ting in the window of a large house. It is a hotel, I think. There is an awning outside the window. She is looking down into the street below. Such an odd town!-houses so queerly built! There's a long, narrow street below. And I suppose those are cab drivers, aren't they? What wretched horses they have!"

"And what is Dorothea thinking of?"

"She is thinking about whether she will go out for a walk, and about a new cloak she has. Oh, there is her mother!" (The patient had not, if I recollect rightly, ever seen Dorothea's mother; but she described her as accurately as if she saw her in the ordinary way.)

"Her mother is talking to her about going out for a walk. Now her mother is moving away from her. She has gone into another room."

The whole scene would, in the way this recital indicates, be described calmly, and with interest, if anything interesting was to be seen, and with amusement if the people said anything funny. Sometimes I could make a guess at the city, by the way it was said to be built, or otherwise.

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It may be that both the experiments I now relate were on the same day. I remember that they were both on the afternoon of Sunday, which day was usually chosen because I was at leisure. I preferred the daytime for those experiments. In the first of them I asked a patient as to what a certain friend of mine was doing who lived with another friend.

Those two usually took a walk on Sunday afternoon, and I expected to have them both described as passing along some country road. But the patient said when she found him:

"He is reclining on a sofa, smoking a pipe, in a room talking to-."

I knew by her accurate mention of all the furniture that she was describing their private sitting room. These two men were great friends, and the patient was evidently amused at the expression of their faces, or what they said.

As in other cases, the conversation was not repeated fully, though evidently heard. On such occasions, the amusement of the patients indicated this; though in their desire to tell things in their own way, they did not usually repeat the phrases which for the moment provoked a smile. At such times the patients apparently did not realize the importance of repeating the words heard. It was exactly the same as if they looked through the window and did not think the talk worth repeating. A silence sometimes ensued while the patients listened. The reader may

imagine how strange it seemed to me to watch the patients, in all such cases as this, listening to the conversations that were being held, sometimes two miles, sometimes several thousand miles away.

On the evening of the same day I called on one of these men, and found that they had not taken their walk, but had remained in the sitting-room as mentioned. They had also worn the coats described. Their positions in the room were also as depicted one of my friends in an arm chair, and the other reclining on the sofa, smoking a pipe. The interior of the apartment had never been seen by the patient.

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This single experience which I now give is as conclusive as if I gave many. They could be easily multiplied so as to produce weariness. On that day I had dined with my parents. At dinner, after church, I heard my father say that a certain banker would call for him to take a walk at three o'clock, so that, later in the afternoon, perhaps after four o'clock, I felt sure that he would be described as walking with this banker along some street or country road. However, this was not so. When the patient found him

there was no doubt in her tone:

"He is sitting in a large arm chair asleep. The chair is a reddish one."

'Can you see anything more to describe?"

"No, nothing, except that there is a newspaper lying across his knee."

This seemed to be all there was to ask, so I inquired about my mother. When she was found the patient said:

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'She is standing at a long window which reaches almost to the floor. Outside there is a veranda and trees are growing. She is looking through the trees."

"And of what is she thinking?"

It took some time to force an answer to this, for the patient asserted that she could not tell. But finally she issued the answer

not seen.

Now, Harry was a young uncle of mine whom the patient had Very likely I had mentioned him before, but beyond that she knew nothing of him. He had died within two months of that time, and the mention of his name almost startled me, for he had been a life-long friend. I ceased the experiment, and inquired as soon as possible of my mother.

I discovered that Mr. Y- the banker, had not called, and that my father had slept all the afternoon in a large crimson arm

chair which was his favorite. In answer to my further question, my mother said:

"Yes, he was reading a newspaper as he fell asleep, and I remember it rested on his knee during the time he slept."

She also remembered standing, about the time mentioned, at one of the front French windows (in which case she would be facing trees) and thinking over the lawsuit which all that time was causing trouble in reference to her brother's will.

It was no slight matter with me to find that I had proved beyond possibility of doubt the existence of a soul.

It will be observed from the evidence furnished by Mr. Jarvis' experiments that the soul in clairvoyant hypnosis projects itself from the body at the suggestion of the operator, and follows any other suggestions he may make to the extent of undertaking specific observations. But at this point the power of suggestion ceases, and the projected soul is forced to work independently of the mind of the operator. That this must be so is positively demonstrated by the correct reports brought of events occurring at the moment at distant points, and by descriptions of objects and scenes of which the operator has no knowledge. The circumstances are exactly the same as in cases where a person is sent out as a physical messenger. Directions will be observed regarding the person to be called upon, and the information or article desired will be obtained and brought to the person who employs the messenger. And it would be just as reasonable to assume or assert that the physical messenger obtains that which he brings, from the mind or the home of his employer, as that the projected soul obtains the information it reports, from the mind or soul of the hypnotist.

CHAPTER IV.

PHENOMENA OF HYPNOTISM CONSIDERED IN DETAIL-ITS SIMPLEST MANIFESTATIONS-METHODS OF INDUCING HYPNOSIS -SENSATIONS WHILE PASSING INTO THAT CONDITION— HYPNOTIC EFFECTS OF MUSIC.

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entity, independent of the physical body and consciousness, having been demonstrated by the evidence presented in the third chapter, the phenomena of hypnotism will now be considered in detail, and the soul attributes demonstrated thereby will be clearly set forth.

Let it be observed that the condition of hypnosis is that of a partial or complete suspension of the operations of the soul through the physical senses and organism. A person in deep and absorbing thought presents the primary condition of hypnosis, its simplest manifestation. Through such thought the physical consciousness becomes partially oblivious to the immediate environment and events that may be occurring, and draws from and through the soul the thoughts and ideas it seeks. This happens whenever a new idea of any character is sought, as in music, in art, in architecture, or in a business transaction, and the condition is that of auto-hypnosis, self-induced. The physical mind is absolutely incapable of creating an idea. It may adopt ideas suggested by material things,

but adoption is not creation. It may be assumed that the soul is also incapable of actually creating ideas ; but it has the power of drawing knowledge from the Infinite, and only through the soul can the physical mind reach the Infinite. Indeed, there is evidence which warrants the conclusion that every perception of the physical senses is transmitted to the soul before it can reach the physical consciousness.

The simplest manifestation of hypnosis having its cause outside the physical mind of the person hypnotized, is seen in the effects produced by music, oratory, and other demonstrations of soul attributes coming through the physical organism of a second person or persons. When any of the emotions are so awakened that the physical mind yields in any degree its ordinary control of the intellect, the condition resulting is a manifestation of hypnosis. Under such impulses we laugh with those who laugh, weep with those who weep, and exhibit characteristics and emotions that otherwise remain dormant. The excitement of battle hypnotizes the soldier and drives away fear. Crime of especially heinous nature is often made epidemic among people inclined to wrong-doing by the suggestions brought to their minds through published accounts of such crimes, or direct observation of them. Mobs sometimes show signs of the operation of suggestive hypnotic influence by the increasing fury of their excitement after the inclination to perform moderate deeds of lawlessness has been yielded to, leading to excesses not contemplated by any one at the outset.

Hypnosis produced at the suggestion of another mind places the soul of the person hypnotized under