GENUINE MEDIUMSHIP/PART 2
PART II
Mental Vibrations and Transmissions
In the category of
Nature's Finer Forces must be included that class of manifestations which are
generally known as Telepathy, Thought Transference, Thought Force, etc., all of
which are based upon the fact that there is present in all such mental states
as Thought, Emotion, Desire, etc., a certain rate of vibratory motion, which
motion is capable of being radiated from the mind of the person manifesting
them in such power and force that they may be registered with more or less
distinctness upon the minds of other persons are at a greater or less distance
from the first person. In the more common forms of its manifestation, such
mental force or power is known as Thought Force, Mental Influence, etc., and in
its more pronounced and less common phases it is known as Telepathy, Thought
Transference, etc., but the basic principle is precisely the same in all of
such cases, simple or complex though their manifestations may be.
The Higher Forces.
We may say here,
frankly and plainly, however, that the advanced occultists regard this class of
phenomena as comparatively simple and elementary, and therefore not fully
entitled to be included in the same category with the higher phases of Nature's
Finer Forces, such as, for instance, Clairvoyance, Psychometry,
Communication with the Higher Planes, etc. But notwithstanding this, we are of
the opinion that any and every one of the finer forces of nature, i.e., any of
the forces which are over and above the plane upon which the ordinary senses of
man, normally developed, ordinarily function and operate, should be placed in
one general category of the Higher Forces of Nature, particularly in a work of
this kind designed for the instruction of the general public upon these
important subjects. Accordingly, these lesser manifestations of the finer
forces in the natural world shall be carefully considered in this part of this
book, so that the student may become acquainted with the scientific principles
upon which they are based, and may be enabled to develop the power of
manifesting such powers if he choose to do so; and that he may understand the
nature of such forces and powers when they are manifested by other persons.
Chitta, or Mind Substance.
The Hindu Teachings
hold that that which we call "Mind" is not an intangible something
different from anything else in Nature, but that, on the contrary, it forms a
part of Nature's general manifestation, and is a substantial thing. The Hindus
have given to this Mind Substance the name of Chitta. Without going into
metaphysical discussion, or entering into technical details concerning this
Mind Substance or Chitta, we may say that the Hindus believe it to be one phase
of the great Manifestation which we call Nature—just as that which we call
Matter is another phase of Manifestation—and, like Matter, having its own
particular kind of force, or energy, its own rates of vibrations, and its own
attribute of radiating its vibratory force or energy over space. Chitta
manifests its activity in creating Thought, Emotions, etc., and also in
receiving impressions from the outside world which it translates into
perceptions and ideals. Chitta, or Mind Substance, is not regarded by the
Hindus as being identical with the Soul, or the Ego; but, on the contrary, they
regard it as being an instrument for the expression of the activity of the Ego,
or Soul, just as the Body is another kind of instrument. Both Body and Mind are
regarded as being intended for the use of the Ego or Soul, and not as identical
with the latter. We shall not discuss these distinctions further in this book,
this subject being apart from the general field and scope of the present work.
What Modern Science Says.
There are many to
whom this conception of the vibration energy of Chitta or Mind Substance may
seem strange. But such persons will be still more surprised, perhaps, when they
are told that modern science has practically admitted the general truth
contained in the Hindu teachings concerning the same, though modern science
seems to cloak the facts of the case in technical terms so that the ordinary
person is unable to comprehend the real facts dwelling beneath these
terms. To this latter class we specially commend the following statement made
by Professor Ochorowicz, the eminent European scientist, a few years ago.
Professor Ochoriwicz says:
A Living Dynamic Focus.
"Every living
being is a dynamic focus. A dynamic focus tends ever to propagate the motion
that is proper to it. Propagated motion becomes transformed according to the
medium it traverses. Motion always tends to propagate itself. Therefore, when
we see work of any kind—mechanical, electrical, nervic, or psychic—disappear
without visible effort, then of two things, one happens, namely, either a
transmission or a transformation. Where does the first end, and where does the
second begin? In an identical medium there is only transmission; in
a different medium there is transformation.
"You send an
electric current through a thick wire. You have the current, but you do not
perceive any other force. But cut that thick wire, and connect the ends by
means of a fine wire, and this fine wire will grow hot—there will be a transformation of
a part of the current into heat. Take a pretty strong current, and
interpose a wire still more resistant, or a very thin carbon rod, and the
carbon will emit light. A part of the current, then, is transformed
into heat and light. The light acts in every direction around about, first
visibly as light, then invisibly as heat and electric current. Hold a magnet
near it. If the magnet is weak and movable, in the form of a magnetic needle,
the beam of light will cause it to deviate; if it is strong and immovable, it
will in turn cause the beam of light to deviate. And all this from a
distance, without contact, without special conductors.
