Chapter IX: Scheme of Vital Faculty (1)

IX. A. The following scheme[231] is not put forth as expressing deliberate convictions, supported by adequate evidence. Its speculative character has, in fact, excluded it from my text, yet I hope that it may not be without its use. For many men the difficulty of belief is not so much in defect of trustworthy evidence as in the unintelligibility, the _incoherence_ of the phenomena described, which prevents them from being retained in the mind or assimilated with previous knowledge.

I have felt myself the full force of this objection, and I believe that some effort to meet it has become absolutely needful. Undoubtedly a record of facts without theories is the first essential. But the facts individually are like "stones that fall down from Jupiter,"--isolated marvels, each of which seems incredible until we have made shift to colligate them all.

Let us begin, then, by taking the most generalised view possible of all these phenomena. They appear, at any rate, to depend upon the presence of living human beings; and they are therefore in some sense phenomena of _life_. If, then, they are phenomena of life, they must be in some way derived from, or must bear some analogy to, the vital phenomena, the faculties and functions with which we are familiar in the experience of every day. Yet to say this brings us little nearer to our aim. Spirits may have ruled Mr. Moses' mind and body just as truly as our own conscious will rules our mind and body.[232] But the results which they produced were so different from any results which we can produce that it is hard to know where to begin the comparison. Is there not some middle term, some intermediate series, with which both these extreme series may have points of resemblance?

It is here that we ought to feel the advantage of previous discussions on man's own supernormal faculties,--on the powers of the Self below the threshold of ordinary consciousness. We have traced these powers in detail; we have noted the extension of the normal spectrum of consciousness beyond both red and violet ends, in response to subliminal control. Perhaps the profounder conception of the Self thus gained may help us to bridge over that gulf between the performances of the ordinary man and those of the so-called medium which heretofore has involved so difficult a leap. We may find that the spirit's power over the organism which it controls or "possesses,"--while possibly going much further than any subliminal power in the organism itself, as known to us,--may yet advance along similar lines, and receive explanation from hypnotic or telepathic phenomena. I will endeavour, then, to set side by side, in tabular form, the main heads of vital process or faculty as exercised (1) under normal or supraliminal control; (2) under subliminal and telepathic control; (3) under what is claimed as disembodied or spiritual control.

In arranging this scheme my first object is to bring all such phenomena as we actually have before us into intelligible connection; introducing by the way a few of the explanations given to Mr. Moses by his guides. Those explanations, however, are for the most part slight and vague, and our experimental knowledge of the phenomena is, of course, merely nascent and fragmentary. My scheme, therefore, cannot aim at complete logical arrangement. It must involve both repetitions and lacunæ; nor can it be such as the physiologist would care to sanction. But it will, at least, be a first attempt at a connected schedule or rational index of phenomena apparently so disparate that the very possibility of their interdependence b even now constantly denied.

SYNOPSIS OF VITAL FACULTY

I.

FIRST SERIES:--PHENOMENA SUPRALIMINALLY CONTROLLED, OR OCCURRING IN ORDINARY LIFE.

1. Supraliminal or empirical consciousness; aware only of the
material world through sensory impressions.

2. Physical nutrition, including respiration.

(_a_) Physiological and pathological processes and products.

3. Physical expenditure; action on material and etherial
environment.

(_a_) Mechanical work done at the expense of food assimilated.

(_b_) Production of heat, odour, sound, chemical changes, as the
result of protoplasmic metabolism.

(_c_) Production of etherial disturbances; as emission of light and
generation of electrical energy.

4. Action on the incarnation of life on the planet.

(_a_) Reproduction, as physiological division.

5. Mental nutrition; sensory receptivity.

(_a_) Ordinary sense-perception.

(_b_) Memory.

6. Mental expenditure; response to stimuli.

(_a_) Intra-cerebral response; ideation.

(_b_) Emotion; will; voluntary innervation.

7. Modifications of supraliminal personality.

(_a_) Birth; as physiological individuation.

(_b_) Sleep; with dreams, as oscillations of the conscious
threshold.

(_c_) Metamorphoses; as of insects and amphibians; and
polymorphism, as of hydrozoa; multiplex personality.

(_d_) Death; as physiological dissolution.

II.

SECOND SERIES:--PHENOMENA SUBLIMINALLY CONTROLLED.

1. Subliminal consciousness; obscurely aware of the transcendental
world, through telepathic and telæsthetic impressions.

2. Physical nutrition modified by subliminal control.

(_a_) Suggestion, self-suggestion, psycho-therapeutics.

(_b_) Stigmatisation.

3. Physical expenditure modified by subliminal control.

(_a_) Mechanical work modified by psychical integration or
disintegration; hysteria.

(_b_) Production of heat, and other specific effects upon matter,
subliminally modified.

(_c_) Emission of light, and generation of electrical energy
modified.

4. Action on the incarnation of life on the planet.

(_a_) Prenatal suggestion through intermediate organism of parent.

5. Mental nutrition (sensory and supersensory receptivity)
subliminally controlled.

(_a_) Hyperæsthesia; anæsthesia; analgesia.

(_b_) Hypermnesia, manifested in dreams or automatisms.

(_c_) Telepathy; veridical hallucinations; sensory automatism.

(_d_) Telæsthesia or clairvoyance; perception of distant scenes;
retrocognition; precognition.

6. Mental expenditure; response to stimuli modified by subliminal
control.

(_a_) Subliminal ideation; the inspirations of genius.

(_b_) Motor automatism; concurrent consciousness; hyperboulia.

(_c_) Extradition of will-power beyond the organism; telergy;
self-projection.

7. Modifications of subliminal personality.

(_a_) Birth; as spiritual individuation.

(_b_) Sleep and trance; self-suggested or telepathically suggested;
with clairvoyant visions.

(_c_) Ecstasy.

(_d_) Death; as irrevocable self-projection of the spirit.

III.

THIRD SERIES:--PHENOMENA CLAIMED AS SPIRITUALLY CONTROLLED.

1. Subliminal consciousness, discerning and influenced by
disembodied spirits in a spiritual world, who co-operate in
producing objective phenomena.

2. Physical nutrition modified by spirit-control.

(_a_) Spirit-suggestion; psycho-therapeutics.

(_b_) Stigmatisation.

(_c_) Novel and purposive metastasis of secretion.

3. Physical expenditure modified by spirit-control.

(_a_) Mechanical efficiency increased and fulcrum displaced.

(_b_) Control over individual material molecules; resulting in
abrogation of ordinary thermal laws, and in aggregation and
disaggregation of matter.

(_c_) Control over etherial manifestations; with possible effects
in the domains of light, electricity, gravitation, and cohesion.

4. Action on the incarnation of life on the planet.

(_a_) Pre-conceptual suggestion or self-suggestion.

(_b_) Ectoplasy or Materialisation; temporary extradition or
concentration of vital energy.

5. Mental nutrition modified by spirit-control.

(_a_) Ordinary sensory perception spiritually controlled.

(_b_) Memory controlled; retrocognition spiritually given.

(_c_) Sensory automatism spiritually controlled; phantasms of the
dead, etc.

(_d_) Telæsthesia developed into perception of spiritual
environment; precognition.

6. Response to stimuli spiritually controlled.

(_a_) Ideation inspired by spirits.

(_b_) Motor automatism spiritually controlled; possession.

(_c_) Extension of will-power into the spiritual world; prayer.

7. Modifications of personality from spiritual standpoint.

(_a_) Birth; as descent into generation.

(_b_) Sleep and trance induced, and visions inspired, by spirits.

(_c_) Precursory emergence into completer personality; ecstasy with
perception of spiritual world.

(_d_) Death; as birth into completer personality.

(_e_) Vital faculty fully exercised in spiritual world.

