The Seeress of Prevorst
Being Revelations Concerning the Inner-life of Man, and the Inter-diffusion of a World of Spirits in the One We Inhabit

The clairvoyant and psychic abilities of Friederike Hauffe (1801–1829), documented through her lifetime by her physician and friend Kerner.

Justinus Andreas Christian Kerner (Author), Catherine Crowe (Translated by)

9781108027755, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 17 February 2011

362 pages, 1 b/w illus.
21.6 x 14 x 2 cm, 0.46 kg

Friederike Hauffe (1801–1829) suffered throughout her short lifetime from severe spasms and nervous fevers, and in her semi-conscious state she allegedly saw spectres and spoke and wrote predictions in an unknown, 'innate' language. When physically well, Hauffe could communicate with spectres of the dead, and created a complex diagram of circles to explain the nervous energy of a person and its changes throughout the year. The flow of consciousness and one's waking state in the spirit world, or 'sun sphere', was individual and seasonal. After continued illness, she was finally taken into the care of Dr Justinus Kerner for the last few years of her life. His use of magnetic treatment apparently gave her some relief, and she was able to use her 'spiritual sight' to aid others. Kerner's 1829 account of her life, depicting a woman with unusual psychic gifts, was published in English translation in 1845.

Introduction
1. Native place and early youth
2. Retiring into the inner-life
3. Outcoming of the magnetic condition
4. Appearance in Weinsberg
5. Description of the Seeress
6. External nervous system, &c.
7. Effects of water and suspension of gravity
8. Effects of inponderable substances
9. The human eye
10. Seeing with the pit of the stomach
11. The protecting spirit
Prophetic dreams
Second-sight
Going forth of the spirit
Prescribing for disease
12. Cure of the Countess von Maldeghem
13. The different degress of magnetism
14. The sun-sphere and life-sphere
15. The spheres
16. The inner-language
17. Relation of spirit, soul, and body
18. Physical worth
19. Moral worth
20. The spheres themselves
21. The life-sphere proper
22. Explanation of the sun-sphere
23. Relation of life and sun-sphere
24. Seventh sun-sphere
Part II: Introduction
1. The magnetic man
2. Remarks on ghost-seeing
3. Observations by Eschenmayer
4. Further explanations
5. Belief in spirits grounded in nature
6. On the middle-state
7. Concerning the annexed facts
8. Two facts at Weinsberg
9. Fact second
10. Facts at Weinsberg
11. Second
12. Third
13. Fourth
14. Fifth
15. Seventh
16. Eighth
17. Ninth
18. Tenth
19. Eleventh
20. Twelfth and thirteenth
21. Fourteenth and fifteenth
22. Sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth
23. Journal of Seeress
24. Conclusion to facts
25. Death of Seeress.

Subject Areas: History of ideas [JFCX]