Featured on PDR in the collection From India to the Planet Mars (1900)

This book details the experiences of Théodore Flournoy (1854-1920), professor of psychology at the University of Geneva, during the five years he spent attending the seances of Hélène Smith, a pseudonym for Catherine Müller (1861-1929). Smith was a medium who received spiritual messages through visual and auditory means as well as raps on the table from her spirit guide and protector named Leopold. Flournoy studied Smith and wrote of the different cycles she inhabited as she claimed to be the reincarnation of Simandini the daughter of an Arab sheik, the favourite wife of a Hindu prince, as well as a reincarnation of Marie Antoinette. She also claimed to have contact with people living on Mars and to be able to speak their language which she…