ABSTRACT
Mediumistic communications purporting to come in direct and simple fashion from the dead pointed to the dead as being a factor in their origin; but their complete origin still remained enigmatic. Telepathy appears at first sight to be a simple transference of thought from one conscious mind to another. The evolutionary adaptation of the mind to its surroundings is extremely subtle, for it gives rise to convictions which are to a certain extent specious, although at the same time they are partly based on truth. For in spite of the instinctive adaptation of the lower stratum of the mind to its surroundings, there has always been a higher and freer phase which reached upwards and outwards ‘with thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls’. The truth is that supra-sensory experiences are overwhelmingly convincing to the individual, although in great part they are incommunicable in words.
