How to thought-read : $b A manual of instruction in the strange and mystic in daily life, psychic phenomena, including hypnotic, mesmeric, and psychic states, mind and muscle reading, thought transference, psychometry, clairvoyance, and phenomenal spiritualismCoates, James
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How to thought-read : $b A manual of instruction in the strange and mystic in daily life, psychic phenomena, including hypnotic, mesmeric, and psychic states, mind and muscle reading, thought transference, psychometry, clairvoyance, and phenomenal spiritualism
Coates, James
Clairvoyance; Spiritualism; Telepathy
TRAVELLING CLAIRVOYANCE.
As a public entertainer at one time, giving demonstrations of mesmeric
phenomena, I have had naturally many opportunities of seeing different
types of clairvoyance. During a course of entertainments given by
me in Rothesay, 1881, I was able to introduce clairvoyance to public
notice by the most difficult method, that of public experiments.
M. C., the clairvoyante, was a native of Newcastle-on-Tyne. All her
clairvoyant experiments were satisfactory. Her husband was also a
clairvoyant, but not so striking for public exhibition. M. C. seemed
to possess all phases. One or two experiments out of many will be
interesting not only as illustrative of clairvoyance, but because what
I relate can be easily ratified.
M. C. arrived in Rothesay for the first time about four hours
previously to taking her seat upon the platform, in the New Public
Halls. It was neither possible nor probable she could have obtained the
information she possessed by other than psychic means. The clairvoyant
was mesmerised and blindfolded before the audience. After some
experiments in objective clairvoyance were given, such as describing
a watch, telling the time, and the number, by having the watch held
silently over her forehead, she gave several experiments in travelling
clairvoyance. Many visitors in the hall--for Rothesay is a well known
and fashionable seaside resort--sent up requests to the platform, and
desired the clairvoyante should visit their homes in Kent, Cornwall,
Island of Jersey, in the Isle of Man, Glasgow, and other places. Her
visits and descriptions were in all instances extremely satisfactory.
How far thought-transference and objective clairvoyance commingled and
entered into her descriptions it would be difficult to say, but the
results were simply marvellous.
Test case, by the late Dr. Maddever, M.D., M.R.C.S., and Dr. John
Maddever, his son. These medical gentlemen resided in Rothesay,
and were present in the hall. Dr. Maddever desired me to send the
clairvoyante into a certain room in his house and that she should
describe it.
All the directions the clairvoyante obtained were, “to go out of the
hall, down the front steps; when out turn to the right and proceed
onward till she came to an iron-railed gate, on which was a small brass
plate, bearing the name of ‘Dr. Maddever,’ she was to open the gate, go
up to the hall-door, enter, pass the first door to the left, and turn
round a passage to the left and enter the first door to which she came,
and describe what she saw.”
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