The importance of psychic phenomena and its intense interest lie in the fact that psychical research hints at a possible solution, by means of the same methods which science has been accustomed to use in the physical world, of the great problem of man's future destiny, of an answer to the question asked by Job thousands of years ago, "If a man die, shall he live again?" and which has been repeated in vain by every generation of men who have since inhabited the earth. Prof. Flournoy approaches the problems of the psychic world in regard to the strange phenomena manifested by Mlle. Helene Smith. No fact has been regarded by him as too trivial to escape his keen, careful scrutiny from a psychological point of view.
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Swiss professor THEODORE FLOURNOY (1854-1920) wrote a number of books on spiritism, but he is best remembered for this curious work, a study of Hélène Smith of Geneva, an "honorable woman... wholly incapable of conscious fraud" who claimed to channel her past lives, including one as Marie Antoinette, and to communicate through paranormal mediumship with people she knew in those past lives, such as "Leopold," who was madly in love with the French monarch, as well as more distant people in the here and now, like the inhabitants of the planet Mars.
Completely credulous, even as Flournoy acknowledges that Smith's "trances" became more frequent and detailed as soon as he, the famous spiritualist, became involved, Flournoy's is a fascinating novelty, one that will be appreciated by readers of the supernatural as well as fans of 19th century fads. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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IN the month of December, 1894, I was invited by M. Aug. Lemaitre, Professor of the College of Geneva, to attend some seances of a non-professional medium, receiving no compensation for her services, and of whose extraordinary gifts and apparently supernormal faculties I had frequently heard. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
spiritistic group, auditive hallucinations, subliminal imagination, same seance, subliminal strata, spiritistic circles, following seance, automatic phenomena, ordinary personality, spontaneous visions, secondary personality, subliminal consciousness, latent memories Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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IN the month of December, 1894, I was invited by M. Aug. Lemaitre, Professor of the College of Geneva, to attend some seances of a non-professional medium, receiving no compensation for her services, and of whose extraordinary gifts and apparently supernormal faculties I had frequently heard. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
spiritistic group, auditive hallucinations, subliminal imagination, same seance, subliminal strata, spiritistic circles, following seance, automatic phenomena, ordinary personality, spontaneous visions, secondary personality, subliminal consciousness, latent memories Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Marie Antoinette, Victor Hugo, Alexis Mirbel, Joseph Balsamo, Sivrouka Nayaka, Helene Smith, Principle of Hamlet, Alexandre Dumas, Lorenza Feliciani New!
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- The Principles of Psychology, Vol. 1 by William James on page 82
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