Psychical research, hypnotism

Thomson Jay Hudson

1834 – 1903

Thomson Jay Hudson was an American journalist and former chief examiner at the US Patent Office who achieved international fame with his 1893 work The Law of Psychic Phenomena, which proposed a systematic quasi-scientific framework for understanding hypnotism, mental therapeutics, and spiritualist phenomena. He theorized a dual-mind model distinguishing the objective and subjective minds, situating psychical phenomena within natural law rather than supernaturalism, influencing early New Thought and psychical research communities.

TelepathySelf-hypnosis (implicit)Mental concentrationMediumship (Psychological explanation)Evolution of the SoulDual Consciousness TheorySuggestive therapyFunctionalismParapsychologyHypnotism & SuggestionLate-Victorian Psychology / Spiritualism CritiqueNew Thought (precursor)New ThoughtMental Therapeutics

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The Law of Psychic Phenomena

The Law of Psychic Phenomena

1893

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