Prom the Unconscious to the Conscious 



effects which are produced from mind to mind without 

 any appreciable physical intermediary, such as thought- 

 reading, mental suggestion, or telepathy. I see nothing 

 to add to the summary of these reactions given in L'Etre 

 Subconscient, here reproduced. Thought-reading seems 

 well established in hypnotic and mediumistic states. It 

 is the convenient, (much too convenient since much- 

 abused), explanation of many facts. It seems, up to a 

 certain point, to be possible in the waking state, or at 

 least in a state of hypnosis or auto-hypnosis so slight as 

 to pass unperceived. 



Outside hypnosis and mediumship, thought-reading 

 is rarely observable in any satisfactory manner. Cases 

 of alleged thought-reading obtained by contact between 

 the agent and the subject, must be excluded, for these 

 are often the results of divination by unconscious muscular 

 movements. 



Mental suggestion. The possibility and reality of 

 mental suggestion have been proved in the most rigorous 

 manner. 1 



An order suggested by the magnetiser can be trans- 

 mitted by a mere effort of the will, without any external 

 manifestation, when the patient is in the hypnotic state. 



Mental suggestion may be effected at a distance, 

 sometimes at very considerable distances, and across 

 material obstacles. 



Telepathy? Telepathy consists essentially in the 

 fact of a strong psychic impression generally unlooked 

 for, produced in a normal person (either asleep or awake), 

 which is found to coincide with a real distant event. 



Sometimes the psychic impression constitutes the 



1 Vide the standard work of Dr Ochorowics : La Suggestion Mentale; 

 all required proofs will be found therein. 



1 Phantasms of the Living, by Messrs Gurney, Myers, and Podmore, 

 which contains 700 cases all well described and authenticated. See also 

 Flammarion's book : L'Inconnu et les Pr obi ernes Psychiques; also the 

 file of Revues Psychiques, and more especially the Annales des Sciences 

 Psychiques, which contains numerous very remarkable cases of telepathy, 



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