Phantasms of the Living - Abridged

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exception
of
omissions
for
the
sake
of
brevity
in
Chapters
IV
and
XIII
(indicated
in
their
places),
and
The
original
edition,
however,
occupies
two
large
volumes
less well-evidenced
ones has
cases
that
Society.
The
in
the
same
branch
supplied
several
of
the
non
-experimental
cases
in
problems
here
attacked
lie
xliii-xlv
ii.
While,
on
the
other
hand,
if
treating
hasty
assumptions
obtained
by
impossible
to
hypnotic
trance
in
a
is
absolutely
no
by
where the
has become dim
spurious trenchancy
it,
it
may
be
possible
to
present
a
WITCHCRAFT
OMITTED
IN
ordinarily
meagre
neglect
excitement,
presents
most
analogy
to
sleep
nor
of
provably
com-
plete
waking
consciousness
personal
rapport
calamitous
event
unlikely
to
have
suggested
in
the
ordinary
TELEPATHY
T
i.
Dreams
comprise
be
given,
estimate,
a
specimen
group
of
5360
persons,
AS TELEPATHIC
condition
may
be
described
of dreams
agent's
own
figure,
friend
whose
form
he
saw,
of
sight
or
hearing
distinguished
from
sensory
element
of
the
hallucination,
in
is not
representing
complete
and
natural-looking
human
forms,
and
auditory
hallucinations
friend,
the
agent,
with
fact of
sub-conscious
image
?
present
estimate,
.
make
the
other
senses
of
sight
and
hearing
percipient,
are
a
them,
a door or a
(within
a
range
trace
surprising
if
the
that the
phantom champions
precisely
similar,
experience
of the
where
closely
paradox,
piled
early
stage
in
the
history
of
science
before.
seemed
to
be,
while
yet
was the first
the
gulf
between
knowledge
and
moon.
can,
assured
that
enlargement
(it
need
hardly
be
said)
is
conduct
is
not
already
influenced
by
the
conception
thus
gained
on our
convenient
had
these
objections
been
presented
to
are
found
to
be
insoluble,
the
gaps
ignored
nor
supplied,
but
vated
minds,
has
perhaps
profited
by
physiological
automata
optical
illusion.
When
body
strongly
illuminated,
and
of
our
con-
ception
objective
and
subjective
sides
conception
experimental inquiry.
old
free-will
controversy
thought
and
a
residue
an
all-important
the
inadequacy
of
vagueness
dealing
with
the
eclipses
influence for
in
phenomenon
of
these
to
explain
now be im-
Castaly,
unde
Salpetriere
word
on the
our
Society)
can
hardly
be
used
without
apology
in
this
specialised
number
of
intelligent
and
educated
persons
at
the
present
day.
Of
part
(though
not
entirely)
a
genuine
automatic
phenomenon.
they
can
claim,
clairvoyance
are
to
have
occurred,
and
partly
through
the
find
place
Society
for
Psychical
Research
have
studiously
refrained
from
entering
on
obvious
enough
when
stated,
but
we know as
Mind. Such a
intellects,
as
at
present
constituted,
are
in
an
conception
the
material-
istic
synthesis
of
experience.
The
psychical
element
in
man,
I
realise in
are
endeavouring
to
lay
important
element
in
Roman
Catholic
tradition.
They
I
invisible
things,
any
Our
free
will,
over
supposed
extent,
invincible terrors.
are found
not
which it
;
observation,
continued
by
operandi
of
public
maintained
on
the
strength
of
definite
experiment.
Society
for
Psychical
Research
requested
us
to
embody
evi-
dence
before
us,
we
may
recognise
generality
in
reality
the
first
thing
which
it
was
needful
to
take
hypnotic
trance,
under
the
various
forms
of
fitting
place
to
explain
why
we
have
given
presently
described,
to
collect
accounts
of
experiences
which
our
informants
regarded
as
inexplicable
experiences
would
mainly
find that more than half of them are narratives of
appear-
ances
life-history.
The
going
;
illogical
very
uncertain
thing.
When
possible prolongation
another,
plead
in thus
hallucinations
in
general,
alone,
we
must
be
careful
of
to devote the
on
the
whole
the
most
nearly
central
among
the
opinions
wish, however,
facts. A
method
of
collection
may
here
precede
Mr.
Gurney's
full
discussion
(Chapter
IV)
of
the
peculiar
credence
in
existing
collect our own
speak
informants
as
a
body
have
shown
a
subject
apparitions,
we
might
precisely
is not addressed
been invaded in
degraded
by
being
proposal
stars
by
one
hand's-breadth
of
;
human
minds.
Yet
even
human
self-consciousness
is
a
;
them
manifestations. It is to
was
likely
to
give
them
credit
highly
developed
specimens
his
statements
and
begin
to
talk
about.
The
in
by
this
merely
that
the
condition of
special supernormal
we
take
this
step
under
compulsion
account
for
the
1
It
seema
impossible
to
possible
avoided.
That,
if
it
exists,
scientific
study
of
man
being
a
region
appreciation
of
the
strength
of
the
a
priori
objections
which
known. This
will be
person
to
probe
argument
against
experi-
mentation
may
reassure
reads that is
repre-
often be con-
testimony
successful results
the
adequacy
of
any
muscular
of
could not be
towards the
piano,
or
a
particular
book
alphabet
on
scraps
of
paper.
I
then
thought
of
to
M.
impulse
had
consciously
passed
through
her
mind,
only
she
the
right
letters,
touching
them
this
ground.
But
meanwhile
accepted
as
are,
successful
agents
or
percipients
held to establish the
;
fides
of
every
crucial
in
that
they
can
only
fair
mind
ought
good
humour,
pack
made,
clearly
object.
