembered as visual and at other times audi-\\ntory experiences. The visual type is shown in", "height": "3545", "width": "2536", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0156.jp2"}, "157": {"fulltext": "SLEEP AND DREAMS. 157\\nthe well-known experience of the English gentle*\\nman, which is as follows:\\nOne evening he fell asleep upon a couch and\\nwhile he slept he seemed to see his brother sit-\\nting upon a chair beside the couch. He was\\nsurprised at seeing him there and spoke to him\\nwhereupon the brother nodded his head and dis-\\nappeared. The Dream so startled him that he\\nawoke and his brother s presence seemed so real\\nthat he hunted about the house to find him, but\\nbeing unable to do so gave up the search and\\nwent to bed. Subsequently he learned that his\\nbrother had been thrown from a horse while\\nhunting a little prior to the Dream, sustaining\\ninjuries from which he soon died.\\nAn example of the telepathic experiences in\\nwhich the thought took on an auditory character\\noccurred in my own family. One morning my\\nmother told us at the breakfast table that she\\nhad had a strange Dream the night before. While\\nasleep she had distinctly heard the voice of my\\nabsent brother call Mother! Mother! and it\\nhad so startled her as to awaken her. She was\\nmuch worried about the experience and with rea-\\nson for a few days later my brother was brought\\nhome suffering from typhoid fever. Sick in a\\nstrange city, he had wanted her and undoubtedly\\nuttered the words which my mother heard. Pos-\\nsibly this is a case of Clairaudience.", "height": "3594", "width": "2442", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0157.jp2"}, "158": {"fulltext": "158 THE PSYCHIC AND PSVCHISM.\\nClairvoyant Dreams are not uncommon with\\nsome people, perhaps many Dreams are due to\\nthat cause. Here is the example of one which\\ncame under my notice. About a year ago a lady\\nvisiting in this city, during an afternoon nap\\ndreamed that she saw an accident happen to her\\nchildren, whom she had left at home in the care\\nof her sister. In her Sleep she seemed to see\\nthem at their play and as they chased each other\\nthrough the house both of them fell through an\\nopen cellar door. As she saw them disappear\\nthrough the door she awakened with a sudden\\nscream. When her friends who heard her scream\\nasked her the cause of it she told trfem of her\\nDream. Later it developed that the children haO\\nfallen into the cellar just as she had seen them\\nin her Dream, but fortunately they were neither\\nof them much hurt.\\nI have observed that surrounding psychic\\natmosphere may cause psychometric Dreams.\\nThe receptive dream consciousness catches the\\npsychic atmosphere of the room or place. The\\nfollowing experience was told me confidentially\\nby one of my patients On the first of May, like\\nmany of our good people, he had moved into a\\nstrange house, and before they had gotten fairly\\nsettled he had a series of Dreams. Almost every\\nnight he had a most realistic Dream in which he\\nseemed to see a middle-aged lady walking up and", "height": "3546", "width": "2561", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0158.jp2"}, "159": {"fulltext": "SLEEP AND DREAMS.\\n159\\ndown the room wringing her hands or running\\nthem frantically through her hair as though she\\nwere almost beside herself with anxiety and grief.\\nThis occurred several times, but after the room\\nwas repainted and papered the Dreams ceased.\\nI was much interested and after careful inquiry\\nlearned that the room had been occupied by a\\nmother who was almost distracted by the run-\\nning away of her young lady daughter.\\nMany other classes of Dreams are found in\\nworks on this subject. Some of them more\\nstrange and inexplicable than those recorded\\nabove. Among these are prophetic Dreams,\\nmuch of which has been written, much I am\\nafraid that is untrue. It has been my aim to\\nwrite of the things that I know something about.\\nThis is not prophetic Dreams. Not a little time\\nhas been given to the study of such Dreams, but\\nwithout reaching a position of probability, not\\nto say certainty concerning them. The evidence\\nsubmitted is unsatisfactory and inconclusive and\\nI have had no first hand experience with them.\\nNo one would like to believe in prophecy more\\nthan I, but in my judgment the future is a sealed\\nbook only known as it becomes the present.\\nSomething more will be said of prescience in the\\nclosing chapter.\\nThe meaning and value of Dreams are subjects", "height": "3604", "width": "2442", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0159.jp2"}, "160": {"fulltext": "160 THE PSYCHIC AND PSYCHISM.\\nthat need careful consideration. It is plain that\\nthe old scientific statement that all Dreams are\\nprofitless is not true. For while it is doubtless\\ntrue that many Dreams are vain, fanciful, inco-\\nherent fabrications, it is equally true that some\\nDreams accurately record the truth. It is wrong\\nto consider every Dream a Divine revelation, but\\nit is quite as wrong to consider every Dream\\na meaningless fancy. Discrimination must be\\nmade and happy the one who has learned rightly\\nto discriminate. Each one must study his own\\nDreams if he would know what they mean. The\\nquestion is frequently asked, How may we\\nstudy our Dreams? It is a difficult question\\nand I have often put it to others. Let me give\\none of the answers received.\\nAn old gentleman friend of mine who knows\\nmuch about Dreams told me his method of study.\\nOn awaking in the morning before moving or\\neven opening his eyes, he used to spend a little\\ntime recalling the Dreams of the previous night.\\nHe found that by so doing he was able to get\\nhold of the final end of his dreaming which he\\nwas enabled to unravel by following back the\\nchain of dream ideas and experiences. Others\\nwho have used this method have found it useful\\nand I offer it for what it is worth.\\nDreams are usually soon forgotten because", "height": "3547", "width": "2534", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0160.jp2"}, "161": {"fulltext": "SLEEP AND DREAMS. 161\\nthey are subconscious experiences and tend to\\nsink back below the floor of waking conscious-\\nness even when partially above it. The above\\nmethod will aid in bringing them into distinct\\nand conscious memory. Another aid in remem-\\nbering Dreams is the use of suggestion. Hyp-\\nnotized subjects can readily be made to recall for-\\ngotten Dreams and by posthypnotic suggestion\\nenabled to remember future Dream experiences.\\nBy autosuggestion one may do for himself all\\nthat can be done for him by another. Many per-\\nsons by repeated autosuggestions have become\\nable to remember practically all of their dream\\nexperiences. A friend told me that he found\\nmuch pleasure daily in recalling and studying\\nthe Dreams of the previous night. It is hoped\\nthat enough has been said above to stimulate a\\nrenewed interest in Dreams in the minds of my\\nreaders. The study of Dreams cannot fail to be\\ninteresting and profitable. The vagaries of the\\npast must give place to the facts of the future.\\nLet us pass on to the subject of Somnambulism\\nand Trances.", "height": "3603", "width": "2442", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0161.jp2"}, "162": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3551", "width": "2533", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0162.jp2"}, "163": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER X.\\nSOMNAMBULISM AND TRANCES.\\nThe Subconscious States The Eastern classifications\\nof them Somnambulism It belongs to the phe-\\nnomena of Sleep Definition Natural Somnam-\\nbulism Two examples of Sleep-walking Professor\\nMcClure s opinion Morbid Somnambulism The\\ncase of a French lady Artificial Somnambulism\\nHypnotic experiments The power of divination\\nAmnesia Trances Kinds of Trances Definition\\nSpontaneous Trances Wrapped into visions\\nAutotrances They are self-induced and self-\\nlimited The profound Trances of the Yogis\\nHarides test Trances and Theosophy The Eng-\\nlish Teacher Induced Trances Suggestion in\\nTrances The unreliability of Trance revelations\\nSpiritistic Trances Mediums hypnotized by Spirits\\nDoes the soul leave the body?\\nThe subconscious states of mind include two\\nmore, Somnambulism and Trances, similar to\\nSleep, which demand a brief discussion. In our\\ndiscussions the states of consciousness have been\\nconsidered as including two groups, namely,\\nconscious and subconscious conditions. Every-\\nthing beyond the limit of ordinary consciousness\\n163", "height": "3599", "width": "2442", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0163.jp2"}, "164": {"fulltext": "164 THE PSYCHIC AND PSYCHISM.\\nhas been grouped under the subconscious divi-\\nsions. The Eastern teachers and philosophers\\nand those who follow them make a three-fold\\nclassification of consciousness as follows: i.\\nSubconscious; 2. Conscious, and 3. Supercon-\\nscious states. Because animals in common with\\nman pass into some subconscious states as Sleep\\nthey consider such states as below ordinary con-\\nsciousness and hence call them subconscious to\\ndifferentiate them from states that seem to be\\nabove the plane of ordinary consciousness which\\nthey call superconscious. The distinction is\\nrather artificial than real and of no particular aid\\nin understanding the phenomena under consid-\\neration. Somnambulism and Trances are dis-\\ntinct subconscious, although similar states, and\\nwill be discussed separately. Let us first con-\\nsider\\nSOMNAMBULISM.\\nSomnembulism belongs to the phenomena of\\nsleep and may be defined as a state of mind, oc-\\ncuring during sleep, which causes or favors the\\nperformance of actions peculiar to the waking\\nstate, as walking, talking, working and the like.\\nIt is commonly known as sleep-walking because\\nthe persun arises from his bed during sleep and\\noften, leaving the house by a window or door,", "height": "3540", "width": "2442", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0164.jp2"}, "165": {"fulltext": "SOMNAMBULISM AND TRANCES. 165\\ngoes out upon the street. There are three types\\nof Somnambulism recognized depending upon\\nthe causes. They are: i. Natural. 2. Morbid.\\n3. Artificial Somnambulism.\\nNATURAL SOMNAMBULISM.\\nNatural Somnambulism occurs during natural\\nsleep, that is, it is preceded and followed by sleep.\\nThe cause appears to be a condition of mind sim-\\nilar to dreaming, with this difference, that the\\nSomnambulist carries his dreams into action. If\\nhe remembers the occurrence as he sometimes\\ndoes the dreaming and doing are so blended that\\nthe whole is to him simply a dream. However,\\nthe rule is forgetfulness or amnesia and he only\\nknows of his exploits by the testimony of others\\ntogether with the evidences that remain of what\\nhe did during the subconscious state. The fol-\\nlowing is a fair example of natural Somnambu-\\nlism:\\nOne night recently in my own home, a twelve-\\nyear-old girl arose from her bed while asleep\\nand went to the window and tried to open it. She\\nwas heard while trying to open the window and\\nasked what she was doing.\\nI am trying to open the window, she said.\\nWhat do you want to open the window for\\nwas asked.", "height": "3597", "width": "2442", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0165.jp2"}, "166": {"fulltext": "166 THE PSYCHIC AND PSYCHISM.\\nI have four fours in my mind ana want to\\nthrow one of them away, was the reply.\\nShe had been playing cards before going to\\nbed and evidently had fallen asleep while think-\\ning of the game, with the result that she dreamed\\nof playing cards and carried the dream into\\naction as described above.\\nShe was called to the bedside by the lady who\\nslept in the same room and further questioned.\\nThe child declared that she was awake and pro-\\ntested when shaken for the purpose of waking\\nher. It was impossible to wake her and so she\\nwas sent back to her own bed. She got into bed\\nand was directed to cover herself up well, which\\nshe did.\\nAre you awake? was asked.