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JAINA GAZETTE. [Aug. & Sept. the case were it a mere illusion. We must soppose, therefore, tbat it is founded and grounded in truth.
Again, what is the alternative to survival ? Annihilation. There is no lialf-way between the two ideas. Either we survive or we do not. if we do not, it means that we are annihilated. But our whole experience of every part of the universe about us concerning wbich we can obtain any certain knowledge teaches us that there is no such thing as annihilation. Neither matter nor energy can be annibilared ; their forms may be changed, but they cannot be destroyed. Even our bodies, when we dio and decay, are not, as matter, extinguished; the atoms of which they consist persist; they are simply re-arranged to form new compounds ; they do not pass out of existence.
So we may reasonably infer that human personality is no exception to this universal law.
But there are many impatient inquirers who demand something more evidential tban even the most cogent reasoning. * Can you bring any direct and observable evidence that we do survive ?” they demand.
Indications of such evidence we do find in that vast multitude of phenomena which are now lumped together under the somewhat unsavoury name of “psycbic manifestations”unsavoury, becanse the term has been largely associated with the tricks of conjurors or the frauds of imposters. Let this be quite frankly stated at the very outset. So much was this the cage that, for a long time, serious investigators refused even to inquire into these phenomena ; Science practically denied their existence, and ridiculed any who treated them as worthy of examinatiov.
But now, Wanks to the patient work of the London Psychi. cal Research Society, and of such eininent scientists as A. R. Wallace, Sir James Paget, Sir W. F. Barrett, Sir William Crookes, Sir Oliver Lodge, C. F. Varley, Lombroso, Ricbet, Flaminarion, Zollner, Do Morgan, Challis, and others, it is largely, if not universally, accepted that psybic manifestations do occur, and the newer psychology is largely concerned with
their examination and classification. Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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