F.W.H.Myers

The Road To Immortality

"For it has been my lot to be concerned in a work more important and more successful than anything in my own capacity or character could have led me to expect. I have been one of the central group concerned in a great endeavor; the endeavor to pierce, by scientific methods, the world-old, never-penetrated veil. The movement which took overt shape in 1882, with the formation of the Society for Psychical Research, was aided indeed by help from other quarters, but in its essential character was the conception of a few minds, and was piloted through its early dangers by a small group of intimate friends. With this endeavor to learn the actual truth as to the destiny of man I have from the very first been identified and, so to say, incorporate. Edmund Gurney worked at the task with more conscientious energy; the Sidgwicks with more unselfish wisdom; but no one more unreservedly than myself has staked his all upon that distant and growing hope."

--Frederic Myers

Table of Contents

Part I
EXISTENCE AFTER DEATH

Comment
Chapter I Why?
Chapter II The Chart of Existence
Chapter III The Plain of Illusion
Chapter IV Consciousness
Chapter V The Plane of Colour (the World of Eidos)
Chapter VI The Group-Soul
Chapter VII The Plane of Flame
Chapter VIII: The Plane of White Light
Chapter IX: Out Yonder
Chapter X: The Universe
Chapter XI: From the World of Eidos
Chapter XII: The Incident of Death
Chapter XIII: The Evolution of the Psyche

Part II
INSTRUCTION ABOUT VARIOUS HUMAN FACULTIES AND OTHER MATTERS

Chapter XIV: Free Will
Chapter XV: Memory
Chapter XVI: The Great Memory
Chapter XVII: Attention
Chapter XVIII: The Subliminal Self
Chapter XIX: Sleep
Chapter XX: Telepathy
Chapter XXI: The Interpenetration of Thought
Chapter XXII: Happiness
Chapter XXIII God is Greater than Love