\\nYes, of course I am awake, she answered,\\npetulantly.\\nWhat have you got in your hand? she was\\nthen asked.\\nFour fours, was the prompt reply.\\nThe above case is interesting in several par-\\nticulars. It illustrates the persistence of the idea\\nwhich dominates the Somnambulist and acts as\\na suggestion in directing his action. It also il-\\nlustrates a fact that is somewhat unusual, name-\\nly, the Somnambulist may respond to questions\\nwhile sleep-walking. Moreover, it illustrates the", "height": "3526", "width": "2442", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0166.jp2"}, "167": {"fulltext": "SOMNAMBULISM AND TRANCES. 167\\nfact of forgetfulness which is common to most\\ncases, for in the morning the girl had no memory\\nof her experience of the night before. Let me\\ncite another recent case:\\nUnable to remember how he reached his des-\\ntination, or when he had begun his midnight\\njourney, a student at the Lake Forest academy\\nwho retired to his bed in the academy dormitory\\nwith rheumatism Friday afternoon, awoke Satur-\\nday morning to find himself sixteen miles distant,\\nwrapped in blankets, lying on the seat of his\\nfather s carriage in the stable in the rear of his\\nhome at Loon Lake, Wis.\\nWith the exception of 15 cents with which the\\nstudent is supposed to have paid his carfare from\\nLake Forest to Waukegan, nothing of value in\\nhis pockets had been disturbed.\\nPresident McClure of the Lake Forest uni-\\nversity said\\nThe strange actions of the student have been\\nthe cause of considerable excitement among\\nmembers of the faculty. There is no doubt that\\nhe walked from Waukegan to his home in a semi-\\nconscious condition. It is my opinion that it\\nwas a peculiar case of Somnambulism, although\\nhe had been sick and may have been brought to\\nan unconscious state on this account/\\nThe Somnambulist often performs unusual", "height": "3600", "width": "2442", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0167.jp2"}, "168": {"fulltext": "168 THE PSYCHIC AND PSYCHISM.\\nfeats such as would be impossible in his natural\\nstate. He climbs to dizzy heights and walks\\nwith ease and certainty of step, if undisturbed,\\nmarvelous to behold. Not only are his physical\\nabilities increased, but this increase is even more\\nmarked in his mental power. Many examples\\nhave been recorded illustrating the heightened\\npowers of mind. Not infrequently Somnambu-\\nlists work out problems which have baffled them\\nin their waking hours and do literary work of a\\nsurprising character. The sense perceptions are\\nso acute that we are led to believe that the Som-\\nnambulist depends upon his supersensuous fac-\\nulties in many of his feats.\\nMORBID SOMNAMBULISM.\\nMorbid Somnambulism occurs during patho-\\nlogic conditions. While it is spontaneous in\\ncharacter it differs from Somnambulism in oc-\\ncuring independently of sleep. It is an exalted\\nstate of mind in which the soul stimulates the or-\\nganism, which is weakened by disease, into un-\\nusual activities. Ideas take possession of the\\nmind, as in natural Somnambulism, causing\\ndreams which are carried into action, if the pa-\\ntient is not restrained. The exaltation of mind\\nis similar to that which precedes certain forms of\\ninsanity. The hallucinations are very persistent,", "height": "3560", "width": "2532", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0168.jp2"}, "169": {"fulltext": "SOMNAMBULISM AND TRANCES. 169\\nin some cases lasting for weeks with lucid pe-\\nriods. Unusual keenness of perception is the\\nrule and as in other forms of Somnambulism un-\\nusual physical and mental feats are performed.\\nA discussion of disease conditions is beyond the\\nscope of this work. So no more need be said\\nupon this topic however, a single example may\\nbe given.\\nA French young lady with hysteric tendencies\\none night awakened her maid, sleeping in the\\nnext room, by moans and faint cries. She was\\nfound by the maid crouching upon the floor be-\\nhind a large easy chair and declared when ques-\\ntioned that a man had been in the room and\\nbeaten her. Then she ran to the window and de-\\nclared that she could see him going down the\\nstreet, although no one was visible to the maid,\\nwho was standing beside her. On the following\\nday she told the story of the assault with full de-\\ntails and named a young man acquaintance as\\nthe assailant. She even exhibited ecchymosed\\nspots and bruises as evidence of the blows she\\nhad received. The whole affair was proven to\\nbe the hallucination of a Somnambulist. The\\ndiscoloration and bruises were doubtless pro-\\nduced by the influence of the mind, as many sim-\\nilar conditions are on record. Sometimes Som-\\nnambulists of this class have accused innocent", "height": "3615", "width": "2337", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0169.jp2"}, "170": {"fulltext": "170 THE PSYCHIC AND PSYCHISM.\\npersons of serious offenses while dominated by\\nsuch hallucinations. The accused have sonic-\\ntimes found it difficult to exonerate themselves\\nbecause of the persistent and apparently honest\\ntestimony of the accuser.\\nARTIFICIAL SOMNAMBULISM.\\nArtificial Somnambulism differs from the for-\\nmer varieties, in that it is induced by another\\nperson. Hypnotic Somnambulism furnishes a\\nmeans for the study and understanding of nat-\\nural and morbid Somnambulism, for it is pro-\\nduced at will and may be carefully studied. It\\nincludes all of the phenomena peculiar to those\\nvarieties and differs from them only in the tact\\nthat it is produced by artificial means. The pei-\\nson passes into the subconscious state in which\\nhe is dominated by ideas not suggested by the\\ndream consciousness, or a morbid state of mind,\\nbut by the person who has hypnotized him. An\\nexample will be the easiest way to make this\\nplain.\\nA young man was hypnotized and readily\\npassed into a somnambulic state, in which it was\\npossible to easily produce all of the phenomena\\nobserved in Somnambulism. He exhibited un-\\nusual physical powers and walked, talked and\\nperformed feats as directed. Upon receiving the", "height": "3560", "width": "2532", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0170.jp2"}, "171": {"fulltext": "SOMNAMBULISM AND TRANCES. 171\\nsuggestion that he was fishing, he went through\\nall of the motions of fishing, using a cane for a\\nfish pole. When given the suggestion that he\\nwas a noted musician he went to the piano and\\nplayed music that he was unable to execute while\\nhe was awake. Upon receiving the suggestion\\nthat he was the Mayor of the city and was presid-\\ning at a meeting of the city council, he arose and\\noutlined his policy as Mayor, in a dignified and\\nimpressive manner. When given the suggestion\\nthat the house was on fire he opened the window\\nand prepared to descend to the ground by means\\nof the fire escape. He was handed a glove and\\nasked to tell to whom it belonged by the sense ot\\nsmell and readily did so by passing along the\\nline formed of the persons present smelling of\\ntheir hands one after another. Many other ex-\\nperiments were made with this subject, but space\\nforbids the multiplication of details. In short, he\\nshowed conclusively that his mind was in a state\\nof exaltation which rendered his perceptive pow-\\ners unusually acute.\\nThe Hypnotic Somnambulist can readily duplf-\\ncate any of the feats performed by those in states\\nof natural or morbid Somnambulism and he\\nthereby offers the key to the solution and un-\\nderstanding of their phenomena. A study of all\\nof the phenomena of hypnosis is necessary to a", "height": "3609", "width": "2442", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0171.jp2"}, "172": {"fulltext": "172 THE PSYCHIC AND PSYCHISM.\\nthorough understanding of the subject and the\\nreader is advised to make such a study, but it\\nmust be made in books devoted to a considera-\\ntion of Hypnotism. Space forbids an extended\\ndiscussion here. However, the statement of a\\nfew conclusions may be made.\\nThe power of divination exhibited by Som-\\nnambulists is probably due to their unusual keen-\\nness of perception which enables them to reason\\nfrom a larger body of evidence than is at their\\ncommand while awake. Undoubtedly they often\\nare able to use their supersensuous faculties in\\nseeing, hearing and knowing things beyond the\\nrange of the physical senses which proves the\\nSomnambulist to be a Psychic.\\nAmnesia or forgetfulness of experiences had\\nduring Somnambulism is the rule, but in subse-\\nquent states of Somnambulism the memory is\\nrestored. This seems to show that the mem-\\nories remain below the floor of ordinary con-\\nsciousness when a person returns to the normal\\nstate. Artificial Somnambulists may be made to\\nremember all of their experiences by suggestion,\\nwhich seems to prove that the memories are in\\nthe mind, but beyond the reach of the ordinary\\nconsciousness.\\nThe close relationship between Artificial Som-\\nnambulism and Trances will appear as we discuss", "height": "3560", "width": "2547", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0172.jp2"}, "173": {"fulltext": "SOMNAMBULISM AND TRANCES. 173\\nthe latter. In both, Hypnotism furnishes the\\nclue which enables us to understand them. Let\\nus now turn our attention to\\nTRANCES.\\nTrances occur under several conditions, but in\\ngeneral they are much alike and may be grouped\\nunder one definition. However, the old idea\\nthat they are unconscious states must be aban-\\ndoned, for they are not unconscious but subcon-\\nscious states in which the body is usually relaxed\\nand its functional activities greatly depressed.\\nProlonged, profound natural sleep from which\\na person cannot be awakened is sometimes called\\na Trance, but while it exhibits most of the char-\\nacteristics of a Trance, strictly speaking it is not\\none; it is truly a trance-like sleep. The soul is\\nthought by some to leave the body during\\nTrances, but this is probably untrue.\\nA Trance is a subconscious state, in which a\\nperson appears insensible to the external sur-\\nroundings, and in which the volitional powers\\nand vital functions are greatly lowered or sus-\\npended. It may be greatly prolonged and simu-\\nlate death. Three varieties of Trances are ob-\\nserved, depending upon their causation, namely:\\nI. Spontaneous. 2. Self-induced or auto and 3.\\nInduced Trances. These will be considered sep-\\narately.", "height": "3599", "width": "2442", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0173.jp2"}, "174": {"fulltext": "174 THE PSYCHIC AND PSYCHISM.\\nSPONTANEOUS TRANCES.\\nSpontaneous Trances occur under various\\nconditions, but chiefly in hysterical persons. The\\ncauses are not well known, but are probably the\\nsame as those which produce the hysterical neu-\\nrosis. They result from spontaneous changes in\\nthe mind similar to those which occur in pro-\\nfound hypnosis, so they must result from psychic\\ncauses. They could hardly be called disease con-\\nditions, although they frequently occur after pro-\\nlonged illnesses, as after typhoid fever. They\\nmay last from a few hours to several months.\\nThe appearance of a person in a Trance is char-\\nacteristic and marked, the face is usually pale and\\nexpressionless, the body relaxed and the bodily\\nfunctions greatly lowered. The pulse and res-\\npiration are barely perceptible and sometimes ap-\\nparently suspended. In pronounced cases there\\nseems to be a suspension of animation and death\\nis simulated so closely that in such cases persons\\nhave been buried alive.\\nEntranced persons are said to be wrapped\\ninto visions and while in that state receive rev-\\nelations from various spirit sources, divine or\\notherwise. Upon such visions and regulations\\nmost of the religions of the world are founded.\\nThe Apostle John on the Island of Patmos is a\\ngood example of such experiences. The visions", "height": "3557", "width": "2536", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0174.jp2"}, "175": {"fulltext": "SOMNAMBULISM AND TRANCES. 