The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1897-12-16
MANS NEW FACULTIES.
rsn Third Form of consciousness Develop
lag In Human iicings?

ing In Human Bcings?
Science has discovered that new men,
tal faculties are developing in highly
civilized humanity The observer has
described them as third and new
form Of consciousness. The other two
forms are simply consciousness and
.e,f-consciousness
Ia the section OF psychology at the
,-,cert meeting of the British Medical
Assoc alton, al Mon,rl al. DR.. *. Buckle
o, London, Ont. presented some novel
views in paper bearing the above
title. He said
"So-called te!epa'hy and clairvoy-
ance seem to be spec mems of nascent
faculties. place In the same class the
phenomena of what is often named
spititualism.
The labors Of the Society for Psy-
chlcal Research have made 1t to me
plain that these phenomena. as notably
IN the case OF W. Stanton Moses, re-
ally exist. And | think that a study
OF the above mentioned case. together
with that OF Mrs. PIPER and that OF
Mary J. Fancher, OF Brooklyn, would
compel any unprejudiced person to
make the same admission. But to me
thege are not cases in which outside
agents are acting on or through num-
en- being but are cases in which given
human being has faculties which are
not commonly possesstd.
Whether any given faculty, such as
o. e OF those now alluded to, saall grow,
become common, and finally universal
in the race. or wither and disappear,
will depend upon the general laws OF
natural selection. and upon whether
the possession Of the nascent faculty
is advantageous or not to the individ-
ual and to the race. But of infinitely
more importance than telepahy and So
called spiritualism (no matter what ex-
planat.on we give of these, or what
their future is destined to bel is the
final fact to be here touched upCn.
This is that superimposed upon self.
consc ,ousness as is that faculty upon
simple consciousness, q third and high
or form Of consciousness is at present
making It's appearance in our race.
This higher form Of consciousness.
when 1t appears, occurs, as it must at
the fun maturity of the individual at
about the age of thirty five, but almost
always between the ages of thirty and
forty. There have been occasional
cases of it for 1000 years and it is
becoming more and more common. In
fact, in all respects, as far as observed,
it obeys the laws to which every mas
cent faculty is subject.
MANY more or less perfect examples
OF this new faculty exists in the world
today, and 1t has been my privilege to
know personally and to have had the
opportunity Of etuding several men and
women who have possessed it. In the
course of few more millenniums
there should be born from the present
human race higher type of man pos
sessing this higher consciousness.
The new race, as it may well be
called, would occupy, as toward us,
position such as that occupied by lis
toward the simple conscious alalus no.
mo. The advent of this higher better,
and happier race would amply justify
the long agony Of its birth through the
countless ages of our past. And it is
the first article Of my belief, some OF
the grounds Of which have endeavor-
ed to lay before you. that a race is in
course Of evolution"