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THOUGHT POWER - RADIO MENTALISM: The Science of Attraction and Manifestation - William Walker Atkinson (1922) · THE SECRET LAW OF ATTRACTION: Manifest Wealth, Success & Abundance

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  Speaker 1: Thought Power Radiomentalism by William Walker Atkinson, nineteen twenty two,
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  Speaker 1: The Power of Thought. In this book, you are asked
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  Speaker 1: to consider a strange phase of personal power, a mysterious
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  Speaker 1: phase of your mental power, an aspect of your individual
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  Speaker 1: power which, perhaps intuitively you have realized to be possessed
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  Speaker 1: by you, but which in all probability you have not
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  Speaker 1: understood in the same way in which you have understood
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  Speaker 1: the other phases of your personal power. Yet this strange
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  Speaker 1: phase of your power is quite as natural as are
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  Speaker 1: those most familiar to you. There is nothing supernatural about it.
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  Speaker 1: It falls into its place in the natural order of things.
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  Speaker 1: It is governed by natural law and order. Like all
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  Speaker 1: the other forms of personal power to which we have
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  Speaker 1: directed your attention in the several other volumes of this series,
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  Speaker 1: this phase or form of personal power is one of
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  Speaker 1: the instruments or channels of expression of the powers of
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  Speaker 1: the element of yourself, of that fundamental something, the existence
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  Speaker 1: of which you assert when you say I am I,
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  Speaker 1: and which is the base and ground, the center, and
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  Speaker 1: the focal point of all of your conscious states. This
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  Speaker 1: I am I, in fact, is a focalized center of
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  Speaker 1: expression of that all power from which all power proceeds,
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  Speaker 1: and in which we live and move and have our
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  Speaker 1: being an expression of that which, in this instruction is
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  Speaker 1: known as power. The particular phase of personal power which
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  Speaker 1: you are here asked to consider is known as thought power.
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  Speaker 1: By this term, however, we do not mean the exercise
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  Speaker 1: of the faculties of thought along the lines of logical reasoning, induction, analogy, judgment,
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  Speaker 1: et cetera, nor along the lines of creative and constructive imagination,
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  Speaker 1: inventive effort, et cetera, both of which lines we have
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  Speaker 1: considered in detail in other volumes of this series. The
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  Speaker 1: phase before you for consideration is that which is concerned
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  Speaker 1: with the influence of your mental states, particularly your ideas
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  Speaker 1: and mental pictures, over persons, things, and can conditions external
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  Speaker 1: to yourself, with the influence exerted by your thoughts over
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  Speaker 1: your environment in general. Up until about forty years ago,
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  Speaker 1: the serious assertion that one's thoughts exerted an influence extending
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  Speaker 1: far beyond the physical organ in which they were generated,
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  Speaker 1: which influence produced effects upon distant persons, things, and conditions,
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  Speaker 1: would have been received with the utmost incredulity, disbelief, ridicule,
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  Speaker 1: and derision. On the part of the general public, such
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  Speaker 1: a statement would have been interpreted as an expression of
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  Speaker 1: gross superstition, credulity, and lack of common sense. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: in many cases the sanity of the person making the
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  Speaker 1: statement actually would have been questioned. But during the past
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  Speaker 1: forty years, particularly during the last twenty years, there has
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  Speaker 1: been quite a change in the public belief concerning this
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  Speaker 1: general subject. At the present time, the statement above alluded
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  Speaker 1: to is regarded as quite familiar, trite, and commonplace, even
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  Speaker 1: though the hearer may not accept it as correct. It
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  Speaker 1: would be difficult in these times to find the person
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  Speaker 1: of ordinary intelligence who has not at least heard frequent
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  Speaker 1: references made to the power of thought operating actively in
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  Speaker 1: affecting physical states for better or worse, and in affecting
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  Speaker 1: one's environment in the same way. Indeed, it is not
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  Speaker 1: too much to say that at the present time, the
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  Speaker 1: great majority of persons accept the theory and principle of
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  Speaker 1: thought power as above explained to some extent, the degree
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  Speaker 1: of acceptance ranging from complete and earnest belief down to
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  Speaker 1: the general belief that there is something in it. The
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  Speaker 1: principles of thought power, in fact, have been adopted by
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  Speaker 1: many schools, cults, sex, quasi religious organizations, et cetera, and
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  Speaker 1: have been employed as the base and ground of numerous
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  Speaker 1: ologies and isms. In many such cases, however, the fundamental
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  Speaker 1: principles have been so embellished with non essential coverings of theory, doctrine, dogma,
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  Speaker 1: and claimed authority, that the basic truths and facts are
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  Speaker 1: in danger of being lost sight of by the ordinary individual,
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  Speaker 1: who is is ignorant of the history of the thought
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  Speaker 1: on the subject and of the true principles involved. In
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  Speaker 1: many cases, the extraneous materials which have been added are
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  Speaker 1: of such fantastic and bizarre character that the ordinary observer
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  Speaker 1: is bewildered and confused, and is apt to dismiss the
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  Speaker 1: whole subject as too much for me. Yet, the elemental
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  Speaker 1: principles involved are quite simple, and the laws under which
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  Speaker 1: they manifest and operate are quite easily understood by any
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  Speaker 1: person of average intelligence. In the present book, we shall
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  Speaker 1: confine ourselves to the presentation of the plane simple scientific
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  Speaker 1: principles which careful thought has discovered to underlie the entire
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  Speaker 1: subject and to explain the entire range of the phenomena.
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  Speaker 1: We shall accompany this presentation of scientific principles with instruction
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  Speaker 1: along the lines of the most effective and scientific methods
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  Speaker 1: of applying those principles in the practical affairs of everyday life.
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  Speaker 1: The entire treatment of principle and practice shall be scientific,
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  Speaker 1: quite as scientific as would be an efficient treatment and
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  Speaker 1: present of the subject of electricity or of any other
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  Speaker 1: branch of physical science. This because thought power, like every
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  Speaker 1: other form of power manifested in the universe, has a
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  Speaker 1: natural scientific foundation, ground and base, and is under natural
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  Speaker 1: law and order. There is no more reason for the
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  Speaker 1: subject of thought power being surrounded by a mass of
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  Speaker 1: non essential extraneous material of quasi religious, technical, metaphysical or
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  Speaker 1: esoteric theories, doctrines, or dogmas than there is for the
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  Speaker 1: subject of electricity, physical power of any kind, or any
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  Speaker 1: phase of physical science being so conditioned. What would be
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  Speaker 1: thought of one who would seriously attempt to teach the
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  Speaker 1: subject of the principles and application of electricity as a
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  Speaker 1: part of some quasi religious, metaphysical doctrines or esoteric teaching.
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  Speaker 1: The verdict would be that such a person was going
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  Speaker 1: a long distance out of his way, and that he
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  Speaker 1: was attempting to obscure simple natural principles by a covering
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  Speaker 1: of supernatural teaching. Yet this is just what many of
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  Speaker 1: the cults and schools have been more or less successfully doing.
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  Speaker 1: In the case of thought power. This does not mean
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  Speaker 1: that the subject of thought power is opposed in any
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  Speaker 1: way to true religious feeling or thought, or to rational
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  Speaker 1: metaphysical or philosophical teachings. On the contrary, we hold that
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  Speaker 1: true religious feeling and thought constitute a true tower of
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  Speaker 1: strength for the individual, and that rational metaphysical and philosophical
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  Speaker 1: knowledge enables the individual more intelligently to apply any in
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  Speaker 1: all of his powers. The distinction we wish to make
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  Speaker 1: is merely that thought power, like any other form of
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  Speaker 1: natural power, does not depend upon any particular religious, quasi religious, metaphysical,
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  Speaker 1: philosophical or esoteric doctrine, theory, dogma, or teaching. Like any
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  Speaker 1: other natural force, thought power operates along well established natural
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  Speaker 1: lines and may be successfully applied by any one intelligently
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  Speaker 1: understanding the laws and order of its manifestation. Again, like
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  Speaker 1: any other natural force, thought power is no respector of persons.
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  Speaker 1: It has no favorites among individuals. It affects all who
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  Speaker 1: come under its influence. Unless they know how to divert
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  Speaker 1: its energy. It may be misused as well as used properly,
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  Speaker 1: it may bring pain as well as pleasure, harm as
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  Speaker 1: well as benefit, according to its direction and application. It
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  Speaker 1: may be bad as well as good, according to its
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  Speaker 1: use and direction, and according to the moral character of
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  Speaker 1: the person employing it. Like electricity, gravitation, light, heat, mechanical force,
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  Speaker 1: it is open to all persons, good and bad, high
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  Speaker 1: and low, just and unjust, provided that they know how
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  Speaker 1: to call into operation its forces. It may be set
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  Speaker 1: into operation by subconscious effort, as well as conscious anyone
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  Speaker 1: everyone who can think as at his disposal, that which
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  Speaker 1: we call thought power, which will respond to his efforts
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  Speaker 1: to set it into activity in nature's plans. It follows
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  Speaker 1: the same general rule which governs all of the natural forces, energies,
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  Speaker 1: and powers. In our presentation of this important subject of
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  Speaker 1: thought power, however, we do not ask you to set aside,
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  Speaker 1: to discard, even for the time being, any of your
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  Speaker 1: favorite religious, quasi religious, metaphysical, or philosophical beliefs or doctrines.
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  Speaker 1: The writers of this book entertain certain beliefs of this kind,
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  Speaker 1: perhaps the very ones entertained by you, and they hold
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  Speaker 1: fast to these even though they may not introduce them
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  Speaker 1: into these pages. They merely ask you to be willing
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  Speaker 1: to follow them in their consideration of thought power as
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  Speaker 1: a purely natural force or power, just as you would
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  Speaker 1: have them consider electricity, gravitation, et cetera. They ask you
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  Speaker 1: to accompany them in their consideration of the subject of
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  Speaker 1: thought power along the lines of scientific treatment, rather than
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  Speaker 1: that of metaphysical, philosophical or religious speculation, doctrine or dogma.
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  Speaker 1: With the above understanding, let us now proceed to the
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  Speaker 1: consideration of the principles of thought power, and of the
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  Speaker 1: methods underlying the efficient application of those principles. Thought power
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  Speaker 1: radiomantalism by William Walker Atkinson, nineteen twenty two, radioactive thought.
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  Speaker 1: In our consideration of thought power, we are not concerned
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  Speaker 1: with the nature of the ultimate character of mind or
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  Speaker 1: of spirit in its ultimate essence. Neither are we concerned
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  Speaker 1: with the precise nature of the relation between mind or
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  Speaker 1: spirit and the physical mechanism through which they or it
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  Speaker 1: manifest in the processes of thought. Enough for the purposes
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  Speaker 1: of the present consideration is the evident fact that what
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  Speaker 1: we know as thought consists of a process or series
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  Speaker 1: of processes in which the mechanism of the brain cells
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  Speaker 1: and brain substance is involved and employed by the natural
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  Speaker 1: energies playing upon it in some way as yet unknown
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  Speaker 1: to science. That thought is a process or a series
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  Speaker 1: of processes in which energy plays upon the physical mechanism
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  Speaker 1: of the brain is admitted by the most careful scientific
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  Speaker 1: thought of today. The phenomena of thought can be scientifically
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  Speaker 1: explained in no other way. Without brain substance and cells.
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  Speaker 1: There can be no process of thought such as we
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  Speaker 1: know by that term. That energy of some kind is
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  Speaker 1: involved in such processes is undoubted by any scientific thinker.
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  Speaker 1: Thought is under natural law and order and maintains an
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  Speaker 1: orderly trend in sequence in accordance with it. Thought processes
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  Speaker 1: may be measured, weighed, and gaged by delicate instruments designed
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  Speaker 1: in the modern psychological laboratories. Science is concerned only with
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  Speaker 1: the way things act, the laws governing their processes, and
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  Speaker 1: the orderly trend manifested in these processes. It does not
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  Speaker 1: attempt to go beyond these processes. If it be true science.
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  Speaker 1: It does not speculate concerning the ultimate nature of things
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  Speaker 1: with first principles or with ultimate realities. It is concerned
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  Speaker 1: with the pragmatic idea of how things work and does
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  Speaker 1: not invade the field of things in themselves i e.
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  Speaker 1: Things considered apart from their activities and phenomena. The latter
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  Speaker 1: class of speculations and inquiries belongs properly to metaphysical and
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  Speaker 1: philosophical thought, or is attached to religious faith. In our
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  Speaker 1: present inquiry, therefore, you are at liberty to have and
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  Speaker 1: to hold your own particular metaphysical, philosophical, or religious views
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  Speaker 1: concerning the ultimate nature of mind or spirit. To think
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  Speaker 1: of these as things in themselves, if you so wish.
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  Speaker 1: All we ask you to do is to consider the
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  Speaker 1: processes of thought i e. How thought works, as discovered
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  Speaker 1: by scientific inquiry and supported by the indisputable facts of
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  Speaker 1: the case. You are asked to concede the fact that
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  Speaker 1: the brain substance and the brain cells are employed as
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  Speaker 1: the mechanism of thought or the instruments of thought. This
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  Speaker 1: is asking you merely to admit what you already know
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  Speaker 1: to be a fact. You are also asked to regard
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  Speaker 1: the thought processes as being set into operation by the
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  Speaker 1: presence and power of some form of energy i e.
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  Speaker 1: By some internal or inherent power which is capable of acting, operating,
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  Speaker 1: or producing effects. This also is self evident. You are
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  Speaker 1: also asked to accept the acknowledged and demonstrated fact that,
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  Speaker 1: in the processes of thought there is an expenditure of
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  Speaker 1: energy and a consuming or combustion of brain material sufficient
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  Speaker 1: at times to increase the temperature of the brain area
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  Speaker 1: involved in the process. These are axiomatic truths of physiological psychology,
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  Speaker 1: originally arrived at by observation, experiment, and careful tests. So far,
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  Speaker 1: you will note you have been asked to accept merely
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  Speaker 1: that which is accepted by ordinary scientific thought, and which
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  Speaker 1: forms a part of the general knowledge of every person
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  Speaker 1: of ordinary education and intelligence. You are now also to
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  Speaker 1: be asked to accept, at least tentatively, another truth or
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  Speaker 1: statement of facts, which is far from being so well
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  Speaker 1: known or accepted by the average person, and which still
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  Speaker 1: remains in a category of disputed fa facts in the
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  Speaker 1: realm of scientific thought, but which is fast becoming more
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  Speaker 1: widely and generally accepted by scientific minds, and which is
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  Speaker 1: receiving almost daily additional supporting and corroborating experimental evidence and proof.
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  Speaker 1: We have reference to the statement or assertion that thought
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  Speaker 1: is radioactive, ie is capable of being radiated over space
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  Speaker 1: external to the brain, in which it is generated there
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  Speaker 1: to produce effects and to cause results. This statement is
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  Speaker 1: supported by the enormous body of evidence concerning the existence
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  Speaker 1: of the phenomena of telepathy, thought transference, thought transmission, et cetera,
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  Speaker 1: which has accumulated by reason of the investigations and researches
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  Speaker 1: of scientific investigators extending over the period of the last
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  Speaker 1: past forty years or more. These discoveries have served to
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  Speaker 1: explain an account for much that formerly was classed as
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  Speaker 1: supernatural or occult. Such phenomena are now brought under the
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  Speaker 1: category of natural law and order. It is scarcely too
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  Speaker 1: much to say that nine out of every ten persons
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  Speaker 1: will be found to have had some personal experience along
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  Speaker 1: the general lines of thought transmission, or as it is
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  Speaker 1: now generally termed telepathy. Many experiences of common occurrence in
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  Speaker 1: the life of the average individual can be explained and
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  Speaker 1: accounted for only upon the general theory of thought radioactivity
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  Speaker 1: as above defined. In addition to the testimony and general
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  Speaker 1: experiences above mentioned, scientific thinkers have demonstrated logically that theoretically,
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  Speaker 1: at least thought radioactivity is quite reasonable and logical, and
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  Speaker 1: is entitled to a respectful hearing and investigation at the
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  Speaker 1: hands of all true scientific persons. In fact, the many
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  Speaker 1: recent important discoveries concerning the existence of radioactive powers in
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  Speaker 1: various substances and arising from many different forms of natural energy,
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  Speaker 1: may be said to render it quite reasonable by analogy,
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  Speaker 1: to look for the presence of radioactivity in brain substance,
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  Speaker 1: this resulting from mental activity, even in absence of the
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  Speaker 1: supporting facts and experiences, and to justify the confident expectation
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  Speaker 1: of finding it there, even if it had never before
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  Speaker 1: been discovered. Let us quote for your information the statements
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  Speaker 1: of two eminent scientists serving to demonstrate the scientific reasonableness
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  Speaker 1: of the presence and power of radioactivity in the thought processes,
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  Speaker 1: as follows Sir William Crooks, President of the Royal Society
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  Speaker 1: of England, in an address delivered before that Society in Bristol, England,
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  Speaker 1: as early as the year eighteen ninety eight, long before
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  Speaker 1: the general scientific thought had been favorably directed toward the subject, said,
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  Speaker 1: were I now introducing for the first time these inquiries
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  Speaker 1: to the world of science, I should choose a starting
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  Speaker 1: point different from that of old where we formerly began.
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  Speaker 1: It would be well to begin with telepathy, with that
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  Speaker 1: fundamental law as I believe it to be, that thoughts
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  Speaker 1: and images may be transferred from one mind to another
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  Speaker 1: without the agency of the recognized organs of sense. That
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  Speaker 1: knowledge may enter the human mind without being communicated in
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  Speaker 1: any hitherto known or recordized ways. If telepathy takes place,
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  Speaker 1: we have two physical facts, the physical change in the
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  Speaker 1: brain of A, the suggestor, and the analogous physical change
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  Speaker 1: in the brain of B, the recipient of the suggestion.
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  Speaker 1: Between these two physical events there must exist a train
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  Speaker 1: of physical causes. It is unscientific to call in the
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  Speaker 1: aid of mysterious agencies, when with every fresh advance in knowledge,
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  Speaker 1: it is shown that ether vibrations have powers and attributes
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  Speaker 1: abundantly able to meet any demand, even the transmission of thought.
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  Speaker 1: It is supposed by some physiologists that the essential cells
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  Speaker 1: of nerves do not actually touch, but are separated by
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  Speaker 1: a narrow gap which widens in sleep, while it narrows
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  Speaker 1: almost to extinction during mental activity. This condition is so
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  Speaker 1: singularly like a Brandly or lodge Coherer device, which led
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  Speaker 1: to the discovery of wireless telegraphy, as to suggest a
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  Speaker 1: further analogy, the structure of brain and nerve being similar,
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  Speaker 1: It is conceivable that there may be present masses of
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  Speaker 1: such nerve coherers in the brain, whose special function it
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  Speaker 1: may be to receive impulses brought from without through the
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  Speaker 1: connecting sequence of ether waves of appropriate order of magnitude.
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  Speaker 1: Renken has familiarized us with an order of vibrations of
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  Speaker 1: extreme minuteness as compared with the smallest waves with which
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  Speaker 1: we have hitherto been acquainted, and there is no reason
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  Speaker 1: to suppose that we have here reached the limit of frequency.
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  Speaker 1: It is known that the action of thought is accompanied
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  Speaker 1: by certain molecular movements of the brain, and here we
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  Speaker 1: have physical vibrations capable, from their extreme minuteness, of acting
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  Speaker 1: direct upon individual molecules, while their rapidity approaches that of
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  Speaker 1: internal and external movements of the atoms themselves. A formidable
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  Speaker 1: array of phenomena must be scientifically sifted before we effectually
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  Speaker 1: grasp a faculty so strange, so bewildering, and for ages
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  Speaker 1: so inscrutable as the direct action of mind upon mind.
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  Speaker 1: Camille Flomara, the eminent French scientist, said, the action of
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  Speaker 1: one mind upon another at a distance, the transmission of
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  Speaker 1: thought mental communication at a distance, all these are not
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  Speaker 1: more extraordinary than the action of the magnet on iron,
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  Speaker 1: the influence of the moon on the sea, the transportation
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  Speaker 1: of the human voice by electricity, the revelation of the
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  Speaker 1: chemical constituents of a star by the analysis of its light,
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  Speaker 1: or indeed, all the wonders of contemporary science. What is
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  Speaker 1: certain is that telepathy can and ought to be henceforth
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  Speaker 1: considered by science as an incontestable reality. That minds are
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  Speaker 1: able to act upon each other without the intervention of
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  Speaker 1: the senses, That psychic force exists, though its nature is
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  Speaker 1: yet unknown. We now call your attention to the following
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  Speaker 1: statement of Baine the eminent authority upon the subject of
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  Speaker 1: the relation of mind and body, not only because of
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  Speaker 1: its own importance, but also because of its office as
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  Speaker 1: an approach to the two several quotations immediately following it.
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  Speaker 1: Professor Baines said, the structure of the nervous substances, and
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  Speaker 1: the experiments made upon the nerves and nerves sense, established
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  Speaker 1: beyond doubts certain peculiarities as belonging to the force that
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  Speaker 1: is exercised by the brain. This force is of a
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  Speaker 1: current nature, that is to say, a power generated at
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  Speaker 1: one part of the structure is conveyed along an intervening
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  Speaker 1: substance and discharged at some other part. The different forms
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  Speaker 1: of electricity and magnetism have made us familiar with this
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  Speaker 1: kind of action. Doctor Frank Channing Haddock says all states
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  Speaker 1: of body and mind involve constant molecular and chemical change.
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  Speaker 1: The suggestion arises that the brain, with its millions of
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  Speaker 1: cells and its inconceivable changes in substance, may be regarded
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  Speaker 1: as a transmitting in receiving battery, the brain being a
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  Speaker 1: kind of battery, and the nerves conductors of released stored
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  Speaker 1: energy to different parts of the body by a kind
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  Speaker 1: of action similar to the actions of electricity in magnetism.
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  Speaker 1: It is suggested that, either by means of the ether
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  Speaker 1: or of some still finer form of matter, discharges of
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: brain energy may be conducted beyond the limits of the body.
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  Speaker 1: If the nerve tracks correspond to wires, this refined medium
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: may correspond to the ether fields supposed to be employed
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  Speaker 1: in wireless telegraphy. As electrical movements are conducted without wires
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  Speaker 1: or other visible media, so may brain discharges be conveyed
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  Speaker 1: beyond the mechanism of the battery without the intervention of nerves,
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  Speaker 1: Except as they may constitute a part of the battery.
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  Speaker 1: Generally speaking, such discharges would originate in two ways, by
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  Speaker 1: direct mental action or by mental or physical states, perhaps
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  Speaker 1: by a combination. Our final quotation, to which the last
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  Speaker 1: two preceding quotations logically lead, is from Professor Acrowix, the
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: eminent psychologist and scientific investigator, who says, every living being
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: is a dynamic focus. A dynamic focus tends ever to
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  Speaker 1: propagate the motion that is proper to it. Propagated motion
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: becomes transformed according to the medium it traverses. Motion always
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: tends to propagate it itself. Therefore, when we see work
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: of any kind mechanical, electrical, nervic, or psychic, disappearing without
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: visible effect, then one of two things has occurred, either
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  Speaker 1: one a transmission, or two a transformation. Where does the
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  Speaker 1: first end and where does the second begin? In an
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  Speaker 1: identical medium, there is only transmission. In a different medium,
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: there is transformation. You send an electric current through a
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  Speaker 1: thick wire. You have the current, but you do not
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  Speaker 1: perceive any other force. But cut that thick wire and
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: connect the ends by means of a finer wire. The
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: fine wire will grow hot. There will be a transformation
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  Speaker 1: of a part of the current into heat. Take a
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: pretty strong current and interpose a wire still more resistant,
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  Speaker 1: or a very thin carbon rod. The carbon will emit light.
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  Speaker 1: A part of the current then is transformed into heat
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: and light. The light acts in every direction round, first
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  Speaker 1: visibly as light, then invisibly as heat and electric current.
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  Speaker 1: Hold a magnet near it. If the magnet is weak
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: and movable in the form of a magnetic needle, the
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: beam of light will cause it to deviate. If it
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: is strong and immovable, it will in turn cause the
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: beam of light to deviate. And all this at a
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: distance without contact, without special conductors. A process that is
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: at once chemical, physical, and psychical goes on in a brain.
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: A complex action of this kind is propagated through the
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: gray matter, as waves are propagated in water. Regarded on
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: its physiological side, an idea is only a vibration, a
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: vibration that is propagated yet which does not pass out
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  Speaker 1: of the medium in which it can exist. As such,
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: it is propagated as far as other like vibrations allow.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: It is propagated more widely if it assumes the character
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  Speaker 1: which subjectively we call a motive, but it cannot go
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  Speaker 1: beyond without being trained transformed. Nevertheless, like force in general,
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: it cannot remain in isolation. It escapes in disguise. Thought
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: stays at home. As the chemical action of a battery
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: remains in the battery, it is represented abroad by its
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: dynamic correlate, called in the case of the battery a current,
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: and in the case of the brain, I know not what,
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  Speaker 1: but whatever its name may be, it is the dynamic
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: correlate of thought. I have chosen to use the term
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: dynamic correlate. There is something more than that. The universe
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: is neither void nor dead. A force that is transmitted
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: meets other forces, and if it is transformed only little
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: by little, it usually limits itself to modifying another force
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: at its own cost, though without suffering perceptibly thereby. This
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: is the case particularly with forces that are persistent, concentrated,
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: well seconded by their medium. It is the case with
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: the physiological equilibrium, nervic force, psychic force, ideas, emotions, tendencies.
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: These modify environing forces without themselves disappearing. They are but
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: imperceptibly transformed, and if the other mind is of a
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: nature exceptionally well adapted to them, they gain in inductive action.
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  Speaker 1: We would call your attention to that part of the
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: above quotation, in which it is pointed out that the
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  Speaker 1: action of the beam of electric light on a weak
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: movable magnet, and the action of a strong and immovable
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: magnet on the beam of electric light is exerted from
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: a distance without contact without special conductors. You will note
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: that Professor Achrowix holds that a similar action from a
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: distance without contact without special conductors occurs in the processes
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: of thought transmission or thought radioactivity. He speaks of thought
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: vibrations being but imperceptibly transformed, and holds that under certain
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: favorable conditions they gain in inductive action. We ask you
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: to make a mental note of this term inductive action,
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: for it serves to indicate the nature of the action
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  Speaker 1: of the radioactive thought vibrations which we are now considering.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: By inductive action is meant action from a distance without
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: contact without special conductors. The term induction, in its usage
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: in connection with physics, is defined as the property or
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: process by which one body having electrical or magnetic polarity
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: produces it in another body without direct contact. A leading
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: textbook says, if an electrified body is brought near an
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: uncharged one either conductor or non conductor. The latter will
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: exhibit electrical forces, it is said to be charged by induction. Similarly,
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: if there is a magnet surrounded by a uniform medium
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: such as air, and if a body of a different
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: kind of material from the medium is brought near the magnet,
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: it will exhibit magnetic forces and is said to be
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: magnetized by induction. Now, all investigation of the phenomena of
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: thought transmission seems to reveal a condition of affairs which
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: can best be accounted for an expres flamed upon the
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: respective theories of one the radioactivity of thought and two
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: the inductive action of thought. That is to say that
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: one thought radiates power capable of causing effects and producing
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  Speaker 1: results at a distance, and two thought exerts an inductive
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: action from a distance without contact without special conductors. It
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: would seem that the process of radioactivity and the power
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  Speaker 1: of inductive action, which is admitted to be present in
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: the physical world, has its counterpart or correspondence in the
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: mental world, the same general laws governing each and a
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: general analogy existing between the two classes of phenomena. While
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: some of the more conservative and orthodox scientists hold that
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: as yet the hypotheses of thought radioactivity and thought inductive action, respectively,
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: have not been sufficiently proved to raise the hypotheses into
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: the category of natural laws. Yet the mass of supporting
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: evidence and the reasoning based upon the same is sufficiently
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: strong to justify by the careful scientific thinker in accepting
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: these two hypotheses, at least tentatively, as working hypotheses, by
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: means of which thought along these lines and further experimental
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: work are rendered easier. Certainly, no one thoroughly acquainted with
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: the facts of the case, with the phenomena of thought
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  Speaker 1: transmission will deny that thought acts as if it were
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: radioactive and capable of exerting inductive action. In the absence
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: of better hypotheses, at least, we are justified in adopting
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: the two just mentioned as working hypotheses for convenience of
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: thought on the subject, and as an aid in further investigations. Accordingly,
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: in this book we shall assume as working hypotheses the
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: radioactivity of thought and the inductive action of thought, respectively.
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: Let us now proceed to a consideration of the observed
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: phenomena of thought power, in which the radioactivity of thought
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: and the inductive action of thought are held to be
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: manifested thought power radiomantalism by William Walker Atkinson, nineteen twenty two.