175\\nand revelations are remembered upon returning\\nto the normal state with unusual vividness which\\nfavors their being recorded with full details. Sim-\\nilar experiences occur in the other forms of\\nTrances, so their source, meaning and value will\\nbe considered presently. In the milder forms of\\nspontaneous Trances a person may be conscious\\nof his external surroundings but unable even to\\nmove an eyelid, to express his consciousness, to\\nthose about him. However, this is exceptional,\\nfor usually they are plunged into profound syn-\\ncope, which instead of the lethargic stupor a\\ntonic spasm of the muscles occurs producing\\nwhat is known as the Cataleptic Trance. It will\\nappear that the trance conditions described\\nabove are all duplicated in the profounder states\\nof hypnosis, which offers explanations of them.\\nThis will become more manifest as we proceed.\\nAUTOTRANCES.\\nAutotrances are self-induced subconscious\\nstates in which the sensibilities and vital func-\\ntions are greatly reduced or suspended. As they\\nare self-induced, so Ihey are self-limited except\\nin the more extreme cases where it is necessary\\nto have others aid in the resuscitation. Two\\ntypes of the self-induced Trances are observed,\\nnamely, the profound types induced by the Yogis", "height": "3596", "width": "2442", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0175.jp2"}, "176": {"fulltext": "176 THE PSYCHIC AND PSYCHISM.\\nin their practice and the milder type induced by\\nthe searchers after the wisdom of God, and\\nothers.\\nThe profound type of Autotrance is well illus-\\ntrated in the well-known case of the Yogi Har-\\nides in his experiment made to convince the Ra-\\njah of Lahore, who was skeptical of the Yogi s\\npower. The experiment was witnessed and\\nvouched for by Doctor Honigberger. The Yogi\\nhad a cell prepared and accustomed himself to\\nremain in it without air for longer and longer\\nperiods of time until he was ready for the test,\\nwhich was to be buried in a closed and sealed\\ngrave for six weeks.\\nOn the day set for the initiation of the test\\na large company of spectators was assembled\\nand the Rajah was present to superintend the ai-\\nrangements. Harides seated himself upon a\\nlinen sheet to be used as a shroud, forced his\\ntongue back into the pharynx, fixed his eyes\\nupon the end of his nose and fell into a Trance.\\nThen the attendants, after placing pledgets of\\ncotton smeared with wax into his ears and nos-\\ntrils, gathered up the corners of the sheet, tied\\nand sealed them with the Rajah s seal and placed\\nthe Yogi into a wooden box, three by four feet,\\nand lowered him into the cement grave which\\nhad been prepared for the occasion. The grave", "height": "3560", "width": "2442", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0176.jp2"}, "177": {"fulltext": "SOMNAMBULISM AND TRANCES. 177\\nwhich was three feet below the surface of the\\nground, was then covered over with clay and a\\nguard set to watch it during the six weeks of\\nthe trial. Many religious devotees from all parts\\nof the country camped about the place.\\nAt the end of the six weeks Harides was dis-\\ninterred. The seals upon the box and the sheet\\nwere unbroken and in the presence of the Rajah\\nthe Yogi was released from his coffin and shroud.\\nHe was found to be in the same position as when\\nplaced there, except that his head had fallen over\\nupon one shoulder. The resuscitation was con-\\nducted by his disciples, who applied hot applica-\\ntions to his head and body, pulled his tongue\\nforward into its normal position and rubbed his\\nlimbs. After a short time a tremor passed over\\nhis body, which appeared shriveled, cold and life-\\nless, and a little later he opened his eyes, which\\nsoon lost the lusterless appearance of death and\\nregained their brightness. Upon recognizing\\nthe Rajah his lips moved and he asked, Do you\\nbelieve me now?\\nThe experiment was a success and later Har-\\nides allowed himself to be buried again, this time\\nfor four months, and was again resuscitated in\\nthe same manner.\\nThe example must speak for itself we can but\\nwonder at the marvelous control of body and", "height": "3590", "width": "2442", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0177.jp2"}, "178": {"fulltext": "178 THE PSYCHIC AND PSYCHISM.\\nmind developed by the Yogi. The second type\\nof Autotrances, or as we might properly call\\nthem Autohypnoses, are well shown in the ex-\\nperiments made by the Theosophist and others.\\nThey attempt and believe that they succeed in\\nverifying the teachings of the ancients by falling\\ninto such Trances.\\nThe founder of that cult, Madam Blavatsky,\\nwith a coterie of followers went to the Far-East\\nto find the Mahatmas of whom they had heard.\\nThey found and obtained from them the An-\\ncient Wisdom of God, a body of truth said to\\nbe fundamental to all religions. The Mahatmas\\ntold them not to accept it on their testimony\\nbut to prove it for themselves; this, they say,\\nthey did. Let one of their teachers, a gentleman\\nwho recently came from England to teach us\\nbenighted Americans, explain how they did it.\\nThe people who were so fortunate as to suc-\\nceed in this quest were at once placed in the posi-\\ntion of being able to make a number of exceed-\\ningly interesting investigations. A group of\\nthem worked together for several years, steadily\\nobserving, comparing notes, checking every-\\nthing, trying everything again and again in all\\nsorts of different ways investigating, in fact,\\njust precisely as we should investigate any other\\nscience which we happened to take in hand. That", "height": "3557", "width": "2533", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0178.jp2"}, "179": {"fulltext": "SOMNAMBULISM AND TRANCES. 179\\ngroup of people would meet and select their sub-\\nject; they would then go away to their homes,\\nand while in the state of Trance or deep sleep,\\nwhich is really a state of excitation of the higher\\nfaculties, they would all make their separate ob-\\nservations, would write them down and make\\nnotes of them when they woke. Then at the\\nnext meeting of that group all these people from\\ndifferent places would bring their notes together\\nand compare them, and nothing was ever allowed\\nto enter into the Theosophical teaching of that\\nperiod as emanating from that group which\\nrested on the testimony of any one person, or\\neven, I think I may say, of any two. Always\\nthere was a concurrence of the testimony of\\nthose who had made the same investigation and\\napproached it from their own different point of\\nview, and nothing to which all engaged did not\\nagree was put into the books which were pub-\\nlished, as the transaction of the Lodge. -You\\nmay, perhaps, say the whole thing is simply hal-\\nlucination. But at least you must give credit\\ntoihe people who undertook that labor (spend-\\ning sometimes two years in work before they\\nturned out a single book) for at least doing their\\nbest not to deceive, and to make certain that\\nwhat they teach and put before the world shall be\\nverified as far as it is in their power to verify it.", "height": "3560", "width": "2284", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0179.jp2"}, "180": {"fulltext": "180 THE PSYCHIC AND PSYCHISM.\\nThe manner of the experiments made by the\\nmembers of the society is given here chiefly to\\nillustrate the subject under discussion and will\\nbe referred to again presently. It is manifest\\nthat their trance experiences are similar to those\\nhad by persons known as Trance Mediums,\\nwho profess to see visions and receive revelations\\nfrom the spirit world. It seems to me and I\\nhave given the matter some study, that the spirit\\nmediums are self-entranced, or, to be perfectly\\nplain, self-hypnotized. The phenomena they\\nproduce closely resemble those produced by hyp-\\nnotized persons and result from autosuggestions.\\nThey are probably self-deceived and not con-\\nsciously deceiving others. This subject will be\\ndiscussed in some detail in the next chapter.\\nINDUCED TRANCES.\\nInduced Trances include beside those self-in-\\nduced those induced by others. These are com-\\nmonly known as Hypnotic Trances and are sim-\\nply the deeper states of hypnosis. Any one ac-\\nquainted with the phenomena of hypnosis will\\nreadily recognize that in them we find the ex-\\nplanation of all Trances. The uncertainty found\\nin the vision and revelation of Hypnotic Trances\\nare likewise observed in the other Trances. This", "height": "3548", "width": "2442", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0180.jp2"}, "181": {"fulltext": "iOMNAMBULISM AND TRANCES. 181\\nexplains why it is that trance visions and revela-\\ntions are to say the least unreliable.\\nPersons in subconscious states are phenom-\\nenally impressionable. The least sign or hint\\nwill serve as a suggestion which will color the\\nwhole experience. It is well known that the\\nleast hint, often unintentionally given, will be ac-\\ncepted and acted upon by the hypnotized per-\\nson. In like manner persons self-hypnotized\\nor self-entranced are directed by autosuggestion\\noften unintentionally given. A fear, a hope, an\\nexpectation or a desire will and often does direct\\nthe experiences and results of a self-induced\\nTrance. Beside, the environment of which the\\nentranced person seems to be insensible is an\\nimportant factor in producing phenomena. Any\\none consulting an entranced person by asking\\nleading questions can obtain almost any informa-\\ntion they desire. Not infrequently I have\\nobtained absolutely contradictory statements\\nduring the same sitting.\\nSpirit mediums deny that they are self-en-\\ntranced and insist that they are controlled by ex-\\ncarnate spirits. The idea has lately been sug-\\ngested that spirits control or entrance mediums\\nin the same manner that persons control or hyp-\\nnotize each other; this is a clever notion and\\nwas introduced, no doubt, to answer us who be-", "height": "3589", "width": "2342", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0181.jp2"}, "182": {"fulltext": "182 THE PSYCHIC AND PSYCHISM.\\nlieve we see autohypnosis in the state known as\\nspirit control.\\nThe unreliability of the experiments conducted\\nby those trying to verify the teachings of the\\nMahatmas by Trance and dream conditions is\\nmanifest. Such verifications are no verifications\\nat all, for the autosuggestions dominating the\\nmind of investigators will prevent any reliable\\nresults, which will be little better than meaning-\\nless hallucinations. They will obtain what they\\nexpect to obtain whether it is real or unreal, true\\nor false. The gentleman from England evidently\\nsuspected this when he said, You must give\\ncredit to the people who undertook that labor at\\nleast for doing their best not to deceive.\\nThe prophetic utterances, visions and revela-\\ntions of Somnambulism and Trances must be\\nverified, just as carefully as the phenomena of\\nhypnosis, before they can demand serious at-\\ntention. About a century ago the Hypnotized\\nor Mesmerized subject was supposed to have\\nsupernatural power and their utterances, visions\\nand revelations were considered infallible, as I\\nhave said in another writing on that subject,\\nMind and Body.\\nThey could see through persons and tell what\\nparts were affected they could predict the fu-\\nture; they could go in spirit to distant places", "height": "3551", "width": "2442", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0182.jp2"}, "183": {"fulltext": "SOMNAMBULISM AND TRANCES. 183\\nand bring back information about persons and\\nthings; they could visit heaven and converse\\nwith God and the angels upon the reports of\\nsuch visits a large volume was written describ-\\ning heaven and its arrangement and manage-\\nment.