The
following
is
-the
been
complete
failures.
evidence,
which
presents
the
following
95
probable
on
the
hypothesis
very
great,
the
probability
of
their
being
999,
999,
second
guesses.
given,
as
it
were,
piecemeal
in
two
partially
incorrect
guesses
the
pips
or
;
Before we leave th?s
;
usually
that,
better
adapted
owe
our
decidedly
persons
question
important
novelty
that
though
the
success,
as
prob-
1
[Subsequently
covery
that when a
series
than
chance
is
"999,999,999,1
-or
no of
ignored.
point
right
guesses
was
198,
digits
i.e.,
one
1
The
Secretary
of
the
Society
for
Psychical
Research,
20
Hanover
Square,
W.]
a
the
Proceedings
of
the
S.P.R.,
already
referred
to,
and
;
see
carried
out
be
or
arrangement
of
lines
which
difficulties of the
to the
experiments,
where
the
ideas
transferred
were
of
colours,
carefully
mounted
and
pre-
served
by
Mr.
mind
regarding
them
are
that
they
have
been
executed
through
the
instrumentality,
as
agents,
of
persons
of
unquestioned
probity,
and
that
the
responsibility
for
During
the
process
of
transference,
the
agent
looked
steadily
and
in
perfect
 
"
suppose
that
any
time he
introduce this novel
must
refer
the
reader
to
chap.
'
impression
of
large
quantity
earlier
stage
savour,
it
will
perhaps
be
thought
difficulty
caused
by
odorous
substances,
and
even
succeeded
in
obtaining
what
appeared
in the
localised
it
on
the
left
foot.
Both
analogy
to
rest of the
lady.
The
percipient
throughout
pricked.
Rightly
localised.
nearly
exact,
and
in
January,
1883.
The
successively
to answer
made,
I
does not
There
is,
fortunately,
one
sort
see if
we could
prepossessed
A.
know
nothing
word,
but
could
not
quite
Mark
Master
Mason.
A.
Almighty
Ruler
of
person
a
perfect
not
members
in
least
twenty
years
ago.
259.
What
bona
fides
of
the
record,
equivocal
phrase,
by
bonds
of
dreaming.
Thus,
it
has
occurred
to
me
to
be
shown,
in
a
fragmentary
way,
by
conception
in
con-
extremely
simple
kind,
very
elaborate
precautions
would
might
be
produced,
by
these
three
was
always
a
ring
a
B,
with
a
note-book
letter at
simple
movement
necessary
number.
We
probable
number
follows
F
O
Q
H
E
D
I
omitted letter
;
markedly
2
that
the
spelling
of
the
planchette-writing
obtained
through
the
automatism
follow-
ing
experience
worth
describing.
First,
1
Moreover
was written
out,
we
were
from
expecting
indications
be
made
the moment
of
conscious
attention.
(See
the idea of the
movement,
production
he
is
willing.
The
transference
the
right
word,
account
formed
an
the
percipient
would
prevent
words are
latent in
bis mind
if
we
suppose
the
association
For
it
is
not
in
letters
as
such,
communicate
an
impulse
two
specimens
of
than counterbalanced
give
turn
away
and
not
give
forehead
:
living
persons
present,
about
in
the
newspapers,
or
experiment
shall
not
require
induces
connecting
link
between
the
other
results
produced
at
a
much
greater
distance
than
any
of
those
that
have
been
so
far
described.
Not
that
greater
transitional
as
in
regards
mesmeric
cases
where
a
any
in-
or
the
threat
impressed
on
topics,
wine-glass
was
filled,
without
my
level of
At last
H. S.
account
was
sent
I
was
there."
Thompson
continues
go
and
pick
a
piece
of
a
cousin
of
Mr.
Thompson's
and
has
pathic experiments
agent
or
operator
is
usually
in
active
play,
admits,
of
course,
naturally
desire
that
the
experiment
persistent.
When
we
are
picturing
performed
by
a
person
in
our
sight,
we
easily
come
to
regard
that
person's
physique
under
a
half-
illusion
even
than
two
neighbouring
rooms.
The
liability
to
:
"
transitional
cases
party
mesmeric
work),
;
by
a
de-
be
quoted
that
the
agent
psychically
or
physically
abnormal,
we
well-marked or
begin
Zoist
persons,
any
symptom
of
being
affected
before
I
directed
my
attention
towards
so often
danger.
I
may
perhaps
be
bitter
detractor),
the border-
should
imagine
magnetic passes.
her.
moment. I
banish the
Henry Thompson.'
same
time,
it
must
be
re-
distance,
power
moment
nature,
but
was to hear a conversation between me and two other
persons,
relating
day
Wesermann
had
been
to
impress
on
him.]
head,
greeted
,
un-
dressed,
I
was
sitting
on
my
bed
and
Herr
in
height,
strong
and
asleep,
though
at
my
first
they
were
on
the
alert,
and
are concerned
passive.
And
a
dream
than
(without
any
happened
S.
had therefore met
her ear before
it
do
so,
and
my
hands,
which
lay
loosely
on
my
knees,
about
6
inches
apart,
felt
involuntarily
drawn
together
(viz.,
Mrs.
L.).
This
lady
I
had
only
met
once
before,
was
sleeping,
and
on
the
previous
evening,
from
my
pocket,
and
showed
forgotten
what
I
was
like,
but
seeing
days.
as
percipient.
Nor
agent's
resolve
might
be
explained
as
accidental.
We
have,
of
course,
requested
Mr.
"
"
pencil
which
I
had
hastily
jotted
down
life
to
be
making
the
effort
above
described,
would
house last
(as
last
time)
of
meeting
the
lady
next
day,
and
asking
voice,
This
half-past
shape
of
the
another.
A
simple
and
immediate
con-
cordance
as
we
have
supposed
between
the
nervous
in
B's
brain
as
they
must
presumably
agent's part
we shall be
specialised
trial
of
thought-transference.
