Human personality and its survival of bodily deathLongmans, Green, 1906 - 470 pages |
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actual already apparition appearance automatic writing automatist brain chapter clairvoyance communication conception consciousness death definite discern dream Edmund Gurney evidence existence experience explain external fact faculty feel figure genius given Gurney hallucination hand Hélène Smith human hyperesthesia hypnosis hypnotic trance hypnotised hypothesis hysterical idées fixes impression impulse inquiry instance intelligence Journal S.P.R. kind knowledge known liminal living man's manifestations memory mentation messages mind Miss Moses motor automatisms nervous observed occurred ordinary organism Palladia pass perception percipient percipient's personality Phantasms phenomena possession possible precognition present Proceedings S.P.R. Professor psychical recognised recorded regard retrocognition Revue de l'Hypnotisme séances seems seen self-suggestion sensations sense sensory sister sleep sometimes somnambulism soul spirit spiritual world spontaneous stratum subliminal supernormal suppose supraliminal synæsthesia telæsthesia telepathic thought tion tism uprush veridical vision waking words writing
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Page 15 - I conceive also that no Self of which we can here have cognisance is in reality more than a fragment of a larger Self, — revealed in a fashion at once shifting and limited through an organism not so framed as to afford it full manifestation.
Page 11 - My personal identity, therefore, implies the continued existence of that indivisible thing which I call myself. Whatever this self may be, it is something which thinks, and deliberates, and resolves, and acts, and suffers.
Page 394 - Sunday; night, she had been much terrified by perceiving me standing by her bedside, and that she screamed when the apparition advanced towards her, and awoke her little sister, who saw me also. I asked her if she was awake at the time, and she replied most decidedly in the affirmative, and upon my inquiring the time of the occurrence, she replied, about 1 o'clock in the morning.
Page 73 - The more I think of it, the more I am moved to press upon the world my question: Who are the Little People? They are near connections of the dreamer's, beyond doubt; they share in his financial worries and have an eye to the bankbook; they share plainly in his training; they have plainly learned like him to build the scheme of a considerate story and to arrange emotion in progressive order; only I think they have more talent; and one thing is beyond doubt, they can tell him a story piece by piece,...
Page 394 - On the following Thursday I went to see the ladies in question, and in the course of conversation (without any allusion to the subject on my part), the elder one told me that on the previous Sunday night she had been much terrified by perceiving me standing by her bedside, and that she screamed when the apparition advanced towards her, and awoke her little sister who also saw me.
Page 368 - Well, he got better for a week and was nearly well, but, at the end of six or seven days after this, I was called to see him suddenly. He had inflammation of both lungs. "I called in Sir William Jenner, but in six days he was a dead man. There were two male nurses attending on him ; one had been taken ill. But, when I saw the other, the dream of the duchess was exactly represented. He was standing near a bath over the earl and, strange to say, his beard was red. There was the bath with the red lamp...
Page 402 - I distinctly had seen. When I mentioned this my mother rose trembling to her feet and nearly fainted away, and as soon as she sufficiently recovered her self-possession, with tears streaming down her face, she...
Page xiv - Speaking with tongues," ie, automatic utterance of words not belonging to any real language. Hallucination. — Any sensory perception which has no objective counterpart within the field of vision, hearing, etc., is termed a hallucination.
Page 349 - I venture now on a bold saying; for I predict that, in consequence of the new evidence, all reasonable men, a century hence, will believe the Resurrection of Christ, whereas, in default of the new evidence, no reasonable men, a century hence, would have believed it.
Page 67 - I soon got to do the most difficult sums, always in my head, for I knew nothing of figures beyond numeration, nor had I any names for the different processes I employed.