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

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

But although life is not energy, any more than it is matter, yet it directs energy and thereby controls arrangements of matter.

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.

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.

In other cases, when the medium becomes entranced, the demonstration of a communicator's separate intelligence may become stronger and the sophistication less.

The hypothesis of surviving intelligence and personality - not only surviving but anxious and able with difficulty to communicate - is the simplest and most straightforward and the only one that fits all the facts.