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"POSSESSION" AND ALLIED STATES 129
ashamed of it, and, I presume, to a certain extent
the child, only vice versa.
For some years now the child has wholly disappeared
and the personality is now but one, and she
is a delightful, quiet, sunny, quaint, and deeply
spiritual woman.
Established Facts
It will be noted that two of the three cases I
have quoted have been of different ages in the
same individual. I have met others, but am unable
to refer to them. Instances abound, however,
where the- second personality (like my first Baptist
minister) is a being of different tastes and character
from the first. The reader may rest assured that
double personality and "possession" are as well established
scientifically as telepathy, and only those who
know the years of scientific labour that has been
needed to prove the latter true in spite of all prejudice
and opposition, can understand the force of
this statement.
It is well to point out, before leaving the subject,
that of the seven cases I have given, in two instances
only, that of the Arab gentleman and the last case,
was the curious condition known to the conscious
mind of the sufferer; in the other five it was not
so known, though it might be suspected, and there is
no proof of normal consciousness when in the
abnormal state, though there is plenty of mental
vigour.*
* Let me say that the unconscious mind, which, when I first
spoke of it twenty years ago, was bitterly scoffed at, and nowhere
accepted in English scientific circles, is now a commonplace.
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