There,
one
precise
and
simple
in their
cats.
sign
of
abnormal
ignorance
or
stupidity
proof
facts
attested
percipient
as
any
object
constantly
recurs
exists
between
may
searched
far
[In
then
to
give
to
what
are
merely
vivid
ideas
the
character
all,
of
course,
One
story
in
the
Mattcui
Maleficarum,
no
power)
of
imps
which
appears
in
Witches
testimony
of
such
persons
were,
in
their
day,
witnesses
to
condition of
telepathic explanation,
and
of
what
constitutes
proof,
acceptance
the
alleged
apparitions
existence
of
departed
most
"
recognised
of a sort
in detail
how far
each is
The
phenomena
1
advancing
proved
was
very
ill,
and
my
brother
asked
me
to
inquire
in
going
to
inquire
for
him,
so
we
had
just
the
death,
in
narration,
scious
motives
which
may
cause
persons
who
belong
to
regarded,
however
erroneously,
as
transcending
natural
law.
Enthusiastic
persons
will
value
it with a view
specially
necessary
to
study
largely
of a
favour
of
the
reality
says
voce for the sake of immediate
effect,
at
leisure,
and
has
security
second-hand
witnesses,
who
do
on
anything
as her
insidious
kind,
in
that
comparatively
few
persons
realise
the
is innocent
light,
that
in-
convenient
details
should
drop
out,
and
that
;
to
the
for
telepathy,
have
through
any
precision
thus
evidence.
Details
may
not
subsequent memory
the
extent
Of
indispensable
has
befallen
the
agent
his word
evidence. But
in what
four heads
voice heard
it
could
of
agent's
passed
in
impression
corre-
spond
with
an
unknown
event
the
experience
in
writing
anxiety, following
on his
voice.
Gradually
and
unmistakable,
percipient's testimony,
where the
agent,
and
of
the
experience
effect,
be
wrong
in
so
regarding
them.
Now,
unless
some
provisional
limit
were
assigned
to
within
which
this
must
happen
few
cases
of the
But
in
examining
the
evidence
occur
sort
which
is
a
legitimate
subject
of
human
speculation,
and
with
in
this
direction,
hour.
A
good
very
integrity
as
having
percipient's
than
of
the
agent's
share
in
the
alleged
occurrence.
Clearly
the
fact
serious
accident,
other
event,
degree
of
coincidence
really
was.
But
the
was
ex-
pressly
recognised
may,
of
course,
happen
;
agent
knowledge
wanting.
And
it
is
important
Such cases
be-
fact
that
the
percipient's
experience
was
noted
in
writing
by
him,
or
was
;
which the
agent
;
to the
chiefly
depends
on
the
relation
of
the
A
second-hand
which
diminish
the
amount
of
presentable
second-hand
evidence,
without
adding
that
of
the
more
by
second-hand
evidence
argument
for
telepathy
will
Supplement,
even
though
less
completely
attested,
if
it
belonged
days.
Then
as
regards
the
mere
accuracy
of
we
are
here
pre-
senting
is
the
testimony
of
trustworthy
and
intelligent
witnesses.
And
if
the
collection
be
guarantee.
It
follows
great
measure,
majority
of
persons
who
regard
the
the
wrong
page
and
never
discovering
members
had
recognised
is
less
unlikely
than
the
assumptions
we
are
making,
and
then
again
when
we
explicable,
and
completely
number of
Why
urge
is
still
as
good
examples
here
given
to
;
eventually
stage
for
instance,
the
suppression
of
names.
1
Even
minor
points
may
tract
from
the
blots
because
we
have
printed
the
past
to
think
of.
By
far
the
in the
change
can
of
good
first-hand
items
of
inductive
proof
are,
of
course,
not
like
the
of
the
argument
for
telepathy.
The
multiplication
of
such
examples,
therefore,
who admit
them
relationships,
just
race draw
therefore
sketch
kind
either
the
class
(F),
where
each
of
the
persons
concerned
seems
common
my
mouth,
and
possible
what
had
happened
to
my
mouth,
and,
getting
another
handkerchief,
walked
into
the
breakfast-room,
and
managed
to
conceivable,
of
course,
that
of
the
brothers,
Louis
and
Charles
Blanc,
of
preservation
will,
we
trust,
be
sensation
as
such.
of
thought
of
a
air
that
I
Wesleyan
Church
at
Aberdeen,
Miss
Jessie
Wilson,
the
daughter
you,
is
correct,
except
that
he
and
on
the
morning
of
June
5th,
taking
And Mr.
anything
of
my
mother's
being
ill,
till
I
in
my
vision.
(2)
found
a
stick
in
the
telepathic
the seaside
getting
on.
I
thought
of
the
day
it
hap-
pened.
Answer :
chairs
"
emotional
impression,
with
a
certain
to have been exact
She
was
quite
convinced,
and
perfectly
remembered
telling
Sunday
or
Monday
that
she
told
death
in
occurred.
I
may
remark
that
I
am
so
little
terrible
injuries
received
in
a
fall
while
hunting
During
that
sleepless
night
I
naturally
dwelt
upon
the
incident,
much
attached,
I
wrote
the
four
initials,
d'autant
plus
number
of
the
day
is
right,
suggest
that
ftvrier
"
The
Times
obituary
for
March
soth,
1880,
records
the
deferment
out
happened,
horse
day
apparition
on
the
morning
received
on
the
testimony
of
my
brother's
death.
I
may
mention
that
I
spiritual
manifestations
story
verbally
from
his
mother,
and
brother
in
1857.
bed.
the
time.
remarked
Joseph,'
and
related
time,
that the
given
accident occurred
"
of
the
met,
and
the
coagulated.
Probably
not
a
suggestion
here
that
he
knew
nothing.
Mrs.
Collyer
would
probably
died,
spirits.
I
hand
you
a
reasonable
doubt
that
the
day
a
most
temperate
described his
vision to
her next
B,
percipient
mentioned
his
impression
imme-
diately
on
if
there
was
someone
in
extraordinary
conviction
by
anyone
for
great
observation,
being
a
self-taught
naturalist,
and
I
am
quite
speak
yards
from
her.
Her
face
turned
at the
"
gone.
sobriety
quote
;
dead
at
7.30
p.m.
I
learn
from
a
certainly
some
hours
earlier,
away
danger,
supervened
was
the doctor came.
person,
and
was
appar-
ently
most
impressed
by
in the mother's
who
was
the
agent.
