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| Introduction, | [5] |
| Chapter I.—Somnambulism and Psychic Phenomena, | [9] |
| The Hypnotic, Mesmeric, and the Psychic States.
Hypnotism a Curative Agent; the Sixth Sense; Dreams, Premonitions;
Double and Psychic Consciousness. Evidences of the Soul within us. | |
| Chapter II.—Clairvoyance, | [23] |
| Psychoscopy, or Soul Sight. Spiritual Faculty,
exhibited by religious ecstatics, not a common possession.
How Cultivated. The Opinions and Evidence of Men of Science.
Second Sight. The Utility of Soul-Sight. | |
| Chapter III.—Clairvoyance Illustrated, | [33] |
| Classified. Strange Story of the Chicago Water
Supply. Lost Goods Restored. An Aid to the Physician. Experiments
in Rothesay. Remarkable Clairvoyants. Clairvoyance in Mesmerism
and in Spiritualism. | |
| Chapter IV.—Psychometry, | [53] |
| Soul-Measuring and Soul-Measurers. Dr. Buchanan’s
Discoveries. Professor Denton’s Experiments. Detective’s Clues;
what Psychometry can do. Testimony of Mr. Stead and the Rev. Minot
J. Savage. Disease Detected, and Character Gauged by this Faculty. | |
| Chapter V.—Thought-Transference and Telepathy, | [69] |
| Explained and Defined. Transference of Taste in
Mesmerism. Thought-Transference, in Dreams, from the Dying to the
Living; the Dead to the Living; in Prayer; in ordinary Experience.
Incidents and Experiences, etc. Mark Twain, Hudson Tuttle, and Dr.
Hilden. | |
| Chapter VI.—Thought-Reading Experiments, | [88] |
| Thought and Muscle-Reading Distinguished. Projecting
Mental Pictures. Normal Experiments, without contact, by Professor
Lodge, Mr. Guthrie, and Professor Barrett. Some Practical Suggestions.
Muscle-Reading Entertainments. Directions. | |
| Chapter VII.—Spiritualism, | [102] |
| “How to Thought-Read” and Phenomenal Spiritualism.
The Spirit within us. The rejection of the Psychic. The Fraudulent
in Spiritualism. Spiritualism without Spirits. Thought-Reading by
Spirits and Mediums. | |
| Chapter VIII.—Spiritualism.—Continued, | [115] |
| Automatic Writing. A Test Medium. Trance Addresses.
A Direct Spirit-Painting. Reflections and Speculations. Testimony of
Cromwell F. Varley, F.R.S., the Electrician. Theosophy a Revised
Version of Hindoo Metempsychosis, etc. etc. | |