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The phenomena Theosophists place so much reliance upon are the property of mankind--somnambulism, psychic…

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 115
Rights: public_domain
Language: English
Record updated: 2026-08-24

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The phenomena Theosophists place so much reliance upon are the property of mankind--somnambulism, psychic consciousness, clairvoyance, psychometry, thought-transference, etc

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The phenomena Theosophists place so much reliance upon are the property of mankind--somnambulism, psychic consciousness, clairvoyance, psychometry, thought-transference, etc. The “Theosophic miracles of communication with persons in other parts of the world” are explicable by thought-transference, and in time may be no more inherently impossible than telegraphy without wires and poles. The physical wonders of Theosophy, akin to those of Spiritualism, are attributed to _shells_, the _astral_ carcases of once embodied but now rapidly dissolving _personality_ of man, and _elementals_, fragmentary spirit imps or sprites, who up to the present have not been as yet incorporated in some incarnated human soul.

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