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
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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.

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    THOUGHT-TRANSFERENCE CLASSIFIED. Experiments on the subject of thought-trans- ference fall naturally into four classes : (i) Those where some prearranged action is accomplished, personal contact being maintained between the operator and the sensitive. (2) Similar performances where there is no con- tact whatever. (3) Where a name, number, object, or card is guessed or perceived and expressed by speech or writing without any perceptible means of ob- taining intelligence by the senses or through any of the ordinary channels of communica- tion. (4) Where the same ideas have occurred or the same impressions have been conveyed at the same moment to the minds of two or more persons widely separated from each other. The first and second of these classes are simply examples of the willing game carried on under more strict conditions, but they are not counted as of special value on account of the possibility of information being conveyed when contact is per- mitted, and by means of slight signals, mere move- ments of the eye, finger, or lip, which might quickly be seized upon and interpreted by the sen- sitive, even when there was no actual contact. The third and fourth class, however, seem to exclude