On the centenary of Frederic W.H. Myers's Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death.(Biography)

From: The Journal of Parapsychology | Date: March 22, 2004| Author: Alvarado, Carlos S. | Copyright information

Frederic W.H. Myers's book Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death was a hundred years old in 2003. While the purpose of the book was to argue for survival of bodily death, Myers also presented a unifying model of normal, abnormal, and parapsychological phenomena based on the workings of a subliminal or subconscious mind. Human Personality grew in the contexts of nineteenth-century Spiritualism, psychical research, and psychology and psychiatry. While Myers's book presented creat...

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