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Chapter 13 · Think and Grow Rich | Book Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Napoleon Hill. This is an independent edition containing the original
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  Speaker 1: Chapter 13. The Brain. A Broadcasting and Receiving Station for Thought.
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  Speaker 1: The Twelfth Step Toward Riches. More than twenty years ago,
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  Speaker 1: the author, working in conjunction with the late Dr. Alexander
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  Speaker 1: Graham Bell and Dr. Elmer R. Gates, observed that every
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  Speaker 1: human brain is both a broadcasting and receiving station for
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  Speaker 1: the vibration of thought. Through the medium of the ether,
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  Speaker 1: in a fashion similar to that employed by the radio
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  Speaker 1: broadcasting principle, every human brain is capable of picking up
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  Speaker 1: vibrations of thought which are being released by other brains.
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  Speaker 1: In connection with the statement in the preceding paragraph, compare
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  Speaker 1: and consider the description of the creative imagination as outlined
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  Speaker 1: in the chapter on imagination. The creative imagination is the
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  Speaker 1: receiving set of the brains. which receives thoughts released by
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  Speaker 1: the brains of others. It is the agency of communication
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  Speaker 1: between one's conscious or reasoning mind and the four sources
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  Speaker 1: from which one may receive thought stimuli. When stimulated or
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  Speaker 1: stepped up to a high rate of vibration, the mind
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  Speaker 1: becomes more receptive to the vibration of thought which reaches
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  Speaker 1: it through the ether from outside sources. This stepping up
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  Speaker 1: process takes place through the positive emotions. or the negative emotions.
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  Speaker 1: Through the emotions, the vibrations of thought may be increased.
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  Speaker 1: Vibrations of an exceedingly high rate are the only vibrations
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  Speaker 1: picked up and carried by the ether from one brain
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  Speaker 1: to another. Thought is energy traveling at an exceedingly high
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  Speaker 1: rate of vibration. Thought, which has been modified or stepped
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  Speaker 1: up by any of the major emotions, vibrates at a
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  Speaker 1: much higher rate than ordinary thought. and it is this
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  Speaker 1: type of thought which passes from one brain to another
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  Speaker 1: through the broadcasting machinery of the human brain. The emotion
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  Speaker 1: of sex stands at the head of the list of
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  Speaker 1: human emotions as far as intensity and driving force are concerned.
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  Speaker 1: The brain which has been stimulated by the emotion of
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  Speaker 1: sex vibrates at a much more rapid rate than it
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  Speaker 1: does when that emotion is quiescent or absent. The result
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  Speaker 1: of sex transmutation is the increase of the rate of
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  Speaker 1: vibration of thoughts to such a pitch that the creative
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  Speaker 1: imagination becomes highly receptive to ideas which it picks up
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  Speaker 1: from the ether. On the other hand, when the brain
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  Speaker 1: is vibrating at a rapid rate, it not only attracts
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  Speaker 1: thoughts and ideas released by other brains through the medium
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  Speaker 1: of the ether, but it gives to one's own thoughts
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  Speaker 1: that feeling which is essential before those thoughts will be
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  Speaker 1: picked up and acted upon by one's subconscious mind. Thus,
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  Speaker 1: you will see that the broadcasting principle is the factor
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  Speaker 1: through which you mix feeling or emotion with your thoughts
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  Speaker 1: and pass them on to your subconscious mind. The subconscious
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  Speaker 1: mind is the sending station of the brain, through which
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  Speaker 1: vibrations of thought are broadcast. The creative imagination is the
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  Speaker 1: receiving set, through which the vibrations of thought are picked
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  Speaker 1: up from the ether. Along with the important factors of
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  Speaker 1: the subconscious mind and the faculty of the creative imagination,
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  Speaker 1: which constitute the sending and receiving sets of your mental
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  Speaker 1: broadcasting machinery, consider now the principle of autosuggestion, which is
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  Speaker 1: the medium by which you may put into operation your
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  Speaker 1: broadcasting station. Through the instructions described in the chapter on autosuggestion,
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  Speaker 1: you were definitely informed of the method by which desire
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  Speaker 1: may be transmuted into its monetary equivalent. Operation of your
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  Speaker 1: mental broadcasting station is a comparatively simple procedure. You have
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  Speaker 1: but three principles to bear in mind and to apply
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  Speaker 1: when you wish to use your broadcasting station. The subconscious mind,
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  Speaker 1: creative imagination, and auto-suggestion. The stimuli through which you put
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  Speaker 1: these three principles into action have been described. The procedure
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  Speaker 1: begins with desire. The greatest forces are intangible. The Depression
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  Speaker 1: brought the world to the very borderline of understanding of
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  Speaker 1: the forces which are intangible and unseen. Through the ages
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  Speaker 1: which have passed, man has depended too much upon his
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  Speaker 1: physical senses and has limited his knowledge to physical things
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  Speaker 1: which he could see, touch, weigh, and measure. We are
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  Speaker 1: now entering the most marvelous of all ages, an age
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  Speaker 1: which will teach us something of the intangible forces of
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  Speaker 1: the world about us. Perhaps we shall learn, as we
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  Speaker 1: pass through this age, that the other self is more
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  Speaker 1: powerful than the physical self we see when we look
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  Speaker 1: into a mirror. Sometimes men speak lightly of the intangibles,
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  Speaker 1: the things which they cannot perceive through any of their
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  Speaker 1: five senses, and when we hear them, it should remind
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  Speaker 1: us that all of us are controlled by forces which
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  Speaker 1: are unseen and intangible. The whole of mankind has not
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  Speaker 1: the power to cope with, nor to control, the intangible
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  Speaker 1: force wrapped up in the rolling waves of the oceans.
