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Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science

Chapter 21: INDEX.
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The author proposes a psychic ether analogous to the luminiferous ether, a thought atmosphere that transmits mental waves and explains sensitive states producing clairvoyance, trance, somnambulism, psychometry, and thought transference. Materialist perspectives—evolutionist, chemist, and anatomist—are critiqued as unable to account for a distinct psychic principle or postmortem continuity. Sensitiveness is treated as a variable faculty, ranging to genius-level receptivity and informing prayer. Occult phenomena are correlated under laws that could sustain spiritual beings; personal sensitive experiences are recounted alongside a spirit communication that frames death as a transition into an ongoing conscious existence.

FROM EARTH TO THE INFINITE.

The mists are falling on the purple sea,
The sun is sinking in the clouds aflame;
For many a day the far receding sea
And melting sky have seemed almost the same.
At first we met the bitter storm and cloud,
With little sunshine on the darkling mere,
The waves were high, the icy winds were loud;
The days were dark, the nights were full of fear.
By every trial having gathered strength,
And hopeful conquered every adverse gale,
We now have reached a calmer sea at length,
And with full hearts unbend the flowing sail.
Behind, the sinking sun reveals no shore
Illumed with glory of his purple light;
The land we left has passed forever more
Beyond the reach of longing mortal sight.
A boundless sea on every side expands;
We’re drifting slowly toward the glowing east;
In faith expecting yet more welcome lands,
When toiling care, and mortal life have ceased.
Behold, it comes in robes of azure light!
As sinks the sun behind the sullen waves,
And on the pearly shore, enchanting sight,
Are all the friends we thought within the grave.
And now, oh ship, your weary pinions fold,
And rock to sleep upon the harbor’s breast;
This is the home, by faith our hearts foretold,
Where we shall find activity and rest.

INDEX.

