The Psychology of the Soul and the Paranormal

The author does not believe that all of psychology must fit into the narrow boundaries accepted by mainstream reductionist and rationalistic science. Jungian Psychology validates the awareness of spirit. This chapter explains how the soul has the ability to interact with the physical body and how mediums and psychics receive their information—both of these happen through the spiritual body. The author believes that the small voice in our head comes from our soul through the unconscious where our soul resides. The author offers that the law of polarity seeks to balance us with positive or negative reactions to our energy or electrical field. This law works with our vibrations and our thoughts. In this way, thoughts are very real things that affect us floating between the two worlds in our dreams and when we are awake. It is suggested that we all receive vibrational frequencies through our vagus nerve, what Darwin called the pneumogastric nerve in the 1870s.

The Phenomenon of Chromatolysis after Resection of the Pneumogastric Nerve [Le Phenomène de la Chromatolyse après la Résection du Nerf pneumogastrique]. (Nouv. Icon. de la Salp., Nos. 4, 5, 6, 1900.) Ladame, C.

The work is divided into six parts. In the first part, an account is given of the varying results obtained by Nissl's method of staining, concerning the minute anatomy of the nervous cell and its lesions. The numerous modifications of this method were tried, and Ladame places most reliance on the method of Van Gehuchten, which he has altered in certain details; so that, for instance, instead of washing in water after fixation he carries his specimens into 60 per cent. alcohol saturated with chloride of sodium; whence, after leaving them in this bath for a while, they are placed in 70 per cent. alcohol, also saturated with chloride of sodium. He uses, moreover, essence of cedar in preference to chloroform as the vehicle of paraffin for embedding, in spite of certain drawbacks. Toluidine blue is used instead of methylene blue for staining the sections, and gives a neat, intense coloration, agreeable to the eye; moreover it is more stable than methylene blue.