Project Gutenberg 2017-05-05 Public domain in the USA. 340 Hudson, Thomson Jay 1834 1903 The Law of Psychic Phenomena A working hypothesis for the systematic study of hypnotism, spiritism, mental therapeutics, etc. Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Graeme Mackreth and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "The Law of Psychic Phenomena" by Thomson Jay Hudson is a scientific publication written in the late 19th century. The book seeks to establish a comprehensive working hypothesis to analyze and classify various psychic phenomena, including hypnotism, spiritism, and mental therapeutics. Hudson aims to bridge the gaps in psychological science by proposing that many seemingly disparate psychic manifestations are connected through a general principle that can be understood and studied systematically. The opening of the work lays the groundwork for this ambitious project by articulating the necessity for a unifying hypothesis in psychology, akin to those in other scientific domains like physics and chemistry. Hudson argues that without such a framework, psychological phenomena remain chaotic and misunderstood. He quickly introduces the concept of duality in human mental processes, positing the existence of an "objective mind" that interacts with the physical world through the senses, and a "subjective mind" that operates outside of these constraints, particularly when in states of hypnosis. This duality is central to understanding the book’s deeper exploration of how the human mind navigates and comprehends psychic phenomena. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 48.6 (College-level). Difficult to read. en Parapsychology BF Text Category: Psychiatry/Psychology Category: Philosophy & Ethics 933302 2025-07-22T03:55:58.264213 text/html 924068 2024-10-23T02:03:30 text/html 1126973 2025-07-22T03:56:07.189177 application/epub+zip 1141128 2025-07-22T03:55:59.658177 application/epub+zip 373403 2025-07-22T03:55:58.972201 application/epub+zip 1375304 2025-07-22T03:56:12.680145 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1316621 2025-07-22T03:56:06.371158 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 552856 2022-09-24T22:26:04.284869 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 870329 2025-07-22T03:55:57.181272 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 850471 2024-10-23T02:03:30 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 16198 2025-07-22T03:56:12.812116 application/rdf+xml 14203 2025-07-22T03:55:59.072182 image/jpeg 2233 2025-07-22T03:55:59.022173 image/jpeg 1086241 2025-07-22T03:55:58.394240 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia