The Book of Dreams and Ghosts (Classic Reprint)

For the sake of orderly arrangement, the stones are classed in different grades, as they advance from the normal and familiar to the undeniably startling. At the same time an account of the current theories of Apparitions is offered, in language as free from technicalities as possible. Ac cording to modern opinion every ghost is a hallucination, a false perception, the perception of something which is not present. It has not been thought necessary to discuss the psychological and physiological processes involved in perception, real or false. Every hallucination is a perception, as good and true a sensation as if there were a real object there. The object happens not to be there, that is all. l Weare not here concerned with 1P rinciples of Psychology, vol. ii., p. 115. By Professor William James, Harvard College, Macmillan s, London, 1890. The physical processes believed to be involved, are described on pp. 123, 124 of the same work.
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