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Théodore Flournoy. From India to the planet Mars: A study of a case of somnambulism with glossolalia
From India to the planet Mars: A study of a case of somnambulism with glossolalia
Table of Contents
TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE
CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER II. CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH OF MLLE. SMITH
CHAPTER III. MLLE. SMITH SINCE HER INITIATION INTO SPIRITISM
I. The Mediumistic Beginnings of Mlle. Smith
II. Mlle. Smith in Her Normal State
III. Spontaneous Automatic Phenomena
IV. The Seances
CHAPTER IV. THE PERSONALITY OF LEOPOLD
I. Psychogenesis of Leopold
II. Personification of Balsamo by Leopold
III. Leopold and the True Joseph Balsamo
IV. Leopold and Mlle. Smith
CHAPTER V. THE MARTIAN CYCLE
I. Origin and Birth of the Martian Cycle
II. Later Development of the Martian Cycle
III. The Personages of the Martian Romance
Esenale
ASTANÉ
Pouzé Ramié—Various Personages
IV. Concerning the Author of the Martian Romance
CHAPTER VI. THE MARTIAN CYCLE (CONTINUED)—THE MARTIAN LANGUAGE
I. Verbal Martian Automatisms
II. The Martian Texts
III. Remarks on the Martian Language
IV. Mlle. Smith and the Inventor of Martian
CHAPTER VII. THE MARTIAN CYCLE (CONCLUDED). —THE ULTRA-MARTIAN
CHAPTER VIII. THE HINDOO CYCLE
I. Apparition and Development of the Oriental Cycle
II. Sivrouka and M. de Marlès
III. The Arab Elements of the Oriental Cycle
IV. The Hindoo Language of Mlle. Smith
V. The Sources of the Hindoo Dream
CHAPTER IX. THE ROYAL CYCLE
CHAPTER X. SUPERNORMAL APPEARANCES
I. The Study of the Supernormal
II. Physical Phenomena
III. Telepathy
IV. Lucidity
V. Incarnations and Spirit Messages
CHAPTER XI. CONCLUSION
Footnote
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Théodore Flournoy
Published by Good Press, 2021
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In the same way, various feelings of sadness, anger, a desire to laugh or to weep, etc., the cause of which she was unable to explain, have often followed her for a considerable length of time after the seances of which these feelings were the manifest emotional echo. This is often the effect of our dreams on our waking state: we forget the dreams, but their influence remains, and is often more marked in the dreams of a hypnotized person or a somnambulist than in those of ordinary sleep.
The seances are not the exclusive source of the involuntary suggestions which trouble Mlle. Smith in her daily life without any benefit to herself. It is evident that on every occasion when she finds herself in that particular condition of least resistance which we, in our ignorance of its intrinsic nature, designate by the convenient name of “suggestibility,” she is exposed to impressions capable of returning to assail her in the course of her daily occupations. Fortunately this condition of suggestibility does not seem to develop itself readily in her outside of the spiritistic reunions.
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