WHAT IS THOUGHT?

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21320, 13 November 1934, Page 8

WHAT IS THOUGHT?

TO TBI KCITOB OF THE PBBSfI. Sir, —Only a few days ago in a newspaper of this city, there appeared an article "Poems Written in Sleep," and drawing attention to no 1 s a personage than our Poet Laureate, Mr John Masefield. Speaking at a dinner given in his honour in Melbourne, Mr Masefield mentioned this great fact, that the poems he wrote did not originate in his own brain; they were not his thoughts, he being only the channel through which these particular thoughts flowed. He himself was only the means whereby they were distributed into this world of ours from some "great unseen and undying source." This we must accept as true, for it is verified by other eminent writers of prose and verse. This being so, it would be most interesting and of great value to many of your readers if, through the medium of your columns, this little known, though most powerful force, thought, could be adequately expounded upon by someone sufficiently enlightened on this subject of thought vibration.

If the brain is but the sensitive receiving instrument of the physical body which becomes inactive at death, then what is it that continues on after the brain is non-existent? Psychologists tell us that it is the subconsious mind. Others, again, say it is the soul or personality, a super conscious mind.

Experience demonstrates in accord with understanding—therefore in the great cause of progression, able minds of higher understanding should as a duty to their fellows allow their minds to be the channel whereby such knowledge should flow to fertilise those of slower growth. If thoughts are real, things that can be transferred from one brain to another, that can be reproduced on a sensitised plate as a picture, or collected under certain conditions and recorded as is done with the voice, then, here is a field for science to explore. Here is a vital force to discover that which will lead the nations of the world to an understanding of themselves, that will bring unity of purpose, signifying peace and happiness to the whole. I ask that this subject be familiarised, and the ground prepared for sowing of the seed which must come before the harvest can be reaped.—Yours, etc. T? D T> November 10, 1934.