The Philosophy of Mystery 1845 Walter Cooper Dendy ~ parapsychology ghosts dreams prophecy mesmerism etc.

Title: The Philosophy of Mystery

Author: Walter Cooper Dendy

Description: Rebound in plain forest-green cloth. Light general wear to covers. Pages show some moderate, light scattered foxing. pp. vi, (7)-442, plus [4] ads.

First published in 1841, The Philosophy of Mystery is Dendy's treatise on ghosts and spectres, imagination, sleep and dreams, nightmares, demons, prophecy, ephemeral entities, fantasy, hypnotism, somnambulism, the awakening of the dead, and related phenomena, presented in the form of a dialog. Ideas of the true causes of these mysterious phenomena are discussed, while providing a near-continuous and extensive stream of anecdotal information drawn from diverse contemporary and historical sources, including those which are literary as well from the tales found in regional folklore.

Contents:
- The Challenge.
- Nature and Motives of Ghosts.
- Prophecy of Spectres.
- Illusion of Spectres.
- Fantasy from Mental Association.
- Fantasy from Cerebral Excitement.
- Fantasy from Cerebral Congestion.
- Poetic Fantasy, or Phresny.
- Fantasy from Sympathy with the Brain.
- Mysterious Forms and Signs.
- Analysis and Classification of Spectral Illusions.
- Illusions of Art.
- Illustration of Mysterious Sounds.
- Fairy Mythology.
- Demonology.
- Nature of Soul and Mind.
- Nature of Sleep.
- Sublimity and Imperfection of Dreaming.
- Prophecy of Dreams.
- Moral Causes of Dreaming.
- Anachronism and Coincidence of Dreams.
- Material Causes of Dreaming.
- Intense Impression --Memory.
- Influence of Dark Blood in the Brain.
- Incubus, or Nightmare.
- Somniloquence --Somnambulism.
- Imitative Monomania.
- Revery.
- Abstraction of Intellect.
- Somnolence --Trance --Catalepsy.
- Premature Interment --Resuscitation.
- Transmigration --Analysis of Trance.
- Mesmerism.
- Sibylline Influence.

Walter Cooper Dendy (1794-1871) was a respected, if somewhat eccentric, English surgeon and writer who held an interest in parapsychology. He served as president of the Medical Society of London, 1846-1847.

Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good
Jacket Condition: None

Publisher: Harper & Brothers, Publishers
Place: New York
Year: 1845

Keywords: parapsychology, ghosts, dreams, hypnotism,