Popular Superstitions, by Herbert Mayo, M.D

About this eBook

Author

Mayo, Herbert, 1796-1852

Title

Popular Superstitions, and the Truths Contained Therein With an Account of Mesmerism

Credits

Produced by Chris Curnow, Les Galloway and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

BF: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Psychology, Philosophy, Psychoanalysis

Subject

Parapsychology and medicine

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 58197

Release Date

October 30, 2018

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Transcriber’s Notes — POPULAR SUPERSTITIONS,
2. 2.Untitled
3. 3.PREFATORY REMARKS.
4. 4.CONTENTS.
5. 5.ON POPULAR SUPERSTITIONS. — LETTER I.
6. 6.LETTER II.
7. 7.LETTER III.
8. 8.LETTER IV.
9. 9.LETTER V.
10. 10.LETTER VI.
11. 11.LETTER VII.
12. 12.LETTER VIII.
13. 13.LETTER IX.
14. 14.LETTER X.
15. 15.LETTER XI. — I. Hypothesis of an Abnormal Psychico-neural Relation as the essence of trance. — II. Transposition of the Senses. — III. Sources of Error in the communications of entranced persons. — IV. Of the Different Qualities of Od in different individuals. — V. The Od-Force is the usual channel of establishing mesmeric relation. — VI. Trance-Identification of persons at a distance by means of material objects. — VII. Mental Travelling by clairvoyantes. — VIII. Mesmerising at a Distance. Mesmerising by the Will — IX. Trance-Diagnosis — X. Mesmeric Treatment — XI. Phreno-Mesmerism — XII. Rapport. Mesmeric Relation. Psychical Attraction. — XIII. Trance-Prevision — XIV. Ultra-terrestrial Vision. — XV. Ultra-vital Vision. — XVI. Nature of the Supreme Being.
16. 16.LETTER XII.
17. 17.LETTER XIII. — POSTSCRIPT.
18. 18.LETTER XIV. — I. Hypnotism — II. Trance-Umbra.
19. 19.CONCLUSION. — FOOTNOTES

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