IX. B. (1) The following case is quoted from the _Journal_ S.P.R., vol. v. p. 253. Professor Luther writes:--

HARTFORD, CONN., _March 2nd, 1892_.

...Miss C. is often in my study and consults my books freely, so
that her dream was not remarkable. The dream of Mrs. L. (my wife)
was also ordinary in character. The coincidence in time of the
dreams may have been merely a coincidence. But that after these
occurrences Mrs. L. should suddenly, without the least
premeditation and without hesitation, take the right book and open
it at the right page with the certainty of a somnambulist, seems to
me strange....

These events took place yesterday, last night, and this morning.

F. S. LUTHER (Prof. Math., Trinity College).

Mrs. L. and Miss C. live at the same hotel and meet daily. Miss C. is engaged in writing an essay upon Emerson, and expresses to Mrs. L. her wish to obtain some particulars as to Emerson's private life. Mrs. L. regrets that she has no book treating of the subject. During the night following this conversation Mrs. L. dreams of handing Miss C. a book containing an article such as is desired, and Miss C. dreams of telling Mrs. L. that she had procured just the information which she had been looking for. Each lady relates to the other her dream when they meet at breakfast the next morning. Mrs. L. returns to her room, and, while certainly not consciously thinking of Emerson, suddenly finds in her mind the thought, "There is the book which Miss C. needs." She goes directly to a bookcase, takes down vol. xvii. of the _Century Magazine_, and opens _immediately_ at the article, "The Homes and Haunts of Emerson." Mrs. L. had undoubtedly read this article in 1879, but she had never studied Emerson or his works, nor had she made any special effort to assist Miss C. in her search, though feeling a friend's interest in the proposed essay.

After receiving the book and hearing how it was selected, Miss C.
relates her dream more fully, it appearing that she had seemed to
be standing in front of Mrs. L.'s shelves with a large, illustrated
book in her hands, and that in the book was something about
Emerson.

Still later it is found that Miss C. had actually noticed the
article in question while actually in the position reproduced in
her dream. This, however, had happened about a month previous to
the events just narrated, and before she had thought of looking up
authorities as to Emerson, so that she had entirely forgotten the
occurrence and the article. Neither did she, at that time, call
Mrs. L.'s attention to the article, or mention Emerson.

According to the best information attainable, Miss C. was not
thinking of her essay at the time when Mrs. L. felt the sudden
impulse to take down a certain book. And perhaps it should be added
that the volume is one of a complete set of the _Century_ variously
disposed upon Mrs. L.'s shelves.

[This account is signed by Professor Luther, Mrs. L., and Miss C.]

Of special interest are a few cases where the actual mechanism of some brief communication from the spiritual world seems to suggest and lead up to the mechanism which we shall afterwards describe either as ecstasy or as possession.

(2) I give here a case which suggests such knowledge as may be learnt in ecstasy;--as though a message had been communicated to a sleeper during some brief excursion into the spiritual world,--which message was remembered for a few moments, in symbolic form, and then rapidly forgotten, as the sleeper returned fully into the normal waking state. What is to be noted is that the personality of sleep, to which I attribute the spiritual excursion, seems at first to have been "controlling" the awakened organism. In other words, Professor Thoulet was partially entranced or _possessed_ by his own spirit or subliminal self.

I quote from _Proceedings_ S.P.R., vol. xi. pp. 503-5, a translation of the original account of the case in the _Annales des Sciences Psychiques_ (September-October, 1891).

Professor Thoulet writes to Professor Richet as follows:--

_April 17th, 1891._

...During the summer of 1867, I was officially the assistant, but
in reality the friend, in spite of difference in age, of M. F., a
former officer in the navy, who had gone into business. We were
trying to set on foot again the exploitation of an old sulphur mine
at Rivanazzaro, near Voghera, in Piedmont, which had been long
abandoned on account of a falling in.

We occupied the same rooms, and our relations were those of father
and son, or of elder and younger brother....

I knew that Madame F., who lived at Toulon, and with whom I was
slightly acquainted, would soon be confined. I cannot say I was
indifferent about this fact, for it concerned M. F.; but it
certainly caused me no profound emotion; it was a second child, all
was going well, and M. F. was not anxious. I myself was well and
calm. It is true that a few days before, in Burgundy, my mother had
fallen out of a carriage; but the fall had no bad consequences, and
the letter which informed me of it also told me there was no harm
done.

M. F. and I slept in adjoining rooms, and as it was hot we left the
door between them open. One morning I sprang suddenly out of bed,
crossed my room, entered that of M. F., and awakened him by crying
out, "You have just got a little girl; the telegram says ..." Upon
this I began to read the telegram. M. F. sat up and listened; but
all at once I understood that I had been asleep, and that
consequently my telegram was only a dream, not to be believed; and
then, at the same time, this telegram, which was somehow in my hand
and of which I had read about three lines aloud, word for word,
seemed to withdraw from my eyes as if some one were carrying it off
open; the words disappeared, though their image still remained;
those which I had _pronounced_ remained in my memory, while the
rest of the telegram was only a _form_.

I stammered something; M. F. got up and led me into the
dining-room, and made me write down the words I had pronounced;
when I came to the lines which, though they had disappeared from my
memory, still remained pictured in my eye, I replaced them by dots,
making a sort of drawing of them. Remark that the telegram was not
written in common terms; there were about six lines of it, and I
had read more than two of them. Then, becoming aware of our rather
incorrect costume, M. F. and I began to laugh, and went back to our
beds.

Two or three days after I left for Torée; I tried in vain to
remember the rest of the telegram; I went on to Turin, and eight or
ten days after my dream I received the following telegram from M.
F., "Come directly, you were right."

I returned to Rivanazzaro and M. F. showed me a telegram which he
had received the evening before; I recognised it as the one I had
seen in my dream; the beginning was exactly what I had written, and
the end, which was exactly like my drawing, enabled me to read
_again_ the words which I saw _again_. Please remark that the
confinement had taken place the evening before, and therefore the
fact was not that I, being in Italy, had seen a telegram which
already existed in France--this I might with some difficulty have
understood--but that I had seen it ten days before it existed or
could have existed; since the event it announced had not yet taken
place. I have turned this phenomenon over in my memory and reasoned
about it many times, trying to explain it, to connect it with
something, with a previous conversation, with some mental tension,
with an analogy, a wish,--and all in vain. M. F. is dead, and the
paper I wrote has disappeared. If I were called before a court of
justice about it, I could not furnish the shadow of a material
proof, and again the two personalities which exist in me, the
animal and the _savant_, have disputed on this subject so often
that sometimes I doubt it myself. However, the animal, obstinate
as an animal usually is, repeats incessantly that I have seen, and
I have read, and it is useless for me to tell myself that if any
one else told me such a story I should not believe it. I am obliged
to admit that it happened.

J. THOULET, _Professor at the Faculté des Sciences at Nancy_.

Professor Richet adds:--

M. Thoulet has lately confirmed all the details contained in his
letter. He has no longer any written trace of this old story, but
the recollection of it is perfectly clear. He assured me that he
had _seen_ and _read_ the telegram like a real object....

(3) And now I quote a case where a kind of conversation is indicated between the sleeper and some communicating spirit;--recalling the scraps of conversation sometimes overheard (as it were) between Mrs. Piper and some "control" when she is in the act of awaking from trance. These moments "between two worlds" are often, as will be seen, of high significance. In the case here cited we seem to see Mr. Goodall at first misapprehending a message, and himself automatically uttering the misapprehension, and then receiving the needed correction from his invisible interlocutor.

From _Proceedings_ S.P.R., vol. v. pp. 453-5. The following narrative was communicated by Mr. Edward A. Goodall, of the Royal Society of Painters in Water Colours, London:--

_May 1888._

At Midsummer, 1869, I left London for Naples. The heat being
excessive, people were leaving for Ischia, and I thought it best to
go there myself.