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: Thought atmospheres, the recognition of the presence of radioactivity in
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: the processes of thought, and the realization of the power
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: of thought to exert inductive action at a distance without contact,
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: serves to illuminate what was formerly a dark corner of
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: the streets of human experience, to throw a bright light
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: upon certain places in which objects previously had been seen
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: but dimly, and in which they took upon themselves distorted form.
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: We refer to the phenomena which are generally classed as
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: the thought atmospheres of persons and places. It certainly requires
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: no extended argument to prove that there exists, in connection
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: with persons and places a certain subtle influence, which may
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: well be called an atmosphere of a psychic order, which
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: produces an effect upon persons coming within the field of
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: induction of the persons or places manifesting the atmosphere. These
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: psychic atmospheres were normally held to be related in some
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: way to the supernatural, or else to be connected with
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: some mysterious and occult powers of the universe which were
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: outside of the realm of ordinary natural laws. But thanks
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: to the persistent and patient labors of the investigators, it
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: is now known that these psychic atmospheres are quite as
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: natural as are the fields of induction of electricity and magnetism,
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: and quite as truly are under natural law and order.
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: They are now recognized as phases of the general phenomena
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: caused by radioactive thought and the inductive action of thought.
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: These psychic atmospheres may be considered as divided into two
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: general classes as follows. One the thought atmosphere surrounding the
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: person of the individual, radiating the thought and accompanying him
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: wherever he moves or travels. Two the thought atmosphere of places,
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: which are caused by the radioactive thought of the persons
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: inhabiting these places or who have previously inhabited them. Let
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: us now consider each of these two classes in the
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: order in which they are above stated. The thought atmospheres
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: of persons. Each and every person has a thought atmosphere
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: or aura surrounding him which reflects the general character of
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: his thought, his feelings, and his general mental character. This
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: atmosphere or aura is composed of and constituted by the
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: vibrations of his radioactive thought, which are analogous to the
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: vibrations of light, heat, electricity, or magnetism. It is constantly
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: renewed by the mental currents which are pouring out from
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: the mental organism of the person. These thought, vibrations of
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: this thought atmosphere more or less affect other persons coming
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: within their field of induction. You know from your own
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: experience and that of others with which you are familiar,
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: that when you meet a stranger and have directed your
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: attention to him, you are conscious of something about him
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: which produces a certain effect upon you, and which creates
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: in your mind a more or less definite impression regarding him,
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: very often a quite marked feeling of like or dislike.
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: In some case, even though your attention has not been
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: directed toward the person, that something about him is so
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: strong and active that it attracts and holds your attention
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: and makes you take notice of him. You have shared
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: the experience of many persons when, on certain occasions you
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: have been vividly impressed by the entrance of some particular
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: person into a room or office or other place. There
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: has been nothing out of the ordinary in the appearance
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: of the person or in his dress, carriage or general manner.
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: But nevertheless, you have felt in some way that there
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: is something unusual about him. In some cases, you have
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: experienced at once a marked attraction to, or perhaps a
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: marked repulsion from, certain individuals. In other cases, you have
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: recognized a peculiar air of authority about certain persons. Others
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: have seemed to carry with them an atmosphere of success.
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: Others have seemed to be surrounded by a cloud of failure,
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: lack of confidence, et cetera. Some have seemed to radiate
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: cheerfulness and optimism, Others have seemed to emanate gloom, pessimism,
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: and discouragement. To some, you have felt what may be
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: called an perffinity. To others, you may have felt an
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: actual antipathy. Some persons seem to exert a thought influence
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: extending merely to a field immediately around them. Others seem
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: to fill a room with their personality as soon as
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: they enter it, or at least as soon as they
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: direct their attention to the persons in the room. Others
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: still seemingly experience no difficulty in extending their thought radiations
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  Speaker 1: so as to influence strongly a large number of people.
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: The whole audience assemblage or congregation feels the presence of
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: such a person as soon as he addresses them. Some
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: exceptionally magnetic individuals, some great actors or orators, manifest thought
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: atmospheres composed of thought vibrations so active and powerful that
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: they fairly carry by storm the emotional natures of immense
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: bodies of people and sweep them off their feet in
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: spite of their reason and will. Some persons impress you
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: at one pace as being positive, resourceful, self confident individuals.
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: Others produce upon you the impression that they are negative, weak, colorless,
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: non resourceful, and lacking in self confidence. Some are live wires,
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: others are dead ones. You feel this instinctively, even before
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: the person says a word or performs in action. It
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: is not exactly as if you think the thing concerning
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: the person. In such cases, it is rather as if
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: you feel it in some subtle, indefinable way. If you
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: have ever had the actual experience, you will know that
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: it is more than the suggestion of manner, action, appearance, dress, words,
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: et cetera. It is something that you feel about the person,
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: independent of your reasoning on the subject of his personality.
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: The report seems to come from the emotional region of
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: your mental being rather than from the logical one. When
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: the experiences and phenomena just related are examined in the
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: light of the hypotheses of thought, radioactivity, and the inductive
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: action of thought, respectively, the whole subject assumes a reasonable
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: natural aspect. It loses its supernatural or occult garments. When
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: you see that thought, like light, heat, magnetism, or electricity,
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: is radioactive, that it radiates currents and waves of vibratory
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: force in all directions than the presence of the atmosphere
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: of the person ceases to be mysterious. Likewise, when you
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: perceive that just as a magnetized or electrified body tends
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: to induce a like state in other bodies at a
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: distance from it without direct contact, setting up in them
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: similar vibrations, then you find it quite natural that you
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: should feel in your emotional nature a certain stirring concerning
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: the people you meet. And you also understand more clearly
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: the influence of certain persons over others, over audiences, crowds, congregations,
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: et cetera. Thought radiation and thought induction give you the
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: key to many experiences and phenomena which heretofore have been
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: deep mysteries to you, and which perhaps you have regarded
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: it as uncanny, supernatural, or occult. The thought atmospheres of places.
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: Just as you have noticed that persons have their peculiar
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: atmospheres representing their mental activities, so you have noticed that
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: many places have their particular atmospheres which, by induction, register
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: their character upon your mentality and cause you to become
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: aware of the general mental qualities of those who inhabit
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: or occupy them, or who previously have done so. You
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: have noticed that residences, apartments, or rooms frequently produce effects
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: upon you which can be accounted for in no ordinary way.
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: Some such places seem to emanate cheerfulness, harmony, and other
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: uplifting mental qualities, while others seem to be permeated with
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: a negative, depressing influence, which affects you more or less
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: unless you throw it off in some way. In the
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: same way, certain shops, stores, offices, and other places of
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: business either attract or repel you, either create confidence or
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: distrust on your part in some subtle way not explainable
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: by their general appearances. It is not too much to
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: say that every place has its own atmosphere, its own character.
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: If you have ever visited a prison or similar place,
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: you have doubtless been struck with the feeling that some subtle,
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: invisible miasma pervades it, rendering you most uncomfortable while within
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: its walls, and causing you to experience a feeling of
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: relief after you have left the place. This even though
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: the institution may be built and conducted according to modern
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: ideas and is thus lacking in the depressing suggestiveness of
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: the old, gloomy surroundings. In some hospitals, you have experienced
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: a similar depressing feeling, accompanied by a strong desire to
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: escape from the negative influences manifesting within them. On the
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: other hand, you have experienced the RESTful, uplifting, peaceful atmosphere
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: of certain churches, cathedrals, chapels, and other places in which
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: persons have habitually manifested the higher forms of thought and feeling.
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: In some life libraries, you have experienced the atmosphere of study,
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: deep thought, investigation, and general intellectual activity. In some great
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: places of business, you have experienced the feeling of efficiency, industry,
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: purposeful effort, and careful management. In short, you have found
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: that you catch the spirit of many places visited by you.
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: You know that there are certain places which you like
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: to visit because of their good effects upon you, and
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: other places which you avoid visiting so far as possible,
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: because of their usual bad effect upon you. Some places
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: rest you, others tire you. Some rouse ambition and aspiration
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: in you. Others cause you to feel depressed and discouraged.
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: Some seem pure and clean to you, while others impress
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: you with the sense of impurity in mental and moral uncleanliness.
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: The explanation of this class of phenomena is found in
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: the hypotheses to which we have called your attention in
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: this book, viz. That of the radioactivity of thought and
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: that of the inductive action of thought, respectively. The fact
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: is that every human mind is constantly emitting radiations or
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: currents of thought, vibrations representing the general character of his
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: or her thoughts. These naturally form the thought atmosphere of
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: the places in which such persons dwell or do business.
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: When there are a number of persons continuously present in
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: a place, their combined thought vibrations combine and coalesce and
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: form a composite thought atmosphere. In many cases, the thought
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: of a place is determined by the character of those
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: in authority in that place, those who impose character in
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: certain lines of conduct upon those under their control. This
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: accounts for the character and atmosphere of stores, shops, offices,
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: et cetera. But the character and atmosphere of a place
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: is created and determined not merely by the quality of
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: the thought being radiated by those inhabiting it at that moment.
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: The past thought influences are strongly impressed upon many places.
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: This may seem strange to you at first thought, but
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: when you examine similar phenomena in the realm of nature,
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: you will begin to understand the principle at work. In
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: the case, there is nothing mysterious, supernatural, or occult in
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: such phenomena, natural law and order is manifest in them,
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: just as in all other natural phenomena. You need not
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: go outside of nature for the explanation. The heat emitted
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: by a stove will remain in a room long after
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: the fire has died out or the stove withdrawn. The
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: subtle odor of a flower, perfume, or of other substances
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: will permeate a place long after those substances have been
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: removed from it. The odor of coffee, cheese, leather, et cetera.
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: Will cling to a store which years before was used
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: for the purpose of storing these articles, dress or drawers, cabinets,
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: old letters, et cetera, will retain for many years the
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: fragrance of the perfume which long ago was applied to
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: them or placed within them. Astronomers tell us that the
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: light we now see streaming from some of the far
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: distant stars really was emitted by those bodies many thousands
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: of years ago, and that if one of those stars
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: were destroyed to day, its light would continue to travel
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: in space for many thousand years in the future. Oliver
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: Wendell Holmes said, what you cannot conceive of a charge
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: of cerebricity fastening itself on a letter sheet and clinging
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: to it for weeks while it was shuffling about in
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  Speaker 1: mail bags, rolling over the ocean, and shaken up in
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  Speaker 1: railroad cars. And yet the odor of a grain of
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  Speaker 1: musk will hang around a note or a dress for
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  Speaker 1: a lifetime. Do you not remember what Professor Silliman says
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: in that pleasant journal of his about the little ebony
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: cabinet which Mary, Queen of Scots brought with her from France,
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: How its drawers still exhale the sweetest perfumes. If they
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: could hold their sweetness for more than two hundred years,
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: why should not a written page retain for a week
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  Speaker 1: or a month the equally mysterious effluence poured over it
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  Speaker 1: from thinking marrow, and diffuse its vibrations to another excitable center.
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: Professor Draper, illustrating the subtle effects of light, said, upon
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  Speaker 1: the walls of our most private apartments, where we think
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: the eye of intrusion is altogether shut out, and our
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: retirement can never be profaned, there exists the vestiges of
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: all our acts, silhouettes of whatever we have done. A
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  Speaker 1: shadow never falls upon a wall without leaving there upon
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  Speaker 1: a permanent trace, a trace which might be made visible
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  Speaker 1: by resorting to proper processes. Photographic operations are cases in point.
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: The portraits of our friends or landscape views may be
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: hidden on the sensitive surface from the eye, but they
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: are ready to make their appearance as soon as proper
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: developers are resorted to. A specter is concealed on a
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: silver or glassy surface, until by our necromancy we make
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: it come forth into the visible world. Radiant forces are
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: passing from all objects to all objects in their vicinity,
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: and during every moment of the day or night are
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: daguerotyping the appearance of each upon the other. The images
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: thus made not merely resting upon the surface, but sinking
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: into the interior of them. They are held with astonishing tenacity,
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: and only waiting for a suitable application to reveal themselves
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: to the inquiring gaze. You cannot then enter a room
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: night or day, but you leave on going out your
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: portrait behind you. You cannot lift your hand, or wink
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: your eye, or the wind stir a hair of your head.
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: But each movement is infallibly registered for coming ages. The
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: pane of glass in the window, the brick in the wall,
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: and the paving stone in the street catch the pictures
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: of all passers by and faithfully preserve them. Not a
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: leaf waves, not an insect crawls, not a ripple moves,
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: but each motion is recorded by a thousand faithful scribes
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: in infallible and indelible scripture. Professor William Denton says, all bodies,
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: organic bodies more especially, are transmitting influences continually to surrounding objects,
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: the tendency of which is to bring these objects into
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: a similar condition to their own. Not more certainly does
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: a rose diffuse its fragrance than human beings dispense their
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: influence wherever they go. We are each surrounded by an
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: atmosphere which can convey to sensitives the impression of our
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: character and condition. Wherever the foot touches the ground, the
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: impression of the man is left upon it, so that
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: even the dog, by means of it, can track his
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: master hours after he has passed over the ground. Houses
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: become so imbued with the influence of the people that
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: live in them that sensitive persons can feel that influence
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: as soon as they enter, and if it is unpleasant,
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: they have a feeling of uneasiness, of positive unhappiness as
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: long as they are subject to it. Doctor Haddock says
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: frequented rooms store up this mass of human influences. The
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: kitchen borrows the cook's character, the dining room registers the
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: public family life. Sleeping chambers especially record the nameless history
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: of undiscovered hearts. The writer is convinced that he has
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: dimly sensed something of the personality of former occupants in
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: various houses where he has lived. It is a common
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: thought that rooms may be pervaded by the presence of
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: absent people at one time familiar there. The atmosphere of
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: a vacated saloon must differ vastly from that of a
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: reputable theater, an art museum, a college, or a church.
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: It is very probable that the mystery surrounding many so
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: called haunted houses might be dispelled by an inquiry conducted
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: along the lines of the hypotheses of thought, radioactivity, and
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: the inductive action of thought. In fact, one of the
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: present writers has heard of the so called spooks being
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: driven away from such houses by means of scientific application
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: of thought power along the lines now under consideration. For
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: evil thought atmospheres may be overcome by means similar to
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: that employed in turning the sunlight into a dark, damp cellar. Ghosts,
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: in at least many cases, are not but stored up
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: accumulations of past thought, impressions and vibrations. The evil thought
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: atmosphere of houses of ill repute has been known to
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: linger long after the building has been taken over by
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: a reputable business. Here, also scientific treatment would have proved efficacious.
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: The thought atmospheres of stores, offices, and business places in
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: general are often quite marked. In many cases, they act
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: inductively upon persons entering them for the first time, creating
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: a distinct feeling concerning the character of the place. In
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: cases of this kind, it will be found usually that
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: the spirit of the place is practically determined by the
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: characteristic mental states and actions of those in charge of
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: the business in question. The persons constituting the management established
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: the policy of the concern in accordance with their own
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: ideas and feelings. The policy of a business concern usually
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: is a representation of the character of those who direct
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: and establish that policy. Moreover, that policy, by reason of
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: its effect upon the employees, soon creates an actual spirit
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: of the place, or a huge composite thought form built
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: up of the characteristic mental vibrations of those taking part
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: in the business. You have probably met with cases in
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  Speaker 1: which the management of a large business house has been changed,
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: either by reason of the business being sold out to
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: new people, or by reason of the owners employing some
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: new man of strong character to take charge of the
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: management of the concern. In such cases, there will be
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: noticed almost immediately a change in the thought atmosphere of
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: the place, in some cases a complete change of atmosphere
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: being plainly felt by persons visiting the establishment. The new
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: keynote of policy sets into operation, a new set of
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: mental vibrations, an entirely new mental rhythm is established in
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: the place. In the same way, changes of management sometimes
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: lower the tone of a business office, store, or bank,
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: instead of raising it. Old patrons will be found complaining
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: that the old place does not feel the same when
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: I enter it. Large office buildings frequently have their care
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: characteristic general atmospheres independent of those of their particular office suites.
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: The influence of a few tenants of strong character and
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: marked mental tendencies, good or bad, will sometimes serve to
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: establish a keynote of the building. Then, according to the
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: law of attraction in the world of thought, which we
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: shall consider later on in this book, other tenants of
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: a similar character are attracted to the building, and before
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: long the place begins to acquire a reputation and a
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  Speaker 1: character of its own. We have known office buildings which
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: have attracted to themselves the class of tenants of such
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: an undesirable character that more reputable concerns avoided the place,
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: and persons became suspicious of anyone having suites in it.
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: On the other hand, we have known of office buildings
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: which fairly radiated the vibrations of success, solidity, and reliability.
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: We especially recall the case of a prominent building in
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: a large city in which a small group of active,
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: successful men has served to set up such a center
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: of success vibrations that the whole place became noted for
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: the success of its tenants. If you will talk with
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: persons whose business requires them to visit different large office buildings,
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: they will verify the above statements and will give you
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: many striking illustrations gleaned from their own experiences. In the
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: same way, certain store or bank buildings have acquired a
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: reputation for being lucky, while others have earned the classification
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: of unlucky. There are stores in every city the tenants
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: of which, for many years past have been quite successful
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: and have earned money. There are also other stores in
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: which practically everyone who has rented them has met with
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: ill fortune and failure. These facts are familiar to every
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: business man who has kept his eyes open. In many cases,
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: the facts just noted have been attributed to mere coincidence,
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: while by others they have been attributed to some supernatural
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: or occult agency. But whatever may have been the explanation accepted,
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: it is noticeable that most business men will avoid the
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: hoodoo places and will seek the lucky ones. An understanding
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: of the laws of thought, radioactivity, and of the inductive
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: action of thought will serve to explain an account for
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: phenomena of the kind just mentioned, and to bring such
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: under the category of natural cause and effect. Moreover, a
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: knowledge of these laws would have served to indicate a
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: method of scientific treatment of the unlucky who do places
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: which would have taken the curse off them in a
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: perfectly natural, scientific way. As you have probably already inferred
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: from the foregoing statements, not only do dwelling houses, business houses,
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: office buildings, and public places have thought atmospheres of their own,
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: which are felt by those who enter them, but also
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: many villages, towns, cities, and even entire countries have their
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: respective thought atmospheres, made up by the composite thoughts and
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: mental states of the individuals forming the inhabitants of the places.
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: In old established communities, this is more noticeable because in
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: such cases time has built up a decided thought character
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: for the place. But even in newer communities the same
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: law is in operation and its effects are manifested. If
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: you will stop to think for a moment, you will
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: realize that every town or city that you know has
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: its own special character, its own spirit, its own atmosphere,
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: and that each induces its own particular kind of feeling
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: in you when you visit it. Each town or city
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: like each individual has its strong points and its weak points,
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: characteristics that you like in those which you do not like.
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: But each is different. Each impresses you in a different
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: way from the others. Towns and cities have decided individualities
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: of their own. Their respective characters are built up of
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: the composite thought influences of the past and present. These
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: serving to attract to the place individuals of a similar
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: mental trend, and to drive away from the town those
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: individuals who are not in harmony with the spirit of
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: the place. Persons coming into a strange town or city
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: are usually keenly aware of the change in the thought
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: atmosphere and often are rendered quite uncomfortable by it. But
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: in time they either adjust themselves to the new conditions
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: by taking on sufficient of the new influences and characteristics
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  Speaker 1: to bring them into at least reasonable harmony with their
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: mental environment, or else they find the new conditions unbearable
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: and are themselves compelled to leave the place. Sometimes, however,
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: when by reason of a rapid change in economic conditions,
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: a town or city is subject to a strong influx
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  Speaker 1: of new inhabitants, particularly when the latter come rapidly and
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: in considerable number about the same time. Then the thought
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: influences of the newcomers may serve to overcome, or at
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: least to neutralize, the old thought atmosphere, and in a
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: short period of time the thought atmosphere of the place
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: has changed. In such cases, a person revisiting the place
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: after a short absence is struck by the change and
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: is apt to remark that a new spirit seems to
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: pervade the place. Often, also, the coming of a few
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: strong individuals, men or women of positive characters and views
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: use will serve to inject a new thought element into
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: the atmosphere of a place, and thus to bring about
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: a perceptible change in its character and composition. As proof
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: of the existence of such characteristics of different towns and cities,
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: you have but to recall the impressions made upon you
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: by the different places you have visited. You will find
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: that in your book of remembered experiences you have a
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: distinct impression concerning each town and city visited by you.
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: You may have even the record of the different impressions
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: produced upon you by different sections of the same city.
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: For instance, you have a strong composite impression concerning New
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: York City as a whole if you have ever visited
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: that metropolis, and at the same time you will have
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: distinct impressions of various parts of Manhattan, of Manhattan as
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: a whole, of Brooklyn, the Bronx, and of Staten Island.
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: Then again, your impression of Chicago will be entirely different
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: from that of New York City. Each city has its
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: own thought atmosphere, which is quite easily felt by you,
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: and which registers itself upon your mind by means of
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: its inductive action. Different from either your impressions of New
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: York and of Chicago will be your impression of Philadelphia.
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: Still different is the atmosphere of Detroit, of Boston, of Pittsburgh,
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: of New Orleans, of Denver, of Kansas City, of Saint Louis,
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: and of the other large cities of the country. Going
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: still further west, you will find that the coast has
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: its own unmistakable thought atmosphere, which is readily distinguished from
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: that of the East, Middle, West, or Rocky Mountain regions. Moreover,
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: you will detect marked differences between the thought atmospheres of
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: the different coast cities San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland, Tacoma,
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: and Seattle. Each has its own characteristic atmosphere. Still more
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: marked in their differences are the atmospheres of the older cities,
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: the cities of the Old World. So pronounced are the
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: respective atmospheres of London, Paris, Berlin, Vienna, Rome, Petrograd, Madrid, Budapest, Stockholm,
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: and the rest that an experienced traveler who had once
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: made a long stay in any of them would recognize
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: the feel of the place where he transported there in
• 54:10
  Speaker 1: his sleep and awakened without being aware of the journey.
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: The atmospheres of the great cities of Asia are quite pronounced,
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: so much so, in fact, that often the traveler who
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: once actually falls under their spell will thereafter, throughout his
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: entire life feel the East day calling him. Australians claim
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: that there is a something about their land which is
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: met with nowhere else in the world, and for which
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: they pine when away from home and on the dark
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: side of the page. Many travelers have testified concerning the
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: evil spell the mental miasmadot, which hovers over certain parts
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: of the interior of Africa, blighting all who remain under
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: its influence. There is something in the air of places
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: other than the familiar chemical constituents, and that something is
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: perceptible to most persons and exerts at least some degree
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: of influence upon them. In the hypotheses of thought radioactivity
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: in the inductive action of thought, respectively, we have an
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: explanation of the apparently uncanny in mysterious emanations from and
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: influences surrounding many old places of the Earth's history, the
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: scenes of ancient civilizations long since vanished from human sight,
• 55:20
  Speaker 1: which have left their traces upon the sensitive ethereal medium
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: upon which thought registers its vibrations and from which the
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: latter are reproduced by induction under favorable circumstances. The strange
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: legends concerning old castles, ruins, ancient temples, prehistoric tombs, et
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: cetera need not be dismissed as mere fancy or as
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: idle superstition. There is a perfectly natural, scientific explanation of
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: many such strange beliefs and traditions. There are two great
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: principles of the activity of thought power involved in the
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: phenomena which you have just considered, and of other phenomena
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: which you have not as yet considered. It is necessary
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: that you grasp the essential facts concerning such principles in
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: order that you may arrive at an intelligent understanding of
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: all such phenomena. These two principles are as follows, One
• 56:12
  Speaker 1: the principle of thought contagion, which manifests in the catching
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: of strong thought influences in thought epidemics and mental contagions.
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: Two the principle of thought attraction, which manifests in the
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: drawing power of thought, whereby strong thought vibrations tend to
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: attract other thought vibrations of the same general character, and
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: consequently to attract and draw to a common center different
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: individuals of the same general trend of thought, and to
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: produce and induce many other forms and phases of the
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: attraction existing between thoughts and things, or between ideas and persons.
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: In the next following sections of this book, the two
• 56:50
  Speaker 1: great principles above noted will be considered in further detail.
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: Thought Power Radiomantalism by William Walker Atkinson, nineteen twenty two.
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: Thought contagion one of the most striking instances of the
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: power of the radioactivity of thought and of the inductive
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: action of thought is found in that class of phenomena
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: which has been called thought contagion or mental epidemics, as
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: these terms indicate, in this class of phenomena, there is
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: a spreading of thought influence and a liability to catch
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: the spirit of the general thought wave, which is spreading
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: itself over a group of people, a community, a nation,
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: or even over the civilized world as a whole. In
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: its simplest form, thought contagion is found in cases in
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: which groups or congregations of individuals are moved by a
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: common impulse, the latter being originally imparted by some individuals
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: of strong emotional tendencies in the crowd, and then rapidly
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: spreading from one to another of the crowd until nearly
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: every one in the group or crowd has caught the
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: feeling and its accompanying impulse. This class of phenomena, in
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: its simplest phases is illustrated by the rapid spread of
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: emotional excitement among an audience or congregation under the influence
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: of a magnetic orator, preacher, actor, or other spellbinder. As
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: the colloquial term well expresses it, you have seen large
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: audiences swayed by a common emotion. Under such circumstances, and
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: perhaps have yourself come under the influence of the epidemic
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: thought currents. One is often roused to the stage of
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: intense emotion and experiences the impulse to act thereupon by
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: words which, when seen in cold print, seem devoid of
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: any exciting power. In such cases, the orator, actor or
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: preacher possesses sufficient magnetic force to set things going, and
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: after that the contagion spreads rapidly, until finally nearly everyone
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: in the audience is more or less affected. In cases
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: of revival meetings, the influence of thought contagion is quite
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: strongly manifested. The same principle governs what are known as mobs,
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: creating what is known as the mob spirito. At the
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: beginning may be made up of the average persons of
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: the community, brought together by curiosity or general interest, and
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: free from vicious intention. Before long, some turbulent spirits in
• 59:11
  Speaker 1: the crowd begin to manifest emotional excitement and start to
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: arouse a similar feeling in their neighbors if the conditions
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: are favorable. Before long, the contagion has spread and the
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: epidemic has assumed alarming proportions. If the impulse and influence
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: be sufficiently strong, the crowd veritably becomes a mob, and
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: in some cases proceeds to commit acts of violence and
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: destruction of which the majority had no thought in the beginning,
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: and of which but few of its members would have
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: been capable under ordinary circumstances. When the influence has passed,
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: most of the individuals are aghast at the acts which
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: they have helped to perpetrate. The following newspaper report of
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: the mental epidemic, manifested at one of Paderewski's recitals several
• 59:55
  Speaker 1: years ago, will illustrate the thought contagion frequently in evidence,
• 59:59
  Speaker 1: in audiences, congregations, et cetera. There is a chatter, a
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 1: rustling of programs, a waving of fans, a nodding of feathers,
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: a general air of expectancy, and the lights are lowered,
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: a hush. All eyes are turned to a small door
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  Speaker 1: leading on to the stage. It is opened, Paderewski enters,
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  Speaker 1: a storm of applause greets him, but after it comes
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  Speaker 1: a tremulous hush and a prolonged sigh created by the long,
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  Speaker 1: deep inhalation of upward of three thousand women. Paderewski is
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  Speaker 1: at the piano. Thousands of eyes watch his every movement
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: through opera glasses, and with an intensity painful to observe.
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  Speaker 1: He the idol, theay the idolators. Toward the end of
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  Speaker 1: the performance, the most decorous women seem to abandon themselves
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  Speaker 1: to the influence. There are sighs, sobs, the tight clinching
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  Speaker 1: of the palms, the bowing of the head. Fervid exclamations
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  Speaker 1: he is my master are heard in the feminine mob.
