No one (with the possible exception of a highly neurotic psychic masochist) is going to endure excruciating pain just to please the doctor.
Others agree that it is a transference process, but that it is more of an extension of the subject's own psychicprocesses which is enlarged to include the voice of the hypnotist or his own thoughts or voice.
And yet, out of that very discomfort itself, some peculiar psychic force seemed to spring to life and thrive, until we became as merry as crickets.
I lie down on the mattress again, and my thoughts begin dreamily to revolve round an extraordinary psychicmystery that I became conscious of when I was little more than a baby in far-away Australia.
To these queries the only intelligible reply is that a man's character represents his psychic heritage, as his body represents his physical heritage, both of them being subject to development and modification by post-natal influences.
Well, if it means that a man has any share in his psychic endowments, or that they being what they are at any given time he could at that time act differently from the way in which he does act, the expression is meaningless.
Inevitably the environment thus becomes more psychic in character and more powerful in its operations.
The actions of each are determined by the character of each, and character is in turn the outcome of psychic inheritance, plus the effects of the interaction of organism and environment from the moment of birth onward.
Each one thus brings a different psychic force, or a different character, to bear upon the world around him.
It is the expansion of a spirit, of a psychic something.
It finds the world of mind cluttered up and encumbered; there is an acute disparity between the future and the past, which produces a kind of psychic maelstrom.
Augustus hesitated long before he dared take the tremendous step he did: as one doubtful whether it would accomplish what he hoped, or simply kill at once the delicate psychic organism to be affected by it.
Then came another psychic impulse, from the west: when Trajan's eastward victories shook the Parthian power again.
Suppose you have four laya centers in Europe: four Foci through whichpsychic impulses from the Oversoul pour through into this world.
The cerebellum is the physiological as the cerebrum is the psychic brain, and a defined central portion of the cerebellum at the median line does exercise, in connection with the summit of the spinal cord, the sexual functions.
The American Psychic Research Society is far behind the English.
But there is not a glimmer of the psychic science of the brain to-day in our colleges.
His anatomical doctrines have stood the test of time; they are established; and his psychic doctrines are as near an approach to absolute truth as ever was made by a pioneer in a wilderness of mystery.
The physical world he has learned, and knows how to use; gradually his power is passing on, and he recognises the psychic world.
Every one who has examined at all seriously into psychic conditions knows this to be a fact, more or less marked, according to the psychic development.
He has been born into the psychic world, and depends now on the psychic air and light.
When he has acquired such power with his psychic organs as the infant has with its physical organs when it first opens its lungs, then is the hour for the great adventure.
Those who break Nature's laws lose their physical health; those who break the laws of the inner life, lose their psychic health.
Otherwise how could they exist, even for an hour, in such a mental and psychic atmosphere as is created by the confusion and disorder of a city?
Such a condition makes the entrance to the path impossible, because the first step is one of difficulty and needs a strong man, full of psychic and physical vigor, to attempt it.
In many instances, the psychic is more keenly and selfishly aware of his own pain than of any other person's; but that is when the development, marked perhaps so far as it has gone, only reaches a certain point.
Imagination glorifying legends of nature, or exaggerating the psychic possibilities of man, explains to them all that they find in the Bibles of humanity.
The man does but need the psychic body to be formed in all parts, as is an infant's; he does but need the profound and unshakable conviction which impels the infant, that the new life is desirable.
Altogether it is not difficult to credit cats with some degree of psychic power, and probably few of us would object to their comfortable Tabbies or languid Persians seeing ghosts and spirits if they are able to.
Manifestations of such a vehement and insistent order must surely have had their origin in some unknown psychic disturbance, some mysterious jarring sufficient to set quivering the veil between things seen and unseen.
And how very much the false outweighs the true, when it comes to a question of evidence in psychic inquiry, only the really conscientious searcher knows.
My next tale has always seemed to me one of the most interesting psychic experiences that I have ever heard related.
He was a youngish man of strongly psychic temperament, and in the intervals of business was accustomed to dabble pretty freely in occult matters of all kinds.
If we take into account the complete psychic life of dreaming, subconscious as well as conscious, it is waking, not sleeping, life which may be said to be limited.