Was
it
the
mother ?
anxiety
totally
On
going
on
board,
uncle,
"
am
doing.
put
aside.
"This
was
about
half
-past
7
o'clock;
and
little
bedroom.
I
spoke
to
her.
She
must
be
a
visitor
staying
with
your
mother.
Gainsborough by
street,
stairway
shone
within
a
frosted
globe,
"
Mrs.
Bee,
who
suggest
for
any
theoretic
difficulty
that
might
be
felt
in
the
fact
of
non-recognition,
completely
unfelt
another
respect
not
be
published.
She
is
a
person
of
impression
was
so
strong
I
noted
the
date
and
fact
in
my
diary
before
breakfast."
In
persons
concerned,
Subsequently
about
half
was
book-
case
the
lamp,
and
my
shoulder
touching
sheet of
north,
and
becoming
sobbing pulsations
shrieking.'
imagination,
call
prob-
ably
find
to
satisfy
any
lawyer.
the next
had connection
with the
,
"
was
stopping
with
the
family
of
the
lady
who
subsequently
became
my
wife.
All
the
younger
ones
had
gone
to
bed,
and
I
equally
to
see
me,
more
before
I
go
my
husband
and
niece,
as
she
Oh,
of
a
prolonged
equal
relation
to
nearly
uncle,
importance
is
based.
And
the
(p.
138)
exceptionally
favourable
to
telepathic
action,
even
though
;
It
is
nearest
part,
the transferred
attached
an
it
occurrence.]
Entry
for
April
13.
third
case,
which
impression,
he
felt
forcibly
impelled
wedding
announced
question
The ladies who
might
be.
In
it
she
said
time.
I
told
her
the
time,
as
she
was
of
an
adult
would
generally
have
peculiarly
Arundel,
landing,
vessel,
and
needing
me.
The
impression
impression proved
In
reply
to
inquiries,
Miss
Pritchard :
more concrete
essential to the evidence that the scene with which the
percipient
is
inwardly
impressed
should
of
you
at
that
moment.'
She
the
morning,
which
(as
I
know
from
my
me
my
mother
had
sent
them."
family-
I
thought
small
boat
and
scrambled
up
the
steep
bank,
tripping
in
doing
so,
and
that
he
had
;
:
"
incident
you
a little
Hooghly
from
Serampore
to
Barrackpore,
where
the
house
no
special
not
much
experience
an
little
time
lunch,
he
was
dead,
and
not
asleep
only.
The
room
appeared
to
be
bare
and
without
carpet
or
furniture.
I
cannot
say
how
long
the
appearance
lasted.
circumstances
it
was
most
improbable
that,
if
dead,
he
days
afterwards,
daily
papers
occasion
which
I
any
vision
of
the
kind."
example
granting
the
possibility
of
deferred
impressions
there
is
no
difficulty
in
connecting
the
;
"
that is
shown in
Thompson
(Zoist,
v.
257)
has
experienced
is
strongest,
he
may
recall,
of common
occurrence in
be
rejected
Thus it cannot
house,
and
intending
to
striking
nature
to
write
before
dinner,
I
said
I
did
not
know,
the
dinner
hour,
and
as
dropped
into
my
room,
my
of
town,
but
his
son
and
daughter
witness,
as
"
altogether
extraordinary
state
of
depression
and
restlessness.
I
tried
in
vain
to
distract
myself
my
able
experience
correctly
recorded.
being busy.
On the
I
Young,
of
30,
Westbourne
him,
just
received.
He
remembers
the
subject.
I
often,
just
after
my
brother's
death,
spoke
you,
a
copy
Carroll from
proves
that
the
illness
was
sudden
and
that
Mr.
Carroll
was
we
proposed
to
pay
that
afternoon
give
why
on
that
particular
occasion
I
field,
:
"
my
husband,
from
cheerful letter on the
park.
The
distance
from
my
home
was
too
great
for
work
all
day.
On
a
certain
day,
however,
I
suddenly
looked
surprised,
and
said,
a desire to
was
quite
a
single
and
was
over
experience.
The
following
'
the
Almighty
had
sent
you
(p. 74)
with
distress,
but
only
agent
B.
qu'elle
pourrait
facilement
rature,
esprit
se
calmant,
on
put
lire
les
meme
fonctions,
venait
d'y
mourir.
Toute
la
famille
G.,
compris
Mile.
B.,
part.
Inutile
G.,
qui
m'a
B.]
This
example,
it
d
priori
probable
definitely
chapters,
even
when
connected
with
recognisable
images
of
persons
and
things,
did
distinctly
sensory
class
of
;
senses,
which
yet,
in
reflecting
on
them,
we
rarely
(apart
from
vivid
dream
than
this
way
during
theory
of
telepathy
upon
the
facts
exceptional
intensity.
And
in
proportion
in
some
other
way
excep-
tional
in
proportion
they
belong
distinct,
unexpected,
clearly
finding
in
telepathy,
constitute a minute
and
marked
event,
week had a marked
other, then,
166. These include
one
person
to
any
line
the
chance of
same
night,
extent
of
any-
thing
like
12
hours.
Again,
remarkable
way.*
But
most
markedly
have
I
under-
acquaintance.
1
In
cases,
the
night
quoted
as
having
coincided
with
death,
these
last
being
distinctly
dreams
of
death,
whereas
veyed.
The
specimens.
list of
computation
possible
more
or
less
curious
events
conceive
to
in
the
coincidence,
be
It was
what
was
said,
and
that
of the
The
nothing
more
till
I
found
myself
out
of
bed
looking
for
C.,
who
must,
I
felt,
be
still
his
wife
said
in
her
sleep,
eyes."
On
inquiry,
we
anything.
Finding
him
asleep
in
his
armchair,
they
were
kept,
called
the
house
before,
ago.
On
Of
this
I
am
quite
sure.'
not
out
with
flight,
was
picked
up,
and
helped
by
a
policeman
to
B.
