The World's Greatest Books - Volume 15 - Science
The World's Greatest Books - Volume 15 - Science
Free DownloadHypnotism: Its History, Practice and TheoryNatural HistoryVestiges of CreationThe Surface of the GlobeThe Origin of SpeciesElements of Chemical PhilosophyExperimental Researches in ElectricityThe Chemical History of a CandleThe Senses of InsectsDialogues on the System of the WorldEssays in EugenicsThe Evolution of ManOn the Motion of the Heart and BloodOutlines of AstronomyCosmos, a Sketch of the UniverseThe Theory of the EarthZoological PhilosophyPhysiogonomical FragmentsAnimal ChemistryThe Principles of GeologyA Treatise on Electricity and MagnetismThe Nature of ManThe Prolongation of LifeThe Old Red SandstonePrincipiaAnatomy of VertebratesCellular Pathology
Book Excerpt
ration of the normal, they consider it, in its profound stages at all events, a form of automatism.
These and other views of the Nancy school have been questioned by several observers. As Myers justly pointed out, although suggestion is the artifice used to excite the phenomena, it does not create the condition on which they depend. The peculiar state which enables the phenomena to be evoked is the essential thing, not the signal which precedes their appearance.
Within recent times another theory has arisen, which, instead of explaining hypnotism by the arrested action of some of the brain centres which subserve normal life, attempts to do so by the arousing of certain powers over which we normally have little or no control. This theory appears under different names, "Double Consciousness," "Das Doppel-Ich," etc., and the principle on which it depends is largely admitted by science. William James, for example, says: "In certain persons, at least, the total possible consciousness may be split int
FREE EBOOKS AND DEALS
(view all)
Popular books in Science, Non-fiction
Readers reviews
0.0
LoginSign up
Be the first to review this book
