An Exposition of the Involuntary Powers and Instincts of the HUMAN MIND.

John Bovee Dods (1795-1872) was a writer, philosopher, spiritualist, mesmerist, and early psychologist. He was born in New York City and died in Brooklyn (on 21 March 1872), but much of his productive life was spent in Maine. He published "Thirty Sermons", "Philosophy of Mesmerism" (New York, 1847), "Philosophy of Electrical Psychology" (1849), "Immortality Triumphant" (1852), and " Spirit Manifestations Examined and Explained" (1854)[1].

The Gospel of Jesus

A curiosity.
The Gospel of Jesus [1858] By Rev. Gibson Smith[http://books.google.ca/books?id=c2ANAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22Gibson+Smith%22+%22Jesus%22&pg=PP5&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22Gibson%20Smith%22%20%22Jesus%22&f=false].

Was it a hoax or legitimate.

The capacity of thought-reading is the common extent of mesmerism.

Clairvoyance is very rare and can be easily tested by blind-folding the subject and giving him a book to read. If he can read without seeing, that is conclusive evidence that he has independent sight. This was my test during my experiments. This state is of very short duration. They then come into that state where they are governed by surrounding minds. All the mediums of this day reason about medicine as much as the regular physicians. ―They both believe in disease, and both recommend medicine. When I mesmerize my subject, he would prescribe some little simple herb that would do no harm or good of itself. In some cases this would cure the patient. I also found that any medicine would cure certain cases, if he ordered it.