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EXPLANATIONS OF PHENOMENA 89
Telepathy Does Not Account for
But, on the other hand, Alfred Russel Wallace
says: "The scientific world has been proved to have
been totally wrong in its denial of the facts of psychic
phenomena; and to call the subjective unconscious
mind the sole author of these phenomena is as
unscientific as attributing them to spirit agency."
All
(And yet, surely, these are our only alternatives.)
Stainton Moses (1897) supports this: "These five
years the messages you have received may, as you
suggest, have been due solely to your own subconsciousness.
Your hand may have been moved
(in writing) by some part of your own soul! Well,
be it so, if you please." Again, another scientist
says: "There is a sufficient basis for a reasonable
belief in the existence of disembodied minds. There
is, however, no proof, even by 'cross-correspondence,'
of such disembodied minds; but they
are suggested, though not conclusively, because
of the possibility of telepathy from living
minds."
One of the "spirits" says: "You need not
disturb yourself about whether it all comes from me,
or from your own sub-conscious self."
Myers, Hodgson, James
"There are many cases," says Myers, "with
Mrs. Piper that cannot be explained by any form
of telepathy, unless it be so extended as to be as
inconceivable as 'spirit' itself."
Yet another: "The other theory, that the
mediums are governed by the unconscious mind, is
impossible." And "To attempt to account by