[A] In this way evil habits, such as erotic mania, opium eating, dipsomania, etc., may be cured. When the strength of the vice and the deterioration of the brain and body are such as to undermine the will of the patient, hypnotism, properly employed, may be used and recognised as a powerful and legitimate curative agent.
[B] “Phrenological Annual,” 1892. Extract from article by Dr. Samuel Eadon, M.D., M.A., LL.D. and Ph.D., etc., Aberdeen and Edinburgh Universities.
[C] “Spirits Before our Eyes,” page 215. By W. H. Harrison, 1879.
[D] Dr. Joseph Rhodes Buchanan has been Dean and Professor in several American universities. As far back as 1830 he was Professor of Medicine in Transylvania University. In the year 1841 he made several important discoveries in cerebral psychology, which he communicated to the American and to the Edinburgh Phrenological Journals. These discoveries are elaborated in his unique system of Anthropology, and are published in his works—“Therapeutic Sarcognomy,” “Psychometry,” “The Dawn of a New Civilisation,” “System of Anthropology,” and “The New Education—which can be obtained through my publishers, or direct from myself.”
[E] Thought (says Professor Houston) is accompanied by molecular vibrations in the grey matter of the brain, and these brain molecules, like everything else, are immersed in and interpenetrated by ether; this being so, their vibrations must set up wave-motions in the ether, and these must spread out from the brain in all directions. Further, these brain-waves, or thought waves, being thus sent out into space, will produce some phenomena, and, reasoning by analogy we may expect that—as in the case of sound-waves—sympathetic vibrations will be set up in bodies similar to that which generates the waves, if those bodies are attuned to respond. Again, reasoning by analogy, we may expect—as in electric resonance—that such oscillations would be set up as are found when electric waves are sent out and, meeting a circuit in consonance with them, set up in that circuit oscillations like their own.
In view of these facts, which are well ascertained, he (Professor Houston) considers that it does not seem improbable that a brain engaged in intense thought should act as a centre for thought-radiation, nor that these radiations, proceeding outwards in all directions, should affect other brains on which they fall, provided that these other brains are tuned to vibrate in unison with them.
Light waves are etheric vibrations, and it would seem that these brain-waves should “partake of the nature of light.” If so, why should it not be possible to obtain, say, by means of a lens, a photographic impression of them?
Such a thought-record suitably employed might be able to awaken at any subsequent time in the brain of a person submitting himself to its influence thoughts identical to those recorded.—English Mechanic.
[F] The contact is usually made by the agent taking the wrist, or by placing his hand on the brow of the reader.
[G] “The Use of Spiritualism.” By S. C. Hall, F.S.A., late Editor of the Art Journal, author of “The Retrospect of a Long Life,” etc. Price, 1s., Post Free, 1s. 1d. Hay Nisbet & Co., London and Glasgow.