From the Unconscious to the Conscious 



and ending in complete victory ... as if these were 

 events he were actually witnessing. 1 



4. SPIRITOID PHENOMENA 



Under this title may be grouped all the phenomena 

 which seem to be produced and directed by an external 

 and autonomous intelligence acting through the physical, 

 active, or psychic powers of a medium. I shall not enter 

 here on the description of these, which the reader will 

 easily find elsewhere, 2 but will content myself with a 

 few remarks. 



In the first place, a very large part of supernormal 

 psychology puts on these spiritoid semblances. The 

 simplest as well as the most complex phenomena, from 

 automatisms and telekinesis, up to predictions of the 

 future, are very often attributed by the subject to spiritist 

 influence. 



The alleged personalities frequently make affirmations 

 agreeing in this respect with those of the medium; and 

 often endeavour to give proofs of their identity. These 

 proofs are sometimes very simple, sometimes very 

 intricate, as in the cases of cross-correspondence. 



Very often no other objection can be made to these 

 spiritoid assertions except the possibility that they may 

 all be explained by the supernormal faculties of the 

 medium. In that case very large extensions of the 

 faculties of crypto-psychism, cryptomnesia, second-sight, 

 mento-mental action, lucidity, and teleplasticity must 

 be admitted. 



For all the details of supernormal subconsciousness 

 I must refer the reader to special works, for at the present 

 moment I am not presenting these facts descriptively, 



1 These astonishing cases, certainly true, were reported in detail, 

 after minute investigation, in the Annales des Sciences Psychiques. 

 * For the philosophic discussion of these facts, see Book II. 



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