Thoughts are things--living, real and tangible, images, visions, deep and pungent sensations--which exist after…
- 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 57
- Rights
- public_domain
- Language
- English
- Record updated
- 2026-08-24
Record summary
Thoughts are things--living, real and tangible, images, visions, deep and pungent sensations--which exist after their creation distinct and apart from ourselves--“Footprints on the sands of time,” in more senses than one
Published source text
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Source passage
Source text · mention onlyThoughts are things--living, real and tangible, images, visions, deep and pungent sensations--which exist after their creation distinct and apart from ourselves--“Footprints on the sands of time,” in more senses than one. We all leave our mark in a thousand subtle ways. No material microscope or telescope can detect, nevertheless our mark can be discovered by the powers of the human soul. From our cradle to the grave--does it stop there?--every thought, emotion, movement, and action have left their subtle traces, so that our whole life can be traced out by the psychometric expert. We verily give hostages to fortune all through life.
Historical context
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Modern context
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