From the Unconscious to the Conscious 



sometimes it leaves physical traces. Finally, the 

 telepathic impression may not affect sight alone, as in 

 the case of a seemingly objective vision, but hearing and 

 touch also. 



3. LUCIDITY 1 



Lastly, supernormal psychology includes all the 

 infinite varieties of lucidity; presentiments, sensorial 

 impressions beyond the range of the senses, the precise 

 vision of distant or past events, and even prevision of 

 the future. 



Lucidity may be described as that subconscious 



faculty which permits the acquisition of knowledge 



without the assistance of the senses, and outside the 



conditions which, in normal life, regulate the relation 



of the Self with other selves or with the external world. 



(a) * Without the assistance of the senses.' The 



senses do not, in fact, intervene. The subject 



is asleep or anaesthetised; the events described 



are beyond the sensorial range; they are often 



far distant and shut off by physical barriers; 



the knowledge acquired relates sometimes to 



events which have not yet come to pass. The 



whole evidence shows that the senses are not 



in action. 



Nevertheless, by a psychological habit, the subject 

 gives to his perceptions a sensorial semblance and refers 

 them to sight or hearing; even in cases when neither 

 sight nor hearing could possibly have been their cause. 



One subject, for instance, self-hypnotised by a glass 

 of water or a crystal globe, claims to see therein past, 

 future, or distant events. He is but projecting, exterior- 

 ising, and objectifying, a sensation abnormally received. 



1 Consult specially Bozzano : Les Ph6nom6nes Primonitoires; and 

 Dr Osty : LucidiU et Intuition. 



