Telepathy and the subliminal self : an account of recent investigations regarding hypnotism, automatism, dreams, phantasms, and related phenomena
Telepathy and the Subliminal Self is a late nineteenth-century American study of hypnotism, automatism, dreams and phantasms, written by Rufus Osgood Mason and published in New York by Henry Holt in 1897. Its three pictures are simple: a woodcut-style owl with a mark and open book, a rough line drawing of a hand or arm over a battlement, and a dim, shadowed portrait of a bearded man. A designer might take the owl's bold black-and-cream pattern and the soft, smoky portrait lighting as reference for mystical or occult themes.
