Practical Mind-Reading: A Course of Lessons on Thought-Transference, Telepathy, Mental-Currents, Mental Rapport, &c.Atkinson, William Walker
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Practical Mind-Reading: A Course of Lessons on Thought-Transference, Telepathy, Mental-Currents, Mental Rapport, &c.
Atkinson, William Walker
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akin to what is known as "Automatic Writing." In fact, if you are
disposed, and are naturally receptive and sensitive to impressions, you
may even write a letter through the _Will_ of a good Transmitter, by
this method. By all means make yourself acquainted with its
possibilities, and phenomena.
We now pass on to a consideration of the more Sensational Feats.
LESSON VII.
SENSATIONAL FEATS.
In addition to the feats given in this work, which, together with their
countless variations, form the stock in trade of the majority of the
professional Mind Readers, there are a number of other feats essayed by
the public performers which we have seen fit to group under the general
title "Sensational Feats." These feats are described here in order that
the student may understand the nature of them, and the manner of their
performance. But we consider such feats suitable only for the
sensational advertisements of the professional performers, and always
dependent upon more or less spectacular accessories, and attended by
even dangerous features in the case of the driving feat. And therefore
we do not offer them for reproduction by the private student, or the
parlor demonstrator. The principal Sensational Feats performed by the
professionals, are as follows:
THE DRIVING FEAT.
This is performed by the performer, blindfolded as usual, driving a team
along the public streets to some selected point, which point is usually
a hotel previously selected by a public committee. Upon reaching the
hotel the performer goes to the hotel register, turns the pages and
finds a name previously selected. The performer receives his impressions
from members of the committee who are seated beside him on the carriage
seat, with their arms on his shoulders, or having hold of his hands, or
even connected with him by wire. The feat is really a spectacular
reproduction of the familiar feats described in previous chapters, and
the principles governing it are precisely the same. The Transmitters
impress the direction upon him, and he follows the line of the Least
Mental Resistance.
THE COMBINATION LOCK FEAT.
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