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On the last week of July, 2023, Phil and JF were delighted to speak at Shannon Taggart\'s Science of Things Spiritual Symposium in Lily Dale, the nerve centre of the Spiritualist movement. As speakers, your hosts were part of an inspiring lineup of scholars, artists, and researchers committed to exploring the borderlands of art, science, religion, and the paranormal. They also had the honour of launching the symposium with a live recording held on the evening of the July 27th. The topic was Frederic W. H. Myers\' autobiographical essay, "Fragments of Inner Life," first published in full in 1961, some sixty years after the author\'s death. Myers was one of the original members of the Society for Psychical Research in England. A poet and classicist, he remained committed to the scientific promise of paranormal investigation until the end of his life. His book Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death, also published posthumously, argues that psychical studies have confirmed, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that death is just the beginning. In this talk, JF and Phil discuss Myers\' relevance to 21st-century thinking on the Weird.

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REFERENCES

The Science of Things Spiritual Symposium: July 27-29, 2023
\\nFrederic Myers, Fragments of Inner Life
\\nAlan Bennett, History Boys
\\nArthur Machen, A Fragment of Life
\\nAlan Gauld, The Founders of Psychical Research
\\nDonna Tartt, The Secret History
\\nArthur Machen, The Great God Pan
\\nFrans de Waal, Mama\\u2019s Last Hug
\\nDaniel Dennett, American cognitive scientist

\\nFrederic Myers, Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death
\\nGabriel Marcel, The Mystery of Being
\\nPhil Ford, Dig
\\nWilliam James, Principles of Psychology
\\nAkashic Record, Theosophical idea
\\nJeff Kripal, Authors of the Impossible