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recognized observers. These admit observation of facts about dreams, and thought-transference and kindred subjects, provided these facts are stated on evidence that would be accepted in a Court of legal enquiry, or by scientific experts. By these means, they have established a vast amount of private experiences, which corroborate the practices of divination of old, but when they are asked to account for them, they are very cautious. They will only admit a further extension of the capabilities of the mind or consciousness of others; but they are afraid, as yet of admitting publicly the existence of beings extraneous to incarnated consciousness, whether Gods, Demons, Spirits of the departed or Elementaries. If a consciousness fancies another consciousness is acting on it from without and from the unseen, that external consciousness may be proved to be either an extraordinary manifestation of a latent sub-, or super-consciousness of our own, or the impress by telepathy of some living person's thoughts, feelings and will.
To persons adopting this view of things, the possibility of augury must rest upon the possibilities of the sub-consciousness. Mr. Myers would not, perhaps, go as far as the ancient Sages, and say we are all Gods if we only knew it, but he has been forced to endow the sub-consciousness with very divine gifts. It is able, apparently, to foresee the consequences of action much more clearly than the working consciousness does. It has a larger purview of the environment and an extraordinary memory of the past, of things
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