\\nIt was soon found that the supposed departure\\nof the soul from the body during hypnosis to-\\ngether with most of the revelations were fictions\\nresulting from an exalted state of mind in which\\nthe persons were dominated by suggestion. It\\nis likely that the utterances, visions and revela-\\ntions of Somnambulism and Trances have a sim-\\nilar source and value. These will be considered\\nin greater detail in the next chapter, devoted to\\nthe phenomena of Spiritism.", "height": "3560", "width": "2354", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0183.jp2"}, "184": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3531", "width": "2442", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0184.jp2"}, "185": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XL\\nSPIRITISM.\\nThe interest in the subject Spiritism defined Its re-\\nlation to immortality The phenomena A list of\\nthe same Fraudulent Phenomena Genuine Phe-\\nnomena The means of the productions The\\nMedium Kinds of Mediums All Mediums Psy-\\nchics Going under control The manner of their\\nproduction The Seances Fortune Telling\\nThe Spiritistic circle Slate writing The messages\\nLevitations Materializations Explanations of\\nthe production Spiritists theory discarded Hal-\\nlucination and Telepathy This theory insufficient in\\nsome instances Indian fakirs The mind creation\\ntheory Thoughts are things Psychics can pro-\\nduce phantasms Witchcraft Some conclusions.\\nThe so-called spiritualistic phenomena have\\nstartled the peoples of all countries, in all ages,\\ncausing certain creepy sensations in the brave,\\nand terrifying the timid, by reason of their mys-\\ntery and grewsomeness. Death and its conse-\\nquences have ever had their terrors for the liv-\\ning, so phenomena purporting to be from the\\n185", "height": "3560", "width": "2442", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0185.jp2"}, "186": {"fulltext": "186 THE PSYCHIC AND PSYCHISM.\\ndead always find an interested audience. These\\nphenomena I have ventured to call the psychic\\nphenomena of Spiritualism, believing that all of\\nthe real phenomena have their source in the\\nminds of the living.\\nSpiritism may be defined as the belief and doc-\\ntrine that spirits of the dead communicate with\\nand manifest themselves in various ways to the\\nliving through Mediums at meetings called se-\\nances. The doctrine dates back many centuries,\\nbut what is known as Modern Spiritism is only\\na half century old. Spiritism is the antithesis of\\nmaterialism and teaches that there are substances\\nor beings not cognizable by the senses and not\\nrevealable through any of the properties of mat-\\nter, except by materialization, and that are there-\\nfore spiritual, as distinguished from material.\\nWhether these beliefs and doctrines are well\\nfounded or not remains to be proven and we sin-\\ncerely hope that definite proofs may soon be\\nforthcoming. Deep down in most of our hearts\\nnestles a belief in immortality together with the\\nfond hope of a future reunion with our loved\\nones gone before in a realm where all parting,\\npain and time shall disappear. However, beliefs\\nand hopes are not proofs and the purpose of this\\nstudy is to show that Spiritism, as defined above.\\nis not necessary to the explanation or produc-", "height": "3555", "width": "2533", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0186.jp2"}, "187": {"fulltext": "SPIRITISM. 187\\ntion of the so-called phenomena of Spiritism.\\nLet us study first\\nTHE PHENOMENA.\\nThe phenomena consist of various scratches,\\nraps, furniture movings, levitations, writings,\\nrevelations and materializations. But since all\\nof the phenomena reported are not genuine, it is\\nnecessary to sift and thoroughly eliminate the\\nfalse. However, this is no easy task, as every\\none who has tried it has very soon discovered.\\nThere is much fraud and imposition, and since it\\nis often impossible to verify the phenomena pro-\\nduced, it is difficult to say just how much wheat\\nthere is in the heap of chaff. Most of it depends\\nupon the testimony of Spiritists, and unfortu-\\nnately their testimony is often unreliable. They\\nare interested parties, generally prejudiced in the\\nmatter, and desirous of proving the truth of their\\ntheories. They are also notoriously credulous,\\nindeed they seem to want to be imposed upon\\nTheir conversion seems to be complete, and ever\\nafterward they swallow everything unquestion-\\ningly. The whale swallowing Jonah is put to\\nshame they would believe that Jonah swallowed\\nthe whale A prominent Spiritualist (Home) in\\nspeaking of their credulity, tells an experience he\\nhad. He was present at a semi-dark seance,", "height": "3560", "width": "2253", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0187.jp2"}, "188": {"fulltext": "188 THE PSYCHIC AND PSYCHISM.\\nwhere a cabinet medium was performing. A\\nface appeared at the window of the cabinet, and\\nhe called the attention of a person sitting beside\\nhim to the fact that the face was simply a mask\\nwithout eyes in the sockets whereupon this per-\\nson replied, The dear spirits have not had time\\nto materialize the eyes. He also expresses his\\ncontempt for all dark seances as opportunities to\\ndefraud, and gives many instances of imposition\\nand deception.\\nAfter we have thoroughly sifted the phenom-\\nena, and eliminated all that is manifestly fraudu-\\nlent, there still remains a considerable residuum\\nof apparently true phenomena. It seems that\\nraps do occur; certain revelations are made\\nwhich appear to transcend the ordinary intelli-\\ngence of man; written messages are received;\\nponderable bodies are levitated and some phan-\\ntasms are materialized. Now, have I granted\\nthe whole claim? Let us see. The source and\\ncauses of these phenomena still remain to be ex-\\nplained. There are but two possible explana-\\ntions, and only one of them is true. The phe-\\nnomena result from either supermundane agen-\\ncies or mundane influences. They are either mor-\\ntal or supermortal phenomena. Let us see if we\\ncan find out what is the truth. Stainton Moses,\\na noted Spiritist, says: They (Spiritists) start", "height": "3545", "width": "2553", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0188.jp2"}, "189": {"fulltext": "SPIRITISM. 189\\nwith a fallacy, namely, that all phenomena are\\ncaused by the action of departed human spirits.\\nThey have not looked into the powers of the hu-\\nman spirit they do not know the extent to which\\nspirit acts, how far it reaches, what it underlies.\\nThis is precisely the weakness of their whole\\nsystem, as will plainly appear as we proceed to\\nstudy.\\nTHE MEANS OF THE PRODUCTIONS.\\nMediums are the means of producing the so-\\ncalled spiritualistic phenomena, and without their\\naid none is produced. No Medium no phe-\\nnomena. A Medium is a person who stands\\nbetween the living and the dead. He is the\\none whose psychic force supplies the power the\\nspirit uses to produce the various phenomena.\\nThere is a vast number of different kinds of Me-\\ndiums. Their name is legion. They take their\\nnames from the various kinds of phenomena\\nproduced, as fortune tellers, slatewriters, trum-\\npet Mediums, materializing Mediums, and so on\\nto the end of a long list. Now, all Mediums are\\nPsychics, but all Psychics are not Mediums*\\nThis is fortunate for our study, for through the\\nPsychic we may be able to understand the Me-\\ndium. A Psychic is a person who is able to pro-\\nduce peculiar phenomena by means of a natural", "height": "3560", "width": "2236", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0189.jp2"}, "190": {"fulltext": "190 THE PSYCHIC AND PSYCHISM.\\nor developed control of his mind, or psychic\\npowers. It appears that Mediums have no\\npowers that Psychics do not have; and many\\nPsychics deny any spirit aid in their perform-\\nances. Some Mediums also insist that the power\\nresides within themselves, although they do not\\nunderstand it. All Psychics, whether Mediums\\nor not, go into more or less profound trances.\\nThe Medium calls it going under control, sup-\\nposedly the control of some disembodied spirit.\\nThe Psychics, who are not Mediums, say they\\nare controlled by their subconscious minds.\\nThe easiest way to develop a Psychic is by the\\nuse of Hypnotism, and those so developed fur-\\nnish the means for studying the Mediums. It\\nis observed that they are all in identical condi-\\ntions when entranced the means of the produc-\\ntion of the trance, alone, being different. The\\nfirst two, the Medium and the self-developed\\nPsychic, go into the trance by autosuggestions,\\nor are self-hypnotized, while the third goes into\\nthe trance by heterosuggestion, or is simply hyp-\\nnotized. Now, if things equal to the same thing\\nare equal to each other, then we must conclude\\nthat there is no difference between the Medium\\nand ordinary Psychic, except in name. All\\nPsychics while entranced are highly suggestible,\\na fact which I shall have occasion to refer to", "height": "3543", "width": "2538", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0190.jp2"}, "191": {"fulltext": "SPIRITISM. 191\\nagain a little later, as it furnishes the explana-\\ntion of some things otherwise not easily under-\\nstood.\\nTHE MANNER OF THEIR PRODUCTION.\\nThe manner of producing the so-called spir-\\nitistic phenomena is through the seances. A\\nseance is said to be a meeting for consulting\\nthe spirits and an exhibition of spirit phe-\\nnomena by a Medium. Let us attend some of\\nthe various kinds of seances, for seances, like\\nthe Mediums, have various names according to\\nthe phenomena produced. We will begin with\\nthe more common, fortune telling.\\nIn order to give the Medium a fair chance we\\nwill go to an entire stranger. What results are\\nlikely to follow? These After the Medium has\\nfallen into a trance, he will begin with some\\nhighly complimentary and flattering statements\\nas to the sitter s character and ability; then the\\nsitter s name will be given, his residence and\\nbusiness, his past history, his secrets that he sup-\\nposed were known to himself alone, and in fact\\nanything that the sitter has recorded in his mind.\\nIhe sitter will be told whom he desires a mes-\\nsage from, and the message produced without\\nhis ever saying a word. The results would be\\nthe same if he were dumb. These are extraordi-", "height": "3591", "width": "2442", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0191.jp2"}, "192": {"fulltext": "192 THE PSYCHIC AND PSYCHISM.\\nnary revelations, but you will readily guess that\\nthis is simply a case of Mind Reading or Telep-\\nathy, so I will hurry on to the next seance.\\nA spiritistic circle consists of a few persons\\nwho arrange themselves around a table and lay\\ntheir hands upon it, and await results. The re-\\nsults usually consist of scratches, raps and levi-\\ntations, and are considered by some as certain\\nevidences of spirit presence. Are they? I\\nthink not, for any circle, with a Medium or with-\\nout a Medium, composed of Spiritists, Chris-\\ntians, Pagans or Jews will obtain the same re-\\nsults. Careful tests have been made which have\\nproven conclusively that these results follow,\\nand just as certainly that they do not depend\\nupon any supermundane agency. We have all\\nseen the table-tipping tried, and most of us have\\nhad our part in it, as children or adults, and few\\nof us have thought it due to any force not re-\\nsiding in our own bodies. Let us attend a\\nseance where they do more difficult things.\\nThe slate writing seance is one that will re-\\nquire careful looking into. It is a clever phe-\\nnomenon, but it often is a trick. Legerdemain\\nplays an important part here, as has been shown\\nby many investigators, notably Mr. J. S. Davey,\\na renegade Medium. One of the secretaries of\\nthe Society for Psychical Research says of the", "height": "3543", "width": "2442", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0192.jp2"}, "193": {"fulltext": "SPIRITISM. 