A Course of Advanced Lessons in Clairvoyance and Occult Powers [Hardcover]

Language: English. ABOUT THE BOOK: The book contains comprehensive series of lessons on clairvoyance and other occult powers. The book truly define the following lessons in a precise but easy way are, clairaudience premonition and impressions, clairvoyant psychometry, clarivoyant crystalgazing, Scientific telepathy, Mind Reading, and many other allied branches. These accessible and novice friendly lessons are highly recommended for those with a practical interest in clairvoyance and constitute a great addition to collections of related literature. The clairvoyant power manifest in all forms of perception of facts, happenings and events of future time. Explanation of prophecy, prevision, foretelling, secondsight etc. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: William Walker Atkinson (December 5, 1862 November 22, 1932) was an attorney, merchant, publisher and author, as well as an occulist and an American pioneer of the new thought movement. Atkinson apparently enjoyed the idea of writing as a Hindu so much that he created two more Indian personas, Swami Bhakta Vishita and, Swami Panchadasi. He published under several pen names, including Magus Incognito, Theodore Sheldon, Theoron Q. Dumont and probably other names. CONTENTS: SYNOPSIS OF THE LESSONS INTRODUCTION . 13 LESSON I THE ASTRAL SENSES . 17 The skeptical person who "believes only the evidence of his senses." The man who has much to say about "horse sense." "Common Sense" versus Uncommon Senses. The ordinary five senses are not the only senses. The ordinary senses are not as infallible as many think them. Illusions of the five physical senses. What is back of the organs of physical sense. All senses an evolution of the sense of feeling. How the mind receives the report of the senses. The Real Knower behind the senses. What the unfolding of new senses means to man. The superphysical senses. The Astral Senses. Man has seven physical senses, instead of merely five. Each physical sense has its astral sense counterpart. What the astral senses are. Sensing on the astral plane. How the mind functions on the astral plane, by means of the astral senses. The unfolding of the Astral Senses opens up a new world of experience to man. LESSON II TELEPATHY vs. CLAIRVOYANCE . 15 The two extra physical senses of man. The extra sense of "the presence of other living things." The "telepathic sense." How man may sense the presence of other living things apart from the operation of his ordinary five physical senses. This power is strongly developed in savages and barbarians, but has become atrophied in most civilized men, by continued disuse. It is now vestigal in civilized man, but may be developed by practice. Animals have this extra sense highly developed, and it plays a very important part in their protection from enemies; their capture of prey, etc. The strange actions of dogs, horses, etc., explained. How the geese saved Rome by reason of this sense. All hunters have experienced evidences of the existence of this sense on the part of animals. The physical telepathic sense. How it operates. Interesting instances of its possession by animals, and savage tribes. Women possess it strongly. The distinction between this form of thoughttransference and clairvoyance. LESSON III TELEPATHY EXPLAINED . 33 What "telepathy" means. The mental process by which one "knows at a distance." The sending and receiving of waves and currents of thought and feeling. Thought vibrations, and how they are caused. The part played by the cerebrum, cerebellum, and medulla oblongatathe three brains of man. The part played by the solar plexus and other great nervous centres. How thought messages are received. How states of emotional excitement are transmitted to others. The Pineal Gland: what it is, and what it does. The important part it plays in telepathy and thoughttransference. Mental atmospheres. Psychic atmospheres of audiences, towns, houses, stores, etc. Why you are not affected by all thought vibrations in equal measure and streng.…