MIND POWER THE SECRET OF MENTAL MAGIC/PART 3
Chapter 3.
Mentative Induction
As wonderful as is the manifestation of Mind-Power within
the limits of the form of the thing, cell, plant, animal, or person, and which
produces the effects known as local action, movement, etc., there is still a
greater wonder to be witnessed in the manifestation of the same power beyond
the limits of the personality or form in which it originates. And it is to this
manifestation of Mind-Power that I am about to apply the term
"Telementation.”
I may as well explain my terms at this place and time. In
the first place I use the term "Mentation,” in the sense of "Mental
activity”; the term being derived from the Latin word mentis, meaning "the
mind”; and the suffix "ation”; meaning "action.” So "Mentation”
means "mental activity.” From Mentation we derive Mentative, or
"relating to mental activity”; Mentate, or "to manifest mental
activity”; etc., etc.
From Mentation, also, I derive the term,
"Telementation,” which so far as I know, was originally coined by me
several years ago. The word is derived from the Greek word, tele, meaning
"far off”; and the word "mentation,” above explained.
"Telementation” means "mental activity at a distance,” or mentation
exerted over space,” or "long-range mental influence,” etc. I have been
led to the coining of this new term designed to take the place of
"telepathy,” for the reason that the latter term is improper and
misleading. "Telepathy,” according to its root-words, really means
"to suffer at a distance,” or the "feeling of the pain of another,”
the suffix "pathy,” being derived from the Greek word meaning "to
suffer.” It may be used properly in connection with the sympathetic
transference of pain, or disease, or similar mental state, but its use
otherwise is improper. It is being discarded by the best scientific
authorities, who prefer the term "Thought Transference,” etc. I have
thought it advisable to use the term "telementation” in this connection,
believing that it meets the requirements of the case better than any other term
of which I have any knowledge. I expect it to come into general use before
long.
And now about the transference of mental states from one
thing or person to another. I shall not attempt to go into a discussion of the
phenomena of Thought-Transference in this work, for the reason that it is too
well established, and too generally known to require an argument in its favor
from me. To thousands of careful investigators it is an established fact, and
anyone who will take the time and trouble to conduct the experiments may reproduce
the phenomena to his own satisfaction. Moreover there are instances of
telementation arising in the everyday life of nearly every person, such
instances being of the spontaneous order, that is, not having been expected or
sought after. Those who are desirous of obtaining "proofs” of
telementation, beyond their own personal experiences, are referred to the
records of the English Society for Psychical Research, which contain the
carefully noted reports of many very interesting cases which have been conducted
by the society under the most careful supervision and scientific requirements.
The circulation of Mind-Power is as real a natural phenomenon as the
circulation of air, water, or the blood.
There have been many theories advanced to account for
telementation, and there has been much talk of "two-minds,”
"dual-mentality,” etc., in this connection. In this work I shall have very
little, if anything, to say regarding man's "two-minds.” I, of course, am
fully conversant with the subject of the sub-conscious and super-conscious
regions of the Mind, but I find this principle of telementation to have its
roots still further back in the scale of evolution—back before
"consciousness” as we know it existed in the created forms of matter or
life—back to the plane of "mind in inorganic matter”—and therefore, I
shall not attempt to urge any "two-mind” theories to account for it. In
fact, I believe that the mind of man is a far more complex thing than a
"dual-mind” combination—there are many more planes and regions of mind
than the "objective” and "subjective” minds of the "dual-mind”
authorities.
I find the basis for the theory of telementation far back
in the scale—in fact at the lowest extreme of the scale of things. I find it in
the atoms, or in the particles of which the atoms are composed. In the first
chapter of this work I called your attention to the manifestation of Mind-Power
among the atoms and particles of matter, which was evidenced by action, motion,
and movements resulting from "attraction and repulsion” of these atoms and
particles. In other words I showed that physical forces were produced by the
motions of the particles, or vibrations of the atoms, which arose from states
of like and dislike; love and hate; attraction and repulsion; pleasure and
pain; among these tiny particles of matter. And it is here that the elementary
principle of telementation is noticeable—here is where it may be seen in full
primitive force and operation. If you will think for a moment, you will see
that the motions of the atoms are two-fold, viz. (1) the voluntary motion of
the atom toward the other atom to which it is attracted by chemical affinity;
and (2) the movement of the atom occasioned by the "attractive force”
exerted by the other atom, in the same manner that a magnet ”draws” the needle
to it.
