Sight Unseen

by Mary Roberts Rinehart




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The rather extraordinary story revealed by the experiments of the
Neighborhood Club have been until now a matter only of private
record. But it seems to me, as an active participant in the
investigations, that they should be given to the public; not so
much for what they will add to the existing data on psychical
research, for from that angle they were not unusual, but as yet
another exploration into that still uncharted territory, the human
mind.

The psycho-analysts have taught us something about the individual
mind. They have their own patter, of complexes and primal instincts,
of the unconscious, which is a sort of bonded warehouse from which
we clandestinely withdraw our stored thoughts and impressions. They
lay to this unconscious mind of ours all phenomena that cannot
otherwise be labeled, and ascribe such demonstrations of power as
cannot thus be explained to trickery, to black silk threads and
folding rods, to slates with false sides and a medium with chalk
on his finger nail.

In other words, they give us subjective mind but never objective
mind. They take the mind and its reactions on itself and on the