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Excerpt from Proceedings of the American Society for Psychical Research, Vol. 11: Section "B" Of the American Institute for Scientific Research
Observation of Doris Fischer had largely to remain con tent with cataloguing her experiences as events happening within the limits of her own organism and apparently without significance for other foreign in?uences than the familiar physical stimuli, with the exception, perhaps, of the few really or apparently supernormal phenomena recorded by Dr. Prince. There was nothing superficially evident for the hypothesis which antiquity applied to such cases and hence nothing more could be said than is usual with phenomena which we describe as due to multiple personality. Time and scientific discussion have determined, for many minds, that such phenomena do not require explanation by transcendental agents, but may be the result of dissociated brain centers and functions. There is certainly no evidence, superficiallv, of any other interpretation and unless another theory can ad duce adequate evidence in its support, this other theory will have to go by default. But before we adopt any explanation we must know (1) all the facts, and (2) the nature of the assumed causes which we set up to explain the facts. Both of these aspects of our problem must be taken up and pre sented in some detail. Without begging any questions as to what the problem really is, I shall take up first the phe nomena of secondary and multiple personality. They must be understood in order to appreciate what the problem has been in this record of mediumistic experiments.
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