Telepathy and the Subliminal Self: An Account of Recent Investigations Regarding Hypnotism, Automatism, Dreams, Phantasms, and Related Phenomena - Softcover

A work that is accurate enough for scientists and simple enough for lovers of 'ghost stories.' On a thread of theory and discussion Dr. Mason links many startling examples from his own professional experience and from the Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research.

"Certain to attract wide attention....We defy any conscientious skeptic to read the book without believing more than he did when he began....thoroughly interesting if merely for its curious narratives....the spirit of the work is such as to deserve respectful attention from every scientific mind....a sneer is no longer an answer to such a book." -Chicago Tribune

"Scientific, yet in the best sense of the word popular....There is a great need of such a book." -Boston Advertiser

"He repudiates the idea of the supernatural altogether, and in this he is in accord with the best thought of the day...interesting and logical." -Boston Transcript

"The work of a scientist, not of a crank....Fascinating reading." -Hartford Courant

"The author is perfectly convinced that telepathy, or the communication of mind with mind without the use of the ordinary channels of sensation, is as thoroughly established as the laws of the solar system, and when universally accepted will prove as beneficial to man's conception of the universe as any of the great contributions to knowledge. Further, the subliminal self - which is our ordinary semi-automatic subconscious action separated out from the rest of our mental complex and elevated to the dignity of an alter and a better ego - is the active and efficient agent in telepathy, in phantasms, in automatism, in hypnotism, and all the transcendental manifestations of our souls....The account of the phenomena given by Dr. Mason must be pronounced clear, concise, and plausible." -The Dial

"A very valuable book." -The Spectator

"Has been generally accepted by scientists as accurate and entirely trustworthy." -Review of Reviews and World's Work

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I. Psychical Research—Telepathy or Thought-Transference

CHAPTER II. Mesmerism and Hypnotism—History and Therapeutic Effects

CHAPTER III. Hypnotism—Psychical Aspect

CHAPTER IV. Lucidity or Clairvoyance

CHAPTER V. Double or Multiplex Personality

CHAPTER VI. Natural Somnambulism—Hypnotic Somnambulism—Dreams

CHAPTER VII. Automatism—Planchette

CHAPTER VIII. Automatic Writing, Drawing and Painting

CHAPTER IX. Crystal-gazing

CHAPTER X. Phantasms

CHAPTER XI. Phantasms, Continued

CHAPTER XII. Conclusions