Tempo:
is a most interesting and helpful tale.
It is amazing how timorous most people are of being associated with any sort of psychic experience.
Sylvan Muldoon, when trying to collect acceptable evidence of the Double, found himself up against this strange reluctance.
After recounting a number of miscellaneous cases, he says: "I have received many, many letters similar to the foregoing, most of them going into great detail, but, strange as it may seem, the writers fear having their experiences found out. They fear ridicule from their friends and business associates. So great is their dread of ever having anyone know they were out of their body, since such an occurrence seems unthinkable to the average person, that they will not even allow me to quote their experience. One thing at least can be said in favour of this fear: it strongly indicates sincerity on the part of the correspondents, and certainly eliminates the argument that they are trying to get their names before the public." In contrast to this childish solicitude, here is a story told by a man who might have had reason to preserve the public's confidence in his sanity. William Gerhardi, already with an admirable literary reputation, ran the risk of tarnishing it by incorporating in Resurrection his own unexpected experience of Etheric projection, and gave us, moreover, in that bewildering novel, the reactions to his account of it, at a Ball, of his partners and acquaintances.
He was thirty-seven, writing a book which had immortality for its theme, expecting no revelation as to the future, but, withal, since it seemed to threaten to obliterate his reality from the world, fearing and resenting death.
All that may have had nothing to do with what followed.
It is amazing how timorous most people are of being associated with any sort of psychic experience.
Sylvan Muldoon, when trying to collect acceptable evidence of the Double, found himself up against this strange reluctance.
After recounting a number of miscellaneous cases, he says: "I have received many, many letters similar to the foregoing, most of them going into great detail, but, strange as it may seem, the writers fear having their experiences found out. They fear ridicule from their friends and business associates. So great is their dread of ever having anyone know they were out of their body, since such an occurrence seems unthinkable to the average person, that they will not even allow me to quote their experience. One thing at least can be said in favour of this fear: it strongly indicates sincerity on the part of the correspondents, and certainly eliminates the argument that they are trying to get their names before the public." In contrast to this childish solicitude, here is a story told by a man who might have had reason to preserve the public's confidence in his sanity. William Gerhardi, already with an admirable literary reputation, ran the risk of tarnishing it by incorporating in Resurrection his own unexpected experience of Etheric projection, and gave us, moreover, in that bewildering novel, the reactions to his account of it, at a Ball, of his partners and acquaintances.
He was thirty-seven, writing a book which had immortality for its theme, expecting no revelation as to the future, but, withal, since it seemed to threaten to obliterate his reality from the world, fearing and resenting death.
All that may have had nothing to do with what followed.
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