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  Speaker 1: Other equally striking examples are afforded by the thought contagion
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  Speaker 1: and the mental epidemics manifested at the meetings of the
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  Speaker 1: successful evangelist or revivalist. You will at once recall instances
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  Speaker 1: within your own experience. Immense crowds are aroused to the
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  Speaker 1: highest pitch of excitement. Individuals throw aside their customary reserve
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  Speaker 1: and dignity and indulge in emotional extravagances of speech, demeanor,
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  Speaker 1: and action. Shouts, moans, and groans are heard. Some persons
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 1: fall into spasms brought on by overexcitement. Others faint or
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 1: fall into trances. The crowd rushes to the altar to
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  Speaker 1: confess its sins and to seek salvation. The pockets of
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: the crowd are emptied into the collection receptacles. Often jewelry
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  Speaker 1: is torn off and tossed into the plate. Even the
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 1: scientific observer, though holding himself well in hand, often feels
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: the surges of emotional contagion, and may even be surprised
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 1: to feel the tears coursing down his cheek. Though his
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: head remains cool, his heart has been aroused by the
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 1: heat of the emotional contagion. In the case of the mob,
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 1: a similar psychological background exists. Sides describes as follows a
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  Speaker 1: crowd being infected by the mob contagion. When the preacher,
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 1: the politician, the stump orator, the ringleader, the hero gains
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  Speaker 1: the ear of the crowd, an ominous silence sets in,
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  Speaker 1: a silence frequently characterized as awful. The crowd is in
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 1: a state of overstrained expectation, with suspended breath. It watches
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 1: the hero or the interesting all absorbing object disturbing impressions
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  Speaker 1: are excluded, put down, driven away by main force. So
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 1: great is the silence induced in the fascinated crowd that
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 1: very frequently the buzzing of a fly or even the
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 1: drop of a pin can be distinctly heard. All interfering
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 1: impressions and ideas are inhibited. The crowd is entranced and
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 1: rapidly merges into the mob state. Tolstoy, in his War
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  Speaker 1: and Peace, pictures the mental condition of a crowd which
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 1: was rapidly being transformed into an entranced mob. The crowd
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 1: remained silent and pressed on one another, closer and closer,
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  Speaker 1: to bear the pressure of one another, to breathe in
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 1: this stifling, contagious atmosphere, not to have the power to stir,
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  Speaker 1: and to expect something unknown, incomprehensible and terrible, became intolerable.
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  Speaker 1: Those who were in the front, who saw and heard
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 1: everything that took place, All those stood with eyes full
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 1: of fright, widely dilated, with open mouths, and straining their
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  Speaker 1: whole strength. They kept on their backs the pressure of
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  Speaker 1: those behind them sids. In the following striking passages cleverly
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 1: pictures the effect of mental suggestion upon an entranced crowd
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 1: rapidly sinking to the mob state. The suggestion given to
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 1: the entranced crowd by the master spreads like wildfire. The
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 1: given suggestion reverberates from individual to individual, gather strength and
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  Speaker 1: becomes so overwhelming as to drive the crowd into a
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 1: fury of activity, into a friend excitement. As the suggestions
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  Speaker 1: are taken by the mob and executed, the wave of
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 1: excitement rises higher and higher. Each fulfilled suggestion increases the
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 1: emotion of the mob in volume and intensity. Each new
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 1: attack is followed by a more violent paroxysm of furious,
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 1: demoniac frenzy. The mob is like an avalanche. The more
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 1: it rolls, the more menacing and dangerous it grows. The
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 1: suggestion is given by the hero, by the ringleader, by
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 1: the Master of the moment, is taken up by the crowd,
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  Speaker 1: and is reflected and reverberated from man to man until
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  Speaker 1: every soul is dizzied and every person is stunned in
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  Speaker 1: the entranced crowd. In the mob, every one influences and
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 1: is influenced in his turn. Every one suggests and is
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  Speaker 1: suggested to, and the surging billow of suggestion swells and
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 1: rises until it reaches a formidable height. The mob energy
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 1: grows faster than the increase in numbers. The mob spirit
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 1: grows and expands with each human increment. Like a cannibal,
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 1: it feeds on human beings the mob has a self
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  Speaker 1: of its own. The personal self is suppressed, swallowed up
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  Speaker 1: by it, so much so that when the latter comes
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  Speaker 1: once more to the light of day, it is frequently
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  Speaker 1: horrified at the work the crime that the mob self
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 1: has committed. Once the mob's self is generated, or truer
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 1: to say, brought to the surface, it possesses a strong
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 1: attractive power and a great capacity for assimilation. It attracts
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 1: fresh individuals, breaks down their personal life, and quickly assimilates them.
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  Speaker 1: The assimilated individual expresses nothing but the energy, suggestion, the
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 1: will of the entranced crowd. He enters fully into the
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 1: spirit of the mob. The extreme impulsiveness of the mob's
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 1: self is notorious. No sooner is a suggestion accepted, no
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 1: matter how criminal, how inhuman, it might be, than it
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  Speaker 1: is immediately realized, unless another suggestion, more in accord with
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 1: the general nature of suggestions in which the mob itself
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 1: was trained, interferes and deflects the energy of the mob
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 1: in another direction. Cases are of record in which individuals
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 1: who plunged into the midst of an excited mob with
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 1: the full purpose of counteracting its purposes, were themselves overcome
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 1: by the contagion and fell in with the actions of
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 1: the mob, although the latter were directly opposed to their
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 1: normal feelings, convictions, and interests. A Russian writer cites an
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  Speaker 1: instance in which a soldier bitterly denounced the mob, which
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  Speaker 1: was beating to death his old commander, who he said
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 1: had been like a father to him. Being urged to
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 1: help the man who had befriended him, he rushed into
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  Speaker 1: the crowd with that avowed purpose. A few minutes later
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 1: he was discovered beating the old commander with a club.
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  Speaker 1: Like the rest of the crowd. Being reproached, he said,
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  Speaker 1: he was indeed like a father to me, But in
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  Speaker 1: such a time when all the rest strike him, why
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  Speaker 1: should I keep quiet? Jews have been caught in anti
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 1: Jewish crowds and vice versa, the individual being carried away
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 1: by the thought epidemic. Almost incredible instances are recorded concerning
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  Speaker 1: the influence of thought contagion leading to the participation of
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  Speaker 1: persons in mob movements directed against their own kindred, class, sect,
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  Speaker 1: or faith. Another form of thought contagion or of mental
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 1: epidemics is the condition of panic or stampede, manifested by crowds, communities,
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 1: and even entire countries. At many times in history, there
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 1: have been many instances of the rapid and wide spread
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 1: of popular fear of the coming of the end of
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 1: the world. It would seem that at least once in
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 1: every generation a panic or craze of this kind breaks out.
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  Speaker 1: Someone starts the rumor that the world is coming to
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  Speaker 1: an end on such and such a day, the condition
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 1: of the popular mind being propitious, the rumor is taken
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 1: up and accepted by many, and before long reaches the
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 1: degree of thought contagion or mental epidemic. Before the inevitable subsidence,
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 1: thousands are affected, and in many cases deplorable results arise.
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  Speaker 1: In us insanity, suicides through fear, neglect of financial interests,
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  Speaker 1: breaking up of families, destruction or disposal of goods and property.
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 1: All these are incidents of this form of thought contagion.
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 1: Similar mental epidemics arise from the appearance of comets accompanied
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 1: by dire prophecies, the appearances of plagues of various kinds,
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 1: the rumors of financial calamities about to overtake the country,
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 1: and similar prophecies or promises of evil. In short, it
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 1: seems that under certain general psychological conditions arising from a
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 1: number of favoring causes. It is possible that a panicky
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 1: condition or a general stampede may be started from the
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 1: simplest beginnings and by reason of the most irrational ideas,
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 1: like a herd of frightened cattle or horses, like a
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 1: crowd of sheep, like a flock of chickens. The great
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 1: masses of people catch the contagion, take fright work themselves
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 1: into a state of panic, and away they go in
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 1: a wild stampede, all without valid reasons or sufficient motives.
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 1: In the same way, strong waves of speculative excitement gambling
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 1: crazes get rich quick epidemics have affected large masses of people,
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 1: apparently all at once. Great numbers of people will rush
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 1: to invest their hard earned money in some wild, fantastic,
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  Speaker 1: unbusinesslike scheme which has been widely heralded. Then scores of
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 1: similar schemes are evolved, like mushrooms. They grow overnight. Persons
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 1: heretofore careful and prudent, throw aside all caution and forethought,
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  Speaker 1: and actually beg the promoters of the wild enterprises to
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 1: accept their money, to let them in the scheme. Then,
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 1: sooner or later, the bubble bursts and the excitement dies
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 1: out at once. After it is all over, the public
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 1: wonders how it ever could have happened. The people keep
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 1: on wondering until history repeats itself, as it always does
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 1: when given sufficient time. As illustrations of the financial crazes
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  Speaker 1: or epidemics due to thought contagion or mental epidemic, we
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 1: cite the following three celebrated instances. One the tulip craze
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  Speaker 1: of sixteen thirty four, where the Dutch people experienced an
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 1: epidemic of belief in the get rich quick possibilities of
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 1: tulip raising. Ordinary industry was suspended, and practically every one
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 1: took to raising tulips. Fancy tulips rose in value equal
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 1: to that of diamonds. They were sold by the grain
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 1: or even by more minute weights. People sold their houses
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 1: and lands, their furniture, and their businesses in order to
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 1: speculate in tulips. Money poured into Holland from other countries
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 1: to which the epidemic had spread. In time, a panic
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  Speaker 1: succeeded the craze and the bubble burst, causing the ruin
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 1: of thousands of persons. Two the Mississippi Company Craze of
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 1: seventeen seventeen, in which the thought contagion or mental epidemic
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 1: reached heights which now seem almost incredible. This craze had
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 1: its seat in France, where John Law, a shrewd Scotchman,
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 1: obtained from the Regent of France the exclusive rights for
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  Speaker 1: his company to trade on the west bank of the
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  Speaker 1: Mississippi River in America. Later the exclusive privileges were extended
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  Speaker 1: to the East Indies, and the South Seas Law announced
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  Speaker 1: probable profits of one hundred twenty percent. Thousands of enthusiastic
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 1: french Men of all ranks and classes fought at Law's
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 1: doors for the privilege of subscribing for shares in his company.
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 1: The nation indulged in an orgy of gambling. The streets
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 1: were transformed into trading floors for the sale of stock.
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 1: The public acted as if it were drunk. The wildest
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 1: excesses were manifested. Finally, the bubble burst. Thousands of persons
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 1: had lost their all, and many were reduced to actual poverty.
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 1: Three the south Sea Bubble of seventeen twenty, in which
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 1: the English public was subjected to a severe attack of
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 1: thought contagion or mental epidemic. The South Sea Company, by
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 1: means of false rumors started the craze, the bread gaining
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 1: in size and strength as they traveled. Soon it was
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 1: believed that the investment of one hundred pounds would bring
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 1: a sure return of many hundreds of pounds per annum.
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  Speaker 1: People abandoned their ordinary occupations and became speculators in shares
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 1: of stock. Imitation schemes were born, and people fought to
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 1: trade in their shares. The whole country was infected with
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 1: the get rich quick virus. The most absurd schemes were evolved,
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 1: and nothing seemed too silly to receive popular support. The
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 1: shares of the South Sea Company finally reached the point
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 1: of one thousand per cent increase. Finally the bubble was pricked.
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 1: Stocks fell, but panic ensued. Thousands were utterly ruined financially.
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 1: These three great cases of thought contagion or mental epidemics
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 1: served to illustrate the general principles underlying all similar cases
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 1: in this country and in Europe. There have been other
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 1: cases of financial crazes of a similar character which have
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 1: occurred during the past century. Every person of middle age
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 1: will readily recall instances of this kind of greater or
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 1: less severity. CD says of this class of cases. The
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 1: course of speculation epidemics is to rise to the highest
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 1: point of heavenly bliss, and then to fall to the
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 1: lowest depth of misery, to pass from a state of
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 1: acute maniacal exaltation to a state of still more acute
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 1: melancholic depression. Great waves of religious revival epidemics have at
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 1: times rolled over countries, affecting many thousands and in many
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 1: cases causing deplorable results. In America, the earlier part of
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 1: the nineteenth century was remarkable for such cases. Several great
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 1: revival epidemics flourished in this country in the first half
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 1: of that century, In eighteen hundred, in eighteen fifteen, and
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 1: again in eighteen thirty two. The Great American Revivals flourished.
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 1: In many cases the public, especially in remote districts, literally
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 1: a mad hysteria, was deemed the hallmark of salvation, and
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 1: the saner minds in the ministry were rejected by the masses,
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 1: who preferred to follow the lead of the sensationalists. Ordinarily
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 1: sober and sane persons attending the meetings acted like wild dervishes, convulsions, trances,
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 1: strange fits, barking like dogs, mewing like cats, naying like horses.
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 1: These were the signs of conversion, according to the insane
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 1: standards adopted. In some cases, there began a search for
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 1: spiritual mates, and soon that sanctified were living with affinities
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 1: with the full consent of their lawful mates. The craze
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 1: passed in time, leaving behind it a trail of physical
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 1: and mental wrecks, and in some instances moral wrecks as well.
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 1: In this class of mental epidemics may also be placed
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 1: the Great mill Rite Craze of eighteen forty, arising from
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 1: the predictions of one William Miller that the coming of
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 1: the Lord was at hand and the end of the
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 1: world was about to occur. The doctrine was widely spread
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 1: by Miller and his disciples, and before long the country
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 1: went wild with it. Finally, an exact date, year, month, day,
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 1: and hour was announced, in which the Sun of Man
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 1: will come with power and great glory. Then came the
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 1: gift of tongues and the gift of prophecy to the faithful.
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 1: Men and women forsook their work and their homes, and
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 1: indulged in orgies of religious hysteria. In many cases, families
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 1: were forsaken and abandoned. Nights were passed in exhortations and prayers.
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 1: It is recorded that night was rendered hideous by their screams.
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 1: Property was given away freely or else abandoned. White ascension
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 1: robes were prepared by the faithful for the great day.
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 1: The day came, the faithful waited, some even ascending trees,
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 1: in order to be the first to ascend to heaven.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing happened. Great discouragement was manifested by the many who
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 1: were ruined. A mistake in dates was announced and a
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 1: new date fixed. Many accepted this change, and the program
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 1: was repeated In eighteen forty four. The second prediction failed
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 1: and the craze was over, leaving behind the usual trail
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 1: of wrecked mines and bodies. Students of history are familiar
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 1: with the celebrated mental epidemics of older times. The Crusade's
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 1: epidemic carried men and women, and finally even young children,
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 1: toward the Holy Land in order to rescue the Holy Sepulcher.
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 1: Thousands upon thousands died on the journey. Others were captured
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 1: and sold as slaves. The final Crusade was composed entirely
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 1: of young children, boys, and girls, many of whom met
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 1: with terrible fates. Then came the flagelent craze, in which
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 1: thousands of men and women, often almost or entirely nude,
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 1: marched the streets, scourging themselves with leather thongs until the
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 1: blood flowed freely. Then came the dancing mania, in which
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 1: men and women, boys and girls danced the streets in
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 1: an ecstatic mental state. Then came the several Messiah epidemics
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 1: among the Jews, in which the wildest excitement prevailed and
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 1: almost insane excesses were manifested. Then came the successive waves
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 1: of witchcraft crazes, in which many thousands of innocent persons
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 1: were adjudge to be witches or possessed of the devil,
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 1: and accordingly hanged or burned at the stake. The story
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 1: is a pitiful one. When reason forsakes are throne, chaos reigns.
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 1: With the increase of public knowledge and the spread of
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 1: popular education, the character of these mental epidemics has changed,
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 1: but the principle remains the same. One needs but to
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 1: consider the many crazes and mental epidemics occurring during the
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 1: period of his own experience in order to appreciate the
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 1: fact that the principle is still operative. Even within the
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 1: past twenty five years, the world has experienced many cases
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 1: of religious epidemics, financial crazes, the rise and fall of
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 1: many strange fads, isms and ologies. Strange crazes for extreme fashions,
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 1: in dress, in amusements, et cetera. Are continually having their rise,
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 1: their brief period of popularity, and their speedy decline. To
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 1: read a book written twenty years ago is to realize
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 1: how many now forgotten crazes were flourishing at that time.
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 1: Students of those of our own times will have a
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 1: similar experience of amused wonder twenty years. Hence, in times
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 1: of great political excitement, particularly during presidential campaigns in this country,
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 1: these great waves of thought contagion pass over the land,
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 1: causing mental epidemics of great power. A few days after election,
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 1: people are wondering what it was all about. The sinking
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 1: of the Vimain in eighteen ninety eight produced a mental
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 1: contagion which extended all over the United States and thus
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 1: made inevitable the war with Spain which followed a few
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 1: months later. In nineteen fifteen, the sinking of the Lusitania
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 1: aroused a great ways of thought contagion in America and
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 1: War at that time was almost caused. Its effects, temporarily
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 1: held back, were manifested two years later, when similar occurrences
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 1: aroused the popular feeling and caused the entry of the
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 1: United States into the Great World War. The Great World
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 1: War itself owed its rapid spread and its wide extension
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  Speaker 1: in no small measure to thought contagion. Persons all over
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  Speaker 1: the world are now looking back in a dazed condition
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  Speaker 1: to the terrible happenings of that recent period of the
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  Speaker 1: world's history, and are wondering how they possibly could have
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  Speaker 1: occurred in this stage of civilization. But all thought contagion
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  Speaker 1: is not of such a marked or violent character, as
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  Speaker 1: indicated by the illustrative cases which we have cited. As
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  Speaker 1: we have told you in our consideration of thought atmospheres,
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  Speaker 1: the atmospheres of places of cities, towns, villages, districts, houses, stores, offices,
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  Speaker 1: et cetera, are largely due to thought contagion. The thought
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  Speaker 1: keynotes sounded by strong asas authoritative individuals in a community
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  Speaker 1: or in a place of business, a church, or an office,
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  Speaker 1: communicates itself to those dwelling in the place or working there.
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  Speaker 1: Then begins a process of action and reaction, a mutual
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  Speaker 1: contagion which continues until a mental equilibrium is secured and
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  Speaker 1: the thought atmosphere of the places becomes set. The mental
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  Speaker 1: keynote of an audience, a congregation, a mass meeting, et cetera,
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  Speaker 1: is reached in the same way. The principle remains the same,
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  Speaker 1: though its manifestations have a wide range of different expressions.
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  Speaker 1: You must not fall into the error of supposing that
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  Speaker 1: all thought contagion is harmful, evil, or detrimental, or that
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  Speaker 1: every mental epidemic is a bad one. On the contrary,
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  Speaker 1: good thoughts are catching as well as are bad ones.
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  Speaker 1: The influence of thought environments of the right kind is
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  Speaker 1: most powerful and has helped to reform many a person
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  Speaker 1: and to set him on the right path. One finds
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  Speaker 1: it very much easier to pursue the right path of
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  Speaker 1: living when he is surrounded by the proper mental atmosphere,
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  Speaker 1: just as the opposite kind of mental atmosphere makes right
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  Speaker 1: living much harder for him. This fact is instinctively understood
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  Speaker 1: by those working for human betterment, even though they may
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  Speaker 1: not understand the true causes underlying what they call environmental conditions.
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  Speaker 1: The right kind of environment is the place in which
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  Speaker 1: the proper kinds of thought vibrations are habitually manifested, and
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  Speaker 1: the appropriate kind of mental atmosphere maintained. An understanding of
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  Speaker 1: the true causes of environmental influence will serve to clear
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  Speaker 1: up many apparent mysteries which attract the attention of all
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  Speaker 1: students of the subject. Neither should you fall into the
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  Speaker 1: error of supposing that you are at the mercy of
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  Speaker 1: every wave of thought contagion, of every mental epidemic that
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  Speaker 1: comes in your direction. The more that you understand the
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  Speaker 1: nature of thought contagion and mental epidemics, the less liable
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  Speaker 1: will you be to be affected or infected by those
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  Speaker 1: of an undesirable nature. Forewarned forearmed, says the old proverb,
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  Speaker 1: and it is true in this case. When you know
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  Speaker 1: the symptoms, you may deliberately guard against the infection by
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  Speaker 1: determinedly turning your thoughts and attention in the opposite direction,
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  Speaker 1: and by bringing your reason into action. Finally, you may
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  Speaker 1: realize so fully the fact that the I am I
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  Speaker 1: is the master, that you may erect a defensive barrier
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  Speaker 1: against all thought influences of a detrimental or harmful character,
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  Speaker 1: while opening yourself to the inflow of helpful, positive, advantageous
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  Speaker 1: thought influences. In the later sections of this book, these
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  Speaker 1: matters will be gone into in further detail. In conclusion,
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  Speaker 1: let us remind you that in knowledge there is power.
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  Speaker 1: In this matter of thought, contagion and influences, a knowledge
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  Speaker 1: of the facts is in itself a strong weapon of defense. Again,
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  Speaker 1: let us assure you that there is nothing to fear
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  Speaker 1: in the case. That is, there is nothing to fear
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  Speaker 1: but fear. For fear is the great negative, depressing, weakening
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  Speaker 1: mental state. Fear thought in invites undesirable mental currents and contagion.
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  Speaker 1: Fearlessness repels them. Fearlessness is positive, fear thought is negative,
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  Speaker 1: and the positives always overcome the negatives. The individual who
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  Speaker 1: realizes in consciousness the real nature of his I am I,
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  Speaker 1: and who recognizes its impregnable position, may stand on the
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  Speaker 1: solid rock of his own selfhood, which is grounded on
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  Speaker 1: the base of all power, and from that point may
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  Speaker 1: defy the winds of negative thought influences and the waves
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  Speaker 1: of popular mental epidemics, which sweep away the resting places
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  Speaker 1: of those who have built upon the sands of the
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  Speaker 1: superficial personality. Your real self is a mighty fortress of
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  Speaker 1: the gates of which you alone hold the key. Nothing
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  Speaker 1: can enter its walls unless you give it permission. Thought
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  Speaker 1: power Radiomentalism by William Walker Atkinson, nineteen twenty two. Thought
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  Speaker 1: attraction the second great principle of the activity of thought power,
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  Speaker 1: which is involved in the manifestation of the radio uoactivity
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  Speaker 1: of thought and the inductive action of thought, is that
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  Speaker 1: known as the attractive power of thought or the drawing
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  Speaker 1: power of the mind. In the operation of this principle
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  Speaker 1: of thought power, the thought vibrations manifest a strong attractive
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  Speaker 1: force by means of which they attract or draw to
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  Speaker 1: themselves other thought vibrations of a similar character. The same
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  Speaker 1: principle operates in the direction of drawing or attracting to
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  Speaker 1: each other or to a common center different individuals of
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  Speaker 1: the same general trend of thought. It also tends to
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  Speaker 1: produce and induce many other forms and phases of attraction
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  Speaker 1: between thoughts and things, ideas, and persons. Thought attraction plays
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  Speaker 1: the same part in the world of thoughts that gravitation
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  Speaker 1: plays in the world of matter. Gravitation operates in the
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  Speaker 1: direction of drawing toward each other. The particles and masses
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  Speaker 1: of material substance. Thought attraction operates in the direction of
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  Speaker 1: drawing together those thought currents, thought waves, thought vibrations, et cetera,
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  Speaker 1: which are of the same or a similar nature. Thought
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  Speaker 1: attraction operates along the lines of the general rule that
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  Speaker 1: like attracts like, and thoughts manifest a tendency which is
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  Speaker 1: well expressed by the familiar adage birds of a feather
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  Speaker 1: flock together. In short, thoughts have been discovered to manifest
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  Speaker 1: a strong tendency to enter into close relations with other
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  Speaker 1: thoughts of a similar character, and to attract to themselves
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  Speaker 1: these similar thoughts, while at the same time they themselves
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  Speaker 1: are attracted by the latter. A mutual attraction exists between
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  Speaker 1: thoughts of the same general character. There is something like
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  Speaker 1: a chemical affinity existing between them, and also something like
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  Speaker 1: a chemical repulsion between thoughts of opposite characters. As a consequence,
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  Speaker 1: the person who in a strong degree manifests definite thoughts
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  Speaker 1: of a certain character sets into operation the power of
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  Speaker 1: thought attraction, and thereby draws and attracts to himself the
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  Speaker 1: thought vibrations, thought waves, or thought currents of other persons
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  Speaker 1: whose thoughts closely resemble his own. In short, such a
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  Speaker 1: person draws from the great man mental atmosphere surrounding him
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  Speaker 1: on all sides the active energy of those thought vibrations
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  Speaker 1: which are in harmony with his own, and at the
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  Speaker 1: same time he repels from his mental atmosphere those thought
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  Speaker 1: vibrations which are inharmonious with his own. This, as you
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  Speaker 1: will readily see, applies not only to desirable and advantageous
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  Speaker 1: thoughts in mental states, but also to those which are
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  Speaker 1: undesirable and disadvantageous. You have frequently experienced the working of
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  Speaker 1: this mental principle in your own mental states. You have
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 1: dropped into a mood of depression and gloom. Everything looks
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  Speaker 1: blue to you, and nothing seems worth while. The cause
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  Speaker 1: may be physical, or it may be purely mental. It
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  Speaker 1: matters not so far as the effects upon other thought
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  Speaker 1: vibrations are concerned. Before long you will feel as if
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  Speaker 1: a deep cloud of depression were settling upon you, shutting
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  Speaker 1: out the rays of the sun and enveloping you in
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  Speaker 1: a mental atmosphere of gloom, pessimism, and discouragement. You have
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  Speaker 1: attracted towards yourself the thought vibrations of other persons which
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  Speaker 1: are in harmony with your own. This, in turn will
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  Speaker 1: result in a still more powerful attractive force being set
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  Speaker 1: into operation in the same direction, and you will go
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  Speaker 1: from bad to worse in the matter of gloom and depression. Finally, however,
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  Speaker 1: the protective forces of your being will cause a swing
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  Speaker 1: of the pendulum in the other direction, and you will
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  Speaker 1: experience temporary relief. But if you persist in encouraging gloomy
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  Speaker 1: thoughts and the consequent attraction of similar thought vibrations, you
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  Speaker 1: may eventually reach a state of chronic depression and gloom
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  Speaker 1: into which the sunlight of cheerfulness is almost unable to penetrate.
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  Speaker 1: Your only hope in such case is deliberately to set
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  Speaker 1: into operation thoughts of an opposite character, thoughts of cheerfulness, hope,
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  Speaker 1: and encouragement, which will attract other thoughts of a like nature,
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  Speaker 1: and will thus counteract and neutralize the negative, depressing mental
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  Speaker 1: states which have afflicted you in the same way, though
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  Speaker 1: in the opposite direction, you will find that if you
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  Speaker 1: will strive to secure and to maintain the characteristic mental
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  Speaker 1: state expressed by the words bright, cheerful, and happy, you
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  Speaker 1: will attract to yourself similar bright, cheerful and happy thought vibrations,
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  Speaker 1: thought waves, thought currents. You will feel their uplifting influence
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  Speaker 1: almost at once, and will experience the delight and advantage
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  Speaker 1: of a mental atmosphere of this kind. Not only will
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  Speaker 1: you attract these positive, inspiring thoughts, but you will also
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  Speaker 1: repel the negative, dispiriting thought influences in the great mental
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  Speaker 1: atmosphere surrounding you. Thoughts of hate, anger, envy, and jealousy
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  Speaker 1: tend to attract to themselves the thoughts of others of
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  Speaker 1: the same kind, and these in turn induce a still
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  Speaker 1: higher degree of these objectionable mental states in your own mind.
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  Speaker 1: You sometimes bring upon yourself veritable whirlwinds of hate thoughts
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  Speaker 1: by sending forth strong thought vibrations of that kind. The
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  Speaker 1: old saying that curses like chickens come home to roost
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  Speaker 1: has a practical realization in cases such as we have
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  Speaker 1: just mentioned. In the processes of thought power, your mental
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  Speaker 1: loans are returned with compound interest, the payment being made
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  Speaker 1: in the same kind of mental coin, good or bad,
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  Speaker 1: which you have paid out. If, even from only a
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  Speaker 1: purely selfish point of view, it pays to send out
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  Speaker 1: the right kind of thoughts. Avoid sending out thoughts of
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  Speaker 1: a character which you would not like to have returned
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  Speaker 1: to you in kind with interest, on the other hand,
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  Speaker 1: so that you may reap sow that which you hope
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  Speaker 1: to reap. In the field of thought. From what has
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  Speaker 1: been said, you will see that the inductive action of
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  Speaker 1: thought is largely modified and influenced by the attractive power
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  Speaker 1: of thought. The degree of the liability to induction, contagion,
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  Speaker 1: or thought influence of any kind depends largely upon the
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  Speaker 1: character of one's own thoughts. In other words, one is
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  Speaker 1: far more likely to be affected and influenced by thought vibrations, currents, waves,
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  Speaker 1: or atmospheres in harmony with the character of his own
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  Speaker 1: thoughts than by those not in harmony. Therewith. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: such a definite ratio exists between thought induction and thought
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  Speaker 1: attraction that an exact formula might be worked out by
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  Speaker 1: a competent mathematician familiar with the data. Another important and
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  Speaker 1: interesting point should be noted in your consideration of the
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  Speaker 1: subject of thought attraction. We have made reference to the
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  Speaker 1: fact that not only do you attract thought vibrations, thought waves,
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  Speaker 1: thought currents, thought atmospheres, et cetera, of a harmonious character,
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  Speaker 1: and to which your thoughts have a natural affinity, but
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  Speaker 1: that you also attract to yourself by the power of
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  Speaker 1: thought attraction other persons whose thoughts have an affinity in
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  Speaker 1: harmony with your own. In the same way you attract
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  Speaker 1: to yourself and are attracted by other persons whose interests
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  Speaker 1: run along the same general lines as your own. You
• 1:30:48
  Speaker 1: draw to yourself the persons who may be necessary for
• 1:30:51
  Speaker 1: the successful carrying out of the plans and purposes the
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  Speaker 1: desires and ambitions which fill your thoughts most of the time.