This leads us to invite attention to some unusual psychicphenomena evinced by persons of exceptional sensibilities not yet as well understood, or even as carefully investigated, as perhaps they deserve to be.
The thinkers generally say: In the Cosmic reservoir, which I would rather express as the psychic ocean, boundless, fathomless, throbbing eternally.
He demonstrates in it most convincingly that Christ's miracles were all within the powers ofpsychic law as we now understand it, and were on the exact lines of such law even in small details.
There is the fact that Peter, James and John (who formed the psychic circle when the dead was restored to life, and were presumably the most helpful of the group) were taken.
One which convinced me as a truth was the thesis that the story of the materialization of the two prophets upon the mountain was extraordinarily accurate when judged by psychic law.
In only one case so far as I know was the parent acquainted with psychic matters before the war.
It is the end of the Psychic crisis, and hurts no one.
Simple enough words, but the most difficult operation in Psychic Surgery.
How I wished I had attained a height of psychic development which would have enabled me to follow the wonderful, the miraculous movements of his Astral Scalpel.
This phenomenon is analogous to the stigmata of the Saints,' I said, suddenly realising its scientifically psychic significance.
If the Cook hadn't problems enough with the chemical and psychicduties of his office, Winkelmann supplied the want.
His psychic defenses were now strong enough to withstand the Captain's fiercest assaults of irony.
It is always instructive to reduce psychic or emotional conditions to their physical equivalents.
How far these questions are psychic and how far material is still sub judice," said the Professor, with an air of toleration.
The psychic simulated a shudder--a painful contortion, such as any one might suffer if rudely jerked out of the spirit world.
But a public street, Strange explained, was no place for psychic discussions.
In the nature of things, an unchanging creed is moribund; life means adaptation to change; and it was only the alien cults that in Rome adapted themselves to the psychic mutation.
The committee came to the conclusion that he was enabled to perform these feats by means of a new "psychic force," which it was all-important for men of science to investigate thoroughly.
He was afraid of using his abilities ineffectively in a psychic case such as this.
In man prolonged fatigue, cold, the use of alcohol to excess and even psychic depression increases susceptibility.
One must not allow the column of mercury to descend too slowly as it is uncomfortable for the patient and introduces a psychic element of annoyance which affects the blood pressure.
Psychic activity, especially when it is accompanied by worry, is a potent factor in the production of the increased blood pressure which is the chief factor in producing arterial disease.
When one takes into consideration the psychiceffect of knowing that he is being examined for high blood pressure, it seems unfair to refuse insurance on such grounds as is constantly done.
Milder grades ofpsychic disturbances are accompanied by such symptoms as mental fatigue, persistent headaches, vertigo, memory weakness and fainting.
No account is taken of the psychicvariations which for the physician are the most important to bear in mind.
It is not affected by diet, by mental excitement, by subconscious psychic influences, to anything like the extent to which the systolic pressure is affected by the action of these factors.
Had he done so, his perplexity would not have been nearly so great, and very probably he might have recognised the fact of his own remarkablepsychic powers.
If they are supported by others, or have money of their own to live on, all may be well, and in such cases they will be likely to develop strange psychic gifts dealing with visions and ideals that some few may hear and understand.
They have presentiments and psychic experiences, dreams, clairvoyance, and such like, which they often spoil by their reasoning faculties, and they endeavour to answer all problems through the medium of their mind or mental faculties.
For the three Qualities (or Gunas) of Nature (Prakriti) are the Pneumatic, Psychic and Hylic Potencies of the Waters of Simon.
In this connection the cave is the psychic womb that surrounds every man, of which Nicodemus displays such ignorance in the Gospels.
The first psychic product of that initial psychic act is numerical: to discriminate is to produce two, the simplest possible example of multiplicity.
This is especially necessary in preparation for public speaking, for facing an audience gives rise to a vastly different psychic attitude from that of impression.
Alcohol brings to the fore surprising reserves of physical and psychic energy.
He said there was a strong psychicinfluence in the room somewhere.
They even send what they call psychic reproductions of their own selves into ours.
My process--original with myself, by the way--is to send out feeler vibrations for what these people call the psychic individual.
But the resistances, the psychic censors of our ideas, are always active, except in sleep.