Crossing by steamer, I slept one night at Casamicciola, on the
coast, and walked next morning into the town of Ischia.

Liking the hotel there better than my quarters of the previous
night, I fetched my small amount of luggage by help of a man, who
returned with me on foot beside an animal which I rode--one of the
fine, sure-footed, big donkeys of the country. Arrived at the
hotel, and while sitting perfectly still in my saddle talking to
the landlady, the donkey went down upon his knees as if he had been
shot or struck by lightning, throwing me over his head upon the
lava pavement. In endeavouring to save myself my right hand was
badly injured. It soon became much swollen and very painful. A
Neapolitan doctor on the spot said no bones were broken, but
perfect rest would be needful, with my arm in a sling. Sketching,
of course, was impossible, and with neither books, newspapers, nor
letters I felt my inactivity keenly.

It must have been on my third or fourth night, and about the middle
of it, when I awoke, as it seemed at the sound of my own voice,
saying, "I know I have lost my dearest little May." Another voice,
which I in no way recognised, answered, "_No_, not May, but your
_youngest boy_."

The distinctness and solemnity of the voice made such a distressing
impression upon me that I slept no more. I got up at daybreak, and
went out, noticing for the first time telegraph-poles and wires.

Without delay I communicated with the postmaster at Naples, and by
next boat received two letters from home. I opened them according
to dates outside. The first told me that my youngest boy was taken
suddenly ill; the second, that he was dead.

Neither on his account nor on that of any of my family had I any
cause for uneasiness. All were quite well on my taking leave of
them so lately. My impression ever since has been that the time of
the death coincided as nearly as we could judge with the time of my
accident.[233]

In writing to Mrs. Goodall, I called the incident of the voice a
dream, as less likely perhaps to disturb her than the details which
I gave on reaching home, and which I have now repeated.

My letters happen to have been preserved.

I have never had any hallucination of any kind, nor am I in the
habit of talking in my sleep. I do remember once waking with some
words of mere nonsense upon my lips, but the experience of the
voice speaking to me was absolutely unique.

EDWARD A. GOODALL.

Extracts from letters to Mrs. E. A. Goodall from Ischia:--

_Wednesday, August 11th, 1869._

The postman brought me two letters containing sad news indeed. Poor
little Percy. I dreamt some nights since the poor little fellow was
taken from us....

_August 14th._

I did not tell you, dear, the particulars of my dream about poor
little Percy.

I had been for several days very fidgety and wretched at getting no
letters from home, and had gone to bed in worse spirits than usual,
and in my dream I fancied I said: "I have lost my dearest little
May." A strange voice seemed to say: "No, _not_ May but your
youngest boy," not mentioning his name....

Mr. Goodall gave me verbally a concordant account of the affair, and several members of his family, who were present at our interview, recollected the strong impression made on him and them at the time.

(4) The next case is precisely a miniature case of possession.

From the _Journal_ S.P.R., vol. viii. pp. 278-280.

"The following account" (writes Dr. Hodgson) "was sent to me by Mr. John E. Wilkie at the suggestion of one of our American members who is well known to me, and who speaks in the highest terms of Mr. Wilkie as a witness:"--

WASHINGTON, D. C., _April 11th, 1898_.

In October 1895, while living in London, England, I was attacked by
bronchitis in rather a severe form, and on the advice of my
physician, Dr. Oscar C. De Wolf, went to his residence in 6
Grenville Place, Cromwell Road, where I could be under his
immediate care. For two days I was confined to my bed, and about
five o'clock in the afternoon of the third day, feeling somewhat
better, I partially dressed myself, slipped on a heavy bath robe,
and went down to the sitting-room on the main floor, where my
friend, the doctor, usually spent a part of the afternoon in
reading. A steamer chair was placed before the fire by one of the
servants, and I was made comfortable with pillows. The doctor was
present, and sat immediately behind me reading. I dropped off into
a light doze, and slept for perhaps thirty minutes. Suddenly I
became conscious of the fact that I was about to awaken; I was in a
condition where I was neither awake nor asleep. I realised fully
that I had been asleep, and I was equally conscious of the fact
that I was not wide awake. While in this peculiar mental condition
I suddenly said to myself: "Wait a minute. Here is a message for
the doctor." At the moment I fancied that I had upon my lap a pad
of paper, and I thought I wrote upon this pad with a pencil the
following words:--

"DEAR DOCTOR,--Do you remember Katy McGuire, who used to live with
you in Chester? She died in 1872. She hopes you are having a good
time in London."

Instantly thereafter I found myself wide awake, felt no surprise at
not finding the pad of paper on my knees, bcause I then realised
that that was but the hallucination of a dream, but impressed with
that feature of my thought which related to the message, I partly
turned my head, and, speaking over my shoulder to the doctor, said:
"Doctor, I have a message for you."

The doctor looked up from the _British Medical Journal_ which he
was reading, and said: "What's that?"

"I have a message for you," I repeated. "It is this: 'Dear Doctor:
Do you remember Katy McGuire, who used to live with you in Chester?
She died in 1872. She hopes you are having a good time in London.'"

The doctor looked at me with amazement written all over his face,
and said: "Why,---- what the devil do you mean?"

"I don't know anything about it except that just before I woke up I
was impelled to receive this message which I have just delivered to
you."

"Did you ever hear of Katy McGuire?" asked the doctor.

"Never in my life."

"Well," said the doctor, "that's one of the most remarkable things
I ever heard of. My father for a great many years lived at Chester,
Mass. There was a neighbouring family named McGuire, and Katy
McGuire, a daughter of this neighbour, frequently came over to our
house, as the younger people in a country village will visit their
neighbours, and used to assist my mother in the lighter duties
about the house. I was absent from Chester from about 1869 to about
1873. I had known Katy, however, as a daughter of our neighbour and
knew that she used to visit the house. She died some time during
the absence I speak of, but as to the exact date of her death I am
not informed."

That closed the incident, and although the doctor told me that he
would write to his old home to ascertain the exact date of Katy's
death, I have never heard from him further in the matter. I
questioned him at the time as to whether he had recently thought of
Katy McGuire, and he told me that her name had not occurred to him
for twenty years, and that he might never have recalled it had it
not been for the rather curious incident which had occurred. In my
own mind I could only explain the occurrence as a rather unusual
coincidence. I was personally aware of the fact that the doctor's
old home had been Chester, Mass., and had frequently talked with
him of his earlier experiences in life when he began practice in
that city, but never at any time during these conversations had the
name of this neighbour's daughter been mentioned, nor had the name
of the neighbour been mentioned, our conversation relating entirely
to the immediate members of the family, particularly the doctor's
father, who was a noted practitioner in that district.

JOHN E. WILKIE.

Dr. De Wolf, in reply to Dr. Hodgson's first inquiry, wrote:--

6 GRENVILLE PLACE, CROMWELL ROAD, S.W., _April 29th, 1898_.

DEAR SIR,--In reply to your letter of the 27th inst., I regret that
I cannot recall with any definite recollection the incident to
which Mr. Wilkie refers.

I _do_ remember that he told me one morning he had had a remarkable
dream--or conference with some one who knew me when a young
lad.--Very truly yours,

OSCAR C. DE WOLF.

Dr. Hodgson then sent Mr. Wilkie's account to Dr. De Wolf, with further inquiries, to which Dr. De Wolf replied as follows:--

6 GRENVILLE PLACE, CROMWELL ROAD, S.W., _May 4th, 1898_.

DEAR SIR,--Mr. Wilkie's statement is correct except as to
unimportant detail. My father practised his profession of medicine,
in Chester, Mass., for sixty years--dying in 1890. I was born in
Chester and lived there until 1857, when I was in Paris studying
medicine for four years. In 1861 I returned to America and
immediately entered the army as surgeon and served until the close
of the war in 1865. In 1866 I located in Northampton, Mass., where
I practised my profession until 1873, when I removed to Chicago.

