Sketches of the Philosophy of Apparitions - Or, an Attempt to Trace Such Illusions to Their Physical Causes

Klappentext A discussion from 1825 of the physical and physiological causes which can lead to claims of seeing of ghosts. Zusammenfassung Samuel Hibbert produced this volume on the physical and medical causes of visions in 1825! after delivering a popular lecture at the Royal Society of Edinburgh on spectral illusions. Using medical case-studies and anecdotal evidence! Hibbert explores the diseases and psychology which lead individuals to see ghosts or spirits. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. Sketches of Certain Opinions, Ancient and Modern, which Have Been Entertained on the Subject of Apparitions; Part II. The Particular Morbid Affections with which the Production of Phantasms is Often Connected; Part III. Proofs that the Objects of Spectral Illusions Are Frequently Suggested by the Fantastic Imagery of Superstitious Belief; Part IV. An Attempt to Investigate the Mental Laws which Give Rise to Spectral Illusions; Part V. Slight Remarks on the Modifications which the Intellectual Faculty often Undergoes During Intense Excitements of the Mind; Part VI. Summary of the Comparative Degrees of Faintness, Vividness, or Intensity Subsisting between Sensations and Ideas, during their Various Excitements and Depressions; Part VI. Summary of the Comparative Degrees of Faintness, Vividness, or Intensity Subsisting between Sensations and Ideas, during their Various Excitements and Depressions.

Product details

• Authors: Samuel Hibbert, Hibbert Samuel
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.01.2011
• EAN: 9781108027724
• ISBN: 978-1-108-02772-4
• No. of pages: 502
• Series: Cambridge Library Collection -; Cambridge Library Collection - Spiritualism and Esoteric Knowledge
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Psychology; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; Psychology, PSYCHOLOGY / History