She disentangles the snarls out of my mind.

… [William] James now undertook to raise money for a salary for Richard Hodgson, who was to be the paid secretary of the American Society for Psychical Research. In an effort to cure his intractable insomnia he tried a mind-cure doctor named

The sealed envelope test; a double blind experiment.

The sealed envelope test was applied to both Leonora Piper and W. Stainton Moses. Information was sealed in envelopes that neither had any knowledge of, nor access to, and they would then talk to the spirit world to obtain the messages

They cannot tell us what it is like.

James Hervey Hyslop(1854- 1920) was a professor of logic and ethics and prominent psychical researcher. He was educated at Wooster College, Ohio (B.A., 1877), the University of Leipzig (1882-84), and Johns Hopkins University (Ph.D., 1877). He was one of the first American psychologists to connect psychology with psychic phenomena. He joined the philosophy department at Columbia University as a professor in ethics and logic, during which time he became deeply involved with psychical research. As early as 1888, in a skeptical frame of mind, he was brought for the first time into contact with the supernormal through the mediumship of Leonora Piper.

A man of conviction.

Horatio Willis Dresser (1866–1945) was a New Thought religious leader and author. Born January 15, 1866 in Yarmouth, Maine to Julius and Annetta Seabury Dresser. His parents were involved in the early New Thought movement through their study with Phineas Parkhurst Quimby. In 1921, after the Library of Congress made Quimby's papers available, Dresser compiled and edited a selection of Quimby's works, The Quimby Manuscripts. Dr. David Seabury was his younger brother.
He was described, in an enthusiastic 1900 Atlanta Constitution article, as: