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CONTENTS.

PAGE
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.

INTRODUCTION.

The first book of this series, “How to Mesmerise,” gave so much satisfaction to the reading public, and having passed into several editions, my publishers have asked me to write another work on similar lines. This brochure is my response. Clairvoyance, Psychometry, and Thought Transference—briefly referred to in the former—are more fully gone into in this. Consequently, I have little doubt “How to Thought-Read” will meet with acceptance.

Thought-reading is duly considered and explained. A clear distinction is drawn between Musculation, or Muscle and Mind-Reading; and although these pages are not confined to Thought-Reading, as generally understood by the public, the subject itself, and as an entertainment, have been pretty fully dealt with.

During the past decade, psychological subjects have, in a remarkable way, arrested public attention. “New Mesmerism” and “New Spiritualism” are popular subjects with editors and magazine writers. Whatever the real causes—a greater influx of the spiritual from “the state of the dead,” or from a reaction in the minds of men against the purblind materialism of our scientific leaders—it is hard to say. Possibly these and other causes have been at work. One thing is certain, for good or ill, the majority of thinking men and women of the age are not only interested in, but are actually searching for evidence of “embodied spirit.” Hence we find men of science, journalists, and even professed materialists and secularists, who, a few years ago, could scarcely speak of these subjects in the ordinary language of courtesy, confess now not only their belief, but are going to the other extreme of advocating, what as yet, they have failed to fully grasp.