The veridical Triboulet did therein hint at what I liked well, as perfectly knowing the inclinations and propensions of my mind, my natural disposition, and the bias of my interior passions and affections.
Ah, would to God that I had now a bottle of the best wine that ever those drank who shall read this soveridical history!
One would think that the solution springs suddenly from the very enunciation of the problem, in the same way as a veridical hallucination.
It brings a crowd of barren presentiments and conjures up veridical hallucinations that are wholly alien and idle.
They were taking each other seriously, the girl and the ghost, and if the ghost had been a veridical phantom, in which she could have believed with her whole soul, the girl could not have entreated it more earnestly, more simply.
A similar argument will hold good in the case of the vague hallucinatory noises which frequently accompany definite veridical phantasms, and frequently also occur apart from any definite phantasm in houses reputed haunted.
The hand passes through the veridical phantom without a sense of its presence, but the phantom is none the less veridicalfor all that.
But these veridical travellers, on quitting the plain to ascend the mountains, found something still more wonderful; the land there seemed to suit these plants still better, for they acquired the height of twenty cubits.
This may, of course, be true, though it seems exceedingly unlikely; and in our own twenty-four thousand answers veridical cases may possibly have heaped themselves unduly.
Proceeding to the case of telepathic or veridical apparitions, we see the same hints of a double nature in the process;--traces of two elements mingling in various degrees.
If there be some external origin for our inward vision (which thereby becomes veridical) we must not any longer assume that all veridical inward vision starts or is exercised from the same point.
And the existence of all these perhaps merely subjective hallucinations greatly complicates our investigation of veridical hallucinations.
The evidence, then, leading me thus unresisting along, has led me to this main difference from our early treatment of veridical phantasms.
These forms of messages may themselves be variously combined; and the contents of a message of any one of these kinds may be purely dream-like and fantastic, or may be veridical in various ways.
If it gets hold of facts (veridical impressions or pictures, not mere subjective fancies), we cannot be sure a priori whether it somehow goes to find the facts, or the facts come to find it.
In the first place, there are a few cases where a percipient is informed of a death by a veridical phantasm, and then some hours afterwards a similar phantasm differing perhaps in detail, recurs.
I have dealt little with veridical hallucinations, not at all with automatic writing, nor with the utterances of spontaneous trance.
The following may serve as examples of veridical dreams.
This definite impression may be made upon the senses of the percipient in dreams--especially those of a veridical character, where there is a definite reality corresponding in time and circumstances.
In veridical automatisms it actually seems to do so.
If it were left to me, I'd as soon not believe in fairies as have to think of them as veridical units!
Moved by this hallucination the Witch uttered a veridical premonition, totally adverse to her own interests, and uncommonly dangerous to her life.
It is interesting to try to trace the causes of such non-veridical illusions, to find the points de repère of these literary hallucinations.
We may form a belief, on this point of veridical hallucinations, for ourselves, but beyond that it is impossible to advance.
If anything extraneous could encourage a belief in coincidental and veridical hallucinations, it would be these 'Oppositions of Science.
Therefore, as Herr Parish justly remarks, we should 'maintain a very sceptical attitude to all accounts' ofveridical hallucinations.
It is with that opinion, with Animism in its hallucinatory origins, that Mr. Tylor is concerned, not with the hallucinations themselves or with the evidence for their veridical existence.
This discovery sets the seal upon the veridical nature of the writings, and emphasizes the importance of the method employed by the author for the recovery of latent knowledge.
It had been intended in the present work that only the veridical matter concerning the Edgar Chapel should appear in print; but the scope was enlarged by the inclusion of Johannes, whose personality seemed attractive.
And the veridical nature of these figures was shown by later knowledge.
The question therefore arises, where did the veridical or truth-telling information given in some of these scripts come from?
The story is quite a good one and contains what appears to be veridical matter, but it is marred by a peculiarity.
The charge is in fact one more illustration of the anti-veridical bias of pietism--the need to distort and pervert the case against the rationalist.
This and other facts would lead one to think that very probably, for a medium, there is no test which can discriminate between falsidical and veridical hallucinations.
But, even under these wretched conditions, they ought to have received some veridical phenomena, and the reading of their publications leads us to presume they did receive some.
I know of many people who have had veridical hallucinations, either during sleep or when awake.
Inexperienced people are easily deceived by these contacts; however, the marked difference which exists between the falsidical and the veridical is quickly perceived, when we have become accustomed to these phenomena.
