ABSTRACT
The object of the present little book is to estimate the significance of the paranormal, of which examples were given in The Personality of Man. The attempt to do this has inevitably carried into a larger field and involved entire outlook on the universe. Paranormal faculties and paranormal phenomena are just as ‘normal’ from the larger point of view as are the everyday faculties and phenomena we call normal; but these faculties belong to outlying regions of the self as it appears in this world and they act into this world more or less sporadically. The mind always reacts to an impulse which penetrates it through and through, forcing upon it the conviction that the sense-world is complete in itself. The part played by the mind in adapting for life in our world, and in making that world appear to include everything, is far greater than we realize.
