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From India to the Planet Mars: Contents

From India to the Planet Mars, by Théodore Flournoy; tr. Daniel B. Vermilye, [1900] | CHAPTER | | PAGE | | | TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE | vii | | I. | INTRODUCTION | 1 | | II. | CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH OF MLLE. SMITH | 15 | | III. | MLLE. SMITH SINCE HER INITIATION INTO SPIRITISM | 35 | | | I. THE MEDIUMISTIC BEGINNINGS OF MLLE. SMITH | 36 | | | II. MLLE. SMITH IN HER NORMAL STATE | 41 | | | III. SPONTANEOUS AUTOMATIC PHENOMENA | 48 | | | 1. PERMANENCE OF EXTERIOR SUGGESTIONS | 49 | | | 2. IRRUPTIONS OF SUBLIMINAL REVERIES | 51 | | | 3. TELEOLOGICAL AUTOMATISMS | 58 | | | IV. THE SEANCES | 60 | | IV. | THE PERSONALITY OF LEOPOLD | 76 | | | I. PSYCHOGENESIS OF LEOPOLD | 80 | | | II. PERSONIFICATION OF BALSAMO BY LEOPOLD | 96 | | | III. LEOPOLD AND THE TRUE JOSEPH BALSAMO | 107 | | | IV. LEOPOLD AND MLLE. SMITH | 116 | | V. | THE MARTIAN CYCLE | 139 | | | I. ORIGIN AND BIRTH OF THE MARTIAN CYCLE | 140 | | | II. LATER DEVELOPMENT OF THE MARTIAN CYCLE | 152 | | | III. THE PERSONAGES OF THE MARTIAN ROMANCE | 172 | | | ESENALE | 173 | | | ASTANÉ | 177 | | | POUZÉ, RAMIÉ—VARIOUS PERSONAGES | 188 | | | IV. CONCERNING THE AUTHOR OF THE MARTIAN ROMANCE | 190 | | | p. vi | | | CHAPTER | | PAGE | | VI. | THE MARTIAN CYCLE (CONTINUED)—THE MARTIAN LANGUAGE | 195 | | | I. VERBAL MARTIAN AUTOMATISMS | 198 | | | II. THE MARTIAN TEXTS | 210 | | | III. REMARKS ON THE MARTIAN LANGUAGE | 241 | | | 1. MARTIAN PHONETICS AND HANDWRITING | 246 | | | 2. GRAMMATICAL FORMS | 249 | | | 3. CONSTRUCTION AND SYNTAX | 251 | | | 4. VOCABULARY | 252 | | | 5. STYLE | 255 | | | IV. MLLE. SMITH AND THE INVENTOR OF MARTIAN | 257 | | VII. | THE MARTIAN CYCLE (CONCLUDED)—THE ULTRA-MARTIAN | 261 | | VIII. | THE HINDOO CYCLE | 275 | | | I. APPARITION AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE HINDOO CYCLE | 279 | | | II. SIVROUKA AND M. DE MARLÈS | 297 | | | III. THE ARAB ELEMENTS OF THE ORIENTAL CYCLE | 309 | | | IV. THE HINDOO LANGUAGE OF MLLE. SMITH | 314 | | | V. THE SOURCES OF THE HINDOO DREAM | 337 | | IX. | THE ROYAL CYCLE | 342 | | X. | SUPERNORMAL APPEARANCES | 364 | | | I. THE STUDY OF THE SUPERNORMAL | 365 | | | II. PHYSICAL PHENOMENA | 375 | | | 1. APPORTS | 375 | | | 2. MOVEMENTS OF OBJECTS WITHOUT CONTACT | 377 | | | III. TELEPATHY | 387 | | | IV. LUCIDITY | 396 | | | 1. MEDICAL CONSULTATIONS | 398 | | | 2. OBJECTS RECOVERED | 401 | | | 3. RETROCOGNITIONS | 406 | | | V. INCARNATIONS AND SPIRIT MESSAGES | 413 | | | 1. CASE OF MLLE. VIGNIER | 425 | | | 2. CASE OF JEAN THE QUARRYMAN | 430 | | | 3. CASE OF THE SYNDIC CHAUMONTET AND OF THE CURÉ BURNIER | 431 | | XI. | CONCLUSION | 441 |