There is a long conceptual tradition that interprets phenomena such as clairvoyance and apparitions as evidence for a spiritual component in human beings. Examples of this appear in the literatures of mesmerism, Spiritualism and psychical research. The purpose of this Classic Text is to present excerpts from a book by French astronomer Camille Flammarion touching on this perspective. They are selected from the introduction and conclusion of Flammarion’s L’Inconnu: The Unknown (1900), a translation of L’Inconnu et les problèmes psychiques (1900), in which he published and commented on cases of apparitions and other phenomena he collected. In his view, these phenomena showed the existence of the soul. Similar beliefs regarding ideas of the nonphysical nature of human beings and psychic phenomena have continued to the present.

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Camille Flammarion 谈灵魂的力量

有一个长期的概念传统，将千里眼和幻影等现象解释为人类精神成分的证据。这方面的例子出现在催眠术、招魂术和心理研究的文献中。本经典文本的目的是呈现法国天文学家卡米尔·弗拉马里翁 (Camille Flammarion) 的一本书中涉及这一观点的摘录。它们选自 Flammarion 的 L'Inconnu: The Unknown (1900) 的介绍和结论，这是 L'Inconnu et les problèmes psychiques (1900) 的翻译，他在其中发表并评论了他收集的幻影和其他现象的案例。在他看来，这些现象说明了灵魂的存在。关于人类非物质本质和精神现象的类似信念一直持续到现在。