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STUDIES
IN THE
OUT-LYING FIELDS
OF
PSYCHIC SCIENCE
By HUDSON TUTTLE
AUTHOR OF ARCANA OF NATURE ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT
OF MAN ETC
New York
M L HOLBROOK & CO
COPYRIGHT BY
HUDSON TUTTLE,
1889.
TO
ALFRED E. GILES,
OF
HYDE PARK, MASS.,
AN ERUDITE SCHOLAR, A FEARLESS INVESTIGATOR, AN
UNSHRINKING ADVOCATE OF HIS CONVICTIONS, HONEST
AND TRUE TO HIMSELF AND OTHERS;
IN RECOGNITION OF A MUTUAL FRIENDSHIP OF MANY
YEARS THIS VOLUME IS FRATERNALLY DEDICATED.
ANALYSIS.
There is a Psychic Ether, related to thought, as the luminiferous ether
is to light.
This may be regarded as the thought atmosphere of the universe. A
thinking being in this atmosphere is a pulsating center of
thought-waves, as a luminous body is of light.
There is a state of mind and body known as sensitive, or impressible, in
which it receives impressions from other minds. This state may be
normal, or induced by fatigue, disease, drugs, or arise in sleep. The
facts of clairvoyance, trance, somnambulism and psychometry prove the
existence of this ether, and are correlated to it.
Thought transference is also in evidence, as well as that vast series of
facts which give intimation of an intelligence surviving the death of
the physical body.
This sensitiveness may be exceedingly acute, and the individual
unconscious of it, and then it is known as genius, which is acute
susceptibility to the waves of the psychic atmosphere.
Sensitiveness explains the true philosophy of prayer.
All the so-called occult phenomena of mesmerism, trance, clairvoyance,
mind reading, dreams, visions, thought transference, etc., are
correlated to and explained by means of this psychic ether.
All these phenomena lead up to the consideration of immortality, which
is a natural state, the birthright of every human being.
The body and spirit are originated and sustained together, and death is
their final separation.
The problem of an immortal future, beginning in time, is solved by the
resolution of forces at first acting in straight lines, through spirals
reaching circles which, returning within themselves, become
individualized and self-sustaining.
Spiritual beings must originate and be sustained by laws as fixed and
unchanging as those which govern the physical world.
Sensitiveness gives great pleasures and may give pain; the author's
experience as a sensitive, related, shows this.
And, finally, a communication from a spirit whose life had been noble
and unselfish, given while the recipient was in a sensitive and
receptive state, detailing an account of the phenomena called death, but
which is really birth into the spirit realm, the meeting of friends, and
the knowledge of a quarter of a century of its joys, together with "the
poet's story," it being an account given by one whose earth-life had
been selfish, and whose selfish thoughts had formed themselves into
phantom companions, following him into the realm of the future world,
and making his life there one of despair, and how he escaped these
legitimate children of his brain by heroic acts of unselfishness,
complete the story. These last are no fictions of the imagination,
written to amuse the reader; but the author is firmly convinced, yes,
knows they are the words of actual living beings who have once lived on
earth like ourselves.
H. T.
CONTENTS.
PAGE.
Dedication 3
Analysis 5
CHAPTER I.
Matter, Life, Spirit 9