Note 53 — Chapter XXVIII

A pamphlet of his (later, when I had become his favourite patient, he presented me with an autograph copy of it) was entitled, Spiritism Aleyhindé (Against Spiritualism). So far as I could understand it (it was written in very technical Turkish), he sought to prove that the proper abode for spiritualists is a private asylum, and the so-called “subconscious” replies to questions given in automatic writing, table-rapping, etc., and similar phenomena, are as much due to nervous derangement as are the conversations with spirits indulged in by sufferers from G.P.I. He challenged me to write a reply to his pamphlet from the spiritualist point of view. Perhaps this book will do instead.