Category: Philosophy & Ethics

A Theory of the Mechanism of Survival: The Fourth Dimension and Its Applications

The main line of thought developed in these pages has no claims to originality. Professor Zöllner of Leipsic was an ardent exponent of the theory in the "seventies" and some authors hold that even the ancient writings of the East contain attempts to express Four-Dimensional co...

Chapters

3. CHAPTER III

In this chapter I propose to give some instances of the way in which the higher space hypothesis throws light on certain Psychic Phenomena which, without its aid, appear extreme...

4. CHAPTER IV

In this chapter I propose to deal first with the questions of Time and prevision and in the next to show how the higher space ideas help us to clear up certain difficulties in c...

8. Part I. of the "Annales des Sciences Psychiques" for 1919.

It is far too early yet to say that the extrusion of this sensitive substance is an invariable concomitant of insensibility; but at present the evidence--assuming it to be relia...

1. CHAPTER I

The main line of thought developed in these pages has no claims to originality. Professor Zöllner of Leipsic was an ardent exponent of the theory in the "seventies" and some aut...

2. CHAPTER II

In the preceding chapter I have tried to explain what is meant by the term "four-dimensional space" and to demonstrate some of its more important properties from the point of vi...

6. CHAPTER VI

Since then I have been trying to show that the Higher Space ideas do throw a certain amount of light on quite a number of difficulties and enable us to clear up certain anomalie...

10. CHAPTER IX

A dimension is defined as "an independent direction in space." A flat surface is two-dimensional and the space we know is three-dimensional. The direction of the fourth dimensio...

9. CHAPTER VIII

Although I have no wish to become involved in controversial theology, I feel it incumbent on me to examine briefly the question of whether a general acceptance of the four-dimen...

7. CHAPTER VII

In the foregoing chapters I have tried to show that there are, scattered here and there over the field of Psychic Research, sufficient indications to warrant our adopting, as a...

5. CHAPTER V

Another and particularly happy illustration of the way in which the higher space concepts enable one to solve awkward dilemmas is to be found in the problems of Vitality and Wil...