Attempt to determine whether laws can be laid down from which the t-volution
of humanity can be foreseen. Discussion of the chief qualities of the human
animal and char.ges that .nay be expected in the species homo sapiens in the
next million years. Implications extend to possible older extraterrestrial
civilizations.
Flammarion, Camille. l.~ysterious psychic forces. Boston, Small Maynard and
Co., 1907. 466 p.
Study of psychical phenomena. Author concludes that man has in himself a flu-
idic and psychic force whose nature is still un..1mown, but which is capable of
acting at a distance upon matter and of mnving the same. This force, the ex-
pression of our will, is both psychical and physical.
Fry, Daniel W. The curve of de•;r~lopment. Lakemont, Ga., CSA P:·inters and
Publishers, 1965. 75 p.
Outlines development of the human soul "thrrlUgh stages of increasing ability
and manifestation. " Speculates that there may be other pianets where life, in-
teliigence and spiritual development have progressed beyond the average level
achieved on earth; the earth human may at some stage of his development take
up residence on such an :idvancP.d planet where the en\l'ironment is more con-
ducive to rapid progress.
Gatland, Kenneth W. and Derek D. Dempster. The inhabited universe. London,
Alan Wingate, 1957. 182 p.
The theme throughout the book is that evolution is constantly bringing new forms
of life into existence and that creation is a continuous process. Man is depicted
as the product, not merely of a limited biological development, but of an inher-
ent facet of cosmic evolution.
Geley, Gustave. From the unconscious to tile conscious. New York and Lendon,
Harper & Bros., 1921. 327 p.
Interpretation of the f~volution of the individual and the universe. Continuous
development of the conscious is postulated as an evolutionary fact; this co1.-
scious, grown to its full stature, will be able to transcend all its limitations,
to attain what is now inaccessible, to understand what is now incomprehensible.
Krafft, Carl F. Ether and matter. Richmond, Va., Dietz Printing Co., 1945.
117 p.
Defending the dynamic ether and vortex atom theory, the authm· be~ieves that
all phenomena of the physical universe are only different manifestations oi :he
various modes of moti.on of the all-pervading ether. He refers to the pan-
PE<Y!:h.ic doctrine that the consciousness has its origin in the ether. The ether
would then be the common substrate of both mind and matter and would have
psychical as well as physical attributes, both of which would be governed by
sil~1ilar or analogous laws and principl~s.
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