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
“About March, 1857, Mrs. Mennier, in England, dreamt that she saw her
brother, whose whereabouts she did not know, standing headless at the
foot of the bed with his head lying in a coffin by his side. The dream
was at once mentioned. It afterwards appeared that at about the time
the head of the brother seen, Mr. Wellington, was actually cut off by
the Chinese at Sarawak.” On this case, Mr. Gurney remarks--“This dream,
if it is to be telepathically explained, must apparently have been
due to the last flash of thought in the brother’s consciousness. It
may seem strange that a definite picture of his mode of death should
present itself to a man in the instant of receiving an unexpected and
fatal blow; but, as Hobbes said, ‘Thought is quick.’ The coffin, at
any rate, may be taken as an item of death-imagery supplied by the
dreamer’s mind.”
“We have now, however,” says Mr. Myers, “seen a letter from Sir James
Brookes (Rajah of Sarawak), and an extract from the _Straits Times_ of
March 21st, 1857, in the (London) _Times_ for April 29th, 1857, which
makes it, I think, quite conceivable that the dream was a reflection
of knowledge acquired after death, and the head on the coffin had a
distinct meaning.” Sir James Brookes says:--“Poor Wellington’s remains
were consumed [by the Chinese]; his head, borne off in triumph, alone
attesting his previous murder.” The _Straits Times_ says:--“The head
was given up on the following day. The head, therefore, and the head
alone, must have been buried by Mr. Wellington’s friends; and its
appearance in the dream _on the coffin_, with a headless body standing
beside it, is a coincidence even more significant than the facts which
Mr. Gurney had before him when he wrote.”
The transmission of thought from a spirit discarnate to one incarnate,
whose body was asleep, should not be esteemed impossible. Abundant
instances, equally well substantiated, might be recorded did space
permit.
THOUGHT TRANSFERENCE IN PRAYER.
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