MʽKinnon, late pastor of Chalmers’ Free Church, Glasgow, told me a short time ago, “Clairvoyance was nothing…
- Date of account
- Published 1893
- Source
- How to thought-read: A manual of instruction in the strange and mystic in daily life, psychic phenomena, including hypnotic, mesmeric, and psychic states, mind and muscle reading, thought transference, psychometry, clairvoyance, and phenomenal spiritualism
- Reference
- How to thought-read: A manual of instruction in the strange and mystic in daily life, psychic phenomena, including hypnotic, mesmeric, and psychic states, mind and muscle reading, thought transference, psychometry, clairvoyance, and phenomenal spiritualism · selected passage 37
- Rights
- public_domain
- Language
- English
- Record updated
- 2026-08-24
Record summary
MʽKinnon, late pastor of Chalmers’ Free Church, Glasgow, told me a short time ago, “Clairvoyance was nothing more than a high nervous concentrated form of mental vision,” to which I replied, “Admitting the hypothesis--which, however, explained nothing--it matters little what clairvoyance is esteemed to be or called, if…
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Source text · mention onlyThe Rev. Mr. MʽKinnon, late pastor of Chalmers’ Free Church, Glasgow, told me a short time ago, “Clairvoyance was nothing more than a high nervous concentrated form of mental vision,” to which I replied, “Admitting the hypothesis--which, however, explained nothing--it matters little what clairvoyance is esteemed to be or called, if the facts connected with it are acknowledged.” Even this friend admitted he knew a man in Mull, who lived on the half croft, next to his father’s croft. This man had great repute in that district as “having the Second Sight.” Whatever this man foretold always came to pass. One instance will suffice. He (Mr. MʽKinnon) remembered that one day, while this crofter (who was a tailor by trade) was working, he suddenly stopped, and looked _out into vacancy_--as he always did when the “Second Sight was on him”--and described a funeral coming over the hill, the mourners, who they were, and numbers, the way the procession took, and the name of the “man whose face was covered,” and finally, when the procession would appear. Mr.
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