Haeckel has told us that there is the voluntary movement
of the atom itself, in response to the "desire” awakened in it by the
attraction—how does it become aware of the presence of the other atom unless
something passes between them? And that something must be in the nature of a mentative
current, for there is nothing else to pass, because all other forms of energy
being produced by vibrations of the atoms arising from mental states, the
Mind-Power must precede the physical energies, and must be the "something
that passes between” the two atoms. Feeling the presence of the other atom, the
first atom moves towards its affinity, voluntarily, and just as you move your
arm or walk—the atom probably exerting a push upon the ether which must be to
the atom or particle what the air is to the wing of the bird, or the water to
the fin of the fish. But there is another cause of motion, as we have seen—the
mutual pull of the attracting atoms.
And what manner or kind of energy is it that thus
"draws” or "pulls” the other atom? It cannot be electricity, or
magnetism, for those forces, as we have seen, are produced by a rate of
vibration occasioned by the Mind-Power in the atoms themselves—therefore we
must go back to the antecedent force, which is Mind-Power, and attribute to it
the drawing or pulling force which moves the atoms toward each other.
That this attracting or pulling force is in operation
between the particles of matter, there can be no doubt. No two atoms of matter
are in absolute touch with each other—there is always a distance between them—a
space which thus separates them—which never can be traversed or overcome. There
seems to be an individuality in these tiny particles which, although allowing
them to form combinations, nevertheless prevents absolute blending or
amalgamation. There is always a "keep your distance,” or "thus far
and no further” principle in Nature which holds every particle of matter
individual and alone. Every ion, electron, atom, and molecule of matter is
alone, and separated even from its closest affinity by a "touch me not”
circle of influence, which is also mentative in its nature, in my opinion. Even
the hardest diamond, or piece of steel, is composed of molecules close together
but yet separated by this circle of influence; and every molecule is composed
of several atoms between which the same law operates; and every atom is
composed of many ions or electrons which have distances between them. So true
is Nature in her proportions and laws, that scientists assert that in the
hundreds of ions of which the tiniest atom is composed (and which atom is
invisible to the sight by reason of its smallness) there is a "distance
between” observed and maintained by these particles, which bears the same
proportion to their sizes that the distance between the planets of our solar
system bears to their particular sizes—in other words, that the ions composing
an atom are akin to a minute solar system, each ion being attracted to the
other, and yet "kept at its distance,” the combined pull and push of the desire
and the "keep off,” respectively, tending to cause them to circle round
and round each other.
And what is the force that traverses the space across
which the particles themselves cannot travel? It is not electricity, or
magnetism, for those forces are but the results of these circling and
vibrations, and not their cause—and moreover science has not discovered
electricity or magnetism between the atoms. And what holds the atoms and
molecules of matter together, or rather in proximity—what causes their
propinquity? Science answers: chemical affinity, and cohesion! But these terms
are merely names, and science does not explain the nature of the force
employed,—but it knows that it is not electricity or magnetism, or any other
known physical force. I answer: It is Mind-Power exerted over the intervening
spaces by Telementation that attracts and holds these atoms and molecules in
their places, and yet keeps them "at their distance.” Mind-Power, the
existence of which in the atoms was postulated by Haeckel, and which always has
been taught by the occultists.
