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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
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?
Read record →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 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 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 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; 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 troubles
Read record →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 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
Read record →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 in the limbs
Read record →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 writing
Read record →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 separate subsistence of electrical sensibility
Read record →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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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
Read record →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 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 considered
Read record →But that which religions have claimed for their Founders or for their Saints--and what is sanctity but the genius of the ethical realm?--Psychology must claim for every form of spiritual indrawing, every form of spiritual response; for sleeping vision, for hyp
Read record →But it is certain, on the other hand, that with a large percentage of persons profound and prolonged sleep can be induced, in any bodily condition, by simple suggestion
Read record →Take first the degree of control over the voluntary muscles
Read record →Stevenson's volume, Across the Plains (already referred to in the last chapter), contains a description of the most successful dream-experiments thus far recorded
Read record →The permanent result of a dream, I say, is sometimes such as to show that the dream has not been a mere superficial confusion of past waking experiences, but has had an unexplained potency of its own,--drawn, like the potency of hypnotic suggestion, from some
Read record →vere pain under the left breast, thinks that the professor has burnt her in the night, and begs the sister to obtain a retreat for her in a convent, where she will be secure against such attacks
Read record →xplicable as this phenomenon has been to observers who have encountered it without the needed key, the independent observations of hundreds of physicians and hypnotists have united in affirming its reality
Read record →If all this be true, there are several points on which we may form expectations definite enough to suggest inquiry
Read record →A cognate anticipation to which our theory will point will be that dream-memory will occasionally be found to fill up gaps in waking memory, other than those due to hypnotic trance; such so-called "ecmnesic" periods, for instance, as sometimes succeed a violen
Read record →The same point, as we shall hereafter see, is illustrated by the phenomena of crystal-vision
Read record →the striking case of Professor Hilprecht where dream-intelligence is carried to its highest point
Read record →I will next refer to certain cases where the sleeper by clairvoyant vision discerns a scene of direct interest to a mind other than his own;--as the danger or death of some near friend
Read record →uce a sample of a certain class of dreams,--more interesting, perhaps, and certainly more perplexing than any;--but belonging to a category of phenomena which at present I can make no attempt to explain
Read record →n of a troubled dream, before the event was known, we have the actual notes written down by her, as she informed us, the day, or the day after, the news of the fatal accident arrived, solely for her own use, and unmistakably reflecting the incoherent impressiv
Read record →off his boot, which was beside him, dozed off and was very likely roused by the sound of the train; 76 sheep-trucks had passed without touching him, but some wooden projection, likely the step, had touched the right side of his head, bruised his right shoulder
Read record →Storie cannot regard the experience exactly as a dream, though she woke up from it
Read record →I have assumed that man is an organism informed or possessed by a soul
Read record →Such were the suggestions of the evidence as to dream and vision; such, I may add, will be seen to be the suggestions of spontaneous somnambulism, which has not yet fallen under our discussion
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