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accumulated within the last five or six years; and this material is itself the carefully-sifted residuum of a much larger mass of testimony, inferior, if at all, by slight and various degrees
Read record →It is easy, however, on a superficial view to exaggerate the probabilities of chance coincidence
Read record →Now, as dreams of death or suggesting death do not form a large proportion of dreams in general, their startling preponderance amongst coincident dreams constitutes in itself an argument for ascribing such dreams to telepathy; for if any power exists whereby o
Read record →"The night before last a curious case of what I cannot but call telepathy occurred between myself and my sister
Read record →The figure of the skeleton, which I can perfectly recall, presented one of the most vivid impressions I ever remember to have received in a dream
Read record →"I very nearly wrote from the Hague to say that I should be very thankful when we had a letter from you of the 18th of June saying that you were well and happy
Read record →"It seemed in my dream that I stood at the open door of a bedroom in a house in Brighton, and that before me, by candle-light, I saw my father-in-law lying pale upon his bed, while my mother-in-law passed silently across the room in attendance on him
Read record →Depôt Barracks, Armagh, Ireland, on the 30th November 1886, and on the night of the same date, or early in the morning of the 1st December (I cannot tell which, as I did not refer to my watch), I was in bed in my room, when I was awakened by a most vivid and r
Read record →The case has been investigated by Mr
Read record →ent hallucinations occurring amongst normal persons; on the other hand, wider knowledge of hypnotism and the discovery of various processes for inducing hallucinations has afforded facilities for the experimental investigation of their nature, mechanism, and g
Read record →In fact, according to the evidence collected by the S.P.R., the results of applying such optical tests differ with each individual
Read record →This imaginary nucleus they name the point de repère
Read record →102, 103) an artist was accustomed to see constantly at his studio the figure of a man, under circumstances which strongly suggest that a point de repère was furnished by those floating motes in the eyeballs which are liable momentarily to cloud the vision whe
Read record →and Wales in the last completed decade being 19.15 per 1000 per annum, the average probability that any particular person will die on any particular day is 1000 × 365 / 19.15 = about 1 in 19,000
Read record →But after making due allowance for forgetfulness on the one hand, and for the creative activity of the imagination on the other, we find the actual proportion to be 1 to 40
Read record →It may not be superfluous to repeat (see ante, p
Read record →[Footnote 94: In many cases the post-hypnotic performance of an enjoined action, or the experience of a post-hypnotic hallucination, is associated with the partial recurrence of the hypnotic trance, or of some condition closely allied to it
Read record →The cases now to be discussed should, in the logical order, have been included in Chapter V., and for a proper appreciation of their theoretic bearings and evidential value they ought to be considered in connection with the instances of thought-transference at
Read record →The present chapter, then, will contain instances of the action of thought-transference in which the transmitted idea was translated in the percipient's mind, not, as in most of the cases described in previous chapters, into a simple feeling, or sensation, or
Read record →"The next thing I was conscious of was meeting the lady next morning (i.e., in a dream, I suppose?) and asking her at once if she had seen me last night
Read record →In this last case the dress of the figure does not seem to have been seen distinctly
Read record →he hand three times in complimentary fashion, turned round to the left towards Herr ----n, and waved her hand to him three times; after which the figure quietly, and again without any creaking of the door, went out
Read record →If this interpretation is correct, the figure seen cannot have been subjective in the same sense as the hallucinations described in Chapter IX
Read record →I accordingly mesmerised him, and continued the long passes for about 20 minutes, concentrating my will on his idea
Read record →On recovering full consciousness she heard Miss Thompson's voice speaking in the next room
Read record →are shown to have been fully awake immediately before and at the time of the experiment,--in case 62 (Wesermann) the state of the agent, and in case 66 (Wiltse) that of the percipient, is not clearly shown,--it is difficult to resist the conclusion that the co
Read record →comparative frequency of auditory hallucinations, and especially the ease with which auditory illusions can be built up on a basis of real sound, render coincidences of the kind, even the best attested, of less service to support, however valuable as illustrat
Read record →It was dark inside the carriage, and nevertheless, facing my sister and looking at her, I saw in a faint grey light which seemed unnatural, and which was clearest at the point on which my eyes were fixed, a face in profile, not so much vague as soft and transp
Read record →The deferred recognition is by no means without parallel (see case 68 and cases 26, 191, etc., in Phantasms), but in this case the interval which elapsed before the identification of the phantasm was unusually prolonged
Read record →If it had not been that on that very Tuesday night I really was thinking of you very much, and wishing from the bottom of my heart that I could get at you, I should be inclined to say that your apparition was entirely subjective, and that you imagined you saw
Read record →Miss Caldecott has had a visual hallucination on two other occasions, when she was in bed recovering from an illness
Read record →"On the 10th of April 1889, at about half-past nine o'clock A.M., my youngest brother and I were going down a short flight of stairs leading to the kitchen, to fetch food for my chickens, as usual
Read record →"After looking at this apparition, which remained motionless, for some time, about twenty minutes, perhaps, I asked my son [then an undergraduate at B.N.C.] to come and to look out of the window, and tell me what he saw
Read record →een seen by a large number of persons simultaneously, it seems probable that in those who really saw the figure the hallucination was due to repeated verbal suggestions acting on minds which, under the influence of strong emotion, were temporarily in a state a
Read record →A possible explanation of a different kind has been already illustrated by the story quoted on page 153, where it was shown that a solitary hallucination had grown in the course of five-and-twenty years into a collective vision
Read record →invocation of fixed ether, intercalary vortex rings, space of four dimensions, and other subtler forms of the theory evolved in recent times,--it is to be noted that no facts of any significance have been adduced to support it
Read record →I immediately spoke to my wife, who was sitting within a few feet of me, and said, 'Clara, there is something wrong at home; father is either dead or very sick.' She tried to persuade me that it was my imagination, but I could not help feeling that something w
Read record →I awoke and thought I saw my wife standing at Fig
Read record →"I should add, though, that I had been spending that day, August 20th, at Cambridge, and should have stayed the night there had not a sort of vague presentiment haunted me that possibly there would be a letter from home the next morning
Read record →For as there is little in the kind of incident described--the bare occurrence of a hallucination coincidentally with an external event or with another hallucination--to suggest the work of the imagination, there is little warrant for ascribing this consensus o
Read record →"In reply to the questions you asked me about the apparition of Miss ---- to my son, when at Oxford, I can fully verify his statement
Read record →erhaps, be pointed out, as bearing upon the extreme rarity of cases of the kind, that there may be instances of reciprocal affection of which, from the very nature of the case, we could not hope to obtain evidence
Read record →There were several classes of priests, or kahunas, beside those who were connected with the temples
Read record →Kanaloa, the Lucifer, or fallen angel
Read record →The mourning customs of the people were peculiar
Read record →They are slowly sinking under the restraints and burdens of their surroundings, and will in time succumb to social and political conditions foreign to their natures and poisonous to their blood
Read record →A landing was made in the district of Kau, the most southerly point of the island
Read record →st precipitous sides clung overhanging masses of ragged volcanic rock, from the crevices of which a sturdy vegetation had taken root, and in time past gloomily shaded the narrow channel; but the interlacing branches of the trees were almost leafless, and all a
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