Chapter I: Front Matter

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HOW TO THOUGHT-READ:

_A MANUAL OF INSTRUCTION_

IN THE

STRANGE AND MYSTIC IN DAILY LIFE,
PSYCHIC PHENOMENA,

INCLUDING

_Hypnotic, Mesmeric, and Psychic States, Mind and Muscle
Reading, Thought Transference, Psychometry, Clairvoyance,
and Phenomenal Spiritualism_.

BY

JAMES COATES, Ph.D., F.A.S.,

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CONTENTS.

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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.