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Books > Religion & Spirituality > Alternative belief systems > Contemporary non-Christian & para-Christian cults & sects > Spiritualism
A classic in the field of psychology, From India to Planet Mars
(1900) depicts the remarkable multiple existence of the medium
Helene Smith, who claimed to be the reincarnation of Marie
Antoinette, of a Hindu princess from fifteenth-century India, and
of a regular visitor to Mars, whose landscapes she painted and
whose language she appeared to speak fluently. Through a
psychological interpretation of these fantasies, which consisted in
the subliminal elaboration of forgotten memories, Theodore Flournoy
vastly extended the scope and understanding of the unconscious, and
in particular, of its creative and mythopoetic capacities. In the
introduction to this work, Soriu Shamdasani evokes the rich
cultural and intellectual setting which Flournoy published his
findings, and discusses their impact on Freud, Jung, and other
pioneers psychology. Originally published in 1994. The Princeton
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