Braid, James, 205; his early observations, 206, 207; his historical position, 207, 208; his method, 207; his theories, 209, 211; his relation to phrenology, 209, 210; his later writings, 211; detection of unconscious suggestion, 211, 212; his status, 213.
Bridgman, Laura, 366; dreams of, 347-350.
Christian Science, 26, 44; origin of, 27; principles of, 27-30, 31, 32; text-book of, 28; extravagance of, 30, 31, 32; antagonism to science, 33.
Clairvoyance, 14, 223, 226; see Puységur.
Clodd, Edward, 241, 242, 244, 245, 248, 265, 272.
Coincidences, 81, 83, 88, 90; and chance, 84, 97.
Deception, as dependent upon objective conditions, 109; as dependent upon habit, 111; love of, 111; historical aspect of, 112; conjuring, 113, 114-117, 120-128; as imitation of reality, 116-118; as dependent upon subjective conditions, 118, 120-128; and technical knowledge, 13, 128, 148; analysis of, 129; as influenced by contagion, 132-134; liability to, 150; see also Illusion.
Dreams, sensory factors in, 364, 365; of the blind; see Blindness; see Omens.
Faria, Abbé, 200; his use of suggestion, 201.
Furness, Horace Howard, 142-144, 158, 163.
Greaterick or Greatrakes, Valentine, 176-178, 180.
Hodgson, Richard, 8, 147, 150; and Davey, 129, 149, 151-157.
Hypnotism, 67, 171; history of, 172 sqq., 203, 227, 231-235; before the Academies, 202-205; extravagances of, 214, 217-227; as applied to medicine, 202, 204, 214; lessons of, 231-235.
Hypothesis, its logical status, 100, 101.
Illusion, 109, 110; optical, 282, 284; of ambiguous outlines, 286 sqq.; see also Deception.
Interest, as creating coincidences, 88-92; as influencing perception, 119; in Psychical Research, 56-58, 63, 65.
Involuntary Movements, 307; illustrations of, 312-321; influence of bodily position upon, 322-330; analysis of, 322-330; varieties of, 334; effects of object of attention upon, 331-333; see also Subconscious.
Keller, Helen, 366; her account of her dream-life, 353-358; her mental traits, 351, 352, 359, 360.
Logic, as applied to the occult, 3, 13, 19, 23, 30, 31, 39; logicality and rationality, 45.
Magic, 242, 257, 265; sympathetic, 240, 241, 246, 254, 261-263, 273; correspondences in, 266; see also Images, Names, Numbers.
Medicine; see Folk-medicine; see also Superstition.