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" Any person without invincible prejudice who had the same experience would come to the same broad conclusion, viz., that things hitherto held impossible do actually occur. "
Same
Impossible
Prejudice
" Basing my conclusions on experience I am absolutely convinced not only of survival but of demonstrated survival, demonstrated by occasional interaction with matter in such a way as to produce physical results. "
Way
Experience
I Am
" But although life is not energy, any more than it is matter, yet it directs energy and thereby controls arrangements of matter. "
Than
Any
Energy
" Death is not a word to fear, any more than birth is. "
Death
Fear
More
" Death is not extinction. Neither the soul nor the body is extinguished or put out of existence. "
Death
Soul
Extinction
" In other cases, when the medium becomes entranced, the demonstration of a communicator's separate intelligence may become stronger and the sophistication less. "
Intelligence
Become
Stronger
" Life must be considered sui generis; it is not a form of energy, nor can it be expressed in terms of something else. "
Energy
Life
Must
" Of mediumship there are many grades, one of the simplest forms being the capacity to receive an impression or automatic writing, under peaceful conditions, in an ordinary state; but the whole subject is too large to be treated here. "
Peaceful
Impression
Grades
" The amount of sophistication varies according to the quality of the medium, and to the state of the same medium at different times; it must be attributed in the best cases physiologically to the medium, intellectually to the control. "
Control
Quality
Same
" The hypothesis of surviving intelligence and personality - not only surviving but anxious and able with difficulty to communicate - is the simplest and most straightforward and the only one that fits all the facts. "
Facts
Intelligence
Only
" The old series of sittings with Mrs. Piper convinced me of survival for reasons which I should find it hard to formulate in any strict fashion, but that was their distinct effect. "
Fashion
Hard
Find
" The properties which differentiate living matter from any kind of inorganic imitation may be instinctively felt, but can hardly be formulated without expert knowledge. "
Knowledge
Without
Matter
" They definitely mean to maintain that the process called death is a mere severence of soul and body, and that the soul is freed rather than injured thereby. "
Process
Mean
Death
" We know that communication must be hampered, and its form largely determined, by the unconscious but inevitable influence of a transmitting mechanism, whether that be of a merely mechanical or of a physiological character. "
Influence
Character
Communication
" Whatever life may really be, it is to us an abstraction: for the word is a generalised term to signify that which is common to all animals and plants, and which is not directly operative in the inorganic world. "
World
Us
Plants
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