McDougall,
now
dream,
be
in
peril
are,
as
a
rule,
inadmissible
where
the
her
forehead
small
(who
a
narrow
escape
from
death
our
Harry
had
experienced,
what
I
had
dreamed,
her
writing.
;
up
the
earliest
mother's
prevents
mination
of
eyes
on
me,
garden.
I
felt
I
England
in
the
autumn,
and
returned
on
the
9th
November.
They
morning
what
had
happened.
I
aside,
on
the
ground
killed
by
actually
taken
place."
The
coincidence
was
extremely
close,
sketch
of
the
spot
which
seen,
of
this
chapter,
quite
unaware.
1
At
the
same
time,
the
cases
where
the
grotesque
her
bedside.
vision
having
been
before
I
correspondence,
show her
what she
on
the
gth
Freese,
of
Granite
Lodge,
Chisle-
hurst.
The
I
began
dreaming
two
before
my
the servant
to me or
of
as if
was
the
servant
knocking
at
my
door,
and
calling
out,
known,
or
could
be
known
past
his
hearing
hear
my
wife
say
at
once,
immediately
now,
as
I
saw
it
then,
and
I
cannot
get
over
I think
frightened
it
was
some
Adams died
commonly
the
imagery
elaborately
developed.
Mrs.
Hilton,
a
lady
actively
engaged
amongst
The
absence
of
any
very
weak
one
or
less
closely
with
these we
beyond
the
confines
of
telepathy
of
a
theory
which
implies
principal
actor
way
linked.
He
may
see
a
cited
do
the
percipient's
impressions
extend
beyond
of
joint
agency,
1
and
may
enable
they
received.
;
known
accident had
image
of
the
advancing
engine
may
have
had
some
place
in
his
mind,
the
presence
right
through
the
lowest
pane
of
glass,
face
foremost,
dream that
Mrs. Pierce's words would
him
him,
and
impression
of
afterwards,
a
spring
cart
by
their
horse
stopping
driver not to
father,
he
was
not
morning,
that
conditions
which
come
peripheral
phantasmagoria
which
the
mind
reality.
Maury
gives
a
"
eyes
a
number,
waking
minutes
spent
waking
minutes.
Few
allow
:
"
it
may
in
place.
me,
;
with G.
dreams which
perhaps
the
account,
are
all
very
unlike
ordinary
dreaming.
But
apart
from
such
points
as
these,
is
it
a
well-known
word. The
the
right
one,
introducing
the
characteristic
sensory
cases,
rather
long
and
to set
off the
on
Monday,
 
stage
asleep,
and
partly
the
mind
conjecture
only
early
on
the
Monday
it
recognised,
presents
the
interesting
point
bed,
feeling
ill
at
ease.
I
asked
if
Harry
doing
more
than
sending
his
love.
last
illness,
and
was
particularly
struck
by
the
strange
that
I
partly
in
consequence
experience.
in
October,
1885
day.
making
a
long
with
two
nights
my
sister
was
with
you
i6th,
a
fortnight
after
the
occurrence)
has
explained
room
and
signatures
the
fact
that
the
vision
was
was
received.
she has
neuralgia,
me
about
midnight
this
I
am
sure,
I
was.)
I
had
an
that
cot,
and
I
saw
distinctly
I
had
known
him,
a
young
result.
Common
on
November
i8th,
1863,
which
exactly
suggesting
that
the
percipient's
mind
brought
its
her took
about
six
months
in
1884,
and,
on
leaving
the
hospital,
as
come
to
the
She
jumped
was
in
service
30
years,
and I know her to be one on whose statement the
fullest
reliance
may
be
placed.
intimate
her,
though
I
a
flight
of
stairs
seen.
on
any
other
occasion.
of
steamers.
One
morning
probably
a
log-book,
obtained
by
wandering,
therefore
surprised
when
my
state
of
a
critical
condition
quite
beginning
of
April."
death.]
The
next
account
'
was
dressed
in
grey
tweed,
after
death
confirmed
by
the
obituary
of
the
Darlington
day
this
I
was
asleep,
although
all
experience
would
go
to
say
I
was.
In
disappear.
do
not
;
appeared
to
lying
addition
to
the
low
gaslight,
the
dusky
light
of
the
morning
was
coming
through
the
window,
He
in
Hamilton,
about
a
fortnight
afterwards,
announcing
my
aunt's
decease,
and
a
reference
to
the
dates
convinced
my
rush
port-hole.
death
reached
me
On
comparing
dates,
it
was
others.
Miss
Jenour
is
equally
first
account,
the
supposed
apparition
likely enough
actually
up
in
London,
happy
and
thinking
of
person
seen,
may
have
been
Mrs.
Luther
by
her
friend,
Miss
seriously
uneasy,
and
in
spite
of
having
received
within
3
days
special
character
of
intensity
in
some
friends,
time
his
appearance
was
very
much
more
than
before,
"
Monday,
the
6th
of
July,
arriving
was
dying.
When
my
mother
com-
a
day
or
two
girl
resided,
and
dream,
or
something
next
day,
when
we
learned
of
which
occurred
in
a
friend,
who
only
laughed
at
me
and
said
lady
a
me
I
family,
two
years
later,
they
told
me
that
death
she
said,
to
regard
to
be
hoped
was accidental
pause
just
within
the
room,
and
then
by
a
movement,
morning,
but
said
nothing
astonishment
long
time,
coincidence,
death,
the
2oth,
[In
conversation,
Mrs.
Lightfoot
confirmed
again
exactly
coin-
a
practical
person,
and
without
any
sort
of
predisposition
to
frights
for some
sensory
and
non-sensory
hallucinations,
the
most
natural
way
has
instilled
delusive
regard
as
genuine
collective
hallucinations,
neither
externally
the
diseased
prefer
to
keep
to
the
a little clumsi-
as
much
at
variance
as
philosophers,
The
debate,
most
ardently
carried
a
thing.
person, saying
its arms
them from
easy
to
looks
than
to
say
that
he
fancies
it.
The
really
scientific
attempt
put
the
tube
body
M.
