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work which is being done in the world. By far the most important.”] Sir Henry Bergson addressing the 28th session of Society of Psychical Research said, “This new science will soon make up the time lost." Prof. Charles Richet feels that though the claims may seem to be "Absurd, but not matter, it is true,"3 But after all, we wonder as to why such hyperbolic statements are being made ? Is this the real study of man ? Man is man because of his mind. And our mind is still a mystery. True "psychology has explored a vast field, from academic deserts to greenlands of five human material, but there still exists a Gobi Desert, virtually unexplored and unchartered, concerning which the books say nothing."'4 And the official aim and purpose of Psychical Research Society is to “cxamine without prejudice or prepossession and in a scientific spirit those faculty of man, real or supposed, which appear to be unexplicable on any generally recognised hypothesis." Let us conclude with L. K. Anspacher : “To believe that everything has been discovered is as profound an error as to mistake the horizon for the limits of the world.";
Directly, para-psychology has no significance for religion. Para-psychology is para-psychology. It is not a religion but a
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