272 HAS SCIENCE DISCOVERED GOD? 



dium's vacated shell, conversing freely with their sit- 

 ters, gesturing, rising and moving about at will, play- 

 ing or singing or versifying or doing anything else 

 that is in order — behaving in all respects like substan- 

 tially independent and fully developed entitles. 



So far as this description goes, of course, it might 

 all be a matter of play-acting and masquerade, con- 

 scious or subconscious. But the fact that anybody 

 takes it at all seriously suggests that there may be 

 more to it than that. The bald facts are that in case 

 after case, the communicators give evidence of per- 

 sonal Identity that would be taken seriously in any 

 court of law. Inasmuch as by the circumstances they 

 are debarred from offering the physical evidences upon 

 which identification ordinarily rests, it Is plain that 

 they must fall back upon the evidence afforded by their 

 mental content. Even in strictly mundane matters, 

 this is what a claimant does when the lapse of years 

 has made physical identification impossible. 



Now it is a fact that my mental content Is unique 

 to me. Nobody else in the world has a totality of 

 knowledge that coincides with mine. Any other indi- 

 vidual will know more in some directions than I do, 

 and less in others. The personal equation will reach 

 furthest in matters of personal past but it will be 

 present to some degree at every point. Presumably 

 if there were any way of controlling the data, I could 

 Identify myself absolutely by displaying my mental 

 content. Practically it would take me too long to do 

 this and it would be well-nigh impossible to handle the 

 situation. For who but myself is to say just what I 

 do and do not know? Who is to judge me if I seek 

 to use this means of establishing my Identity? 