193\\nphenomena he produced without spirit aid:\\nTime would fail me to tell all the marvels per-\\nformed by Mr. Davey s agency and attested by\\neducated and intelligent eye-witnesses. He\\nproduced a long message in Japanese for a Japa-\\nnese marquis; he made, or seemed to make,\\npieces of chalk under a glass describe geomet-\\nrical figures at the unexpressed wish of the sit-\\nter he made a tumbler walk across the table in\\nfull light; he wrote messages on double slates,\\nsecurely sealed and screwed together he mate-\\nrialized in strong light a woman s head, which\\nfloated in the air and then dematerialized, and\\nthe half-length figure of a bearded man in a tur-\\nban, reading a book, who bowed to the circle\\nand finally disappeared through the ceiling with\\na scraping noise. Even if any of the phenom-\\nena were true, though none of it is beyond the\\npower of the prestidigitateur, the nature of the\\nmessages written upon the slates would suffice\\nto render it unimportant. Let us consider them\\na moment They all profess to be from the\\ndead. Are they? No. I was favored by a\\nMedium with several messages, for value re-\\nceived, and, briefly, this is the result: I wrote\\nto a dead friend and got in response an answer\\nexpressed in general terms which was fairly sat-\\nisfactory. Next I wrote a note to my living", "height": "3560", "width": "2235", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0193.jp2"}, "194": {"fulltext": "194 THE PSYCHIC AND PSYCHISM.\\ndog, asking if he had found his mother and\\nwhether he was happy and liked his new home.\\nThe answer came in a few moments He was\\nall right, etc., signed by the dog s name as I\\nhad addressed him. Well, I ruminated, per-\\nhaps the dog has died since I left Him, and in his\\nspirit form has responded. I want to be sure,\\nso I will try again. The door-post certainly\\ncould not answer, so I will write to it. I wrote\\nto D. Post and got an affectionate reply. What\\ncould I think? What would you think? Are\\nthe messages worth much consideration? Are\\nthey to be relied upon? I have said, and repeat,\\nNo. Here is where the suggestibility comes\\nin the Medium is under an autosuggestion that\\nhe is the instrument of departed spirits, and con-\\nsequently is compelled to write from that view\\npoint. In some instances the Mediums are self-\\ndeceived, and are honest in their protestations\\nthat they are innocent of conscious fraud. I\\nwish to call attention to a contest which occurred\\nin Tremont Temple, Boston, before leaving this\\nsubject.\\nRev. Arthur A. Waite, who had been a Me-\\ndium, claimed that he would duplicate any feat\\nthat the friends of Spiritism could accomplish.\\nHis challenge was accepted, the trial came off,\\nand he repeated and explained every one of the", "height": "3556", "width": "2442", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0194.jp2"}, "195": {"fulltext": "SPIRITISM. 195\\nMedium s tricks and forced him to retreat in\\nconfusion.\\nOne thing should be noticed, namely, that\\nmessages in the form of essays and speeches\\nfrom the shades of Bacon, Washington, Clay\\nand Webster, are unworthy of those men, and\\nmore like the productions of unlearned school-\\nboys or imbeciles. If they are genuine effu-\\nsions of these illustrious shades, we must con-\\nclude with Hamilton, that they are souls in the\\nprocess of losing their mental powers, souls fad-\\ning away, souls destined to become extinct,\\nand such a belief rather makes against the dig-\\nnity and reality of immortality. If Spiritists\\ncould prove that the messages were from spirits,\\neven that would not prove a future life, for it\\nis impossible to prove that the spirits had ever\\nbeen dwellers upon the earth in bodily forms.\\nWe are obliged to take the testimony of the\\nspirits, and this, according to many authorities\\non Spiritisms, is unreliable. One author says,\\nThe spirits can say what they like, assume to\\nbe what they please. Again I ask what is such\\ntestimony worth Nothing.\\nLevitation, or floating in the air, is among the\\nrare phenomena of Spiritism, and while we may\\nnot fully understand how it is done, I am sure\\nthat it is not necessary to conclude that ponder-", "height": "3593", "width": "2442", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0195.jp2"}, "196": {"fulltext": "196 THE PSYCHIC AND PSYCHISM.\\nable things are borne up by angel hands. We\\nhave strong statements from good authorities\\nthat levitation can be produced without the in-\\nterposition of spirit agencies. We are told that\\nthe priests of Siam, when in the sacred pagoda,\\nmount fifty feet in the air with taper in hand,\\nand flit from idol to idol, lighting up the niches,\\nself-supported, and stepping as confidently as\\nthough they were upon the solid ground. The\\nofficers of the Russian squadron in Japanese\\nwaters relate the fact that, besides many other\\nmarvels, they saw jugglers walk in mid-air with-\\nout the slightest support. (Blavatsky.) I do\\nnot know how this is done, but it does not neces-\\nsarily involve the supernatural. The Adepts do\\nthese things, and one was heard to say in expla-\\nnation that they are persons who know that the\\npower to produce these phenomena resides in\\nthemselves, and who possess the intelligence to\\ncontrol and direct it. A friend of mind, who\\nhas been under the tutelage of several Indian\\nteachers, told me that he had succeeded in levita-\\nting his own body, that he had floated about his\\nroom. It is to be hoped that we shall know\\nmore of this power in the near future.\\nMaterialization is the crowning glory of the\\nMediums. The phenomena vary from faint,\\nshadowy visions, to palpable phantasms that", "height": "3538", "width": "2442", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0196.jp2"}, "197": {"fulltext": "SPIRITISM. 197\\nmay be caught and fixed upon the photographic\\nplate. It is hardly necessary to say that most\\nof these manifestations are fraud, for nearly all,\\nif not all, of the prominent materializing Me-\\ndiums have been detected and exposed as im-\\npostors. But there are phenomena that have\\nbeen observed and vouched for, and recorded by\\ncompetent and trustworthy persons; and some\\nof us have seen and heard for ourselves. Now,\\nconfident that we are dealing with facts, we feel\\nthat it is worthy of our best efforts to discover\\nand understand the laws which underlie and gov-\\nern these apparitions. It has been proven that\\ncertain shapes, resembling human persons, ani-\\nmals and inanimate objects, have appeared, and\\nfrom time to time do appear to the living. In\\nother words, phantasms, apparitions, or ghosts,\\nhave appeared, and do appear to the living.\\nWhat are the causes and the possible explana-\\ntions of the existence of these impalpable crea-\\ntions There are but the two possibilities before\\nmentioned they are due to forces controlled by\\nthe living, or they are the manifestations of the\\ndead. Let us examine them.\\nGhosts have appeared in all ages, and in all\\nforms. The favorite character in the Bible is\\nthe angel. Again and again we are told that\\nangels have appeared and have talked with men", "height": "3560", "width": "2442", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0197.jp2"}, "198": {"fulltext": "198 THE PSYCHIC AND PSYCHISM.\\nand women. In secular records they have ap-\\npeared singly and in groups, usually clothed and\\nbodily complete; but at times only part of the\\nbody has appeared, as a face or a hand. There\\nseems to be some definitely intelligent purpose\\nof the ghostly visitors, as the revelation of a\\nsecret, the telling of news, or the disclosure of\\na crime. In the latter case the appearance of\\nthe spectre is at the place of the perpetration\\nof the crime, and often recurring only at inter-\\nvals, as at the anniversary of the deed. It is\\nrare that ghosts appear except in cases of vio-\\nlent death, the more violent the death, the more\\nlikely is the phantasm to appear. Most of these\\ncreations have sad, melancholy, or even suffer-\\ning expressions, as though they were the chil-\\ndren born of anguish and despair.\\nEXPLANATIONS OF THE PRODUCTION.\\nIn seeking the explanations of these phenom-\\nena, the scientific axiom that forbids the attrib-\\nuting of any phenomenon to supernatural influ-\\nence that may be explained by natural forces,\\ncompels us to discard the Spiritist s theory.\\nHowever, that theory is wholly unnecessary, as\\nwell as inadequate. There are two other, better\\nexplanations, namely, I The phenomena are\\ndue to Hallucination and Telepathy, and 2.\\nThey are actual Creations of the Mind.", "height": "3541", "width": "2442", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0198.jp2"}, "199": {"fulltext": "SPIRITISM. 199\\nHallucination and Telepathy do certainly\\ncover and explain a large number of these phe-\\nnomena, no doubt, but in my judgment they are\\ninadequate in some cases. The Indian fakirs do\\nsome wonderful feats through these means. A\\nfriend of mind who was for a number of years in\\nthe service of the English government in India*,\\ntold me some of the marvels he saw. He said\\nOne day a group of officers and natives were\\nwatching a fakir, and we saw plainly a full-grown\\ntiger walk in our midst, but a snap shot with a\\nkodak failed to catch the tiger upon the photo-\\ngraphic plate. I saw the basket trick/ as it is\\nknown. A fakir comes down the street with a\\nlarge basket upon his head, and as soon as a\\ncrowd assembles, he takes from the basket a\\nsquare cloth and spreads it upon the ground;\\nthen he seizes a boy from the crowd apparently\\nany boy lays him upon the cloth and covers\\nhim with the basket. He then takes a short\\nsword and runs it through the basket again and\\nagain in all directions. The sword is smeared\\nwith blood, and the boy screams, but when the\\nbasket is removed by some anxious spectator,\\nno boy is found there. And a lot more tricks\\nof a similar kind were witnessed. We are only\\nbeginners in the study of Thought Transference\\nand hallucination.", "height": "3589", "width": "2442", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0199.jp2"}, "200": {"fulltext": "200 THE PSYCHIC AND PSYCHISM.\\nThere is a group of investigators who offer a\\nsolution of the mysteries of phantasms, ghcsts,\\nand the like, who suggest that they are\\ncreations of the minds of the living more\\nor less material, and correspondingly recog-\\nnizable by the senses. To me this is the\\nmost probable and satisfactory explanation,\\nalthough it is difficult of demonstration. Of\\nmaterialization Hudson says: Like all other\\nso-called spirit phenomena it is, in my mind,\\ndirectly traceable to the power of the subjective\\nmind of the Medium, aided by telepathic com-\\nmunion with the sitter. It appears that these\\npsychic creations, or palpable thoughts for\\nthoughts are things differ from telepathic\\ncommunications only in degree. The condi-\\ntions under which they are produced explain the\\ndifferences. It has been noticed that the most\\nfavorable condition of the mind for telepathic\\nand other like actions, is when the subconscious\\nmind is most nearly in complete control, and this\\ncondition obtains at the hour of death, or when\\nthe functions of the body are temporarily sus-\\npended. The Psychics who are able to produce\\nthese creations are those who fall into the most\\nprofound trances. The ordinary, or primary,\\nconsciousness is wholly in abeyance, and the\\nsubconscious mind is in complete control. Now,", "height": "3540", "width": "2442", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0200.jp2"}, "201": {"fulltext": "SPIRITISM. 20i\\nthe creations in Thought Transference are tran-\\nsient, and dissolve as soon as they have fulfilled\\ntheir missons, while those produced in the agony\\nof death, or under strong emotions, are more\\nsubstantial and lasting, both by reason of their\\nbirth and their mission. The extreme effort of\\na tortured soul to protest and proclaim against\\na murderer, doubtless accounts for the appari-\\ntions which reenact the ghastly scenes at the\\nplace of their perpetration. The effort of a de-\\nparting soul to say a last long farewell to its\\nloved ones, must account for the phantasm which\\ntakes on a shadowy form and appears to take a\\nlast lingering look into the faces of the dear ones.\\nThe likeness, in these cases, to the individual is\\nnatural and readily explained, but not so those\\nproduced by Psychics, it is claimed. When it\\nis remembered, however, that the Psychic is in\\ntelepathic communion with the sitter, and can\\nget the picture from his mind, this difficulty\\nvanishes.