By Marcus | Published:
July 13, 2009
The public performers of mind reading vary the above by sensational combinations, but you will readily grasp that these are but ingenious arrangements of the above general experiments, and that no new principle is involved. Whilst these lessons are designed for serious study and experiment, and not for sensational public performances, I [...]
By Marcus | Published:
July 2, 2009
A little more purpose is displayed in that class of phenomena in which we intently wish that a certain person shall do a certain thing, and lo! we soon learn that that certain person has done it. A number of years ago, a popular writer wrote an article in which he mentioned what [...]
By Marcus | Published:
July 2, 2009
Moreover, only as there is no real destruction of matter in any of Nature’s processes?all seeming destruction human being but a transformation?so in the case before us there is a transformation of the energy released during the thought or emotional process. We may grasp this idea more clearly if we consider what takes place into [...]
By Marcus | Published:
July 1, 2009
In order that you may be conscious of the spirit which animated these scientific investigators in their work of the investigation of this new and curious region of Nature, I ask you to carefully read the following words of the presidential address of Sir William Crookes, before the Royal Society, at Bristol, [...]
By Marcus | Published:
July 1, 2009
While we come to be concerned about the apparatus by which is received the vibrations arising from what may be called “purely mental” operations of the brain, such as intellectual thought, constructive imagination, etc., we find a more specialized arrangement, as might be expected. There are several minor receiving points of mental [...]
By Marcus | Published:
July 1, 2009
Thought transference , meaning Thought-Transference, bears a false title. Literally translated, it means “suffering at a distance,” or, perhaps, “feeling pain at a distance.” The name should really indicate “knowing at a distance,” in order to be right descriptive. But as the term has acquired a forced meaning by reason of years [...]
By Marcus | Published:
June 29, 2009
I enclose by and large seen this thing, appearing in my own country and within others, among poultry raisers. The poultryman will think, toward himself, “Now, I am going in the direction of get that black hen with the yellow legs?that fat, clumsy one,” and he will move to the flock slowly and [...]
By Marcus | Published:
June 29, 2009
Hunters participating in wild and remarkable lands have told us that often when they were lying concealed for the purpose of shooting the wild animals when they came in range, they have witnessed instances of the existence of this remarkable faculty participating in the wild beasts. Though they could not see the [...]
By Marcus | Published:
June 29, 2009
I boast said that occultists have developed, or moderately re-developed this sense. They do this within order to boast a harmonious well-developed seven-fold imprint system. It increases their ordinary “awareness.” Certain other knowledge of the occultist neutralizes the unpleasant features of the manifestation of this sense, and he finds it often a [...]
By Marcus | Published:
June 28, 2009
In this work I shall use the term “clairvoyance” participating in its broad imprint of “astral perception,” as distinguished from sensitivity by means of the physical senses. As we proceed, you will see the universal and special meanings of the term, so there is no necessity for a special definition or illustration [...]
By Marcus | Published:
June 23, 2009
I am not trying to make any of you doubt the report of his or her five senses. That would be most foolish, for all of us must needs depend upon these five senses within our daily affairs, and would soon come to grief were we toward neglect their reports. Instead, I am trying in [...]