Body and Spirit; an Inquiry Into the Subconscious ...

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 edition. Excerpt: ... XIII X-RAY VISION AND OTHER ADVANCED PSYCHIC PHENOMENA IESS than a quarter-century ago, any person _J who seriously devoted himself to the investigation of spiritual phenomena was regarded as a psychasthenic. A suggestionist was outside the pale of professional respect. Mental treatment in sleep was moon-struck madness. Every psychic was insane. To-day the world's deepest thinkers are accepting the truths and construing the facts of abnormal psychology. Learned societies are chronicling the events of the seance; and men of broad culture and unquestioned sincerity are seeking to prove thereby the immortality of the soul and the possibility of bodily resurrection; and what is more, they are doing it without incurring any liability to the charge of superstition--"a belief in the supernatural without sufficient evidence." Careful observers have proved, as we have seen in the foregoing chapter, that ideas actively present in one mind can be transmitted to another by what is called telepathy, the modus operandi of which is entirely unknown, though a transmitting agent must be implied: that is to say, a brain from which is liberated--whether voluntarily or subconsciously--something supremely active, which for want of a better term we will define as an initial physiopsychic vibration. Sir Oliver Lodge is teaching that ether has density and is practically a solid; and Balfour has declared that "the beliefs of all mankind about the material surroundings in which it dwells are not only imperfect, but fundamentally wrong. It may seem singular that down to, say, ten years ago, our race has without exception lived and died in a world of illusions, and that its illusions, or those with which we are here alone concerned, have not been about things...