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All this has not, however, been an unmixed blessing.

The scientific debunking of the spirit world has been in a way too successful and too thorough.

The house has been swept so clean that contemporary man has been left with no means, or at best with wholly inadequate means, for dealing with his experience of spirit.

Although the particular form of conceptualization which popular imagination had made in response to the experience of spirit was undoubtedly defective, the raw experience itself which led to such excesses remains with us as vividly as ever.

We simply find ourselves in the position of having no means for inquiring into the structure and meaning of this range of our experience.

There is no framework or structure of thought with respect to which we can organize it and no part of reality, as we know and apprehend it, with respect to which we can refer this experience.

Science has simply left us helpless and powerless in this important sector of our lives.