Chapter III
Mental Telepathy
It is a truism of physiology that every cell in the body is in some manner connected with every other cell, and intercourse is established between them. In the same way, each intelligence or ego within the universal intelligence has contact with every other through the medium of mind. It is not my purpose here to dwell upon this at length. It can hardly be denied as an established scientific fact. I refer the reader to “Death and Its Mystery,” Volume I, by Flammarion: in which the author gives examples from many reliable sources including several Americans, among whom the most striking example is Thomas A. Edison. Maeterlinck’s “Unknown Guest” will intrigue the interest. Recently a great deal has appeared in the daily press about the experiments performed by Sir Gilbert Murray, regius professor of Greek, in Oxford University, England, in the presence of Balfour, Lodge, and other notables, in which the learned professor displayed the ability not only the read from the minds of his collaborators directs for finding things, but also was able to give correctly whole lines of plays which they had in mind, but with which he himself was unfamiliar. A Swiss gentleman named Lichtner has of late been touring this country subjecting himself to the examination of scientists in the demonstration of his ability to read the thoughts of others without physical contact of any sort and his literature bears a letter from Professor McDougall of Harvard to the effect that he had succeeded in his experiments. The adepts of India have long possessed the secret of thought-transference as was discovered by the British during the Sepoy rebellion when news of the result of a battle would travel three-hundred miles arriving far in advance of any means of communication of the intelligence department of the English army. It was discovered that the messages were transmitted through the adepts.
One does not need even to allude to the vast store of literature which can be found in the annals of “mental healing at a distance,” or the so-called “absent treatment” in America and England.
Illustrated in Physical Healing
I select one out of innumerable illustrations. This is the case of a gentleman who came to Ernest S. Holmes, a noted teacher and healer, complaining of a severe pain in the neck. Treatment was given after the metaphysical method employed by Mr. Holmes in which the healer uses the form of mental argument previously alluded to, followed by a state of mental abstraction in which direct contact is made with the mind of the patient. In this state it is possible to know whether the idea has been registered. In spite of all effort to establish the change of consciousness, Mr. Holmes says that he was unable to do so. Treatments were given several days without results. Then for a short period the man did not come to the office. One night Mr. Holmes woke about twelve o’clock, and as often happens, lay thinking of his work and patients and occasionally giving them a treatment. He thought of the man who was suffering from the pain in his neck and gave him a treatment. Having carried out his mental argument and declared that perfect health was established, he entered into the state of abstraction and was instantly aware that the treatment was registered and the man healed. He fell asleep and it was some days later before he saw the patient. When they did meet the first thing the latter said was, “I had the funniest experience the other night. At midnight on such-and-such a date, (mentioning the night on which he had received the treatment), I was awakened by the most terrific snap in my neck. The pain left me at once and I have been free from it ever since.”
Thousands of authenticated cases are on record, and the time is past when these can be swept aside by the airy wave of a supercilious hand. They are as scientifically established as the facts of wireless. Indeed they have a curious analogy to wireless, and, in general, we may say that as the wireless passes through the continuous medium which we call ether, so thought flies from point to point in the medium of Universal Mind. As the wireless knows no barrier and a six-foot wall has for it no existence, so too are walls unknown to the swift passage of thought. There are laws in the mental world corresponding to those in the material and a study of these analogies will be vastly instructive to the student of mental phenomena.
Our purpose here, however, is to establish the confidence of the student in the principles which he is called upon to employ. But knowledge of the law is not enough. He must use it.
Illustrated in Financial Treatment
Some years ago the author was devoting much of his time to private practice in Long Beach, California, and a woman came to him stating that she and her son were in the automobile business, but that they were not making money and were behind in their rent. Legal proceedings were inevitable unless the rent was paid. If a sale of what they possessed were forced they would lose practically all, including some cars, a cash register, and other equipment. Their only hope lay in voluntary sale of the business. We began the treatment by entering the subjective state of mind and contacting the Universal Intelligence. We then stated that there were those who would be able to handle the business successfully, that they would come to buy it and that the business was sold. Within twenty-four hours the woman began to receive enquiries and among those who came were two gentlemen from Pasadena. One of the partners was much pleased with the location, the other not. The woman came back to me and said, “Now we have those whom we can get to buy the business, let us concentrate on them.”
I explained that while we might reach the mind of anyone through the universal medium, still it was not morally allowable to attempt to exert any influence of a compulsory character.
Avoidance of Hypnosis
This is a principle which should be carefully borne in mind as it will save from much failure and disappointment. Many become very much enthused with the law of suggestion and metaphysical principles when they learn the wonderful power that can be exerted. They seize upon it as a method of compulsion by which a mind with superior knowledge can dominate a mind unaware of these laws. There was a time when some of the early sales psychologists trained the student in the development of will-power by teaching him to fix his eyes on the face of the prospective buyer and mentally affirm, “You will buy this, you will buy this.” Or to walk down the street and fix the eyes on the back of the neck of a pedestrian and affirm, “You will turn ‘round, you will turn ‘round.” If he bought or if he turned, it was supposed to be a result of the exercise of superior will force.
Christian Science has remarked upon this as malicious animal magnetism, especially when the object is to harm the recipient. There is no doubt that suggestions can be given which, if accepted, can do much harm to those who receive them. But aside from this, there remains the danger, to which everyone is more or less subject, of attempting to influence the decisions and conduct of another without consulting the latter’s will. It is a very subtle temptation for we flatter ourselves that we know better than they do what is good for them --and us. If we cannot enter into their minds by the straight and narrow gate of the conscious, we wish to climb up some other way. But a thief is a thief whether he steals sheep or robs a man of his independence. This is a thing to be remembered even when dealing with others for their supposed good; as when one gives another a mental treatment against his will or without his knowledge.
And failure naturally lies along this line for the simple reason that in attempting to influence another by suggestion whether oral or silent or in absentia you are seeking to impress his subconscious mind with an idea. But at the same time, the man in question may be impressing his own mind with an idea and one which is contrary to yours. As he is rather more “on the inside” than you, his suggestion prevails, yours fails, and disappointment is the result. Many such failures could be reported in cases where the operator has picked out some man whom he has felt necessary to his success, concentrated on him, declared he was necessary, and that he would do as desired.
No one person is necessary or should be thought necessary to success in life. Principle alone is necessary. The necessary is the absolute; all other is relative, and you are dealing with principle.
I explained this to the woman and declared that what we were after was a buyer, not any particular buyer. We continued therefore to maintain that there was a buyer. It shortly developed that the two Pasadena men went to another garage in Long Beach with the intent to buy that establishment. The Long Beach people were willing to sell if they could move into a down-town garage. The Pasadena men referred them to the woman I was assisting, and they bought her place and saved her from loss and bankruptcy. In this case three distinct parties were served without coercion or sacrifice.
Realization
I am in the midst of the one and only mind whose presence is everywhere as the order and harmony of the universe. In this mind everything takes place in perfect harmony. There is no friction of any kind. There is enough for all without robbery of any. Whatever I desire may be achieved in full accord with the desires of others. Space is unknown, distance is only relative, mind is continuous, and my thought can go wherever I send it. I am now about to set my thought into activity to the solution of my problem; and all things, people, and events, necessary to its accomplishment will fall into harmonious order and activity without compulsion of any kind. I realize that my problem is being worked upon by a greater intelligence, a more thorough-going wisdom, a stronger power, and that “no good thing will He without from them that walk uprightly.”