Dynamic Correlate of Thought.
"A process that
is at once chemical, physical and psychical, goes on in the brain. A complex
action of this kind is propagated through the gray brain matter, as waves are
propagated in water. Regarded on its physiological side, an idea is only a
vibration, a vibration that is propagated, yet which does not pass out of the
medium in which it can exist as such. It is propagated only as far as other
vibrations allow. It is propagated more widely if it assumes the character
which subjectively we call emotive. But it cannot go beyond without being
transformed. Nevertheless, like force in general, it cannot remain in
isolation, and it escapes in disguise.
"Thought stays
at home, as the chemical action of a battery remains in the battery; it is
represented by its dynamic correlate, called in the case of the battery a
'current,' and in the case of the brain, I know not what; but whatever its name
may be, it is the dynamic correlate of thought. I have chosen the
name 'dynamic correlate.' There is something more than that; the universe is
neither dead nor void.
"A force that is
transmitted meets other forces, and if it is transformed only little by little
it usually limits itself to modifying another force at its own cost, though
without suffering materially thereby. This is the case particularly with forces
that are persistent, concentrated, well seconded by their medium. It is the
case with the physiological equilibrium, nervic force, psychic force, ideas,
emotions, tendencies. These modify environing forces, without themselves
disappearing. They are imperceptibly transformed, and if the next man
is of a nature exceptionally well adapted to them, they gain in inductive
action."
Answer to Skeptical Critics
The two most likely
objections advanced against this conception by sceptical critics are as
follows: "(1) The mental vibratory motion, or vibratory waves, are not
known to science, nor recorded on scientific instruments such as the
galvanometer. What is the rate of such vibrations, and what is their general
character? (2) Granted the existence of such vibratory energy, or
thought-waves, how and by means of what channel does the second person receive
them from the first person? How are they registered or recorded?" These
objections are capable of being met in a scientific manner, to the satisfaction
of any fair-minded critic or investigator. We shall now give you, briefly, the
gist of the answer of science to the aforesaid objections.
The World of Vibrations
It is true that the
scientific instruments of the laboratory, such as the galvanometer, do not
record thought vibrations. This, because such instruments are capable of
registering and recording on certain rates and modes of vibratory energy.
Thought vibrations are registered only by their appropriate instruments,
namely, the Chitta of Mind substance of living persons. As to the "general
character and rate of vibration" of these waves of mental force, we can
only say that their general character is that of "mental force" as
opposed to "physical force."
As to their rate of
vibration, we can only say that this is not precisely known, not having as yet
been definitely ascertained; but it should be added that there is
plenty room for these vibrations in the great field of vibratory
energy. Read the following paragraphs, and decide this last matter for
yourself.
Uncharted Seas of Vibration.
The following
quotations from eminent scientists will serve to give the student a general
idea of the views of science upon the question of the possibility of the
existence and presence of vibratory energy of kinds and characters as yet
unknown to science:
The first scientist
says: "There is much food for speculation in the thought that there exists
sound waves that no human ear can hear, and color waves that no eye can see.
The long, dark, soundless space between 40,000 and 400,000,000,000,000
vibrations per second, and the infinity of range beyond 700,000,000,000,000
vibrations per second, where light ceases, in the universe of motion, makes it
possible to indulge in speculation." The second scientist says:
"There is no gradation between the most rapid undulations or tremblings
that produce our sensation of sound, and the lowest of those which give rise to
our sensations of gentlest warmth. There is a huge gap between them, wide
enough to include another world of motion, all lying between our world of sound
and our world of heat and light. And there is no good reason whatever for
supposing that matter is incapable of such intermediate activity, or that such
activity may not give rise to intermediate sensations, provided that there are
organs for taking up and sensifying these movements."
The third scientist
says: "The knowledge we gain by experiment brings home to us what a
miserably imperfect piece of mechanism our bodies are. The ear can detect the
slow-footed sound vibrations that come to us at the rate of between 40 and
40,000 a second. But the whole of space may be quivering and palpitating with
waves at all sorts of varying speeds, and our senses will tell us nothing of
them until we get them coming to us at the inconceivable speed of
400,000,000,000,000 a second, when again we respond to them and appreciate them
in the form of light."
