Frederic W. H. Myers
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"At no time known to us, whether before or since the Christian era, has the series of trance-manifestations,--of supposed communications with a supernal world,--entirely ceased. Sometimes, as in the days of St. Theresa, such trance or ecstasy has been, one may say, the central or culminant fact in the Christian world. Of these experiences I must not here treat. The evidence for them is largely of a subjective type, and they may belong more fitly to some future discussion as to the amount of confidence due to the interpretation given by entranced persons to their own phenomena. But in the midst of this long series, and in full analogy to many minor cases, occurs the exceptional trance-history of Emmanuel Swedenborg."--Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death (1903) by F. W. H. Myers |
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Frederic William Henry Myers (6 February 1843 – 17 January 1901) was a British poet, classicist, philologist, and a founder of the Society for Psychical Research. Myers' work on psychical research and his ideas about a "subliminal self" were influential in his time, but have not been accepted by the scientific community. However, in 2007 a team of cognitive scientists at University of Virginia School of Medicine, led by Edward F. Kelly published a major empirical-theoretical work, Irreducible Mind, citing various empirical evidence that they think broadly corroborates Myer's conception of human self and its survival of bodily death.
Publications
- The Renewal of Youth, and Other Poems (1882)
- Phantasms of the Living: Volume 1 (1886)
- Phantasms of the Living: Volume 2 (1886)
- Science and a Future Life: With Other Essays (1893)
- Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death: Volume 1 (1903)
- Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death: Volume 2 (1903)