\\nThis theory of Thought Creation also affords\\nan explanation for a fact that neither of the\\nothers cover, namely, the almost uniformly sad\\nor anguished expression upon the face of the\\nshades. Resulting as they do from minds\\nracked with physical pain, in the throes of death,\\nit is natural that they should have such expres-", "height": "3590", "width": "2442", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0201.jp2"}, "202": {"fulltext": "202 THE PSYCHIC AND PSYCHISM.\\nsions. It also explains another set of cases\\nwhich the other theories failed to touch. It\\noften happens that sensitive persons are affected\\nby the influence of the thoughts of those who\\nhave previously occupied a room or a house.\\nNo ghost or phantasm is seen or heard, but the\\ninfluence from the previous occupant is felt;\\nsometimes it is of one character, sometimes of\\nanother, but most often it is disagreeable, and\\nfrequently of such a nature as to compel the vic-\\ntim to move. This is especially true if the for-\\nmer occupant was the victim of great sorrow or\\nstrong emotions of any kind it is not necessary\\nto the condition that the person should have\\ndied.\\nThe phenomena rendering witchcraft so inex-\\nplicable, can readily be accounted for by the\\nmind creation theory. That they the witches\\nwere able to perform and did perforin many\\nwonders is common history, and historians give\\ndetails of some of their known methods, which\\nseem to point to the fact that they were Psy-\\nchics, and went into self-induced trances, in\\norder to send their cats, hobgoblins and demons\\nto harass the victims of their enmity.\\nNow, if man can create phantasms, as it\\nseems that he can, is it not natural and logical\\nthat we should, at least, try to harmonize with", "height": "3554", "width": "2442", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0202.jp2"}, "203": {"fulltext": "SPIRITISM. 203\\nthis fact certain similar phantasms, apparitions,\\nghosts, shades or what not, produced by Me-\\ndiums? To my mind, that the creation of all\\nphantasms is by the subconscious mind, is all\\nbut proven. In any case I have given you a\\nmore acceptable theory than the one offered by\\nthe Spiritists, for it observes the axiom which\\nforbids us to refer explainable phenomena to\\nsupernatural agencies. I, for one, until we have\\ncarried our explorations much farther than we\\nhave at present, and have fixed more definitely\\nthe boundaries of the natural, will not abandon\\nthe firm conviction that neither demon nor\\nghost, angel nor devil, are necessary to account\\nfor the strange happenings and phenomena that\\nwe have had under consideration.\\nNow, in conclusion, while it is plain that the\\nphenomena brought forward as proofs of the\\ntheory of Spiritism are insufficient and unsatis-\\nfactory, it does not necessarily follow that im-\\nmortality is a fallacy. On the contrary, it should\\nstimulate a renewed effort and a more careful\\nstudy so that, if possible, satisfactory and certain\\nproofs of a future life may be found. Such?\\nstudies, as those recently conducted with Mrs.\\nPiper and Miss Hellene Smith, are steps in\\nthe right direction and should be heartily encour-\\naged by all who are interested in the subject, for", "height": "3560", "width": "2442", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0203.jp2"}, "204": {"fulltext": "204 THE PSYCHIC AND PSYCHISM.\\nthey deal with the problem involving the most\\ntremendous facts that can engage the attention\\nof the human mind.", "height": "3524", "width": "2442", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0204.jp2"}, "205": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XII.\\nTHE FUTURE OF PSYCHISM.\\nA forecast of Psychism Some problems to be solved\\nThe Psychic s character must be exalted Psychism\\nmust prepare the way for the development of such a\\ncharacter No Psychic influence without its power\\nfor good or ill\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The study of the future will be the\\nstudy of the forces within man Do coming events\\ncast their shadows before them? If a man die\\nshall he live again? Our banner bears the motto\\nPsychism.\\nAugury is out of place in a serious scientific\\nstudy, but having made a review of Psychism\\nwe may be allowed to make a forecast of its fu-\\nture. The present status of the thing always\\npresents some promise of its future. Measur-\\ning Psychism by this method, it looks as if it\\nwould have a glorious future at least, it em-\\nbodies grand possibilities. Whether it will rise\\ntc the occasion and make the most of these pos-\\nsibilities and thus justify its usefulness to man-\\nkind is uncertain. There are many problems\\n205", "height": "3560", "width": "2442", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0205.jp2"}, "206": {"fulltext": "206 THE PSYCHIC AND PSYCHISM.\\nand questions which present themselves to Psy-\\nchism for solution which must be fairly met and\\nanswered. Its future depends upon its ability to\\nsolve some of the following problems.\\nThe character of the Psychic must be raised\\nfrom its present low status to a high, enviable\\nposition. The man that is now marked by his\\neccentricity, moral twist, lax life and physical\\ndepletion must be transformed into the man who\\nshall be marked by his serene, morally upright,\\nChrist-like life and physical perfection. A\\ntransformation as necessary as it is profound.\\nIf the Psychic is the highest product of evolu-\\ntion he must be placed in the very best light.\\nHe has been the exception, the first fruit of the\\nevolutionary process; as such, he must be the\\nexample elevated for all men to observe and fol-\\nlow. Instead of being the exception he must\\nbecome the rule of human development. One\\nsuch character who had reached the acme of\\npsychic development lived upon the earth; He\\nwalked and talked with men, performed wonders,\\nhealed the sick and assured His followers that\\nthe works that He did and the life that He lived,\\npure and simple, they might do and live. He\\nwas such a character and reflected such a perfect\\nmanhood that His enemies were forced to dis-\\ntinguish Him by the exclamation. Behold the", "height": "3554", "width": "2442", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0206.jp2"}, "207": {"fulltext": "THE FUTURE OF PSYCHISM. 207\\nMan! Such an one is the Psychic of the fu-\\nture.\\nThe development of such a character as has\\nbeen portrayed above is the work of Psychism.\\nVoices are now crying in the wilderness of igno-\\nrance and superstition, Prepare ye the way,\\nand it is the business of Psychism to prepare\\nthe way. The way must be sure, safe and broad.\\nThe dangers that have attended the ways and\\nmethods of the past must be removed. All who\\nsincerely start should be able to reach the goal\\nof their ambition. The possibility, not to say\\nprobability, of unbalancing the reason and fetch-\\ning up in an insane asylum must be removed.\\nSurely it is possible for all to follow in the foot-\\nsteps of the Master without running such dire\\nrisks. Some few have been enabled to do so,\\nand it remains for Psychism to point out a broad,\\nsafe, sure way broad enough for all who wish\\nto follow Him. Many aspire to a Christ-like\\nlife and character who have been unable to find\\nthe way which leads to them. When Psychism\\nhas performed its office, opened the door and\\nshown the way, many will turn their faces toward\\nsoul-culture and begin to know themselves.\\nThe importance of environment and the power\\nof Suggestion to make or mar men must be em-\\nphasized. Psychism must point out the fact", "height": "3595", "width": "2442", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0207.jp2"}, "208": {"fulltext": "208 THE PSYCHIC AND PSYCHISM.\\nthat no psychic influence is without its power\\nand that the sum total of such influences is re-\\nsponsible for human character. When we real-\\nize this we shall be more careful of our words\\nand actions, for every word lives and every action\\nhas its effect. The health and happiness of\\nthose around us depend upon us. We may\\nmake them ill or unhappy, or we may make them\\nwell and happy. Few persons realize their\\npower, and it is the privilege of Psychism to\\nteach the power that resides in man to the many.\\nAnimals show more intelligence than men they\\nseek out and eat of the plant that cures their ills,\\nwhile man too often dies in his ignorance. The\\ndivinity that placed the instinct in the animal\\nhas not left man less complete. It remains for\\nman to seek out and use his powers, to know\\nhimself. What the animal does by instinct of\\nnecessity, man should do by intuition, of choice.\\nHealth and happiness will be the rule with those\\nwho know and use their psychic powers.\\nThe study of the future will be the study of the\\nthings within, instead of outside of man. Psy-\\nchism has an almost inexhaustible mine of treas-\\nures to unearth and develop. The mighty forces\\nof nature outside of man have long been ex-\\nploited before the bewildered gaze of the won-\\ndering world, but these are likely to be sur-", "height": "3543", "width": "2442", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0208.jp2"}, "209": {"fulltext": "THE FUTURE OF PSYCHISM. 209\\npassed by the magnificent powers of man s mind.\\nThe far-reaching, penetrating perception is only\\nsurpassed by the delicate receptivity of the human\\nmind. The wonders of mechanical devices are\\nonly imperfect imitations of the more wonderful\\nmechanism of man. Wireless telegraphy and\\nthe X-ray represent the acme of the mechanical\\nuse of electricity, and while they are most won-\\nderful they shrink into insignificance when com-\\npared with the delicate activities of the mind.\\nSurely the salvation of mankind is found within\\nman Psychism must take the developments of\\nthe past and present and arrange and add to\\nthem until it has builded a science of mind the\\nlike of which the world has never dreamed. By\\ndoing so it will usher in the era when man shall\\nbecome God-like in his power; he will get into\\nharmony with the universe and be able to catch\\nand interpret the thought waves of the world,\\nto see and hear without limit, recognize and\\nunderstand the souls of things. When man\\nreaches this condition there will be no question\\nabout life s being worth the living, for to live\\nwill be sublime.\\nThe waking hours will be full of joy and hope\\nand opportunities for knowing ourselves, and\\nduring Sleep our Dreams will become coherent\\nand full of meaning. Psychism will translate", "height": "3560", "width": "2346", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0209.jp2"}, "210": {"fulltext": "210 THE PSYCHIC AND PSYCHISM.\\nthe phantasms of the night, from unsubstantial\\nfancies into intelligent messages. Sleep will be-\\ncome not only a period of bodily rest, but a sea-\\nson of intellectual activity. The prophetic\\ndreams that have so long mystified us will be\\nunderstood in both manner and meaning. For\\nPsychism must solve the question, Do coming\\nevents cast their shadows before them? Coin-\\ncidence does not satisfy the inquirer about such\\ndreams. Too many prophetic visions of the\\nnight are fulfilled to allow such an explanation.\\nScience has been accustomed to deny the possi-\\nbility of prescience where free moral agency is\\nconcerned, but there are many who contradict\\nthe dictum of science. Psychism must come to\\nour aid and solve and explain these mysteries\\nfor us.\\nClosely allied to dream experiences are the\\nexperiences had in Trances. Many revelations\\nhave been made to entranced persons. These\\nrevelations have been remembered and translated\\nby such persons after their return to their normal\\nstate. Some of the visions and revelations have\\nproven reliable and true, while many others\\nhave proven to be fanciful and false. Psychism\\nhas a work to do in this connection. Whence\\ndo these revelations come and what is their im-\\nportance? Is it possible to find out their source", "height": "3527", "width": "2442", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0210.jp2"}, "211": {"fulltext": "THE FUTURE OF PSYCHISM. 