  • After death, 215
  • Angel life becoming perfect, 244
  • Angels, guardian, 117
  • Anger affecting the secretions, 185
  • Animals have no souls, 205
  • Aspirations for a future life, 221
  • A spirit prevents a disaster, 243
  • A sullen spirit, 229
  • Atom, the, 11
  • Atomic theory, 12
  • Beauty of the spirit, 224
  • Beecher, H. W., 158
  • Better Methods, 194
  • Blind Tom, 157
  • Brain and Nerves, 197
  • Buchanan, Dr., 65
  • Bunyan, 160
  • Charlatanism and mesmerism, 178
  • Christian science, 189
  • Clairvoyance, 53
    • artificial and normal, 57
    • from dreams, 57
    • examples of, 60
    • Mollie Fancher, 57
    • Eliza Hamilton, 60
    • Laura Bridgman, 62
    • favored by disease, 56
    • independent of the senses, 55
  • Concentration, 162
  • Continuous earth-life, 210
  • Cultivation of sensitiveness, 220
  • Curse of false belief, 189
  • Death, 215
    • appearance after, 142
    • warnings of, 128
    • Garfield’s, 131
  • Degradation of prayer, 167
  • Denton, Prof., 67
  • Dissolution of a spirit, 208
  • Divine motherhood, 186
  • Doing for others, 227
  • Double presence, 100
  • Dreams, 86
    • predict death, 139
    • Prince Leopold’s, 140
    • Lincoln’s, 138
    • life saved by, 79, 126, 128
    • correct errors, 127
    • Stanley on, 89
    • of Dr. Holbrook, 90
    • clairvoyant, 83
    • shipwreck prevented by, 78
    • sensitive, 80
    • prophetic, 88
    • of Mary Hudlett, 80
    • of Stanton Moses, 84
  • Earth-life enough here, 217
  • Ether, physic, 114
    • illustrations of, 116
  • Evolution, 27-31
  • Faith cure, 180
  • Finney, Pres. prayer for rain, 167
  • First day in spirit life, 225
  • Force, theory of, 23
  • Forewarnings, 173
  • Gulf between matter and spirit, 211
  • Hallucinations, 70
  • Happy and perfect lives, 191
  • Hypnotism, 50
  • Ideas not words transmitted, 65
  • Idiots and immortality, 208
  • Illness of mind, 185
  • Illusions, 68
    • subjective, 68
    • suggestive, 69
    • of Prof. Hitchcock, 70
  • Immortality, want of evidence to prove, 10
  • Impressions, 77
  • Increase of skepticism, 10
  • Individualization of force, 213
  • Influence, law of, 116
  • Influence of mind over secretions, 182
  • Influencing mortals, 232
  • Inspiration, 156
  • Inspiration at its height, 219
  • Is mental cure a sham, 183
  • Leaving the aching body, 238
  • Life, 15
    • moner theory of, 16
    • and mind, 17
    • the future, 36
    • without immortality a sham, 200
  • Light in the heart, 218
    • waves of, 21
  • Limits of power of mind over body, 186
  • Limitation of languages, 216
  • Limitation of the power, 168
  • Man a dual being, 201
  • Man alone immortal, 206
  • Material science—views of nature, 14
  • Matter, 13
    • is there more than one kind of?, 12
  • Medical student’s prayer, 170
  • Mental cure, 180
  • Mesmeric state, 47
  • Mesmerism, moral effects of, 52
  • Mind and life, 17
    • independent, 116
  • Mothers’ influence over unborn child, 186
  • Murder prevented by a spirit, 241
  • Napoleon, 162
  • Narrative by a spirit, 222
  • Nature, 14
    • and the supernatural, 171
  • Necessity of knowledge, 9
  • Nervous systems, 198
  • Ole Bull, 156
  • Omens explained, 131
  • Origin of spirit, 204
  • Our sins follow us, 240
  • Paganini, 156
  • Pains of spirits in earth sphere, 233
  • Persecution, 193
  • Physical senses, 55
  • Physical theories fail to solve the problem of life, 8
  • Prayer, who answers it?, 169
  • Predictions, 130
  • Premonitions, 3, 79, 122
    • why not received by all, 136
  • Power of mind over body, 181
  • Presentiments, 79
  • Pre-existence, 209
  • Priests and jugglers, 166
  • Promethean curse, 190
  • Properties of matter, 13
  • Prophecy by dreams, 81, 8
  • Protoplasm, 30, 199
  • Psychic growth, 207
  • Psychometry, 67
  • Regeneration of a spirit, 230
  • Reincarnation, 203
  • Returning to earth, 231
  • Sacred shrines and holy places, 74
  • Saving souls, 192
  • Scientific method of study, 31
  • Sense—the sixth, 44
  • Senses, limitation of, 21, 2
  • Sensitiveness, 37, 40-1-2, 104, 162
    • what it is, 37
    • relation to culture, 43
    • during sleep, 76
    • unconscious, 156
    • of spiritual beings, 42, 164
  • Sickness a mark of ignorance, 187
  • Sight, a race without, 38
  • Skepticism, increase of, 10
  • Sleep, 46
  • Society of Psychical Research, 99
  • Somnambulism, 50
  • Sound waves, 20
  • Spirit regretting her death, 237
  • Spirit watching his funeral obsequies, 237
  • Spirits confusion after death, 236
  • Spirits in despair, 239
  • Spirits know not age, 229
  • Spirits meeting mortals at death, 235
  • Spirits traveling by will power, 234
  • Spiritual ether, 19
    • existence, 217
    • understanding, 242
  • Spotless lives, 191
  • Strength in weakness, 228
  • Struggle for existence, 28
  • Superior intelligences, interference of, 79
  • Survival of the fittest, 29
  • The animal in man, 195
  • The arch complete, 205
  • The body a staging, 205
  • The celestial body, 202
  • The immortal state, 188
  • The sensitive’s sufferings, 218
  • The terrestrial body, 202
  • Thought atmosphere, 113
  • Trance, 53
    • conditions of, 53
  • Untutored minds, 195
  • Warning voice, 135
  • Weakness of new born spirits, 226
  • What is back of force?, 212
  • Worlds, dead, 22
    • end of, 23

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Transcriber’s Note:

Minor errors (e.g. misprinted, missing, or extra punctuation, missing spaces) have been corrected without note. Inconsistent hyphenation (e.g. life-time and lifetime) and spelling (e.g. bark and barque) have not been changed. Other than those noted below, errors in the Index have not been corrected.

The following corrections and changes were made:

p. 5: luminifereous to luminiferous (luminiferous ether)

p. 6: recepient to recipient (while the recipient)

p. 12: indestructable to indestructible (indestructible atom was arrived at)

p. 18: conbustion to combustion (the combustion of tissue in the lungs)

p. 20: phycho to psycho (distinguish it as psycho-ether)

p. 29: Froisart to Froissart (Froissart was not more garrulous)

p. 34: Incomprehensively to Incomprehensibly (Incomprehensibly great)

p. 43: transferrence to transference (thought transference or sensitiveness)

p. 46: oriflame oriflamme (the oriflamme of the spiritual conception)

