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Title: The Betty Book (1937)Author: Stewart Edward White* A Project Gutenberg of Australia eBook *eBook No.: 0301111.txtLanguage: EnglishDate first posted: August 2003Date most recently updated: August 2003Project Gutenberg of Australia eBooks are created from printed editionswhich are in the public domain in Australia, unless a copyright noticeis included. We do NOT keep any eBooks in compliance with a particularpaper edition.Copyright laws are changing all over the world. Be sure to check thecopyright laws for your country before downloading or redistributing thisfile.This eBook is made available at no cost and with almost no restrictionswhatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the termsof the Project Gutenberg of Australia License which may be viewed online athttp://gutenberg.net.au/licence.htmlTo contact Project Gutenberg of Australia go to http://gutenberg.net.au--------------------------------------------------------------------------A Project Gutenberg of Australia eBookTitle: The Betty Book (1937)Author: Stewart Edward WhiteExcursions into the World of Other-ConsciousnessMade by Betty between 1919 and 1936Now recorded by Stewart Edward WhiteINTRODUCTIONWhile considering the most effective introduction to the materialcomprised in this book, I submitted the puzzle to a friend whose judgmentI value. His letter so fittingly and completely answered my problem thatI feel I can do no better than to set it down here."I should begin, in effect, somewhat as follows": he wrote me. "This bookis the record, condensed, of the excursions of 'Betty,' a psychicintimately known to me and of absolute integrity, into the world of'other-consciousness' and of communications received by her from forceswhich I have ventured to call 'the invisibles'. These excursions, made ina condition of trance or otherwise, began in the year 1919 and havecontinued ever since. They are recorded in the following pages with noidea of adding to the existing literature of automatic writing andkindred phenomena; but in the belief that, as embodying a workable
 
philosophy of life, they may be of aid to seekers after spiritual light."THE AUTHORCONTENTSINTRODUCTIONPART IINTRODUCTORYChap. 1. DE-OCCULTIZATION Page 11Chap. 2. PERSONAL EXPERIENCE Page 14Chap. 3. THE DEVELOPMENT OF BETTY Page 22Chap. 4. PROPORTION Page 32Chap. 5. ELEMENTARY STEPS Page 44Chap. 6. LATER DEVELOPMENT Page 52Chap. 7. PERSONAL EXPERIENCE AGAIN Page 59Chap. 8. ELIMINATION Page 71Chap. 9. THE SUBSTANCE OF THOUGHT Page 78Chap. 10. THE TECHNIQUE OF ELIMINATION Page 87Chap. 11. DO IT NOW! Page 93Chap. 12. THE SPIRITUAL BODY Page 102Chap. 13. THE SPIRITUAL REALM Page 108Chap. 14. PERCEPTION Page 119Chap. 15. IMPETUS Page 129Chap. 16. CONSTRUCTIVE PRAYER Page 133Chap. 17. SUMMARY Page 140PART IIOUR RELATIONS WITH THE WORLD WITHOUTChap. 18. LEVELS Page 147Chap. 19. ASSIMILATION Page 151Chap. 20. PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY Page 161Chap. 21. SUMMARY Page 172Chap. 22. SPIRITUAL CIRCULATION Page 173Chap. 23. THE RETURN FLOW Page 178Chap. 24. THE CHANNEL BACK Page 185Chap. 25. INSULATION Page 193Chap. 26. SYMPATHY Page 199Chap. 27. MEETING NON-RECEPTIVITY Page 204Chap. 28. CONFLICT Page 211PART IIIAPPENDICESAppen. 1. THE TECHNIQUE OF COMMUNICATION Page 221Appen. 2. EXPERIMENTS WITH THE SPIRITUAL BODY Page 243
 
PART IINTRODUCTORYCHAPTER IDe-OccultizationThe history of all progress in knowledge is a "de-occultization." Fullyhalf of the things we do daily as a matter of course would, even asrecently as two centuries ago, have been considered magic, withoutexplanation except as the product of occult forces and knowledge. Thecontinuity of history is unbroken in that respect. If we should learnanything at all from the past, that one thing should stand out for us asinvariable. The superstition of the past is the science of the present,the proverb of the future. The order of events is always the same. Firsta few people observed or did things which were denied or denouncedvehemently by the old school as crazy or maleficent or supernatural.Exact knowledge overtook these things and found them to be harmoniousexamples of natural law.The uses of humanity absorbed them and they became commonplaces ofexistence, thoroughly de-occultized, adopted into the body of usualmental life. This has happened over and over and over again withunvarying regularity. One of the most fascinating of scientific byplaysis to backtrack through history picking up at random marvels andmiracles, stripping them of warping legend, and explaining them in thelight of what we now know. They became not the less marvels and miracles,if you please, but de-occultized. It should be added that all cannot beso explained. The unsolved residue is not the more-or less-improbable forthat. Perhaps our grandchildren's progress will show this unexplainedresidue as simple as we have found some of the miracles that dumfoundedour ancestors.There are two things that this history of de-occultization, as I havecalled it, has taught us. One is, the extraordinary initial oppositionthat always meets the process. A combination of man's conservatism,dislike of being jarred loose once he has settled down to hissatisfaction, a greater dislike of being proved mistaken, an intellectualpride in his achievements so far, and a rooted suspicion of the one whowalks apart, have all contributed to this attitude. The principle of thetelescope is so much a commonplace of today that the very children catchand accept the idea; yet Galileo was branded as a madman, imprisoned, andonly just escaped martyrdom. So certain were the scientists of his timeof their reasoning according to "immutable physical law," that theyrefused to look through the telescope! They knew already what they would
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