Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1905-10-13

We're called upon to name; GU that by
far the greater number of apparitions
were of persons who had not died; and
CD that it had been experimentally
found possible to induce apparitions
elepathically. Thus, to cite only one
case, out of the many contained in the
society's records. the Rev. Clarence
Godfrey, an English clergyman. en-.
deavored on the night of Nov. Is, 1886.
to project himself, so to speak, in the
presence of a friend at distance.
The result of his attempt, as descrlb-
ed in the account written out at his
request by the "percipient," who. it
should perhaps be added, had no init
nation of the experiment, was as fol-
lows
"Yesterday-viz, the morning of No
vember is, 18S6-about $3.50 o'clock,
| woke up with a start and an idea
that someone had come into the room.
| heard a curious sound, but fancied
it might be the birds in the ivy out
side. Next | experienced a strange,
restless longing to leave the room
and go downstairs. This feeling be-
came so overpowering that at last
arose and lit a candle and went down,
thinking that if could get some soda
water it might have a quoting effect
On returning to my room | saw MI.
Godfrey standing under the large Win
dow on the staircase. He was dress
ed in his usual style, and with an ex-
preston on his face | have noticed
when he has been looking very earn
estly at anything. He stood there, and
| held the candle and gaZed at him
for three or four seconds in utter
amazement, and then, as | passed up
the staircase. he disappeared. The
impression left on my mind was so
vivid that | fully intended waking
a friend who Occupied the same room
as myself, but remembering that |
should only be laughed at as roman
tic and imaginative, | refrained from
doing So
Theory of the "SubIminal Self"
Out of the data thus collected bear
ing on all 'physical' phenomena from
the most commonplace occurrences of
dream life" to the most sensational
revelations of the trance medium"
there now blossomed a generalization
| that had long been simmering in the
/ fertile mind of one of the most as
tute of the societys investigators
This generalization was the theory
of the "subliminal self" and its form
ulatOr was the late F. w. II. Myers.
To him belongs the credit not. indeed
Of having discovered but OF having
been the first to give clearly articulat-
ed expression TO the belief, logically
involved in Leibnitz's unconscious
| activities of the mind" Hamilton S
unconscious notifications of the
mind" and Carpenters Unconscious
| cerebration,' that there co-eXists with
the ordinary consciousness of every
human being a secondary conscious
ness, endowed with faculties far trans
cending those of the former. always
operative, but except in specially ia
vored individuals at the command OF
the ordinary consciousness only on
rare occasions. G.. in the trans
mission and reception of telepathi(
messages. in the retention and execu
ton of post hypnotic orders, and, tC
give a more familiar illustration, il
whose peculiar phenomena of norma
sleep which range from the hazardous
performances of SomnambuliStS to the
coincident vision of absent relative;
and friends in the hour of death Of
peril
To this secondary consciousness Mr.
Myers attributed alike the achieve
ments of genius and the manifestation
of the trance medium In it h
found the clew to the singular disln
tegrations of personality which, from
the time of the classical case OF Mar.
Reynolds, had baffled psychologists o
all schools. and to which l hope t.
give detailed attention in a subSequen
series of papers dealing with the re
markable discoveries recently effec'
ed in the special domain of abnorma