Chester is a hill town in Western Mass., and Northampton is
seventeen miles distant. While in Northampton I was often at my
father's house--probably every week--and during some of the years
from 1866 to 1873 I knew Katy McGuire as a servant assisting my
mother.

She was an obliging and pleasant girl and always glad to see me.
She had no family in Chester (as Mr. Wilkie says) and I do not know
where she came from. Neither do I know where or when she died--but
I know she is dead. There is nothing left of my family in Chester.
The old homestead still remains with me, and I visit it every year.

The strange feature (to me) of this incident is the fact that I had
not thought of this girl for many years, and Mr. Wilkie was never
within 500 miles of Chester.

We had been warm friends since soon after my location in Chicago,
where he was connected with a department of the Chicago _Tribune_.
I came to London in 1892 and Mr. Wilkie followed the next year as
the manager of Low's _American Exchange_, 3 Northumberland Avenue.
His family did not join him until 1895, which explains his being in
my house when ill.

Mr. Wilkie is a very straightforward man and not given to illusions
of any kind. He is now the chief of the Secret Service Department
of the U.S. Government, Washington, D. C.

Neither of us were believers in spiritual manifestations of this
character, and this event so impressed us that we did not like to
talk about it, and it has been very seldom referred to when we
met.--Very truly yours,

OSCAR C. DE WOLF.

INDEX

A., Miss, automatic writing, and crystal visions of, 276 _note_, 289-290.

Abnormal and supernormal vital phenomena, 255-257.

Accidents, apparitions at time of, 106-107, 208.

Achille, case of, 359-361.

_Across the Plains_, _cited_, 97.

After-images--
Ghosts described as, 215.
Veridical, 215.

Agassiz, dream intelligence exercised by, case of, 103.

_Ages of Faith_, _cited_, 277 _note_.

Agoraphobia, 34;
cured by hypnotism, 136.

Aidé, Mr. Hamilton, _cited_, 320 _note_.

Aksakof, Hon. Alexander, case reported by, 291-292, 405;
_cited_, 313;
_quoted_, 433-437.

Alcohol in relation to hypnotism, 123, 135.

Alexander, Helen, case of, 388-390.

"Alma," case of, 211.

Alternating Personalities--
Addition of faculty in, 310.
Memory in, 131, 310-311.
"Possession" compared with, 308-309, 336.
X., Félida, case of, 361-363.

_Alterations de la Personalité_, _cited_, 362.

Ambidexterity, relation of, to subliminal mentation, 68.

_American Journal of Psychology_, _cited_, 33 _and note_, 64 _note_,
170 _note_, 265 _note_, 270 _note_.

American Society for Psychical Research, _see under_ Society
for Psychical Research.

Amnesia, case of, 47.

Ampère, case of, 66, 68.

Anæsthesia--
Hypnotic, 138-141.
Hysterical, unconsciousness of patient in, 36-37;
injury not resulting from, 37-39;
patches of, 37, 124.
Witches, patches on, 124.

Anagrams automatically written, 264.

Analgesia induced by hypnotism, 138-141.

_Anatomy of Sleep_, _cited_, 416 _note_.

Angélique, Soeur, 308.

Animals--
Apparition possibly seen by, 456, 457 _note_.
Hypnotisability and suggestibility of, 123-124.
Proximity of, sensibility to, 380.
Shock, effects of, on, 123.
Telepathy between, 188 _note_.

_Annales des Sciences Psychiques_, _cited_, 284, 446.

_Annales Médico-Psychologiques_, _cited_, 47 _note_{1}, 49 _note_{1},
379 _note_, 381 _note_, 382 _note_.

_Année Psychologique, L'_, _cited_, 83 _and note_.

Apparitions, _see_ Hallucinations.

_Apparitions and Thought-transference_, _cited_, 185 _note_{2}.

Arago, _quoted_, 71.

_Arcanes de la vie future dévoilées_, _cited_, 317.

_Archives de Médecine_, _cited_, 98 _note_{3}.

_Archives de Nevrologie_, _cited_, 49 _note_{1}.

Arithmetical calculations done under hypnotism, 152.

---- prodigies, 64-67.

Art, symbolism of, 79-80.

Attention, hypnotic influence on, 153.

Audition--
Coloured, 170 _note_.
Defects of, removed by hypnotism, 143.
Hyperæsthesia of, 270.
Shell-hearing, 201.

Automatic writing, _see under_ Motor Automatism.

Automatism--
Definition of, 168.
Motor, _see_ Motor Automatism.
Sensory, _see_ Sensory Automatism.

_Automatisme Psychologique, L'_, _cited_, 48, 146 _note_, 308 _note_{2};
_quoted_, 85-86.

Ayre, Captain, case of, _cited_, 228 _note_.

Azam, Dr., case of patient of, _quoted_, 361-363.

B., Madame, telepathic hypnotisation of, 382-383.

--, S. H., apparition of, 210-211, 396-399.

Babylonian inscriptions deciphered in dream, 366-369.

Bacchus, Mrs., case of, 234.

Backman, Dr., case of patient of, 211.

Bacon, Francis, _cited_, 184, 341.

Baillarger, _cited_, 96.

Bajenoff, Rev. Basil, case attested by, 417.

Barnes, Mary, case of, 49 _note_{3}.

Barrett, Prof. W. F., _cited_, 320 _note_, 378, 380;
S.P.R. promoted by, 9 _note_{1}.

Barrows, Dr. Ira, _cited_, 295.

Beauchamp, Sally, case of, 49, 308.

Beaumis, Prof., _cited_, 147 _note_.

Beecher, Sir Arthur, case of, _cited_, 244 _note_.

Bérillon, Dr. Edgar, _cited_, 133 _note_, 135 _note_{1}, 139 _note_,
153, 155 _note_, 272.

Berjon, Dr., _cited_, 49 _note_{1}, 379 _note_.

Bernheim, Professor, hypnotic cures by, 117;
work of, 121-122;
_cited_, 133 _note_, 134 _note_, 135 _note_{2}, 155 _note_, 159, 160, 166.

Bertha, Sister (Bertha Foertsch), apparition seen by, 228, 420.

Bertrand, Dr., work of, 119.

----, Rev. L. J., trance of, 400.

_Bibliothèque Diabolique_, _cited_, 277 _note_, 308 _note_{1}.

Bidder, Mr., case of, 66, 68.

Bigge, Wm. Matthew, case of, 384-385.

Biggs, Dr., _cited_, 146 _note_, 151 and _note_.

Binet, Professor, _cited_, 64 _note_, 83, 362.

Binns, Dr., _cited_, 416 _note_.

Blake, William, work of, 58.

Blindness, tactile hyperæsthesia with, 271.

Blyth, Mr., case of, 68.

Boeteau, M., case of patient of, 47.

Bouffé, _cited_, 133 _note_.

Bourdon, Dr., _cited_, 133 _note_, 134 _note_, 137 _note_{1}.

Bourne, Ansel, case of, 45-46.

----, Canon, apparition of, 195, 197.

----, the Misses, apparition seen by, 386-387.

Bourru, Dr., _cited_, 49 _note_{1}, 146 _note_.

Boyle, Mr., case of, _cited_, 107 _note_.

Braid, work of, 120 _and note_{2}-121;
squint of, 125-126.

Brain--
Possession, functions in, 190, 201.
Recovery of, from injury, 81-82.
Spirit's action on, 305.
Telepathic communications in relation to, 304-305.

_Brain_, _cited_, 49 _note_{3}, 98 _note_{1}, 153 _note_{2}.

