Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death

Record summary

Frederic W. H. Myers’s posthumous two-volume Human Personality synthesizes automatic writing, trance, telepathy, apparitions, genius, and mystical experience under the concept of the subliminal self. It remains a major comparative source because it links altered states and psi claims within an ambitious theory of consciousness extending beyond ordinary awareness. Its case materials are heterogeneous, often second-hand, and selected by psychical-research criteria that later psychologists disputed. Researchers should separate Myers’s conceptual framework from the evidential status of the individual reports.