Telepathy and the subliminal self : an account of recent investigations regarding hypnotism, automatism, dreams, phantasms, and related phenomena / by R. Osgood Mason.

  • Mason, R. Osgood (Rufus Osgood), 1830-1903.
Date:
1897
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Telepathy and the subliminal self : an account of recent investigations regarding hypnotism, automatism, dreams, phantasms, and related phenomena / by R. Osgood Mason. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

    20/372 (page 4)
    it will also be evident that the report of these scouts concerning the new and unknown country- is much more valuable than the preconceived opinions of geographers and philosophers, no mat- ter how eminent they may be, who have simply stayed at home, enjoyed their easy-chair, and de- clared off-hand that the new country was useless and uninhabitable. The outlying fields of psychology, which are now the subject of psychical research, are com- paratively a new and unexplored region, and until within a few years it has been considered a barren and unproductive one, into which it was silly, dis- reputable, and even dangerous to enter; the re- gion was infested with dream-mongers, spiritual- ists, clairvoyants, mesmerists, and cranks, and the more vigorously it was shunned the safer would he be who had a reputation of any kind to lose. Such substantially was the condition of public sentiment, and especially of sentiment in strictly scientific circles, fourteen years ago, when the English Society for Psychical Research came into being. The first movement in the direction of systematic study and exploration in this new field was a preliminary meeting called by Prof. W. F. Barrett, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edin- burgh, and a few other gentlemen on Jan. 6, 1882,