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  Speaker 1: And in the same way you are drawn toward those
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  Speaker 1: into whose plans and purposes you are fitted to play
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  Speaker 1: an important part. In short, each person tends to attract
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  Speaker 1: toward himself those other persons whom he needs in order
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  Speaker 1: to materialize his ideals and to express his desires, provided
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  Speaker 1: that he wants hard enough, and that the other persons
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  Speaker 1: are in harmonious affinity with his plans and purposes. According
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  Speaker 1: to this principle, certain towns and cities of a strong
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  Speaker 1: mental character tend to draw to themselves persons from all
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  Speaker 1: over the country and even from other countries, whose general
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  Speaker 1: mental natures are in harmonious affinity with those of the place.
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  Speaker 1: In the same way, many individuals of certain general mental
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  Speaker 1: or emotional characteristics are almost irresistibly attracted by and drawn
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 1: to certain towns and cities with the general mental character
• 1:31:47
  Speaker 1: of which they are in harmonious affinity. You have often
• 1:31:50
  Speaker 1: seen cases in which persons could not keep away from
• 1:31:54
  Speaker 1: certain towns, cities, or parts of the country for which
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  Speaker 1: they were naturally fitted by reason of their mental caresaracteristics.
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  Speaker 1: This is one of the reasons why particular places rapidly
• 1:32:04
  Speaker 1: take on certain mental characteristics. Once the process of thought
• 1:32:08
  Speaker 1: attraction and thought induction have been started. There are other
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  Speaker 1: and more subtle phases of the operation of thought attraction
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  Speaker 1: which must be noted here. Although they involve the activities
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  Speaker 1: of certain powers of the mind and of nature, which
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  Speaker 1: are but little understood by the great masses of persons.
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  Speaker 1: We have reference to the fact that by thought attraction,
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  Speaker 1: not only other thoughts, not only other persons are attracted,
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  Speaker 1: but that also the conditions, environment, and circumstances necessary for
• 1:32:36
  Speaker 1: the effect of expression manifestation of one's thoughts are often
• 1:32:39
  Speaker 1: brought into actual relation to him. They can scarcely be
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  Speaker 1: said to have been attracted to him. Rather, does it
• 1:32:45
  Speaker 1: seem that he is attracted to and by them. There
• 1:32:48
  Speaker 1: evidently is some sort of correlation set up between these
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  Speaker 1: things in one's thoughts, and subtle natural forces are called
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  Speaker 1: into operation in order that there may be a coordination
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  Speaker 1: of the person, the time, the place, the conditions, the
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  Speaker 1: opportunity required for the expression materialization of the thought. One
• 1:33:07
  Speaker 1: of the present writers, about twenty years ago, wrote the
• 1:33:10
  Speaker 1: following statement concerning the general operations of the laws of
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  Speaker 1: thought attraction. They serve equally well to express the general
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  Speaker 1: idea today, even in the light of the investigations which
• 1:33:21
  Speaker 1: have been made along the same lines during that period
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  Speaker 1: of time. We take the liberty of quoting the statement
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  Speaker 1: in full, believing that it will possess a special interest
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  Speaker 1: to the readers of the present book. The statement in
• 1:33:33
  Speaker 1: question is as follows. Your thoughts place you in connection
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  Speaker 1: with the outside world and its forces, and you attract
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  Speaker 1: and repel people and things by the character of thought
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  Speaker 1: held you, and they are attracted to each other. Because
• 1:33:47
  Speaker 1: your thoughts are pitched on the same key. You are
• 1:33:51
  Speaker 1: in close touch with all other parts of the whole,
• 1:33:53
  Speaker 1: but attract to yourself only such of the parts which
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  Speaker 1: correspond in kind with your mental attitude. If you think success,
• 1:34:01
  Speaker 1: you will find that you have started into operation the
• 1:34:03
  Speaker 1: forces that are conducive to your success, and from time
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  Speaker 1: to time, if you maintain the same mental attitude, other
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  Speaker 1: things will fall into line as they are needed and
• 1:34:12
  Speaker 1: will aid you in your efforts. Things will seem to
• 1:34:15
  Speaker 1: come your way in a most astounding manner, and opportunities
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  Speaker 1: will arise which I have taken advantage of will insure
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  Speaker 1: to you success. You will find that new thoughts will
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  Speaker 1: come into your mind which should be taken advantage of.
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  Speaker 1: You will meet with persons who will help you in
• 1:34:30
  Speaker 1: many ways by suggestions, ideas, and active help. Of course,
• 1:34:36
  Speaker 1: the work which you must do yourself will not be
• 1:34:38
  Speaker 1: performed for you by others, but the law will continually
• 1:34:41
  Speaker 1: help and assist you. It will bring opportunities and chances
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  Speaker 1: to your door, but you will have to take them in.
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  Speaker 1: It will lead you up to the doors opening into advancement,
• 1:34:51
  Speaker 1: but you will have to open the doors yourself. It
• 1:34:54
  Speaker 1: will undertake what will seem to be round about roads
• 1:34:56
  Speaker 1: to get to a thing, but you will arrive at
• 1:34:58
  Speaker 1: your journey's end, no matter how winding may be the road.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes it will take you far past the point at
• 1:35:05
  Speaker 1: which you thought you were aiming, and as you go past,
• 1:35:09
  Speaker 1: you will smile when you recall that this point on
• 1:35:11
  Speaker 1: the road, which now seems so unimportant, seemed a little
• 1:35:14
  Speaker 1: further back to be your destination, your reason for making
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  Speaker 1: the trip. Sometimes, the thing which seems to represent all
• 1:35:22
  Speaker 1: that is worth having, and which inspires you to make
• 1:35:24
  Speaker 1: the effort, will have lost all interest for you when
• 1:35:27
  Speaker 1: you near it. You will make no effort to grasp
• 1:35:29
  Speaker 1: it as you pass, but will move on past it,
• 1:35:32
  Speaker 1: swept forward by the tremendous forces which you have, perhaps
• 1:35:35
  Speaker 1: unwittingly set into operation. In other books of this series,
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  Speaker 1: we have considered the effect of desire upon the degree
• 1:35:43
  Speaker 1: of the attractive power of thoughts. We have likewise considered
• 1:35:47
  Speaker 1: the important part played by confident expectation, faith, and hope
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  Speaker 1: upon the tendency of thoughts to express themselves in action
• 1:35:55
  Speaker 1: and to materialize themselves, in which processes thought attraction is involved.
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  Speaker 1: It is sufficient here merely to mention the fact that
• 1:36:02
  Speaker 1: desire animates and energizes the attractive power of thoughts, and
• 1:36:06
  Speaker 1: that confident expectation, hope, and faith greatly inspire and increase
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  Speaker 1: the drawing power of thought. We also wish to call
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  Speaker 1: your attention at this point to the fact that you
• 1:36:17
  Speaker 1: not only attract and draw to yourself the thoughts, things, persons,
• 1:36:21
  Speaker 1: and conditions representing your wishes and desires, the things you like,
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 1: in short, but that you also attract and draw to yourself,
• 1:36:28
  Speaker 1: under certain conditions, the things which are the subject of
• 1:36:31
  Speaker 1: your fears. Fear thought often exerts a powerful attractive force
• 1:36:36
  Speaker 1: in the wrong direction. This because the things you fear
• 1:36:40
  Speaker 1: are held in mind by you, often to a marked degree.
• 1:36:44
  Speaker 1: You think about them and roll them over and over
• 1:36:47
  Speaker 1: in your mind. You let your mind dwell upon them,
• 1:36:50
  Speaker 1: often to the exclusion of the thoughts of the things
• 1:36:53
  Speaker 1: you hope, for, desire, and ardently wish. Your very fear
• 1:36:57
  Speaker 1: of a thing is, in a way, at least partial
• 1:37:00
  Speaker 1: belief that it will come to you, a form of
• 1:37:02
  Speaker 1: confident expectation. You hold the thoughts of the feared thing
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  Speaker 1: in your mind, you form mental pictures of it in
• 1:37:09
  Speaker 1: your imagination, You dramatize it as it were. This being
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  Speaker 1: the fact, is it any wonder that fear thought attracts
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  Speaker 1: and draws to you often the very things which you
• 1:37:18
  Speaker 1: have feared. The things I have feared have come upon me.
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  Speaker 1: The essential principle underlying the manifestation of thought attraction seems
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  Speaker 1: to be as follows. All thoughts seeks to express itself
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  Speaker 1: in action, all thoughts seeks to materialize itself in objective form. Therefore,
• 1:37:35
  Speaker 1: the thoughts strongly held in your mind, and the mental
• 1:37:38
  Speaker 1: pictures held in the imagination, tending to express and manifest themselves,
• 1:37:42
  Speaker 1: attract and draw to you other thoughts, persons, things, conditions,
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  Speaker 1: and circumstances of a kind and character likely to bring
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  Speaker 1: about an effect such expression and materialization, and also operate
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  Speaker 1: so as to direct you toward the persons and things
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  Speaker 1: likely to affect the same ends. This rule holds good
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  Speaker 1: even when you do not desire the particular things, but,
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  Speaker 1: on the contrary, entertain such a lively fear toward them
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  Speaker 1: that they are constantly in your mind. The logical rule
• 1:38:10
  Speaker 1: therefore is hold the thoughts and ideas, and the mental
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  Speaker 1: pictures of those things which you wish to be expressed
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  Speaker 1: and materialized in objective form, do not dwell upon the
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  Speaker 1: opposite kinds of thoughts, And above all, do not allow
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  Speaker 1: fear thought to master you. Construct your own mental patterns
• 1:38:28
  Speaker 1: and molds, your outlines and diagrams, and never allow fear
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  Speaker 1: thought to perform this work for you. Thought power Radiomentalism
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  Speaker 1: by William Walker Atkinson, nineteen twenty two. Thought waves and forms.
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  Speaker 1: Investigators and students of the phenomena of thought power have
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  Speaker 1: long been aware that the particular thought vibrations emitted by
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  Speaker 1: the individual, as well as the combined thought vibrations of
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  Speaker 1: a number of individuals, travel through space in the same
• 1:38:57
  Speaker 1: general form as that assumed by magnetic forms or electrical energy.
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  Speaker 1: That is to say, there exist thought waves, thought currents,
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  Speaker 1: and thought forms i e. Mass thought vibrations which have
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  Speaker 1: assumed a certain form and acquired a certain density, which
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  Speaker 1: are composed of thought vibrations emitted by the individual or individuals.
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  Speaker 1: These thought waves, thought currents, and thought forms are known
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  Speaker 1: to exist even though they are not visible to the
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  Speaker 1: normal vision. They are recognized as present and active by
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  Speaker 1: reason of the perception of their effects and results. From
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  Speaker 1: such observation, much also has been learned concerning their activities
• 1:39:34
  Speaker 1: and general character. In short, they are known by their works,
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  Speaker 1: just as are the waves, currents, and general forms of
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  Speaker 1: electrical or magnetic energy, including those phases involved in wireless transmission.
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  Speaker 1: It is not always necessary actually to see thing in
• 1:39:52
  Speaker 1: order to know that it exists and is active. Nature's
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  Speaker 1: strongest forces are often the finest and most subtle, imperceptible
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  Speaker 1: to the no normal sight, though usually capable of being
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  Speaker 1: registered by instruments and apparatus, and of being recognized through
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  Speaker 1: their effects and induced results. You never actually saw electricity
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  Speaker 1: nor magnetism. Yet you do not doubt their existence nor
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  Speaker 1: their power, for you have experienced the results and effects
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  Speaker 1: of their activity. The existence of thought waves, thought currents,
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  Speaker 1: and thought forms is recognized and accepted in the same way,
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  Speaker 1: but from an entirely different source. There comes a great
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  Speaker 1: mass of evidence tending to corroborate and support the scientific
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  Speaker 1: discoveries and hypotheses concerning the above stated manifestations of thought power.
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  Speaker 1: We allude to the great body of teaching generally known
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  Speaker 1: as occult particularly that form of such teachings which has
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  Speaker 1: long existed among the Oriental races. We may also say
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  Speaker 1: that similar evidence is furnished by certain investigators of psychical
• 1:40:53
  Speaker 1: research phenomena, the reports of whom agree with those of
• 1:40:56
  Speaker 1: the Oriental occultists, and like the latter, are found to
• 1:41:00
  Speaker 1: indicate the existence of certain laws or principles of activity,
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  Speaker 1: which independent investigation has discovered to govern the phenomena of
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  Speaker 1: thought power. Along the lines which we are now considering.
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  Speaker 1: In short, both the ancient and modern occultists and the
• 1:41:13
  Speaker 1: psychic researchers hold that, in certain exceptional cases, by means
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  Speaker 1: of the ordinary faculty of psyche developed to a supernormal degree,
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  Speaker 1: or else by means of an astral or psychic faculty
• 1:41:24
  Speaker 1: of vision, the thought atmospheres, the thought vibrations, the thought waves,
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  Speaker 1: and thought currents of the individual may be sensed and
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  Speaker 1: perceived by the person possessing the supernormal, psychic or astral vision.
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  Speaker 1: The occult teachings furnish an extended series of reports of
• 1:41:41
  Speaker 1: observations of the phenomena of thought power made in this way. Now,
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  Speaker 1: while in this book we have no intention of urging
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  Speaker 1: the adoption of these occult or psychic reports, nor are
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  Speaker 1: we conducting propaganda work concerning such teachings or doctrines, nevertheless,
• 1:41:57
  Speaker 1: we feel that, in view of the fact that the
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  Speaker 1: ordinary observation of thought waves, thought currents, and thought forms
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  Speaker 1: show that these act as if these occult or psychic
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  Speaker 1: reports were true, as if such laws and principles of
• 1:42:09
  Speaker 1: action were operative in the phenomena mentioned, we are called
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  Speaker 1: upon to direct your attention to the same In this book,
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  Speaker 1: whether you either accept or reject these reports, we feel that,
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  Speaker 1: in view of the fact that these thought phenomena act
• 1:42:23
  Speaker 1: as if such laws and principles are operative, you will
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  Speaker 1: find it convenient and interesting to employ them as at
• 1:42:29
  Speaker 1: least symbolic or poetical illustrations of the workings of thought power.
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  Speaker 1: In the case of the phenomena in question, we offer
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  Speaker 1: them therefore with this understanding between us viz. That you
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  Speaker 1: will accept them either as literally correct or else as
• 1:42:42
  Speaker 1: merely symbolic or poetical illustrations of certain real activities, or
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  Speaker 1: that suspending judgment in the case you will maintain an
• 1:42:50
  Speaker 1: open mind concerning them. In any event, the examination of
• 1:42:54
  Speaker 1: the reports will prove interesting and instructive thought colors. In
• 1:43:00
  Speaker 1: the first place, the occult teachings inform us that each
• 1:43:03
  Speaker 1: general class of emotional or thought states has its own
• 1:43:06
  Speaker 1: color tint or hue, which is perceived in thought atmospheres,
• 1:43:10
  Speaker 1: thought waves, thought currents, or thought forms. Thus, blue indicates
• 1:43:15
  Speaker 1: religious or spiritual emotions or thoughts, the lighter tints indicating
• 1:43:19
  Speaker 1: the higher forms of spirituality. Yellow indicates feelings and thoughts
• 1:43:23
  Speaker 1: of an intellectual nature, the lighter tints marking the highest
• 1:43:27
  Speaker 1: phases of these mental states. Orange indicates intellectual ambition or pride.
• 1:43:31
  Speaker 1: Brown indicates greed, avarice. Red indicates the elemental or animal
• 1:43:36
  Speaker 1: passions and the thoughts arising from them, particularly those concerned
• 1:43:40
  Speaker 1: with anger, strife, and sensuality. Crimson indicates the higher forms
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  Speaker 1: of affection or love, the very highest phases being marked
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  Speaker 1: by a beautiful rose color. Green indicates deceit, trickery, slyness,
• 1:43:54
  Speaker 1: its clear tints denoting diplomacy, tact, politeness, suavity, while a
• 1:43:59
  Speaker 1: dirty don't shade indicates envy, jealousy, and disloyalty. Gray indicates
• 1:44:04
  Speaker 1: gloom and depression, certain shades denoting forms of selfishness, while
• 1:44:08
  Speaker 1: a pallid tint denotes fear. Black indicates hate, revenge, malice, destructiveness,
• 1:44:14
  Speaker 1: and its presence serves to darken them shades of the
• 1:44:18
  Speaker 1: other colors with which it is often blended. White indicates
• 1:44:21
  Speaker 1: spirituality in its highest forms and phases, or perhaps something
• 1:44:25
  Speaker 1: higher than that to which we usually apply that term,
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  Speaker 1: and its presence serves to lighten the tints of the
• 1:44:30
  Speaker 1: other colors with which it is often blended. There is
• 1:44:34
  Speaker 1: an almost infinite possibility of blending combination shading tinting and
• 1:44:38
  Speaker 1: arrangement of these colors. But the above will serve to
• 1:44:41
  Speaker 1: indicate the general report in teaching on the subject thought
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  Speaker 1: aur us. The occult teachings inform us that each and
• 1:44:49
  Speaker 1: every person has his or her aura or egg shaped
• 1:44:52
  Speaker 1: thought atmosphere, surrounding the body and extending some three feet
• 1:44:56
  Speaker 1: or more from it, gradually shading into faintness at its
• 1:44:59
  Speaker 1: extreme limits. This aura, we are informed, differs in color
• 1:45:04
  Speaker 1: according to the characteristic thoughts and emotional states of the person.
• 1:45:08
  Speaker 1: The above stated scale of colors determining the shade, hue,
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  Speaker 1: or blending. The thought atmosphere of a person consists of
• 1:45:15
  Speaker 1: this aura, together with its more distant and extended radiations,
• 1:45:19
  Speaker 1: all however, being colored according to its general character. The
• 1:45:23
  Speaker 1: thought atmosphere of places, the thought atmospheres of churches, business establishments, homes, offices, prisons, hospitals,
• 1:45:33
  Speaker 1: and similar places, are held by the occultists to be
• 1:45:36
  Speaker 1: colored according to the general character of the thoughts and
• 1:45:38
  Speaker 1: mental states of those who inhabit them or who have
• 1:45:41
  Speaker 1: previously given them their mental color. Churches are said to
• 1:45:45
  Speaker 1: vary materially in their blue coloring, some being of a beautiful, clear,
• 1:45:49
  Speaker 1: light blue, while others manifest an ugly, dark, dull, purplish color.
• 1:45:55
  Speaker 1: Theaters are set also to vary greatly in color, tints, shades,
• 1:45:59
  Speaker 1: and hues. Business houses and offices are colored according to
• 1:46:03
  Speaker 1: their nature. Prisons have a depressing and repulsive coloring, houses
• 1:46:08
  Speaker 1: of ill repute have an ugly, low, repulsive shading and
• 1:46:12
  Speaker 1: coloring so dense that it seems that it must be
• 1:46:14
  Speaker 1: seen by the normal vision, and so on, Each place
• 1:46:18
  Speaker 1: having its appropriate coloring its thought atmosphere, usually extending for
• 1:46:22
  Speaker 1: some little distance around it, forming something like an aura.
• 1:46:25
  Speaker 1: In some cases, the thought atmosphere extending quite a distance
• 1:46:29
  Speaker 1: from the place and tending to color the whole neighborhood.
• 1:46:33
  Speaker 1: Thought waves and thought currents. The occult teachings also inform
• 1:46:37
  Speaker 1: us that there are waves, great and small, composed of
• 1:46:40
  Speaker 1: thought vibrations of individuals, which often travel great distances from
• 1:46:45
  Speaker 1: their source. Great currents, or streams of thought vibrations also
• 1:46:49
  Speaker 1: flow in all directions through space, often reaching points very
• 1:46:53
  Speaker 1: far distant from their starting places. These waves, currents, or
• 1:46:57
  Speaker 1: streams of thought vibrations all are colorre and tinted according
• 1:47:01
  Speaker 1: to the nature and character of the mental states represented
• 1:47:03
  Speaker 1: by their vibrations. Some of them seem like rapidly moving
• 1:47:08
  Speaker 1: streams with well defined boundaries, and of great comparative consistency
• 1:47:12
  Speaker 1: and firmness. Others resemble great clouds of mist or fog,
• 1:47:17
  Speaker 1: illuminated by their coloring, of course, loosely organized, and of
• 1:47:21
  Speaker 1: but slight consistency, which drift slowly along, changing shape, and
• 1:47:25
  Speaker 1: apparently lacking in definite direction, acting in every way like
• 1:47:29
  Speaker 1: their physical counterparts just mentioned. Some of these clouds are
• 1:47:33
  Speaker 1: light and fleecy, while others are murky, dark, and ugly,
• 1:47:37
  Speaker 1: like great bodies of dark smoke. Thought whirlpools and swirlpools.
• 1:47:43
  Speaker 1: The occult teachings also inform us that there are great
• 1:47:46
  Speaker 1: whirlpools often set up in these mental currents or streams,
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  Speaker 1: which eventually gain terrific power, and which extend their influences
• 1:47:53
  Speaker 1: over great areas of space. These whirling vortices of thought
• 1:47:57
  Speaker 1: vibrations are of two general classes, which, for the purpose
• 1:48:00
  Speaker 1: of distinction, may be called whirlpools and swirlpools, respectively. The
• 1:48:06
  Speaker 1: whirlpool maintains a rotary movement toward a common center, ever
• 1:48:10
  Speaker 1: drawing to that center the material which is affected by it.
• 1:48:14
  Speaker 1: The swirlpool also maintains the rotary movement, but away from
• 1:48:18
  Speaker 1: the common center, ever widening its circumference, and ever seeking
• 1:48:22
  Speaker 1: to spread its influence over a larger area. The whirlpool
• 1:48:26
  Speaker 1: acts to draw to its central point all things over
• 1:48:28
  Speaker 1: which it is able to exert its influence. That a
• 1:48:31
  Speaker 1: swirlpool acts to spread its circle of influence and to
• 1:48:34
  Speaker 1: disseminate its contagious influence. These whirlpools and swirlpools of thought
• 1:48:40
  Speaker 1: vibrations effect and influence only those in whom they can
• 1:48:43
  Speaker 1: set up similar vibrations by means of inductive action. As
• 1:48:47
  Speaker 1: we have explained to you, those immune to these vibrations
• 1:48:51
  Speaker 1: are not influenced by their drawing or driving power. The
• 1:48:55
  Speaker 1: general principles of thought attraction which we have described to
• 1:48:58
  Speaker 1: you apply in these cases, as well as in the
• 1:49:00
  Speaker 1: case of every form or phase of the influence of
• 1:49:03
  Speaker 1: thought power. You should also remember that these whirlpools and
• 1:49:07
  Speaker 1: swirlpools are not necessarily evil or disadvantageous. On the contrary,
• 1:49:12
  Speaker 1: they are often composed of the very best kind of
• 1:49:15
  Speaker 1: thought vibrations, representing the most desirable mental states. All great movements, religious, moral, political,
• 1:49:22
  Speaker 1: educational set into being in activity. Great whirlpools and swirlpools
• 1:49:27
  Speaker 1: such as we have just described. On the other hand,
• 1:49:31
  Speaker 1: the contagion of mental epidemics or crazes, popular excitement, partisanship,
• 1:49:36
  Speaker 1: or crowd psychology in general is most often transmitted in
• 1:49:41
  Speaker 1: just this form. These whirlpools and swirlpools likewise, exist in
• 1:49:47
  Speaker 1: much smaller form and exert a comparatively small influence. Every
• 1:49:51
  Speaker 1: individual or group of individuals seeking to draw other persons
• 1:49:55
  Speaker 1: to a certain central point or purpose unconsciously sets into
• 1:49:59
  Speaker 1: operation one of the s smaller whirlpools. Likewise, an individual
• 1:50:04
  Speaker 1: or a group of individuals seeking to spread some doctrine, teaching, theory, belief,
• 1:50:09
  Speaker 1: or state of opinion unconsciously sets into operation one of
• 1:50:12
  Speaker 1: these smaller swirlpools. The same general principles and laws govern
• 1:50:17
  Speaker 1: large and small alike. If you understand the general principle,
• 1:50:21
  Speaker 1: you understand the workings of all of the phenomena governed
• 1:50:24
  Speaker 1: by that principle. Thought forms the occult teachings also inform
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  Speaker 1: us that, in addition to their manifestation as thought waves,
• 1:50:32
  Speaker 1: thought streams, and thought currents, the thought vibrations of the
• 1:50:36
  Speaker 1: individual sometimes assume the condition known to us as thought forms.
• 1:50:40
  Speaker 1: Of which there are many varieties and kinds. These thought
• 1:50:44
  Speaker 1: forms are really detached portions of the aura of the individual,
• 1:50:47
  Speaker 1: which are thrown off by him by the intensity of
• 1:50:50
  Speaker 1: his thought, or by the excitement of his emotions, or
• 1:50:53
  Speaker 1: in some few cases, by the deliberate will of the
• 1:50:56
  Speaker 1: person who has acquired an understanding of the occult methods.
• 1:51:00
  Speaker 1: The aura does not always maintain its definite outlines and
• 1:51:03
  Speaker 1: its essential integrity of substance. Instead, on certain occasions it
• 1:51:08
  Speaker 1: is set into what may be called a violent storm,
• 1:51:11
  Speaker 1: in which whirlpools and swirlpools are manifested, and during which
• 1:51:14
  Speaker 1: portions of the oric substance are thrown off into space,
• 1:51:18
  Speaker 1: sometimes traveling long distances. The following statement by a writer
• 1:51:22
  Speaker 1: upon occult subjects will serve to picture this condition. The
• 1:51:26
  Speaker 1: writer says, the human aura is not always in a
• 1:51:30
  Speaker 1: state of calm phosphorescence. However, on the contrary, it sometimes
• 1:51:35
  Speaker 1: manifests great flames, like those of a fiery furnace, which
• 1:51:38
  Speaker 1: shoot forth in great tongues and dart forth suddenly in
• 1:51:42
  Speaker 1: certain directions towards the objects attracting them. Under great emotional excitement.
• 1:51:47
  Speaker 1: The oric flame moves around in swift circling whirlpools, or
• 1:51:51
  Speaker 1: else swirls away from a center. Again, it seems to
• 1:51:54
  Speaker 1: throw forth tiny, glistening sparks of astral vibrations, some of
• 1:51:58
  Speaker 1: which travel for great day distances. The occultists inform us
• 1:52:03
  Speaker 1: that thought forms are specialized groupings of astral substance crystallized
• 1:52:07
  Speaker 1: by the strong thought, impulses, or vibrations of the person
• 1:52:10
  Speaker 1: thinking or manifesting strong emotional excitement. They are generated in
• 1:52:15
  Speaker 1: the aura of the person in the first place, but
• 1:52:18
  Speaker 1: are then thrown off or emitted from the atmosphere of
• 1:52:21
  Speaker 1: the individual, and are sent off into space. A thought
• 1:52:24
  Speaker 1: form is really but a strongly manifested thought or feeling
• 1:52:28
  Speaker 1: which has taken form in the astral substance. Its power
• 1:52:32
  Speaker 1: and duration depend upon the degree of force of the
• 1:52:34
  Speaker 1: thought or feeling manifesting it. The occult writer, whom we
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  Speaker 1: have just quoted, gives us the following information concerning the
• 1:52:41
  Speaker 1: appearance and action of the thought forms so generated and
• 1:52:44
  Speaker 1: set forth from the aura. These thought forms differ very
• 1:52:47
  Speaker 1: materially from one another in form and general appearance. The
• 1:52:51
  Speaker 1: most common form is that of a tiny series of waves,
• 1:52:55
  Speaker 1: similar to those caused by the dropping of a pebble
• 1:52:57
  Speaker 1: in a pond of water. Times the thought form takes
• 1:53:01
  Speaker 1: on the appearance of a whirlpool, rotating around a center
• 1:53:04
  Speaker 1: and moving through space. As well, another form is like
• 1:53:08
  Speaker 1: that of the pinwheel fireworks, swirling away from its center
• 1:53:11
  Speaker 1: as it moves through space. Still another form is that
• 1:53:15
  Speaker 1: of a whirling ring, like that emitted from a smokestack
• 1:53:18
  Speaker 1: of a locomotive or the mouth of a smoker, the
• 1:53:21
  Speaker 1: familiar ring of the smoker. Others have the form an
• 1:53:25
  Speaker 1: appearance of semiluminous globes glowing like a giant opal. Other
• 1:53:30
  Speaker 1: thought forms are emitted in jetlike streams, like steam puffed
• 1:53:34
  Speaker 1: out from a tea kettle. Again, one will appear as
• 1:53:37
  Speaker 1: a series of short puffs of steamlike appearance. Again, one
• 1:53:42
  Speaker 1: will twist along like an eel or a snake. Another
• 1:53:45
  Speaker 1: will twist its way like a corkscrew. At other times,
• 1:53:49
  Speaker 1: a thought form will appear as a bomb or series
• 1:53:52
  Speaker 1: of bombs projected from the aura of the thinker. Sometimes,
• 1:53:56
  Speaker 1: in the case of a vigorous thinker or speaker, these
• 1:53:59
  Speaker 1: thought for orm bombs will be seen to explode when
• 1:54:02
  Speaker 1: they reach the aura of the person addressed or thought of.
