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But I don't see that it raises any grave difficulty. I answer the question by asking another: How can persons in the somnambulic state read with the tops of their heads?
In her somnambulic sleeps, the present body was the sign that the soul was within reach: so it might be still. Mrs. Blakesley was still at the lodge, then: I would call upon her to-morrow.
The phenomena of super-sensuous reception due to spirit influence are elicited in much the same way as a mesmerist arouses the clairvoyant powers of his subject. The somnambulic sleep, or trance, is induced in the subject whose voluntary powers are no longer under his control, and the involuntary processes are well-nigh suspended.
When it was put on top of the omnibus, and we were in probably unparalleled readiness for starting to the station, at an hour when scarcely anybody else in Valladolid was up, a mule composing a portion of our team immediately fell down, as if startled too abruptly from a somnambulic dream.
After she awoke, I went to her and declared, in brief and earnest terms, that I should pay no attention to what she said in sleep, and that her somnambulic state, which had lasted so long to the grief and trouble of her family, must now come to an end.
Could the cures have been real ones, produced by the principle of ANIMAL MAGNETISM? To this it may be answered that the Perkinists ridiculed the idea of approximating Mesmer and the founder of their own doctrine, that nothing like the somnambulic condition seems to have followed the use of the Tractors, and that neither the exertion of the will nor the powers of the individual who operated seem to have been considered of any consequence.
He would cause her, by a mental order, to cease answering in the midst of a conversation, and by a second mental order would make her begin again. He would repeat the same experiment, separated from his patient by a door. He would awake her. He would throw her again into the somnambulic state, and by his will successively cause her to lose and recover the sensibility of any part of her body.
One afternoon, not long since, he was telling me of his extraordinary successes with somnambulists and somnoparlists, of old ladies cured of nervous headaches and face-twitches, and of young ones put to sleep at a distance from the magnetizer, dropping into a trance suddenly as a bird struck by a gun-shot, simply by an act of his volition, of water turned into wine, and wine into brandy, to the somnambulic taste, and so on, till we got wandering into crooked by-paths of physics and metaphysics, that seemed to lead us nowhere in particular, when I said, "Come, Cousin Moses, suppose you try it on me, by way of experiment.
I quote Podmore, who is commenting upon the trance utterances of a Mrs. Lindquist: "It is to be noted that the ascription of these somnambulic utterances to spirit intelligences was in the circumstances not merely easy but almost inevitable.
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