A portion of the papers here presented are republished, much revised, by courtesy of The New York Times.

New York, October, 1896.


CONTENTS.

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[CHAPTER I.]
Psychical Research—Telepathy or Thought-Transference[1]
[CHAPTER II.]
Mesmerism and Hypnotism—History and Therapeutic Effects[28]
[CHAPTER III.]
Hypnotism—Psychical Aspect[51]
[CHAPTER IV.]
Lucidity or Clairvoyance[74]
[CHAPTER V.]
Double or Multiplex Personality[116]
[CHAPTER VI.]
Natural Somnambulism—Hypnotic Somnambulism—Dreams[129]
[CHAPTER VII.]
Automatism—Planchette[151]
[CHAPTER VIII.]
Automatic Writing, Drawing and Painting[181]
[CHAPTER IX.]
Crystal-gazing[198]
[CHAPTER X.]
Phantasms[224]
[CHAPTER XI.]
Phantasms, Continued[262]
[CHAPTER XII.]
Conclusions[307]

CHAPTER I.

PSYCHICAL RESEARCH—TELEPATHY OR THOUGHT-TRANSFERENCE.