From the Unconscious to the Conscious 



Not only so; by the very fact of communicating, 

 the communicator experiences a psychic disturbance; 

 a fact which has been specially noted by English and 

 American investigators. In borrowing substance from 

 the medium, the being takes on limitations as it does 

 at birth by taking on a body of the substance of his 

 mother. By the fact of communication on the material 

 plane he undergoes a kind of relative and momentary 

 reincarnation; accompanied, as in normal reincarnation, 

 by oblivion of his real situation and by the suppression 

 of the greater part of his conscious acquisitions. 



If the spiritist explanation be accepted, one is 

 obliged to suppose that during the time of manifestation 

 through the intermediary of a medium, the communicator 

 finds himself irresistibly brought under conditions which 

 were characteristic to him in earth-life. For these 

 reasons, and because of these primary difficulties, 

 communicators may abound in details of their identity 

 but find great difficulty in giving precise notions of 

 their actual conditions. 



These ideas, if they were capable of proof, would 

 tend to establish the existence of an ' other side ' not 

 very dissimilar to this side. The ' representation ' which 

 the discarnate spirit would make of it would at least 

 recall the ' representation ' which the incarnate Self does 

 actually make of the material world, though on ' planes ' 

 more subtle and related to all we have previously noted 

 of the individual constitution of Man. 



The information given relating to evolution and 

 the transition from unconsciousness to consciousness are 

 more precise. 



If, as is logical, we take account only of the messages 

 which bear marks of high inspiration and superior will, 

 most of the contradictions disappear. 



All the higher communications without exception, 

 affirm the survival of that which is essential in the Self, 



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