Identifier: reviewofreviewsw06newy (find matches)
Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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PROFESSOR WILLIAM JAMES. important part of the Societys Proceedings theseries of papers by Mr. F. W. H. Myers on the •■ sub-limal self, or extra consciousness, the great valueof which is that it is the first thoroughly induc-tive attempt to consider the phenomenon of hallucina-tion, hypnotism, automatism, double personality and 188 THE REVIEW OF REVIEWS.
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PROFESSOR HENRY SIDGWICK, President of the Psychical Research Society. mediumship as connected parts of one whole sub-ject. The result of Myers learned and ingeniousstudies in hypnotism, hallucinations, automatic writ-ing, mediumship and the whole series of allied phe-nomena is a conviction which he expresses in the fol-lowing terms : Each of us is in reality an abidingpsychical entity far more extensive than he knows—anindividuality which can never express itself com-pletely through any corporeal manifestation. Theself manifests itself through the organism ; but thereis always some part of the self unmanifestcd, andalways, as it seems, some power of organic express-ion in abeyance or reserve. The ordinary consciousnessMr. Myers likens to the visiblepart of the solar spectrum ; thetotal consciousness is like thatspectrum prolonged by the in-clusion of the ulti-a-red and theultra-violet rays. In the psychicspectrum the ultra parts mayembrace a far wider range, bothof physiological and

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