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branch of science whose business is to epquire into the nature of human personality.1 Indirectly, “the main significance of psychical research for religion lies in its promise to reveal a much wider background of thought than that provided by correct scientific philosophy.”2 Science has been exploring almost entirely the external world but our “psyche is a field yet to be explored.”3 “Manas maketh man as distinguished from both god and brute."4 Man is a mystery, a miracle according to Carlyle. And mind of man is a mystery parexcellence. “In seeing what is, the mind is rendered transparent, it is divested of its will, it reflects without gathering dust." It is the man and his mind that is the cause of bondage and liberation, pain and pleasure-says wisdom of India. And “infact the study of human personality and the extense of human faculty form the main object of psychical research "6 Jung rightly says that the "place of deity seems to be taken by the wholeness of man.”? However, Barrett says that “psychical research, though it may strengthen the foundations cannot take the place of religion, using in its widest sense that much abused word. For fater all, it deals with the external, though it be an unseen world. The psychic order is not the spiritual order."8 However, Sir 1. Tyrrel, G. N. M. : Ibid. 2. Ibid. 3. Rao, Ramkrishna : “A Note on Jung's Conception of
Psyche”, Proceedings of Indian Philosophical Congress,
Mysore, 1956. 4. Ram, N.: Man : His Origin and Evolution, Theosophical
Publications, Adyar, 1952. 5. Mehta, R. : The Search for Freedom, Theosophical Publi
cations, Adyar, 1957. 6. Barrett, W.F.: Ibid. 7. Jung C. G. : Collected Works ( Psychology of Religion ),
Vol. III, Pantheon Series, New York, 1958. 8. Barrett, W. F. : Ibid.
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