CHAPTER V 



THE SO-CALLED SUPERNORMAL SUBCONSCIOUSNESS 



SUPERNORMAL psychology .is a world whose exploration 

 is hardly begun. Without entering here on an analytical 

 description which the reader will find in special works, 

 it is expedient to examine its principal aspects as a whole. 



I. SUPERNORMAL PHYSIOLOGY IS CONDITIONED BY 



SUPERNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY 



Imprimis, supernormal physiology is conditioned by 

 the supernormal psychology which has already been 

 described. 



All the phenomena of exteriorisation, telekinesis, 

 mysterious action on matter, materialisation and ideo- 

 plasticity, in no way depend on the conscious will of the 

 subject. They are always produced subconsciously; 

 either, as it would seem, by the external will of an entity, 

 or by a subconscious idea, or by a subconscious per- 

 sonality. 



I do not, for the moment, insist further on this truth 

 which is obvious to all observers in the supernormal 

 domain. As I have shown in my book, L'Efre Sub- 

 conscient, supernormal physiology is merely an aspect 

 and a province of supernormal psychology. It is 

 inseparable from it, and cannot be observed or understood 

 apart from it. 



2. MENTO-MENTAL ACTION 



In the second place, supernormal psychology includes 

 mento-mental action, by which is to be understood those 



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