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  Speaker 1: Man has not the capacity to understand the intangible force
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  Speaker 1: of gravity, which keeps this little earth suspended in mid-air,
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  Speaker 1: and keeps man from falling from it, much less the
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  Speaker 1: power to control that force. Man is entirely subservient to
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  Speaker 1: the intangible force which comes with a thunderstorm. and he
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  Speaker 1: is just as helpless in the presence of the intangible
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  Speaker 1: force of electricity. Nay, he does not even know what
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  Speaker 1: electricity is, where it comes from, or what is its purpose.
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  Speaker 1: Nor is this by any means the end of man's
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  Speaker 1: ignorance in connection with things unseen and intangible. He does
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  Speaker 1: not understand the intangible force and intelligence wrapped up in
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  Speaker 1: the soil of the earth, the force which provides him
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  Speaker 1: with every morsel of food he eats. every article of
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  Speaker 1: clothing he wears, every dollar he carries in his pockets.
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  Speaker 1: The dramatic story of the brain. Last but not least, man,
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  Speaker 1: with all of his boasted culture and education, understands little
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  Speaker 1: or nothing of the intangible force, the greatest of all
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  Speaker 1: the intangibles, of thought. He knows but little concerning the
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  Speaker 1: physical brain and its vast network of intricate machinery and
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  Speaker 1: through which the power of thought is translated into its
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  Speaker 1: material equivalent. But he is now entering an age which
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  Speaker 1: shall yield enlightenment on the subject. Already, men of science
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  Speaker 1: have begun to turn their attention to the study of
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  Speaker 1: this stupendous thing called a brain. And, while they are
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  Speaker 1: still in the kindergarten stage of their studies, they have
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  Speaker 1: uncovered enough knowledge to know that the central switchboard of
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  Speaker 1: the human brain, the number of lines which connect the
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  Speaker 1: brain cells one with another, equal the figure 1, followed
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  Speaker 1: by 15 million ciphers. The figure is so stupendous, said Dr. C.
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  Speaker 1: Judson Herrick of the University of Chicago, that astronomical figures
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  Speaker 1: dealing with hundreds of millions of light years become insignificant
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  Speaker 1: by comparison. It has been determined that there are from
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  Speaker 1: 10 billion to 14 billion nerve cells in the human
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  Speaker 1: cerebral cortex, and we know that these are arranged in
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  Speaker 1: definite patterns. These arrangements are not haphazard. They are orderly.
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  Speaker 1: Recently developed methods of electrophysiology draw off action currents from
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  Speaker 1: very precisely located cells, or fibers, with microelectrodes, amplify them
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  Speaker 1: with radio tubes, and record potential differences to a millionth
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  Speaker 1: of a volt. It is inconceivable that such a network
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  Speaker 1: of intricate machinery should be in existence for the sole
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  Speaker 1: purpose of carrying on the physical functions incidental to growth
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  Speaker 1: and maintenance of the physical body. Is it not likely
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  Speaker 1: that the same system, which gives billions of brain cells
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  Speaker 1: the media for communication one with another, provides also the
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  Speaker 1: means of communication with other intangible forces? After this book
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  Speaker 1: had been written, just before the manuscript went to the publisher,
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  Speaker 1: there appeared in the New York Times an editorial showing
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  Speaker 1: that at least one great university and one intelligent investigator
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  Speaker 1: in the field of mental phenomena, are carrying on an
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  Speaker 1: organized research through which conclusions have been reached that parallel
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  Speaker 1: many of those described in this and the following chapter.
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  Speaker 1: The editorial briefly analyzed the work carried on by Dr.
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  Speaker 1: Rine and his associates at Duke University, viz., What is Telepathy?
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  Speaker 1: A month ago, we cited on this page some of
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  Speaker 1: the remarkable results achieved by Professor Rine and his associates
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  Speaker 1: in Duke University from more than 100,000 tests to determine
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  Speaker 1: the existence of telepathy and clairvoyance. These results were summarized
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  Speaker 1: in the first two articles in Harper's Magazine. In the second,
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  Speaker 1: which has now appeared, the author, E. H. Wright, attempts
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  Speaker 1: to summarize what has been learned, or what it seems
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  Speaker 1: reasonable to infer, regarding the exact nature of these extrasensory
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  Speaker 1: modes of perception. The actual existence of telepathy and clairvoyance
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  Speaker 1: now seems to some scientists enormously probable as the result
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  Speaker 1: of Rhine's experiments. Various percipients were asked to name as
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  Speaker 1: many cards in a special pack as they could without
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  Speaker 1: looking at them and without other sensory access to them.
