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251 test of the most searching inquiry and the closest investigation, where phantasms have appeared of persons after bodily death - of ghosts, in other words.
As Mr. Myers expresses it: “We gradually discover that the accounts of apparitions at the moinent of deathtestifying to a sapersensory communication between the dying man and the friend who sees him-leads on without perceptible break to apparitions occurring after the death of the person seen, but while that death is yet unknown to the percipient, and thus apparently due, not to a mere brooking memory, but to a continued action of the departed spirit.”
Psychology admits the occurrence of such cases, but explains them by saying, in the words of Edinund Gurney, that they are “ due to a telepathic transfer which took place just before or exactly at the moment of death, but that the impression remained latent in the percipient's mind, and only after an interval emerged into his consciousness, whether as a waking vision or as a dream or in some other form."
In other words, Jones's sabliminal consciousness acts on Smith's subliminal consciousness just at the moment that Jones is dying; but Smith is not aware of it until something occurring later makes the impression rise up into his supraliminal or ordinary consciousness, and then he thinks that the telepathic transfer took place at the moment he recognised it, and not, as really, some time before.
Well, this is a possible explanation of most of these cases. Bat not of all. And that is the difficulty that those who deny the possibility of survival have to face, for there are two classes of cases which cannot thus be explained :
(1) Where the phantasm imparts accurate knowledge which could not possibly have been known to the deceased during bodily life.
(2) Where the phantasm appears—as in cases of haunting -to many people at different times, but always in one place.
For, taking the second of these two classes first, the explanation obviously fails where persons who were not born when the deceased died perceive the phantasm. They, at any Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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