Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death - F. W. H. Myers

First Series:—Phenomena Supraliminally Controlled, or Occurring in Ordinary Life.

1. Supraliminal or empirical consciousness; aware only of the material world through sensory impressions.
2. Physical nutrition, including respiration.
- (a) Physiological and pathological processes and products.
3. Physical expenditure; action on material and etherial environment.
- (a) Mechanical work done at the expense of food assimilated.
- (b) Production of heat, odour, sound, chemical changes, as the result of protoplasmic metabolism.
- (c) Production of etherial disturbances; as emission of light and generation of electrical energy.
4. Action on the incarnation of life on the planet.
- (a) Reproduction, as physiological division.
5. Mental nutrition; sensory receptivity.
- (a) Ordinary sense-perception.
- (b) Memory.
6. Mental expenditure; response to stimuli.
- (a) Intra-cerebral response; ideation.
- (b) Emotion; will; voluntary innervation.
7. Modifications of supraliminal personality.
- (a) Birth; as physiological individuation.
- (b) Sleep; with dreams, as oscillations of the conscious threshold.
- (c) Metamorphoses; as of insects and amphibians; and polymorphism, as of hydrozoa; multiplex personality.
- (d) Death; as physiological dissolution.

II.

Second Series:—Phenomena Subliminally Controlled.

1. Subliminal consciousness; obscurely aware of the transcendental world, through telepathic and telæsthetic impressions.
2. Physical nutrition modified by subliminal control.
- (a) Suggestion, self-suggestion, psycho-therapeutics.
- (b) Stigmatisation.
3. Physical expenditure modified by subliminal control.
- (a) Mechanical work modified by psychical integration or disintegration; hysteria.
- (b) Production of heat, and other specific effects upon matter, subliminally modified.
- (c) Emission of light, and generation of electrical energy modified.
4. Action on the incarnation of life on the planet.
- (a) Prenatal suggestion through intermediate organism of parent.
5. Mental nutrition (sensory and supersensory receptivity) subliminally controlled.
- (a) Hyperæsthesia; anæsthesia; analgesia.
- (b) Hypermnesia, manifested in dreams or automatisms.
- (c) Telepathy; veridical hallucinations; sensory automatism.
- (d) Telæsthesia or clairvoyance; perception of distant scenes; retrocognition; precognition.
6. Mental expenditure; response to stimuli modified by subliminal control.
- (a) Subliminal ideation; the inspirations of genius.
- (b) Motor automatism; concurrent consciousness; hyperboulia.
- (c) Extradition of will-power beyond the organism; telergy; self-projection.
7. Modifications of subliminal personality.
- (a) Birth; as spiritual individuation.
- (b) Sleep and trance; self-suggested or telepathically suggested; with clairvoyant visions.
- (c) Ecstasy.
- (d) Death; as irrevocable self-projection of the spirit.

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Third Series:—Phenomena Claimed as Spiritually Controlled.

1. Subliminal consciousness, discerning and influenced by disembodied spirits in a spiritual world, who co-operate in producing objective phenomena.
2. Physical nutrition modified by spirit-control.
- (a) Spirit-suggestion; psycho-therapeutics.
- (b) Stigmatisation.
- (c) Novel and purposive metastasis of secretion.
3. Physical expenditure modified by spirit-control.
- (a) Mechanical efficiency increased and fulcrum displaced.
- (b) Control over individual material molecules; resulting in abrogation of ordinary thermal laws, and in aggregation and disaggregation of matter.
- (c) Control over etherial manifestations; with possible effects in the domains of light, electricity, gravitation, and cohesion.
4. Action on the incarnation of life on the planet.
- (a) Pre-conceptual suggestion or self-suggestion.
- (b) Ectoplasy or Materialisation; temporary extradition or concentration of vital energy.
5. Mental nutrition modified by spirit-control.
- (a) Ordinary sensory perception spiritually controlled.
- (b) Memory controlled; retrocognition spiritually given.
- (c) Sensory automatism spiritually controlled; phantasms of the dead, etc.
- (d) Telæsthesia developed into perception of spiritual environment; precognition.
6. Response to stimuli spiritually controlled.
- (a) Ideation inspired by spirits.
- (b) Motor automatism spiritually controlled; possession.
- (c) Extension of will-power into the spiritual world; prayer.
7. Modifications of personality from spiritual standpoint.
- (a) Birth; as descent into generation.
- (b) Sleep and trance induced, and visions inspired, by spirits.
- (c) Precursory emergence into completer personality; ecstasy with perception of spiritual world.
- (d) Death; as birth into completer personality.
- (e) Vital faculty fully exercised in spiritual world.

IX. B. (1) The following case is quoted from the Journal S.P.R., vol. v. p. 253. Professor Luther writes:—