And so finding that telementation exists in the
elementary forms of substance and physical things, I am justified in looking
for its presence and manifestation from that point of the scale upward. And I believe
that the vibrations of mental states, feelings, desires, etc., are transmitted
from one mind to another by telementation, arousing similar states, feelings,
desires, etc., in the receiving mind along the lines of what we call
"induction” in physical science. But before considering induction, I would
ask you to consider the following quotation from Flammarion, the eminent French
scientist, who says:
"We sum up, therefore, our preceding observations by
the conclusion that one mind can act at a distance upon another, without the
habitual medium of words, or any other visible means of communication. It
appears to us altogether unreasonable to reject this conclusion if we accept
the facts. This conclusion will be abundantly demonstrated. There is nothing
unscientific, nothing romantic in admitting that an idea can influence a brain
from a distance. The action of one human being upon another, from a distance,
is a scientific fact; it is as certain as the existence of Paris, of Napoleon,
of Oxygen, or of Sirius.” He further states: "There can be no doubt that
our psychical force creates a movement in the ether, which transmits itself
afar like all movements of ether, and becomes perceptible to brains in harmony
with our own. The transformation of a psychic action into an ethereal movement,
and the reverse, may be analogous to what takes place on a telephone, where the
receptive plate, which is identical with the plate at the other end,
reconstructs the sonorous movement transmitted, not by means of sound, but by
electricity.”
As I have said, I account for the transference of mental
states, etc., by the theory of "Mentative Induction,” which I believe to
be the theory more fully meeting the requirements of the case than any of the
"dual-mind” or similar hypotheses. The term "Mentative Induction”
will be readily understood by those familiar with the phenomena of electricity.
The word "induction” comes from the word "induce,” which means
"to influence.” In electrical science the word induction is used in the
sense of "the process whereby one body possessing magnetic or electrical
properties reproduces that property in another body without direct contact.”
In text-books on physics a simple experiment is often
given students to illustrate magnetic induction, as follows: A magnet is so
placed that its poles project over the edge of a table upon which it rests. An
iron nail, or steel needle, is held a little distance below the magnet so that
it will not actually touch the latter but will be near enough to be magnetized
by "induction,” that is, without direct contact. The nail, or needle, will
have an induced property of magnetism produced by the current from the magnet,
and will support another nail, or needle, by direct contact. This induced magnetism
renders the nail, or needle, a magnet, possessing all the properties of the
original magnet, so long as the current flows.
And, just as a magnet may communicate its properties by
induction so may an electrified body communicate electrical states in another
body without actual contact. The text-books are full of examples to illustrate
this law. The theory accepted by Science is that the induction is the action of
the electrical current through the ether by waves of vibration. And I hold that
just as the vibratory-waves of magnetism and electricity pass through the ether
and produce similar properties in other bodies by means of induction, so do the
vibratory waves of Mind-Power, from one mind, pass through the ether, and by
induction set up similar mental states in the minds of other persons within the
"field of induction.”
I hold that just as the "excitement” of the
particles of matter ("excitement” being merely "aroused activity”)
may manifest an energy that may be transmitted to another object, removed in space
from the first, and then may arouse by induction a similar state of
"excitement” in the particles of the second object—so may the
"excitement” of the mind among the brain cells of the animal or person be
transmitted by telementation to another animal or person in whom, by mentative
induction, a similar state of excitement is generated or induced. I hold that
there is the closest possible relationship between motive energy and emotive
energy—in fact, that both are forms of the same thing.
I shall not attempt to go into details regarding
telementation or mentative induction at this place, for the reason that I shall
bring out the principle in detail, from time to time, by pointing out the
manifestations and activities of these principles. But I wish you to fix in
your mind the elementary principles of Mind-Power in its phases of
telementation or "long-distance effect,” and of mentative induction, or
the process by which "like begets like” on the mental plane as on the
physical. The machinery of the mentative processes and activities being hidden
from physical sight we may understand these processes and activities better by
using the illustration of corresponding physical processes and
activities—particularly when the correspondences are more than mere resemblances,
being operations of the same underlying natural laws. For this reason, the
illustration or symbol of wireless-telegraphy will help us to understand
telementation; and electrical or magnetic induction will help us to understand
the phenomena of mentative induction.
And, now let us pass on to a consideration of the
activities and manifestations of Mind-Power, in its phases of telementation and
mentative induction, in living creatures, beginning with the lower animals.
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