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

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

Chapter 2: FROM INDIA TO THE PLANET MARS
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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.

FROM INDIA
TO
THE PLANET MARS

A STUDY OF A CASE OF SOMNAMBULISM

WITH GLOSSOLALIA

BY

TH. FLOURNOY
PROFESSOR OF PSYCHOLOGY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA

TRANSLATED BY

DANIEL B. VERMILYE

HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS
NEW YORK AND LONDON
1900

Copyright, 1900, by Daniel B. Vermilye.

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