• 1:54:05
  Speaker 1: Other forms appear like nebulous things resembling an octopus whose
• 1:54:09
  Speaker 1: twining tentacles twist around the person to whom they are directed.
• 1:54:13
  Speaker 1: Each thought form bears the same color that it possessed
• 1:54:16
  Speaker 1: when generated in the aura of the person creating it,
• 1:54:19
  Speaker 1: though the color seem to fade in time, many of
• 1:54:22
  Speaker 1: them glow with a dull phosphorescence instead of bright coloring.
• 1:54:27
  Speaker 1: The atmosphere of every person and every place is filled
• 1:54:30
  Speaker 1: with various thought forms emanated from the person or persons
• 1:54:34
  Speaker 1: who inhabit the place. Each building has its own distinctive
• 1:54:38
  Speaker 1: thought forms which permeate its mental atmosphere and which are
• 1:54:41
  Speaker 1: clearly discernible by trained psychic vision. The same occultist, in
• 1:54:46
  Speaker 1: a description of a journey in the astral addresses the
• 1:54:49
  Speaker 1: following words to the person who is supposed to be
• 1:54:51
  Speaker 1: sensing on the astral plane. We reproduce his words merely
• 1:54:56
  Speaker 1: because they create an interesting picture of what the occultists
• 1:54:59
  Speaker 1: claim may be perceived by supernormal psychic vision, not with
• 1:55:02
  Speaker 1: the intention of supporting the statements contained therein, nor of
• 1:55:05
  Speaker 1: claiming them to represent actual facts. The occultist says, notice
• 1:55:11
  Speaker 1: that beautiful spiritual blue around that woman's head, and see
• 1:55:15
  Speaker 1: that ugly muddy red around that man passing her. Here
• 1:55:19
  Speaker 1: comes an intellectual giant. See that beautiful golden yellow around
• 1:55:23
  Speaker 1: his head like a nimbus. But I don't exactly like
• 1:55:27
  Speaker 1: that shade of red about his body. And there is
• 1:55:29
  Speaker 1: too marked an absence of blue in his aura. He
• 1:55:33
  Speaker 1: lacks harmonious development. Do you notice those great clouds of
• 1:55:37
  Speaker 1: semi luminous substance which are slowly floating along. Notice how
• 1:55:41
  Speaker 1: the colors vary in them. Those are clouds of thought,
• 1:55:44
  Speaker 1: vibrations representing the composite thought of a multitude of people. Also,
• 1:55:49
  Speaker 1: notice how each body of thought is drawing to itself
• 1:55:52
  Speaker 1: little fragments of similar thought forms and energy. You see
• 1:55:56
  Speaker 1: here the tendency of thought forms to attract others of
• 1:55:59
  Speaker 1: their kind. How like the proverbial birds of a feather,
• 1:56:02
  Speaker 1: they flock together. How thoughts come home bringing their friends
• 1:56:06
  Speaker 1: with them. How each man creates his own thought atmosphere.
• 1:56:10
  Speaker 1: Speaking of atmospheres, do you notice that each shop we
• 1:56:13
  Speaker 1: pass has its own peculiar thought atmosphere. If you look
• 1:56:17
  Speaker 1: into the houses on either side of the street, you
• 1:56:20
  Speaker 1: will see that the same thing is true of them.
• 1:56:23
  Speaker 1: The very street itself has its own atmosphere created by
• 1:56:26
  Speaker 1: the composite thought of those inhabiting and frequenting it. No,
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  Speaker 1: do not pass down that side street. Its astral atmosphere
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  Speaker 1: is too depressing and its colors too horrible and disgusting
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  Speaker 1: for you to witness. Just now you might get discouraged
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  Speaker 1: and fly back to your normal plane for relief. Look
• 1:56:44
  Speaker 1: at those thought forms flying through the thought atmosphere. What
• 1:56:48
  Speaker 1: a variety of form and coloring, some most beautiful, the
• 1:56:53
  Speaker 1: majority quite neutral in tint, and occasionally a fierce, fiery
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  Speaker 1: one tearing its way toward its mark. Observe those whirling
• 1:57:01
  Speaker 1: and swirling thought forms as they are thrown off from
• 1:57:04
  Speaker 1: that business house across the street. Notice that great octopus
• 1:57:09
  Speaker 1: monster of a thought form, with its great tentacles, striving
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  Speaker 1: to wind around persons and to draw them into that
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  Speaker 1: flashy dance hall and dram shop. A devilish monster which
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  Speaker 1: we would do well to destroy. Turn your concentrated thought
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  Speaker 1: upon it, and will get out of existence there. That's
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  Speaker 1: the right way. Watch it sicken and shrivel, but alas
• 1:57:30
  Speaker 1: more of its kind will come forth from that place.
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  Speaker 1: By reference to the above stated teachings of the occultists,
• 1:57:37
  Speaker 1: ancient and modern you will see that the occult teachers
• 1:57:40
  Speaker 1: agree almost, if not indeed wholly, with the hypotheses of
• 1:57:44
  Speaker 1: the modern investigators of the phenomena of thought power. The occultists, however,
• 1:57:49
  Speaker 1: claim to have obtained their information by means of psychic
• 1:57:53
  Speaker 1: or astral vision, in which they have actually perceived what
• 1:57:56
  Speaker 1: they describe, while the modern investigators, on the contrary, make
• 1:58:00
  Speaker 1: no such claims of actual sensing, but have built their
• 1:58:03
  Speaker 1: hypotheses entirely from actual observations and experiments concerning the results
• 1:58:07
  Speaker 1: and effects of the forces in question. So far, it
• 1:58:11
  Speaker 1: should be noted the modern investigators have practically corroborated the
• 1:58:15
  Speaker 1: statements of the ancient occultists, this certainly so far as
• 1:58:19
  Speaker 1: is concerned the actual operation of these forces in the
• 1:58:22
  Speaker 1: form of thought atmospheres, thought contagion, thought waves, thought currents,
• 1:58:27
  Speaker 1: thought streams, and thought forms. The modern investigators, however, have
• 1:58:32
  Speaker 1: advanced no positive statements concerning the colors or astral tints
• 1:58:37
  Speaker 1: which the occultists emphatically assert to exist and to be
• 1:58:40
  Speaker 1: perceptible to supernormal or psychic vision. Inasmuch, however, as the
• 1:58:46
  Speaker 1: physical colors which we perceive by ordinary vision are held
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  Speaker 1: by scientists to be entirely due to particular rates of
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  Speaker 1: vibration of light waves. It is not unreasonable to suppose
• 1:58:55
  Speaker 1: that thought vibrations of different in higher rates might cause
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  Speaker 1: the appearance of color tints, hues, and shades to a
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  Speaker 1: vision capable of perceiving or registering them. This, however, is
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  Speaker 1: apart from the general subject of this book, and is
• 1:59:09
  Speaker 1: here referred to merely because of its general interest. Of
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  Speaker 1: more practical importance to us is the discovery that the
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  Speaker 1: occultists agree with the modern investigators in the fact that
• 1:59:19
  Speaker 1: thought contagion and thought induction depend quite materially upon one
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  Speaker 1: similarity of thought states between the external thought vibrations and
• 1:59:28
  Speaker 1: those of the person influenced, and two the degree of fear,
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  Speaker 1: thought or confident expectation of any kind on the part
• 1:59:35
  Speaker 1: of the person influenced. Moreover, both classes of teachers and
• 1:59:39
  Speaker 1: investigators hold that positive, desirable thought states are more powerful
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  Speaker 1: in their influence than are the negative undesirable ones, and
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  Speaker 1: serve to neutralize or even to dissolve the latter, a
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  Speaker 1: fact which lies at the bottom of all systems or
• 1:59:52
  Speaker 1: methods of treating thought atmospheres or conditions. On the part
• 1:59:56
  Speaker 1: of mental scientists and others of similar schools. Remember always
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  Speaker 1: that sunlight always drives away darkness. The most effective way
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  Speaker 1: of dispelling darkness is to turn on the light. By
• 2:00:09
  Speaker 1: keeping your own mental keynote properly pitched, you not only
• 2:00:12
  Speaker 1: are immune to the thought vibrations of the lower order,
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  Speaker 1: but also are able to neutralize or to dissolve these
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  Speaker 1: by the power of your own thought. Surely a comforting
• 2:00:21
  Speaker 1: and satisfying fact, is it not thought power? Radiomantalism by
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  Speaker 1: William Walker Atkinson, nineteen twenty two. Rules of thought Induction.
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  Speaker 1: The student of the subject of thought power, when he
• 2:00:36
  Speaker 1: begins to realize the fact that thoughts are radioactive and
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  Speaker 1: that they possess inductive power, usually finds himself wondering why
• 2:00:43
  Speaker 1: all persons, at all times are not completely overcome by
• 2:00:47
  Speaker 1: the effect of the thought influences surrounding and exerting their
• 2:00:50
  Speaker 1: power upon them. He marvels at the fact that any
• 2:00:54
  Speaker 1: one can escape the thought induction of the thought atmosphere,
• 2:00:57
  Speaker 1: But his observation in common sense informs him that most
• 2:01:00
  Speaker 1: persons seem to be comparatively free from such influences, except
• 2:01:04
  Speaker 1: in exceptional cases and under unusual conditions. This reflection brings
• 2:01:09
  Speaker 1: the student to the point where he seeks for and
• 2:01:12
  Speaker 1: finds certain general rules governing the phenomena of thought induction.
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  Speaker 1: These general rules we shall now present to you one
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  Speaker 1: protective immunity. Nature operates in the direction of protecting living
• 2:01:25
  Speaker 1: creatures from influences threatening them injury. So far as is possible,
• 2:01:29
  Speaker 1: she interposes a protective shield between the creature and the
• 2:01:32
  Speaker 1: adverse influence. Nature, finding the creature persistently threatened by influences
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  Speaker 1: which have proved themselves to be dangerous to the welfare
• 2:01:41
  Speaker 1: of the species or class to which the creature belongs,
• 2:01:44
  Speaker 1: begins to build up and establish what is called the
• 2:01:47
  Speaker 1: protective immunity of the creature to that particular influence. By
• 2:01:51
  Speaker 1: reason of this natural tendency, the human race is now
• 2:01:54
  Speaker 1: immune from certain diseases which formerly seriously threatened it. Each
• 2:01:58
  Speaker 1: generation acquires an a daytional degree of this immunity. A
• 2:02:02
  Speaker 1: leading reference work says immunity may be described as the
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  Speaker 1: state or condition of an individual who is resistant or
• 2:02:09
  Speaker 1: non susceptible to a particular infection. There is no such
• 2:02:13
  Speaker 1: thing as absolute immunity. While animals or individuals may seem,
• 2:02:18
  Speaker 1: under natural conditions to be immune to certain diseases. Yet
• 2:02:21
  Speaker 1: when they are placed in an unfavorable environment, or when
• 2:02:24
  Speaker 1: the natural vigor is lowered by climate or insufficient food,
• 2:02:27
  Speaker 1: they succumb to diseases to which they are ordinarily immune.
• 2:02:32
  Speaker 1: In the same way, nature operates in the direction of
• 2:02:34
  Speaker 1: protecting us from the perception or consciousness of certain sounds, sights, smells,
• 2:02:39
  Speaker 1: and other sensations which serve no useful purpose to us,
• 2:02:43
  Speaker 1: but which would serve to distract our attention from more
• 2:02:46
  Speaker 1: useful reports of the senses. For instance, we are conscious
• 2:02:50
  Speaker 1: of but a very small percentage of the things which
• 2:02:52
  Speaker 1: our eyes see on the streets of a busy city.
• 2:02:55
  Speaker 1: Our ears receive a multitude of sounds which our consciousness
• 2:02:58
  Speaker 1: fails to register. We become so accustomed to familiar odors
• 2:03:02
  Speaker 1: that we fail to perceive them, and in a like manner,
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  Speaker 1: we fail to register the greater portion of the thought
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  Speaker 1: vibrations which are beating upon us from all sides at
• 2:03:12
  Speaker 1: all times. Were it not so, we would never be
• 2:03:15
  Speaker 1: able to think at all on our own account, or
• 2:03:18
  Speaker 1: to have a mind of our own. It is only
• 2:03:21
  Speaker 1: the exceptional, not the ordinary, thought influences which reach us,
• 2:03:25
  Speaker 1: and by self training we may still further limit these
• 2:03:28
  Speaker 1: exceptional influences. In fact, it may be stated as a
• 2:03:32
  Speaker 1: general principle that we are strongly affected by thought induction
• 2:03:35
  Speaker 1: proceeding from the radioactive thought of others only when our
• 2:03:38
  Speaker 1: natural immunity to these is lacking, or when it is
• 2:03:41
  Speaker 1: overbalanced by certain strong attractive powers in our own minds.
• 2:03:46
  Speaker 1: These conditions arise, for the most part, from some of
• 2:03:49
  Speaker 1: the following causes, viz. Rules of thought induction. One general
• 2:03:55
  Speaker 1: lack of resistive power of our own thoughts, arising from
• 2:03:59
  Speaker 1: a lack of strong carevictions and ideas of our own
• 2:04:01
  Speaker 1: which are opposed to those involved in the thought vibrations
• 2:04:04
  Speaker 1: reaching us from others. To general agreement in harmony with
• 2:04:08
  Speaker 1: the outside thought vibrations, which, operating on the principle of
• 2:04:11
  Speaker 1: like attracts like, actually attract and draw such thought influences
• 2:04:16
  Speaker 1: to us, or at least open the gates of our
• 2:04:18
  Speaker 1: minds to their influx. Three general belief in or fear
• 2:04:22
  Speaker 1: concerning the power of the outside thought influences to reach us.
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  Speaker 1: The confident expectation of earnest belief or of deep fear
• 2:04:30
  Speaker 1: is practically the same thing, and in either case it
• 2:04:34
  Speaker 1: opens the gates of our minds to the thought influences
• 2:04:36
  Speaker 1: in question to neutralization, thought vibrations are subject to the
• 2:04:42
  Speaker 1: process of neutralization by means of which they are deprived
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  Speaker 1: of much of their strength and inductive power when they
• 2:04:48
  Speaker 1: come in contact with thought vibrations of an opposite character,
• 2:04:51
  Speaker 1: either in the minds of individuals or in the general
• 2:04:54
  Speaker 1: thought atmosphere of persons and places. Thus, when a current
• 2:04:58
  Speaker 1: of thought vibrations comes in contact with an individual of
• 2:05:01
  Speaker 1: strong positive ideas and convictions of an opposite character, the
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  Speaker 1: current is weakened by the contact and conflict and loses
• 2:05:09
  Speaker 1: its power to influence either the individual or others. In
• 2:05:13
  Speaker 1: the same way, thought currents are weakened or neutralized by
• 2:05:16
  Speaker 1: contact with strong positive thought vibrations of an opposite character
• 2:05:20
  Speaker 1: in the thought atmosphere of a place. On the other hand, however,
• 2:05:24
  Speaker 1: if the new thought vibrations be in accord with the
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  Speaker 1: original current, the latter receives fresh strength and power. The
• 2:05:31
  Speaker 1: mental atmosphere of every place of public meeting and of
• 2:05:34
  Speaker 1: every place in which numbers of persons live is constantly
• 2:05:38
  Speaker 1: filled with thought waves, thought currents, thought streams, and thought
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  Speaker 1: forms all made up and composed of the thought vibrations
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  Speaker 1: of numerous persons drawn together by the force of their
• 2:05:48
  Speaker 1: mutual attraction. These streams of thought vibrations, of course, are
• 2:05:52
  Speaker 1: constantly coming in contact with each other. When this happens,
• 2:05:55
  Speaker 1: a certain process is set up in which usually occurs
• 2:05:58
  Speaker 1: either a combination in blending of the harmonious elements, or
• 2:06:01
  Speaker 1: else in neutralization of the inharmonious elements. In the process
• 2:06:06
  Speaker 1: of neutralization, a certain definite ratio is found to maintain.
• 2:06:10
  Speaker 1: For instance, if the two opposing forces are of about
• 2:06:14
  Speaker 1: the same degree of power and energy, each will lose
• 2:06:16
  Speaker 1: practically an equal amount of inductive strength by reason of
• 2:06:19
  Speaker 1: the neutralization. But if they differ in comparative power and energy,
• 2:06:24
  Speaker 1: they will each lose in the inverse ratio of their
• 2:06:27
  Speaker 1: relative strength. The stronger will lose less and the weaker
• 2:06:30
  Speaker 1: will lose more. Thus, if one of the opposing forces
• 2:06:34
  Speaker 1: is twice the power of the other, it will lose
• 2:06:36
  Speaker 1: only half as much as does the weaker one. But
• 2:06:40
  Speaker 1: in each and every case of neutralization, there is a
• 2:06:42
  Speaker 1: loss on both sides. This being so, it follows that
• 2:06:46
  Speaker 1: the individual coming in conflict with strong opposing thought influences
• 2:06:49
  Speaker 1: must replenish his own thought power by pouring into it
• 2:06:52
  Speaker 1: a stream of strong positive ideas representing his own convictions, principles,
• 2:06:57
  Speaker 1: or beliefs. This process of neutralization is also manifested in
• 2:07:02
  Speaker 1: the process of treatment of things, places, or conditions on
• 2:07:06
  Speaker 1: the part of the followers of mental science. Here, the adverse, undesirable,
• 2:07:10
  Speaker 1: negative thought atmospheres are neutralized and dissipated by turning upon
• 2:07:14
  Speaker 1: them a steady, ever replenished stream of positive, good thought
• 2:07:18
  Speaker 1: vibrations free rhythm. In a preceding section, we have spoken
• 2:07:24
  Speaker 1: of the whirlwinds of thought vibrations, which sometimes pass rapidly
• 2:07:28
  Speaker 1: over a crowd, a community, or even over a whole country,
• 2:07:32
  Speaker 1: or at times over the entire civilized world. These mental whirlwinds,
• 2:07:37
  Speaker 1: starting from a focal center, spread rapidly in an ever
• 2:07:40
  Speaker 1: widening circumference of its circles, and with ever increasing force
• 2:07:44
  Speaker 1: and power. That is, ever widening and ever increasing, up
• 2:07:47
  Speaker 1: to a certain point. Sooner or later, However, the influence
• 2:07:52
  Speaker 1: of the outside thought opposing it, combined with that natural
• 2:07:55
  Speaker 1: rhythm which is found in all natural activities, serves to
• 2:07:59
  Speaker 1: slow down the movement and to dissipate its strength. Everything
• 2:08:03
  Speaker 1: in nature has its rise and its fall, its increase
• 2:08:06
  Speaker 1: and its decrease. Its birth and its death, and these
• 2:08:10
  Speaker 1: thought whirlwinds or whirlpools come under the general law. If
• 2:08:14
  Speaker 1: you will study the history of mental epidemics, crazes, or
• 2:08:17
  Speaker 1: other phases of extended thought contagion, you will perceive the
• 2:08:20
  Speaker 1: operation of this law of rhythm, this tendency to regain
• 2:08:24
  Speaker 1: and restore the normal balance between the opposing polls of things.
• 2:08:28
  Speaker 1: In the instances cited in a preceding chapter, you will
• 2:08:31
  Speaker 1: note the gradual or rapid decline of the contagion following
• 2:08:34
  Speaker 1: its rise to its highest point. You may also see
• 2:08:38
  Speaker 1: the principle manifested in any case of popular excitement, such as,
• 2:08:42
  Speaker 1: for instance, a great religious revival, a political campaign, or
• 2:08:47
  Speaker 1: in any other form of mental excitement in which a
• 2:08:49
  Speaker 1: large number of persons are affected from the stages of
• 2:08:53
  Speaker 1: intense burning ardor excitement, or even frenzy. There is a
• 2:08:57
  Speaker 1: corresponding slowing down and cooling off. The reaction follows the
• 2:09:01
  Speaker 1: action and is equal to it, though in an opposite direction.
• 2:09:05
  Speaker 1: Were this principle not in operation, there would be no
• 2:09:08
  Speaker 1: limit to the spread and increase in force of a
• 2:09:10
  Speaker 1: mental epidemic. It would veritably consume the world with its
• 2:09:13
  Speaker 1: intensity for harmonious attraction. As we have informed you in
• 2:09:19
  Speaker 1: the preceding sections of this book, there is manifest in
• 2:09:22
  Speaker 1: the world of thought vibrations, a certain strong attraction between
• 2:09:25
  Speaker 1: thought waves or thought currents, and the minds of those
• 2:09:28
  Speaker 1: persons whose general thought and feeling are more or less
• 2:09:31
  Speaker 1: in harmonious agreement with those represented in the thought currents.
• 2:09:36
  Speaker 1: Like attracts. Like birds of a feather flock together, mine
• 2:09:39
  Speaker 1: own shall come to me. All these statements are illustrated
• 2:09:42
  Speaker 1: by the actions of the thought currents in response to
• 2:09:45
  Speaker 1: the drawing power of the mind. Persons of strong convictions
• 2:09:49
  Speaker 1: right or wrong, good or bad are constantly attracting to
• 2:09:53
  Speaker 1: themselves the thought currents of other persons of similar convictions. Likewise,
• 2:09:59
  Speaker 1: persons of certain strong emotional states, affections, desires, passions, and
• 2:10:04
  Speaker 1: inclinations are constantly drawing to themselves the thought currents of
• 2:10:08
  Speaker 1: other persons of similar natures. We are connected by invisible
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  Speaker 1: mental links and filaments with others of similar thoughts and
• 2:10:15
  Speaker 1: emotional states, similar natures and characters. Our thoughts and their
• 2:10:20
  Speaker 1: thoughts have an elective affinity for each other. Each draws
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  Speaker 1: and attracts the thought currents of others of the same
• 2:10:26
  Speaker 1: general character we are constantly forming and maintaining mental partnerships.
• 2:10:31
  Speaker 1: In this way, we should be careful what kind of
• 2:10:34
  Speaker 1: partners we join within this thought relation. If you have
• 2:10:37
  Speaker 1: been drawing thought currents of an undesirable nature, you should
• 2:10:40
  Speaker 1: take mental stock of yourself for the purpose of discovering
• 2:10:43
  Speaker 1: and eradicating those thoughts and other mental states which have
• 2:10:46
  Speaker 1: proved to be the magnet drawing to you this undesirable
• 2:10:49
  Speaker 1: crowd of thought influences. You should then replace these objectionable
• 2:10:54
  Speaker 1: mental states with thoughts and mental states of a desirable character.
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  Speaker 1: You may deliberately attract and draw to yourself the most
• 2:11:01
  Speaker 1: desirable kind of thoughts and mental states. You may have
• 2:11:05
  Speaker 1: any kind of mental partner that you desire, if you
• 2:11:08
  Speaker 1: will but establish the first member of the firm in
• 2:11:10
  Speaker 1: your own mind. Five believe or fear. As we have
• 2:11:15
  Speaker 1: pointed out in other sections of this book and also
• 2:11:18
  Speaker 1: in other books of this series, the mental state known
• 2:11:21
  Speaker 1: as confident expectation exerts a powerful dynamic force in the
• 2:11:25
  Speaker 1: direction of attracting or drawing to the individual the objects
• 2:11:28
  Speaker 1: or things which form the subject of his strong faith
• 2:11:31
  Speaker 1: and hope. This principle is found active in the case
• 2:11:34
  Speaker 1: before us i e. The case of thought induction, the
• 2:11:39
  Speaker 1: person who earnestly expects, hopes, and believes that the positive,
• 2:11:43
  Speaker 1: advantageous thought currents of others will reach and influence him
• 2:11:46
  Speaker 1: undoubtedly sets into operation the subtle forces which attract and
• 2:11:50
  Speaker 1: draw such to him. Likewise, the individual who strongly fears
• 2:11:55
  Speaker 1: and therefore expects confidently that the adverse negative thoughts of
• 2:11:59
  Speaker 1: others will reach and affect him, equally draws and attracts
• 2:12:02
  Speaker 1: to himself that which he so strongly fears. In either case,
• 2:12:06
  Speaker 1: the principle is that of confident expectation. In each case
• 2:12:11
  Speaker 1: there is present a strong faith or belief, which in
• 2:12:14
  Speaker 1: one case is accompanied by hope and in the other
• 2:12:17
  Speaker 1: by dread. In fact, at the last, faith, hope and
• 2:12:21
  Speaker 1: fear dread are perceived to be the opposite poles of
• 2:12:23
  Speaker 1: the one mental state, the mental state of confident expectation.
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  Speaker 1: Each pole is possessed of a strong drawing power or
• 2:12:31
  Speaker 1: attractive force. Each draws to itself the objects or conditions
• 2:12:35
  Speaker 1: corresponding to the thought. This realization of the essential identity
• 2:12:39
  Speaker 1: of the two apparent opposites will be found to furnish
• 2:12:42
  Speaker 1: the means of the reconciliation of the two facts seemingly
• 2:12:45
  Speaker 1: opposed to each other, which for so long has perplexed
• 2:12:48
  Speaker 1: and disturbed the students of mental science. The first phase
• 2:12:52
  Speaker 1: of the power of confident expectation i e. That of
• 2:12:55
  Speaker 1: faith hope is illustrated in the many cases of mental
• 2:12:58
  Speaker 1: healing or similar forms of mental or spiritual therapeutics, in
• 2:13:03
  Speaker 1: which sick persons, by their earnest faith and hope attract
• 2:13:06
  Speaker 1: and draw to themselves the healing thought and mental patterns
• 2:13:09
  Speaker 1: of the healer or person giving the treatment, which thought
• 2:13:12
  Speaker 1: influences in turn serve to arouse within the patient his
• 2:13:15
  Speaker 1: own recuperative force and energy, and thus to bring about
• 2:13:18
  Speaker 1: a cure. The same principle operates in case of treatments
• 2:13:24
  Speaker 1: for improved conditions, which result in awakening the attractive mental
• 2:13:28
  Speaker 1: forces of the individual himself, thus bringing about the desired
• 2:13:32
  Speaker 1: improvement according to well established psychological laws. Thus, faith and
• 2:13:37
  Speaker 1: hope are powerful mental states capable of affecting important results.
• 2:13:42
  Speaker 1: The second phase of the power of confident expectation, i e.
• 2:13:46
  Speaker 1: That of fear dread, is illustrated in the many cases
• 2:13:49
  Speaker 1: of persons affected by their belief in adverse treatments, malicious magnetism,
• 2:13:53
  Speaker 1: black magic, witchcraft, and so on. The history of psychology
• 2:13:58
  Speaker 1: and mental science contains numerous instances in which persons have
• 2:14:02
  Speaker 1: been seriously injured in health, and in some cases have
• 2:14:05
  Speaker 1: actually died by reason of their belief in the power
• 2:14:08
  Speaker 1: of evil inherent in the adverse thoughts of others. Here
• 2:14:12
  Speaker 1: the fear dread has acted in the same way as
• 2:14:14
  Speaker 1: does faith hope, both being phases of confident expectation. That
• 2:14:18
  Speaker 1: is to say, it has attracted to the person the
• 2:14:20
  Speaker 1: evil influences which were dreaded and the evil effects which
• 2:14:24
  Speaker 1: were feared. Here the thing I feared has come upon me.
• 2:14:28
  Speaker 1: There is nothing strange in the matter. Once the principle
• 2:14:31
  Speaker 1: is understood, no one who is filled with faith hope
• 2:14:35
  Speaker 1: in the good, and who banishes feart hot dread of
• 2:14:37
  Speaker 1: the evil need ever suffer from any of the adverse
• 2:14:40
  Speaker 1: mental influences above mentioned. This is the truth which is
• 2:14:44
  Speaker 1: destined to set many free from the curse of error.
