{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"Glossary","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary","author_name":"Glossary","author_url":"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary\/author\/adminglossary\/","title":"Theodore Flournoy - Definition of Theodore Flournoy","type":"rich","width":600,"height":338,"html":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"jd6b2fdNsW\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary\/theodore-flournoy\/\">Theodore Flournoy<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary\/theodore-flournoy\/embed\/#?secret=jd6b2fdNsW\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"&#8220;Theodore Flournoy&#8221; &#8212; Glossary\" data-secret=\"jd6b2fdNsW\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><\/iframe><script>\n\/*! This file is auto-generated *\/\n!function(d,l){\"use strict\";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&\"undefined\"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!\/[^a-zA-Z0-9]\/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret=\"'+t.secret+'\"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret=\"'+t.secret+'\"]'),c=new RegExp(\"^https?:$\",\"i\"),i=0;i<o.length;i++)o[i].style.display=\"none\";for(i=0;i<a.length;i++)s=a[i],e.source===s.contentWindow&&(s.removeAttribute(\"style\"),\"height\"===t.message?(1e3<(r=parseInt(t.value,10))?r=1e3:~~r<200&&(r=200),s.height=r):\"link\"===t.message&&(r=new URL(s.getAttribute(\"src\")),n=new URL(t.value),c.test(n.protocol))&&n.host===r.host&&l.activeElement===s&&(d.top.location.href=t.value))}},d.addEventListener(\"message\",d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),l.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\",function(){for(var e,t,s=l.querySelectorAll(\"iframe.wp-embedded-content\"),r=0;r<s.length;r++)(t=(e=s[r]).getAttribute(\"data-secret\"))||(t=Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,12),e.src+=\"#?secret=\"+t,e.setAttribute(\"data-secret\",t)),e.contentWindow.postMessage({message:\"ready\",secret:t},\"*\")},!1)))}(window,document);\n\/\/# sourceURL=https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary\/wp-includes\/js\/wp-embed.min.js\n<\/script>\n","description":"Professor of psychology. Born in Geneva, Switzerland, Dr. Flournoy taught at the University of Geneva from 1891 until 1919. In 1901 he founded the journal Archives de Psychology and wrote numerous medical and psychological works. Interested in mediumship, Flournoy became well known for his studies of Helene Smith, who while in trance narrated three distinct \u201cdramas\u201d in automatic writing and speaking, including \u201cglossolalia\u201d or \u201cspeaking with tongues.\u201d Miss Smith first manifested these abilities in seances with a spiritistic group, passing along to its members supposed messages from the dead.In his book Des Indes a la Planete Mars (From the Indies to the planet Mars; 1900), Flournoy recorded and analyzed the Smith \u201cdramas,\u201d two of them telling of her supposed past lives as a Hindu princess and as Marie Antionette. The third concerned the son of one of her seance circle\u2019s members who had purportedly been abducted to Mars and who reported on people, language, and customs of the planet. Smith\u2019s dramas and messages from beyond were related through her \u201ccontrol,\u201d an entity named Feopold. Flournoy\u2019s analysis saw the Marie Antionette and the Mars stories, as well as the \u201ccontrol\u201d entity, as what would today be called \u201crepressed\u201d aspects of Mile Smith\u2019s personality. The tale of the Hindu princess, however, was much more puzzling to Flournoy. He uncovered obscure references, from books that were apparently inaccessible to Smith, confirming persons and place names described by Smith who had, additionally, spoken Hindi phrases and written in Arabic script during her trances. Flournoy concluded that Mile Smith displayed knowledge that would be difficult if not impossible for her to acquire by normal means but rejected spiritistic explanations. While reaching no absolute conclusion, he suggested telepathy might account for the phenomenon."}