[b]Lesson I
**The Nature of mind reading**
Only a few years ago the general public was in almost total ignorance of the great truth odi Thought Transference, Thought Projection, Telepathy, or Mind Reading. It is true here and there were to be found a few scientists earnestly investigating and eagerly uncovering the hidden truths concerning the subjects. But the mass of the people where either entirely ignorant of the subject, or else the matter, laughing to scorn the darling thinker which venture to express his interest or belief in this great scientific phenomena
But how different to-day. On all hands we hear of the wonders of Thought Transference, or Telepathy as it is called. Scientific men write and teach of its Fascinating manifestations, and even the general public has heard much of the new science and believes more or less in it, according to degree of intelligence or knowledge concerning the subject possessed by the individual. Listen to these scientist of the day
Prof. Williams James, eminent instructor at Harvard University, says; ''when from our present advanced stand point we look back upon the past stages of human thought,whether it be scientific thought theological thought,we are amazed that a universe which appears to us other so vast and mysterious a complication should ever have seemed to anyone so little and plains a thing.Whether it be Descartes' world or Newton's,whether it be that of the bridgewater treatises of our own, it is always the same to us--Incredible perspectiveless and short.Even Lyell's,faradays,Mills and darwins consciousness of their respective subjects are already beginning to put on an infantile and innocent look.'' These remarks are double significant of reason of their having been ,adeshewa by Prof. James as the president of the ''society for Psychical Research
The eminent English scientist, Sir Williams Crookes,in his address as president of loyal Society, at Bristol,England,A few years ago, said: ''Were i now introducing for the first times these inquires to the word of science, i should choose a starting point different from that of old,where we formally began.It would be well to begin with Telepathy;With the fundamental law,as i beliv it to be,that thoughts and images may be transferred from one mind to another without the agency of recognized organ of sence- that knowledge may enter the human mind without being communicated in any hitherto known or recognized ways. Although the inquiry has elicited important facts with reference to the mind, it has not yet reached the scientific stage of certainty which would enable it to be usefully brought before one of our sections. I will therefore confine myself pointing out the directions in which scientific investigation can legitimately advance. If telepathy takes place, we will have two physical facts-the physical change in the brain of A. The suggestion, and the analogous physical change in the brain B. The recipient of suggestion. Between these two physical events there must exist a train of physical causes.
Whenever the connection sequence of intermediate causes begins to be revealed,the inquiry will then come within the range of one of the sections of the British Association. Such a sequence can only occur through an intervening medium. All the phenomena of the universe are presumably in some ways continuous, and it is unscientific to call in the aid of mysterious agencies when with every fresh advance in knowledge,it is shown that either vibrations have power and attributes abundantly equal to any demand--even the transmission of thought
Prof. Crooks then on to say: ''it is supposed by some physiologists that the essential cells of nerves do no actually touch,but are separated by a narrow gap which widens in sleep while it narrows almost to extinction during mental activity.
This condition is so singularly like that of branly of lodge coherer (a device which has led Marconi to discovery of wireless telegraphy) As to suggest a further analogy.The structure of brain and nerve being similar,its conceivable that there may be present masses of such nerves coherers in brain whose special function it maybe to receive impulses brought from without through the connection sequence of ether waves of appropriate order of magnitude. Roentgen has familierized us with an order of vibrations of extreme minuteness compared with the smallest waves of which we have hitherto been acquainted, and dimensions of the atoms of which material universe is built up; and their is a reason for believing that we have here reached the limit of frequency. It is known that the action of thought is accompanied by certain certain molecular movements in the brain, and here we have physical vibrations capable from their extreme minuteness of acting direct upon individual molecules while their rapidity approaches that of the internal and external movements of an atom themselves.
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