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This curious volume is composed of “Living Letters from the Famous Living Dead.” It is supposed to contain, unchanged, the communications from the dead to the extent that “the one (the author) through whom this manuscript came disclaims all personal credit for its literary composition and claims to be merely the channel through which it was received clairaudiently and dictated it to a stenographer. This was accomplished during several dictation periods within a week.”
Judging from the photograph of the author or “medium” she is a kindly, well meaning person with an insistent craving to improve those features of the world that make for happiness, understanding and peace, which if true places her outside that group of enlightened souls who exploit the spirit world for personal gain. Therefore, the explanation must be sought for in the dynamic activity of the unconscious and since the experiences assumed the proportions of clairaudiency, must be in the special field of psychopathology. Hallucinated voices and thoughts apparently emanate from more or less unconscious realms and are of special importance to the one who experiences them. That this is so, in the present case, is fairly obvious in the uniformity of the ideas and motives said to have come from such a diversity of personalities ranging