ABSTRACT
Psychiatry has crossed the border from the conscious to the unconscious; but psychical research has crossed it too and has explored further. One reason why psychical research is particularly illuminating is that it shows that the mind or self beyond the empirical boundary of consciousness amounts to a great deal more than the mere limbo of repressed desires to which psychiatry points. In The Personality of Man it was pointed out that carefully conducted sittings with mediums belonging to the mental category showed that all claim to be producing direct communications from the dead, but that such communications vary a great deal in quality. The productive type of relation seems obvious to our minds because we place matter at the centre of things. But the evidence for telepathy and extra-sensory perception does not point to it, for the arguments against a physical theory of telepathy are overwhelming.
