Haldane,* who maintains that it is theoretically impossible to obtain physiological explanations of psychical phenomena, or physical explanations of physiological phenomena.
This intentional inexistence is exclusively peculiar to psychical phenomena.
If we could understand the relation of psychical phenomena to brain-changes, then might we hope to understand far more perfectly than now the relation of God to Nature.
If the view above presented be correct, then in animals brain changes are in all cases the cause of psychical phenomena.
We have no experience whatever of psychical phenomena save as manifested in connection with material phenomena.
I have imagined a world made up of psychical phenomena, freed from the material conditions under which alone we know such phenomena.
These psychical laws, by virtue of the subjection of psychical phenomena to the interconnection of consciousness, can only be valid within the limits within which such an interconnection of psychical processes takes place.
This opened the door at once to the explanation of psychical phenomena according to logical reflections, that were at will read into such phenomena.
There can be no more striking proof of the absurdity of the above-mentioned theory of the lawlessness of psychical phenomena as the consequence to which it would lead us.
This question leads to the still wider question of retrocognition, and of the relation of psychical phenomena to time generally--a problem whose discussion cannot be attempted here.
Footnote 1: The rational concept of the soul as a simple, independent intelligence does not signify an actual being, but only expresses certain principles of systematic unity in the explanation of psychical phenomena, viz.
In the absence of a more fitting expression for the totality of psychical phenomena we call these representations, the phenomenal manifoldness of which is due to the variety of the disturbances and exists for the observer alone.
In France they have been called 'psychical phenomena,' but that name is evidently not satisfactory, since that should apply to purely mental experiences.
Unfortunately, psychical phenomena cannot be as easily and readily demonstrated as the X-rays or wireless telegraphy, incontestable facts which any one can prove to his entire satisfaction.
Psychical phenomena are of two orders: material and intellectual.
Highly characteristic of this is the remarkable sentence, "If I explain attraction and repulsion as psychical phenomena, I simply throw the psyche out of the window; the psyche ceases to be a psyche.
He further says, "If I explain attraction and repulsion as psychical phenomena, I simply throw the psyche out of the window; the psyche ceases to be a psyche.
The Church had nothing to do with the rise of the belief, though, early in the Reformation, some 'psychical phenomena' were claimed as experimental proofs of the existence of purgatory.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "psychical phenomena" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