• 2:14:47
  Speaker 1: The five rules of thought induction which we have just
• 2:14:50
  Speaker 1: called to your attention, will be found present and operative
• 2:14:52
  Speaker 1: in practically all phenomena of thought power, in all of
• 2:14:55
  Speaker 1: its many phases. You will do well to study each
• 2:14:59
  Speaker 1: very carefully. Thought power Radiomantalism by William Walker Atkinson, nineteen
• 2:15:06
  Speaker 1: twenty two. Treating Thought Conditions. In the preceding sections of
• 2:15:12
  Speaker 1: this book, we have presented for your consideration the facts
• 2:15:14
  Speaker 1: concerning the general principles involved in the several phases of
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  Speaker 1: the phenomena of thought power. These principles have been presented
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  Speaker 1: to you with an entire absence of insistence upon the
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  Speaker 1: acceptance of any speculative theories concerning the ultimate nature of
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  Speaker 1: thought or mind. We have sought to emphasize the scientific
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  Speaker 1: how rather than the metaphysical why. Our concern has been
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  Speaker 1: almost entirely with the statement of how it works, the
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  Speaker 1: laws and principles governing its activity. Hoping that we have
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  Speaker 1: succeeded in presenting to you the principles and laws of
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  Speaker 1: these activities in such a way that you have grasped
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  Speaker 1: them and have committed to memory their essential points, we
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  Speaker 1: shall now proceed to the task of instructing you concerning
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  Speaker 1: the most practical and scientific methods and ways of applying
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  Speaker 1: these principles in your own particular case, so that you
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  Speaker 1: may avail yourself of the benefit of the right use
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  Speaker 1: of this wonderful force of nature, and at the same
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  Speaker 1: time may avoid them mistake of allowing its negative phases
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  Speaker 1: to affect you and to work to your disadvantage. It
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  Speaker 1: is quite true that in our general presentation of the
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  Speaker 1: principles and laws of thought power in the preceding sections
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  Speaker 1: of this book, we have added here and there a
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  Speaker 1: word of caution or of advice concerning the use and
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  Speaker 1: application of the power in question, so that you would
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  Speaker 1: have a general knowledge of this phase of the subject,
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  Speaker 1: even if nothing more were said concerning these particular points.
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  Speaker 1: But in order that you may apply more effectively these principles,
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  Speaker 1: you will do well to consider carefully the special statements
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  Speaker 1: concerning such application, which we are now about to present
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  Speaker 1: to you. More than all, however, it is important that
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  Speaker 1: you proceed actually to apply these principles in your everyday life.
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  Speaker 1: There is no better way of learning a thing than
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  Speaker 1: by actually doing it, providing that you proceed according to
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  Speaker 1: competent instruction concerning the general principles and laws governing the
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  Speaker 1: subject in question. Creating a thought atmosphere, as you have
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  Speaker 1: been informed in previous sections of this book, every person
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  Speaker 1: is surrounded by a thought aura or thought atmosphere composed
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  Speaker 1: of thought vibrations radiating from his thoughts in mental states,
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  Speaker 1: these thought vibrations tending to affect and influence other persons
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  Speaker 1: with whom such person comes in contact. The thought or
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  Speaker 1: or thought atmosphere of a person, as you have seen,
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  Speaker 1: represents the general mental state of that person, his habitual
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  Speaker 1: mental states. It is a reflection of his mental character.
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  Speaker 1: It may be regarded as a practical extension of his personality.
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  Speaker 1: We have shown you that the thought vibrations composing the
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  Speaker 1: thought atmosphere of a person tend to arouse in other
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  Speaker 1: persons a similar rate of vibration. The degree of such
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  Speaker 1: induced vibration, however, depends upon the degree of harmony between
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  Speaker 1: the mental characters of the other persons and that of
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  Speaker 1: the person sending forth the influence. There must be something
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  Speaker 1: in the nature of the the other person before it
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  Speaker 1: can be called forth by inductive action. The seed must
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  Speaker 1: be there, else there will be no sprouting, blossoming, or
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  Speaker 1: fruit bearing. There must be something to catch fire before
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  Speaker 1: the fire of mental contagion will spread. We have described
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  Speaker 1: this to you before, so there is no necessity of
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  Speaker 1: repeating the explanation at length. In this place. There is
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  Speaker 1: another phase of the matter, however, which has not as
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  Speaker 1: yet been called to your attention here. It is in
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  Speaker 1: a few words, your general mental character, customary mental state,
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  Speaker 1: and habitual mental attitude will be recognized consciously or subconsciously
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  Speaker 1: by some of the persons with whom you come in
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  Speaker 1: contact by means of your thought atmosphere or thought. Or
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  Speaker 1: even when by reason of their own differing character you
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  Speaker 1: fail to induce a similar feeling in themselves, they will
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  Speaker 1: often be able to catch your vibrations, even though these
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  Speaker 1: fail to induce a similar rate of vibration in themselves.
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  Speaker 1: You have often sensed the vibrations of sincerity, earnestness, honesty, enthusiasm,
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  Speaker 1: reliability in the thought atmosphere of other persons. You have
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  Speaker 1: felt to a certainty that such mental qualities were theirs.
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  Speaker 1: In the same way, you have felt distinctly and clearly
• 2:19:15
  Speaker 1: the vibrations of deceit, unreliability, dishonesty, lack of confidence in
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  Speaker 1: the thought atmospheres of others coming into your presence. Perhaps
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  Speaker 1: you have never thought that other persons could sense your
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  Speaker 1: own mental character in the same way, but they can
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  Speaker 1: in many cases. This being so, it behooves you to
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  Speaker 1: build up for yourself a thought atmosphere which will be
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  Speaker 1: of service to you, and which will affect and influence
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  Speaker 1: other persons in a way advantageous to your interests and welfare.
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  Speaker 1: If it is possible for other persons to catch your
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  Speaker 1: thought vibrations and thus to read your thoughts, it certainly
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  Speaker 1: will be well for you to generate thoughts and to
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  Speaker 1: emit vibrations of only the right kind, the kind likely
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  Speaker 1: to influence those other persons in your favor rather than
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  Speaker 1: against you. This of course will necessitate something like character
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  Speaker 1: building on your part, but in a way rather the
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  Speaker 1: reverse of that usually followed. The usual way is to
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  Speaker 1: build up your character and to let that affect your thoughts.
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  Speaker 1: In this new way, you build up your thoughts and
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  Speaker 1: let these react upon and influence your character, so that
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  Speaker 1: the latter is reconstructed. However, we shall not here go
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  Speaker 1: into details concerning the subject of character building, as that
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  Speaker 1: special subject is considered in detail in another book of
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  Speaker 1: this series. While the change in your thoughts will greatly
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  Speaker 1: influence your character, we shall content ourselves here with considering
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  Speaker 1: the thoughts alone, your thoughts, as they are concerned in
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  Speaker 1: producing an effect upon the persons with whom you come
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  Speaker 1: in contact. If you wish other persons to feel that
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  Speaker 1: you have confidence in yourself or in your business proposition,
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  Speaker 1: your political views, your religious teachings, your general opinions. You
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  Speaker 1: must first feel that confidence yourself, must feel it so
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  Speaker 1: strongly and positively that you will fairly radiate and cause
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  Speaker 1: your thought atmosphere to vibrate it vigorously. If you manage
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  Speaker 1: to do this, you may rest assured that the other
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  Speaker 1: persons will sense that positive confidence and will be more
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  Speaker 1: or less influenced by it. If you fail to do
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  Speaker 1: this and instead allow your mind and thought atmosphere to
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  Speaker 1: be filled with the vibrations of lack of confidence, distrust, unbelief, unfaith, doubt,
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  Speaker 1: you may be assured that the other persons will catch
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  Speaker 1: those vibrations and thus will be influenced against you, this
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  Speaker 1: very often without conscious recognition on their part of the
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  Speaker 1: reason for their feeling and impression. If you feel that
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  Speaker 1: your thought atmosphere is not just what it should be,
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  Speaker 1: that it is too negative, or else lacking in some
• 2:21:42
  Speaker 1: of the positive characteristics which you consider desirable, then you
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  Speaker 1: should proceed to create a new thought atmosphere, one containing
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  Speaker 1: a greater degree of positivity and composed of those qualities
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  Speaker 1: which you instinctively realize should be present and active in it.
• 2:21:56
  Speaker 1: If you desire a thought atmosphere similar to that possessed
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  Speaker 1: by individuals who are able to produce upon other persons
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  Speaker 1: the impressions they wish to be produced, you have but
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  Speaker 1: to start the work of pouring into your aura or
• 2:22:08
  Speaker 1: thought atmosphere, just those thought vibrations which such fortunate individuals
• 2:22:12
  Speaker 1: seem to radiate. If you would be like those persons
• 2:22:15
  Speaker 1: in this respect, you must begin to think as they do.
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  Speaker 1: It is all a matter of a given cause producing
• 2:22:21
  Speaker 1: a given effect. If you wish to produce the effect,
• 2:22:24
  Speaker 1: you must supply the cause. In short, if you would
• 2:22:28
  Speaker 1: create a new thought atmosphere for yourself, you must start
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  Speaker 1: in to treat your mental atmosphere for the desired qualities.
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  Speaker 1: Now a word here regarding this specialized use of the
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  Speaker 1: words treat, treatment, et cetera, which are frequently met within
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  Speaker 1: all instruction along the lines of mental science and similar subjects,
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  Speaker 1: and which we shall employ frequently in the following pages
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  Speaker 1: of this book. The word treat, as so employed, means
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  Speaker 1: to supply the needed thought elements ideas mental pictures, et cetera,
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  Speaker 1: to the mind, to the thought atmosphere of persons in places,
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  Speaker 1: or to any other aggregation of thought vibrations. A treatment
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  Speaker 1: of this kind is simply the act or a process
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  Speaker 1: employed in this matter of treating a person, a place,
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  Speaker 1: a thing for the purpose just named. The process of
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  Speaker 1: treatment just described may be illustrated by the familiar act
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  Speaker 1: of turning on the light in a hitherto dark room,
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  Speaker 1: of opening the shutters and admitting the inflow of the
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  Speaker 1: rays of sunshine to a dark place, of letting a
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  Speaker 1: stream of pure, dear water flow into a bowl of
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  Speaker 1: dirty water. The light, the sunshine, or the clear water
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  Speaker 1: represent the positive elements of thought, while the darkness of
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  Speaker 1: the room or the dirtiness of the water in the
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  Speaker 1: bowl represent the negative elements of thought. The positive elements
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  Speaker 1: of thought will always displace and neutralize the negative elements,
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  Speaker 1: provided that the positive elements are supplied in sufficient quantity
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  Speaker 1: and in the right way. We ask you to consider
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  Speaker 1: carefully the statement just made, and to commit it to memory.
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  Speaker 1: If you do this, you will have always at your
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  Speaker 1: command a most powerful and valuable instrument, capable of performing
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  Speaker 1: the most important work for you when most needed. Now,
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  Speaker 1: from what we have just told you, what would you
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  Speaker 1: think should constitute the right method and way of treating
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  Speaker 1: your thought atmosphere, so as to create in it the
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  Speaker 1: qualities and powers which you wish it to possess. You
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  Speaker 1: will have no trouble in answering this question. If you
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  Speaker 1: have taken heed of what we have just said, you
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  Speaker 1: will answer at once, I should begin to pour into
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  Speaker 1: my thought atmosphere a sufficient quantity of the thoughts which
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  Speaker 1: represent the desired qualities. Your answer is the right one,
• 2:24:35
  Speaker 1: the one that follows logically from the given premises. You
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  Speaker 1: must open the windows of your mind to the inflow
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  Speaker 1: of positive, powerful thoughts, ideas, and mental pictures. You must
• 2:24:46
  Speaker 1: flood the dark places with the sunshine of positive thought.
• 2:24:50
  Speaker 1: Before proceeding further, however, we must call your attention to
• 2:24:53
  Speaker 1: a most important fact of psychology which has a direct
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  Speaker 1: hearing on this matter of thought treatments of all kinds.
• 2:25:00
  Speaker 1: Here it is the power of the inflowing positive thoughts
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  Speaker 1: is immensely increased by your act of mentally picturing the
• 2:25:06
  Speaker 1: inflow of the thought vibrations into that which is being
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  Speaker 1: treated by you. The more clearly and strongly that you
• 2:25:13
  Speaker 1: are able to picture in your imagination the process of
• 2:25:16
  Speaker 1: the inflow of the positive thought and the effect of
• 2:25:18
  Speaker 1: these on the thought atmosphere of that which you are treating,
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  Speaker 1: the greater will be the power and efficiency of that
• 2:25:24
  Speaker 1: inflowing current. Please note the above statement carefully and commit
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  Speaker 1: it to memory practice until you can clearly imagine and
• 2:25:33
  Speaker 1: mentally picture the presence of your thought atmosphere, the inflow
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  Speaker 1: of the positive current, and the changed condition which is
• 2:25:39
  Speaker 1: occurring by reason of the treatment. The more real this
• 2:25:42
  Speaker 1: picture seems to you, the greater the effect will be produced.
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  Speaker 1: This is a fact, as you may demonstrate to your
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  Speaker 1: own satisfaction. There is no need of entering into a
• 2:25:52
  Speaker 1: technical discussion of the principle involved. It works, and that
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  Speaker 1: is the main thing. Akin to this is the fact
• 2:25:59
  Speaker 1: that the more clearly you can picture the mental quality
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  Speaker 1: or state which you are pouring into your thought atmosphere
• 2:26:04
  Speaker 1: by means of the stream or current of thought vibrations,
• 2:26:07
  Speaker 1: the greater power will it have to overcome and neutralize
• 2:26:10
  Speaker 1: those negative qualities and states of which you wish to
• 2:26:12
  Speaker 1: be read. In order to create a mental picture of
• 2:26:16
  Speaker 1: this kind, you must one know the name best expressing
• 2:26:19
  Speaker 1: and indicating that quality. Two be able to recall instances
• 2:26:23
  Speaker 1: in which that quality was manifested by others, so that
• 2:26:26
  Speaker 1: you are quite familiar with its outward expressions. And three,
• 2:26:30
  Speaker 1: imagine yourself as possessed of and as manifesting that quality yourself,
• 2:26:34
  Speaker 1: even if you have never had this actual experience, so
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  Speaker 1: that you may clearly and vividly field yourself now experiencing
• 2:26:41
  Speaker 1: its inner phases. By so doing, you will have a
• 2:26:46
  Speaker 1: the verbal symbol of the quality, be the idea of
• 2:26:49
  Speaker 1: its outer expression, and see the feeling of the inner
• 2:26:53
  Speaker 1: experience which accompanies the latter. When you have acquired this,
• 2:26:57
  Speaker 1: you have the matter in your own hands and under
• 2:27:00
  Speaker 1: your own control. The foregoing two paragraphs contain important truths.
• 2:27:05
  Speaker 1: Study them well, and commit to memory their essential points.
• 2:27:09
  Speaker 1: The psychology involved is simple, but its effect is far
• 2:27:13
  Speaker 1: reaching and effective. When you know what you want, you
• 2:27:16
  Speaker 1: have taken the first step toward its attainment. You must
• 2:27:20
  Speaker 1: know its name and its meaning. You must know how
• 2:27:23
  Speaker 1: other persons act when they possess it, how it manifests
• 2:27:26
  Speaker 1: in outward form. You must know how it feels to
• 2:27:28
  Speaker 1: possess and to manifest it, how it exists in its
• 2:27:32
  Speaker 1: inner form. Ask yourself, what is the name of this quality?
• 2:27:36
  Speaker 1: What are its characteristics? What does it mean? When fully
• 2:27:39
  Speaker 1: understood a good dictionary will give you the answer. Then
• 2:27:44
  Speaker 1: ask yourself, how do persons act when they possess and
• 2:27:47
  Speaker 1: manifest this quality? What are its outward forms of expression?
• 2:27:52
  Speaker 1: This question may be answered from your observation of other persons.
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  Speaker 1: Select and study some good human pattern Finally, ask yourself,
• 2:28:00
  Speaker 1: how does it feel to experience the possession and manifestation
• 2:28:03
  Speaker 1: of this quality? What are the inner forms of its possession?
• 2:28:07
  Speaker 1: Your thought, power, imagination, Working up the material of your
• 2:28:10
  Speaker 1: observations of your human patterns will be able to supply
• 2:28:13
  Speaker 1: you with this feeling. When you are able to answer
• 2:28:16
  Speaker 1: these questions, you will be able to proceed effectively with
• 2:28:19
  Speaker 1: your work of treating your thought atmosphere. We suggest that
• 2:28:24
  Speaker 1: you now proceed to practice this method upon some particular
• 2:28:27
  Speaker 1: mental quality, the quality of courage. For instance, exert your thought,
• 2:28:32
  Speaker 1: your memory, and your imagination upon the ideal of courage
• 2:28:36
  Speaker 1: according to the rules given above. Having reached the point
• 2:28:40
  Speaker 1: just mentioned, you may start in earnest to treat your
• 2:28:43
  Speaker 1: thought atmosphere for desired qualities and powers. The process is simple.
• 2:28:48
  Speaker 1: Turn on the stream of fresh clear water, admit the
• 2:28:51
  Speaker 1: sunshine to the room. That is all there is to it.
• 2:28:54
  Speaker 1: Treat yourself whenever you have the opportunity, and without neglecting
• 2:28:58
  Speaker 1: your duties or business, you will find plenty of time
• 2:29:01
  Speaker 1: and opportunities. You will notice the improvement from the very first.
• 2:29:06
  Speaker 1: But do not get discouraged if at the start there
• 2:29:08
  Speaker 1: occurs a little unpleasant stirring up that is merely natural.
• 2:29:12
  Speaker 1: All readjustments stir up conditions at first. Stick to it persevere,
• 2:29:17
  Speaker 1: do not allow yourself to be sidetracked. Just one word
• 2:29:21
  Speaker 1: of caution here, never allow yourself to dwell on, picture,
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  Speaker 1: or imagine the negative mental state which you wish to
• 2:29:28
  Speaker 1: neutralize or eradicate. Forget the negative, so far as is possible,
• 2:29:33
  Speaker 1: you need not think of them. The sunshine takes care
• 2:29:36
  Speaker 1: of the darkness. You do not have to shovel out
• 2:29:39
  Speaker 1: the latter. Cultivate the good plants, and the weeds will
• 2:29:43
  Speaker 1: be choked out. This is the rule of the garden
• 2:29:45
  Speaker 1: of the mind, at least treating places and things. The
• 2:29:50
  Speaker 1: general principles and rules relating to the treating of your
• 2:29:54
  Speaker 1: own thought atmosphere, which we have just stated to you
• 2:29:57
  Speaker 1: apply also to the case of treating places, things, and
• 2:30:01
  Speaker 1: general conditions arising from thought. Radioactivity, the thought atmospheres of places,
• 2:30:06
  Speaker 1: the thought influences of things. The thought conditions in general,
• 2:30:10
  Speaker 1: which arise from the past or previous presence of thought vibrations,
• 2:30:14
  Speaker 1: may be successfully treated by you, and their undesirable conditions
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  Speaker 1: removed and replaced by desirable conditions, by an application of
• 2:30:22
  Speaker 1: the very same principles which we have just described and
• 2:30:24
  Speaker 1: explained to you. In connection with treating your own thought atmosphere.
• 2:30:29
  Speaker 1: There probably will be needed certain minor modifications of the
• 2:30:32
  Speaker 1: application of the principles, so as to make them fit
• 2:30:35
  Speaker 1: the particular conditions of the cases before you, But the
• 2:30:38
  Speaker 1: general principles remain the same, and the essential elements of
• 2:30:42
  Speaker 1: the method of application will hold good in all cases.
• 2:30:46
  Speaker 1: If you rent an office, a house, a store, or room,
• 2:30:49
  Speaker 1: you will do well to treat its thought atmosphere. This
• 2:30:53
  Speaker 1: particularly if the former tenants have been of an undesirable character,
• 2:30:56
  Speaker 1: if the history of the place is bad, or if
• 2:30:59
  Speaker 1: you sense the presence of thought vibrations of an undesirable character.
• 2:31:03
  Speaker 1: In fact, it is a good plan to treat any
• 2:31:06
  Speaker 1: new building or rooms rented or bought by you, and
• 2:31:09
  Speaker 1: which you intend to occupy, even if there be present
• 2:31:12
  Speaker 1: no particularly undesirable thought influences or past record to be
• 2:31:16
  Speaker 1: overcome that a treatment will serve to bring about speedily
• 2:31:20
  Speaker 1: that harmony of thought atmosphere and thought vibrations which it
• 2:31:23
  Speaker 1: is always well for one to secure and to maintain
• 2:31:25
  Speaker 1: in the places occupied by him. You know how foreign
• 2:31:29
  Speaker 1: and alien to you have been the new quarters occupied
• 2:31:32
  Speaker 1: by you in the past in many cases, and you
• 2:31:34
  Speaker 1: remember how in time, after you have occupied the quarters
• 2:31:38
  Speaker 1: for a while, they grew to feel natural and harmonious
• 2:31:41
  Speaker 1: to you. By proper treatment, you may secure this same
• 2:31:45
  Speaker 1: agreeable harmony even from almost the very first. Places with
• 2:31:49
  Speaker 1: evil records and histories, places noted for the non success
• 2:31:53
  Speaker 1: of the former occupants, places in which mental or emotional
• 2:31:56
  Speaker 1: in harmony or strife have been habitually manifested, And places
• 2:32:00
  Speaker 1: in which, for any reason whatsoever, the thought atmosphere has
• 2:32:03
  Speaker 1: become undesirable and calculated to induce unfavorable impressions upon the
• 2:32:07
  Speaker 1: minds of those occupying them or those visiting them. All
• 2:32:11
  Speaker 1: such places should be subjected to a careful and thorough
• 2:32:14
  Speaker 1: mental disinfection, renovation, and general treatment. The same is true,
• 2:32:20
  Speaker 1: though in a less degree, concerning articles of furniture, tools, machinery, clothing, pictures,
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  Speaker 1: or any other form of personal property. Which has come
• 2:32:29
  Speaker 1: into your possession after having been frequently used by some
• 2:32:32
  Speaker 1: former owner. Secondhand things often carry with them the thought
• 2:32:37
  Speaker 1: influences of former owners, and for that reason are instinctively
• 2:32:41
  Speaker 1: avoided by many persons. But a thorough mental treatment will
• 2:32:44
  Speaker 1: remove all such objectionable influences and will saturate the things
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  Speaker 1: with your own thought vibrations. In these treatments of places
• 2:32:53
  Speaker 1: and things, you must follow the general rules already given.
• 2:32:57
  Speaker 1: You must mentally picture the inflow of your positive death
• 2:33:00
  Speaker 1: thought currents into the thought atmosphere of the place or thing.
• 2:33:03
  Speaker 1: You must vividly realize and picture to yourself the nature
• 2:33:06
  Speaker 1: of the thought qualities which you are pouring into them.
• 2:33:09
  Speaker 1: The more clearly that you can visualize or picture that
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  Speaker 1: which is being performed on the plane of the thought vibrations,
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  Speaker 1: and the more thoroughly you realize the nature and character
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  Speaker 1: of the particular thought qualities being imparted by you, the
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  Speaker 1: more complete will be your work of treating, and the
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  Speaker 1: more satisfactory will be the result. The thought qualities to
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  Speaker 1: be imparted to a place or thing must be those
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  Speaker 1: particular qualities which you perceive to be needed, and which,
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  Speaker 1: when present, will bring about the results and effects which
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  Speaker 1: you desire in connection with that place or thing. A
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  Speaker 1: general treatment for a condition of general harmony with my
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  Speaker 1: ideals also is to be advised in cases of this kind.
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  Speaker 1: Thought power Radiomantalism by William Walker Atkinson, nineteen twenty two.
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  Speaker 1: Thought power methods. Another important method of applying the prince
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  Speaker 1: of thought power by means of the transmission of thought
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  Speaker 1: currents and the consequent action of thought induction is that
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  Speaker 1: which may be called the direct message. In this case,
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  Speaker 1: there is secured not only the general effect of the
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  Speaker 1: vibrations of your thought atmosphere, but also the direct and
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  Speaker 1: special effect of those vibrations which arise from strong particular
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  Speaker 1: ideas and thoughts existing in your own mind, and which
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  Speaker 1: you wish to get across into the mind of the
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  Speaker 1: person with whom you are talking. In the direct message,
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  Speaker 1: you flash directly from your own mind the message to
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  Speaker 1: the mind of the other person. It is as if
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  Speaker 1: you send him a strong, wireless message direct from your
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  Speaker 1: brain to his. The occultists say that in such cases
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  Speaker 1: there may be perceived an actual flash of thought power
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  Speaker 1: from the one brain to the other. Men and women
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  Speaker 1: of strong personalities possess to a high degree this power
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  Speaker 1: of sending the direct message, and this fact accounts in
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  Speaker 1: a large measure for their power of impressing and influencing
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  Speaker 1: other persons. In applying the method of the direct message,
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  Speaker 1: you first arouse and create in your own mind a strong,
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  Speaker 1: clear and positive idea or thought which you wish to
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  Speaker 1: be conveyed to the mind of the other person. This
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  Speaker 1: is an important preliminary stage of the method, for unless
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  Speaker 1: you have something clear and strong to send as a message,
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  Speaker 1: you cannot expect the other mind to receive a clear
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  Speaker 1: and strong message. Your message at the sending end must
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  Speaker 1: be vivid, intense, and dynamic, in order that it may
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  Speaker 1: produce a like effect at the receiving end. The more
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  Speaker 1: thoroughly convinced you are of the truth and reality of
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  Speaker 1: the idea and thought to be sent as a message
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  Speaker 1: in this way, the greater will be the degree of
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  Speaker 1: strength of the message, and the greater the degree of
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  Speaker 1: ease with which you may send it. Therefore, you must
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  Speaker 1: thoroughly convince yourself of the truth and reality of your
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  Speaker 1: message before you send it. You must arouse within yourself
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  Speaker 1: a degree of enthusiasm over its truth and reality. You
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  Speaker 1: must make it ring with truth within your own mind
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  Speaker 1: and soul. You must be able to feel the vibration
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  Speaker 1: of truth arising from it. It is true that some
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  Speaker 1: person's possessing marked ability as actors may counterfeit more or
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  Speaker 1: less successfully this mental attitude of truth, and thus may
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  Speaker 1: obtain a considerable degree of strength in their thought messages.
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  Speaker 1: But nevertheless, there is nothing so strong and sure as
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  Speaker 1: the truth. In such cases, the counterfeit truth has a
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  Speaker 1: tendency to break down at the critical moment and to
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  Speaker 1: destroy the effect of the previous favorable impression of the message.
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  Speaker 1: Search for the truth in your idea or thought and
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  Speaker 1: hold closely to it. The truth is mighty and will prevail.
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  Speaker 1: Another point to be remembered in connection with the message
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  Speaker 1: is this The message must appeal to the general desires, aims, aspirations,
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  Speaker 1: ambitions and wishes of the other person. Must fit in
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  Speaker 1: with his ideals and hopes in order to reach him
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  Speaker 1: easily and affect him strongly. The salesman whose message vibrates
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  Speaker 1: with the thought I wish to save you money or
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  Speaker 1: I wish to benefit you creates a far different impression
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  Speaker 1: from that which arises from the firmly held, strong thought
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  Speaker 1: that I want to sell you something, or that I
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  Speaker 1: want to get an order from you. The strong, vivid
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  Speaker 1: thought I like you is far better calculated to awaken
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  Speaker 1: a kindly response than the thought I want you to
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  Speaker 1: like me, which so many employ. Of course, certain messages
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  Speaker 1: awakening the fear of consequences resulting from an action or
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  Speaker 1: the refusal to act, serve to appeal to the self
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  Speaker 1: interest and desires of a person in certain cases, and
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  Speaker 1: often are so employed with more or less success. But
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  Speaker 1: on the whole it is far wiser to proceed on
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  Speaker 1: the principle embodied in the Old fable, the fable in
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  Speaker 1: which it is related that after the strong north wind
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  Speaker 1: had failed to blow the cloak from the shoulders of
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  Speaker 1: the man, the sun accomplished the task by sending its
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  Speaker 1: rays upon him and causing him to seek relief from
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  Speaker 1: its heat by removing the cloak. Positives are better than
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  Speaker 1: negatives in most cases. In sending the direct message in
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  Speaker 1: a personal interview, you proceed as follows one. Having previously
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  Speaker 1: aroused the conviction of the truth of the idea in
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  Speaker 1: your own mind, and having awakened an enthusiasm concerning it
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  Speaker 1: in your own heart, you must call up the idea.
