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two unrelated worlds at once, and if my physiologic 

 life and my psychic life are really as unrelated as 

 many people seem to think, then my case is sad in- 

 deed, far more so than that of the psychologists whom 

 Lashley chides for "still precariously bestriding both 

 steeds." Riding two horses at once is a practicable 

 enterprise, though requiring great skill on the part 

 of both rider and steeds. But as for living in two un- 

 related worlds, even a very slight disturbance of the 

 normal balance between my simpler physiologic func- 

 tions and those which are conscious may give rise to 

 insane delusions and the disruption of the personal- 

 ity. Sanity of both body and mind is this balance. 



Lashley's figure of the circus rider is bad. I am not 

 driving the double team. I am the team. Indeed, you 

 may say, if you like, that I am a whole drove of horses 

 (or functions) — various physiologic processes, simple 

 unanalyzed awarenesses of various sorts, awareness 

 of my body as acting, and awareness of myself as 

 experiencing. The numerous attempts to define these 

 processes more precisely have not, so far, been very 

 successful. But the statement of their reality is not 

 mysticism. It is fact. I am a protoplasmic organiza 

 tion observable by others as well as by myself ob- 

 jectively, and I also am an awareness which is strictly 

 personal and cannot be shared with another except bv 

 an indirection, and that very inadequately. 



