TRAVELLING THOUGHT.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 223, 13 June 1908, Page 10

TRAVELLING THOUGHT.

ACTION OF MIND OH MIND. THE MOST WONDERFUL WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY. The present considerablo interest in telepathy and tho rapidly increasing interest in it may mako acceptable at tlio present time sonic details of -science's newest discoveries in connection with it. Of tho forco itself the eminent French astronomer, Camille Flninniarion, has written: —" The action of ono human being upon another from a distance, is a scientific fact. It is as ccrtaiu as tho existence of Paris, of Napoleoli, of oxygen, or of Sirius. Thero is nothing unscientific, nothing romantic in admitting that an idea can influence a brain from a distance." , In an attempt to' explain this action by analogy, lie says: '.'There can be no doubt that our physical force croateß a movement in the ether (an invisible, olastic mediiim of ■ extrome thinness, -' assumed to exist throughout all space), which transmits itself afar like all movements of ether, and becomes perceptiblo to braiiiß' in harmony with our own. Tho transformation of a psyChic action into ah ethereal movement, and tho reverse,' may'bo analogous to what takes place on a telephone, .where the receptive place, which is idcutiial with the 'plate at tho other ond, reconstructs ' the sonorous' movement transmitted, : nbt'by moans of'sound, but by elec-t-ricity." • "' • • There are hundreds of records of the longdistahco transmission of mental states originating in ono mind and registering in another. It is undisputed by tlio physiologists that mental action burns up brain tissuo very much as electrical action in a battery burns up the metals that oompose the battery. That tho combustion of these : metals in the battery transmits an electrical cnorgy is not disputed; that the destruction of the. brain tissuo sends forth a mental euorgy-outside of the particular organism in which, that destruction occurs is a theory. It i 3 a theory enforced by an investigation of telepathic action, and a theory without which tolopathic action is barely explicable. ■ •.

! THE MANNER MIND SEEKS -MIND. ; Tho transmission of a force without a medium' of transmission is Hot a conceivable thing. The affirmation of an ether of some degreo' of density' as' a matorial medium between a'mind originating a niental L stoitd and a> mind receiving/the same -state.is a necessity.' ■ 'Many; years ago ' tho -Oriental philosophers, discussing ether, ! announced that western philisopHy conceived of'but ono etherr-that of the inter-stellar," inter-plane-tary kind; but contrary to this' conception there were several kinds of impalpable'material which might bo called other, each being in its way tho medium or vehicle for a diitorent force; tluit ono ether was a vehicle for light, that another cthor of a different density was tho vehicle for another -kind of light that penetrated . seemingly solid • objects; that still another was the vehicle for electricity, that anothor was a vehicle for thought. Ethers of still moro refined variety carried forces grouped, under the classification "spiritual." '' ' Tho discovery . of the X-ray chocked'to some degreo the tolerant and incredulous smile, with which any talk bf a ray. of light penetrating a solid body had been received up to' that time. , Tlie.. discovery of wireless telegraphy; leiit colour to the. Oriental, .statement, tnat an ether .. of ..individual dei)3ity,' that was. ..a . vehicle.. for ■.olcctrioity. .With, the .esta'blishm.ent ol..'.'tefepathjC is .a fact,' 'aftfl" witli . the Necessity.'. foj-.r sojnb /.material as .a medium for' the implied force, tho acceptance of a particular ether devoted, to mind waves sefcffls the only logical explanation:'' '• " / ' Tho vibratory wave theory is.the scientific explanation of thd transmission bf light and of heat and -of ...electricity.'...By.- analogy, it would' bo the' logical, 0f... the transmission., of. the force .that-, is operative in .telepathic'.fiction.'The most. tollable theory, then, '.would seem 'to bo,: and the theory most accepted by tlioiSo devoting' dome attention' to 'tho subject' is, 'that a strong desire in ono"mind s6ts up the. ether a vibratory motion, that is '/transmitted to other minds, and induces; 1 in tfyoso' otlier minds a- like mental state.' Those "mental waves may be transmitted in a simple radia-. tion as waves are transmitted from a contra! disturbance in water, or they may be direct, as currents sometimes are, f- in particular directions through larger bodies of water which contain the currents. : STRONG DESIRES. AND MENTAL . ; "'/: ' OimiiENTS. ' _ This, general 'radiating .action, 1 tliese ..paiv, ticular directed actions of mind-waves and currents are.sot in motion b'otk.unconsciously and consciously. The strong desire, of every individual generates theiri, as a. rulo,. unconsciously;. There are' many persons, and an , increasing. number p( them,'. who believe that they generate, such mental eurrcnts'by their desires, and, who purposely oultivate 'stroilg desire's with this intent. It is the theory, and it is the belief of these persons, that a mind in, a negative condition—that is to say, a mind not possessed by any dominating desire either good or .bad—is susceptiblo to fcheso mental currents generated by other minds, but that a mind dominated by its own de'siro and • purpose' resists these outsido influences. - .

Mr. Augustus Thomas, from whom we. quote, has just summed-.up-the whole matter thus: "There' is in the universe ono cen-. tral force,, which may , be: variously, called,, but .which I accept,as .mihd, r/hicli it is ire-; quently called. Every atom iii\tho 'universe is an inlet and a 1 conduit of.this force. Each, mind, draws from this force according to tho' 'strength of its .desire; .it uses and directs the forco , according to 'tho,'.strength, 'of its individual will. Tho force so rccoived and so exerted is constructivo or destructive as tho desire is for good or evil; . "This force is used by tho majority, unconsciously, and under tho operation of a natural law. It is used, by many consciously and with a knowledge and application of tho law."-—"Science Sittings.". .