1854 SPIRIT MANIFESTATIONS, The Devil, Mediums, Clairvoyance, Tricks, Mesmerism

Description: "SPIRIT MANIFESTATIONS Examined and Explained. Judge Edmonds Refuted; or, An Exposition of the Involuntary Powers and Instincts of the Human Mind" by John Bovee Dods. 1854 1st edition; De Witt & Davenport; New York. Original publisher's decorative cloth binding. Here are some examples of the contents: The devil-chase, marble-playing, and stick-riding; Spirit-intercourse the Judge thinks will uproot infidelity; Three classes of minds; Origin of rappings in the family of Mr. Fox, March 1848; Rapping and writing mediums; The state of the two brains; Case of a lady...who gave off electrical sounds; The performer of the piano (plays by instinct); Involuntary motion among the Greeks, Romans, Druids, and savage tribes; The Pythian priestess and spinning dervishes; The cat-mewing nuns; The biting nuns; A Quaker lady in Salem Mass.; Dr. Stone on the progress of fanaticism; The jerks among converts; Every part of the human system is double; Instinct itself considered in brutes and men; Mesmerism, psychology, and catalepsy rouse instinct into action; Seeress of Prevorst; False mediums; Fits; How tables are tipped, moved, and raised; Man is capable of double consciousness; Where do spirits get the power to communicate; Proof that man has instinct and intuition in the back brain; By instinct the medium writes; The first medium - her candor; Physical manifestations considered; The bell is taken from M.'s hand and rung, comb taken from the hair, shawl from the shoulders, and feet tripped up by the spirits; Table moved and bass-viol and violins placed in the Judge's hand and hung about his neck and played upon, and the Judge struck with the fiddle-bow; Ladies tied together with a handkerchief; Spirits requesting lights to be put out; Tricks with cards; Bell-ringing examined; Clairvoyance; The chair jerked from under the judge; Spirits may communicate with mortals...and much more. The chapters are as follows: Public Opinion of Spirit-Manifestations and Mediums Stated and Considered; Involuntary Rapping How Produced, and the Force of Habit Argued; Involuntary Motion in General Considered; The Instincts of Man and the Involuntary Powers of His Mind Considered, and the Intelligence Connected with Spirit-Manifestations Explained; The Instincts of Man; His Involuntary Powers of Mind and the Intelligence Connected with the Spirit-Manifestations Continued; The Bible Can Not be Superseded by a New Revelation of Moral Truth - The Magnanimity of Christ; Notice of Judge Edmonds' Book, and His Argument Considered; Consideration of Judge Edmonds' Argument Continued; The Existence of Reichenbach's Odic-Force Examined; Appendix.

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