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
I withhold the names for family reasons. Mr. ---- had been in business
in Glasgow for nearly thirty years, and, from comparatively small
beginnings, had been very successful. Latterly, he and his family
resided in ----, a suburb of Glasgow. Both in the city and in this
district Mr. ---- was very much respected, being a church member and
holding office in ---- Free Church. For some time Mr. ---- had been
ailing, and his medical attendant advised him to take a sea voyage--a
thorough change, etc. In compliance with this advice, he took a trip
up the Mediterranean. Miss ----, a distant relative of his, had been
visiting Glasgow, and, being on terms of intimacy with the family,
knew of his departure from Glasgow. About two weeks after he left, she
also left Glasgow for Edinburgh. While in the train for Edinburgh, she
was overcome with great anxiety for Mrs. ----, his wife. Unable to
shake the feeling off, instead of going to Edinburgh, she actually got
out of the train halfway, at Falkirk, and took the next train back
to Glasgow, and went to her friend’s house, whom she found in great
distress. Mrs. ---- had, about the time Miss ---- became distressed
in the train, received word that her husband was found dead (having
committed suicide) in his berth on the steamer at Constantinople. The
state of mind of the newly-made widow re-acted on that of Miss ----.
As Miss ---- was not only a dear friend, but was noted for her earnest
piety, the widow at once earnestly desired to see her. When last
these two friends saw each other, everything seemed to contribute to
happiness and comfort. Mrs. ---- was looking forward hopefully for the
return of her husband, restored in health, to herself and children.
THOUGHT TRANSFERENCE IN ORDINARY EXPERIENCE.
Whether thought-transference is a “relic of a decaying faculty,” or the
“germ of a new and fruitful sense,” daily experience in the lives of
most furnish abundant evidence of the existence of such a power. My own
life has supplied me with abundant evidence of the fact. It is a common
occurrence with us for either my wife or I to utter or give expression
to the thoughts which, for the time being, occupied the conscious plane
in the other. It is possible there may have been, as there has been in
some instances, some half phrase uttered or manner shown, which in the
one have aroused the thoughts expressed by the other.
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