Transcriber’s Notes Obvious typographical errors have been silently corrected. Variations in hyphenation have been standardised but all other spelling, accents and punctuation remains unchanged. The page number referenced in the the caption to Fig.39 is missing. As in the original the Figure numbers are not sequential. The footnotes are located at the end of the book. Italics are represented thus _italic_, and bold thus =bold=. 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 [Illustration: Publisher’s Device] HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS NEW YORK AND LONDON 1900 Copyright, 1900, by DANIEL B. VERMILYE. _All rights reserved._ [Illustration: Handwritten French Authorisation] I authorize Messrs. Harper & Brothers to translate and to publish in the English language my book “From India to the Planet Mars.” THEODORE FLOURNOY GENEVA, June 20, 1900 CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE vii I. INTRODUCTION 1 II. CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH OF MLLE. SMITH 15 III. MLLE. SMITH SINCE HER INITIATION INTO SPIRITISM 35 I. THE MEDIUMISTIC BEGINNINGS OF MLLE. SMITH 36 II. MLLE. SMITH IN HER NORMAL STATE 41 III. SPONTANEOUS AUTOMATIC PHENOMENA 48 1. PERMANENCE OF EXTERIOR SUGGESTIONS 49 2. IRRUPTIONS OF SUBLIMINAL REVERIES 51 3. TELEOLOGICAL AUTOMATISMS 58 IV. THE SEANCES 60 IV. THE PERSONALITY OF LEOPOLD 76 I. PSYCHOGENESIS OF LEOPOLD 80 II. PERSONIFICATION OF BALSAMO BY LEOPOLD 96 III. LEOPOLD AND THE TRUE JOSEPH BALSAMO 107 IV. LEOPOLD AND MLLE. SMITH 116 V. THE MARTIAN CYCLE 139 I. ORIGIN AND BIRTH OF THE MARTIAN CYCLE 140