Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death

This book is a milestone in the study of the nature of human experience, a view from that peak in Darien out upon the vast mystery of consciousness and its unknown depths. Google "Irreducible Mind" (another superb book) and learn of recent efforts to mine the wealth of theory based upon astute observation found in this work. William James recognized Myers as a colleague, and this his great contribution to the nascent field of psychology, recommending the book to all. A foundational cornerstone of the work that came to be known as "psychical research" and later parapsychology, it is a volume that is too little known now. Anyone interested in human consciousness will benefit from a familiarity with it.

There is a big two-volumed book at the end of my science shelf which would, even now, have its right to be called scientific disputed by some of the pedants. It is Myers' "Human Personality." My own opinion, for
what it is worth, is that it will be recognized a century hence as a great root book, one from which a whole new branch of science will have sprung." --Through the Magic Door, p. 253-254