Sir.-D. Martin’s interesting letter (February 29) exposes one of the main reasons why psychical research meets with so much biased criticism and so ‘much ill-founded opposition, As soon as it has been scientifically established that human personality continues to exist after the dissolution of its physical instrument the word "death" will cease to have the meaning now commonly attached to it. But why accept the conclusion that such a situation will remove the need for faith? In Chapter 30 of his Pelican book The Personality of Man, G. M. N. Tyrrell says: "But supposing some finite life after death to be a fact, is there any reason why it should be a religious state? It has been frequently stressed that telepathy and precognition give us glimpses of an extended realm of nature. Why should not a future life be another type of natural finite existence?" Now, whatever sort of existence we are bound for, I cannot imagine a human personality minus faith of some sort, and I advise every inquiring mind to study that ever-growing mass of evidence which points to the supposition that human personality is not bounded by physical laws, that physical death is not the portal to Heaven or Hell, that the only true values in this life are mathematical values and moral values, and that the latter work independently of dogmas — religious, sociological. or scientific.
F. E.
JENKINS
‘New Plymouth).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 664, 28 March 1952, Page 5
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