There is no epithet added to Éliphas Lévi's Wikipedia page to indicated that he was crazy or cook as with the other authors. Found clues in his texts but also started making weird triangle and circle shapes with my hands and bought the Torah this morning so I think I will give him a rest. Making a rota out of taro with the sephira is interesting, will check that out some more.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89liphas_L%C3%A9vi
On to a new book where we encounter Dunglas Home again
"THIRTY YEARS OF PSYCHICAL RESEARCH"
A Treatise on Metapsychics
by Charles Richet, PhD
Richet, Charles, 1850-1935.
New York, Macmillan; 1923
This all sounds very familiar, and new word "cryptesthesia" or lucidity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89liphas_L%C3%A9vi
On to a new book where we encounter Dunglas Home again
"THIRTY YEARS OF PSYCHICAL RESEARCH"
A Treatise on Metapsychics
by Charles Richet, PhD
Richet, Charles, 1850-1935.
New York, Macmillan; 1923
Quote:The facts verified by the Dialectical Society were surprisingly
evidential: they did not, however, secure scientific assent, but
they had one excellent result-they impelled William Crookes
to study the question. Fortunately he had the assistance of two
powerful mediums with whom to experiment-Florence Cook
and D. Dunglas Home.
This all sounds very familiar, and new word "cryptesthesia" or lucidity.
Quote:ON CRYPTESTHESIA (LUCIDITY) IN GENERAL
Nearly the whole of subjective metapsychics can be reduced to
a single phenomenon which the magnetizers of a past age called
"lucidity" or "clairvoyance" (hellsehen) ; which is now called
telepathy, with various shades of meaning attached to the term.
I propose to name it cryptesthesia. Myers has already used the
term "telesthesia."
The Greek etymology of the word signifies "a hidden sensibility"-
a perception of things by a mechanism unknown to us
of which we are cognizant only by its effects.
We shall therefore class mediums in two distinct groups
1. Mediums showing physical phenomena.
2. Mediums showing psychical phenomena.
(B) The second degree consists in the creation of a new personality
by hypnotism. The normal personality reappears on awaking, but
under hypnotism and hypnotic suggestion a new personality appears
which is evidently factitious, since the magnetizer imposes it at will
and can maintain it by verbal suggestion. This artificial and transitory
personality also belongs to normal official psychology.
© The third degree is a mediumistic state, i.e., a new personality
is created by auto-suggestion. Hypnotism acts through
hetero-suggestion; mediumship by auto-suggestion. There is
very little difference between the personality of Marie Antoinette
as assumed by Helen Smith of her own accord, and the same
personality as aroused by suggestion of a hypnotizer.
(D) The fourth step is when the new personality shows
cryptesthesia and really seems to know things unknown to the
medium, and even things that the secondary personality alone
could be aware of, as in the case of Mrs.Piper incarnating
Phinuit or George Pelham.
The "guide" of the medium (i.e., the new personality that appears)
then seems to be a genuinely extraneous intelligence.
These phenomena can rightly be called metapsychic because,
taking them all in all, the normal intelligence of the sensitive is
quite insufficient to explain the strange and potent cryptesthesia.
I need scarcely remark that the notion that an extraneous force
is in play is only a hypothesis.
The division shows that metapsychic science is both experimental
and observational. To neglect either method would be
to maim the science disastrously.
Experimental cryptesthesia can be studied
A. In normal subjects,
B. In hypnotized subjects,
C. In mediums,
D. In sensitives.
Quote:The phenomena that Schrenck-Notzing and Mme.Bisson have
verified with Eva bring fresh evidence on the formation of ectoplasms, evidence that is of high theoretical importance. The word
"ectoplasm," which I invented for the experiments with Eusapia,
seems entirely justified. The ectoplasm is a kind of gelatinous
protoplasm, formless at first, that exudes from the body of the
medium, and takes form later. This embryo-genesis of materialization shows clearly on nearly all the photographs. In the early
stages there are always white veils and milky patches and the faces,
fingers, and drawings are formed little by little in the midst of this
kind of gelatinous paste that resembles moist and sticky muslin