Bramwell, Dr. J. Milne, _cited_, 49 _note_{3}, 120 _note_{2},
123, 124 _note_, 126 _note_, 129 _note_, 135 _note_{2},
137, 152, 153, 154;
_quoted_, 41.

Breuer, Dr., _cited_, 40-41 _and note_.

_British Medical Journal_, _cited_, 137 _note_{3}, 139 _note_.

Brown, George, evidence given by, 413.

Browne, Miss, 285.

Bruce, Dr., case of, 107-108, 237;
_quoted_, 371-373.

Buddhism, 349, 352-353.

_Bulletins de la Société de Psychologie Physiologique_, _cited_, 382.

Burot, Dr., _cited_, 49 _note_{1}, 146 _note_.

Buxton, case of, 66, 67.

C., Miss, dream of, 315, 445-446.

Cædmon's poem, _cited_, 104 _note_.

Cahagnet, Alphonse, cases of subjects of, 299, 317-318;
_cited_, 204.

Calculating boys, 64-67.

Calculations under hypnotism, 152.

Campbell, General, case of, _cited_, 243.

----, Miss Catherine M., apparition seen by, 243, 429.

Camuset, Dr., _cited_, 49 _note_{1}.

Cataplexy produced by shock, 123.

Cevennes, miracles of the, 285.

Chabaneix, Paul, _cited_, 71 and _note_.

Chaddock, Dr. C. G., _cited_, 98 _note_{4}.

Character, hypnotic influence on, 133-135 _and notes_, 155, 381-382.

Charcot, Prof.--
_Cited_, 52 _note_, 103 _and note_[3], 132 _note_.
Hypnotic school of, 121.
Stages in hypnotism, theory as to, 130.

Charms, potency of, 164.

Childhood, 92.

Children--
Education and training of, value of hypnotism in, 133 _and
note_--134 _and note_.
Phantasms of, 456, 457 _note_.
Terrors of, 33-34.

Chinese devil-possession, 307-309.

Chloroform, influence of, on suggestibility, 122-123.

Christian Science, 128, 165.

Christianity, 3-4, 342, 346, 349-352.

Clairvoyance--
Automatic messages due to, 325.
Definition of term, 6 _note_{1};
inadequacy of term, 105.
Dying, of the, 233.
Genius a kind of, 344.
Joan of Arc, case of, 267.
Medical, 380-381.
Telepathy, relation to, 187.
Travelling--
Cases of, 205-206, 400.
Dreams, likeness to, 205.
Ecstasy and extension of, 337-338.
Hypnotic, 163.
Nature of, 204-205.
Savages, among, 345.
Sleep, during, 301.

Claustrophobia cured by hypnotism, 136.

"Clelia" case, _cited_, 277 _note_.

Cobbe, Miss, cases of, _cited_, 233.

Colburn, case of, 66, 67.

Coleridge, Hartley considered as a genius, 60.

----, S. T.--inspiration of _Kubla Khan_, 104.

Colonial animals, analogy from, 30.

_Comptes Rendus de la Société de Biologie_, _cited_, 146 _note_.

Condillac, _cited_, 71.

Conley, Elizabeth, vision seen by, 315, 412-415.

Consciousness--
Central, in relation to minor consciousness, 30.
Complexity and memory the test of, 28-30.
Dogs, of, 29.
Double, _see_ Secondary Personality.
Ethical and legal view of, 29.
Mind, relation to, 29.
Spectrum of, solar spectrum analogous to, 18-19.
Subliminal, 14-16.
Unreliability of, 14.

Continuity--
Doctrine of, 346.
Evidence, in, demand for, 213.
Life, of, presumptive proof of, 184.
Subliminal mentation, of, 280.

_Contribution à l'étude de l'hypnotisme_, _cited_, 382 _note_.

Coomes, Dr. M. F., _cited_, 146 _note_.

Cooper, Alfred, _quoted_, 370.

Cope, C. H., case collected by, 410-411.

Cosmic and Planetary--
Evolution, 342, 354.
Phases of personality developed simultaneously, 114-115, 165-166.

Cosmic Law--
Christianity the fulfilment of, 346.
Continuity of, 351.

_Courier-Journal_, _cited_, 146 _note_.

Cox, Mrs., case of, _cited_, 228 _note_.

Crawford and Balcarres, Earl of, _cited_, 320 _note_.

Crealock, Colonel, apparition seen by, 244.

Crimes committed under hypnotism, no evidence for, 37, 154.

Crookes, Sir W., _cited_, 24, 186, 319, 320 _note_;
work of, 7.

Crowe, Mrs., _cited_, 317 _note_{2}.

Crum, Amos, evidence obtained by, 413-415.

Crystal Visions--
Collective, analogy of, with collective apparitions, 241.
Distant knowledge acquired by, 201.
Goodrich-Freer, Miss, experience of, 365.
Hypnotisation accompanying, 181.
Method and nature of, 180, 182-183.
Supraliminally unapprehended facts, of, 103.
Symbolic character of, 202.
Telæsthesia in, 201-202.
Telepathic sensibility accompanying gift of, 181-182, 187.

Crystals, sensibility to, 379.

Cryptomnesia, 279, 284, 286.

Cuvier, _cited_, 159.

D., Mrs., case of, _cited_, 228 _note_.

_D. D. Home; His Life and Mission_, _cited_, 319 _note_, 320 _note_.

Dase, case of, 66, 67, 68, 91.

De Fréville, Mrs., apparition of, 243-244.

_De Genio Socratis_, _cited_, 267 _note_{2}.

De Gourmont Rémy, _quoted_, 71.

D'Indy, M. Vincent, _cited_, 71.

De Jong, _cited_, 134 _note_, 135 _note_{1}.

_De l'Intelligence_, _cited_, 98 _note_{2}.

_De la Suggestion et de ses Applications à la pédagogie_, _cited_, 133
_note_, 134 _note_, 153 _note_.

De Musset, _quoted_, 71.

De Normandie, Rev. C. Y., _quoted_, 440.

De Puységur, Marquis, work of, 119 _and note_;
_cited_, 157 _note_, 381.

De Vesci, Lady, case of, 269.

De Wolf, O. C., _quoted_, 451-452.

Dead, the, _see_ Discarnate Spirits.

Deafness removed by hypnotic suggestion, 143.

Dean, Sidney, _cited_, 276 note.

Death--
Apparitions at or near time of, 9, 193, 225-226;
causes conditioning, 225;
time relations in, 224 _note_{2}, 225;
three main types of, 220.
Clairvoyance at time of, 233.
Conditions of, taken on, in mediumistic trance, 318.
Dream of, 228 _note_.
Premonitory vision of, 370.
Prevision of, by discarnate spirits, 232.
Transitional stage immediately following, 230-232, 237, 240.

Dee, Dr., magic of, 180.

Delboeuf, _cited_, 139 _note_{1}, 141, 152.

Delirium tremens, suggestibility developed during recovery from, 123.

Delitzsch, Prof. Friedrich, 365.

Demoniacal possession, 307-309.

Dent, Mrs., 386.

_Des Indes à la planète Mars_, _cited_, 265 _note_, 279.

Despine, Dr. Prosper, 150 _and note_, 157 _note_, 381.

Dessoir, Herr Max, _cited_, 185.

Devils, possession by, 307-309.

Diamanti, case of, 64 _note_.

Dickens, Charles, _cited_, 82-83.

Dignowity, Karl, dream and vision of, 375-377.

