Produced by Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.) HUMAN PERSONALITY AND ITS SURVIVAL OF BODILY DEATH BY FREDERIC W. H. MYERS EDITED AND ABRIDGED BY HIS SON LEOPOLD HAMILTON MYERS _Cessas in vota procesque, Tros, ait, Aenea, cessas? Neque enim ante dehiscent Adtonitœ magna ora domus._--VIRGIL. "_Nay!" quoth the Sybil, "Trojan! wilt thou spare The impassioned effort and the conquering prayer? Nay! not save thus those doors shall open roll,-- That Power within them burst upon the soul._" _NEW IMPRESSION_ LONGMANS, GREEN AND CO. 39 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON FOURTH AVENUE & 30TH STREET, NEW YORK BOMBAY, CALCUTTA, AND MADRAS 1918 COPYRIGHT, 1906, BY LONGMANS, GREEN AND CO. _All rights reserved_ First Edition, December, 1906 Reprinted, March, 1907 October, 1909; April, 1913 August, 1917; April, 1918 THE PLIMPTON PRESS NORWOOD·MASS·U·S·A _DEDICATED_ TO HENRY SIDGWICK AND EDMUND GURNEY CONTENTS PAGE EDITOR'S NOTE vii PREFACE ix GLOSSARY xiii CHAP. I. INTRODUCTION 1 II. DISINTEGRATIONS OF PERSONALITY 26 III. GENIUS 55 IV. SLEEP 93 V. HYPNOTISM 116 VI. SENSORY AUTOMATISM 168 VII. PHANTASMS OF THE DEAD 212 VIII. MOTOR AUTOMATISM 254 IX. TRANCE, POSSESSION, AND ECSTASY 297 X. EPILOGUE 340 APPENDICES TO CHAPTER II 356 APPENDICES TO CHAPTER IV 364 APPENDICES TO CHAPTER V 378 APPENDICES TO CHAPTER VI 384 APPENDICES TO CHAPTER VII 400 APPENDICES TO CHAPTER VIII 430 APPENDICES TO CHAPTER IX 441 INDEX 453 EDITOR'S NOTE Nearly four years have elapsed since the first appearance of my Father's book "Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death." It cost two guineas and was published in two volumes, each of which was little under 700 pages in length. The price and dimensions of such a work made the future issue of a more popular edition not improbable. Indeed, my Father himself indicated briefly the lines on which an abridgment could best be made. In accordance with his indications I have endeavoured to keep as closely as possible to the original scheme and construction of the book.