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100 1 _aMaeterlinck, Maurice,
_d1862-1949
245 1 2 _aL'hôte inconnu
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2026
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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500 _aRelease date is 2026-02-10
505 0 _aPhantasmes des vivants et des morts -- La psychométrie -- La connaissance de l'avenir -- Les chevaux d'Elberfeld -- L'hôte inconnu.
508 _aLaurent Vogel and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)
520 _a"L'hôte inconnu" by Maurice Maeterlinck is a nonfiction treatise on psychical research written in the early 20th century. It examines apparitions, haunted houses, telepathy, clairvoyance, and psychometry, balancing spiritist claims against psychological and empirical interpretations grounded in contemporary casework. Expect a cautious, case-driven inquiry that favors sober analysis over sensationalism. The opening of the treatise frames the project with a wartime preface that dismisses popular occultism’s theatrics while affirming that carefully observed psychic phenomena persist, then lays out a two-part plan: first apparitions, hauntings, premonitions, and psychometry (plus the Elberfeld horses); later, Lourdes miracles, materializations, and dowsing. Establishing scope, it leans on the Society for Psychical Research to move from legend to controlled facts, lists the main phenomena, and warns about fraud even as it cites tightly run séances (such as Bottazzi’s work with Paladino). It then surveys phantasms of the living and the dead and “haunted houses,” stressing their quiet, domestic character and weighing spirit-survival against telepathic or memory-based explanations through cases that remain suggestive but not conclusive. Next it defines psychometry—using a handled object to access distant or hidden information—illustrating it with experiments (notably with a medium dubbed Mme M) and a striking missing-person case traced via a scarf, which seems to force either postmortem communication or an object acting as a link in a vast web of forces. The section concludes by favoring this latter, non-spiritist reading, noting cross-correspondences and urging strict controls while attributing the key faculty to gifted mediums rather than to general latent intuition. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cParis: Eugène Fasquelle, 1917
653 _aParapsychology
856 4 _uhttps://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.597406
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77908
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