Discarnate spirits--
Apparitions of--
Animals, possibly seen by, 456, 457 _note_.
Automatic character of, 215, 221.
Cases of, 226-229, 231-236, 366, 371-373, 375-376, 406-409,
410-411, 416-417, 420-429.
Collective, 241-243.
Compacts, in answer to, 235-236.
Dying, seen by the, 233.
Evidence for, Gurney _quoted_ on, 222.
Evidence of presence, not always to be considered as, 326.
Ghosts, popular theories as to, 214-216.
Nature of, 305-306.
News of death, bringing, 234-235;
coincident with, 239.
Personal and local, 240-243 _and note_[2].
Premonitory, 406-411.
Projected from incarnate minds, 234, 244-245, 249, 250 _note_.
Repeated, 227, 231, 240-241, 401-404.
Results of past mental action as a factor in, 245.
Retrocognition in relation to, 245, 251.
Spatial phenomena in relation to, 250.
Twofold nature of, 306.
Veridical after-images, 215-216.
Attitude of, probable, towards earthly things, 229.
Bewilderment of, immediately after death, 237, 240, 335.
Communications from, 189, 217;
difficulties of spirits in establishing, 335-337;
case of Swedenborg, 317;
types of, 218-219, 221.
Corpse, knowledge regarding, indicated by, 236-238, 406-409.
Death conditions of, reproduced in mediumistic trance, 318.
Evolution amongst, theory as to, 345, 346.
Ghosts, definitions of, 214-215.
Identity, conception of, 334.
Knowledge of, sources of, 289-290.
Material perception of, 203.
Physical intervention of, question as to, 24.
Spacial relations of, 334.
State of, 252-253, 350-351.
Study of problems as to, method of, 229-230.
Surviving friends, thought for, indicated by, 239.
Telekinesis by, 312-314.
Telepathy from, 16, 187, 238, 304.
Terrene affairs--
Knowledge of present and future, evidence as to, 231-233, 292-293, 334.
Memory of, evidence as to, 234-235, 412-415.
Theology, knowledge of, 350.
Time, relation to, 334.
Welcome of friends into spirit world by, 233.

_Dissociation of a Personality_, _cited_, 49 _note_{2}.

Dissociation of ideas, 361.

Dissolution and evolution contrasted, 254-257.

Divining rod, 269, 378.

Distant knowledge, avenues to, 201.

Dodson, Miss L., apparition seen by, 410-411.

Dorez, Dr. A., _cited_, 137 _note_{1}.

Dowsing, 269, 378.

Drawing, automatic, 273 _and note_.

Dreams--
Acuteness of senses in, 97.
Babylonian inscriptions deciphered in, 366-369.
Death, of, 228 _note_.
Hallucinations, defined as, 173.
Hypermnesic, 102.
Hypnotic memory of, 30.
Inferences drawn in, 102.
Life of, concurrent with waking life, 196.
Lost objects, of, 364.
Memory in--
Capricious nature of, 310-311.
Ecmnesic periods of, 101.
Hypnotic memory, relation to, 99-101.
Pain, of, after operations under chloroform, 140.
Scope of, as compared with that of waking memory, 102-104, 113.
Supraliminally known but forgotten facts, of, 102.
Supraliminally unapprehended facts, of, 102-103.
Nature of, 43-44, 53.
Permanent effect of certain, 97-98.
Precognitive, 107-112, 371-373.
Questions asked and replied to in, 278.
Reasoning intelligence of, 103-104, 113-114, 365-366.
Self-suggestion in, 98-99.
Stevenson, R. L., of, 72-73.
Storie, Mrs., case of, _see_ Storie.
Supernormal faculties exercised in, 104-112, 114, 366-375.
Transitional, 231.
Vision in, 172, 175-176.
Visualisation in, 179.

_Dreams of a Spirit Seer_, _cited_, 317 _note_{1}.

Drewry, Dr., _cited_, 48.

Driesen, Baron Basil, apparition seen by, 416-417.

Drugs--
Hypnotic cure of impulse to, 135.
Suggestibility, relation to, 122-123.

_Du Magnetisme Animal_, _cited_, 119 _note_.

Du Prel, _cited_, 43 _note_.

Dual existence in cosmic and planetary worlds, 114-115, 165-166.

Dufay, Dr., _cited_, 152; _quoted_, 365.

Dufour, M., hypnotic treatment by, 382 _and note_.

Dunraven, Lord, _cited_, 320 _note_.

Durand, _cited_, 139 _note_, 150 _note_.

Dyce, Dr., case of patient of, _cited_, 45 _note_.

Dynamometrical power and brain energy, 261.

E., Mlle. A., case of, _cited_, 147 _note_.

Ecmnesia--
Nature of, 310.
Temporary and permanent, 300-301.
Vivé, Louis, case of, 49.

Ecstasy--
Cases of, 337.
Definition of, 303.
Evidence for, 338.
Possession merging into, 314-315.
Revelations of, probably subjective, 317.
Sleep, relation with, 116.

Education and training, value of hypnotism in, 133-134 _and notes_, 153.

Eeden, Van, _cited_, 133 _note_, 134 _note_, 135 _note_{2}, 139 _note_.

Egotistical view of life, 348.

_Einige therapeutische Versuche mit dem Hypnotismus bei Geisteskranken_,
_cited_, 135 _note_.

_Electricité Animale_, _cited_, 381.

Elgee, Mrs., apparition seen by, 392-395.

Elliotson, Dr., _cited_, 159 _note_;
mesmeric hospital of, 117-118, 120.

Ellis, Mrs., case of, _cited_, 228 _note_.

_Encyclopædia Britannica_, _cited_, 125 _note_.

End-organs--
Evolution of, 144.
Knowledge acquired without aid of, 169-170.

Energy, ghost defined as persistent personal, 214-215.

Enthusiasts, self-suggestion in relation to, 42.

Environment, man's evolution a perception of, 74-76.

Epilepsy--
Hypnotism applied to, 46.
Nerve-centres functioning in, 57.
_Post-epileptic_ states, 45-46.

_Erfolge des therapeutischen Hypnotismus in der Landpraxis_,
_cited_, 135 _note_{2}.

Esdaile, hypnotic hospital of, at Calcutta, 52, 120; _cited_,
52, 139 _note_, 159-160, 380.

_Essay on the Intellectual Powers of Man_, _quoted_, 11.

_État Mental des Hystériques, L'_, _quoted_, 36.

Ether, matter in relation to, 313.

_Étude Scientifique sur Somnambulisme_, _cited_, 150 _note_.

Eugenics, study of, 179.

Evens, Mr., case of, _cited_, 228.

Evil, view of discarnate spirits as to, 350-351.

Evolution--
_By-products_ of, so-called, 75-76.
Cosmic, 354.
Dissolutive phenomena contrasted with that of, 254-257.
Environment, a perception of, 74-76.
Path of, 76.
Perturbation masking, 257.
Spiritual, 340-346.
Subliminal faculties, problem of origin of, 90-91.

_Experiences in Spiritualism with Mr. D. D. Home_, _cited_, 320 _note_.

_Experimental Study in Hypnotism, An_, _cited_, 98 _note_{4}, 146 _note_.

Fahnestock, Dr., _cited_, 163 _note_; _quoted_, 381;
work of, 121.

Fairman, Mrs., case of, _cited_, 228 _note_.

Faith--
Aims of, 342-343.
Impulse given to, by spiritualistic knowledge, 341.
Need for, 348.
Self-suggestion in relation to, 166-167.
Uncertainty as an aid to, 343.

_Familiar Lectures on Scientific Subject_, _quoted_, 69.

Fancher, Mollie, case of, 51 _and note_[1].

Faraday, _cited_, 263.

Farez, Paul, _cited_, 134 _note_.

Farler, Archdeacon, case of, 227; _cited_, 240.

Faure, Dr., _cited_, 98 _and note_[3].

Féré, Dr., _cited_, 98 _note_{1}, 261 _and note_.

Fetichism, cures in relation to, 164-165.

Finney, Mrs. W. A., _quoted_, 438-440.

Flournoy, Prof., _cited_, 170, 265 _note_{1};
case of patient of, discussed, 279-286.

