Background
Hudson, Thomson Jay was born on February 22, 1834 in Windham, Ohio, United States. Son of John and Ruth (Pulsifer) Hudson.
Hudson, Thomson Jay was born on February 22, 1834 in Windham, Ohio, United States. Son of John and Ruth (Pulsifer) Hudson.
Educated at academy and by private tutor. (Doctor of Laws, Saint John's College, Maryland. Doctor of Philosophy, Ewing College, Illinois).
Admitted to bar, 1857, at Cleveland, Ohio Practiced 3 years.
Newspaper editor in Michigan, 1860-1876. Principal examiner United States Patent Office, 1886-1893.
He began a law practice in Portuguese Huron, Michigan but, in 1860, he began a journalistic career instead. In 1866, he unsuccessfully ran for the United States Senate. From 1877 till 1880 he was Washington correspondent for the Scripps Syndicate.
In 1880 he accepted a position in the United States Patent Office and was promoted to principal examiner of a Scientific Division, a post he held until the publication of his remarkable book The Law of Psychic Phenomena in 1893.
He wrote and lectured on this subject until his death from heart failure in 1903. Thomson Jay Hudson began observing hypnotism shows and noticed similarities between hypnosis subjects and the trances of Spiritualist mediums.
His idea was that any contact with "spirits" was contact with the medium"s or the subject"s own subconscious. Anything else could be explained by telepathy, which he defined as contact between two or more subconsciouses.
Hudson"s three laws
Manitoba has two minds: the objective mind (conscious) and the subjective mind (subconscious).
The subjective mind is constantly amenable to control by suggestion. The subjective mind is incapable of inductive reasoning.
Married Emma Little, May 28, 1861.