Category: Psychiatry/Psychology
In 1840 I became acquainted with Dr. Colyer, then lecturing on Mesmerism, at Peel's Museum, New York, and fully believed, at that time, that he was a humbug, and Mesmerism a fraud. Soon after this, while visiting some friends, with Mr. Pendleton, formerly from Boston, this sub...
Magnetism may be classed under three heads: Terrestrial, Aerial, and Ethereal or Spiritual Magnetism. These are only different modes or grades of expression of the same thing; a...
6. CHAPTER III.The severest tests which I could apply to these manifestations convinced me that not only the forms which surrounded these spirits, but the garments which they wore were "materi...
4. CHAPTER I.Not being acquainted with any "materializing medium," so termed, I obtained from Mr. Luther Colby, of Boston, a letter of introduction to Mrs. H. B. Fay, of that city, stating t...
11. CHAPTER VIII."Spirits are never finely touched But to fine issues; nor Nature never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence, But, like a thrifty goddess, she determines Herself the glor...
9. CHAPTER VI.Among the strong points in evidence of the genuineness of these manifestations are the marked individuality and constant variations that appear. The seances with the same medium...
19. CHAPTER V.When Mesmer appeared in Paris, exhibiting his claims to Magnetism, he was ridiculed, and treated as a humbug. The French Academy of Science, after due consideration, pronounced...
12. CHAPTER IX.In looking over my notes, my attention is strongly drawn to the many remarkable things I have witnessed at the Berry Sisters'. As I have given a drawing of Mrs. Fay's cabinet, a...
7. CHAPTER IV.At Mrs. Fay's, on Thursday, Oct. 6, 1885, previous to the seance, Mrs. Fay came into the room under the control of "Auntie," and requested that four ladies should be selected by...
10. CHAPTER VII.The mediumship of Mrs. Fairchild differs from that of others inasmuch as she stands outside of the cabinet, under the influence of one of her controls, managing the seance with...
8. CHAPTER V.At an interview with Mr. W. C. Tallman, Mr. W. A. Hovey, and Rev. M. J. Savage, the question of obtaining private seances, in the interest of the Committee on Psychical Research...
16. CHAPTER II.There have often been sensational reports circulated claiming to be "exposures" of materialization, but when traced to their origin they have generally been found to be unreliab...
13. CHAPTER X.Years ago I had a friend who was generous to a fault. He freely gave wherever he thought there was need. With all his liberality, he was singularly successful in business, and w...
15. CHAPTER I.The nature of man is, to a certain extent, dual. The brain is divided into two parts; there are two sets of nerves crossing each other, so that an injury received on the left si...
18. CHAPTER IV.The world is indebted to scientists for their clear arrangement of and deductions from what others have discovered; for, as a rule, they are not inventive. Hasty in condemning e...
5. CHAPTER II.I had, during this time, allowed nothing to pass unnoticed. From forty to sixty forms would often manifest at a seance, apparently of both sexes, and of all ages and sizes, from...
17. CHAPTER III.No comparison can justly be made between different mediums. All are excellent in their way. The preference that is given to one over others is mainly due to personal feeling, to...
2. Part II.In 1840 I became acquainted with Dr. Colyer, then lecturing on Mesmerism, at Peel's Museum, New York, and fully believed, at that time, that he was a humbug, and Mesmerism a fra...
14. PART II.Heat, light, electricity, and force are common things. We accept them as matters of everyday life; our familiarity with them prevents surprise. In our attempts to discover or le...
3. PART I.Man is what he feels. He may dazzle the world for a while with the splendor of his acquirements, but, like an iceberg that glistens in the frosty air and disappears in a more ge...
1. Part I.