The Road to Immortality provides the reader with a sublime vision
of the afterlife, allegedly communicated from 'other side' by the
eminent psychologist and psychic researcher Frederic William Henry
Myers. Myers was one of the founders of the Society of Psychical
Research and he spent much of his life researching the survival of
consciousness, so it is not surprising that having passed away in
1901, if he found himself conscious of his surroundings, he would
try to communicate with his colleagues and loved ones still in the
flesh. According to a renowned automatic writing medium Geraldine
Cummins, this happened in the 1920's. Communicating through
Cummins, Myers stated: "We communicate an impression through the
inner mind of the medium. It receives the impression in a curious
way. It has to contribute to the body of the message; we furnish
the spirit of it. In other words, we send the thoughts and the
words usually in which they must be framed, but the actual letters
or spelling of the words is drawn from the medium's memory.
Sometimes we only send the thoughts and the medium's unconscious
mind clothes them in words." Discarnate messengers such as Silver
Birch have spoken about the group-soul and Myers went into great
detail about the subject. "When I was on earth, I belonged to a
group-soul, but its branches and the spirit - which might be
compared to the roots - were in the invisible," "Now, if you would
understand psychic evolution, this group-soul must be studied and
understood. For instance, it explains many of the difficulties that
people will assure you can be removed only by the doctrine of
reincarnation. You may think my statement frivolous, but the fact
that we do appear on earth to be paying for the sins of another
life is, in a certain sense, true. It is our life and yet not our
life. In other words, a soul belonging to the group of which I am a
part lived that previous life which built up for me the framework
of my earthly life, lived it before I had passed through the gates
of birth." Myers further explained that the group soul might
contain twenty souls, a hundred, or a thousand. "The number
varies," he said. "It is different for each man. But what the
Buddhist would call the karma I had brought with me from a previous
life is, very frequently, not that of my life, but of the life of a
soul that preceded me by many years on earth and left for me the
pattern which made my life. I, too, wove a pattern for another of
my group during my earthly career. Myers added that the Buddhist's
idea of rebirth, of man's continual return to earth, is but a
half-truth. "And often half a truth is more inaccurate than an
entire misstatement. I shall not live again on earth, but a new
soul, one who will join our group, will shortly enter into the
pattern or karma I have woven for him on earth." Myers likened the
soul to a spectator caught within the spell of some drama outside
of its actual life, perceiving all the consequences of acts, moods,
and thoughts of a kindred soul. He further pointed out that there
are an infinite variety of conditions in the invisible world and
that he made no claim to being infallible. He called it a "general
rule" based on what he had learned and experienced on the Other
Side.
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