Bring in what is meant by either magnetism, or mesmerism, or psychology, or Psychism, or by any other term expressive of that action upon and within a human being, which lets either his own spirit-senses or the forces of some outside intelligence get play therein independent of and superior to the owner's outer or physical senses, and we then may have fitting and adequate instrumentality through which finite intelligence can legitimately produce all the marvels that human eyes have ever witnessed.
"Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism"
Allen Putnam
On this subject Mrs. Besant writes:-"The lower forms of Psychism are more frequent in animals and in very unintelligent human beings than in men and women in whom the intellectual powers are well developed.
"Clairvoyance"
Charles Webster Leadbeater
But the hysterical and ill-regulated Psychism of which we see so many lamentable examples is due to the small development of the brain and the dominance of the sympathetic system."
"Clairvoyance"
Charles Webster Leadbeater