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  Speaker 1: Thus energized and rendered dynamic into your own consciousness, holding
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  Speaker 1: it there constantly throughout the entire interview. Two, you must
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  Speaker 1: exert a conscience steady though imperceptible effort in the direction
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  Speaker 1: of projecting the stream of thought vibrations to the mind
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  Speaker 1: of the other person. You will be able to do
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  Speaker 1: this with the greatest effect and the least effort if
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  Speaker 1: you will use your imagination to picture the actual passage
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  Speaker 1: of the thought current from one brain to the other.
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  Speaker 1: Professor E. Beech Worman, a pioneer investigator of this and
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  Speaker 1: similar subjects, calls this employment of thought power impulsion, thus
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  Speaker 1: distinguishing it from compulsion, the latter being held by him
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  Speaker 1: to indicate will force. He says, compulsion is a force
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  Speaker 1: from without, impulsion a force from within. Compulsion will make
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  Speaker 1: an enemy of a friend. Impulsion will make a friend
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  Speaker 1: of an enemy, which is preferable by impulsion. I mean
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  Speaker 1: that you should lodge the thought in the mind of
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  Speaker 1: the other man to do as you desire. Is it right? Yes,
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  Speaker 1: if your business is right. It is merely another form
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  Speaker 1: and a better form, of using persuasive powers. The same
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  Speaker 1: writer and teacher indicates an interesting feature of the employment
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  Speaker 1: of this method as follows. To lodge the thought successfully,
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  Speaker 1: you should think in the first person singular one. That is,
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  Speaker 1: think as if you were thinking for him. If you
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  Speaker 1: think in the second person you he will feel a
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  Speaker 1: sense of compulsion. By the first method, he is impressed
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  Speaker 1: to do as you desire. He illustrates this point of
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  Speaker 1: practice by several instances of his personal employment of it.
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  Speaker 1: For instance, I said nothing, but I thought very intently
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  Speaker 1: for him, impulsion. This is the thought I held on him,
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  Speaker 1: Well you come in at one o'clock. That little word
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  Speaker 1: well is a great compromiser. All this probably occurred in
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  Speaker 1: the space of a minute, but it seemed many of
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  Speaker 1: them to me. Finally I looked up and said well,
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  Speaker 1: I thought the rest for him, but spoke not a word.
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  Speaker 1: Instantly he took my cue from the spoken word and
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  Speaker 1: voiced my unexpressed thought, saying, well, you come in at
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  Speaker 1: one o'clock. On the way to the bank, I held
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  Speaker 1: this thought on and for the banker, Well I've decided
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  Speaker 1: to pay you. I held it so hard, so tenaciously,
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  Speaker 1: and with such confidence and concentration, and so exclusively of
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  Speaker 1: all other thoughts that had I spoken to any one
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  Speaker 1: on the way, I feared that I would have given
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  Speaker 1: utterance to my one and only thought, Well, I've decided
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  Speaker 1: to pay you at precisely one o'clock. I presented myself
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  Speaker 1: at his desk. He looked up at the clock, and
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  Speaker 1: as he did so, said I see you're on time
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  Speaker 1: to the minute. I was almost afraid to speak, lest
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  Speaker 1: I might lose my grip on the thought I was
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  Speaker 1: holding on and for him. But I at once assured
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  Speaker 1: him that being on time was one of my cardinal principles.
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  Speaker 1: No sooner did I get my hold on that which
• 2:41:05
  Speaker 1: I desired him to say. Then, simultaneously with my thought,
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  Speaker 1: he voiced it, well, I've decided to pay you. Dot Again,
• 2:41:14
  Speaker 1: he gives the following very interesting and decidedly humorous advice.
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  Speaker 1: You have a caller, either at the office or at home.
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  Speaker 1: It is your busy day. Time is precious. Your caller
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  Speaker 1: does not know when to depart. You can freeze him
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  Speaker 1: out or otherwise make him uncomfortable, or as a last resort,
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  Speaker 1: you can ask him to go. Any of these might
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  Speaker 1: be efficacious, but things efficacious are not always expedient. There
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  Speaker 1: is a better way. Do not use compulsion, but impulsion
• 2:41:46
  Speaker 1: impel him to go. That is, lodge the thought with
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  Speaker 1: him in the first person singular. That is done by
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  Speaker 1: thinking for him, well, I must be going. That is
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  Speaker 1: what I term holding the thought on or over him.
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  Speaker 1: Almost instantly, he will be impressed with the thought as
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  Speaker 1: emanating directly from himself, and he will voice your thought
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  Speaker 1: as his own. Well, I must be going. When he
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  Speaker 1: thus expresses himself, let him go. Do not be dishonest
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  Speaker 1: by trying to be polite in saying, why, what's your haste?
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry you have to go so soon. It would
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  Speaker 1: serve you right if he then sat down and stayed
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  Speaker 1: an hour. If you have occasion to strive to convert
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  Speaker 1: or to convince other persons in the course of your
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  Speaker 1: business or social life, you will find your efficiency in
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  Speaker 1: this direction greatly increased by a little practice in the
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  Speaker 1: art of sending these thought messages along any of the
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  Speaker 1: several lines above mentioned. Some have found Professor Worman's plan
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  Speaker 1: of thinking for him in the first person singular to
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  Speaker 1: be especially effective. Others prefer the more familiar method. Either
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  Speaker 1: will do the work, so take your choice. You understand,
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  Speaker 1: of course, that these thought messages may be sent during
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  Speaker 1: the course of your conversation, argument, or discussion, or they
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  Speaker 1: may immediately follow it use the method indicated by the
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  Speaker 1: circumstances of the case. Remember also that this is not hypnotism, mesmerism,
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  Speaker 1: or anything of that kind. It is simply an especially
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  Speaker 1: effective way of getting across to others that which is
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  Speaker 1: usually transmitted by the spoken word. Some very good teachers
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  Speaker 1: lay great stress upon the transmission of thought power messages
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  Speaker 1: in the act of hand shaking. They hold that in
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  Speaker 1: this way one may get over to another in the
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  Speaker 1: most effective manner the general impression sought to be made
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  Speaker 1: upon the mind of the other person. They point out
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  Speaker 1: the fact that the most magnetic persons are distinguished by
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  Speaker 1: their live hand clasp, in which thought and feeling are
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  Speaker 1: expressed and impressed. These teachers impress upon their pupils the
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  Speaker 1: importance of throwing thought and feeling into the hand clasp.
• 2:43:51
  Speaker 1: They advise, for instance, that one should hold firmly in
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  Speaker 1: thought the words I like you and you like me
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  Speaker 1: when shaking hands with a person whom one is desires
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  Speaker 1: to impress. In this way, the thought being accompanied by
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  Speaker 1: the mental picture of the passage of the thought current
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  Speaker 1: from the one mind to the other, by means of
• 2:44:07
  Speaker 1: the line of which the classed hands are the connecting link.
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  Speaker 1: Some of the most successful persons have discovered by actual
• 2:44:15
  Speaker 1: experience the value of this method, though they usually failed
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  Speaker 1: to recognize the actual principle involved. They have found that
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  Speaker 1: it works, and they let it go at that without
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  Speaker 1: seeking the scientific explanation. Many of the best authorities are
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  Speaker 1: agreed that this method furnishes one of the most effective
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  Speaker 1: means of sending the direct message by means of thought power. Another,
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  Speaker 1: and a somewhat more complex form of sending thought messages
• 2:44:40
  Speaker 1: of this kind to another person is that which may
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  Speaker 1: be called the distant message. This form of thought message
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  Speaker 1: is practically the same as that just described, except that
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  Speaker 1: in the present case, the other person is not present
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  Speaker 1: in person, but is at some distance from you at
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  Speaker 1: the time the message is being sent. In cases of
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  Speaker 1: this kind, you may effectively present an argument or a plea,
• 2:45:01
  Speaker 1: an appeal or a petition, a warning or a caution
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  Speaker 1: to another person in advance of a personal interview, and
• 2:45:08
  Speaker 1: rendering the latter far more effective than would be the
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  Speaker 1: case otherwise. You may even prepare the mental soil for
• 2:45:15
  Speaker 1: a decision by employing either the usual method or else
• 2:45:18
  Speaker 1: the impulsion first personal singular method suggested by Professor Warman.
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  Speaker 1: In sending a thought message of this kind, the sender
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  Speaker 1: proceeds just as if the other person were present at
• 2:45:29
  Speaker 1: the place from which the message is sent. With his
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  Speaker 1: mind charged with the consciousness of the truth of his message.
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  Speaker 1: The sender verbally addresses the other person just as though
• 2:45:38
  Speaker 1: he were present in person. The verbal message corresponds to
• 2:45:42
  Speaker 1: what would be the spoken message were the two persons
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  Speaker 1: actually in each other's presence. The same arguments are used
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  Speaker 1: and the same earnestness displayed. The only difference is that
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  Speaker 1: the other person is not aroused to such an earnest
• 2:45:55
  Speaker 1: refutation of the argument, as might be the case in
• 2:45:57
  Speaker 1: a personal interview. The discussion in argument, consequently, is more
• 2:46:02
  Speaker 1: one sided. A writer in a popular magazine, in his
• 2:46:06
  Speaker 1: article stating the results of an investigation of the subject
• 2:46:09
  Speaker 1: now under consideration, cites a number of interesting cases in
• 2:46:13
  Speaker 1: which the general principle of thought power was applied to
• 2:46:15
  Speaker 1: practical ends along the lines just mentioned. Among other cases,
• 2:46:20
  Speaker 1: he mentions the following Miss h gave an instance out
• 2:46:24
  Speaker 1: of her own experience. She tried an experiment in this case. First,
• 2:46:29
  Speaker 1: she obtained the agency for a set of books that
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  Speaker 1: sold for fifty dollars. Then she selected the names of
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  Speaker 1: fifteen prospects and sold each one a set as fast
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  Speaker 1: as she could reach the prospect in present the proposition.
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  Speaker 1: She declared that she actually made the sale to each
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  Speaker 1: one in her own room before she started out. She
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  Speaker 1: also told me about an insurance man who sells one
• 2:46:52
  Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollar policies at his desk before he approaches
• 2:46:55
  Speaker 1: his prospect. The same writer reported as follows the same
• 2:47:00
  Speaker 1: lady's answer to his question, how is it done? The
• 2:47:03
  Speaker 1: secret is this, You concentrate definitely for prospects and then
• 2:47:07
  Speaker 1: on individuals. You put in a few minutes each day
• 2:47:11
  Speaker 1: picturing just what you want to take place, and then
• 2:47:14
  Speaker 1: go out and hustle to accomplish that purpose. For example,
• 2:47:18
  Speaker 1: if there is an ugly customer you desire to subdue,
• 2:47:21
  Speaker 1: you create a word picture of yourself actually subduing him.
• 2:47:25
  Speaker 1: You hold that picture steadily in your conscious mind for
• 2:47:28
  Speaker 1: ten or more minutes, if possible. If you can think
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  Speaker 1: of that and nothing else for three minutes without your
• 2:47:34
  Speaker 1: thoughts flitting about, you will be doing well. A good
• 2:47:38
  Speaker 1: time to focus your conscious mind on your supreme desire
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  Speaker 1: is while you are in the act of going to sleep,
• 2:47:43
  Speaker 1: or while you are just waking in the morning. The
• 2:47:46
  Speaker 1: best practice, however, is to get off by yourself, clear
• 2:47:50
  Speaker 1: away from all noise and distractions, sit down or lie down,
• 2:47:54
  Speaker 1: relax the body and mind completely, and concentrate on the
• 2:47:57
  Speaker 1: thing that you wish your subconscious mind to do. If
• 2:48:00
  Speaker 1: you will do that fifteen minutes daily, you will have
• 2:48:03
  Speaker 1: no more doubts about the efficacy of the method. You
• 2:48:07
  Speaker 1: must claim the desired quality or object before you actually
• 2:48:10
  Speaker 1: possess it. Concentration is in the present, immediate, right now.
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  Speaker 1: You create the image or make a mold of what
• 2:48:18
  Speaker 1: you want by affirmation and visualization, and then the subconscious
• 2:48:22
  Speaker 1: mind makes that image a reality. You use your will
• 2:48:25
  Speaker 1: informing the image, but the will does not do the work.
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  Speaker 1: To use a well understood figure of speech, the subconscious
• 2:48:32
  Speaker 1: mind is the power that operates the engine, and your
• 2:48:35
  Speaker 1: will does the steering. Everything depends upon the intensity of
• 2:48:39
  Speaker 1: desire and perfection in concentration. It is no small achievement
• 2:48:44
  Speaker 1: to hold a single thought or idea in the mind
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  Speaker 1: for any length of time, but it can be acquired
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  Speaker 1: by practice. Generally, however, results will come in a few days,
• 2:48:54
  Speaker 1: but do not get discouraged if you do not realize
• 2:48:57
  Speaker 1: your expectation at first, keep right on concentrating and working,
• 2:49:02
  Speaker 1: and you will eventually achieve victory. In the above case,
• 2:49:05
  Speaker 1: the lady relating the personal experience and those of others
• 2:49:09
  Speaker 1: places great emphasis upon the part played by the subconscious
• 2:49:13
  Speaker 1: mind in the manifestation of thought power. She is quite
• 2:49:17
  Speaker 1: right in doing so. Yet some persons reading the statement
• 2:49:20
  Speaker 1: may be led to believe that the subconscious mind is
• 2:49:23
  Speaker 1: an entity performing the work in the case, which is
• 2:49:26
  Speaker 1: a mistaken idea. The subconscious mind is not a distinct entity,
• 2:49:31
  Speaker 1: but is rather a part of the mind of the individual,
• 2:49:34
  Speaker 1: a plane or level of consciousness in his mentality. A
• 2:49:38
  Speaker 1: large portion of one's thought waves or thought currents are
• 2:49:41
  Speaker 1: sent out by the subconscious mentality, and a large part
• 2:49:44
  Speaker 1: of one's impressions received in this way are taken up
• 2:49:47
  Speaker 1: by his subconscious mental mechanism. But the power employed in
• 2:49:51
  Speaker 1: sending the subconscious messages of thought vibration, and that which
• 2:49:54
  Speaker 1: registers them on the subconscious receiving instruments, is thought power,
• 2:49:58
  Speaker 1: such as has been described in this book. The subconscious
• 2:50:02
  Speaker 1: mind is merely a series of planes or levels of
• 2:50:04
  Speaker 1: mental activity lying below those of ordinary consciousness. It will
• 2:50:09
  Speaker 1: be well for you to bear in mind this important distinction.
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  Speaker 1: Those who have made a careful study of this distant
• 2:50:15
  Speaker 1: message phase of thought transmission and thought induction report that
• 2:50:19
  Speaker 1: the efficacy of the plan depends materially upon the degree
• 2:50:22
  Speaker 1: in which the sender visualizes or pictures mentally a the
• 2:50:26
  Speaker 1: actual presence of the other person, and b the actual
• 2:50:30
  Speaker 1: passage of the thought current. One investigator says, if you
• 2:50:35
  Speaker 1: are able to visualize so effectively that the other person
• 2:50:37
  Speaker 1: seems to be actually present before you in person, and
• 2:50:40
  Speaker 1: so that you may actually sense the passage of the
• 2:50:43
  Speaker 1: thought vibrations, then the effect will be enormously increased. Some teachers,
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  Speaker 1: in private lessons have laid down quite elaborate rules and
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  Speaker 1: directions governing this method, But in the above statements will
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  Speaker 1: be found the essential principles of the matter and the
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  Speaker 1: practical gist of the method. There have been written and
• 2:51:00
  Speaker 1: taught many sensational elaborations of this method, most of which, however,
• 2:51:05
  Speaker 1: are merely the work of an active imagination. To some,
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  Speaker 1: this method has seemed to threaten dire danger of hypnotism
• 2:51:12
  Speaker 1: at long range, black magic, et cetera, and to be
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  Speaker 1: akin to controlling the wills of other persons at a
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  Speaker 1: distance by means of some magic power. Those who have
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  Speaker 1: carefully investigated the matter, however, assure all persons that there
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  Speaker 1: is present here nothing more than the ordinary suggestive effect
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  Speaker 1: of strong convictions transmitted by means of thought vibrations in
• 2:51:33
  Speaker 1: a personal interview, the ordinary inductive action of positive mental states,
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  Speaker 1: such as we have described to you in previous sections
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  Speaker 1: of this book. The rules of thought induction set forth
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  Speaker 1: in detail in Section seven of this book, apply here
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  Speaker 1: as well as in all other forms or phases of
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  Speaker 1: thought induction. There is here present the effect of harmonious
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  Speaker 1: attraction and of belief or fear. There is no cause
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  Speaker 1: for undue alarm in the matter, and most certainly, no
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  Speaker 1: one need feel any fear concerning any undue influence being
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  Speaker 1: exerted over him to his detriment, particularly if he will
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  Speaker 1: acquaint himself with the principles governing all thought induction, and
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  Speaker 1: will avail himself of the ordinary protective methods indicated in
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  Speaker 1: such cases. In the remaining portion of this section of
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  Speaker 1: this book, we shall point out the general principles and
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  Speaker 1: methods of self protection which apply to the present case,
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  Speaker 1: as well as to all other forms of thought induction.
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  Speaker 1: We advise you to study carefully these principles and methods. Nature,
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  Speaker 1: in the various fields of her activity, is seen to
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  Speaker 1: supply a protective element to her creatures in all cases
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  Speaker 1: in which there is present an element which threatens to
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  Speaker 1: become destructive or harmful to one creature. It supplies the
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  Speaker 1: defensive armor of shell to another, sharp quills or spines
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  Speaker 1: to another, the power of swift flight to another. A
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  Speaker 1: quick brain it supplies to one, the fur coat protecting
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  Speaker 1: against the cold, to another, the instinct to hibernate to another,
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  Speaker 1: the tenancy to take on fatty deposits during the cold season.
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  Speaker 1: For every bane, nature furnishes an antidote. As might be expected,
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  Speaker 1: it supplies to man the means of protecting himself against
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  Speaker 1: adverse thought induction. Some of these means man employs instinctively.
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  Speaker 1: But now that man has discovered the principle's underlying thought
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  Speaker 1: power and is employing it more effectively and more consciously,
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  Speaker 1: there have also been discovered methods of effectively in consciously
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  Speaker 1: counteracting and neutralizing the effects of its improper uses. In
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  Speaker 1: the first place, as we have already informed you, everyone
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  Speaker 1: has a protective immunity from thought induction of all kinds,
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  Speaker 1: which he exercises to a greater or less extent according
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  Speaker 1: to his development and state of knowledge. In a general way,
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  Speaker 1: it may be stated that no one need fear being
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  Speaker 1: adversely affected by thought induction if he will one keep
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  Speaker 1: his own mind clear and free from low mean, selfish,
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  Speaker 1: destructive thoughts, schemes, and plans to take advantage of others.
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  Speaker 1: Two keep his emotional nature free from low base passions
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  Speaker 1: and inclinations, and three keep his mind free from fear thought.
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  Speaker 1: His power of resistance will be enormously increased. If you
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  Speaker 1: will practice the art of encouraging the mental states directly
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  Speaker 1: opposed to those just noted, and thus manifest the characteristic
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  Speaker 1: mental states of nobility, cleanness, and fearlessness, you will see
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  Speaker 1: the reason for the above statement. If you will refer
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  Speaker 1: to previous sections of this book and will read what
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  Speaker 1: has been said their concerning the attractive power of thought,
• 2:54:32
  Speaker 1: you will see that the rule of like attracts like
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  Speaker 1: in the world of thought vibrations, and that that something
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  Speaker 1: without cannot kindle the flame unless it finds that something
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  Speaker 1: within to furnish the fuel for the mental combustion. Or
• 2:54:45
  Speaker 1: employing another figure of speech, you will see that just
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  Speaker 1: as physical personal cleanliness prevents the creation of congenial lodging
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  Speaker 1: places for noxious germs, so will mental personal cleanliness prevent
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  Speaker 1: the formation of congenial lodging places for mental microbes. What
• 2:55:00
  Speaker 1: has just been said applies an equal measure to what
• 2:55:02
  Speaker 1: we have previously told you concerning the evil effect of
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  Speaker 1: fear thought as an attracting force for undesirable thought vibrations
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  Speaker 1: and thought induction. A mental state of fear thought will
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  Speaker 1: open the doors to undesirable thought influences, while in the
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  Speaker 1: same way, the mental states of fearlessness, courage, and self
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  Speaker 1: confidence will render one practically immune from adverse influences of
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  Speaker 1: this kind. Above everything else, you should build up for
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  Speaker 1: yourself the protective armor of fearlessness concerning thought influences. No
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  Speaker 1: thought influence can enter your mental realm if you are
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  Speaker 1: surrounded by an aura of fearlessness and self confidence. We
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  Speaker 1: cannot impress this upon you too strongly. The following suggestions
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  Speaker 1: along these lines should prove helpful to you in case
• 2:55:47
  Speaker 1: you feel the need of cultivating a greater degree of fearlessness,
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  Speaker 1: a greater degree of immunity to thought induction. We advise
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  Speaker 1: you to study them carefully. In any event, The positive
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  Speaker 1: center begin by creating for you yourself what has been
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  Speaker 1: called the positive center. Here you enter into a strong
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  Speaker 1: conscious recognition and realization of yourself as the ego, the
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  Speaker 1: I am I, the self, master of your physical and
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  Speaker 1: mental realm, able to govern your mental states and to
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  Speaker 1: change your mental attitude at will. You should persevere in
• 2:56:17
  Speaker 1: this recognition and realization until you are able to feel
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  Speaker 1: yourself as this I am I, until you can actually
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  Speaker 1: feel that I am here at the very center of
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  Speaker 1: your being. When you have reached this stage of the
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  Speaker 1: consciousness of egohood, you will realize that you are superior
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  Speaker 1: to mental changes in physical changes, and that nothing in
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  Speaker 1: the outside world can really affect your position of security
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  Speaker 1: and power. This I am I, which is your real self,
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  Speaker 1: is pure spirit, superior to both mind and body, and
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  Speaker 1: master of both. When you attain this consciousness, you may
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  Speaker 1: laugh at the efforts of any person to influence or
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  Speaker 1: control you by psychic or mental influences of any kind whatsoever.
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  Speaker 1: The protective aura even before you attain the full realization
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  Speaker 1: of the I am I or real self, however, and
• 2:57:05
  Speaker 1: are thus rendered absolutely immune to outside influence. You may
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  Speaker 1: create for yourself an armor of protection from undesirable thought
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  Speaker 1: induction by a simple mental process, which we shall now
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  Speaker 1: describe to you. This armor of protection is known as
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  Speaker 1: the protective aura. It consists of your personal thought aura
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  Speaker 1: or thought atmosphere, highly charged with positive thoughts of immunity
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  Speaker 1: and resistive power. As its name indicates, it serves as
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  Speaker 1: a protective armor of thought vibrations, which serves to repel
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  Speaker 1: and to deflect any adverse or undesirable thought currents which
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  Speaker 1: may seek entrance into your mental realm by means of
• 2:57:40
  Speaker 1: thought induction. To create the protective aura, you must first
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  Speaker 1: create in your imagination, as clear and as strong as possible,
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  Speaker 1: a picture of it. A picture of what your thought
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  Speaker 1: aura would look like if you were possessed of the
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  Speaker 1: power of seeing it with your ordinary vision. You must
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  Speaker 1: picture it extending around your body for a distance of
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  Speaker 1: several feet. Then you must picture as pouring into it
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  Speaker 1: the waves of the protective thought vibrations with which you
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  Speaker 1: are charging it. You must picture it vibrating with protective
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  Speaker 1: strength and power. You must see the aura as affording
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  Speaker 1: a sure and perfect protection against the influence of any
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  Speaker 1: thought currents, thought waves, or thought streams of any kind
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  Speaker 1: from other minds, provided that such carry vibrations which are
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  Speaker 1: adverse to your interests or which are undesirable to you.
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  Speaker 1: You must see this protective aura deflecting the undesirable thought influences,
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  Speaker 1: or else causing them to rebound from its surface and
• 2:58:32
  Speaker 1: to fly back to the source from which they came.
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  Speaker 1: Practice until you are able to create a clear and
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  Speaker 1: positive mental picture of the aura and its protective action.
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  Speaker 1: This may seem somewhat fanciful to you when you first
• 2:58:45
  Speaker 1: read the above statement, but there is involved in its
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  Speaker 1: certain natural, though but little understood, principles of the highest importance.
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  Speaker 1: A little practice will bring to you certain positive proofs
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  Speaker 1: of the efficacy of the method, proofs arising from your
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  Speaker 1: own experience. You will feel a certain freedom from outside
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  Speaker 1: impressions of an undesirable kind, a certain sense of poise
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  Speaker 1: and power, a certain freedom, a certain security and immunity,
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  Speaker 1: which will convince you that there is something in all this,
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  Speaker 1: though I do not exactly understand the inner principles involved
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  Speaker 1: in it. You should keep your protective aura well charged
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  Speaker 1: with the protective vibrations at least once a day. You
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  Speaker 1: should create the mental picture of it in action, and
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  Speaker 1: at the same time should recharge it with a fresh
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  Speaker 1: stream of positive thought. A few moments will be all
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  Speaker 1: that is required. Once you have acquired the kannak, the
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  Speaker 1: following affirmation and denial silently uttered by you will be
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  Speaker 1: found useful in creating and charging the protective aura. They
• 2:59:43
  Speaker 1: serve to give form and pattern to your thought. Affirmation,
• 2:59:48
  Speaker 1: say silently to yourself, I am master of my mental atmosphere.
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  Speaker 1: I have created a protective aura around me, which renders
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  Speaker 1: me immune to all undesirable thought influences of whatever kind.
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  Speaker 1: Character I am fully protected. I am immune. I charge
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  Speaker 1: my aura with the most positive thought vibrations, and thus
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  Speaker 1: render it impregnable. Denial in the same way, say to yourself,
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  Speaker 1: I deny to any and all undesirable thought influences the
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  Speaker 1: power of affecting me. I deny to them the power
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  Speaker 1: of penetrating my protective aura. I am immune to their influence.
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  Speaker 1: This method will protect you from any form of adverse
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  Speaker 1: or undesirable phases of thought induction, thought contagion, or thought infection.
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  Speaker 1: Its employment will give to you a new sense of
• 3:00:38
  Speaker 1: power and poise. It will prevent you from being swept
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  Speaker 1: off your feet by any form of mental epidemic or excitement.
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  Speaker 1: It will serve to confound and confuse other persons who
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  Speaker 1: may attempt to employ upon you. Some of the forms
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  Speaker 1: of personal thought influence, such as we have indicated in
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  Speaker 1: the preceding pages, do not allow the apparently fanciful nature
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  Speaker 1: of the method to prevent you from learning how to
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  Speaker 1: produce the desired condition and to secure its benefits. A
• 3:01:03
  Speaker 1: little actual experience with it will serve to convert you
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  Speaker 1: into an enthusiastic follower of the method. You owe it
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  Speaker 1: to yourself to give it a trial, an earnest, fair trial.
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  Speaker 1: It may come in quite handy and useful in some
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  Speaker 1: hour of need. Thought power Radiomentalism by William Walker Atkinson,
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  Speaker 1: nineteen twenty two The law of correlation. Your effective employment
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  Speaker 1: of thought power, after all is said and done, will
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  Speaker 1: be found to consist largely of your ability to arouse
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  Speaker 1: into action the creative activities of thought. These activities operate
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  Speaker 1: chiefly through what has been called the correlation of thoughts
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  Speaker 1: and things, the mutual relation existing between your thoughts and
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  Speaker 1: those things in the outside world which are connected with
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  Speaker 1: the former by the links or bonds of association by
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  Speaker 1: the law of correlative attraction. Your inner thoughts draw to
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  Speaker 1: you those persons, things, and circumstances which are correlated to them,
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  Speaker 1: and at the same time you are drawn and attracted
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  Speaker 1: toward those persons, things, and circumstances. When you have found
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  Speaker 1: out exactly what you want, have kindled in your desire
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  Speaker 1: nature a strong ardent burning, craving and longing for that
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  Speaker 1: which you know you want. Have established in your field
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  Speaker 1: of imagination the strong, definite mental pictures of that which
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  Speaker 1: you know you want, have aroused a lively hope and
• 3:02:22
  Speaker 1: faith and confident expectation of obtaining that which you want,
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  Speaker 1: and have called into activity the forces of your will
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  Speaker 1: in the direction of attaining and manifesting that which you want.
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  Speaker 1: Then you will have set into operation the law of
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  Speaker 1: attraction along the lines of the correlation of thoughts and things.
