"Exhaustive array of the phenomena of genius, sleep, hypnotism, sensory automatism, phantasms of the dead, motor automatism, trance, possession and ecstasy, with elaborate argument to prove that personality survives death." -University of the State of New York Bulletin
"Probably the most complete and authoritative interpretation published of the conclusions reached by the special students of psychic phenomena." -The Outlook
"Brilliant, almost dazzling conception of the 'subliminal self'....Surveying the whole wide range of mental phenomena, the singular alterations and disintegrations of personality in disease, its evident limitations of faculty, counter-balanced at times by seemingly supernatural extension of faculty, Myers saw valid reason for asserting that the self of which we are normally aware - the self which one has in mind when he speaks of 'my self' - in is reality only a split-off from a larger self, just as the 'secondary personalities' of hypnotism and hysteria are split-offs from the self of everyday life. And to this larger self, the subliminal self, he referred, on the one hand, the intellectual uprushes and outpourings of genius and the achievements of humanity in time of stress, when, as the phrase is, a man seems to be 'lifted out of himself,' inspired with new energy, and capable of accomplishing deeds he had never dreamed possible to him; and, on the other hand, Myers likewise attributed to the subliminal self, as a faculty peculiarly its own, the power of telepathically transmitting messages from mind to mind and receiving and retaining them until some favoring condition permitted their presentation to the ordinary consciousness." -New Outlook
"It is the impression that the unseen and eternal is beyond the reach of physical science, and it is the special object of faith. No one (we venture to say) will be persuaded by this book that does not end all, if not persuaded already. For faith is not belief in the existence of a religion beyond the reach of the senses. It is present intercourse with a living personality who is in the unseen, who has passed through bodily death. It is neither merely intellectual, nor merely emotional, it is the response of the whole personality to the personality now in the Beyond. That is the assurance of survival. There is no other; nor can be....And yet, how fascinating the book is. How unanswerable its many cases." The Expository Times
"A full discussion of strange psychic phenomena of all sorts, including evidence of communication from departed spirits." -The Literary Digest
CONTENTS
EDITOR'S NOTE
PREFACE
GLOSSARY
I. INTRODUCTION
II. DISINTEGRATIONS OF PERSONALITY
III. GENIUS
IV. SLEEP
V. HYPNOTISM
VI. SENSORY AUTOMATISM
VII. PHANTASMS OF THE DEAD
VIII. MOTOR AUTOMATISM
IX. TRANCE, POSSESSION, AND ECSTASY
X. EPILOGUE
APPENDICES TO CHAPTER II
APPENDICES TO CHAPTER IV
APPENDICES TO CHAPTER V
APPENDICES TO CHAPTER VI
APPENDICES TO CHAPTER VII
APPENDICES TO CHAPTER VIII
APPENDICES TO CHAPTER IX
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