Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily DeathLongmans, Green, 1907 - 470 pages |
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Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death, Volume 1 Frederic William Henry Myers Affichage du livre entier - 1903 |
Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death, Volume 1 Frederic William Henry Myers Affichage du livre entier - 1920 |
Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death Frederic William Henry Myers Affichage du livre entier - 1919 |
Expressions et termes fréquents
actual already apparition appearance automatic writing automatist brain centres chapter clairvoyance communication conception consciousness death definite discern dream Edmund Gurney evidence evolution existence experience explain externalised fact faculty feel figure genius given Gurney hallucination hand haunting Helen Alexander human hypnosis hypnotic trance hypnotised hypothesis hysterical idea idées fixes impression impulse indicate influence inquiry instance intelligence Journal S.P.R. kind knowledge liminal living man's manifestations matter memory mentation messages mind Miss motor automatisms never observation occurred once ordinary organism Palladia perception percipient percipient's personality Phantasms phenomena possession possible precognition present Proceedings S.P.R. psychical recognised Retrocognition Revue de l'Hypnotisme séances seems seen self-suggestion sensations sense sensory sister sleep sometimes somnambulism soul spirit spiritual world stratum subliminal suggestion supernormal suppose supraliminal telæsthesia telepathic thought tion tism told uprush veridical vision waking words writing
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Page 368 - On a certain Sunday evening in November 1881, having been reading of the great power which the human will is capable of exercising, I determined with the whole force of my being, that I would be present in spirit in the front bed-room on the second floor of a house situated at 22 Hogarth Road, Kensington...
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 191 - Phantasms of the Living," which has been reissued in abridged form.1 Suffice it to say that the committee expressed its considered opinion that "between deaths and apparitions of the dying person a connection exists which is not due to chance alone.
Page 368 - 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 339 - With this the priest disappeared. I awoke at once, and immediately told my wife the dream, that I might not forget it. Next morning — Sunday — I examined the fragments once more in the light of these disclosures, and to my astonishment found all the details of the dream precisely verified in so far as the means of verification were in my hands. The original inscription on the votive cylinder read: 'To the god Ninib, son of Bel, his lord, has Kurigalzu, pontifex of Bel, presented this.
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.
Page 368 - Besides exercising my power of volition very strongly, I put forth an effort which I cannot find words to describe. I was conscious of a mysterious influence of some sort permeating in my body, and had a distinct impression that I was exercising some force with which I had been hitherto unacquainted, but which I can now at certain times set in motion at will.
Page 323 - 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 man, a century hence, would have believed it.
Page 370 - I was quite wide awake. He came towards me and stroked my hair. I voluntarily gave him this information when he called to see me on Wednesday, April 2, telling him the time and the circumstances of the apparition, without any suggestion on his part. The appearance in my room was most vivid, and quite unmistakable.