Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 edition. Excerpt: ... psychic suggestions The revelations of the ancient teachers of the Orient, through their modern representatives and the revelations of our present-day scientists concerning mental and psychic phenomena, have made the most profound impression on the thinking classes. Until a generation ago we had but rarely witnessed these phenomena save in unclassified, in unimportant and unnoticeable instances. They created no general impression as they now do. The time came, however, when scientists began interesting themselves in these super-normal experiences, presenting so many complex psychological problems which they could not ignore. Investigation after investigation was carried on with this and that bearing, but the ultimate consequence was that psychology has become an almost new science, so many were the discoveries and correlative inferences which altered the old ideas of the mind and its phenomena. Other branches of science, including chemistry and biology, have likewise felt the renovating influences of these discoveries. As an example of these influences we have the discovery of a subjective mind separate in essence, activity and possibilities from the normal mentality of every-day life; we have the discovery of the submissiveness of the entire nervo-muscular and the vegetative systems to the action and direction of subjective intelligence in such phenomena as the cure of disease; we have, therefore, the discovery of a larger ego, "the real individual," of which the personal, objective consciousness is but a minor projection. We have the discovery of tremendous psychic probabilities in the manifestation of faculties over-stepping by far the faculties and functions of the normal powers of the mind and normal consciousness. These discoveries...
