t can reach the content of that
message.

"If this argument is valid--and its validity is self-evident--it is
impossible to imagine a case that may not be thus explained on
psychological principles."

Professor Hudson's argument will appeal to the ordinary reader as good.
It may be simplified, however, thus:

We may suppose that Mrs. Piper voluntarily hypnotizes herself. Perhaps
she simply puts her conscious reason to sleep. In that condition the
rest of her mind is in an exalted state, and capable of telepathy and
mind-reading, either of those near at hand or at a distance. Her reason
being asleep, she simply dreams, and the questions of her sitter are
made to fit into her dream.

If we regard mediums as persons who have the power of hypnotizing
themselves and then of doing what we know persons who have been
hypnotized by others sometimes do, we have an explanation that covers
the whole case perfectly. At the same time, as Professor James warns us,
we must believe that the mind is far more complex than we are accustomed
to think it.

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