Flournoy, Théodore
Entry updated 23 December 2024. Tagged: Author.
(1854-1920) French psychologist, psychic researcher and author whose Des Indes à la planète Mars (1899; trans Daniel B Vermilye as From India to the Planet Mars 1900) [for further details see checklist below] depicts in lightly fictionalized form some narratives generated by the medium "Hélène Smith" (1861-1929), including a presentation of herself as the Reincarnation of Marie Antoinette, and as a visitor from Mars. She speaks in the language of the latter (see Linguistics). She is capable of Telekinesis. Her demeanour is convinced and convincing. [JC]
Théodore Flournoy
born Geneva, Switzerland: 15 August 1854
died Geneva, Switzerland: 5 November 1920
works (highly selected)
- Des Indes à la planète Mars: étude sur un case de somnambulism avec glossolalie (Paris: Félix Alcan, 1899) as Th Flournoy [hb/]
- From India to the Planet Mars: A Study of a Case of Somnambulism with Glossolalia (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1900) [trans by Daniel B Vermilye of the above: hb/uncredited]
- From India to the Planet Mars: A Case of Multiple Personality with Imaginary Languages (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1994) [trans by Sonu Shamdasani of the above, with introduction by him: hb/]
- From India to the Planet Mars: A Study of a Case of Somnambulism with Glossolalia (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1900) [trans by Daniel B Vermilye of the above: hb/uncredited]
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