211\\nand meaning? We look to Psychism to answer\\nthese questions about the trance revelations that\\nform the foundation of most religions. Jt is a\\nvital matter, and it is to be hoped that it may\\nsoon be understood.\\nAnother mystery still more inscrutable to us\\nconfronts Psychism, namely, the mystery of\\ndeath. All have to meet the king of terrors,\\nand none escapes unconquered. All must pass\\ninto the realm of the unknown, from whence it\\nis said no traveler has ever returned to give an\\naccount. The question propounded by the an-\\ncients, If a man die, shall he live again? re-\\nmains unanswered. Many answers have been\\nmade, but none that has been satisfactory to all.\\nCan Psychism formulate such an answer? It\\nseems incredible that the human soul, with all\\nof its possibilities and powers, should come into\\nconsciousness and attain such a height of devel-\\nopment, only to go out into utter darkness like\\na burned-out candle. Our hearts whisper some-\\nthing of the future and our minds seem to catch\\nglimpses of another life. Is the time coming\\nwhen our hearts shall speak plainly and our\\nminds shall know certainly of that life? We\\nlook to Psychism for an answer, and I do not\\nthink we look in vain. The minds that can send\\nand receive thought messages from continent to", "height": "3590", "width": "2442", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0211.jp2"}, "212": {"fulltext": "212 THE PSYCHIC AND PSYCHISM.\\ncontinent, may some day be able to send and re-\\nceive them across the gulf that separates us from\\nthe great unknown. There are rumors that\\nsome are already able to do so, and we are anx-\\niously awaiting the proofs of their ability.\\nThe friends of Psychism should rally to aid\\nit in its onerous but promising work. Men and\\nmeans are necessary for the exploration and de-\\nvelopment of this field of study. The work\\nshould not be left to a few; all are interested\\nin the results and all should take part in the\\nwork. Much has been accomplished already by\\na few faithful workers, but much more will be\\naccomplished when all who are interested in this\\nsubject freely lend their aid.\\nForerunners have already scaled the moun-\\ntains and have planted the banner upon the top-\\nmost peak of vantage, where it unfurls and floats\\nupon the breeze, encouragingly displaying the\\nmotto PSYCHISM. Let us follow and rally\\naround our banner.", "height": "3554", "width": "2442", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0212.jp2"}, "213": {"fulltext": "APPENDIX A.\\nTHE METHODS OF HYPNOTIZING.\\nHypnotism has reached its present scientific\\nposition through a tedious evolution. Like\\nevery other science, it has had to struggle for\\nexistence, and only after a hard fight has it re-\\nceived due recognition. In its various stages of\\ndevelopment, widely differing theories have been\\nheld as to its nature, the methods of inducing its\\nstates and producing its phenomena.\\nThese have been pointed out, but it remains to\\nexplain and illustrate them, for upon them de-\\npends its successful therapeutic application.\\nEach of the several schools of hypnotism has\\nits methods; the mesmerists claim that the op-\\nerator exerts a personal influence over his sub-\\njects, and they use passes and magnets, but this\\ninfluence is denied by the other two schools. The\\nSalpetriere school uses sudden, sharp, sensorial\\nshocks. The Nancy school uses slight, pro-\\nlonged, sensorial stimuli. They both succeed, so\\nit is fair to conclude that hypnotic states may\\nbe induced (i) by sudden, strong, sensorial stim-/\\n213", "height": "3560", "width": "2302", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0213.jp2"}, "214": {"fulltext": "214 APPENDIX.\\nulation, as a bright light or a loud sound (2) by\\nslight, prolonged, sensorial stimulation, as a\\nlight touch or a low, monotonous sound.\\nHowever, the influence of suggestion must\\nnot be overlooked, for it is a factor second to\\nnone in the production of induced sleep. When\\nthe subject expects to be hynotized, his mind\\ncontributes to the success of the operation, and\\nhe the more readily falls into the hypnosis. Hyp-\\nnosis is a psychic state similar to natural sleep.\\nIt is essential to prepare the subject s mind be-\\nfore attempting to hypnotize him, precisely for\\nthe reason that it is a mental operation. Luys\\nwell said The hypnotizer is nothing the hyp-\\nnotized subject everything. Without the con-\\ncious cooperation of the subject, failures will be\\nfrequent. The operator should explain the sim-\\nplicity of the operation clear it as much as pos-\\nsible of all mystery, minimize its dangers, and\\nemphasize its benefits. After having removed all\\nfear and resistance from the mind of the sub-\\nject, he should place him in a comfortable posi-\\ntion and have him thoroughly relax body and\\nmind and become passive.\\nNow, we are ready to begin, but must not\\nhurry. It is often wise to spend the first visit in\\nsubject is a stranger. It gives his mind time to\\nprepare for the hypnosis.", "height": "3527", "width": "2442", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0214.jp2"}, "215": {"fulltext": "APPENDIX. 215\\nIt has been hinted that the personal influ-\\nence is of small account, but in one sense this is\\nfar from true. While it is true that the operator\\ndoes not possess a peculiar power, it is not\\ntrue that his influence is unimportant. It is all\\nimportant that he should be able to win the con-\\nfidence of his subject and make him believe that\\nhe can do what he is about to attempt. Every-\\nthing depends upon the effects produced upon\\nthe subject s mind, and the best operator is he\\nw r ho can most easily convince his patients that\\nwhat he says is true, and what he predicts will\\nhappen. His experience brings self-confidence,\\nbut suggestion is the power and not a personal\\nforce or fluid, as claimed by the mesmerists.\\nConfidence is contagious.\\nThe importance of thus carefully preparing the\\npatient will be appreciated by physicians when it\\nis borne in mind that the results obtained in the\\nfirst treatment will exert a marked influence\\nupon all future results. Fear and resistance,\\neither conscious or unconscious, will often pre-\\nvent success. An uncomfortable position may\\nhave the same effect. As little things hinder nat-\\nural sleep, so do they interfere with the induc-\\ntion of hypnosis.\\nHaving prepared the subject mentally and\\nphysically, we begin by assuring him that he is", "height": "3595", "width": "2442", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0215.jp2"}, "216": {"fulltext": "216 APPENDIX.\\nresting comfortably and will soon go to sleep.\\nHave him close his eyes and rest passively and\\nthen talk to him in a monotonous tone of voice\\nsomewhat as follows\\nYou are now thoroughly relaxed in mind\\nand body, and are going to sleep. It is easy\\nto go to sleep. All one has to do is to let go of\\neverything and drift, drift, drift into sleep, sleep,\\nsleep. You are becoming very sleepy; your\\neyelids are very heavy, and soon you will be\\nsound asleep, asleep, asleep. You do not plainly\\nhear what I say, and I do not want you to. Just\\nlet yourself drift, drift, drift into a sound, sweet\\nsleep, sleep, sleep. Breathe deeply and regularly.\\nNow you are asleep your eyes are fast shut\\nthe lids are so heavy that you cannot open them.\\nYou will remain asleep until I tell you to\\nawaken.\\nNow place your hand lightly on his forehead,\\nor your ringers upon his eyelids, and assure him\\nthat he is sleeping soundly and comfortably\\nthat he is happy and having a good rest and will\\nbe greatly refreshed by it. Keep up these sug-\\ngestions for five minutes or longer and he will\\nfall into an hypnosis, more or less profound, and\\nbe ready for the curative suggestions.\\nTake another subject and place him in the\\nsame comfortable position, wholly relaxed and", "height": "3513", "width": "2442", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0216.jp2"}, "217": {"fulltext": "APPENDIX. 217\\npassive. Turn him toward the light and direct\\nhim to look into one of your eyes. Stand so\\nthat your eye will be a little above the line of his\\nvision and about seven inches from his eyes.\\nHaving to look up at that angle will soon tire\\nhis eyes, which will aid in impressing the idea of\\nsleep. Before or while he looks into your eye,\\ntell him what he is to expect namely, that his\\neyes will soon blur; he will not see distinctly,\\nand then that his eyelids will become heavy and\\nclose, and he will go fast asleep.\\nWhat you predict will happen. His eyes will\\nblur, the lids will become tired and heavy they\\nwill make a few long winks and then close and\\nremain shut, and the probability is that he will\\nfall into an hypnosis. When the eyelids have\\nclosed place your fingers lightly upon them and\\nkeep them closed for a few moments, lest his ef-\\nforts to open them should arouse him and cause\\nhim to wake up. Then, with your hand lightly\\nlaid upon his forehead, give a slight downward\\npressure upon the eyebrows and assure him that\\nit is impossible for him to open his eyes. He\\nwill try and probably fail to open them. Now,\\nhe is hypnotized and suggestible.\\nThe process is simple and is easily explained.\\nIt is a physio-psychologic phenomenon. The\\nblurring of the vision and the heaviness of the", "height": "3590", "width": "2442", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0217.jp2"}, "218": {"fulltext": "218 APPENDIX.\\neyelids are due to strain and are physiologic.\\nThe falling into the hypnotic sleep is due to the\\nadoption, by the mind, of the suggested idea of\\nsleep and is psychologic.\\nA combination of the above methods is better\\nthan either of them alone and will succeed in al-\\nmost every case.\\nPlace your subject in the usual comfortable\\nposition in an easy chair or on a sofa and instruct\\nhim to relax, bodily and mentally, and become\\npassive and unresisting. Then have him look\\ninto your eye, as described above, and at the\\nsame time talk to him in a monotonous tone of\\nvoice, somewhat as follows\\nYou are now thoroughly relaxed, passive and\\nunresisting. You are resting comfortably and\\nwill soon fall into a quiet, restful sleep. My\\ntalking to you will not annoy you it will aid\\nyou in going to sleep. Your eyes will soon blur\\nand you will see indistinctly, your eyelids will\\nbecome tired and heavy and they will have to\\nwink and will finally close and you will go to\\nsleep. You do not see distinctly and your eye-\\nlids are becoming very heavy they have to wink,\\nand now, they are closing. Let them close they\\nare tired and you are sleepy. That is right. I\\nwill place my fingers upon them, so, and help you\\nto go to sleep. You are very sleepy, so sleepy", "height": "3497", "width": "2442", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0218.jp2"}, "219": {"fulltext": "APPENDIX. 219\\nthat you could not keep awake if you should try,\\nbut you will not try, for you are too sleepy and\\nwant to go to sleep. You are drifting away into\\na quiet, restful sleep, sleep, sleep restful, peace-\\nful sleep, sleep, sleep. Now, you are asleep and\\nyou will sweetly rest perfectly relaxed in body\\nand mind nothing will disturb you until I tell\\nyou to wake up.\\nIf he has cooperated with you the subject will\\nnow be in an hypnosis and amenable to sugges-\\ntions. If told that he cannot open his eyes, he\\ncannot, and if his arm is raised and he is told\\nthat he cannot lower it, he cannot. Perhaps it\\nshould be explained here that the reason for this\\ninability lies in the cooperation just mentioned\\nit has now become so complete that he adopts\\nyour suggestions as his own. He cannot do it\\nsimply because he believes he cannot and does\\nnot and perhaps cannot will it. In the common\\nform of expression of many subjects, he does not\\nwish to do it. As a matter of fact, he could and\\nwould resist suggestions that were very distaste-\\nful, possibly, by returning to his normal state.