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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VI COMMUNICATION WITH THE DISEMBODIED. THE EVIDENCE The amount of published matter, evidential or otherwise, bearing on the weighty question of communication with the departed is enormous and apparently still increasing. It is, obviously, impossible within the confines of available space to deal with the evidence in any detail. All that can be attempted is to give a summary and an estimate of the value of the evidence for communication as it now stands. In this department of psychic research events move not slowly. It is therefore possible that conclusions which, to-day, are justified, may become, to-morrow, unduly timid owing to new evidence. The communications may be divided into two classes. Firstly, the very large number of messages which have been received by some automatic means, generally writing, and which have been copiously published during the last few years. Such communications purport to describe, often in great detail, the experiences of those who have passed over. They seldom contain anything in the nature of tests and are hence, intrinsically, not evidential. They are, however, interesting in themselves, and the general correspondence in the accounts of life in "The Beyond" received through the hands of various perfectly independent automatists is striking. I venture to think that it is well that such communications should attain publicity, as far as may be convenient, in the form in which they are received. The winnowing of the chaff from the wheat, the discrimination between what has emanated from the subliminal of the automatist, and what may have been originated by extra-terrene intelligences, is a matter for experts, certainly not for the automatists themselves. The comparison and analysis of these numerous records will be a l...
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