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Flournoy, in spite of his long investigation, can find no explanation of the supernormal to fit the case
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I cannot forbear from quoting further the following passage addressed to members of the society
Of Stainton Moses I have already spoken
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"That Mrs Thompson is possessed of knowledge not normally obtained I regard as established beyond a doubt; that the hypothesis of fraud, conscious or unconscious, on her part fails to explain the phenomena seems to be equally certain; that to more causes than
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Almost alone amongst mediums of note, Mrs Piper of Boston has never resorted to physical phenomena, her powers being entirely confined to trance manifestations
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"As you remember, I came to the meeting with my wife; when Mrs Piper entered the trance state Mrs Shaler took her hand
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"I cannot determine how probable it is that the medium, knowing she was to have a sitting with you in Cambridge, or rather a number of them, took pains to prepare for the tests by carefully working up the family history of your friends
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She made so many correct statements at many individual sittings, and the proportion of successful sittings is so high, that it is very difficult to attribute fraud to her
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His report contains the verbatim record of seventeen sittings, and no pains have been spared to make the record complete
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he testimony concerning coincident dreams, hallucinations, mediumistic manifestations, materialisation, and clairvoyance might mystify, it was all capable of normal explanation--there was nothing supernatural about it
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But I carefully guarded myself from conviction until I had read the evidence--even to a resume of this medium's utterances last year in London under the auspices of the Society for Psychical Research--and I assert with confidence that no metaphysical theory ha
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True, miracles do not happen: but there are events of frequent occurrence in this age, as in all ages of which we have a record, which are miraculous in the sense of their being supernormal--for which science offers no consistent explanation
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In its first part this book deals with the exposure of all kinds of trickery resorted to by fraudulent "mediums" in producing alleged spiritistic phenomena--slate-writing, sealed letters, materialisation etc.,--and explains clearly, by description and illustra
Read record →Every excuse she could think of, to save herself, she made
Every excuse she could think of, to save herself, she made
Read record →In a few minutes he heard his big spear fall down
In a few minutes he heard his big spear fall down
Read record →Witchcraft.--The lesson which witchcraft teaches with regard to the validity of human testimony is the more…
Witchcraft.--The lesson which witchcraft teaches with regard to the validity of human testimony is the more remarkable because it was so long and so completely misunderstood
Read record →Mesmer.--Again, the latent possibilities of "suggestion,"--though not yet under that name, and mingled with who…
Mesmer.--Again, the latent possibilities of "suggestion,"--though not yet under that name, and mingled with who knows what else?--broke forth into a blaze in the movement headed by Mesmer;--at once discoverer and charlatan
Read record →But in the midst of this long series, and in full analogy to many minor cases, occurs the exceptional…
But in the midst of this long series, and in full analogy to many minor cases, occurs the exceptional trance-history of Emmanuel Swedenborg
Read record →We gradually discovered that the accounts of apparitions at the moment of death--testifying to a supersensory…
We gradually discovered that the accounts of apparitions at the moment of death--testifying to a supersensory communication between the dying man and the friend who sees him--led on without perceptible break to apparitions occurring after the death of the pers
Read record →R that this conscious life beneath the threshhold or beyond the margin seems to be no discontinuous or…
r that this conscious life beneath the threshhold or beyond the margin seems to be no discontinuous or intermittent thing; that not only are these isolated subliminal processes comparable with isolated supraliminal processes (as when a problem is solved by som
Read record →This broad statement it is of course the purpose of my whole work to justify
This broad statement it is of course the purpose of my whole work to justify
Read record →Again, we may say that no other body can be in the same place as this writing-table; but what of the ether?
Again, we may say that no other body can be in the same place as this writing-table; but what of the ether?
