Prom the Unconscious to the Conscious 



In another, the abnormal perception may cause an 

 auditory illusion which may run to hallucination. 



() * Outside the conditions which in normal life 

 regulate the relation of the Self with other 

 selves or with the external world.' 



In fact these perceptions proceed neither from 

 reasoning, nor from any of the normal modes of expressing 

 thought, neither from language, nor writing, nor sight, 

 nor hearing. They require neither induction nor 

 deduction, reflection, research, nor effort. 



In its more perfect instances lucidity appears like a 

 flash which suddenly illuminates the recipient and gives 

 him, it may be, knowledge of an unknown fact removed 

 from all possibilities of sensorial perception, or complex 

 knowledge which would normally require much intricate 

 work on many points of research. 1 As lucidity shows 

 itself to be beyond psychological conditions, whether 

 sensorial, dynamic, or physical, so it also shows 

 itself as being outside the conditions of time and 

 space. 



Neither space nor material obstacles exist for it, 

 and time seems to be unknown. 



The event which it reveals and the knowledge it 

 gives, are not placed in Time at all. When, for instance, 

 in the famous case of lucidity by Dr Gallet, he announces 

 the election of M. Casimir Perrier to the Presidency of 

 the Republic 'by 451 votes,' this is given in the present 

 and not in the future; * M. Casimir Perrier est elu . . .' 

 Similarly the Sonrel prediction of the wars of 1870-71, 

 and 1914-18, given in 1868, shows extremely precise 

 and true details on both wars, but gives them in the 

 present and not in the future. The visionary describes 

 the disasters of 1870, Sedan, the siege of Paris, the 

 Commune; the war of 1914, beginning by a disaster 



1 Psychic manifestations which suddenly bring out a calculation of 

 probability or a result of subconscious reasoning are not to be confounded 

 with lucidity. Such cases have only the semblance of lucidity. 



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