[74] See _Phantasms of the Living_, vol. ii. p. 289, also the experience of Mrs. A., given in _Footfalls on the Boundary of Another World_, by R. Dale Owen, 1881, p. 256 _et seq._ This latter book, which is a mine of well-authenticated information, has suffered somewhat from its rather sensational title. The author, however, was an able, distinguished, and reliable man, son of Robert Owen of Lanark, Member of Congress in the United States, and U. S. Minister at Naples. [75] See R. Dale Owen, _The Debatable Land_ (1871), pp. 385–400. [76] See Crookes’ _Researches in Spiritualism_, pp. 104 _et seq._ See also the book _New Light on Immortality_, by Fournier d’Albe, pp. 218 _et seq._, where the evidence is given in great detail. [77] See _Phénomènes de la Ville Carmen, avec documents nouveaux_; Paris, 1902. [78] C. Lombroso, _Fenomeni ipnotici e spiritici_, p. 193. [79] See _Shadow-land_ (1906). [80] See pamphlet _Materializations, by Mme. D’Espérance_ (Light Publishing Co.). [81] See, for instance, the account of the haunted mill at Willington, given at some length by Mr. W. T. Stead in the _Review of Reviews_ for Jan., 1892; also the _Memoirs of the Wesley Family_, vol. i, pp. 253–60; and Whitehead’s _Lives of the Wesleys_, vol. ii, pp. 120–66; also _Footfalls_, b; R. Dale Owen, book iii, ch. ii. [82] See Myers, _op cit._, p. 154. As many writers have remarked, the term “superconscious” might often be more applicable than “subconscious.” [83] With regard to this question of hypnotism and crime, T. J. Hudson says (_Psychic Phenomena_, p. 129) that it is almost impossible to persuade a hypnotic to do what he firmly believes to be wrong. And Myers maintains that whatever the subliminal being may be, it is never malignant. “In dealing with automatic script, for instance, we shall have to wonder whence come the occasional vulgar jokes or silly mystifications. We shall discuss whether they are a kind of dream of the automatist’s own, or whether they indicate the existence of unembodied intelligences on the level of the dog or the ape. But, on the other hand, all that world-old conception of Evil Spirits, of malevolent powers, which has been the basis of so much of actual devil-worship and so much more of vague supernatural fear—all this insensibly melts from the mind as we study the evidence before us.” (_Op. cit._, p. 252.) [84] See _Mediumship_, by James B. Tetlow (Keighley, 1910), price 6d. [85] _Op cit._, pp. 168–69. [86] See a long chapter on “Manifestations de Mourants” in C. Flammarion’s _L’Inconnu_. [87] As in the case of a man drowning in a storm off the island of Tristan d’Acunha, who was seen at the same hour in a Norfolk farmhouse. _Phantasms of the Living_, vol. ii. p. 52. [88] See further on this subject ch. xi. _infra_, p. 211. [89] _Towards Democracy_, p. 490. [90] For a discussion of this question, see Myers, _op. cit._, ch. vii. on _Phantasms of the Dead_.