Now that we have finished with the show - the entertaining part of psychology - we will consider it as it will be presented on the lecture platform. The field as a lecturer along these lines is not inviting. There are too many cranks on these subjects set on no other purpose than revising all existing statutes, varying the laws of God and man. Student, never let religion enter into your work; never get up before an audience and combine psychology and religion. I know that there is the religious phase, there is the life principle that ever comes up before us, but we must keep our opinions and not give them to our audience. Remember that you have in your audience Catholics, Protestants, agnostics, etc. They are there; not to hear your opinions, on religion. They will perhaps be polite enough to countenance them. But by delivering those opinions you are doing them an injustice, yourself an injustice and humanity an injustice. If your hobby is to present religion, give that and nothing else. Tell the public through your advertisements that you are going to deliver a lecture on religion and you may have a following. But if you tell them that you are going to lecture on psychology and then tell them they have been lingering these many years under the cloud of false ideals you will insult them.

In the show you are supposed to give them tests and entertaining features. In the address you will give them what they expect to hear -your views on psychological subjects. They may differ from you, but if you keep out the element of religion they will have no harsh feelings.

Regarding the lecture, or address, I will say that you will not find the work profitable enough to make a business of it, but you will often find - if you are known as a psychologist - that you will be invited to deliver an address before medical colleges or societies of various natures. These are generally on educational lines. If you speak before the medical students, you will have to tell them how hypnotism can be used, cite cases where it has been used and tell them its limitations as well as its advantages. If you have never spoken before a medical class, be prepared to meet the most materialistic set of fellows you ever met in your life. You must remember that they get nothing but that material grind, and they usually leave college doubting God, man and themselves. Then they gradually get back to their normal condition.

Again, when you are before a set of medical students, be careful how you handle technical terms. You may find that you will want to say something about anatomy. Know - then speak!

You will be called upon - especially if you are of a social nature and attend social meetings - to make a speech on Hypnotism, on Mind-Reading, on Suggestive-Therapeutics, on Clairvoyance, on Psychometry. or on many and any of the various branches of psychology. It may be that you will be asked to show the educational side, or the moral side. Be that as it may, I will combine the psychic address in one, you can study it and use what you desire. If you want a ten-minute address, figure out what you would say in that time. If you are to deliver a fifteen-minute address.

Know just how you are to cover the ground during that talk. Re a careful student of the occult. Become conversant with liberal views of the subject, study the objections of the materialistic opponent and see why he is materialistic. I have often found that many of the objections raised by men and women opposed to this class of work were based on very sound foundations. For example: A hypnotist has put a girl to sleep: she has been of the type I illustrated in my stage performance in hypnotism - the one who was hard to wake - who went into a deep lethargy. He finds that he cannot easily awaken her. She may be suffering with epilepsy. In that case, she would likely favor the spectators with a fit. The hypnotist - inexperienced - flees. The girl goes into one fit after another and dies. This is the only case this opponent to hypnotism has seen. Little wonder that she is earnest in her declarations that anything of this nature should be suppressed. Be tolerant with one who opposes. He may have good grounds.

Figure on delivering from two hundred to two-bundred-and-fifty words a minute in speaking. A ten-minute lecture would be a lecture -or rather a talk - containing about twenty-two hundred words. That would mean of these pages, about three-and-one-half. I will devote about eleven pages to a lecture: you can study the points I cover and frame your own talk along the same lines.

Some people prefer to "learn by heart" anything they are to deliver. Personally I prefer to deliver an impromptu talk. Talks are always interesting. In order to do this, it is necessary to have a thorough knowledge of the subject and of the things to say in this talk. Lectures are often dry attempts at philosophy. I will call this an address:

Ladies and Gentlemen: As I have been asked to speak on the subject of psychology. I will endeavor to point out only those things of interest along the theoretical and practical lines.. Practice is always more welcome than theory, but we must often look to the latter in order to aid the former. Psychology has two great divisions; it is so divided because the time is not ripe for uniting the two halves:

The first class embraces all relating to the conscious powers, and considers mind as it relates to Knowing, Willing and Feeling. It applies the processes of reason, logic and imagination to the systems of education that have proved so useful in the past half century. It teaches its students to analyze the child mind and the mind of the adult. Sometimes it wanders into the other field, but it is seldom, and with caution.

The second class embraces that process of Double Consciousness from which spring our phenomena that sets the first class of students wondering! It is in this latter class that investigators often overdo themselves and give way to false deductions.