Excerpt from The Church and Psychical Research: A Layman"s View
Much has been written dealing with the relations between Spiritualism and the Christian Faith. This book is not an attempt to traverse this well-worn ground. Nor is it an attempt to contribute to a controversy which must necessarily be unprofitable, since the Church, obviously, cannot make any accommodation with Spiritualism as a religious system.
There is, however, a need for a dispassionate review of the implications of Psychical Research on traditional Christian Beliefs, the more so as that research is so often confounded with Spiritualism.
Although psychical research includes in its activities the investigation of all so called, super-normal phenomena, there is, at present, only one department thereof which directly impinges on Religion, namely the experimental proof of communication with the dead. It is therefore, this subject alone that will, herein, be discussed.
A review, such as this, cannot obviously lay claim to originality in matter. The debt of gratitude which I, in common, with all students of the subject, owe to the investigators of the Society for Psychical Research is indeed great. Especially must acknowledgement be made of the immense help which the work of F. W. H. Myers gives to any one who enters upon a serious study of this subject. The influence of that work, especially of his great classic Human Personality, remarkable alike for depth of reasoning
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