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Title:
The Betty Book(1937)
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Stewart Edward White
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A Project Gutenberg of Australia eBook
Title:

The Betty Book (1937)
Author:
Stewart Edward White

Excursions into the World of Other-Consciousness
Made by Betty between 1919 and 1936
Now recorded by Stewart Edward White

INTRODUCTION

While considering the most effective introduction to the material
comprised in this book, I submitted the puzzle to a friend whose judgment
I value. His letter so fittingly and completely answered my problem that
I feel I can do no better than to set it down here.

"I should begin, in effect, somewhat as follows": he wrote me. "This book
is the record, condensed, of the excursions of 'Betty,' a psychic
intimately known to me and of absolute integrity, into the world of
'other-consciousness' and of communications received by her from forces
which I have ventured to call 'the invisibles'. These excursions, made in
a condition of trance or otherwise, began in the year 1919 and have

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continued ever since. They are recorded in the following pages with no
idea of adding to the existing literature of automatic writing and
kindred phenomena; but in the belief that, as embodying a workable
philosophy of life, they may be of aid to seekers after spiritual light."

THE AUTHOR
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
PART I
INTRODUCTORY

Chap. 1. DE-OCCULTIZATION Page 11
Chap. 2. PERSONAL EXPERIENCE Page 14
Chap. 3. THE DEVELOPMENT OF BETTY Page 22
Chap. 4. PROPORTION Page 32
Chap. 5. ELEMENTARY STEPS Page 44
Chap. 6. LATER DEVELOPMENT Page 52
Chap. 7. PERSONAL EXPERIENCE AGAIN Page 59
Chap. 8. ELIMINATION Page 71
Chap. 9. THE SUBSTANCE OF THOUGHT Page 78
Chap. 10. THE TECHNIQUE OF ELIMINATION Page 87
Chap. 11. DO IT NOW! Page 93
Chap. 12. THE SPIRITUAL BODY Page 102
Chap. 13. THE SPIRITUAL REALM Page 108
Chap. 14. PERCEPTION Page 119
Chap. 15. IMPETUS Page 129
Chap. 16. CONSTRUCTIVE PRAYER Page 133
Chap. 17. SUMMARY Page 140

PART II
OUR RELATIONS WITH THE WORLD WITHOUT

Chap. 18. LEVELS Page 147
Chap. 19. ASSIMILATION Page 151
Chap. 20. PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY Page 161
Chap. 21. SUMMARY Page 172
Chap. 22. SPIRITUAL CIRCULATION Page 173
Chap. 23. THE RETURN FLOW Page 178
Chap. 24. THE CHANNEL BACK Page 185
Chap. 25. INSULATION Page 193
Chap. 26. SYMPATHY Page 199
Chap. 27. MEETING NON-RECEPTIVITY Page 204
Chap. 28. CONFLICT Page 211

PART III
APPENDICES
Appen. 1. THE TECHNIQUE OF COMMUNICATION Page 221
Appen. 2. EXPERIMENTS WITH THE SPIRITUAL BODY Page 243
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PART I
INTRODUCTORY
CHAPTER I
De-Occultization

The history of all progress in knowledge is a "de-occultization." Fully
half of the things we do daily as a matter of course would, even as
recently as two centuries ago, have been considered magic, without
explanation except as the product of occult forces and knowledge. The
continuity of history is unbroken in that respect. If we should learn
anything at all from the past, that one thing should stand out for us as
invariable. The superstition of the past is the science of the present,
the proverb of the future. The order of events is always the same. First
a few people observed or did things which were denied or denounced
vehemently by the old school as crazy or maleficent or supernatural.
Exact knowledge overtook these things and found them to be harmonious
examples of natural law.

The uses of humanity absorbed them and they became commonplaces of
existence, thoroughly de-occultized, adopted into the body of usual
mental life. This has happened over and over and over again with
unvarying regularity. One of the most fascinating of scientific byplays
is to backtrack through history picking up at random marvels and
miracles, stripping them of warping legend, and explaining them in the
light 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 be
so explained. The unsolved residue is not the more-or less-improbable for
that. Perhaps our grandchildren's progress will show this unexplained
residue as simple as we have found some of the miracles that dumfounded
our ancestors.

There are two things that this history of de-occultization, as I have
called it, has taught us. One is, the extraordinary initial opposition
that always meets the process. A combination of man's conservatism,
dislike of being jarred loose once he has settled down to his
satisfaction, a greater dislike of being proved mistaken, an intellectual
pride in his achievements so far, and a rooted suspicion of the one who
walks apart, have all contributed to this attitude. The principle of the
telescope is so much a commonplace of today that the very children catch
and accept the idea; yet Galileo was branded as a madman, imprisoned, and
only just escaped martyrdom. So certain were the scientists of his time
of their reasoning according to "immutable physical law," that they
refused to look through the telescope! They knew already what they would
see! Joseph Thompson reported a mountain with snow under the equator, and
died of a broken heart under the weight of scientific ridicule heaped
upon him. Science PROVED by the "immutable law of physics"-as then

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