Tha Zoist; A Journal of Cerebral Physiology & Mesmerism, and Thier Applications to Human Welfare baixar o livro de graça

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854. Excerpt: ... Clairvoyant Dreams. 81 without mesmerism in a dream, are that of Goethe's grandfather, No. XX., p. 344: of Gasparus Van Sparr, No. XXI., p. 54: of a friend of Dr. Davey, No. XXXI., p. 328. Clairvoyance in dreams is frequently not a copy, but allegorical, figurative. In my note on clairvoyance in No. XXIV., p. 375, I said: --"If clairvoyance takes place in dreaming, it may give rise to imagery; and so commonly was this known in ancient times that professed interpreters of dreams were consulted. When I reflect upon the unquestionable unconscious working of the brain, upon its unconscious reception of knowledge from without--upon its unconscious acting upon this knowledge, upon its unconscious and irresistible willing, I can conceive that a clairvoyant may not understand his clairvoyance: and another sagacious person, perhaps another clairvoyant, may be required to interpret for him." These facts all presented themselves to my own observation: and, as in ordinary clairvoyance in the waking or sleepwaking state the clairvoyant information is occasionally given with a degree of hallucination, --the fancy of an imaginary being or book (No. XXIV., p. 337) communicating it, so such appearances sometimes take place and communicate the information in clairvoyant dreaming. "Certain excitement of various portions of the brain, if not of other divisions of the nervous system, gives the appearance of unexisting or absent beings and inanimate objects, gives the impression of unreal sounds, tastes, smells, and feelings, --to use the term feelings in the signification of all sensations included in the generic word touch. Any of these phenomena may occur singly, or in combination with one or more of the others, or with different diseases of the nervous system. A madman may be...