\\nThe methods described will usually succeed in\\nproducing hypnosis, but it is necessary to indi-\\nvidualize our subjects and adapt the method to\\nthe subject. It is a good plan to find out what\\nthe subject knows of hypnotism and how he ex-", "height": "3560", "width": "2442", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0219.jp2"}, "220": {"fulltext": "220 APPENDIX.\\npects it will be applied in his case, and then, if\\npractical, adapt the method to his notions. It\\nwill save time and insure success. If he expects\\nyou to hold his hands, hold them; if he must\\nhave his forehead rubbed, rub it if he wants to\\nlook at a bright object, furnish one; if he needs\\npasses, make them, and so on ad libitum.\\nNo method of hypnotizing is the method.\\nWhat succeeds with one fails with another. It\\nmust be borne in mind that the subject really\\nhypnotizes himself; you are simply aiding him.\\nAs soon as he has learned how, he can do it him-\\nself without assistance. It is largely a matter of\\neducation.\\nThe induction of somnambulism is simple, but\\ncan only be accomplished in persons who fall\\ninto profound states of hypnosis.\\nAfter the subject has learned to pass readily\\ninto a deep hypnosis, and readily accepts inhib-\\nitory suggestions, that is, cannot open his eyes\\nor lower his raised arm when told that he cannot,\\nhe is ready for the somnambulic experiments.\\nThis state should be reached gradually while the\\nsubject has his eyes closed. The induced sleep\\nis easily changed into somnambulism because\\nthe sleeper is in touch with the operator and has\\nbecome accustomed to adopting his suggestions.\\nThe change is brought about bv making pro-", "height": "3497", "width": "2442", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0220.jp2"}, "221": {"fulltext": "APPENDIX.\\n221\\ngressive suggestions. Somewhat as follows:\\nFirst, suggest visions or dream pictures after-\\nward, sounds, as music and the like; then, the\\nsensation of heat and cold; have the subject\\nacknowledge that these suggestions have been\\nrealized, and lastly, assure him that he can open\\nhis eyes, but that he will not wake up until com-\\nmanded to do so. He will slowly open his eyes.\\nHe is now in the somnambulic state.\\nNow that we recognize that suggestion sup-\\nported by attention play the principal parts in\\nthe induction of hypnosis it is quite natural to\\nconclude that the same factors would explain\\nhow hypnosis is removed. This is true. By sug-\\ngestion the subject is hypnotized and by sugges-\\ntion he is dehypnotized. The operator has the\\nsubject s attention and can change him from one\\nstate into another and in like manner can wake\\nhim up at will.\\nWhen I have completed my therapeutic sug-\\ngestions and am ready to awaken my patient I\\nproceed as follows\\nThe suggestions I have given you with ref-\\nerence to your illness will remain deeply fixed\\nupon your mind. You have had a pleasant, rest-\\nful nap, and are about to wake up. You feel\\ncomfortable and happy and will wake up when\\nI count three. Ready, one, two, three. You\\nare awake; open your eyes.", "height": "3560", "width": "2442", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0221.jp2"}, "222": {"fulltext": "222 APPENDIX.\\nIt should be borne in mind that the hypno-\\ntized are never unconscious and that everything\\nthat the operator says and does acts as a sugges-\\ntion to them. This explains how a timid oper-\\nator sometimes gets into trouble.\\nBefore leaving this topic let me emphasize a\\nthing or two. It is wise, when a patient believes\\nthat the operator has a special power, not to\\nhasten to disabuse his mind. Hypnotize him\\nfirst and explain afterwards, else it may be very\\ndifficult to hypnotize him. The reason is plain.\\nAnother thing, be careful that you do not fall\\ninto the same error. When you have induced a\\nsuggestible state in and can dominate the sub-\\nject in thought, word and deed, do not think that\\nyou have done it by the superior strength of your\\nmind. Nothing could be wider of the mark.\\nThe truth is best. Be not deceived, he did it\\nhimself. Extract from Dr. Halphide s work,\\nMind and Body.", "height": "3547", "width": "2442", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0222.jp2"}, "223": {"fulltext": "APPENDIX B.\\nA STRANGE EXPERIENCE.\\nSome time ago I wrote of some experiments\\nI had made in telepathy, and now I want to\\nwrite of a little experience I have had since. The\\nquestion was raised at that time whether telep-\\nathy was a lower or a higher faculty, one that\\nwe have passed through in our evolution, or one\\nthat we are reaching by the same process. That\\nthought transference is possible with animals\\nseems to be proven by the phenomena I have\\nlately witnessed.\\nI will relate it just as it occurred: I was in\\na cigar store and while conversing with the pro-\\nprietor a gentleman entered, accompanied by a\\nScotch collie dog. The proprietor said:\\nDr. Halphide, shake hands with Mr. Clason.\\nI am glad to meet Mr. Clason, I said, shak-\\ning his hand, because I have heard of him and\\nhis dog, and have wanted to see them/\\nYes, answered Mr. Clason, the dog is a\\nwell-known animal, much more widely known\\nthan myself.\\n223", "height": "3594", "width": "2442", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0223.jp2"}, "224": {"fulltext": "224 APPENDIX.\\nWill you exhibit her for me and let me get an\\nidea of her powers of mind reading? I asked.\\nCertainly, he replied. Bozzie, he called to\\nthe dog that had curled herself up in the sun-\\nshine on the floor, wake up and go around the\\nstore and come back and tell this gentleman how\\nmany men there are present.\\nThe dog got up and deliberately walked\\naround the store and came back and sat before\\nme and barked nine times without any further\\ncommand, which was the correct number of per-\\nsons present.\\nThe owner then asked me to write a number\\non a slip of paper and let him see it. I wrote the\\nnumber 7, and, after looking at it, he said\\nBozzie, the doctor has written a number on\\nthis paper what is it?\\nThe dog immediately barked seven times.\\nNow to prove that it is thought transference\\nand that I make no sign to the dog, said Mr.\\nClason, you will step with me behind this par-\\ntition and give me any number that you wish, and\\nwithout seeing the dog I will call to her and\\nshe will give us the number you dictate. So we\\nwent behind the partition and I held up my hand.\\nindicating the number 5. He then called to the\\ndog, while I peered out between the curtains\\nBozzie, what is the number this gentleman\\nhas given me?", "height": "3552", "width": "2442", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0224.jp2"}, "225": {"fulltext": "APPENDIX.\\n225\\nThe dog at once barked five times. It seemed\\nthat there was no question about the dog s abil-\\nity to read the mind, but in order to make\\nsure I made another test for myself. Mr. Clason\\nhad said that the dog could answer ques-\\ntions for me as well as for himself, so I took\\na coin from my pocket dated 1883, and, after\\nMr. Clason had told the dog to look at me and\\nanswer such questions as I might ask her, I\\nsaid:\\nWhat is the last figure of the date of this\\ncoin? The dog gave three barks.\\nWhat is the first figure? I continued. The\\ndog gave one bark.\\nWhat are the two middle figures The dog\\nbarked eight times. I was convinced.\\nThe dog can tell the denomination of\\nmoney, Mr. Clason announced. So I threw a\\n25-cent piece upon the floor, and the dog picked\\nit up and dropped it into my hand. Then I\\nasked her:\\nWhat is the denomination of the coin? An-\\nswer in two figures. She immediately barked\\ntwice, paused, and then barked five times. Mr.\\nClason then took five dice from the counter and\\nthrew them on the floor and ordered Bozzie to\\npick them up one by one and tell what number of\\nspots was uppermost. The dog picked them up\\nas directed, and correctly announced the number", "height": "3560", "width": "2442", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0225.jp2"}, "226": {"fulltext": "226 APPENDIX.\\nof spots on each. Bozzie had a litter of eleven\\npuppies a short time ago, and now has at home\\nsix of them, so when Mr. Clason asked her how\\nmany puppies she had had she answered\\neleven, and when asked how many she had at\\nhome now, she replied six.\\nDoctor, the dog can tell your age, Air.\\nClason stated. Write it upon a slip of paper\\nand then ask her to tell you what it is in two\\nnumbers, and she will tell you. I wrote down\\nthe age and the dog correctly announced the\\ntwo numbers 3 and 8 in her language of\\nbarks. Just then a lady came into the store, and\\nMr. Clason asked Bozzie\\nHow many ladies are there present? She\\nat once announced 1.\\nHow many gentlemen present wear glasses\\nhe asked her. She hesitated a moment, and then\\nbarked twice. There were two of us present\\nwho wore glasses.\\nHow many Jews are there present? he\\nasked. Immediately she barked once.\\nHow many Irishmen? She barked three\\ntimes.\\nHow many old men? She barked once, in\\neach case giving the correct answer.\\nThe dog is good at mathematics, Air.\\nClason said, and he gave her an intricate problem\\nin mental arithmetic which I do not recall, but\\n8350", "height": "3554", "width": "2442", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0226.jp2"}, "227": {"fulltext": "APPENDIX. 227\\nhe allowed me to give her a problem. He di-\\nrected her attention to me, and I said to her:\\nBozzie, multiply 3 by 5, add 3, divide by 2,\\nsubtract 1, divide by 2 again and give me half\\nof the result. The dog immediately barked\\ntwice. I gave the example so rapidly that sev-\\neral present were unable to follow me and we\\nwere all very much surprised at the readiness\\nwith which the dog gave the correct answer.\\nI have given the account of the exhibition as\\nnearly as possible in the language and the order\\nin which it occurred, and I make no attempt to\\nexplain the psychology of the case further than\\nto state that in my judgment it is an example of\\ntelepathy. I shall study the dog further and re-\\nport. Suggestive Therapeutics, May, 1900.\\nMORE ABOUT THE DOG.\\nUnfortunately Bozzie died before I had an op-\\nportunity to complete my study of her, but I\\nsaw enough of her to satisfy myself that she act-\\nually read my mind as well as that of her master.\\nIt would seem that this was proven by work\\nshe did for me while blindfolded and in the dark.\\nHad she been dependent upon signs from her\\nmaster or involuntary signs expressed in my\\nown face it would have been necessary for her\\nto see in order to recognize them.", "height": "3598", "width": "2442", "jp2-path": "psychicpsychism00halp_0227.jp2"}, "228": {"fulltext": "228 APPENDIX.\\nWhile she was blindfolded I thought of a num-\\nber and asked her what it was. She immediately\\nbarked the number in two figures, first 2 and\\nthen 7. The number was 2J. Several similar\\ntests were made and she never failed to give the\\ncorrect answer.\\nIn the dark she was equally accurate in her\\nresponses. Without any contact she would an-\\nswer any question that could be expressed in her\\nlanguage of barks, as the day of the month, the\\nmonth of the year, my age and the like.\\nIt was expected that we would be able to\\nmake a thorough study of the dog but her un-\\ntimely death prevented it. However, enough\\nwas seen to establish her wonderful intellectual\\nfaculties and to baffle the most expert psycholo-\\ngist. How did she accomplish her feats? The\\nanswer must be by telepathic communication,\\nand all of the wonders of that most mysterious\\nprocess are involved in the solution of the ques-\\ntion raised. It would be interesting to discuss\\nthe subject at length and some day in the near\\nfuture we may be inclined to take it up, but for\\nthe present we will close by repeating our asser-\\ntion that Bozzie was a mind reader. 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