The Impersonal Life

by Joseph Sieber Benner

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The Inner Life

THE HERALD OF THE NEW AGE | MAY 1935

has been done many times by other mediums as well as by myself. We sense what exactly the same of senses as the rest of mankind what is overlooked by most of them. My conclusion is that psychics possess an extension of nerve tendrils, sensitized and attuned to vibrations at a higher key than is usual. They are not different from most people, except in this way.

In thoroughbred animals, the offspring of the same parents vary astonishingly. One possesses all the fine points of his kind, while his brothers, although true to type, may be only passable. The judge never attempts to degrade the unusual one by disparaging comparisons, yet the judges of human beings continually demand that psychics shall conform to stupid and unfair regulations or be labelled insane.

It is not possible to exceed the capabilities of the species, but it is possible to extend the range of those capabilities by means of education and training; and I have developed my psychic sensitiveness until it shines like a search-light upon any subject I may wish to pursue.

Miracles are not miracles when they are explained, and the correct understanding and application of many neglected laws would sway the opinions of skeptical critics upon this much misrepresented subject. More disordered imaginings have resulted from the abuse of alcohol than have ever ruffled the surface of the mind intent upon spiritual development. One cocktail is a greater spiritual menace than many seances.

The munificence of nature in gratifying our senses of sight, hearing, touch, taste and smell, is equalled only by our dullness of comprehension. I am convinced that psychics do not possess a mysterious sixth sense, but have retained and developed some elemental primitive propulsion latent in every human being. Through its heightened hearing is sharpened, taste is accentuated, touch is sensitized, smell is magnified. As the cosmic ray exhilarates substance, so this effluvium permeates to the core of the receptive mentality.

Psychic vision is not of the eyes. Psychic hearing is independent of the ears. Psychic smell inhales the fragrance of Paradise. Psychic touch etherealizes the coarsest contacts. Psychic taste eliminates degrading excesses. Intensive investigations of psychic activity have failed to exhaust its voluminous data. Such imperative


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