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The next stage is a very important one

Date of account: Published 1903
Source: Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death
Reference: Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death · selected passage 195
Rights: public_domain
Language: English
Record updated: 2026-08-24

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The next stage is a very important one. We come to the manifestation in spontaneous sleep-waking states of manifestly supernormal powers,--sometimes of telepathy, but more commonly of clairvoyance or telæsthesia. Unfortunately, these cases have been, as a rule, very insufficiently observed. Still, it appears that in spontaneous somnambulism there is frequently some indication of supernormal powers, though the observers--even if competent in other ways--have generally neglected to take account of the hyperæsthesia and heightening of memory and of general intelligence that often accompany the state.

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