actual incident. And that is exactly what it is.”
“I don’t understand.”
“Have you ever heard of the subliminal consciousness, Mr. Baxter?”
“No.”
The medium smiled.
“That is fortunate,” he said. “It’s being run to death just now. … Well, I’ll put it in an untechnical way. There is a part of us, is there not, that lies below our ordinary waking thoughts—that part of us in which our dreams reside, our habits take shape, our instincts, intuitions, and all the rest, are generated. Well, in ordinary dreams, when we are asleep, it is this part that is active. The pot boils, so to speak, all by itself, uncontrolled by reason. A madman is