The fourth scientist
says: "The first indications of warmth come to us when the vibrations
reach the rate of 35,000,000,000,000 per second. When the vibrations reach
450,000,000,000,000 the lowest visible light rays manifest. Then come the
orange rays, the golden yellow, the pure yellow, the greenish yellow, the pure
green, the greenish blue, the ocean blue, the cyanic blue, the indigo, and
finally the violet, the highest degree of light which the human eye can
register, and which occurs when the vibrations reach the rate of
750,000,000,000 per second. Then come the ultra-violet rays, invisible to human
sight but registered by chemical media. In this ultra-violet region lie the
X-Rays, and the other recently discovered high degree rays; also the actinic
rays which, while invisible to the eye, register on the photographic plate,
sunburn one's face, blister one's nose, and even cause violent explosions in chemical
substances exposed to them, as well as act upon the green leaves of plants,
causing the chemical transformation of carbonic acid and water into sugar and
starches. These forms of 'dark light,' that is, light too high in degree
to be perceived by the human eye, are but faint indications of the existence of
still higher and still finer vibrations of substance and energy."
The Human Wireless Telegraph Instrument.
Having seen that the
first question of the sceptical critics is capable of being answered in the
scientific spirit, and by ideas based upon scientific investigation, we now
turn to the second question of the same critics, viz.: "Granted the
existence of such vibratory energy, or thought-waves, how and by means of what
channel does the second person receive these from the first person? How are
they registered or recorded?" This same question is also implied in the
concluding sentence of one of the scientists above quoted, viz.: "There is
no good reason whatever for supposing that matter is incapable of such
intermediate activity, or that such activity may not give rise to intermediate
sensations, provided that there are organs for taking up and sensifying these
movements." Let us see what science has to tell us regarding the provision
of Nature for the reception and "sensing" of this class of vibratory
energy. And the easiest way to ascertain the report of science regarding this
important matter is to consider carefully what representative leading
scientists have said concerning the same in their writings or public addresses.
We call your attention to the following quotations from such sources.
A Great Scientist's Theory.
Let us begin with
that great master of modern science, Sir William Crookes, the inventor of
the celebrated "Crookes' Tubes," without which the discovery of
the X-Ray and Radio-Activity would have been impossible. Several years ago,
this eminent scientist, addressing the Royal Society, at Bristol, England,—a
gathering made up of distinguished scientists from all over the world, most of
the members being extremely sceptical concerning occult phenomena—said to the
brilliant gathering: "Were I now introducing for the first time these
inquiries in the world of science, I should choose a starting point different
from that of old (where we formerly began). It would be well to begin with
Telepathy; with that fundamental law, as I believe it to be, that thoughts and
images may be transferred from one mind to another without the agency of the
recognized organs of sense—that knowledge may enter the human mind without
being communicated in any hitherto known or recognized ways. * * * If Telepathy
takes place we have two physical facts, viz., (a) the physical change in the
brain of A, the transmitter, and the analogous physical change in the brain of
B, the recipient of the transmitted impression. Between these two physical
events there must exist a train of physical causes. * * * It is unscientific to
call in the aid of mysterious agencies, when with every fresh advance in
knowledge it is shown that ether vibrations have powers and attributes
abundantly able to meet any demand—even the transmission of thought.
"It is supposed
by some physiologists that the essential cells of nerves do not actually touch,
but are separated by a narrow gap which widens in sleep while it narrows almost
to extinction during mental activity. This condition is so singularly
like a Branly or Lodge coherer [a device which led to the
discovery of wireless telegraphy] as to suggest a further analogy. The
structure of brain and nerve being similar, it is conceivable that there may be
present masses of such nerve coherers in the brain, whose special function it
may be to receive impulses brought from without, through the connecting
sequence of ether waves of appropriate order of magnitude. Roentgen has
familiarized us with an order of vibrations of extreme minuteness as compared
with the smallest waves with which we have hitherto been acquainted; and there
is no reason to suppose that we have here reached the limit of frequency. It is
known that the action of thought is accompanied by certain molecular movements
in the brain, and here we have physical vibrations capable from their extreme
minuteness of acting direct upon individual molecules, while their rapidity
approaches that of internal and external movements of the atoms themselves. A
formidable range of phenomena must be scientifically sifted before we
effectually grasp a faculty so strange, so bewildering, and for ages so
inscrutable, as the direct action of mind upon mind."
