Telepathic Hallucinations - The New View of Ghosts #262662

If we consider existing beliefs amongst the more primitive races we find the same conception. The Australian cuts off the right thumb Of his dead enemy that he may be unable to throw a Spear in the Spirit world; the Congo Negroes refrain from sweeping the house after death lest the dust Should injure the ghostl The souls Of his departed friends visit the savage in dreams. His conception of a future life is mainly, perhaps wholly, based on these dream visitations. We, the inhabitants of educated Europe, have learnt under the guidance of science to look upon dreams as Simply the creations of our own imaginations. We no longer, in the po believe in dreams. But both savage men from the earliest historical times down to the present have professed, and still profess occasionally.