" INFLUENCED " BOOKS
[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] SIR,—May I correct a statement made by Sir Walter Langdon- Brown in his letter on " influenced " books? I have not my original article on this subject by me, but I could never have said that I believe all these writings to be " messages from discarnate beings " because I do not believe so. I agree that most of these writings arise or descend " from the unconscious levels of the author's own mind."
My own theory is that certain parts of our own mind can sometimes attain contact with a wider form of mind, whether incarnate or discarnate, and draw from that contact powers of imagination and description far beyond the normal action of the writer's mind. There is, however, one supernormal power which cannot be drawn from any " unconscious levels of the author's mind" or from those of any other mind, namely, true precognition. That is exactly why a study of true pre- cognition will, it seems to me, eventually provide a solution to some of our mystery. I have put forward this theory in a book called The Superconscious Mind (Appleton's), and I have lately published a little book called Some Cases of Prediction (Bell's). Even if it be the unconscious levels of our own minds, that can read the future, it is impossible not to speculate about the range of those unconscious levels.—I am, Sir, yours • Holmbury St. Mary.
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