Human Electro-Magnetism
Professor Bain,
another eminent authority, tells us: "The structure of the nervous
substances, and the experiments made upon the nerves and nerve-centres,
establish beyond a doubt certain peculiarities as belonging to the force that
is exercised by the brain. This force is of a current nature; that is to say, a
power generated at one part of the structure is conveyed along an intervening
substance and discharged at some other part. The different forms of
electricity and magnetism have made us familiar with this kind of action."
Professor Draper,
another eminent authority, says: "I find that the cerebrum is absolutely
analogous to in construction to any other nervous arc. It is composed of
centripetal and centrifugal fibres, having also registering ganglia. If in
other nervous arcs the structure is merely automatic, and can display no
phenomena of itself, but requires the influence of an external agent—the
optical apparatus inert save under the influence of light, the auditory save under
the impression of sound—the cerebrum, being precisely analogous in its
elementary structure, presupposes the existence of some agent to act through
it."
Prof. M. P. Hatfield
has said: "The arrangement of the nerve-envelopes is so like that of the
best constructed electrical cables that we cannot help thinking that both were
constructed to conduct something very much alike. I know that there are those
who stoutly maintain that nerve force is not electricity, and it is not in the
senses that an electrical battery is not the same thing as a live man; but,
nevertheless, nerve-force is closely allied to that wonderful thing that for
want of a better and clearer understanding we agree to call
'electricity.'"
Human Etheric Force.
Professor Haddock, a
popular writer along the lines of scientific psychology and kindred subjects,
in a part of his work in which he was considering the idea that thought may be
communicated by means of ether-vibrations, forcibly says: "The ether is
accepted by science as a reality, and as a medium for light, heat,
electricity, magnetism, etc. The nervous system is certainly comparable to an
electric battery with connecting wires. Communications of thought and feeling
without the mediation of sense-perceptions as commonly understood, is now
established. Inanimate objects exert, now and then, 'strange influences.'
People certainly carry with them a personal atmosphere. The representation of
the condition of these facts by a psychic field, compared to the magnetic or
electric field, becomes, therefore, if not plausible, at least convenient. As
such a 'field' exists surrounding the sun, so may a 'field' be assumed as
surrounding each human individual. 'We have already strong grounds for
believing that we live in a medium which conveys to-and-fro movements to us
from the sun, and that these movements are electro-magnetic, and that all the
transformation of light and heat, and indeed the phenomena of life, are due to
the electrical energy which comes to us across the vacuum which exists between
us and the sun—a vacuum which is pervaded by the ether, which is a fit medium
for the transmission of electro-magnetic waves.' By means, then, of a similar
theory applied to mind and brain and body, we may find reasonable explanations
of many otherwise insoluble mysteries of life, and, which is of more
importance, deduce certain suggestions for the practical regulation of life in
the greatest individual interest."
The Brain-Battery.
The same writer says:
"All states of body and mind involve constant molecular and chemical
change. The suggestion arises that the brain, with its millions of cells
and its inconceivable changes in substance, may be regarded as a transmitting
and receiving battery. The brain being a kind of battery, and the nerves being
conductors of released stored-up energy to different parts of the body, by a
kind of action similar to the actions of electricity and magnetism, it is
suggested that, either by means of the ether, or of some still finer form of
matter, discharges of brain energy may be conducted beyond the limits of the
body. If the nerve-track corresponds to wires, this refined medium may
correspond to the ether-field supposed to be employed in wireless telegraphy.
As electrical movements are conducted without wires, or other visible media, so
may brain-discharges be conveyed beyond the mechanism of the battery, without
the intervention of nerves—except as they may constitute a part of the battery.
Generally speaking, such discharges would originate in two ways, viz., by
direct mental action, or by mental or physical states—perhaps by a
combination."
A Peculiar Organ
So much for the
conceptions of modern western science, which agree in the main with those of
the ancient oriental occultists, although of course different names and terms
are employed. But, we think it worth while to call your attention to the fact
that the western scientists have failed to note the significant presence of a
peculiar organ in the human body, which is regarded as most important in its
functions and offices by the oriental teachers, and which we believe has a very
close connection to the subject just discussed by the western scientists. We
refer to that strange organ or gland known to western science as the
Pineal Gland. Let us see just what this is.
The Pineal Gland
The Pineal Gland is a
mass of nervous substance which is found located in the human brain in a
position near the middle of the skull, almost directly above the extreme top of
the spinal column. It is shaped like a small cone, and is of a reddish-gray
color. It lies in front of the cerebellum, and is attached to the third
ventricle of the brain. It contains a small quantity of peculiar particles of a
gritty, sand-like substance, which is commonly known as "brain sand."