p. 53: clairvayant to clairvoyant (trance or clairvoyant state)

p. 53: Clazomeneæ to Clazomenæ (Hermotimus, of Clazomenæ)

p. 53: ecstacy to ecstasy (in a fit of ecstasy)

p. 55: ecstacy to ecstasy (religious ecstasy and trance)

p. 55: phycho to psycho (the psycho-ether)

p. 59: adminstered to administered (Dr. Spier administered)

p. 59: adminstering to administering (after administering the test)

p. 62: pyschic to psychic (conceal the higher psychic faculties)

p. 64: conscienciousness to conscientiousness (conscientiousness, truthfulness and hopefulness)

p. 67: pschometry to psychometry (Really psychometry)

p. 68: Abercombie to Abercrombie (Dr. Abercrombie)

p. 69: Audral to Andral (M. Andral)

p. 72: Perthleven to Porthleven (Vicar of Porthleven)

p. 75: Guinasi to Ginnasi (Count Ginnasi)

p. 79: Biddleford to Biddeford (The Biddeford (Me.) Journal)

p. 79: Kinnebunk to Kennebunk (near the mouth of Kennebunk River)

p. 83: See to She (She threw an old coat)

p. 84: double quotes to single quotes (‘Immediate,’)

p. 87: corollation to correlation (the perfect correlation)

p. 88: single quote to double quote, and missing close quote added (I said, “I have been to a small village ... ‘No, sir; but his widow is.’”)

p. 92: fantacies to fantasies (Laugh at the fantasies)

p. 111: occurence to occurrence (This strange occurrence naturally)

p. 112: sufficent to sufficient (with sufficient light)

p. 115: stewn to strewn (strewn with sand)

p. 116: undiscernable to undiscernible (colors being undiscernible)

p. 116: corelated to correlated (correlated harmony between minds)

p. 117: McKendee to McKendree (Bishop McKendree)

p. 120: unconciously to unconsciously (unconsciously those who by study ... are continuously made unconsciously)

p. 130: extra “it” removed (assuring him that it was no news)

p. 131: embarassment to embarrassment (to overcome his embarrassment)

p. 133: Minnie to Minie (shot in the breast by a Minie ball)

p. 135: be to he (he seemed to be in a jolly mood)

p. 146: villian to villain (the villain escapes)

p. 154: unfortuate to unfortunate (and this is most unfortunate)

p. 156: rythmic to rhythmic (expression of rhythmic motion)

p. 157: ecstacy to ecstasy (the ecstasy of all true musicians ... the meaning accepted of ecstasy)

p. 166: strenghthens to strengthens (harmonizes and strengthens)

p. 168: ativism to atavism (as Darwin would say, atavism)

p. 175: ministeral to ministerial (the ministerial conference)

p. 176: Muller to Müller (George Müller, its founder)

p. 178: correllate to correlate (correlate the facts of spirit)

p. 181: Hipocrates to Hippocrates (time of Hippocrates)

p. 182: inocculation to inoculation (sure consequence of inoculation)

p. 183: enobles to ennobles (that ennobles and elevates)

p. 183: baccilli to bacilli (millions of bacilli)

p. 184: micrococus to micrococcus (the micrococcus brings on fever)

p. 185: insiduously to insidiously (insidiously sapped its foundation)

p. 188: glipse to glimpse (often catches a glimpse)

p. 189: Pharoah to Pharaoh (Pharaoh might command Egypt)

p. 198: Illiad to Iliad (wrote an Iliad)

p. 199: period to question mark (of the animal world?)

p. 199: consectuive to consecutive (its consecutive links)

p. 200: extra “of” removed (huge saurians of the primeval slime)

p. 200: architype to archetype (archetype is complete)

p. 201: nonenity to nonentity (pass into nonentity)

p. 201: habilament to habiliment (is its habiliment)

p. 204: interelationship to interrelationship (the wonderful interrelationship)

p. 204: phenemena to phenomena (phenomena connected with man)

p. 206: megotherium to megatherium (the huge megatherium)

p. 212: mainfestation to manifestation (the first manifestation of life)

p. 217: sustainance to sustenance (draw their vital sustenance)

p. 219: etherial to ethereal (destroy all ethereal influences)

p. 219: unconciously to unconsciously (may unconsciously produce)

p. 236: missing “o” added in “onward” (bore her onward with us.)

p. 247 (Index entry): Buchannan to Buchanan (Buchanan, Dr.)

p. 248 (Index entry: Dreams, life saved by): 79-126-128 to 79, 126, 128