Is this tampering with the secrets of life, do you say, and should we yield ourselves in reverent ecstasy? One is more inclined to say that the whole matter is one of control. For the spiritualist medium, possessing weak powers of inhibition, the subliminal world is of course exceedingly capacious. With the growth of intelligence scepticism inevitably enters, hence the realm of the occult grows ever smaller. The development of individuality as inevitably narrows the field of our overconsciousness. All that was real is still with us, we have lost nothing. But the supernatural has ceased to exist, the mysterious has faded from view. Instead, we have just the plain human self in its integrity, facing the familiar landscape of daily life. The same stream of sensations, emotions, feelings, volitions, and ideas, courses through us, but how different it appears!

By saying that the whole matter is essentially one of control I mean that we may have more control of our brains, and our mental powers in general. A well-ordered brain, trained in directions that are worth while, such as skilled performance on a musical instrument, in public speaking, in the economical use of energy, means on the physical side freedom from any number of annoyances, .misconceptions, and hindrances. It means the subsiding of sensuous processes, of most of the emotions, all ecstasy and impatience. It means