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  PRACTICAL
  MIND-READING

  By WILLIAM WALKER ATKINSON


  A COURSE OF LESSONS ON

  THOUGHT-TRANSFERENCE,
  TELEPATHY, MENTAL-CURRENTS,
  MENTAL RAPPORT, &c.

  CONTAINING

  Practical Instruction, Exercises, Directions, etc., capable
  of being understood, mastered and demonstrated
  by any person of average intelligence


  PUBLISHED AND SOLD BY
  ADVANCED THOUGHT PUBLISHING CO.
  168 N. MICHIGAN AVE., CHICAGO, ILL.


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  L.N. FOWLER & CO.,
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  (Practical Mind Reading)


  Copyright 1907, by
  THE LYAL BOOK COMPANY


  Copyright 1908, by
  ADVANCED THOUGHT PUBLISHING CO.


  NOTICE--This book is protected by Copyright and simultaneous
  publication, in Great Britain, France, Germany, Russia and other
  countries. All foreign rights reserved.




TABLE OF CONTENTS


  LESSON I--THE NATURE OF MIND READING      5

  A plain, practical, scientific explanation of this Vast, Mysterious
  Subject, explaining the action of Mind upon Mind, and the Mental
  Wireless Telegraphy, according to the latest and best authorities.

  LESSON II--THE PROOFS OF MIND READING      13

  The result of the latest scientific experiments and investigations
  regarding this subject; practical proof and indisputable facts.

  LESSON III--CONTACT MIND READING      24

  Full instruction regarding the "Nerve Currents" passing from the human
  Transmitter to the human Receiver; stated so plainly that any one may
  instantly grasp the theory and practice.

  LESSON IV--DEVELOPMENT EXERCISES      34

  How to develop yourself; how to grow proficient in practice; how to find
  Locations; how to find Objects; how to perform the necessary elementary
  feats, and thus prepare for Public Work.

  LESSON V--SIMPLE DEMONSTRATIONS      49

  Public or Parlor Demonstrations. Fourteen Practical Demonstrations are
  explained; full directions for performing them are given, so that the
  student may reproduce the experiments and demonstrations.

  LESSON VI--DIFFICULT DEMONSTRATIONS      66

  Explanations and instructions given for their performance. The Banknote
  Test; the Blackboard Feats; Drawing Pictures; Telepathic Chess and
  Checkers, etc., described, explained, and full instructions given for
  their reproduction.

  LESSON VII--SENSATIONAL FEATS      79

  The Driving Feat; the Combination Lock Feat; the Office Detective Feat;
  the Postoffice Box Feat, and many other sensational demonstrations
  explained, together with an exposure of "Fake Demonstrations."

  LESSON VIII--HIGHER PHENOMENA      85

  Demonstrations without contact. Development Directions. Long Distance
  Experiments. Automatic Writing. Valuable Suggestions and Advice.




LESSON I.

THE NATURE OF MIND READING.


Only a few years ago the general public was in almost total ignorance of
the great truth of Thought Transference, Thought Projection, Telepathy,
or Mind Reading. It is true that here and there were to be found a few
scientists earnestly investigating and eagerly uncovering the hidden
truths concerning the subjects. But the mass of the people were either
entirely ignorant of the subject, or else were intensely skeptical of
any thing concerning the matter, laughing to scorn the daring thinker
who ventured to express his interest or belief in this great scientific
phenomena.

But how different to-day. On all hands we hear of the wonders of Thought
Transference, or Telepathy, as it is called. Scientific men write and
teach of its fascinating manifestations, and even the general public has
heard much of the new science and believes more or less in it, according
to the degree of intelligence and knowledge concerning the subject
possessed by the individual. Listen to these words from the lips of some
of the greatest scientists of the day.

Prof. William James, the eminent instructor at Harvard University, says:
"When from our present advanced standpoint we look back upon the past
stages of human thought, whether it be scientific thought or theological
thought, we are amazed that a universe which appears to us of so vast
and mysterious a complication should ever have seemed to anyone so
little and plain a thing. Whether it be Descartes' world or Newton's;
whether it be that of the Materialists of the last century, or that of
the Bridgewater treatises of our own, it is always the same to
