This section is from the book "A History Of Dreams, Visions, Apparitions, Ecstasy, Magnetism, And Somnambulism", by A. Brierre De Boismont. Also available from Amazon: History of Dreams, Visions, Apparitions, Ecstasy, Magnetism and Somnambulism.
Section I. - Ecstasy is Tory favorable to hallucinations - Case - Religious ecstasies - Times and circumstances favorable to ecstasies - Physiological ecstasy-Morbid ecstasy - This division allows the convenient classification of subjects of ecstasy - Ecstatic subjects - Ecstasies noticed in children - Various forms of ecstasy; cataleptic, hysteric, mystic, maniac, monomaniac, and epidemic - Ecstatic sleep - The scarred maiden of the Tyrol - Ecstatic phenomena have been exhibited in all ages - The preaching disease in Sweden - Ecstatic hallucinations of religious persons.
Section II. - Of foresight, second sight, magnetism, and somnambulism, in connection with hallucinations - Analogy between somnambulism and dreams - Of diurnal somnambulism - Of moral freedom in the hallucinations of somnambulism. - Recapitulation.
 
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