It derives its scientific name from its shape, which resembles a pine-cone.
Western physiologists are at sea regarding the function and office of this
interesting organ, or gland, and the text books generally content themselves
with stating that "the functions of the Pineal Gland are not
understood." The oriental occultists, on the other hand, claim that the
Pineal Gland, with its peculiar arrangement of nerve-cell corpuscles, and its
tiny grains of "brain-sand," is intimately associated with certain
forms of the transmission and reception of waves of mental vibrations. Western
students of occultism have been struck with the remarkable resemblance between
the Pineal Gland and a certain part of the receiving apparatus employed in
wireless telegraphy, the latter also containing small particles which bear a
close resemblance to the "brain-sand" of the Pineal Gland; and this
fact is often urged by them to substantiate the theory of the oriental
occultists concerning the function and office of this interesting organ of the
human body which is located in the brain of man.
Transmission of Thought.
Many other facts set
forth by modern western science could be cited in our consideration of the
question of the existence of any possible organ for the reception of thought
vibrations, but it is thought that sufficient evidence of this kind has already
been submitted to your attention—sufficient to remove any reasonable doubts,
and to give the student at least a clear and open mind on the subject. Summing
up such evidence, we may say that modern science is fast approaching the
position which is so well expressed by Camille Flammarion, the eminent French
scientist, as follows: "The action of one mind upon another at a
distance—the transmission of thought, mental suggestion, communication at a distance—all
these are not more extraordinary than the action of the magnet on iron, the
influence of the moon on the sea, the transportation of the human voice by
electricity, the revolution of the chemical constituents of a star by the
analysis of its light, or, indeed, all the wonders of contemporary science.
Only these psychic communications are of a more elevated kind, and may serve to
put us on the track of a knowledge of human nature. What is certain is this:
That Telepathy can and ought to be henceforth considered by Science as an
incontestible reality; that minds are able to act upon each other without the
intervention of the senses; that psychic force exists, though its nature is yet
unknown."
A General Principle.
At this point we wish
to impress upon the minds of the students of this book that what has been
above said regarding that class of mental communications generally classed
under the head of Telepathy also applies to many much higher phases of occult
phenomena and psychic manifestations. In fact, this is one of the reasons why
we have paid such close attention to the scientific evidence substantiating
this class of phenomena. It is not too much to say that in what has been said
in the foregoing pages there is to be found a scientific basis for the phenomenon
of "spirit communication," at least in many of its phases. It is but
a step in thought—and a natural and easy step at that—from the matter of the
communication of thought from the mind of one person or the material plane of
life to another person on the same plane, on to the matter of the communication
of thought from the mind of an individual entity on a higher plane of life to a
second person who is abiding on the lower material plane occupied by us at this
stage of our existence. It is seen that the difference consists largely in the
matter of the degree and rate of vibratory energy employed, and the preparation
of a proper receiving instrument for the reception and translation of such
messages. This phase of the subject will be considered in fuller detail in a
subsequent portion of this book.
Transformation of Vibrations.
One of the things
which seem to greatly puzzle the average student of the subject of mental
vibrations, and thought-transference, is that which may be called "thought
waves." The student is unable to conceive of a wave of "thought"
being projected into the air, and then traveling along until it
reaches the mind of other persons. The difficulty, upon analysis, is seen
to consist of the inability to conceive of "thought" as being a
material substance capable of traveling in "waves." It is no wonder
that the student finds this conception difficult, for there is no such thing as
"thought" traveling in this way. The phenomenon of thought
transference is accounted for scientifically in quite another manner, as we
shall see in a moment. The student is advised to carefully note this
distinction, for upon its understanding depends greatly the intelligent
comprehension of the entire subject of thought vibrations and
thought-transference.
Example of Electric Light
Perhaps this matter
may be best explained by means of illustrations of the operation of electricity
and light—electric vibrations and light vibrations. In both cases the secret of
the transmission of the vibrations or waves of vibratory energy may be summed
up in the word "transformation." For instance: When we
transmit electric vibrations over a fine wire or thread of carbon, the electric
vibrations are transformed into light vibrations and manifest as "electric
light." In another form of transmission the electric vibrations are
transformed into "electric heat." But this is merely one phase of the
transformation; consider carefully the more complex phases, as follows: We
speak into the receiver of a telephone and the sound vibrations produced by our
voice are transformed into electrical vibrations and in that form travel over
the telephone wire; arriving at the other end of the wire, these electric
vibrations enter into the receiver, and are there transformed into sound
vibrations, and as such are heard by the person holding the receiver. Now note
this: the sound vibrations do not travel at all; instead, they are transformed
into electric waves, which in turn are transformed at the receiving end of the
line into sound vibrations once more. And unless the receiving apparatus be
present, and properly adjusted, there is no second transformation at all; and
in such case the electric vibrations remain such.
