CHAPTER V
SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS
The problem of the continued conscious life of man after the death of the physical body, concerns the where and the how, and does not, and need not, concern us at all now. It is, literally, an “after consideration.”
Who and what man is, here and now, is the real problem. Only when, or in the degree in which, we master this problem, can we really know anything definitely of the other.
The complete separation of these two problems, and the exact definition and formulation of each, is the first step on the road to knowledge of the Science of the Soul.
For the time being, in the study of Psychology, “other worldliness” should be absolutely abandoned.
Almost everyone finds it difficult to do this. Many find it impossible.
The fear and uncertainty with which almost everyone faces the inevitable, the loss of friends, the broken lute, the empty chair, the lonely life—all these make us cry out in anguish—where and how and when, and overlook the “what are we?”