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er the names of objectivity of types, personification, change of personality, etc.—that a hypnotized subject can be transformed by a word into such other living being as may be desired, according to the measure in which his suggestibility on the one hand and t
Read record →He also showed himself to her in his laboratory, surrounded by utensils and instruments appropriate to the sorcerer and alchemist that he was; or, again, as the physician and possessor of secret elixirs, the knowledge of which is productive of consultations or
Read record →After the handwriting, in its turn came speech, which also was attained by means of two stages
Read record →It is well known how the calligraphy of a hypnotized subject varies according to the suggestion that he shall personate Napoleon, Harpagon, a little girl, or an old man; there is nothing surprising in the fact that the hypnoid secondary personality of Hélène,
Read record →rais, etc., which appear above the first autograph of Leopold (see p
Read record →At the very moment at which Leopold writes by her hand, speaks by her mouth, dictates to the table, upon observing her attentively I have always found her absorbed, preoccupied, as though absent; but she instantaneously recovers her presence of mind and the us
Read record →Hélène has more than once told me of having had the impression of becoming or being momentarily Leopold
Read record →The psychological process of this transmission is varied from another cause
Read record →The next day she wrote me a seven-page letter in which she described a very striking dream she had had during the night
Read record →Eight days later I paid another visit to Hélène, and after an effort to secure some handwriting, which was not successful, but resulted in a Martian vision (see Martian text No
Read record →A final example will show us Leopold, in his rôle of watcher over the health of Mlle
Read record →A neuralgic toothache is felt in a dream hours before it makes itself felt in our waking consciousness, while some maladies are often thus foreshadowed several days before they actually declare themselves
Read record →narrow limits; fly, for example, towards the illimitable horizon which spiritism opens up to its happy followers, and as soon as this vague hope takes shape, nothing seems to prevent its immediate realization; and the only cause for wonder is found in the fact
Read record →It will be interesting to follow step by step the phases of this elaboration: but since it always, unfortunately, hides itself in the obscurity of the subconsciousness, we are only cognizant of it by its occasional appearances, and all the rest of that subterr
Read record →Lemaître had sent her with the idea of procuring some moments of distraction for the unhappy mother
Read record →From the beginning, says the report of the seance, Mlle
Read record →The initial series of cœnæsthetic hallucinations, corresponding to a voyage from the earth to Mars, reflects well the childish character of an imagination which scientific problems or the exigencies of logic trouble very little
Read record →Lemaître to remember it for several months, was, during all of the time referred to, one of the most regular attendants upon the seances of Mlle
Read record →One point which still remains to be cleared up in the seance, as I come to sum up, is the singularly artificial character and the slight connection between the Martian vision, properly so called, and the reappearance of Raspail and Alexis Mirbel
Read record →The medium who partially recollects her automatisms, or to whom the sitters have detailed them after the close of the seance, adding also their comments, becomes preoccupied with these mysterious revelations; like the paranoiac, who perceives hidden meanings o
Read record →Compared with the seance of November, 1894, that of February, 1896 (of which a résumé follows), shows interesting innovations
Read record →Hélène thereupon mimics the voyage to Mars in three phases, the meaning of which is indicated by Leopold: a regular rocking motion of the upper part of the body (passing through the terrestrial atmosphere), absolute immobility and rigidity (interplanetary spac
Read record →It has seemed to me necessary to describe with some detail this seance, at which the Martian language made its first appearance, in order to place before the reader all the fragments which we have been able to gather, without, of course, any guarantee of absol
Read record →February 16, 1896.—“At the beginning of this seance, Hélène has a vision of Alexis Mirbel, who announces, by means of the table, that he has not forgotten his French, and that he will give a translation of the Martian words another day
Read record →This seance, which was almost a failure, was the last of that period
Read record →This phrase was undoubtedly Martian, but what was the meaning of it?
Read record →tter the name of Esenale, to which Hélène replies in a soft, feeble, somewhat melancholy, voice: “Esenale has gone away
Read record →In using the word “romance” to designate the Martian communications, taken as a whole, I wish to state that they are, to my mind, a work of pure imagination, but not that there are to be found in them characteristics of unity and of internal co-ordination, of
Read record →Then at the first recurrence to this talisman (November 2d, see p
Read record →overs about (his mother), sees her with joy, but is incapable of speaking to her in your language.[18] Whether it will return to him I do not know and cannot say, but I believe that it will
Read record →“The great man Astané” is the reincarnation on Mars of the Hindoo fakir Kanga, who was a devoted companion and friend of Simandini
Read record →When Astané says to Hélène, during a seance: “Come to me an instant
Read record →Nevertheless, at his first apparition (September 5, 1896, see p
Read record →The messages were obtained by means of visions and typtological dictations
Read record →Kanga, the Hindoo fakir, holds in the life of Simandini exactly the same place as Cagliostro in the life of Marie Antoinette, the place of a sorcerer giving beneficial counsel, and at the same time of a platonic adorer, and both of them in their actual rôles o
Read record →Smith, it may be said that it is the same fundamental emotion which has inspired these twin rôles, the details of which have been adapted by the subliminal imagination to correspond to the diversity of the circumstances
Read record →On parallel lines, in these two dreams issuing from the same emotional source, it is the universal and constant taste of the human imagination for the marvellous, allied to the very feminine need of a respectful and slightly idolatrous protector, which on the
Read record →When we pass to the garden the same amalgam of analogies and unlikenesses to our flora are discovered
Read record →The following are some details concerning that vision, which occupied the greater part of a seance (November 28, 1897)
Read record →At this moment the vision, which has lasted an hour and a quarter, passes away
Read record →The imagination which forged these scenes, with all their decoration, is remarkably calm, thoughtful, devoted to the real and the probable
Read record →A wise little imagination of ten or twelve years old would have deemed it quite droll and original to make people up there eat on square plates with a furrow for the gravy, of making an ugly beast with a single eye carry the telescope of Astané to him, of maki
Read record →First: Verbo-auditive automatism, hallucinations of hearing, accompanying visions in the waking state
Read record →Secondly: Vocal automatism (“verbo-motor hallucinations of articulation,” in the cumbersome official terminology)
Read record →September 12, 1897.—At the end of a quite long Martian vision, Mlle
Read record →We may conclude from these successive stages that the Martian handwriting is the result of a slow autosuggestion, in which the idea of a special writing instrument, and its handling, for a long time played the dominant rôle, then was abandoned, without doubt,
Read record →November 29, 1896 (translated same seance).—Spoken by Esenale and addressed to Mme
Read record →December 4, 1896 (translated December 13)
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