Read record →I call these and certain other records still inconclusive, it is mainly on account of the mass of worthless…
I call these and certain other records still inconclusive, it is mainly on account of the mass of worthless narratives with which they have been in some sense smothered; the long history of so-called investigations which have consisted merely in an interchange
Read record →Thus consciousness has been denied both to hypnotised subjects and to dogs; but it is easier to prove that the…
Thus consciousness has been denied both to hypnotised subjects and to dogs; but it is easier to prove that the hypnotised subject is conscious than that the dog is conscious
Read record →The needed clue, as I believe, can be afforded only by the discovery of laws affecting primarily that unseen or…
The needed clue, as I believe, can be afforded only by the discovery of laws affecting primarily that unseen or spiritual plane of being where I imagine the origin of life to lie
Read record →It is possible, on the other hand, that there may be a real break at a point where there appears to our…
It is possible, on the other hand, that there may be a real break at a point where there appears to our external observation to be a break, namely, where the personality passes into its new phase through an interval of sleep or trance
Read record →We may begin with localised psychical hypertrophies and isolations,--terms which I shall explain as we proceed;…
We may begin with localised psychical hypertrophies and isolations,--terms which I shall explain as we proceed; and then pass on through hysterical instabilities (where intermediate periods of trance may or may not be present) to those more advanced sleep-waki
Read record →Nay, it may well be that we must look even further back than our own childhood for the origin of many haunting…
Nay, it may well be that we must look even further back than our own childhood for the origin of many haunting troubles
Read record →At any rate, we have actually on record,--and that is what our argument needs,--a great series of idées fixes,…
At any rate, we have actually on record,--and that is what our argument needs,--a great series of idées fixes, of various degrees of intensity, cured by suggestion;--cured, that is to say, by a subliminal setting in action of minute nervous movements which our
Read record →E have to keep our eyes fixed upon just these psychological notions--upon a threshold of ordinary consciousness…
e have to keep our eyes fixed upon just these psychological notions--upon a threshold of ordinary consciousness above which certain perceptions and faculties ought to be, but are not always, maintained, and upon a "hypnotic stratum" or region of the personalit
Read record →First, then, let us briefly consider what is the general type of hysterical troubles
First, then, let us briefly consider what is the general type of hysterical troubles
Read record →This result, however, is quite accordant with my view of what I have termed the hypnotic stratum of the…
This result, however, is quite accordant with my view of what I have termed the hypnotic stratum of the personality
Read record →Janet pointed out how rare a thing it was that any accident or injury followed upon hysterical loss of feeling…
Janet pointed out how rare a thing it was that any accident or injury followed upon hysterical loss of feeling in the limbs
Read record →These hysterical anæsthesiæ, it may be added here, may be not only very definite but very profound
These hysterical anæsthesiæ, it may be added here, may be not only very definite but very profound
Read record →Such a condition resembles some hypnotic trances, and some factitious personalities as developed by automatic…
Such a condition resembles some hypnotic trances, and some factitious personalities as developed by automatic writing
Read record →In neither of the cases described had the primary self any knowledge of the second personality, except from the…
In neither of the cases described had the primary self any knowledge of the second personality, except from the report of others or letters from the second self, left where they could be found on the return of the primary self to consciousness
Read record →So with anæsthesiæ; we find in hysteria a separation of sensibility to heat and to pain, possibly even a…
So with anæsthesiæ; we find in hysteria a separation of sensibility to heat and to pain, possibly even a separate subsistence of electrical sensibility
Read record →It is not unusual to find great hyperæsthesia in certain special directions--of touch, hearing, perception of…
It is not unusual to find great hyperæsthesia in certain special directions--of touch, hearing, perception of light, etc.--combined with hysterical loss of sensation of other kinds
Read record →There are, moreover, other states, both spontaneous and induced, analogous to sleep, and these will form the…
There are, moreover, other states, both spontaneous and induced, analogous to sleep, and these will form the subject of the fifth chapter, that on Hypnotism
Read record →In the realm of hypnotism, again, we sink from the reasonable self-suggestion to the "platform…
In the realm of hypnotism, again, we sink from the reasonable self-suggestion to the "platform experiments,"--the smelling of ammonia, the eating of tallow candles;--all the tricks which show a profound control, but not a wise control, over the arcana of organ
Read record →No support is given by what we know of this group to the theory which regards subliminal mentation as…
No support is given by what we know of this group to the theory which regards subliminal mentation as necessarily a sign of some morbid dissociation of physical elements
Read record →The passage occurs in an article by Sir John Herschel on "Sensorial Vision," in his Familiar Lectures on…
The passage occurs in an article by Sir John Herschel on "Sensorial Vision," in his Familiar Lectures on Scientific Subjects, 1816
Read record →He is carrying into sleep the knowledge and the purpose of waking hours;--and he is carrying back into waking…
He is carrying into sleep the knowledge and the purpose of waking hours;--and he is carrying back into waking hours again the benefit of those profound assimilations which are the privilege of sleep
Read record →When the subliminal mentation co-operates with and supplements the supraliminal, without changing the apparent…
When the subliminal mentation co-operates with and supplements the supraliminal, without changing the apparent phase of personality, we have genius
Read record →It must, however, be admitted that such complete unification is not the general rule for men of genius; that…
It must, however, be admitted that such complete unification is not the general rule for men of genius; that their inspirations generally stop short of telepathy or of telæsthesia
Read record →Telæsthesia is not the only spiritual law, nor are subliminal uprushes affairs of the intellect alone
Telæsthesia is not the only spiritual law, nor are subliminal uprushes affairs of the intellect alone
Read record →What would it be, then, were it granted to any man to see Very Beauty clear;--incorruptible and undefiled, not…
What would it be, then, were it granted to any man to see Very Beauty clear;--incorruptible and undefiled, not mingled with colour or flesh of man, or with aught that can consume away, but single and divine?
Read record →Thical attitude towards Life Unseen;--this is in reality too closely parallel to Platonic Love to allow the…
thical attitude towards Life Unseen;--this is in reality too closely parallel to Platonic Love to allow the psychologist who denies reality in the one to assume reality in the other
Read record →The real difference between the two views appears when the faculties which I have called unknown come to be…
The real difference between the two views appears when the faculties which I have called unknown come to be considered
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