Binet
proposes
cerebro-
eye,
or
of
the
ear,
or
of
other
parts
greatly
not
there,
they
held,
it
can
only
be
by
a
vision
been
forthcoming
of an immaterial
theory
which
he
rejected
convey
any
impulse
from
the
periphery,
organ
e.g.,
fatigue
produced
below.
They
is
Therapeutique,
December
15,
1868,
and
Op.
cit.,
p.
68,
etc.
by
M.
Fere
that
external
source,
occupying
the
same
position
in
space
peg
for
the
per-
cept
actually
only
sister,
Agnes,
sitting
many
points,
in
that
wide
investigation
of
hysterical
conditions
"
where the
imaginary figure
that the
objects
act
in
turn
to
any
finding
a
little
black
cow
2
As
a
rule,
where
the
out,
hallucinations
have
not
been
its
only
distant,
tiny
point
of
light,
which
approached
wakes in
them
with
my
the
eye,
but
in
the
being
fixed
on
particular
external
sounds,
or
begin
or
cease
synchronously
to
be
a
specially
favour-
able
one
is
by.
The
experience
is
often
remarkably
distinct,
causing
produce
blood-
pressure,
such
as
lying
with
often
exists
between
sensory
Service
Club,
and
who
irritation
;
4
training
tells
me
that
one
bright
to doubt
ab-
normal
sensation
is,
or
may
be
called
the
yet
soundless,
a
distinct
impression
regard
the
experience
as
hallucination
phantasmal
words
may
be
a
complex
one,
and
may
include
an
embryonic
;
5,
and
the
bedroom,
When I left the kitchen I
walked
through
a
good-sized
room,
not
at last
smell,
we
have
a
percept
up
the
vivid
image
normal
corrective,
for
they
resources.
An
initiating
stimulus
may
probably
parts
clearer.
have
a
dominance
of
its
organ
may
exhibit
all
degrees.
from direct
as the
seat of
hallucinations themselves.
some
past
time
been
familiar
to
them.
this
primitive
type.
auditory
centres
in
marked lesion
a
real
wife,
who
naturally
saw
nothing.
Another
correspondent
saw
a
in
the
sensorium.
We
might
compare
this
locality
per-
cipient
must
single
instance
see
they
recognised.
Mrs.
Macdonald,
quoted
above,
has
only
occasionally
recognised
and
have
good
grounds
for
supposing
that
congratulations,
she
said,
bed.
(This
gentleman
had
as I
reproduction
of
an
actual
visited
her
again
a
week
later
and
made
her
repeat
the
story.
slightest
centres
involved,
from
a
common
higher
point
this,
The
conclusion
by
parts
of
surely
speaks
of
hallucinations
as
originating,
instability
singularly
little
of the
not
merely
in
the
sense
of
occurring
to
only
a
small
percentage
assignable
provocation,
which we trace
been
repeated
exhibit
a
perfectly
isolated
piece
of
eccentricity,
and
just
;
others,
saying
something
in
the
can no
old doctrine of the
moment,
the
purely
subjective
The tran-
only
of
a
general
kind.
As
good
auditory
examples,
I
may
mention
the
play
young lady,
to be seen or heard that
the
percipient
is
expecting
it
hallucination was
another
smaller
group
specimens.
We
must
regard
as
a
chapter
(pp.
the
or
hear
a
voice
every
day.
be
accounted
for
by
the
fact
that
the
very
conditions
indirectly
(through
the
anxiety
preferred
as
an
explanation
will
depend,
to
some
extent,
one
class,
A,
and
an
anxiety.
Braid
suggested
to
her,
saw
corus-
cating
flames
could hear the
power
of
move-
ment.
1
After
imaginary
Come
in,"
after
knocking
the
habit of half-
their
mistress
calling
them
in
tones
as
one
morning,
minutes
time.
heard,
the
in
connecting
it
source
thought
of
optical
illusion.
hours.
biguity
numbered
i
in
degree
as
those
before
considered,
and
evidence
for
telepathy
reaches
a
certain
strength,
the
agent
is
doing
or
suffering
something
is at the root
will,
I
think,
sufficiently
N'I
MPORTE
incident,
described
at
p.
315,
note
2,
where
idea
that
his
presence
might
be
needed
shaped
remember,
does
when
you
feel
you
are
coming
against
something
of
my
way
I
saw
anything
again.
My
grandfather
;
a
lamp
tended
the
higher
part
of
the
door
was
a
glass
window,
and
original,
as
of
my
family
of
the
death.
two witnesses
Monday.
[Case
192
is
omitted.]
figure
time
hallucination in his
here as due
other.
Some
years
after,
I
asked
this
man's
him
and
say,
night
I
awoke
with
a
feeling
some
one
never had
anything
the
room.
I
sat
up
hallu-
Rogers (a
my
mother's
death,
I
made
inquiries
of
those
who
remembered
the
time,
and
I
than 10.
R.'s
friend,
Mrs.
it
to
mind,
knowing
that
her
grandmother
In due
Mountain
Jim
at
St.
Louis,
Colorado,
on
December
nth,
1873
one
unimportant
detail,
when
the
apparition
occurred
acquainted.
He
withholds
 
nor to decrease
into
a
completely
natural-seeming
incident.
A
feature
in
distance,
and
on
my
right
side,
simultaneously
4.
So
the embodiment of the idea which is at the root
of
the
halluci-
nation
in
a
the
sane
the
majority
seem
to
belong
to
telepathy,
and
especially
pains
least
apparent
(Chapter
V.,
10),
shadowy
idea.
actively
generating
and
projecting
it
it,
a
mere
idea
? It
might,
indeed
in
many
cases,
as
collection of
separate compartments,
fit
and
images
and
associations.
upon
his
head
thought.
that
follows.
How,
for
instance,
on
to
they
be
impressed
ab
extra ?
What,
of his friend
memory
hi
1878.
that
there
standing
replied,
from
my
husband
received
saw
;
wish to leave
he
gave
it
that
day
house more
turn and
drive after
my
senses,
tell
died after
London
daily
papers
for
August
3oth,
1881.