Foissac, _cited_, 150 _note_.

Fontan, Prof., _cited_, 150 _note_.

Forel, Dr. Auguste, _cited_, 135 _note_{2};
cases of, _cited_, 153.

_Forum_, _cited_, 210 _note_.

Fraud in connection with spiritualism, 313, 329.

Frémont, General, apparition of, 395.

Freud, Dr., _cited_, 40-41 _and note_.

Fryer, Mr., _cited_, 155 _note_.

Fuller, case of, 66.

G., Mr. F., apparition seen by, 406-409.

--, H., _quoted_, 408.

--, K., _quoted_, 408.

Galton, Mr., _cited_, 65, 96.

Garrison, Mr., case of, 272.

Gauss, case of, 66, 68.

Genius--
Aberrant manifestation, considered as, 56.
Definition of, 20, 56, 60-61.
Growth, analogy with, 82.
Hallucinations resembling inspirations of, 178.
Hypnotism and automatism in relation to, 72, 80-81.
Hysteria in relation to, 41, 53.
Inspirations of, 63-73, 80, 173, 179.
Internal vision of, 173.
Irregularities of, 76-77.
Lombroso's theories as to, 56, 74.
Nature of, 20, 63-64.
Normal, the best type of, 57, 61-63.
Origin of, 89-90.
Potential in all men, 63.
Scope of term, 56-57.
Sensitive's faculties, relation to, 83-84.
Sleep and, analogy between, 104.
Socrates, case of, 83-34, 266.
Stevenson, R. L., case of, 356.
Subjective rather than objective effects the real test of, 60-61.
Subliminal perceptions, the co-ordinated effect of, 58, 63-73, 80.
Substitution of control in, 301.
Telepathy and telæsthesia, relation to, 84-85.
Visual images of, 179.

Geometrical patterns and subliminal mentation, 69-70.

Germany, work on hypnotism in, 120.

Ghosts, _see_ Discarnate Spirits.

Gibert, Dr., experiments by, 160, 185, 382-383.

_Gift of D. D. Home_, The, _cited_, 319 _note_, 320 _note_.

Glanvil, Richard, _cited_, 7 _note_{1}.

Goerwitz, E. F., _cited_, 317 _note_{1}.

Goethe, _cited_, 184.

Goodall, Edward A., case of, 315, 448-449.

Goodhart, S. P., _cited_, 47 _note_{2}.

Goodrich-Freer, Miss, _cited_, 180 _note_;
crystal-gazing experiments of, 103, 365.

Gottschalk, Mr., case of, 206.

_Grande Hysterie chez l'Homme, La_, _cited_, 49 _note_{1}, 379 _note_.

Grant, Mr. Cameron, case of, _cited_, 221 _note_{1}, 273 _note_.

Green, Mrs., case of, 238.

Griesinger, _cited_, 96.

Gurney, Edmund--
Cases investigated by, 108, 320, 369.
_Cited_, 5, 9 _and note_[1], 107 _note_, 111, 112, 125, 130-131,
137, 147 _note_, 152, 160-161, 174, 188, 189, 192, 198, 206,
207, 215, 225, 235, 238, 242, 243, 255, 260, 274-275, 396, 433.
_Quoted_, 222-224, 397, 398, 399, 430.

Guthrie, Malcolm, _cited_, 185 _note_{1}.

Hall, Miss, case of, _cited_, 237.

----, Prof. Stanley, _cited_, 33 _and note_.

Hallucinations--
Accidents, at time of, 106-107, 208.
Arrival cases, 194, 384-385.
Auditory, 245-246.
Bystander the percipient of, 387-390.
Collective cases, 187, 194-196, 198-199, 200, 306.
Crises other than death, connected with, 193, 208, 390-391.
Death, at or near time of, _see_ Death--Apparitions.
Death-compacts prematurely fulfilled, 209.
Discarnate spirits, of, _see_ Discarnate Spirits--Apparitions.
Experimental production of, 209-211.
Genius, resembling inspirations of, 178.
Healthy subjects, of, 192 _and note_.
Hyperæsthesiæ, defined as, 173.
Hypnotism in relation to, 148, 178.
Living, of the--
Cases of, 390-399.
Continuous series from, to those of the dead, 9-10.
Morbid, 179.
Optical laws not followed in, case of, 386-387.
Premonitory dream, 106-109, 371-373.
Projection of figures by agent, 409.
Promises, in fulfilment of, 418-420.
Psychorrhagic cases, 193-198.
Repetition of, 194-195.
Report of Census of, _cited_, 174 _and note_, 192, 193, 226, 233;
_quoted_, 390-391, 400-405, 418-420.
Spirit excursion in relation to, 177-178.
Threefold classification of, 220.
Veridical--
Nature of, 175-177, 216-217;
two-fold nature of, 306.
Types of, apparently outside scope of telepathy, 188-189.
Waking, 206-207.

Hamilton, Duchess of, vision of, 370.

Handwriting, automatic, _see_ Motor Automatism--Writing.

Hanna, Rev. Thos. C., case of, 47-48.

Harriss, Miss, case of, _cited_, 228 _note_.

Hart, Mr., communication from, after death, 332.

Hartmann, Dr. Von, _cited_, 70-71.

Haunting--
Cases of, 244, 421-429.
Earth-bound spirits, by, 241.
Theories as to, 215-216, 247-251.
Unconscious, possibility of, 244.
Veridical after-images, 215-216.

Hawkins, Mrs., case of, _cited_, 195 _and note_[1].

Haydon, genius of, 60.

Hearing, _see_ Audition.

Hector, Mr., case of, 237.

_Herald, The_ (Dubuque, Iowa), case reported in, 412.

Hernaman, Mrs., case of, _cited_, 227 _note_{2}.

Herschel, Sir John, _quoted_, 69.

Heteræsthesiæ--
Hypnotism, produced by, 142, 144-145.
Organic substances, evoked by, 378, 380.

Highest-level nerve-centres, function of, 57.

Hill, Dr., _cited_, 137 _note_{2}.

----, Rev. R. M., case of, 227.

Hilprecht, Dr. Herman V., cases of, 103, 365-369.

----, J. C., _quoted_, 367.

_History of Rationalism_, _cited_, 4.

Hodgson, Dr. Richard--
Cases: attested by, 405-409;
investigated by, 438-440, 449-451.
_Cited_, 181, 297, 324, 328.
_Quoted_, 327-328, 332-333, 335-336, 409.

Hoffmann, M. M., case attested by, 421.

Holiness, definition of, 354.

Home. D. D.--
Case of, 24, 158, 318-319, 327, 337.
Literature concerning, 319 _note_--320.

----, Madame Dunglas, _cited_, 319 _note_, 320 _note_.

Homer, _cited_, 96 _and note_.

Horse-asthma, 380.

Hugo, Victor, 283.

Hydrozoon, analogy from, 30.

Hyperæsthesia--
Auditory, 270.
Cases of, 270, 324.
Hypnotism, produced by, 142-145.
Tactile, 271.
Telæsthesia in relation to, 201, 202.

Hypermnesia, 324.

Hypnagogic visions, 96, 97.

Hypnogenous zones, hypnotic trance induced by pressure on, 124.

Hypnopompic visions, 96-97.

Hypnosis--
External stimuli, place of, in producing, 120, 122-125.
Highest level centres active in, 37-38, 151, 154.
Middle level centres: active in, 148-149:
under control of higher centres if necessary, 154.
Mono-ideism a misleading term for, 137.
Narcosis contrasted with, 123.
Nature of, 116-117.
Normal state of organism the effect of, 39.
Prolonged, effects of, 93-94.
Sleep, relation to, 122.

