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the book flashed upon my mind, and I began to write. This is only a sample
of many such experiences.”
Berthelot, the founder of Synthetic Chemistry has said that the experiments
leading to his wonderful discoveries have never been the result of carefully
followed trains of thought—of pure reasoning processes—but have come
of themselves, so to speak, from the clear sky.
Mozart has written: “I cannot really say that I can account for my
compositions. My ideas flow, and I cannot say whence or how they come.
I do not hear in my imagination the parts successively, but I hear them, as
it were, all at once. The rest is merely an attempt to reproduce what I have
heard.”
Dr. Thompson, above mentioned, has also said: “In writing this work
I have been unable to arrange my knowledge of a subject for days and
weeks, until I experienced a clearing up of my mind, when I took my pen
and unhesitatingly wrote the result. I have best accomplished this by leading
the (conscious) mind as far away as possible from the subject upon which I
was writing.”
Prof. Barrett says: “The mysteriousness of our being is not confined to
subtle physiological processes which we have in common with all animal life.
There are higher and more capacious powers wrapped up in our human
personality than are expressed even by what we know of consciousness, will,
or reason. There are supernormal and transcendental powers of which, at
present, we only catch occasional glimpses; and behind and beyond the
supernormal there are fathomless abysses, the Divine ground of the soul;
the ultimate reality of which our consciousness is but the reflection or faint
perception. Into such lofty themes I do not propose to enter, they must be,
forever beyond the scope of human inquiry; nor is it possible within the
limits of this paper to give any adequate conception of those mysterious
regions of our complex personality, which are open to, and beginning to be
disclosed by, scientific investigation.”