From India to the planet Mars: A study of a case of somnambulism with glossolalia
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A classic in the field of psychology, From India to Planet Mars (1900) depicts the remarkable multiple existence of the medium Hélène Smith, who claimed to be the reincarnation of Marie Antoinette, of a Hindu princess from fifteenth-century India, and of a regular visitor to Mars, whose landscapes she painted and whose language she appeared to speak fluently. Through a psychological interpretation of these fantasies, which consisted in the subliminal elaboration of forgotten memories, Théodore Flournoy vastly extended the scope and understanding of the unconscious, and in particular, of its cr...
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- FROM INDIA TO THE PLANET MARS
- CONTENTS
- TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE
- CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER II CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH OF MLLE. SMITH
- CHAPTER III MLLE. SMITH SINCE HER INITIATION INTO SPIRITISM
- I. The Mediumistic Beginnings of Mlle. Smith
- II. Mlle. Smith in Her Normal State
- III. Spontaneous Automatic Phenomena
- IV. The Seances
- CHAPTER IV THE PERSONALITY OF LEOPOLD
- I. Psychogenesis of Leopold
- II. Personification of Balsamo by Leopold
- III. Leopold and the True Joseph Balsamo
- IV. Leopold and Mlle. Smith
- CHAPTER V THE MARTIAN CYCLE
- I. Origin and Birth of the Martian Cycle
- II. Later Development of the Martian Cycle
- III. The Personages of the Martian Romance
- Esenale
- ASTANÉ
- Pouzé Ramié—Various Personages
- IV. Concerning the Author of the Martian Romance
- CHAPTER VI THE MARTIAN CYCLE (CONTINUED)—THE MARTIAN LANGUAGE
- I. Verbal Martian Automatisms
- II. The Martian Texts
- III. Remarks on the Martian Language
- IV. Mlle. Smith and the Inventor of Martian
- CHAPTER VII THE MARTIAN CYCLE (CONCLUDED). —THE ULTRA-MARTIAN
- CHAPTER VIII THE HINDOO CYCLE
- I. Apparition and Development of the Oriental Cycle
- II. Sivrouka and M. de Marlès
- III. The Arab Elements of the Oriental Cycle
- IV. The Hindoo Language of Mlle. Smith
- V. The Sources of the Hindoo Dream
- CHAPTER IX THE ROYAL CYCLE
- CHAPTER X SUPERNORMAL APPEARANCES
- I. The Study of the Supernormal
- II. Physical Phenomena
- III. Telepathy
- IV. Lucidity
- V. Incarnations and Spirit Messages
- CHAPTER XI CONCLUSION
- FOOTNOTES:
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