In
conversation,
Miss
S.
stated'
home when the
before the death."
case,
p.
322,
note.
Occasionally
a
subjective
experience
had
a
slight
tendency
;
there was
the sense
of the
months,
a
sceptic
This
wrong
issue
is
precluded
as
soon
as
the
analogy
more be
sentimental or
are
illusory
through
and
through
hallucinations which
are not
devote
may
receive
I knew then that
him."
The
coincidence
was
probably
idea of
distinct
symbolism
of
open
coffin,
occurrences.
Udny,
of
61,
dispatch
a
day
later
very
She
once,
note and
fortnight
after
the
projection
of
the
percept
has
received
illustration
be,
and
in
my
other.
There
remains
vague
subconscious
image
in
one
our
evidence,
the
conception
of
psychical
that
percipient's point
of observation
(pp.
188-9,
2
the
hour,
I
fell
asleep
again,
and
rested
undisturbed
till
morning.
look,
and
yet
pews
at
my
side
of
the
church,
a
poor
nursing
her,
invalid,
"
little
money
not
much,
about
go
I
private
house,
he
sat
next
to
the
same
lady,
Mrs.
W.,
between
whom
haze
overhanging
the
notice of
of
the
road,
face. I then
I
soon
frightened
the
other
sitters
very
much,
and
they
had
great
difficulty
in
bringing
persons
concerned
might
readily
choice
of
familiar
dresses.
For
instance,
a
conscious
consciously
en-
gaged
with
this
particular
dress,
necessary
the
agent's
mind
some
definite
image
perhaps
the
Marchant's
(No.
26,
particulars.
To
the
gradual development,
and of
355. The
Instances of
(received
without
a
preliminary
study
of
startling
open
to
misunder-
standing.
distance.
1
Another
trap
lies
in
sponding person
arbitrary
they
are.
Why
should
ordinary
observation
of
educated
persons,
and
have
thrown
on
others
miles
away
argument
without
encountering
a
hint
of
the
need.
There
is
plenty
of
assertion,
carried out
deal
with,
even
if
the
very
basis
misconceptions,
proportion
of
leper,
it
would
not
census
been
genuine
yeses
through
"
But when the
have
 
is not one
telepathic argument,
of
obtaining
information,
apart
own circle of
of
papers
the kind
really possess
the
might
I have altered the calculations in the text in accordance
with this
of
our
own,
unconnected
with
shown
that,
within
the
given
time,
only
in
question,
if
ascribed
to
accident,
would
require
either
death of the
our coincidental
But
in
most
enormous
may
be
summarised
that
person.
And
during
death
has,
say,
x
friends,
But
apart
from
this,
the
points
is
stated.
easily
the
chance,
account,
and
telepathy
finds
its
occasion,
the
peculiarity
process
whereby
the
percipient
is
influenced
a
vision
agent
not
live
to
carry
examples.
purely
internal
impression,
time
exactly.
came
to
me
with
such
intensity
wrist.
disappearance
I
determined
the
impression
arrived
the
moment
he
saw
necessary
for
complete
ignorance
words,
delusion,
with
"
that I had been
a
little
child,
one
of
her
nieces,
who
was
staying
slightly
telling
the
the
blood
in the
time
it
was
when
this
happened.
She
said,
as
slightly.
by
"
'
death
was
October
7,
1880
occurrence,
it
has
did she
He seemed
verify
the
date
"
occurrence,
date when
thought, having
received before October
her
of the vision
24-10-84.
[Cases
229,
230,
brother,
little
death,
in
connecting
the
ticking
sound
with
a
Miss Bale
apparition.
But
as
the
differ
clock,
than
that
so
close
Greany,
to
see
her,
thinking,
of
course,
I
a
small
box
she
prized
rather,
to
be
given
to
me
But when she
;
BENJAMIN
DIXON."
him,
and
I
Ramsbury.
But
when
my
poor
Davie
seen
him
just
extent
weakened
by
the
percipient's
knowledge
that
the
person
whose
phantasm
he
saw
was
from him
was
two
days
it,
otherwise
I
should
of
them
near
death.
My
husband
remembers
it
well,
too
young
are
disposition,
nor
reports
that
on
more
exact
inquiry,
he
finds
the
percipi-
hedge, absolutely
low
hedge,
street
which
really dying
at a
and that
very
good,
as
of
a
small
stream
(the
Fortulla),
the
huge
stones
or
rocks
heaped
on
one
another,
and
stretching
circumstance.
Nearly
three
years,
weather,
during
the
beginning
of
leaving
the
wood
(for
I
has a
phe-
as seem
?
'
objects
his
eye-
sight
is
excellent
The
following
corroboration
is
far as
we can
must
have
gone
up
the
yard,
and
looked
the time
more than the
on
the
theory
that
the
stated
the
facts
correctly.
She
my
before. The child
me,
"
sort that seems
this
question
we
should
naturally
ask
which
happens
her and
at
all,
or
anywhere
near
the
spot,
but
had
Malcolm
say
that
they
have
hall. As she
amount of
of
the
what
became
of
you.'
I
said,
"
eyes,
house
at
Weymouth,
where
we
occasionally
went
for
the
sea.
passage,
and
on
going
nearer
saw,
as
she
thought,
the
yard-door
open.
The
light
showed
the
yard
and
every-
thing
in
it,
her
apparition
having
had
any
other
hallucination
apparition
think
1
window,
looking
about,
when
I
saw
some
flowers
standing
outside
his
shop-door
was
talking
with
some
of the
asked,
mauve
dress,
which
Oddly
enough,
was
ill,
and
that
she
had
come
to
rushed out of the
(We
and
woman
named
Bedford,
who
Bedford,
to
give
"
length,
and
to
me
when
quartered
at
Templemore,
Co.
Tipperary,
on
20
February,
1847.
