Oliver Joseph Lodge

Any person without invincible prejudice who had the same experience would come to the same broad conclusion, viz., that things hitherto held impossible do actually occur. ↗

— Oliver Joseph Lodge

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But although life is not energy, any more than it is matter, yet it directs energy and thereby controls arrangements of matter. ↗

— Oliver Joseph Lodge

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Death is not a word to fear, any more than birth is. ↗

— Oliver Joseph Lodge

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Death is not extinction. Neither the soul nor the body is extinguished or put out of existence. ↗

— Oliver Joseph Lodge

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In other cases, when the medium becomes entranced, the demonstration of a communicator's separate intelligence may become stronger and the sophistication less. ↗

— Oliver Joseph Lodge

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Life must be considered sui generis; it is not a form of energy, nor can it be expressed in terms of something else. ↗

— Oliver Joseph Lodge

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The old series of sittings with Mrs. Piper convinced me of survival for reasons which I should find it hard to formulate in any strict fashion, but that was their distinct effect. ↗

— Oliver Joseph Lodge

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The properties which differentiate living matter from any kind of inorganic imitation may be instinctively felt, but can hardly be formulated without expert knowledge. ↗

— Oliver Joseph Lodge

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They definitely mean to maintain that the process called death is a mere severence of soul and body, and that the soul is freed rather than injured thereby. ↗

— Oliver Joseph Lodge

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