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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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Of mediumship there are many grades, one of the simplest forms being the capacity to receive an impression or automatic writing, under peaceful conditions, in an ordinary state; but the whole subject is too large to be treated here. ↗

— Oliver Joseph Lodge

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The amount of sophistication varies according to the quality of the medium, and to the state of the same medium at different times; it must be attributed in the best cases physiologically to the medium, intellectually to the control. ↗

— Oliver Joseph Lodge

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The hypothesis of surviving intelligence and personality - not only surviving but anxious and able with difficulty to communicate - is the simplest and most straightforward and the only one that fits all the facts. ↗

— 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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Whatever life may really be, it is to us an abstraction: for the word is a generalised term to signify that which is common to all animals and plants, and which is not directly operative in the inorganic world. ↗

— Oliver Joseph Lodge

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I therefore set to work, and after two and a half years of not inconsiderable labour I now have the privilege and the satisfaction of accompanying the early volumes of the series with this preface. ↗

— James Loeb

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I love when people in culture show up on fictional TV shows. I don't mind at all being a name from the '90s. ↗

— Lisa Loeb

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