would he jump to conclusions about what it all meant and where it was all going. He refused to take a position about whether these visions and supernormal abilities were “forerunners of a future evolution” (which is what Frederic Myers thought), or evolutionary survivals from some previous condition (which is what Sigmund Freud would suggest), or “whether they are purely accidental” and so meaningless.53 He did not know, and so he left it at that.
