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On being asked what they were doing, she says: 'Father W. is sitting before
the fire with his shoes off, warming his feet; Mother W. is also sitting there,
holding the babe, and Eliza is upstairs dressing or undressing.' This must have
been about 9 o'clock in the evening then. I have never asked any questions to
learn the truth or falsehood of all this; but I received a letter of the 7th
or 8th of January, from mother dated December 24 (day before Christmas), in
which she says, 'Almira has had a slight attack of fever, attended with the
rash, but is now much better.' On
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tieing asked whether she saw these things, she would say:
`It does not seem as if I saw them with my eyes, but I know them How it is that
I know them, I cannot tell.' "
THE LUCID CONDITION. Such were some of the phenomena induced in a sensitive
subject under the influence of Hypnosis. There is another quality which is peculiar
to clairvoyants, which is called the faculty of diagnosing disease by spiritual
insight. This condition used to have the name of Lucidity and it was considered
at one time a certain effect of continued Hypnosis. I have found it, however,
comparatively rare, but none the less true and inexplicable upon the theory
of simple suggestion. When your subject is in the profound hypnotic sleep, and
when you have led him on from this sleep to an exhibition of clairvoyant powers,
he is frequently able with his spiritual eye to see before him the internal
organs of the body, and to diagnose disease by means of this higher intuition.
If, for instance, you ask him to examine yourself and say what the matter is
with you, he will reply something as follows: "I see your brain distinctly."
"I see your heart." "It seems to be enlarged," or, "It
seems to be normal." "I see your lungs. One of your lungs is perforated;
it looks to me as if it had been injured by tuberculosis."
DIAGNOSING BY CLAIRVOYANCE.-In
this way he will pass in review the organs of the body, and though it may
tax your credulity to believe everything which one of these subjects tells you,
you will come across certain phenomena having the appearance of revelations,
which you will not be able to account for. Pursue this line of investigation
for it is perhaps the one among all others which will best repay you for your
trouble.
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