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Tolman resueneral state You begin by placing a pad and pencil before the --sets up a certain train of associated ideas These ideas have the innate tendency to realize the weakened This is why the left hand is often used These ideas disassociate thehly developed cases, becoive a weak iue reseive a full statement or a new statement This is why all the so-called spirit comentary and so futile The cure of any such state is to set up a strong current of counter-suggestion"

Weissant to say that there can exist in the unconscious reat as will enable her to draw intricate patterns, manipulate objects at a distance, and impersonate dead persons unknown to her?"

"But there you have passed into the region of hallucination or deceit"

"I'm not so sure of that I do not see how fraud or hallucination can coht I will ad alone by itself the test would have little weight; but it does not co"

Tolman smiled "Yes, the newspapers are filled with accounts of mediums exposed"

They entered then upon a discussion of the trance, and passed to a consideration of ular facts "We learned also," Tolman said in discussion of a certain case which he had studied, "that certain drugs have the power of arousing specific nerve-centres, and that in cases of alternating personality by flooding the brain with blood ere able to bring back the norument of the power of mind over matter?" asked Serviss, profoundly interested in this assertion

"Not at all It isthat influences the patient"

Serviss laughed and Weissmann's mouth twitched "You cannot head thee into the subconscious like prairie-dogs into the sod, only to come up at a new point"

Tolman's interest in the unknown psychic was now keen, and he asked for a chance to try his powers

To this Serviss was strongly averse "I have never had a chance at a case of this kind and I would very estion is what you claim it to be, if the power is really in the mind of the subject, I can arouse it as well as any one But as a believer inyou mention"