By Jane Roberts
During this e-book, Jane Roberts tunes into the attitudes and techniques of the turn-of-the-century thinker and psychologist William James - from his afterdeath viewpoint. this can be James' attention-grabbing account of what someone reviews after actual loss of life - how the useless stay conscious of earthly occasions, speak with each other, discover prior lives, and prevent opting for with the actual physique. furthermore, this booklet includes a significantly uplifting exposition of the joyous and loving atmospheric presence which permeates all life.
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I must profess that those séances I attended in life were Ear from quality artistic productions, however; and those performances that came under the guise of art—such as automatic writing—gave little evidence of creative merit. I found primitive art charming, but such primitive gropings with the written word embarrassed me to the core. At least, such was my own reaction to those manuscripts that came to my attention. There were also, however, more cultivated ladies, from sheltered environments, who held their séances in the tasteful parlors of the well-to-do, amid rich wall hangings, with maids serving tea and cakes; parlors visited by quite educated men of letters—women whose honesty and sincerity were beyond doubt.
A good hypnotist automatically hypnotizes himself before he begins to work his suggestions upon the mind of another—a fact not in the least understood then or now. Nor did the true scientist dare allow himself to experience paranormal events, generally speaking, for to do so would put him into the same kettle; bringing into question those qualities of objectivity, intellectual discrimination, and emotional balance that he believed separated him from those he studied. The more such a man tried to dismiss his emotions, to retain an objective stance, the more his emotional needs strained at the academic leash; and the more he became fascinated by the emotional elements under investigation, the greater his risks of losing his psychic virginity.
In many ways he was a shaman, born in the "wrong" country, twice as jealous of his own "masculine characteristics" because he sensed within himself the "perverse" intuitive rushes and psychic leanings that he feared and believed could undermine the personal authority of the ego and the mass authority of the state. In many ways also Freud's theories represented the darker aspects of Protestantism, cut free from the conventional belief in an omnipotent God, released from optimistic ascensions into heaven—a psychological hell replacing the earlier theological one, and demons turned into the primitive impulses which were stamped upon the psyche in its infancy.
