Death, the gate of life? (mors janua vitae?) : a discussion of certain communications purporting to come from Frederic W.H. Myers by Dallas H. A. (Helen Alexandrina) 1856-1944 & Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) DLC

Author:Dallas, H. A. (Helen Alexandrina), 1856-1944 & Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) DLC
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry), 1843-1901, Parapsychology
Publisher: New York : E.P. Dutton & Co.
Published: 1919-04-17T04:00:00+00:00

of living persons, and, impersonating the character of the deceased, retails this information to their friends?

We must bear in mind that the information imparted is often unknown to any person present, so that, if the theory of thought transference (or telepathy) be accepted, it will be necessary to assume that the agents are persons at a distance from the percipient, that she has, subliminally, access to the minds of persons of whose existence she has, normally, no knowledge, and that she can receive from their minds facts of which they are not consciously thinking.

Now it can be claimed as experimentally demonstrated that ideas consciously in the mind of one person can, when thought has been concentrated on these ideas, be transferred to the mind of another person at a distance, and such transference may take place without the agent having the intention of transmitting anything; but it cannot be claimed that the kind of thought-transference which has to be assumed to explain the phenomena which occur with Mrs. Piper, has ever been experimentally demonstrated at all.

Sir Oliver Lodge lays emphasis on this fact in his discussion of the case. He says :—

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