Hypnotism--
Agoraphobia cured by, 136.
Anæsthetic agent, as, 138-141.
Analgesia induced by, 138-141.
Animals, sensibility of, to, 123-124.
Attention, influence on, 137-142, 153.
Charcot's school of, 121.
Children susceptible to, 133-134 _and notes_.
Claustrophobia cured by, 136.
Community of sensation between hypnotiser and subject, 162.
Consciousness under, 131-132 _and note_.
Crimes not committed under, 37, 154.
Crystal-visions, as a factor in seeing of, 181.
Cures effected by, 122;
classes of cases treated by, 133 _note_--134 _and note_.
Definition of term, 53-54, 156.
Delirium tremens, suggestibility developed during recovery from, 123, 135.
Development of, 5.
Distance no bar to, 160, 185.
Dreams remembered under, 30.
Dynamogenic effects of--
Attention and character, on, 151-155.
Imagination, on, 147.
Perceptive faculties, on, 142-145.
Vaso-motor system, on, 145-146.
Education, value in, 133-134 _and notes_, 153.
Effluence theory, 127, 159, 160-161.
Empirical development of sleep, considered as, 20.
Epilepsy, applied to, 46.
Faith cures in relation to, 166-167.
Future of, 163.
Genius and automatism in relation to, 80-81.
---- ---- sleep in relation to, 72.
Hallucinations in relation to, 148, 178.
Heteræsthesiæ produced by, 142, 144-145.
Hyperæsthesiæ produced by, 142-145.
Hysterical hypnogenous zones, trance induced by pressure on, 124.
_Idées fixes_, cured by, 34, 138.
Inhibition by--
Choice in exercise of faculty made possible by, 141-142.
Education and training of children, value in, 133 _and
note_--134 _and note_.
Memory, as applied to, 137.
Moral results of, 133-136.
Pain, effect on, 139-141.
Intellectual work done under, 152.
Jealousy, influence on, 136-137.
Kleptomania cured by, 134-135.
Maladies cured by aid of, 120.
Maniacs, in cases of, 125.
Memory in--
Alternations in, 131.
Exactness of, 152.
Post-epileptic state of, 46.
Purgation of, 137.
Relation to dream memory, 99-101.
Secondary restored, 47.
Somnambulistic memory a part of, 156.
Wider scope of, than of waking memory, 130-131.
Monotonous stimulation, by, 125-126.
Moral training and reform by, 133-135 _and notes_, 155, 381-382.
Morphia habit cured by, 135-136 _and note_[1].
Music and, 261.
Mysophobia cured by, 136.
Nancy school of, 158.
Narcotic drugs in relation to, 122-123.
Operations performed under, 120.
Pain treated by, 138-141.
Passes, procured by means of, 119-120, 126, 158-159.
"Phobies" cured by, 136.
Pioneer work in study of, 117-122.
Possession externally indistinguishable from, 301.
Post-hypnotic suggestions, three main types of, 219.
_Rapport_ in, 162.
Red light in relation to, 261.
Salpêtrière school of, 121, 123, 132 _note_, 147 _note_, 308, 381.
Self-suggestion in--
Braid's discovery of, 120.
Fahnestock's results in, 121.
Nature of, 129.
Neuro-muscular changes produced by, 128-129.
Schemes of, 127-128, 163-165.
Stimuli, external, merely signals for action of, 125.
Subliminal self, defined as appeal to, 129.
Sexual disorders cured by, 135.
Sleep in relation to, 72, 121-122, 123.
Somatic signs of, 121.
Somnambulic state contrasted with, 137.
Squint, convergent, produced by, 120, 125-126.
Stages of--
Charcot's three stages, 130;
depth of, 131;
Gurney's two stages, 130-131.
Stigmatisation due to self-suggestion, 146 _and notes_.
Subliminal operation in, 129-130, 132, 143, 147-149.
Suggestion in--
Braid's discovery, 120.
Nature of, 126-127.
Mode of action unknown, 159.
Responsiveness to, requisite, 122-123.
Telæsthesia in relation to, 149-150.
Telepathic, 158-163, 382-383.
Telepathic _v._ physical influence, 160-161.
Travelling clairvoyance under, 163.
Will-power, effect on, 153-154.

_Hypnotism_ (Dr. Bramwell), _cited_, 120 _note_{2}, 126 _note_, 129 _note_.

_Hypnotisme, Double Conscience, etc._, _cited_, 361 _note_.

_Hypnotisme et l'Orthopédie morale, L'_, _cited_, 134 _note_.

_Hypnotismus und seine Anwendung in der praktischen Medicin, Der_,
_cited_, 135 _note_{2}.

Hyslop, Prof., _cited_, 333 _and note_.

Hysteria--
Anæsthesia in--
Accidents avoided in, 37, 38.
Fanciful areas of, 37, 38.
Organic disease unnoticed in, 39.
Patches of (witch marks), 124.
Sensibilities, separation of, 52.
Unconscious, 36-39.
Aphasia in, 52.
Genius in relation to, 41, 53.
Hyperæsthesia in, 52-53.
Nature, of 40.
Predisposition to, causes of, 40-42.
Types of, 35.
Visual area reduced in, 38-39.
Witches, of, 5.

_Idées fixes_--
Disaggregation, first symptom of, 33.
Enthusiasts of, 41-42.
Hypnotic cure of, 34, 138.
Nature of, 33-34.

Identity of discarnate spirits, cases offering proofs of, 433-439.

_Illusions hypnagogiques_, 96, 179, 182.

Imagination, effect of hypnotism on, 147.

Improvisation, 81, 82.

Inaudi, Jacques, case of, 64 _note_.

_Incidents in my Life_ (D. D. Home), _cited_, 319 _note_.

Inhibition--
Hypnotic, _see under_ Hypnotism.
Socrates, case of, 268.

Inorganic matter, spiritual influence exerted on, 312-314.

_Inquiry into Human Faculty_, _cited_, 96.

Insane, drawings of the, 265 _note_{1}.

Inspiration the effect of subliminal uprush, 56, 65.

_Instauratio magna_, _cited_, 341.

_Introduction of Mesmerism with sanction of Government
into the Public Hospitals of India, The_, _cited_, 139 _note_.

Jackson, Dr. Hughlings, _cited_, 57.

James, Prof. W., _cited_, 46, 48 _note_, 69
_note_{3}, 295 _note_, 327, 328 _and note_;
_quoted_, 276 _note_, 329.

Janet, Dr. Jules, cases of patients of, 36-37;
experiment by, 130.

----, Dr. Pierre, cases of patients of, 359-361, 382;
_cited_, 36-37, 34 _and note_[1], 38-39, 48, 101
_note_{3}, 123, 146 _note_, 147 _note_, 275, 308 _note_{2};
_quoted_, 36, 85-86.

Jealousy cured by hypnotism, 136-137.

Jeanne des Anges, Soeur, _cited_, 277 _note_.

Jesus Christ, resurrection and teachings of, 351.

Joan of Arc, case of, 266-268.

Johnson, Miss A., _cited_, 174 _note_.

----, Samuel, 7 _note_{1}.

Johnstone, Rev. J. C., _quoted_, 110-111.

Jones, Mr. F. J., case of, _cited_, 228 _note_.

Jowett, Prof., _cited_, 86 _note_.

Kant, Immanuel, _cited_, 6, 317 _note_{1}.

Kapnist, Countess Eugénie, apparition seen by, 240, 418-420.

Kardec, Allan, _cited_, 283.

Keulemans, Mr., case of, _cited_, 181, 227 _note_{2}.

Kingsford, Dr. Anna, 283.

Kleptomania cured by hypnotism, 134-135.

Kobbé, Major, case of, 272.

Krafft, Ebing, Dr. R. von, case of patient of, 98-99;
_cited_, 146 _note_.

Kubla Khan, inspiration of, 104.

L., Mr., case of, 186-187.