The Essence Of Life

By Tom Morris

An experimental psychologist delves into the mysteries of the human subconscious. What he discovers unleashes a new and terrifying threat to the sanity of mankind.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tom Morris
• Release date: Dec 10, 2014
• ISBN: 9781311572202

Tom Morris

Tom Morris was a professor of philosophy at Notre Dame for fifteen years. Since leaving Notre Dame in 1994, he has gone on to become one of the most sought-after motivational speakers in the country. Each year he is invited to give keynote addresses at major gatherings of executives at hundreds of the leading companies around the world. The author of True Success: A New Philosophy of Excellence, he is also chairman of the Morris Institute for Human Values in Wilmington, North Carolina, where he makes his home.

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The Essence of Life

by

Tom Morris

Published by Tom Morris at Smashwords

Copyright 2014, Tom Morris

All places, characters and events in this publication other than those clearly in the public domain are fictitious and any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

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The so-called after-life is identical to the collective unconscious of the human race.

The Dark Side of the Moon, Jack Vance, New English Library, 1986.

My name is James Curzon. I once knew Arthur Harrison as a colleague and a friend but who or what he is now I can only speculate. As a result of his striving to explore a hitherto little known region of human consciousness and my own unwitting help in his endeavours a catastrophic threat to our whole way of life has been unleashed and I have no alternative but to describe the events by which it has arisen. I can only hope that it is not too late for the situation to be averted.

We both graduated at a northern university some years ago with degrees from the School of Psychology; both stayed on as postgraduate students and then took up teaching posts. I suppose neither of us was particularly filled with any great ambition to stray far from an environment which we found satisfying and comfortable. The university was one of those known somewhat disparagingly as Red Brick by the southern, more ancient edifices of learning and indeed it had been founded in the mid nineteenth century as a College of Science and Medicine by a group of wealthy local businessmen in order to provide education for the children of middle-class industrialists and merchants. The original buildings are still in use but sadly hidden away by more recent additions of limestone and concrete.

My own interests lay in the field of Behavioural Science while Arthur became more and more engrossed in aspects of Parapsychology and in particular re-appraising and developing the idea of the Collective Unconscious put forward by Freud and Jung; an approach which was not received by the Faculty with any particular enthusiasm. The Dean probably expressed the view held by most of his senior colleagues that it was at best based on a misunderstanding and at worst an unacedemic dabbling in areas inhabited by hysterics and charlatans. Arthur was unrepentant, dismissing them as archaic dinosaurs and fuddy-duddies, unable to appreciate radical ideas. We were in the habit of meeting once or twice a week to discuss our work and to have a natter about things in general although Arthur tended to monopolise these occasions to expound on his theories.