Psyche dominates matter - 9791220881289

Psyche dominates matter: In the chronicles of all times and in the traditions of all peoples, whether civilised, barbarous or savage, there are constant accounts of strange events, according to which, during the period of the pre-agonal crisis, or shortly after death, there are often unexplored physical phenomena which - among civilised peoples - consist mostly of pictures falling spontaneously, clocks stopping at the precise hour of death, mirrors cracking, bells ringing out, and so on. Now, as it is undoubtedly the case that such events are repeated with relative frequency in civil society, to the extent that there are very few who do not remember examples of them in their personal experience, any objection regarding the reality of the events themselves is excluded; hence the opportunity to investigate them systematically, applying to them the methods of scientific investigation of "comparative analysis" and "convergence of the evidence", with the aim of somehow clarifying their genesis. And if the hypothesis of "chance coincidences" were to be ruled out, then such manifestations, despite their banal appearance, would assume a high theoretical value in the spiritualist sense. This is due to a number of considerations, the chief of which is this: that the physical action exercised in such contingencies is without limit of distance, and consequently cannot be considered of a purely mechanical nature, all the more so since it is very often exercised over a designated object, which could not take place without the concurrence of a directing will; or, in other words, without the presence, or the inter