Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death - Softcover

Myers, Frederic W. H.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1535542624 ISBN 13: 9781535542623

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

Synopsis

"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

About this title

About the Author:

Frederic William Henry Myers (6 February 1843, in Keswick, Cumberland – 17 January 1901, in Rome) was a poet, classicist, philologist, and a founder of the Society for Psychical Research.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1535542624
• ISBN 13: 9781535542623
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 408