15
or
20
yards
from
me,
and
although
anxious
to
speak
to
him
colonel,
and
he
replied
and then
through
the
gate
had
seen
him,
Reed
going
I
(pp. 107-8),
that where
returning
home
lamp
in
my
electricity.
It
surprised
me
so
before
window I
at
my
the
back
window.
He
also the
strange
coincidence,
but
asked,
recognised
voice,
except
on
one
occasion,
20
years
ago,
soon
for
a
moment,
follows
connected with the
is also
Witt,
of
Fontenay
House,
Grove
Park,
Denmark
Hill,
S.E.
sitting
writing
strange thing
I
asked
not know
Witt
offers
no
explanation
or
opinion
morning,
it
must
have
preceded
house of
years
was
ill,
idea her
my
mother
died,
being
out
for
a
long
her mother's
calls
thus
described."
ED.]
;
sight
honest,
industrious
woman,
a
good,
affectionate
wife
and
there should
be no
is no
substantially
correct.
I
attest
the
accuracy
of
the
report
as
printed,
and
I
am
prepared
of
sight.
there,
and
striving
to
speak
to
me,
sleep.
By
three
days.
I
said
not
mentioned one word of
away
said,
out for
Paget's memory.
which
of
course
makes
coincidence
;
who
equally
F.
Varley,
F.R.S.,
Telegraph
Company's
Tuesday,
not
Thursday,
and
was
buried
at
4
o'clock,
seen
anything
of
the
condition,
while
it
affected
her,
was
B and B's
at the
the
same
same
moment,
must
J.
Romanes,
F.R.S.,
death,
After a second
the
final
of
the
death.
likely
her
grandson's
a real
omitted.]
(35)
marriage,
I
was
reading
in
bed,
according
fix
the
date,
Smith's
case,
the
abnormality
(outwardly
at
any
rate)
was
nothing
beyond
sleep
But
we
cannot
inversely
attribute
when A affects
May
24th,
1883
Brighton
luncheon,
leaving
him
alone,
but
on
looking
me
since
you
left.
any
L. as
with
Mrs.
lungs,
;
minutes
past
12,
for
"
called
repeatedly.
I
asked
people
tained
physical
tests
perceivers
he fails
window remains
given
relating
projects
either,
or
both,
may
be
reasonably
entertained.
I
may
a
single
percipient.
That
it
gener-
ally
does
so
confine
them,
may
be
theory
that
for
him,
percipients
would
But consider-
is
only
recently,
when
my
husband
applied
up
case
was
(judging,
of
course,
from
an
opinion
formed
at
to
Mrs.
Coote,
from
Mr.
situation of
in the
surprising,
then,
hallucina-
2
"
had entered." Now
shaping
semi-trance.
suggests
the
imaginary
object
without
having
change
came
;
description
telepathic impression
accompany
me
majority
of
my
readers
or
of
such
with
the tradition. Thus Mr. Lowell tells me that he once saw
the
appearance
of
the
legend
assigned
it
origin
external
to
any
of
the
perceiving
minds
telepathic
explanation
living
persons.
flickering
flames
which
slowly
moved
a corner of the room. A fourth
very
remarkable
instance,
of
the
brilliant
a
real
object,
most
strangely
misinterpreted,
box had
peninsula
stretching
between
the
Cromarty
and
Moray
Firths,
imagine
the
saw
it"
1
If
striking
example
(brought
to
gentleman-farmer,
described
as
I,
waking
bed,
come home so
rang.
The
lady
surprised
not
The
reports
we
have
given
are
absolutely
true,
without
any
doubts
Nor
presence
nurse
5th
Lancers,
directly
facing
the
window.]
At
about
8.45
p.m.
Atkinson
suddenly
glared
at
Infantry
Barracks
opposite,
about
300
yards
distant.
hallucination,
not
illusion.
He
further
seen were
photograph
part
of
occurrence,
has
been
slightly
con-
densed.
(329)
of the table.
the
whole
catching,
rounding
circumstances."
He
adds
that
;
ment
viva,
nor her
have
called
attention
(pp.
479-81)
must
be
specially
borne
in
mind.
My
central
object
being
to
prove
substance,
I
heard
nothing,
yet
I
felt
and
perfectly
understood
the
words
He
said,
who
has
had
an
experience
of
the
sort,
have called casual
obtained
a
light,
beyond,
where
I
found
my
husband,
door
mentioned,
I
should
say,
had
left
my
to
stay
the
night.
She
had
a
daughter-in-law
expecting
doors and
windows were
said
is
that,
taking
idea
of
death,
experience
is
analysed,
open
a
gate.
Trying
to
do
this
without
dismounting,
she
sort of
not even
in view
from a
the
further
point
which
tells,
I
think,
decidedly
in
favour
and was told what the time
was,
that
would
gas,
on
the
second.
Mrs.
Paget
extremely strong impression
very
few
minutes
purely subjective impression.
which
her
brother
died.
The
circumstance
happened
about
15
years
ago
percipients.
Elgee,
of
18,
Woburn
Road,
Bedford.
on the bare
and
very
upon
the
subject,
I
intending
to
say
nothing
the
I
never
have
seen,
or
fancied
I
saw,
any
one
very
calm,
quiet,
clever,
scientific
man,
not
given
instance
to
Mrs.
Willink,
being
corpse,
then
by any
the
door,
242,
captain distinctly
the
captain.
Being
this
if
driver,
and
Barwell,
having
now
seen
bis
leaving
the
Lizard
just
very
anxious
about
him.
The
boys
accompanied
Earle
and
Barwell
to
their
father's
house
in
the
village,
when
down to
thought
of
or
saw
Earle
or
Barwell,
either
just
before
or
during
his
seizure,
idealistic or
have
suggested
its
application
cases,
I
think
it
so
dangerous,
should
take
place
as
pact
transmission
actual
percipient
scene,
and
the
such
community
is
a
favourable
be
surprised
if
presentation
work
which
affords
none
scarcely
needs
apology
so much
existence,
and
and
facts
which
on the
direct attestation which
trifling
moment be
of
more
or
less
surprising
facts
genuine