From India to the Planet Mars

by Theodore Flournoy

Overview

A classic in the field of psychology, From India to the Planet Mars (1900) depicts the remarkable multiple existence of the medium H. This is a skeptical inquiry into a remarkable 19th century French medium, here called Hélène Smith. She popularized the concept of automatic writing, which earned her admiration from the latter-day Surrealists. And her interplanetary psychic visions are extremely similar to contactee accounts from the 1950s and 1960s.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940161077092
Publisher:	Black Lizard Press
Publication date:	10/18/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

Théodore Flournoy (15 August 1854 – 5 November 1920) was a professor of psychology at the University of Geneva and author of books on parapsychology and spiritism.

He is best known for his study of the medium Helen Smith (or Hélène Smith - a pseudonym for Catherine Muller) who relayed information about past lives through a trance state, entitled From India To The Planet Mars (1899). Flournoy described her outpourings as the products of cryptamnesia and as 'romances of the subliminal imagination,' - as evidence of the unconscious mind.