The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-10-06

Their fallacy IS that they assume thu
a spirit is non-material. and yet they de
scribe the nature and functions OF Thu
spirit In an absolutely material way
which is very like the logical process q
petitio principii II they said,
Spirit Is an inconceivabe Thing;
We hold communication with Spirltss
Therefore we hold communication VII
inconceivable, Things
(Which Is a correct syllogism in torml
we should see the absurdity Of their POD
ton at once. for how can one hold com
munlcation with what cannot be conceive
even to exist?-the middle term is wronG
It Is a petitio pTincipii-tbese people a
sumo that they are conversing with
Spirit, which, according TO the first term
the premises, is an lnconceivable land q
cordlng to ,~eir own allowance an immz
teriaD Thing, and yet all the time they Sc
1t. they feel it. they hear it; and they d
scribe 1t as material, and in any otho
way than as material they have no knov
ledge, no conception OF It,
We might just as well expect that II
among the living tissues OF the body fron
which it was taken 1t would be agau
deconstituted and become 4 living integrn
part Of the living tissues-or TO put 1t Y
their own way OF expression We shouI
expect 10 see the sDirit OF the bone r1
enter and be incorporated with that pieu
OF bone, a thing which we have ever
right to say cannot be, for we act on "a
latter assumption and find it TO be tru
when we use ivory pegs TO support az
rupted ends OF fractures, knowing th1
though placed In juxtapositicn with liyiu|
structure, the props or supports w
never become living matter. N
One OF the most neg ected features
the study OF psychological problems
that part which is called Epistemolo3
the realm OF validity and reality.
] see outside an external world whic|
appears 10 me and TO most others
reality OF a certain and definite kind. bu
II is very possible that 1t is in essence
q very different nature from what IL
conceived TO be,
As a fact, all thought should be receive|
as the eccentric projection Of what goo
on as the result of stimuli and intern
processes.
Spectres and Ghosts are but the diH
charges OF gorged centres accompante|
centric projection. and Telopathy Is q
unauthorized and irrelevant conclusion a
rived al by people who. recognising th1
what they think has 4 deceptive exte1
naity. but falling at the same time
perceive the illusion, invent 10 themselve
the idea that they are voluntarily pro1ec1
ing waves OF thought which may intera4
with other waves projected by individual
with whom they assert that they are Z
harmony.
II seems TO me that this fact OF ~
eccentric projection Of Mind or Thougu
has never been sufficiently Appreciated Y
estimating the validity OF reported demon
stTations from the occult
That is inexplicable does not preve1
our acceptance Of 1t as a fact, whilst \
saves us from the uncomfortable and di1
tracing suspicious that we are at ~
mercy OF agencies which have been credu
cd with powers and influence when ni
the time they are the unrecognized fgure
OF ourselyes-fgures whose validity az
pends upon the way and extent TO whia
we educate such receptive organs as "
possess, and which, OF course. IL must
owned, are OF greater or less deyelopme1
and potentIelity in some than In others