Example of Wireless Telegraphy.
Likewise, in the case
of the wireless telegraphy, the electric energy produced by the sending
instrument is transformed into subtle and finer etheric waves, which travel to
the receiving instrument, and are there transformed into electric waves, the
latter producing physical changes in the receiving apparatus which enable them
to be read by the observer. In the case of wireless telephony there is still
more complex process of transformation, as follows: the speaker conveys sound
vibrations into the instrument; these are transformed into electric vibrations;
and the latter into the etheric vibrations which travel through space to the
receiver. Reaching the receiver, the etheric vibrations are transformed into
ordinary electric vibrations, and these in turn into sound waves capable of
being sensed by the listener.
Example of Light Waves.
The same process is
detected in the transmission of what we call light waves. The activities
manifested by the substance of the sun set up certain vibrations which we call
"light vibrations." These are communicated to the ether in the
form of so-called "light waves" but which are merely etheric waves of
a certain rate of vibration. These waves travel through space and are
transformed into "light" only when they reach some material substance
capable of receiving and reflecting their vibrations. Science tells us that
empty space is perfectly dark, and that light manifests only when
the etheric light vibrations come in contact with material substance and are
there transformed into "light." Light, as "light" does not
travel from the sun—what we know as "light" is simply the result of
the transformation of certain etheric waves into "light" by reason of
their contact with material substances.
Transformation of Mental Vibrations
Now for the analogy.
Mental vibrations are so only when they remain in their own uninterrupted
medium of channel of activity, i.e., the brain and the nervous system of the
individual. Many hold that they are able to leap over the barrier of flesh
separating two persons when such persons are in immediate physical contact, and
the conditions are of a certain kind; but as a rule they do not do so. But, as
all investigators know, mental vibrations are capable of being transformed into
some subtle form of etheric vibrations, and the latter when coming in contact
with the nervous system of other persons may be again transformed, this time
into mental vibrations which produced thoughts, feelings and mental images in
the minds of the second persons or persons, corresponding with these mental
states in the first person. Think over this carefully, until you grasp the idea
fully.
Vibrational Attunement
And here we find
another startling correspondence between the phenomena of wireless telegraphy
and that of thought transference or transmission of mental vibrations. We
allude to the fact that while a wireless telegraphic sending instrument may be
sending forth vibrations of the strongest power, its messages are capable of
being received or "picked up" only by those instruments which are
"in tune" with the sending instrument to at least a certain degree;
to all other instruments, those which are not "in tune" with the
sending instrument, there is no message perceptible. Precisely this same state
of affairs is found to prevail in the realm of mental vibrations and thought transmission.
The individual receives only such messages as emanate from instruments with
which he is "in tune"—to all the rest he is deaf and unconscious. But
once "in tune" with the higher vibrations of the mental realm, he
will receive every message traveling on that particular plane at that
particular time, unless he deliberately shut them out. We shall see how this
works out in ordinary life, when we consider the general subject of Telepathy
and Thought Transference in the succeeding Chapter.
In Tune With Higher Planes
But, in connection
with the above statement of the "in tune" law or rule of
manifestation, we wish to call to the attention of the student the important
fact that the same law prevails in the case of communications from the higher
planes of existence—the so-called "spirit communications" and other
messages of this kind reaching individuals on our own plane of existence.
It is only when the individual on the "earth plane" becomes "in
tune" with the sending mental instrument of the entity abiding on a higher
plane of existence, that it is able to "pick up" the message being
sent to earth. Even the same individual is often unable to "catch"
the messages at one time, while at other times he experiences no difficulty
whatsoever. An understanding of this fact—this law or rule of
manifestation—will throw a great light over many dark places of
misunderstanding and perplexity concerning certain phases of occult and psychic
phenomena. This feature of such phenomena will be considered in detail in
subsequent parts of this book.
The Two Key-Words.
Concluding our consideration of the "just how" of the transmission of thoughts, messages, and "psychograms" between two minds, be they both on earth plane, or one of the two on the higher planes, we would say: "Always remember the two Key-Words, namely Transformation and Attunement." These two Key-Words will enable you to unlock many doors of thought on these subjects—doors which otherwise will remain closed to you.
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