trance

• The medium-trance is, therefore, probably a hypnotic or mesmeric trance, induced telepathically by operators out of the body 10. —  The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal
• When the trance has been induced, however, how does the "spirit" succeed in imparting information to the medium's brain and organism? —  The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal
• My own opinion of the Piper trance is that, since R. H.'s death, when Mrs. P. has been less carefully guarded in many ways, and allowed to have so much voice in what she would and would not do, that there is much more effect of Mrs Piper herself on the trance--and more leaks through from Mrs Piper--though I have, so far, seen no special evidence that it leaks the other way, and that what is told her by sitters during the trance gets into the normal consciousness. —  The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal
• The unexpected nature of the majority of the phenomena--when Eusapia was in deep trance, and we were doing all the talking--renders the hypothesis of hallucination quite untenable, it seems to me; at least, if any one chooses to defend it, he must give some analogies and somewhat similar instances of the power of suggestion--a task that will never be satisfactorily undertaken; of that I am sure No; whatever be the interpretation of these phenomena, they are certainly not hallucinatory. —  The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal
• Very much the same has happened in hypnotic trance, and even occasionally in the waking state, spontaneously. —  The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal

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