Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1845-02-27
BY G. A. Il ]. P. CHAPMAN.

succeeded; and so did similar efforts on my behalf
cannot here detail the wonderful accuracy with
which she related without any possible knowledge of
my life ten and twenty years ago, the circumstances
of the origin and progress Of my illhsalth, of the
unavailng use of medical treatment for five years,
and the operation of medicine upon it of late One
little fact will serve present purpose better Soon
after she was first mesmerised, was undergoing my
final severance from opiaes-a serious matter to one
who had depended 50 long and desperately upon
them. As have said, got through the day pretty
well bat the nights ntolerabe, from pain and
nervous irritations which made il impossible to rest
for two minutes together. After four such nights,
believe my mesmerists fortitude and my would
have given way together and should have brought
the andanum bottle to light again, but for the bright
idea, 'et ask ~ She said at what my suf-
fcrings had been and declared that l should sleep
more and more by degrees, If | took (wllat was as
contrary to her ordinary ideas of what IS right
and rational to mine) ale at dinner, and half
wineglassful of brandy in water at night. refused
the prescription I'll reminded-"R Remember she has
never been wrong" l o5eyed; the fact being kept
secret between US two, in order to try every even
ing Us knowledge and opinion. She always spoke
and advised in confident familiarity with incidents
known only to us two and carried me steadily
through the struggle lost my miserles and recov-
cred Iy sleep, night by night till at the end of the
week was quite we'll without stimulant sedative
Nothing can be more remote from IS ordinary know
ledge and thought than the structure of the human
body and the remedies for disease and though was
well aware how the exercise of this kind of
insight is In sOmnambules-how it Is used abroad as
an auxiliary to medical treatment-I was not less
surprised by the readiness and peremptorinesS with
which person in Us position declared and gave d.
recons about things which she is wholly ignorant of
an hour after, and during the whole of her life
before.
1t is almost an established opinion among some of
the wisest students of mesmerism, that the mind of
,..,1, 81,
course, this explains nothing of the operation of mes
mersm; but 1t is superstition most important to be
established disproved. One naturally wishes to
find it true, it disposeS Of much that, with the
hasty, passes for revelation of other unseen things
than those which lie in another persons mind. 1t
certainly is true to considerable extent is pretty
clearly proved when ignorant child-ignorant, es-
9Gp aEny %heR mGsSerSed fy e scriptures
of the nebue when mesmerised by an astronomer
but we have evidence in j. that this IS though often,
not universally trle. l viii give example Of
EACH
On Saturday October II, she had told us that she
now saw the shades Of things that she wanted TO
know, and that she should 'soon see clearer The
next evening, she went into great rapture about the
CLEANS becoming brighter, so that she should soon
see all she wished The light through the brain
not like sunlight, moonlight. No, there is
light on earth like this; the knowledge she got
comes astonishingly : amazingly so pleasantly .
How is the mesmerising done which causes this :!
BY all the powers at once What powers 2 The
SOUL and the Mind and the vital powers of the body
Then, we inquired, The mind is not the same as
the soul. All are required in mesmerislng but the
mind most, though mesmersm is still something
else Those three things exist in every human be-
ing (the SOUL the mind, and the body) separate from
one another; but the facilities belonging to them are
not the same in every body; some have more, some
less The body dies, and the mind dies with 1t but
the aft hp Is nd
sefexStent and therefore, lives forever. 1t depends
upon nothing"
/ Here prompted the question, ''What, them is its
relation of GOd!" She hastily replied, HE takes
care of it. TO re-unite it with the body at the day of
Judgment Here l was forciby and painfully struck
with the ncompatiblity of the former and latter say
ing not (as hope it is needless to expain) from any
waiting her lips for revelations this class of
subjects, but because ii painful to find her facul-
ties working faulty. As felt this disappointment
come over me, expression of trouble disturbed IS
face, ineffably happy always during her sleep.
s'Stop," said she, 81 not about that last All
said before was true-the real mesmeric truth. But
| can't make out about that last; heard it when
was awake heard it in church-that all the parti-
ces of our bodies however they may be scattered,
will be gathered together at the day of judgment, but
1 | am not sure" And she became excited, saving
that ait bothered her., what she knew and what she
had heard being mixed up. Her mesmerist dispersed
that set of IDEAS and she presently happy again.
talking of ssthe lights" This was the occasion on
which some traces remained in her waking state, and
she told fellow servant that she had been dreaming
and talking about the day Of judgment
Now here her mind seemed to reflect those of both
her companions, though was not aware of being en-
rapport with her. Her mesmerist had il in her mind
that somnambule at Cheltenham had declared man
to consist Of three elements and Us trouble at her
own mingling Of ideas from two sources seems &c
have been an immediate echo of nine Such an in
ciden as this shows how watchful the reason shoul.
be over such phenomena, and explains the rise d
many pretensions to inspiration. 1t requires some
self-controi for the most philosophical to look
person of moderate capabilities and confined educa
tion in the attitude of sleep, Of passing in
cidents, but speaking on high subjects with ami
mated delight exceeding any thing witnessed in ordi
nary life. 1t requires some GOODNESS and command
Of self to remember that what is said may be of NJ
authority as truth however valuable as manifesto
ton.
| On the next occasion she uttered what could no
possibly be In the mind of any OF the four per
sons present The anecdote is nexplcable that
should not give il but for my conviction that 1T i
right to relate the most striking facts that come un
der my observation, positively declining to theorse
My friend and have used every means Of ascertain
ing the truth in this instance and cannot dscove
any chink through which deception mistake Cal
haye crept in, even if the somnambule had been
stranger instead of one whose integrity well know
: to us.
4 The next evening, MONDAY, Oct l4) J. did nc
come up as usual to our sednce. There was alctlo
: in the household. An aunt of U.s. Mrs. A, goo
f woman have long known, lives in cottage at IN
J. bottom Of our garden. Mrs. AS son, Us cousin
1 of the crew of vessel which this even
D ing reported to have been wrecked near Hull Thi
all H. tIn4f xrTa