ABSTRACT
The evidence for the physical phenomena of psychical research, which appear to violate the laws of physics. In estimating the evidence for the physical phenomena of mediumship, we should take tight hold of ourselves if we do not wish to be deceived; for we are between two fires. If the evidence is strong, we may admit verbally that strange things do happen, while at the same time we deny them in our hearts. The lower, instinctive phases of mind, and what we call ‘life’, may also have properties which are closely assimilated to the undetected properties of matter. In fact, the whole problem of mind and matter is entirely altered if we refuse to accept the illusion that both are self-contained entities as the sense-world presents them. The probability that we are right in accepting the sense-world as the one and only starting point in an attempt to discover the nature of the universe is very slight.
