[Real Ghost Stories by William T. Stead]@TWC D-Link bookReal Ghost Stories CHAPTER IV 2/5
A man who is ambidextrous will sign his name differently with his right or left hand, but it is the same signature.
Mr.Myers thinks that the Secondary Personality of Subliminal Consciousness is merely a phase of the essential Unity of the Ego.
Some time ago he expressed himself on this subject as follows:-- "I hold that hypnotism (itself a word covering a vast variety of different states) may be regarded as constituting one special case which falls under a far wider category--the category, namely, of developments of a Secondary Personality.
I hold that we each of us contain the potentialities of many different arrangements of the elements of our personality, each arrangement being distinguishable from the rest by differences in the chain of memories which pertain to it.
The arrangement with which we habitually identify ourselves--what we call the normal or primary self--consists, in my view, of elements selected for us in the struggle for existence with special reference to the maintenance of ordinary physical needs, and is not necessarily superior in any other respect to the latent personalities which lie alongside of it--the fresh combinations of our personal elements which may be evoked by accident or design, in a variety to which we at present can assign no limit.
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