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the well-known fact that many people upon their first introduction to others have an instinctive sense of 256 A Guide to Mediumship attraction or repulsion. Sometimes there is a feeling of repulsion when, by all external indications, it would seem that the feeling should be just the reverse. In some cases, after an acquaintance of but a few moments, the sympathy between two people is such that they feel as though they had known each other for years. The curious premonitions which so frequently affect sensitives indicate the existence of powers, inherent in their nature, by which they may relate themselves to the great thought atmosphere which envelopes us all the great sphere of causative forces which we but dimly recognize. Most people are more or less familiar with the feeling that something is going to happen; the sensation that something is 'in the air,' or, as it has been said, 'coming events cast their shadows before them': and Dr. J. M. Peebles, writing on this point, says: 'Visitors often call upon us while the air is yet vibrant with our earnest words concerning them. Approaching us they thought of us, and thus thinking, they projected their thought along the interstellar waves of ether, which impinging upon our aural thought- sphere, induced us to speak of them. Thought kindles thought. And so thought responds to thought as do notes on the musical scale to music.' Just as one musician can give expression to the soul of harmony to an extent that others vainly endeavor to reach, so the aptitudes of people on the psychical plane vary. Some have natural psychometric power. They weigh, 'size up,' and measure the people with whom they come in contact almost at once. Their 'first impressions' are generally psychical or intuitive. Others are naturally clairvoyant, and have possessed the faculty from birth, but have been afraid to trust or exercise it. So, too, many speakers, although they never lose consciousness, are aware that they are impelled to say things they had not intended to utter, that ideas flow into their minds. These are all natural experiences, and everyone can more or less successfully develop and enjoy some one or other of the powers of spiritual perception. By study and effort one may become sufficiently sensitive to respond consciously to the psychical conditions of objects, places, or persons, and A Guide to Mediumship 257 sufficiently expert to eliminate foreign influences and perceive the quality and character of the especial aura of a given article or of an individual. THE VIBRATORY THEORY. It it believed by many thinkers that a subtle spiritual ether pervades the whole universe; that it is by means of the vibrations of this omnipresent substance, fluid, or force, that thought impulses are transmitted from one consciousness to another. It is suggested that just as the sensations which we experience, and denominate light, heat, color, and sound, are due to wave motions of the atmosphere of varying length, rapidity, and intensity, so those people who are sympathetic and 'open' to certain mental states may be affected by, and respond to, the wave-motions of the spiritual ether that are due to the thought impulses from active thinkers who are upon the same plane, or of a like order. If this theory be true, and it seems to be the one which will best cover the ground of the observed facts, we are bathing in an ocean whose waves are continually surging around, upon, and through us, and we may be unconsciously responding to influences which set us thrilling with hope and inspiration, with passion or despair. When once the key-note of our being to touched, whether physical, mental, moral, or spiritual, we shall vibrate in unison with the impulses that enter our psychical sphere, and therefore we need to learn how to strike the key and pitch the tune; how to give direction to the currents, and dominate, instead of being dominated by, these unseen but potent environings. It is further held that the human spirit is a centre of potential energy an Intelligence that can cultivate the ability to draw upon and utilize the etheric, or spiritual, forces which pervade the universe and radiates auric emanations which are healthful or injurious, moral or debasing, spiritual or gross, according to the degree of unfoldment of the higher self that has been attained; and that these impalpable potencies are substantial en the psychical [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ] |
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