[CHAPTER IV]
How the subject feels under hypnotization—Dr. Cocke’s experience—Effect of music—Dr. Alfred Warthin’s experiments
[CHAPTER V]
Self hypnotization—How it may be done—An experience—Accountable for children’s crusade—Oriental prophets self-hypnotized
[CHAPTER VI]
Simulation—Deception in hypnotism very common—Examples of Neuropathic deceit—Detecting simulation—Professional subjects—How Dr. Luys of the Charity Hospital at Paris was deceived—Impossibility of detecting deception in all cases—Confessions of a professional hypnotic subject
[CHAPTER VII]
Criminal suggestion—Laboratory crimes—Dr. Cocke’s experiments showing criminal suggestion is not possible—Dr. William James’ theory—A bad man cannot be made good, why expect to make a good man bad?
[CHAPTER VIII]
Dangers in being hypnotized Condemnation of public performances—A commonsense view—Evidence furnished by Lafontaine; by Dr. Courmelles; by Dr. Hart; by Dr. Cocke—No danger in hypnotism if rightly used by physicians or scientists
[CHAPTER IX]
Hypnotism in medicine—Anesthesia—Restoring the use of muscles—Hallucination—Bad habits
[CHAPTER X]
Hypnotism of animals—Snake charming
[CHAPTER XI]
A scientific explanation of hypnotism—Dr. Hart’s theory
[CHAPTER XII]
Telepathy and Clairvoyance—Peculiar power in hypnotic state—Experiments—“Phantasms of the living” explained by telepathy
[CHAPTER XIII]
The Confessions of a Medium—Spiritualistic phenomena explained on theory of telepathy—Interesting statement of Mrs. Piper, the famous medium of the Psychical Research Society