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abnormal ADDINGTON BRUCE apparitions become Bodily Death Boris Sidis Breuer cause clairvoyance consciousness cure dead discarnate spirits dissociated Edmund Gurney Eusapia evidence experiments F. W. H. Myers fact Felida Fox sisters Frank Podmore Freud hallucinations hand Hodgson Home human personality hypnosis hypnotism hysteria hysterical ideas insanity instinct of fear investigation Janet Liebeault Madame Blavatsky malady medium mediumship ment mental Mesmer method of hypnoidization mind Miss Beauchamp Myers Nancy school nature nervous normal patient percipient phenomena physical physician Pierre Janet Piper Podmore Podmore's present problem Professor Hyslop Psychical Research psycho psycho-analysis psycho-neurotic psychological clinic psychology psychopathological psychopathologists repressed Salpetriere scientific seance seemingly seems sexual Sidis's sitters sleep Society for Psychical sonality spiritistic spiritistic hypothesis subconscious subliminal suggestion supernormal supraliminal Survival of Bodily symptoms telepathic hypothesis telepathy theory thought tion trance treatment waking writing
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Page 30 - My personal identity, therefore, implies the continued existence of that indivisible thing which I call myself. Whatever this self may be, it is something which thinks, and deliberates, and resolves, and acts, and suffers.
Page 138 - I am persuaded of the medium's honesty, and of the genuineness of her trance; and although at first disposed to think that the 'hits' she made were either lucky coincidences, or the result of knowledge on her part of who the sitter was and of his or her family affairs, I now believe her to be in possession of a power as yet unexplained.
Page 197 - ... until the lump of charcoal was nearly white-hot, and then drew my attention to the lambent flame which was flickering over the coal and licking round his fingers ; he fell on his knees, looked up in a reverent manner, held up the coal in front, and said, ' Is not God good ? Are not His laws...
Page 197 - Mr. Home again went to the fire, and after stirring the hot coal about with his hand, took out a red-hot piece nearly as big as an orange, and putting it on his right hand, covered it over with his left hand so as to almost completely enclose it, and then blew into the small furnace thus extemporised until the lump of charcoal was nearly white-hot, and then drew my attention to the lambent flame which was flickering over the coal and licking round his fingers...
Page 109 - ... Davey's face, and the latter took advantage of the opportunity to remove the locked slate, under cover of a duster, from under my brother's nose to the far end of the room, and there exchange it for a similar slate, with a previously prepared message, which was then placed by means of the same maneuver with the duster in the position originally occupied by the first slate.
Page 40 - ... the ordinary margin of consciousness — not only those faint stimulations whose very faintness keeps them submerged, but much else which psychology as yet scarcely...
Page 120 - Pacific House to send in my orders, which were unusually large ones, so that I was in a very happy frame of mind indeed. My thoughts, of course, were about these orders, knowing how pleased my house would be at my success. I had not been thinking of my late sister, or in any manner reflecting on the past. The hour was high noon, and the sun was shining cheerfully into my room. While...
Page 189 - I saw Mr. Home, in a trance, elongated eleven inches. I measured him standing up against the wall, and marked the place; not being satisfied with that, I put him in the middle of the room, and placed a candle in front of him, so as to throw a shadow on the wall, which I also marked. When he awoke I measured him again in his natural size, both directly and by the shadow, and the results were equal. I can swear that he was not off the ground or standing on tiptoe, as I had full view of his feet, and...
Page 35 - January 17, 1887, he went from Providence to Pawtucket in a horse-car, thence by train to Boston, and thence to New York, where he arrived at 9 PM and went to the Grand Union Hotel, registering as AJ Brown. He left New York on the following morning and went to Newark, NJ, thence to Philadelphia, where he arrived in the evening, and stayed for three or four days in a hotel near the depot.
Page 40 - I propose to extend the meaning of the term, so as to make it cover all that takes place beneath the ordinary threshold, or say, if preferred...