Charles Webster Leadbeater (1854-1934), ordained an Anglican priest in 1879, developed interests in spiritualism and occultism (then highly fashionable), and by the mid-1880s was a leading figure in the recently-founded Theosophical Society. He travelled to India, North America and eventually Australia on the Society's business, his influence only temporarily dented by a furore in 1906-8 involving allegations of child abuse. Leadbeater believed he was clairvoyant, and his many writings include this book, first published in 1899 and reissued here in a fifth edition marking the Theosophical Society's Diamond Jubilee in 1935. Leadbeater primarily addresses readers convinced of the existence of clairvoyance and familiar with theosophical terms. He argues that the 'power to see what is hidden from ordinary physical sight' is an extension of normal perception, and describes a wide range of phenomena including intentional and unintentional clairvoyance, premonitions, telepathy, and 'seeing' the past and the future.

Deliciosa obrita, ya clasica, que nos presenta a esos otros habitantes de nuestro planeta a los que -al igual que ha ocurrido con los animales silvestres- la invasion del hombre ha expulsado de muchos lugares, hallandose en los parajes solitarios, los bosques, los lagos, las montanas y tambien en alta mar.

What are dreams made of? Here is an explanation of precisely that, not just in the physical sense, but also in the ethereal and astral. The author describes not only how the brain and body dream-as well as instructions for how to guide dreams-but also reveals what the different kinds of dreaming are, and what dreams signify for the ego and the spirit. English clergyman-turned spiritualist CHARLES WEBSTER LEADBEATER (1854-1934) was ordained as an Anglican priest, but later joined the prominent Theosophical Society and traveled to India to study alternative spiritual and occult practices, eventually settling into his life as a clairvoyant and author. His other works include Man Visible and Invisible and The Science of the Sacrament.