CHAPTER XIII--The Confessions of a Medium--Spiritualistic phenomena explained on theory of telepathy and hypnotism--Interesting statement of Mrs. Piper,the famous medium of the Psychical Research Society.
"Laying on of hands"must have been a form of mesmerism, and Greek oracles of Delphi and other places seem to have been delivered by priests or priestesses who went into trances of self-induced hypnotism.
