Clairvoyance

Clairvoyance is very rare
and can be easily be tested
by blindfolding the subject
and giving him a book to read.

If he can read without seeing -
that is conclusive evidence
that he has independent sight.

Anxiety
and constant thought
upon subjects
connected with our interests
will sometimes lull us
into a mesmeric
or dreaming state
in which we can behold
many scenes,
sometimes real
and sometimes fictitious.

"DR. QUIMBY'S DISCOURSE"
CLAIRVOYANT STATE OR LIGHT

Who was Phineas Parkhurst Quimby?Phineas Parkhurst Quimby (1802-1866) was a nineteenth century mystic, healer, humanitarian, scientist who initiated a contemporary philosophy and called it, "The Science of Health and Happiness." His insight into the relationship between beliefs held in mind and the experience were well in advance of his time.

In 1838, Quimby began studying Mesmerism after attending a lecture by Doctor Collyer and soon began further experimentation with the help of Lucius Burkmar, who could fall into a trance and diagnose illnesses. Quimby again saw the mental and placebo effect of the mind over the body when medicines prescribed by Burkmar, with no physical value, cured patients of diseases. From the conclusions of these studies, Phineas Quimby developed theories of mentally aided healing and opened an office in Portland, Maine in 1859.
Among the students and patients who joined his studies and helped him to commit his teachings to writing were Warren Felt Evans, Annetta Seabury Dresser and Julius Dresser, and Mary Baker Eddy .


Quimby is known as the father of New Thought, practical metaphysics and practical Christianity. His work laid the foundation for such movements as Divine Science, Christian Science, Unity, Religious Science and many more.

Dr. Quimby claimed that all mental and most physical diseases were the result of faulty reasoning. He said “the explanation is the cure.”

He treated over 12,000 people in the last 8 years of his life, using his own unique process which he termed “The Quimby System.”

Quimby claimed that disease is not the cause of illness,
but is the effect of a conflict existing within the mind.

Horatio W. Dresser, son of Annetta Julius Dresser, explained Quimby's ideas in a seven element list.1. The omnipresent Wisdom, the warm, loving Father of us all, Creator of all the universe, whose works are good, whose substance is an invisible reality.
2. The real man, whose life is eternal in the invisible kingdom of God, whose senses are spiritual and function independently of matter.
3. The visible world, which Dr. Quimby once characterized as "the shadow of Wisdom's amusements"; that is, nature is only the outward projection or manifestation of an inward activity far more real and enduring.
4. Spiritual matter, or fine interpenetrating substance, directly responsive to thought and subconsciously embodying in the flesh the fears, beliefs, hopes, errors, and joys of the mind.
5. Disease is due to false reasoning in regard to sensations, which man unwittingly develops by impressing wrong thoughts and mental pictures upon the subconscious spiritual matter.
6. As disease is due to false reasoning, so health is due to knowledge of the truth. To remove disease permanently, it is necessary to know the cause, the error which led to it. "The explanation is the cure."
7. To know the truth about life is therefore the sovereign remedy for all ills. This truth Jesus came to declare. Jesus knew how he cured and Dr. Quimby, without taking any credit to himself as a discoverer, believed that he understood and practiced the same great truth or science.

An hour before he breathed his last (January 16, 1866), he said :“I am more than ever convinced of the truth of my theory. I am perfectly willing for the change myself, but I know you all will feel badly, and think I am dead; but I know that I shall be right here with you, just as I always have been. I do not dread the change any more than if I were going on a trip to Philadelphia.”

Quimby used the term subject for the person mesmerized/hypnotised:

Lucius Burkmar.