Comparative Study of Mantrashastra

Author(s): Mohanlal Bhagwandas Jhaveri
Publisher: Sarabhai Manilal Nawab

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INTRODUCTION
stream but where water pervades the ground all around us. These very deep layers of the sub-conscious mind would thus share in a non-individual or super-individual mind and so have a knowledge of things which are quite unattainable and incomprehensible to the individual mind. The difficulty of raising this knowledge to the surface consciousness would account for the scarcity of these phenomena."
“E Von Hartmann, when speaking about telepathy, in much the same way refers to the telephonic connection with the Absolute,' and he thinks of individuals as in direct mental connexion with the Absolute, xxx Again we meet E. Becher with his views on the "super-individual mind."
"A well-known neurologist, Kohnstamm (Journal f. Psychol.und Neurol., 1918, Beiheft), has lately tried to prove that in the deepest hypnosis a stratum is reached which is beyond the individuality and the personality. His subjects maintain that in the deepest hypnosis they can dive down to strata of their subconscious mind which are impersonal. The utterances of this deepest layer are of general applicability and no longer have to do with the person in question and his characteristics; it might just as well apply to anyone else, as this subconscious mind always thinks objectively; Kohnstamm maintains that he has reached the universal, pure, super-individual, absolute-subject."
Rudolf Tischner in conclusion says:"I do not pretend to explain occult phenomena by the psychic theory alone; of course genuine physical manifestations require the co-operation of some sort of energy to produce them." The facts of telepathy and clairvoyance shed new light on the old philosophical problem of how we are to conceive the inter-relation of body and mind. This field of research has a enormous influence on all departments of philosophy." It extends," says the author, “ further, to the philosophy of religion and to ethics; to both of these the question of how “spirit communes with spirit” is of no little significance."
The author also mentions: "our attempt to explain telepathy and clairvoyance by a psychical theory and to