The Seeress of Prevorst
The Seeress of Prevorst
Catherine Crowe
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USDFriederike Hauffe (1801–1829) suffered throughout her short lifetime from severe spasms and nervous fevers, and in her semi-conscious state she allegedly saw spectres and spoke and wrote predictions in an unknown, 'innate' language. When physically well, Hauffe could communicate with spectres of the dead, and created a complex diagram of circles to explain the nervous energy of a person and its changes throughout the year. The flow of consciousness and one's waking state in the spirit world, or 'sun sphere', was individual and seasonal. After continued illness, she was finally taken into the care of Dr Justinus Kerner for the last few years of her life. His use of magnetic treatment apparently gave her some relief, and she was able to use her 'spiritual sight' to aid others. Kerner's 1829 account of her life, depicting a woman with unusual psychic gifts, was published in English translation in 1845.
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February 2011Paperback
9781108027755
362 pages
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Table of Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Native place and early youth
- 2. Retiring into the inner-life
- 3. Outcoming of the magnetic condition
- 4. Appearance in Weinsberg
- 5. Description of the Seeress
- 6. External nervous system, &c.
- 7. Effects of water and suspension of gravity
- 8. Effects of inponderable substances
- 9. The human eye
- 10. Seeing with the pit of the stomach
- 11. The protecting spirit
- Prophetic dreams
- Second-sight
- Going forth of the spirit
- Prescribing for disease
- 12. Cure of the Countess von Maldeghem
- 13. The different degress of magnetism
- 14. The sun-sphere and life-sphere
- 15. The spheres
- 16. The inner-language
- 17. Relation of spirit, soul, and body
- 18. Physical worth
- 19. Moral worth
- 20. The spheres themselves
- 21. The life-sphere proper
- 22. Explanation of the sun-sphere
- 23. Relation of life and sun-sphere
- 24. Seventh sun-sphere
- Part II: Introduction
- 1. The magnetic man
- 2. Remarks on ghost-seeing
- 3. Observations by Eschenmayer
- 4. Further explanations
- 5. Belief in spirits grounded in nature
- 6. On the middle-state
- 7. Concerning the annexed facts
- 8. Two facts at Weinsberg
- 9. Fact second
- 10. Facts at Weinsberg
- 11. Second
- 12. Third
- 13. Fourth
- 14. Fifth
- 15. Seventh
- 16. Eighth
- 17. Ninth
- 18. Tenth
- 19. Eleventh
- 20. Twelfth and thirteenth
- 21. Fourteenth and fifteenth
- 22. Sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth
- 23. Journal of Seeress
- 24. Conclusion to facts
- 25. Death of Seeress.
