Produced by Bryan Ness, S.D., and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) STUDIES IN THE OUT-LYING FIELDS OF PSYCHIC SCIENCE By HUDSON TUTTLE AUTHOR OF ARCANA OF NATURE ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF MAN ETC New York M L HOLBROOK & CO COPYRIGHT BY HUDSON TUTTLE, 1889. TO ALFRED E. GILES, OF HYDE PARK, MASS., AN ERUDITE SCHOLAR, A FEARLESS INVESTIGATOR, AN UNSHRINKING ADVOCATE OF HIS CONVICTIONS, HONEST AND TRUE TO HIMSELF AND OTHERS; IN RECOGNITION OF A MUTUAL FRIENDSHIP OF MANY YEARS THIS VOLUME IS FRATERNALLY DEDICATED. ANALYSIS. There is a Psychic Ether, related to thought, as the luminiferous ether is to light. This may be regarded as the thought atmosphere of the universe. A thinking being in this atmosphere is a pulsating center of thought-waves, as a luminous body is of light. There is a state of mind and body known as sensitive, or impressible, in which it receives impressions from other minds. This state may be normal, or induced by fatigue, disease, drugs, or arise in sleep. The facts of clairvoyance, trance, somnambulism and psychometry prove the existence of this ether, and are correlated to it. Thought transference is also in evidence, as well as that vast series of facts which give intimation of an intelligence surviving the death of the physical body. This sensitiveness may be exceedingly acute, and the individual unconscious of it, and then it is known as genius, which is acute susceptibility to the waves of the psychic atmosphere. Sensitiveness explains the true philosophy of prayer. All the so-called occult phenomena of mesmerism, trance, clairvoyance, mind reading, dreams, visions, thought transference, etc., are correlated to and explained by means of this psychic ether. All these phenomena lead up to the consideration of immortality, which is a natural state, the birthright of every human being. The body and spirit are originated and sustained together, and death is their final separation. The problem of an immortal future, beginning in time, is solved by the resolution of forces at first acting in straight lines, through spirals reaching circles which, returning within themselves, become individualized and self-sustaining. Spiritual beings must originate and be sustained by laws as fixed and unchanging as those which govern the physical world. Sensitiveness gives great pleasures and may give pain; the author’s experience as a sensitive, related, shows this.