A New Heaven and a New Earth; Or, the Way to Life Eternal (Thought Studies of the Fourth Dimension) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 edition. Excerpt: ... Ill THE PSYCHIC PLANE Each of the various stages of human development holds something in the nature of a surprise; every stage brings with it something new, something, we may say, that has not been anticipated. If the development has followed along natural or orderly lines, there will be less occasion for surprise than if one had produced abnormal growth in one direction, while the rest of his life had been largely neglected. Perhaps there is no one plane of life filled with more surprises than that which we call the Psychic. It is so hard to account for the many and varied experiences which people pass through, hardly any two people having exactly the same experience. The psychic plane resembles the material plane in that it has very largely to do with seeing and hearing--the seeing of things and the hearing of sounds that are not seen and heard by the great mass of humanity. Doubtless at some one time or another, almost every person has an experience which he considers weird and unaccountable, but these experiences are few and far between. It is very 36 different with tfie so-called psychic. Some live quite as much on this plane as they do on the material plane, and usually they are torn by the conflicting thoughts and desires of both planes, so that they get little happiness or peace of mind from one plane or the other. Everything in the nature of abnormal development should be avoided, on any plane of life, but there is no one plane of being which brings as much disturbance into human life as the psychic plane, when development has been of an unnatural order, and there is no one plane less understood. Many people are often deceived into believing that abnormal psychic development means spirituality, while others look upon it and its...