Human Personality, and Its Survival of Bodily Death, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint)

PREFACE THE book which is now at last given to the world is but a partial presentation of an ever-growing subject which I have long hoped to become able to treat in more adequate fashion. But as knowledge increases life rolls by. and I have thought it well to bring out while I can even this most imperfect text-book to a branch of research whose novelty and strangeness call urgently for some provisional systematisation, which, by suggesting fresh inquiries, further accumulation of evidence may tend as speedily as possible to its own supersession. Few critics of this book can, I think, be more fully conscious than its author of its defects and its lacuna::; but also few critics, I think, have yet realised the importance of the new facts which in some fashion the book does actually present. Many of these facts have already appeared in Phantasms of the Living " many more in the Procedings of the Society for Psychical Research; but they are far indeed from having yet enTable of Contents EXPLANATION OF PLAN OF ARRANGEMENT AND SYSTEM; OF REFERENCES; SYLLABUSES; CII A f'; L INTRODUCTION ; II DISINTEGRATIONS OF PERSONALITY; 111 G?N1US; IV SLEEP; V HYPNOTISM; VI SENSORY AUTOMATISM; APPENDICES TO CHAPTER rI; APPENDICES TO CHAPTER IV; APPENDICES TO CHAPTER V; APPENDICES TO CHAPTER VI; XI; ? xxiii; ? xxiv; 34; 121; 153; 220; 437; 565About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve the original format of each page whilst digitally enhancing the difficult to