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How to thought-read

a manual of instruction in the strange and mystic in daily life, psychic phenomena, including hypnotic, mesmeric and psychic states ...

by James Coates

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  • 19th century
  • Language: English
  • Content type: Primary source
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"How to Thought-Read" by F.A.S. Ph.D. James Coates is a manual of instruction on psychic phenomena written in the late 19th century. The book explores a range of topics related to mental science, such as hypnotism, thought transference, clairvoyance, and psychometry, aiming to provide practical insights and techniques for readers interested in developing psychic skills. The opening of the text introduces the author’s intention to elucidate various states of consciousness, particularly focusing on somnambulism, hypnosis, and their relation to thought-reading. Coates explains the factors that influence the manifestation of mental abilities, laying the groundwork for understanding psychic phenomena as a bridge between physical and spiritual dimensions. He suggests that heightened awareness and control over one's psychic abilities could unravel the complex relationship between mind and soul, providing an exciting perspective for readers curious about the uncharted territories of human consciousness. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Mesmerism, animal magnetism, and hypnosis, Parapsychology and psychical research, Spiritualism, mediumship, and channeling, and Telepathy, clairvoyance, and precognition.

  • Spiritualism, mediumship, and channeling

    Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive, openlibrary-historical, and project-gutenberg matched “Spiritualism” and “spiritualism”. Retained metadata contains “Spiritualism” in the subject metadata and “Spiritualism” in the edition subtitle.

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    • “spiritualism”· via Project Gutenberg
    • “Spiritualism”· in subject
    • “Spiritualism”· in edition subtitle
  • Parapsychology and psychical research

    Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary-historical matched “Parapsychology”. Retained metadata contains “Parapsychology” in the subject metadata.

    • “Parapsychology”· via Open Library
    • “Parapsychology”· in subject
  • Telepathy, clairvoyance, and precognition

    Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary-historical, project-gutenberg, and wellcome matched “Clairvoyance”, “clairvoyance”, “Telepathy”, and 1 additional term(s). Retained metadata contains “Clairvoyance” in the description, “thought-transference” in the description, “Clairvoyance” in the subject metadata, and 3 additional metadata match(es).

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    • “Telepathy”· via Open Library
    • “clairvoyance”· via Project Gutenberg
    • “telepathy”· via Project Gutenberg
    • “clairvoyance”· via Wellcome Collection
    • “Clairvoyance”· in description
  • Mesmerism, animal magnetism, and hypnosis

    Retained metadata contains “mesmeric” in the subtitle, “Hypnotism” in the description, and “mesmeric” in the edition subtitle.

    • “mesmeric”· in subtitle
    • “Hypnotism”· in description
    • “mesmeric”· in edition subtitle

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a manual of instruction in the strange and mystic in daily life, psychic phenomena, including hypnotic, mesmeric and psychic states, mind and muscle reading, thought transference, psychometry, clairvoyance, and phenomenal spiritualism

Internet Archive institutional pre-1900 scan

128 pages : illustrations, portrait ; 19 cm

1893Hay Nisbet; London : Hay NisbetEnglish—Public

a manual of instruction in the strange and mystic in daily life, psychic phenomena, including hypnotic, mesmeric and psychic states ...

Open Library record

1893David McKay CompanyEnglish—No ebook

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2022-06-23Project GutenbergEnglish—Public domain (USA)

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  • Contributing institution: Wellcome Library
  • Digitization sponsor: Wellcome Library
  • Discovery required Internet Archive search metadata to report a PDF format; the exact direct-file URL is added only after the item's file listing confirms an unrestricted PDF filename.
  • Internet Archive institutional collection: europeanlibraries; medicalheritagelibrary; wellcomelibrary
  • Original print publication date and source edition are absent from Project Gutenberg metadata.
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  • Source-reported rights: <a href="http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/" rel="ugc nofollow">This work is available under the Creative Commons, Public Domain Mark</a>
  • Source-reported rights: This work is available under the Creative Commons, Public Domain Mark
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