About This Book
The text surveys investigations into telepathy, hypnotism, automatism, dreams, clairvoyance, planchette use, automatic writing and drawing, crystal-gazing, phantasms, and multiple personality. Essays combine historical overview, case reports, and critical discussion of therapeutic and psychical aspects, drawing on reports from psychical-research circles. Emphasis is placed on evaluating phenomena with scientific caution while resisting both credulous supernaturalism and dismissive materialism. It outlines observational methods and reported results, highlights recurrent features of altered states, and offers tentative conclusions about subliminal mental faculties and their implications for psychology and medicine.
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