The Law of Psychic Phenomena - A Working Hypothesis for the Systematic Study of Hypnotism, Spiritism and Mental Therapeutics (Hardcover)

1912. This is the book that inspired H. Spencer Lewis, the founder of the modern day Rosicrucian Order, AMORC, to begin his early studies into mysticism. Dr. Lewis treasured this book because it convinced him of a vast world to explore within himself. It was the first book dealing with mysticism and the psychic side of life that he ever read. Contents: Duality and suggestion; Reasoning powers of the two minds differentiated; Perfect memory of the subjective mind; Subjective memory; Perception of the fixed laws of nature; Effects of adverse suggestion; Hypnotism and mesmerism; Hypnotism and crime; Psycho-therapeutics; A new system of mental therapeutics; Phenomena of spiritism; Physical phenomena of spiritism; Phantasms of the dead; Suspended animation and premature burial; Practical conclusions and suggestions; Physical manifestations and philosophy of Christ; Spiritual philosophy of Christ; Mission of Christ; Deductions from various attributes of the soul.