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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.