Table of Contents

Volume 1: Introduction; 1. Preliminary remarks. Grounds of caution; 2. The experimental basis. Thought-transference; 3. The transition from experimental to spontaneous telepathy; 4. General criticism of the evidence for spontaneous telepathy; Note on witchcraft; 5. Specimens of the various types of spontaneous telepathy; 6. Transference of ideas and mental pictures; 7. Emotional and motor effects; 8. Dreams; 9. Borderland cases; 10. Hallucinations. General sketch; 11. Transient hallucinations of the sane. Ambiguous cases; 12. The development of telepathic hallucinations. Volume 2: Additions and corrections; 13. The theory of chance-coincidence; 14. Further visual cases occurring to single percipient; 15. Further auditory cases occurring to a single percipient; 16. Tactile cases, and cases affecting more than one of the percipient's senses; 17. Reciprocal cases; 18. Collective cases; Conclusion; Supplement: Introduction; 1. Further examples of thought-transference, principally in hypnotic cases; 2. Ideal, emotional, and motor cases; 3. Dream; 4. Borderland cases; 5. Visual cases; 6. Auditory and tactile cases; 7. Cases affecting more than one of the percipient's senses; 8. Reciprocal cases; 9. Collective cases; Additional chapter; Table of numbered cases; Analysis of the table; Index.

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This 1886 publication investigating the connection between ghost-seeing and telepathy is a key source on Victorian psychical research.