{"product_id":"2940013090392","title":"THE NEW REVELATION","description":"CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   I  THE SEARCH\u003cbr\u003e  II  THE REVELATION\u003cbr\u003e III  THE COMING LIFE\u003cbr\u003e  IV  PROBLEMS AND LIMITATIONS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSUPPLEMENTARY DOCUMENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   I  THE NEXT PHASE OF LIFE\u003cbr\u003e  II  AUTOMATIC WRITING\u003cbr\u003e III  THE CHERITON DUGOUT\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE NEW REVELATION\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE SEARCH\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe subject of psychical research is one upon which I have thought more\u003cbr\u003eand about which I have been slower to form my opinion, than upon any\u003cbr\u003eother subject whatever.  Every now and then as one jogs along through\u003cbr\u003elife some small incident happens which very forcibly brings home the\u003cbr\u003efact that time passes and that first youth and then middle age are\u003cbr\u003eslipping away.  Such a one occurred the other day.  There is a column\u003cbr\u003ein that excellent little paper, Light, which is devoted to what was\u003cbr\u003erecorded on the corresponding date a generation--that is thirty\u003cbr\u003eyears--ago.  As I read over this column recently I had quite a start as\u003cbr\u003eI saw my own name, and read the reprint of a letter which I had written\u003cbr\u003ein 1887, detailing some interesting spiritual experience which had\u003cbr\u003eoccurred in a seance. Thus it is manifest that my interest in the\u003cbr\u003esubject is of some standing, and also, since it is only within the last\u003cbr\u003eyear or two that I have finally declared myself to be satisfied with\u003cbr\u003ethe evidence, that I have not been hasty in forming my opinion.  If I\u003cbr\u003eset down some of my experiences and difficulties my readers will not, I\u003cbr\u003ehope, think it egotistical upon my part, but will realise that it is\u003cbr\u003ethe most graphic way in which to sketch out the points which are likely\u003cbr\u003eto occur to any other inquirer.  When I have passed over this ground,\u003cbr\u003eit will be possible to get on to something more general and impersonal\u003cbr\u003ein its nature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen I had finished my medical education in 1882, I found myself, like\u003cbr\u003emany young medical men, a convinced materialist as regards our personal\u003cbr\u003edestiny.  I had never ceased to be an earnest theist, because it seemed\u003cbr\u003eto me that Napoleon's question to the atheistic professors on the\u003cbr\u003estarry night as he voyaged to Egypt: \"Who was it, gentlemen, who made\u003cbr\u003ethese stars?\" has never been answered.  To say that the Universe was\u003cbr\u003emade by immutable laws only put the question one degree further back as\u003cbr\u003eto who made the laws.  I did not, of course, believe in an\u003cbr\u003eanthropomorphic God, but I believed then, as I believe now, in an\u003cbr\u003eintelligent Force behind all the operations of Nature--a force so\u003cbr\u003einfinitely complex and great that my finite brain could get no further\u003cbr\u003ethan its existence.  Right and wrong I saw also as great obvious facts\u003cbr\u003ewhich needed no divine revelation.  But when it came to a question of\u003cbr\u003eour little personalities surviving death, it seemed to me that the\u003cbr\u003ewhole analogy of Nature was against it.  When the candle burns out the\u003cbr\u003elight disappears.  When the electric cell is shattered the current\u003cbr\u003estops.  When the body dissolves there is an end of the matter.  Each\u003cbr\u003eman in his egotism may feel that he ought to survive, but let him look,\u003cbr\u003ewe will say, at the average loafer--of high or low degree--would anyone\u003cbr\u003econtend that there was any obvious reason why THAT personality should\u003cbr\u003ecarry on?  It seemed to be a delusion, and I was convinced that death\u003cbr\u003edid indeed end all, though I saw no reason why that should affect our\u003cbr\u003eduty towards humanity during our transitory existence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis was my frame of mind when Spiritual phenomena first came before my\u003cbr\u003enotice.  I had always regarded the subject as the greatest nonsense\u003cbr\u003eupon earth, and I had read of the conviction of fraudulent mediums and\u003cbr\u003ewondered how any sane man could believe such things.  I met some\u003cbr\u003efriends, however, who were interested in the matter, and I sat with\u003cbr\u003ethem at some table-moving seances.  We got connected messages.  I am\u003cbr\u003eafraid the only result that they had on my mind was that I regarded\u003cbr\u003ethese friends with some suspicion.  They were long messages very often,\u003cbr\u003espelled out by tilts, and it was quite impossible that they came by\u003cbr\u003echance.  Someone then, was moving the table.  I thought it was they.\u003cbr\u003eThey probably thought that I did it.  I was puzzled and worried over\u003cbr\u003eit, for they were not people whom I could imagine as cheating--and yet\u003cbr\u003eI could not see how the messages could come except by conscious\u003cbr\u003epressure.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47082208461040,"sku":"2940013090392","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013090392_p0.jpg?v=1763576257","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013090392","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}