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Stevenson suggests that the phenomena of thought-reading and clairvoyance have not been accounted for philosophically. He discusses 'mesmeric sleep', caused by acting upon the 'nervous fluid', which he posits is either electric matteror a modification of such matter.

Subject: Extrasensory perception / Parapsychology

Written by Stevenson in Clifton [England].

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AP/31/15
Earliest possible date
17 April 1849
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Ink on paper
Page extent
4 pages
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Manuscript

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William Ford Stevenson

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William Ford Stevenson, Unpublished paper, 'Mesmeric phenomena: thought-reading and clairvoyance' by W F [William Ford] Stevenson, 17 April 1849, AP/31/15, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_31_15/unpublished-paper-mesmeric-phenomena-thought-reading-and-clairvoyance-by-w-f-william-ford-stevenson, accessed on 03 November 2024

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