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  Speaker 1: About a score of men and women were discovered who
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  Speaker 1: could regularly name so many of the cards correctly that
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  Speaker 1: there was not one chance in many a million million
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  Speaker 1: of their having done their feats by luck or accident.
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  Speaker 1: But how did they do them? These powers, assuming that
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  Speaker 1: they exist, do not seem to be sensory. There is
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  Speaker 1: no known organ for them. The experiments worked just as
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  Speaker 1: well at distances of several hundred miles as they did
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  Speaker 1: in the same room. These facts also dispose, in Mr.
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  Speaker 1: Wright's opinion, of the attempt to explain telepathy or clairvoyance
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  Speaker 1: through any physical theory of radiation. All known forms of
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  Speaker 1: radiant energy decline inversely as the square of the distance traversed.
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  Speaker 1: Telepathy and clairvoyance do not. But they do vary through
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  Speaker 1: physical causes as our other mental powers do. Contrary to
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  Speaker 1: widespread opinion, they do not improve when the percipient is
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  Speaker 1: asleep or half-asleep, but, on the contrary, when he is
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  Speaker 1: most wide awake and alert. Rhine discovered that a narcotic
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  Speaker 1: will invariably lower a percipient's score, while a stimulant will
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  Speaker 1: always send it higher. The most reliable performer apparently cannot
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  Speaker 1: make a good score unless he tries to do his best.
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  Speaker 1: One conclusion that Wright draws with some confidence is that
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  Speaker 1: telepathy and clairvoyance are really one and the same gift.
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  Speaker 1: That is, the faculty that sees a card face down
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  Speaker 1: on a table seems to be exactly the same one
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  Speaker 1: that reads a thought residing only in another mind. There
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  Speaker 1: are several grounds for believing this. So far, for example,
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  Speaker 1: the two gifts have been found in every person who
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  Speaker 1: enjoys either of them. In everyone so far, the two
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  Speaker 1: have been of equal vigor, almost exactly. Screens, walls, distances
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  Speaker 1: have no effect at all on either. Wright advances from
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  Speaker 1: this conclusion to express what he puts forward as no
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  Speaker 1: more than the mere hunch that other extrasensory experiences, prophetic dreams,
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  Speaker 1: premonitions of disaster, and the like, may also prove to
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  Speaker 1: be part of the same faculty. The reader is not
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  Speaker 1: asked to accept any of these conclusions unless he finds
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  Speaker 1: it necessary, but the evidence that Rhine has piled up
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  Speaker 1: must remain impressive. In view of Dr. Rhine's announcement in
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  Speaker 1: connection with the conditions under which the mind responds to
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  Speaker 1: what he terms extrasensory modes of perception, I now feel
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  Speaker 1: privileged to add to his testimony by stating that my
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  Speaker 1: associates and I have discovered what we believe to be
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  Speaker 1: the ideal conditions under which the mind can be stimulated
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  Speaker 1: so that the sixth sense, described in the next chapter,
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  Speaker 1: can be made to function in a practical way. The
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  Speaker 1: conditions to which I refer consist of a close working
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  Speaker 1: alliance between myself and two members of my staff. Through
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  Speaker 1: experimentation and practice, we have discovered how to stimulate our minds,
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  Speaker 1: by applying the principle used in connection with the invisible
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  Speaker 1: counselors described in the next chapter, so that we can,
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  Speaker 1: by a process of blending our three minds into one,
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  Speaker 1: find the solution to a great variety of personal problems
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  Speaker 1: which are submitted by my clients. The procedure is very simple.
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  Speaker 1: We sit down at a conference table, clearly state the
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  Speaker 1: nature of the problem we have under consideration, then begin
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  Speaker 1: discussing it. Each contributes whatever thoughts that may occur. The
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  Speaker 1: strange thing about this method of mind stimulation is that
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  Speaker 1: it places each participant in communication with unknown sources of
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  Speaker 1: knowledge definitely outside his own experience. If you understand the
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  Speaker 1: principle described in the chapter on the mastermind, You of
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  Speaker 1: course recognize the round table procedure here described as being
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  Speaker 1: a practical application of the mastermind. This method of mind stimulation,
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  Speaker 1: through harmonious discussion of definite subjects between three people, illustrates
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  Speaker 1: the simplest and most practical use of the mastermind. By
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  Speaker 1: adopting and following a similar plan, any student of this
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  Speaker 1: philosophy may come into possession of the famous Carnegie formula
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  Speaker 1: briefly described in the introduction. If it means nothing to
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  Speaker 1: you at this time, mark this page and read it
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  Speaker 1: again after you have finished the last chapter. The Depression
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  Speaker 1: was a blessing in disguise. It reduced the whole world
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  Speaker 1: to a new starting point that gives everyone a new opportunity.
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