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have formed the basis of all psychical cures ever since. How the 

 sleep can be produced by another was seen in the experiments of 

 Braid, where one appreciates fully that the person really hypnotizes 

 himself by gazing at an object. The full understanding between 

 hypnotized and hypnotist has never been really understood, and so here 

 we are stopped short. 



The theory of Dr. Hudson may put us on the right track. Be- 

 cause it is so convenient a theory and tends to make plausible a number 

 of things which otherwise could not be understood, I am going to take 

 the liberty of detailing it here. Dr. Hudson claims that every normal 

 person is possessed of two minds, a subjective one and an objective one. 

 The objective mind is the one we use every day, a mind fully capable 

 of forgetting and the only one of which we are ordinarily cognizant. 

 The subjective mind is the perfect mind wherein are stored up all the 

 numerous thoughts that have ever come into it, there lying dormant, 

 only to be reawakened when a new set of associations brings them 

 forth. 



It is this mind which we may say is used in hypnotism, in som- 

 nambulism, the one which shows itself in altered personality and in 

 various other abnormalities. Some authors consider this the sub- 

 liminal or subconsious mind.* 



That there is another mind far more perfect and which brings to 

 our recollection many things forgotten, seems to be an undisputed 

 fact. When a drug like Cannabis Indica is used or when a person is 

 drowning, there come before his mind's eye, in a single moment, the 

 doings of years. And so in some recorded cases of trance states the 

 same thing is proved. A highly interesting case is given by Mr. 

 Coleridge in his ' Biographica Literaria.' 



Mr. Coleridge says : 



It occurred in a Roman Catholic town in Germany, a year or two before my 

 arrival at Gottingen, and had not then ceased to be a frequent subject of conver- 

 sation. A young woman of four or five and twenty, who could neither read nor 

 write, was seized with a nervous fever, during which, according to the assevera- 

 tions of all the priests and monks of the neighborhood, she became possessed and 

 as it appeared, by a very learned devil. She continued incessantly talking Latin, 

 Greek and Hebrew, in very pompous tones, and with a most distinct enuncia- 

 tion. This possession was rendered more probable by the known fact that 

 she was, or had been, a heretic. The case had attracted the particular atten- 

 tion of a young physician, and by his statement, many eminent physiologists 

 and psychologists visited the town and cross-examined the case on the spot. 

 Sheets full of her ravings were taken down from her own mouth and were 

 found to consist of sentences, coherent and intelligible each for itself, but with 

 little or no connection with each other. Of the Hebrew, a small portion only 

 could be traced to the Bible; the remainder seemed to be in Rabbinical dialect. 



* One can not help realizing that this theory will never be fully accepted. 

 Most psychologists are still quarreling over concepts, and no two will agree 

 as to what is meant by a subjective or an objective mind. 



