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

Matter moves, but Ether is strained.

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.

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.

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

Death is the end of a stage, not the end of the journey. The road stretches on beyond our comprehension.

..if a special geometry has to be invented in order to account for a falling apple, even Newton might be appalled at the complications which would ensue when really difficult problems are tackled.