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DREAM INTERPRETATION and the Canals of Mars
Camille Flammarion was an early popularizer of Science, exploring life on other planets, life after death -- and Dream Interpretation. His book THE UNKNOWN explored the worlds of dreams & paranormal.
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Camille Flammarion (1842-1925) was one of the first popularizers of modern Science. A graduate of the Paris Observatory, this astronomer and psychic researcher wrote a series of articles and books that explored three life-long passions: life on other worlds, life after death and dream interpretation.
In his 1865 book REAL AND IMAGINARY WORLDS, Flammarion combined his scientific and occultic ideas and caught the public fancy. His description of the planet Mars told of a world of vast red deserts, white ice caps that melted and reformed, and green-edged canals that seemed to have been built by a struggling Martian civilization.
In DEATH AND ITS MYSTERY, Flammarion explored many paranormal and psychology reports, including investigations into many psychic mediums, including the famous Eusepia Palladino. He told how in one Palladino seance, "the sofa came forward when she looked at it, then recoiled before her breath; all the instruments were thrown pell-mell upon the table; the tambourine rose almost to the height of the ceiling; the cushions took part in the sport, overturning everything on the table."
One case he reported became the talk of Europe: the Case of M Deschamps (a case later quoted by Jung, when explaining his theory of Synchronicity):
"As a boy in Orleans, Monsier Deschamps was fed plum-pudding by a Monsieur de Fortgibu. A decade later, in a Paris restaurant, he saw a plum-pudding and ordered a piece, but found it was already ordered -- by a Monsieur de Fortgibu...
"Years later, invited at a party to partake of plum-pudding, he joked that the only thing missing was Monsieur de Fortgibu. Just then the door opened ans a confused old man walked in. The old man was -- need you ask? -- de Fortgibu. He had the wrong address and had entered the party by mistake."
In 1900, Flammarion published THE UNKNOWN, presenting a fascinating collection of dreams. Flammarion wrote:
"The wife of a captain who has gone out to the Indian mutiny sees one night her husband standing before her with his hands pressed to his breast, and a look of suffering on his face. The agitation that she feels in her dream convinces her that he is either killed or wounded. It was November 14th. The War Office subsequently publishes his death as having taken place on the 15th. She endeavors to have the true date ascertained. The War Office was wrong. He died on the 14th.
"A young girl at a ball stops short in the middle of a dance and cries out, bursting into tears, 'My father is dead; I have just seen him.' At that moment her father died. She did not even know he was ill.
"A brother learns of the death of his young sister by a terrible nightmare
"A young girl sees beforehand, in a dream, the man whom she will marry.
"A lady goes, in a dream, to visit her husband on a distant steamer, and her husband really receives this visit, which is seen by a third person.
"A magistrate sees three years in advance the commission of a crime, down to its smallest detail.
"A mother hears her daughter announce her intended marriage six months before it has been thought of...
"All these show unknown faculties in the soul. Such at least is my own impression. It seems to me that we cannot reasonably attribute the prevision of the future and mental sight to a nervous action of the brain...
"These phenomena prove, I think, that the soul exists. And that it possses facualties at present unknown... A thought can be transmitted to the mind of another. There are mental transmissions, communications of thoughts, and psychic currents between human souls...
"Space appears to be no obstacle in these cases, and time sometimes seems to be annihilated!"
Flammarion's conclusions helped form modern dream interpretation and psychic research -- as well as inspire such science fantasists as Edgar Rice Burroughs, Otis Adelbert Kline, A Merritt and Lin Carter.
There are, indeed, "Psychic currents between human souls."
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