The amount of sophistication varies according to the quality of the medium, and to the state of the same medium at different times; it must be attributed in the best cases physiologically to the medium, intellectually to the control.

A fish probably has no means of apprehending the existence of water; it is too deeply immersed in it.

Death is not extinction. Neither the soul nor the body is extinguished or put out of existence.

The old series of sittings with Mrs. Piper convinced me of survival for reasons which I should find it hard to formulate in any strict fashion, but that was their distinct effect.

There is a conservation of matter and of energy, there may be a conservation of life; or if not of life, of something which transcends life.

Life must be considered sui generis; it is not a form of energy, nor can it be expressed in terms of something else.

Death is not a word to fear, any more than birth is.