OCCULTISM AND COMMON-SENSE

BY BECKLES WILLSON

With an Introduction by
PROF. W. F. BARRETT, F.R.S.

Past President of the Society for Psychical Research

LONDON
T. WERNER LAURIE
CLIFFORD'S INN
E.C.


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CONTENTS

Introduction vii
I. Science's Attitude towards the "Supernatural" 1
II. The Hypnotic State 13
III. Phantasms of the Living 35
IV. Dreams 59
V. Hallucinations 82
VI. Phantasms of the Dead 100
VII. On "Hauntings" and Kindred Phenomena 124
VIII. The Dowsing or Divining Rod 159
IX. Mediumistic Phenomena 180
X. More Physical Phenomena 201
XI. The Materialisation of "Ghosts" 217
XII. Spirit-Photography 235
XIII. Clairvoyance 251
XIV. Mrs Piper's Trance Utterances 271
Afterword 288
Publications of T. Werner Laurie.

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NOTE

The following chapters, together with Professor Barrett's commentthereupon, which now figures as an Introduction, originally appeared inthe columns of The Westminster Gazette[Pg vii].


INTRODUCTION

By Professor W. F. Barrett, F.R.S.

Those of us who took part in the foundation of the Society forPsychical Research were convinced from personal investigation and fromthe testimony of competent witnesses that, amidst much il

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