Man Is a Spirit

Arthur Hill J.

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Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. It is difficult to give in few words any idea of such a large subject, but the following may help. Telepathy, or transference of ideas from mind to mind through channels other than the known sensory ones, suggests but does not prove super physical action. Clairvoyance, automatic writing, and trance speech often produce true matter unknown to the sensitive and sometimes unknown to any one present. The supposition of telepathy from distant people, who do not know and are not known to the sensitive, is a reasonable guess in default of anything better, but it does not seem likely and in some cases it is unacceptable. And a few cases are on record - one in the follow ing pages - of information being given which was possessed by no living mind, but which was possessed by the person purporting to communi cate. Swedenborg describes an experience of this kind, which was taken seriously even by the sceptical Kant.

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• Publié par: Forgotten Books
• Date de parution: 27 novembre 2019
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780243639168
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

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A C S di er t a s abut it i fundamental a t the a t science t a t a t are t a t some degree The imp ort of some them may not be t but continued collection brings about the p os valuable inferences An orbit cannot be computed from two p oints given many necessary S imilarly a number facts the more the better may be required before we see their meaning B ut there is a meaning and it is worth while to amass details This is the modern sp irit to inquire N ature instead building ph losophic word structures into the blue Observation and rec are the watchwords A large acquaintance with particulars often makes u s wiser than the p ossession of abstract formulas however deep says William James in the preface t o his eligious xp erien e And par ticulars may b e either subj ective obj ective A dream is as much of a fact as a Itbomb is

PR FAC is a p sycho l ogica l fact the s a physicaother i l fact Col l ection p sychological facts is a late deve l opment in science and we have not got far yet p articularly as regards facts p sychi ca l research kind B ut they will turn ou t p ortant if we study them carefully T he present volume in the selection of its facts may seem to start out from an assu ption namely that human p ersonality is more than a collection of material p articles crudely and p opularly put that there is a sp irit in man B ut it is not an assumption I caut is an inferenc made after years of observation from another range of facts some which are de scribed an earlier volume ca l led P sychical I nvestigations T thereforehis present book does not stand a l as regards its authorone even its general tendency i s supp orted by a huge mass of literature of which the of th e S ociety for P sychical R esearch furnish the best illustration from the scientific viewp oint The ociety ourse has n o creed I t exists for investigation B mostut in the opinion investigators its resu l ts are strongly suggestive the scheme presented by F W H Myers in his great work Human P and itsers onality

PR FAC S urv val B odily eath and that scheme my researches have led me to accept I t is dificult to give in few words any idea of such a l arge subj maythe following ect but help Telep athy transference ideas from mind to mind thr ugh channels other than the known sensory ones suggests but does not prove sup er physical action Clairvoyance automatic writing and trance sp eech often produce true matter un k nown to the sensitive and sometimes unknown t o any present The supp osition telep athy from distant p eople who do now and are not known to the sensitive is a reasonable guess in default anything better but it does seem likely and in some cases it is unacceptable And a in the followrecord one cases are p ages information being given which was p ossessed by no living mind but which was p ossessed by the p erson purp orting to communi cate S wedenborg describes an experience this kind which was taken seriously even by the s ceptical ant App aritions are sometimes seen by sane and healthy p eople at after the time death a person not know to be ill in danger V ol

vi ii P ARCF ume the the t ains the result of many years investigation of this phase and the chance explanati n is math ruled out Many curious p ysical phenomena such as movement o ects without contact occur with conscious will of those present and formation is given s ometimes going beyond the k owledge sitters Other phenomena occur are a eged to cur The scientifiustthem has only j c study begun and no certainty i s yet attainable garding some of them S usp ense of j udgment i s in many cases the orrect attitude but the result of an ndividual s experience may be suf t o j ustify his acceptance the spiritist explanation at least as a working hyp othesis As for me I am always ready to change if a more reas nable explanation can be given J A H

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