An Explanation of Psychic Phenomena the More Excellent Way (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from An Explanation of Psychic Phenomena the More Excellent Way<br><br>In the evolution of the individual or the race, we find the physical in the ascendancy in infancy; later, when the reasoning faculties are developed, we discover that all the while certain intelligent things had been occurring in our development of which we were unconscious, and battle is then waged for the control of the body by two seemingly opposing forces, reason and emotion, the objective and the subjective sides of mind.<br><br>The emotions usually win; they belong to the subconscious phase of mind, and all primitive races developed psychic powers before reasoning faculties. This accounts for the prevalence of so much psychic phenomena in all the early religious experiences of the race, as recorded in the Hebrew Bible and other sacred literatures, and for its comparative absence in the experience of the more highly developed races of to-day.<br><br>But as man advances in his evolution he finds still a higher force - the spiritual - bidding for the mastery.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.