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FUNCTIONING IN “MENTAL BODY,” 203
occult phenomena. There are two classes of those who know all about it—the critics, who have not investigated the phenomena at all, and the enthusiastic “ five-minute-old converts.” The worthy members of both these classes either know aé/ that is possible, or else they know ow everything which occurs is done, Few of us ever know enough to know that we don't, but merely ¢izné that we, know.
First of all, then, let me frankly admit that the documents which follow would not be considered to be good evidence by a “ trained observer,” a professional “exposer,” or by the “sceptic”” who is so badly deluded that he con- siders his disbelief can azsfrove facts. The documents are not so satisfactory as are the letters which have been laid before the reader, because the former were written in great haste, at a time when it was #zg/y improbable that I should ever inflict myself, in print, upon the public. They are little more than rough notes jotted down and signed, in order that there should be some sort of evidence available in case I got sufficiently well to write my ex- periences. It was my intention, at first, to omit these documents altogether; for I could see in my mind's eye how easily Mr. Carring- ton, for instance, could rend them all to shreds,
occult phenomena. There are two classes of those who know all about it—the critics, who have not investigated the phenomena at all, and the enthusiastic “ five-minute-old converts.” The worthy members of both these classes either know aé/ that is possible, or else they know ow everything which occurs is done, Few of us ever know enough to know that we don't, but merely ¢izné that we, know.
First of all, then, let me frankly admit that the documents which follow would not be considered to be good evidence by a “ trained observer,” a professional “exposer,” or by the “sceptic”” who is so badly deluded that he con- siders his disbelief can azsfrove facts. The documents are not so satisfactory as are the letters which have been laid before the reader, because the former were written in great haste, at a time when it was #zg/y improbable that I should ever inflict myself, in print, upon the public. They are little more than rough notes jotted down and signed, in order that there should be some sort of evidence available in case I got sufficiently well to write my ex- periences. It was my intention, at first, to omit these documents altogether; for I could see in my mind's eye how easily Mr. Carring- ton, for instance, could rend them all to shreds,
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