Since commencing to write these lines the author has found a number of writers whose works have been of great help to him, and served to confirm him in his theory.
The attunement of the brain cells to varying rates of vibration in the universe, brings all things to you on the principle of the wireless telegraph. “All things are yours,” was the announcement of the Master of the Christian system. This is scientifically true. The universe is at your disposal and you can get it. Not through sorrow, and toil and labor, but in the same way that trees and flowers get it—inspirationally.
Telepathy, which is attracting wide-spread notice at the present time, is as scientific as telegraphy. Some of the greater scientists are investigating its claims through “spiritual mediums,” though there are few who accept the latter’s claims, as in such a field it would be impossible to prevent impostors from preying upon the ignorant and credulous. There are honest mediums. In fact, every human entity is a “medium,” receiving and transmitting, receiving and transmitting continually.
There are some so acutely attuned by environment and habit of thought, to the universe of thought, that they receive communications beyond their fellows. These are poets, artists, musicians, inventors, etc. The thoughts of Plato, Socrates, Krishma, Jesus, ARE today. You may know all they knew if you can attune yourself to such a rate of vibration as to establish the proper connection. This is a plain, every-day, scientific, matter-of-fact explanation of all modern “spiritualistic communications.” There should be no more mystery or superstition, or spiritual clap-trap about it than there is about wireless telegraphy.
There are persons who can readily attune themselves to the vibrations of another and “read the thoughts”—unconscious as well as conscious—of individuals composing an entire audience. With many this is easily accomplished through personal contact. Some years ago the writer of these pages was well acquainted with Washington Irving Bishop, the great “mind reader,” who since died, or was murdered by doctors in New York, who dissected his brain while he was in a cataleptic condition, they supposing him dead. One of his performances was to have some stranger take a bank-note, read the number on it and place it in a safe. During this time Bishop was at some distance away heavily blindfolded. When all was ready, he would take this man’s hand and after a short interval give the number on the bank-note, which was invariably found to be correct. I questioned him very closely on this performance, which I witnessed frequently. He said as soon as he placed his fingers on the wrist of the man who placed the note, the number would come to him without difficulty. He claimed that it was telepathy or clairvoyance. As a matter of fact, it was simply attunement to the mind of the man who knew the number, and, as in the action of the wireless telegraph, the two brains being similarly attuned, the message was sent and received. There are many today to whom this would be a mere kindergarten performance. You perhaps did not know that every time you shake hands you run the risk of giving away your inmost secrets. I am prepared to tell you that this is true. “There is nothing hidden but it shall be revealed, and there is nothing secret but it shall be made known.”
We receive impressions of impending disaster which we regard as “supernatural.” Once for all let me say there is nothing supernatural. A knowledge of this fact ought to cure you of your superstitions and destroy your fears. Light, sound, color, travel faster than letters or telegrams. The impending disaster vibrations often reach us long before the actual occurrence itself. Even as we see the flash of lightening, or the flash of the powder, before we hear the thunder or the report of the cannon.
All these things are but movements of the electrons of the universe, carrying out the natural law of their being, which is electrical impulse.
Prof. Dolbear says, “Molecules which are a combination of atoms, are known to have their constant state of vibrations and from this and the fact of their perfect transparency, they can no more be seen than the air. They are so minute, so restless, like atoms of hydrogen, that no one can hope to see them or learn their characteristic properties.”
Observation and study of the phenomena of electrical energy reveal to us the nature of that substance, which we are, and with which we have to do. The fundamental, inevitable, never-varying law of polarity—pushing and pulling—or positive and negative action. In creation, throughout all experience, this is seen. Land and sea, day and night, right and left, up and down, sweet and sour, east and west, north and south, good and bad, right and wrong, man and woman, attraction and repulsion—the so-called “pairs of opposites”,—Sex everywhere. Is it difficult to see by analogy and deduction that polarity is universal. That all phenomena are electrical phenomena. That birth, and growth, disease and disaster, decline and death are all electrical phenomena, and that there is but one synthetic substance—ELECTRICITY.
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