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ditions that are akin to and continuous with the present, 

 although on a further plane of existence. 



Lastly, the whole subject is complicated and prejudiced by 

 erroneous ideas about the relation between mind and body and 

 about the meaning of existence on another plane. People are 

 so used to the abstractions of " body " and " spirit " and to 

 the opposition of "this life" and "the future life" that it is 

 almost impossible to mention these terms without suggesting 

 conceptions that perforce preclude a true interpretation of the 

 facts. Not until we realize that body and spirit are not the 

 complete opposites that they are commonly supposed to be, but 

 are inseparable aspects of experience, as necessary to each 

 other as subject and object or as thought and language, are we 

 in a position to understand the meaning either of telepathy or 

 of survival. For if body and spirit are truly counterparts or 

 complements of each other in any experience of which we can 

 definitely conceive, on wdiatever plane of existence it is lived, 

 then by telepathy and survival we do not imply anything that 

 is spiritual without being also material ; anything that is purely 

 mental or psychical without a discoverable and recognizable 

 bodily aspect or mode of expression. Similarly, the whole con- 

 ception of life after death and of communication with the un- 

 seen is void of real content, for want of relation to our actual 

 experience, until we recognize that the so-called other world is 

 not a distant sphere or realm, but is simply a state of deeper 

 and fuller experience, that is, a further realization of the one 

 world or the one life in which all life participates in its own 

 way and degree. What we call our w^orld is nothing but the 

 objective aspect of our individual experience, our mode of 

 apprehension of the one reality that is present here and now, 

 and which has for us this form or that according to the level 

 on which our life is lived or our realization of things is sus- 

 tained. 



