STUDIES
IN THE
OUT-LYING FIELDS
OF
PSYCHIC SCIENCE
By HUDSON TUTTLE
AUTHOR OF ARCANA OF NATURE ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENTOF MAN ETC
New York
M L HOLBROOK & CO
COPYRIGHT BY
HUDSON TUTTLE,
1889.
TO
ALFRED E. GILES,
OF
HYDE PARK, MASS.,
AN ERUDITE SCHOLAR, A FEARLESS INVESTIGATOR, AN
UNSHRINKING ADVOCATE OF HIS CONVICTIONS, HONEST
AND TRUE TO HIMSELF AND OTHERS;
IN RECOGNITION OF A MUTUAL FRIENDSHIP OF MANY
YEARS THIS VOLUME IS FRATERNALLY DEDICATED.
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ANALYSIS.
There is a Psychic Ether, related to thought, as the luminiferousether is to light.
This may be regarded as the thought atmosphere of theuniverse. A thinking being in this atmosphere is a pulsatingcenter of thought-waves, as a luminous body is of light.
There is a state of mind and body known as sensitive, orimpressible, in which it receives impressions from otherminds. This state may be normal, or induced by fatigue,disease, drugs, or arise in sleep. The facts of clairvoyance,trance, somnambulism and psychometry prove the existenceof this ether, and are correlated to it.
Thought transference is also in evidence, as well as thatvast series of facts which give intimation of an intelligencesurviving the death of the physical body.
This sensitiveness may be exceedingly acute, and the individualunconscious of it, and then it is known as genius, whichis acute susceptibility to the waves of the psychic atmosphere.
Sensitiveness explains the true philosophy of prayer.
All the so-called occult phenomena of mesmerism, trance,clairvoyance, mind reading, dreams, visions, thought transference,etc., are correlated to and explained by means of thispsychic ether.
All these phenomena lead up to the consideration of immortality,which is a natural state, the birthright of everyhuman being.
[6]The body and spirit are originated and sustained together,and death is their final separation.
The problem of an immortal future, beginning in time, issolved by the resolution of forces at first acting in straightlines, through spirals reaching circles which, returning withinthemselves, become individualized and self-sustaining.
Spiritual beings must originate and be sustained by lawsas fixed and unchanging as those which govern the physicalworld.
Sensitiveness gives great pleasures and may give pain; theauthor’s experience as a sensitive, related, shows this.
And, finally, a communication from a spirit whose life hadbeen n