Excerpt from Man Is a Spirit: A Collection of Spontaneous Cases of Dream, Vision and Ecstasy It is difficult to give in few words any idea of such a large subject, but the following may help. Telepathy, or transference of ideas from mind to mind through channels other than the known sensory ones, suggests but does not prove super physical action. Clairvoyance, automatic writing, and trance speech often produce true matter unknown to the sensitive and sometimes unknown to any one present. The supposition of telepathy from distant people, who do not know and are not known to the sensitive, is a reasonable guess in default of anything better, but it does not seem likely and in some cases it is unacceptable. And a few cases are on record - one in the follow ing pages - of information being given which was possessed by no living mind, but which was possessed by the person purporting to communi cate. Swedenborg describes an experience of this kind, which was taken seriously even by the sceptical Kant. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.