Live Webinar / Sept. 19, 2021
Noon EST / 9am PST / 6pm CET

In the late 19th Century, a group of socially prominent, highly educated and articulate scientists and thinkers focused their attention on psychic phenomena and the continuity of consciousness after death. In England and the US, they performed experiments and studied all types of inexplicable cases. The most influential was Frederic Myers, co-founder of The Society for Psychical Research and close friend of the philosopher William James. Myers’ 1200-page opus, The Survival of the Human Personality after Bodily Death, was published posthumously, in 1903.

In that book, Myers developed a theory of the human personality, divided into subliminal and supraliminal consciousness, which explained the evidence he found for the continuity of consciousness after death. His theories are currently having a second wave of popularity, as Edward and Emily Kelley explored in their impressive compendium, Irreducible Mind. In this session, we will review ideas from Myers, James, and other members of the Society, relating them to current perspectives on consciousness, reincarnation, and other the topics we can explore as part of a new “science within consciousness.”