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From India to the planet Mars: A study of a case of somnambulism with glossolalia

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By Théodore Flournoy
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The author presents a detailed psychological case study of a woman medium who, during trance states, produces automatic speech and writing, invents an elaborate Martian language and mythology, and reenacts several distinct imaginative cycles (Martian, Hindoo, royal) with vivid personae. He documents seances, somnambulistic behavior, telepathic impressions, lucid perceptions, physical phenomena reported at sittings, and purported retrocognitive and diagnostic instances, then analyzes the psychogenesis of alternate personalities such as Leopold and the sources of the symbolic material. Linguistic examination addresses phonetics, grammar, syntax, and vocabulary of the invented language, while the book weighs naturalistic explanations and explores the subliminal mental processes underlying mediumistic manifestation.

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Title: From India to the planet Mars: A study of a case of somnambulism with glossolalia

Author: Théodore Flournoy

Translator: Daniel B. Vermilye

Release date: August 31, 2020 [eBook #63092]
Most recently updated: October 18, 2024

Language: English

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Transcriber’s Notes

Obvious typographical errors have been silently corrected. Variations in hyphenation have been standardised but all other spelling, accents and punctuation remains unchanged.

The page number referenced in the the caption to Fig.39 is missing.

As in the original the Figure numbers are not sequential.