HOW TO SPEAK WITH THE DEAD HOW TO SPEAK WITH THE DEAD _: : A PRACTICAL HANDBOOK : :_ BY SCIENS AUTHOR OF RECOGNISED SCIENTIFIC TEXT-BOOKS [Illustration] NEW YORK E. P. DUTTON & CO. 681 FIFTH AVENUE PUBLISHED 1918 BY E. P. DUTTON & CO. Printed in the United States of America CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE PREFACE vii I. DO THE DEAD STILL LIVE? 1 II. SOUL AND LIFE 28 III. TELEPATHY AND TELE-MNEMONIKY 44 IV. DISCARNATE SPIRITS 57 V. MEDIUMS 77 VI. COMMUNICATING 90 VII. PRACTICAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR SPEAKING WITH THE DEAD 103 VIII. “SPIRITUALISM” AND “RATIONALISM” 131 PREFACE Practical instructions for speaking with the dead are given in Chapter VII of this book. Inasmuch, however, as rational men and women do not care to enter upon systematic proceedings of any kind without having some reasonable assurance that a commensurate result will follow, it has been thought desirable to add, in Chapters I to IV, a general outline of the scientific facts and arguments on which the certainties of “survival” and “communication” are based. In Chapters V and VI some necessary information as to mediums and communicating is given. And, in Chapter VIII, the distinction between Speaking with the Dead on the one hand, and Spiritualism faced by Rationalism on the other, is made clear. The book is strictly impartial from all points of view--whether Religious, Scientific, Agnostic, Spiritualistic, or Rationalistic. It is impersonal. It sets aside the writer’s own occult experience which, in the course of a long life devoted mainly to scientific pursuits, has happened to be very considerable. It is a mere cold, neutral text-book. The hard facts of the case are alone responsible for the circumstance that it shows Science to be a sponsor for the reality of speaking with the dead.