Natural Causes and Supernatural SeemingsK. Paul, Trench & Company, 1886 - 368 стор. This comprehensive analysis of nineteenth-century spiritual experiments questions our long tradition of encounters with the supernatural, and why it appeared to have declined in influence in the writer's era. Maudsley (1835-1918), a medical psychologist and pioneer psychiatrist, sets out to bring such alleged spiritual phenomena under scientific investigation. Emphasising the natural defects and errors of human observation and reasoning, as well as the prolific activity of the imagination, this inquiry into the causes of belief in the supernatural suggests that much of it can be explained though hallucination, mania, and delusion. The book is divided into three parts: the first section concentrates on the causes of fallacies in the sound mind, while the second considers unsound mental action. The focus of part three is theopneusticism, or the attainment of supernatural knowledge by divine inspiration. |
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... faith of those who , not receiving the benefit they asked for in prayer , but receiving instead the evil which they specially asked to be delivered from , fail to see therein the true answer to the prayer and the certain proof of its ...
... faith of those who , not receiving the benefit they asked for in prayer , but receiving instead the evil which they specially asked to be delivered from , fail to see therein the true answer to the prayer and the certain proof of its ...
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... to Uitzilopochtli , though it have gone hard with any one who , living when gods held sway in human faith , had made a den their power and good or ill will . These were f THE CONDITIONS OF SUPERSTITION . 43 which , being utterly.
... to Uitzilopochtli , though it have gone hard with any one who , living when gods held sway in human faith , had made a den their power and good or ill will . These were f THE CONDITIONS OF SUPERSTITION . 43 which , being utterly.
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... faith and hope in his patient does more to cure him sometimes by a few harmless simples than another , unable to produce any such inspiriting mental effect , can do with the most fit and costly remedies . Predic- tion is , in the nature ...
... faith and hope in his patient does more to cure him sometimes by a few harmless simples than another , unable to produce any such inspiriting mental effect , can do with the most fit and costly remedies . Predic- tion is , in the nature ...
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... faith in the supernatural is convincing proof of positive human relations with it , and will believe in their own notions of it , or in the notions of it inculcated upon them by those whom they look up to with respect as their spiritual ...
... faith in the supernatural is convincing proof of positive human relations with it , and will believe in their own notions of it , or in the notions of it inculcated upon them by those whom they look up to with respect as their spiritual ...
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... faith has two natural effects which seldom fail to ensue from it - the one upon the individual himself , the other upon others . Intoxicated with the joy of his special enthusiasm , the individual is like a delirious or a drunken man ...
... faith has two natural effects which seldom fail to ensue from it - the one upon the individual himself , the other upon others . Intoxicated with the joy of his special enthusiasm , the individual is like a delirious or a drunken man ...
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