From the Unconscious to the Conscious 



classical psycho-physiology, and have enabled us to 

 understand the general meaning of the individual and 

 the universe, also permit the affirmation of the survival 

 of the Self, and its endless evolution from unconscious- 

 ness, to consciousness. It should be beyond doubt that 

 the Self both pre-exists, and that it survives the grouping 

 which it directs during one earth-life; that it more 

 particularly survives its lower obj edification during 

 this life. This may at least be admitted, if not as a 

 mathematical certainty, at least as a high probability. 



If so, the manifestation of a * discarnate spirit ' on 

 the material plane by the aid of dynamic and organic 

 elements borrowed from the medium then appears an 

 undeniable possibility. 



In face of a fact apparently of a spiritist nature, one 

 attitude only befits the instructed investigator to 

 take good sense as his guide. It is for good sense 

 and sane judgment to appraise the statements of the 

 communicator. 



It is in the name of good sense that English and 

 American investigators, weary of strife, and well aware 

 of the disconcerting subtleties which have been advanced 

 to explain the mental side of mediumship, have ended by 

 accepting, with striking unanimity, the categorical and 

 repeated affirmations of the communicators. 



After Hodgson, who, starting from absolute scepti- 

 cism, declared after twelve years of study that there was 

 in his mind no room for even the possibility of doubt 

 of survival and on the reality of communication between 

 the living and the dead, Hyslop, Myers, and more 

 recently Sir Oliver Lodge, have plainly given utterance 

 to the same conviction. 



I refer the reader who desires to form a reasoned 

 opinion, to the publications of these psychologists, that 

 he may weigh the value of their arguments. 1 



1 See the Proceedings of the English and American Societies for 

 Psychical Research, and Sir Oliver Lodge's recent book, Raymond. 



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