TY  - JOUR
T1  - TElepathic diagnosis!
Y1  - 2012/11/14
N1  - 10.1001/jama.2012.3315
JO  - JAMA
SP  - 1842
EP  - 1842
VL  - 308
IS  - 18
N2  - 
Let the physician be designated as Dr. A; the Belgian mystic Mme. B and a woman (the sister of a New York physician) as Miss C, whose business it is to hypnotize or put into a quasicataleptic state Mme. B, and then to direct the latter to go (psychically) to the patient, look into his body and describe the nature of his trouble. This is done in detail by Mme. B, who points out conditions of which Dr. A, Miss C and her own (Mme. B’s) objective self could not have had the slightest knowledge. In one instance, in which Dr. Quackenbos followed her statements through the telephone, Mme. B “diagnosed, while five miles away, an obscure case in my office and told correctly the cause of the lesion.” She not only feels and acts the part of the person en rapport, “but she is that person unmistakably, possessed of his knowledge, character traits, feelings and mental attitudes; he talks through her lips, suffers through her bodily organs and energizes through her brain. A remote subject is thus brought face to face with me, and I am enabled to effect salutary changes against his objective will and consent by appeal to the commingled subliminal selves. If this unparagoned means of enforced attention results from a spiritual facility that is lasting, then every man and woman in the world is accessible through this channel; susceptible to corralling by this subliminal method of approach; coercible to apprehension of the wrongness of positions, incentives and motives for action when they are wrong, and changeable to right view and moral action.”

SN  - 0098-7484
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.2012.3315
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2012.3315
ER  -