atmosphere of the locality and so become visible to those who are sufficiently sensitive.

Now, that this is not always the consequence of some great crime or other terrible happening is shown by a case in which the former owners of a house, husband and wife, after having long been habitually seen about the premises, were at last questioned by a lady who was sufficiently sensitive to communicate with them. They stated that the only thing that bound them to the house was their inordinate love of it during life. They had so centred their minds upon it that now they could not get away though they longed to do so; and, judging by their appearance and the confirmation of their identity subsequently obtained from some old documents, it would seem that they had been tied up like this for several generations.

This is an instance of having too much of a "pied a terre",

[a temporary or second lodging, literally 'a foot to the ground' --- Ed.]

and I don't think any of us would like it to become our own cases; and a fortiori [with greater reason or more convincing force --- Ed.] the same must hold good where the recollections of the departed are of a darker kind.

Release

What, then, is the way out of the dilemma? It must be by some working of the law of cause and effect, and this working must take place somewhere within our own mind --- we must in some way get a state of consciousness which will set us free from all