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  Speaker 1: This because you have generated thoughts sufficiently strong to serve
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  Speaker 1: as magnets, attracting to them that which is necessary for
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  Speaker 1: their objective expression, manifestation, and realization, and at the same
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  Speaker 1: time attracting and drawing you to the persons, things, an
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  Speaker 1: environment most likely to accomplish the same result. Helen Wilmans,
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  Speaker 1: a leading teacher in the early days of mental science,
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  Speaker 1: based her entire teaching upon this law of attraction between
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  Speaker 1: thoughts and things. Over twenty five years ago, she announced
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  Speaker 1: her law of mental correlation, the basis of which was
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  Speaker 1: as follows, there is always set up a strong relation
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  Speaker 1: or correlation between the individual and the things which formed
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  Speaker 1: the subject of his chief thought. She taught her students
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  Speaker 1: that they could mold and determine their environment, health, financial condition,
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  Speaker 1: and general success by the nature and character of their ideals,
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  Speaker 1: provided that they kept their minds strongly filled with these
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  Speaker 1: ideals and the ideas arising from them. This, indeed, is
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  Speaker 1: the very essence and kernel of modern mental science, which,
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  Speaker 1: in many forms and under many names, has worked such
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  Speaker 1: great benefit to many thousands of its students during the
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  Speaker 1: past thirty years or more. The following quotation from the
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  Speaker 1: above mentioned pioneer teacher will serve to give you the
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  Speaker 1: spirit of her thought on the subject, which you will
• 3:03:55
  Speaker 1: see agrees very closely with our own thought, as set
• 3:03:58
  Speaker 1: forth in the present book. Missus Wilman said, there is
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  Speaker 1: nothing truer than that the quality of the thought which
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  Speaker 1: we entertain correlates certain externals in the outside world. This
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  Speaker 1: is a law from which there is no escape. And
• 3:04:13
  Speaker 1: it is this law, this correlation of the thought with
• 3:04:16
  Speaker 1: the object, that from time immemorial, has led the people
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  Speaker 1: to believe in special providence. A man believes that he
• 3:04:23
  Speaker 1: is led by providence in a certain direction. The direction
• 3:04:26
  Speaker 1: is not of his own choosing, so far as his
• 3:04:28
  Speaker 1: consciousness is concerned, but providence has nothing to do with it.
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  Speaker 1: There was in that man, unrecognized by himself, that which
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  Speaker 1: related him to some thing or some condition on the
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  Speaker 1: external plane, and under the law of correlation, he went
• 3:04:42
  Speaker 1: in that direction. Every thought a man can have relates
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  Speaker 1: him to some external thing and draws him in the
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  Speaker 1: direction of it. This fact, on the plain, where the
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  Speaker 1: thoughts of men are fleeting and of no comparative importance,
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  Speaker 1: has too frail an effect upon external life to be noticeable.
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  Speaker 1: But when much thought has been given to one subject,
• 3:05:01
  Speaker 1: the result cannot be other than observable. Thus, continued thought
• 3:05:06
  Speaker 1: upon disease allies us with the external conditions related to disease,
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  Speaker 1: or more correctly speaking, it creates the disease. A belief
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  Speaker 1: in poverty not only burdens and oppresses us until it
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  Speaker 1: makes us mentally poor, but it allies us with poverty
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  Speaker 1: stricken conditions. Thought not only allies us with certain external
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  Speaker 1: things that represent its own character. But when we have
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  Speaker 1: ascended from physical to mental, it becomes creative. This is
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  Speaker 1: a marvelous thing. But if I know anything in the world,
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  Speaker 1: I know it to be true. What can a person,
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  Speaker 1: by holding certain thoughts create wealth? Yes, he can. A
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  Speaker 1: man holding certain thoughts if he knows the law that
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  Speaker 1: relates effect and cause on a mental plane, can actually
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  Speaker 1: create wealth by the character of the thoughts he entertains.
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  Speaker 1: This creation must at this time be supplemented by courageous action,
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  Speaker 1: intense by creative thought and knowledge of self. But such
• 3:06:03
  Speaker 1: action is only a part of the thought. This law
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  Speaker 1: is easy to understand if one will only take the
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  Speaker 1: trouble to investigate it. The gradual recognition by a man
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  Speaker 1: of his own latent powers is the heaven within that
• 3:06:15
  Speaker 1: is to be brought forward into the world and established
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  Speaker 1: in these conditions which correlate it. I have never taken
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  Speaker 1: a single step upward in the external world that was
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  Speaker 1: not the direct result of my recognition of some new
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  Speaker 1: power within my brain. I have never sought wealth at all.
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  Speaker 1: I have simply sought to know myself. I have believed
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  Speaker 1: in my own greatness and in your greatness equally. I
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  Speaker 1: have denied that man was a creeping worm of the dust.
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  Speaker 1: I have seen him as the see germ of all attainment.
• 3:06:46
  Speaker 1: I placed no limitation upon his powers of progression. I
• 3:06:50
  Speaker 1: scorn the word impossible as applied to what is in
• 3:06:53
  Speaker 1: his power to be and to do. I think of
• 3:06:56
  Speaker 1: his vast ability and my own with a jubilant feeling
• 3:06:59
  Speaker 1: of surpassing triumph. I regard it as an assurance of
• 3:07:03
  Speaker 1: present as well as prospective greatness, and a guarantee eventually
• 3:07:08
  Speaker 1: of absolute mastery over all things and conditions which once
• 3:07:11
  Speaker 1: mastered me. And in the direct measure of the power
• 3:07:15
  Speaker 1: I have in holding this conception up before my perception,
• 3:07:18
  Speaker 1: just in that measure, am I successful in my undertakings.
• 3:07:22
  Speaker 1: Let me lose sight of it, and my success declines.
• 3:07:25
  Speaker 1: The most faithful and critical observation of this thing, for
• 3:07:28
  Speaker 1: many years, has demonstrated its truth a certainty. A mental
• 3:07:33
  Speaker 1: poor house projects from itself the spirit of a visible
• 3:07:35
  Speaker 1: poor house, and this spirit expresses itself in visible externals
• 3:07:39
  Speaker 1: correlated in its character. A mental palace sends forth the
• 3:07:44
  Speaker 1: spirit of a visible palace with results that correlate it.
• 3:07:48
  Speaker 1: And the same may be said of sickness and sin,
• 3:07:50
  Speaker 1: of health and of goodness. No amount of money will
• 3:07:54
  Speaker 1: give one that inner opulence, which is the sure foundation
• 3:07:57
  Speaker 1: for unchanging wealth, that opulence which is the purse of fortunatus,
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  Speaker 1: and which never can be exhausted. Mental wealth, which is
• 3:08:05
  Speaker 1: the recognition of inner ability, is the only true root
• 3:08:08
  Speaker 1: of external wealth. External wealth that has not this root
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  Speaker 1: is but a floating air plant. There is no dependence
• 3:08:15
  Speaker 1: to be placed in it. When strong desire power is
• 3:08:18
  Speaker 1: kindled and set into operation, when the object of the
• 3:08:21
  Speaker 1: desire is apprehended definitely by the individual and is represented
• 3:08:25
  Speaker 1: by clear, strong, definite mental pictures, When faith, hope, and
• 3:08:30
  Speaker 1: confident expectation is aroused. When the will holds itself to
• 3:08:33
  Speaker 1: the task of purposeful determination, then the entire mental being
• 3:08:37
  Speaker 1: of the individual, subconscious as well as conscious, is directed
• 3:08:41
  Speaker 1: to the task of manifesting in objective form the ideas
• 3:08:44
  Speaker 1: and ideals inspiring thought, imagination, faith, desire, and will. The
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  Speaker 1: entire mentality is turned to the work of calling forth, directing, urging, guiding,
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  Speaker 1: spurring on, and sending forth the energies of thought, power,
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  Speaker 1: and setting them into operation along the lines of the
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  Speaker 1: law of thought attraction and the law of correlation between
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  Speaker 1: thoughts and things. This, as we have repeatedly informed you,
• 3:09:09
  Speaker 1: tends one to draw to the individual the things, persons, circumstances,
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  Speaker 1: and environment of the external world which are conducive to
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  Speaker 1: the objective manifestation of the idea or ideal, and two
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  Speaker 1: to lead and urge the individual toward the persons or
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  Speaker 1: things of the outside world which are calculated to accomplish
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  Speaker 1: the same end. Moreover, this process, once set into operation,
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  Speaker 1: tends to arouse the hitherto dormant subconscious mental faculties of
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  Speaker 1: the individual, calling upon the subconscious mentality to reveal and
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  Speaker 1: to disgorge its hidden treasures of ideas, memories, plans, creative work,
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  Speaker 1: et cetera. To set into operation the marvelous powers of
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  Speaker 1: the constructive imagination along subconscious lines, to invoke the aid
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  Speaker 1: of the power of subconscious mentation or unconscious mental rumination,
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  Speaker 1: and finally, to cause them conscious faculties to superimpose some
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  Speaker 1: of their marvelous stores of wisdom upon the conscious realms
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  Speaker 1: of the mind. The mental resources of the individual are
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  Speaker 1: more than doubled by the addition of the treasures of
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  Speaker 1: the subconscious and the super conscious planes of mental power
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  Speaker 1: in the operation of the law of attraction or the
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  Speaker 1: law of the correlation of thoughts and things. When once
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  Speaker 1: you have set them into activity, you will experience many
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  Speaker 1: happenings which may seem almost uncanny to you. But do
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  Speaker 1: not let these disturb you, for they are but the
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  Speaker 1: result of perfectly natural laws of cause and effect on
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  Speaker 1: the mental plane. There is nothing miraculous or supernatural about them.
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  Speaker 1: For instance, you may turn the corner and unexpectedly run
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  Speaker 1: into the one particular person who will fit into your
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  Speaker 1: particular scheme of things at that moment. Or you may
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  Speaker 1: pick up a newspaper or a magazine and find in
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  Speaker 1: it something which will supply the missing link of some
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  Speaker 1: plan or idea of yours for which you have been
• 3:10:55
  Speaker 1: earnestly searching for some time. Or again, you may wander
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  Speaker 1: into a bookstore or before a book stand on the street,
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  Speaker 1: and there, apparently by accident, you will place your hand
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  Speaker 1: upon a volume containing exactly the particular information which you
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  Speaker 1: have been seeking, or which will indicate another book in
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  Speaker 1: which the desired information may be found. And so on.
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  Speaker 1: The strange happenings at last becoming commonplace and expected. These occurrences, however,
• 3:11:23
  Speaker 1: are not to be taken as indications of the operation
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  Speaker 1: of a special providence or as mere luck. In the
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  Speaker 1: world of natural things, nothing ever, happens. Everything occurs according
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  Speaker 1: to the law of cause and effect. You have set
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  Speaker 1: into operation the mental causes, and the mental or physical
• 3:11:41
  Speaker 1: results have followed in their train under the law of attraction,
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  Speaker 1: and according to the law of correlation between thoughts and things.
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  Speaker 1: There is started into operation a chain of cause and
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  Speaker 1: effect which often is far reaching and startlingly effective. Under
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  Speaker 1: these great laws of nature, your own shall come to you.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes moreover, you may find yourself fairly lifted out of
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  Speaker 1: your present environment and deposited, not always gently, into the
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  Speaker 1: midst of a new environment and amid new conditions, which
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  Speaker 1: are eventually found to be quite conducive to the realization
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  Speaker 1: of your ideas and ideals, but which, at the time
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  Speaker 1: of the transplanting seemed to be the overturning and upsetting
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  Speaker 1: of all that seemed favorable to your success. What has
• 3:12:24
  Speaker 1: seemed to be the very worst kind of luck has
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  Speaker 1: very often turned out to be the one particular piece
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  Speaker 1: of good fortune upon which the after success of the
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  Speaker 1: individual depended. Sometimes the individual is torn away from the
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  Speaker 1: things to which he is tied, things which seem to
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  Speaker 1: him to be good and quite necessary for his success,
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  Speaker 1: but which really have been preventing the full expression of
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  Speaker 1: his ideals. In such cases, the individual may cry aloud
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  Speaker 1: in bitter protest, but the law is inexorable and proceeds
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  Speaker 1: directly to its logical end and aim. As time passes,
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  Speaker 1: the individual sees what it all means and blesses the
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  Speaker 1: God of things as they are, for the separation and
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  Speaker 1: freedom which have worked out such good results for him.
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  Speaker 1: In these and other ways, the law of attraction and
• 3:13:08
  Speaker 1: the law of correlation work out their ends. Once set
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  Speaker 1: into operation, they move toward their objective like a glacier,
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  Speaker 1: or like a snowball rolling downhill. But it must not
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  Speaker 1: be forgotten that if you hold the wrong kind of thoughts,
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  Speaker 1: particularly if they are strengthened by dread, fearful belief, or
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  Speaker 1: other negative forms of confident expectation, then the movement of
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  Speaker 1: the mental glacier will be toward the things represented by
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  Speaker 1: those thoughts. As Helen Wilmans reminded us in the preceding quotations,
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  Speaker 1: the law of correlation may lead one to the poor
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  Speaker 1: house as well as to the palace. The direction depends
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  Speaker 1: entirely upon the character of your thoughts, what you believe
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  Speaker 1: to be your destiny and fate, and what you confidently
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  Speaker 1: expect will happen. Like all great natural forces, thought power,
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  Speaker 1: under the operation of the law of correlation, will act
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  Speaker 1: in either direction, either backward or forward, uding to which
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  Speaker 1: lever is pulled. You have your hands on the levers.
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  Speaker 1: The direction is in your own hands. It is up
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  Speaker 1: to you to decide which way you shall travel. The
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  Speaker 1: following practical suggestions concerning the efficient application and manifestation of
• 3:14:15
  Speaker 1: thought power should be carefully studied by you, for they
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  Speaker 1: contain the essence of the principles and methods which we
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  Speaker 1: have described in the foregoing pages of this book. One
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  Speaker 1: the positive center of egohood. Always maintain your consciousness of egohood,
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  Speaker 1: your consciousness of yourself, the ego, the I am I,
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  Speaker 1: as a center of consciousness and power in the all
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  Speaker 1: power of the cosmos. Always hold yourself positive towards your
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  Speaker 1: mental states their master. Always hold yourself positive toward undesirable
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  Speaker 1: thought influences, denying them admission to your mental realm. Always
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  Speaker 1: hold yourself open to the higher influences of desirable thoughts
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  Speaker 1: and inspiration, but always maintain the right to inspect, examine,
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  Speaker 1: and pass judgment even upon these before bid them to enter.
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  Speaker 1: Affirm to yourself as follows, I am a center of
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  Speaker 1: positive power. Deny any possible influence over you of adverse
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  Speaker 1: or undesirable thought. Power as follows, I assert my egohood
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  Speaker 1: and mastery. I deny to all adverse or undesirable thought
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  Speaker 1: influence the power to affect or to influence me, even
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  Speaker 1: in the slightest degree, I am immune to such. Two
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  Speaker 1: ideals and mental pictures. Always hold fast to your ideals
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  Speaker 1: of what you wish to be materialized in objective form
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  Speaker 1: in your experience, and endeavor to create and maintain clear
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  Speaker 1: and definite mental pictures of those ideals. See and think
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  Speaker 1: of things and conditions as you wish them to become, actually,
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  Speaker 1: striving to see and think of these as actually existent
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  Speaker 1: at the present time, so far as is possible. Here
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  Speaker 1: are the three rules. One, think of and see yourself
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  Speaker 1: as you wish to become actually. Two, think of and
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  Speaker 1: see other persons as you wish them to become actually. Three,
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  Speaker 1: think of and see you surrounding conditions, and environment as
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  Speaker 1: you wish them to become. Actually, these ideas and mental
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  Speaker 1: pictures are the patterns around which will be deposited the
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  Speaker 1: actual materializations, the molds into which will be poured the
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  Speaker 1: materialized substance which will crystallize and harden into objective reality.
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  Speaker 1: As are your patterns and your molds, so will be
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  Speaker 1: the materialized products. The mental idea or image is the pattern, mold,
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  Speaker 1: or design of the objective material form. Select and use
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  Speaker 1: only those patterns, molds, or designs which you wish to
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  Speaker 1: be reproduced in objective material form. Three. Treatment of places, conditions,
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  Speaker 1: and environment. The essence of the treatment of places, conditions, environment,
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  Speaker 1: et cetera is that of pouring out toward an into
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  Speaker 1: that which is treated a strong positive stream of thought vibrations.
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  Speaker 1: These thought vibrations are to be keyed to the rhythm
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  Speaker 1: of the particular thoughts, ideas, or mental pictures which re
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  Speaker 1: present that which you wish to have materialized and manifested
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  Speaker 1: in actual form, and are to be impelled and projected
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  Speaker 1: by the strength of your desire faith will, which has
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  Speaker 1: been aroused by you for the purpose. The secret of
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  Speaker 1: the projection of these thought currents is to be found
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  Speaker 1: in the following suggestion four, The secret of thought projection.
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  Speaker 1: The secret of thought projection consists of a the formation
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  Speaker 1: of definite ideas and clear mental pictures of that which
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  Speaker 1: you wish to be manifested in objective form in the
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  Speaker 1: external world, and be the presence and activity of strong
• 3:17:32
  Speaker 1: desire power, faith power, and will power back of the
• 3:17:36
  Speaker 1: ideas or mental pictures to be projected. The desire, faith
• 3:17:40
  Speaker 1: will power is poured forth into the objective external world
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  Speaker 1: on the material plane, but it takes form according to
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  Speaker 1: the pattern of the ideas and mental pictures through which
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  Speaker 1: it pours. This process is also well illustrated by the
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  Speaker 1: ancient metaphor or simile of the mental magic lantern, which
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  Speaker 1: is described in the following two paragraphs five. The mental
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  Speaker 1: magic Lantern. The ancient teachers in the schools of Occultism
• 3:18:06
  Speaker 1: were wont to illustrate the process of the projection of
• 3:18:09
  Speaker 1: thought power in the phase of thought forms by reference
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  Speaker 1: to a primitive apparatus employed in those times for the
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  Speaker 1: projection of painted pictures upon a screen, an apparatus which
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  Speaker 1: was based upon the same principles as the more complex
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  Speaker 1: and perfect magic lantern of our own times, and which
• 3:18:25
  Speaker 1: has its highest development in the motion picture apparatus of today.
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  Speaker 1: There is no more appropriate illustrative figure than this to
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  Speaker 1: employ in the case of the projection of thought power
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  Speaker 1: in the phase of thought forms, and you will do
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  Speaker 1: well to remember it in this figurative illustration. Let the
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  Speaker 1: screen represent the external world of objectivity, the material world.
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  Speaker 1: Let the slide or film bearing the pictures represent your
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  Speaker 1: positive ideas, ideals or mental pictures which you wish to
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  Speaker 1: become manifested or materialized on the screen of the material world.
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  Speaker 1: Let the light which projects the picture and which is
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  Speaker 1: placed back of the slide or film represent the strong desire, faith, will,
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  Speaker 1: power which you have aroused for the purpose of making
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  Speaker 1: your ideals become real, your mental pictures to take on
• 3:19:10
  Speaker 1: actual material forms. You should think of this illustration the
• 3:19:14
  Speaker 1: next time you witness a magic lantern show or attend
• 3:19:17
  Speaker 1: a motion picture exhibition. The ancient teachers held that this illustration,
• 3:19:22
  Speaker 1: if held firmly in mind, tended to add force to
• 3:19:25
  Speaker 1: the mental projective process. Remember always that a the picture
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  Speaker 1: on the slide or film must be clear, strong and
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  Speaker 1: definite in outlines, and be the light of desire, faith
• 3:19:38
  Speaker 1: will behind the slide or film must be strong, constant, persistent,
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  Speaker 1: and not dull, intermittent, or flickering. Six The Master Formula
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  Speaker 1: of attainment. In other books of this series, we have
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  Speaker 1: called our students attention to the master formula of attainment,
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  Speaker 1: which is as follows. One definite ideals, two insistent desire,
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  Speaker 1: three confident expectation, persistent determination, and five balanced compensation. This
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  Speaker 1: master formula will create for you the magic elixir of success.
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  Speaker 1: Employ it in your application of thought power. Stated in
• 3:20:16
  Speaker 1: popular form, the master formula is as follows. You may
• 3:20:20
  Speaker 1: have anything you want, provided that you one know exactly
• 3:20:23
  Speaker 1: what you want, two want it hard enough, three confidently
• 3:20:27
  Speaker 1: expect to obtain it for persistently determined to obtain it,
• 3:20:31
  Speaker 1: and five are willing to pay the price of its attainment.
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  Speaker 1: Ponder over it until you fully grasp it. Seven The
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  Speaker 1: touchstone of positivity. In other books of this series, we
• 3:20:43
  Speaker 1: have called the attention of our students to the touchstone
• 3:20:45
  Speaker 1: of positivity. The scale measure were standard whereby one may
• 3:20:49
  Speaker 1: determine whether his desires, thoughts, ideas, ideals, or actions are
• 3:20:54
  Speaker 1: positive or negative. Inasmuch as we have employed the terms
• 3:20:58
  Speaker 1: positive and negative many times in the present book, we
• 3:21:02
  Speaker 1: have thought. It well to restate the touchstone here for
• 3:21:05
  Speaker 1: the use of those who have not read the other books.
• 3:21:08
  Speaker 1: It is as follows. Apply to the idea, ideal, thought, belief, faith, desire,
• 3:21:13
  Speaker 1: or action the following question, will this make me better, stronger,
• 3:21:18
  Speaker 1: and more efficient. Anything that will make you better, stronger,
• 3:21:22
  Speaker 1: and more efficient is positive so far as you are concerned.
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  Speaker 1: Anything that will make you worse, weaker, and less efficient
• 3:21:31
  Speaker 1: is negative. So far as you are concerned. Anything that
• 3:21:35
  Speaker 1: is neither positive nor yet negative must be classed as
• 3:21:39
  Speaker 1: neutral in your categories. It is the part of wisdom
• 3:21:43
  Speaker 1: to cultivate, so far as is possible, the positive qualities
• 3:21:46
  Speaker 1: of thought, feeling, and action, and to repress and inhibit,
• 3:21:50
  Speaker 1: so far as is possible that negative qualities of thought, feeling,
• 3:21:54
  Speaker 1: and action. You will do well to remember and to
• 3:21:57
  Speaker 1: apply this touchstone of positive in your use of thought power,
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  Speaker 1: as well as in the use of all forms of
• 3:22:04
  Speaker 1: personal power. In this book you will find the practical
• 3:22:07
  Speaker 1: principles of the operation of that phase of your personal power,
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  Speaker 1: which is known as thought power. These practical principles presented
• 3:22:14
  Speaker 1: without the addition of any metaphysical theories or teaching, seeking
• 3:22:17
  Speaker 1: to account for the phenomena in question. We leave you
• 3:22:21
  Speaker 1: free to add these metaphysical principles if you wish. Many
• 3:22:24
  Speaker 1: persons seem to find it more satisfying to do so.
• 3:22:28
  Speaker 1: You will find that whatever may be the metaphysical doctrine
• 3:22:31
  Speaker 1: you select to explain these principles in phenomena, the practical
• 3:22:35
  Speaker 1: facts of the application of these principles will remain virtually
• 3:22:38
  Speaker 1: the same. They will fit into any metaphysical structure which
• 3:22:41
  Speaker 1: you may see fit to build around them. This because
• 3:22:45
  Speaker 1: we have dealt only with facts, not with theories or
• 3:22:48
  Speaker 1: doctrines seeking to account for those facts. Analyze the practical
• 3:22:52
  Speaker 1: methods of the various metaphysical schools, after having divested them
• 3:22:56
  Speaker 1: of their theories and speculations, and you will find that
• 3:22:59
  Speaker 1: their essence is almost identical with that of the methods
• 3:23:01
  Speaker 1: herein advanced and presented to you. In other words, while
• 3:23:05
  Speaker 1: though why phases of the subject differ widely from one another,
• 3:23:09
  Speaker 1: the various schools usually are found in agreement upon the
• 3:23:12
  Speaker 1: essential elements of the how phase of the subject. The
• 3:23:17
  Speaker 1: how side we consider the most important in this particular connection.
• 3:23:21
  Speaker 1: The rest we consider to consist largely of the choice
• 3:23:24
  Speaker 1: of words, terms, and theories of which latter one often
• 3:23:28
  Speaker 1: is tempted to say, in the words of a popular humorist,
• 3:23:31
  Speaker 1: they're all right, but they don't mean anything. The facts
• 3:23:35
  Speaker 1: of a subject really mean something, the rest too often doesn't,
• 3:23:39
  Speaker 1: or even when it does, it very often means something
• 3:23:42
  Speaker 1: that isn't. So keep your feet on the solid ground
• 3:23:45
  Speaker 1: of facts, even though your eyes may be fixed on
• 3:23:48
  Speaker 1: the stars. Thought Power Radiomentalism by William Walker Atkinson, nineteen
• 3:23:55
  Speaker 1: twenty two, Cosmic thought Power. In the including paragraphs of
• 3:24:01
  Speaker 1: the preceding section, we called your attention to the fact
• 3:24:03
  Speaker 1: that in this book we have presented to you the
• 3:24:05
  Speaker 1: practical principles of thought power and the practical effective methods
• 3:24:09
  Speaker 1: of applying those principles, without attaching there to any particular
• 3:24:12
  Speaker 1: metaphysical theory or hypothesis seeking to explain the phenomena in question.
• 3:24:17
  Speaker 1: In this way, we have sought to confine this particular
• 3:24:20
  Speaker 1: phase of the instruction to the plane of scientific psychology,
• 3:24:23
  Speaker 1: instead of endeavoring to tie it to any particular body
• 3:24:26
  Speaker 1: of metaphysical teaching or form of transcendental speculation. But notwithstanding
• 3:24:32
  Speaker 1: this expressed purpose and our endeavor to adhere strictly to it,
• 3:24:36
  Speaker 1: we feel that we would leave incomplete our consideration of
• 3:24:39
  Speaker 1: the subject of thought power were we to withhold any
• 3:24:41
  Speaker 1: mention of the well established scientific fact that in the
• 3:24:44
  Speaker 1: cosmos as a whole, and in every part of it,
• 3:24:47
  Speaker 1: there is in strong evidence the operation of a cosmic
• 3:24:50
  Speaker 1: principle of thought power serving to give shape and form, character,
• 3:24:54
  Speaker 1: and quality to the material things and activities which serve
• 3:24:57
  Speaker 1: as the outer aspect of that wonderful totality of phenomena
• 3:25:01
  Speaker 1: which we know as the world of nature. There was
• 3:25:04
  Speaker 1: a time when any discussion of this subject would inevitably
• 3:25:07
  Speaker 1: lead to an abstruse metaphysical discussion, or at least a
• 3:25:11
  Speaker 1: technical philosophical argument. But modern scientific thought, in its philosophical phase,
• 3:25:16
  Speaker 1: has made it possible for one now to consider this
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  Speaker 1: particular subject without wandering from the field of scientific investigation
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  Speaker 1: and without invading the field of speculative philosophy or metaphysics.
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  Speaker 1: In view of the facts just stated, we feel that
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  Speaker 1: we should not fail to present to your attention and
• 3:25:33
  Speaker 1: for your consideration at least the general outlines of what
• 3:25:37
  Speaker 1: scientific philosophy is now holding to be true concerning the
• 3:25:40
  Speaker 1: presence and activity in the cosmos of what may be
• 3:25:42
  Speaker 1: styled cosmic thought power. In the old materialistic concept, the
• 3:25:48
  Speaker 1: cosmos or world of nature was pictured as a mechanism
• 3:25:51
  Speaker 1: operated by purely mechanical laws. In this view, life, mind
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  Speaker 1: and what were regarded as derivative products of matter and
• 3:25:59
  Speaker 1: mechanical life, though just how these were derived from a
• 3:26:02
  Speaker 1: principle or substance in which they were not imminent was
• 3:26:05
  Speaker 1: not explained. This old view is rapidly passing away and
• 3:26:09
  Speaker 1: is being succeeded by a far more rational, reasonable, and
• 3:26:13
  Speaker 1: so satisfying conception, meeting the strict requirements of both logical
• 3:26:17
  Speaker 1: reasoning and intuition. In this new view of practical philosophy.
• 3:26:22
  Speaker 1: In advanced science, the cosmos or world of nature is
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  Speaker 1: seen to be animated, energized, and inspired by life and livingness.
• 3:26:30
  Speaker 1: The universe is conceived as being alive in every part
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  Speaker 1: and in its totality. Instead of being a dead world
• 3:26:37
  Speaker 1: moved by lifeless forces, or a world half dead and
• 3:26:41
  Speaker 1: half alive, it is now seen to be all alive.
• 3:26:45
  Speaker 1: The spontaneous action, seen to be manifested by all natural things,
• 3:26:49
  Speaker 1: is held to be a characteristic sign of life and livingness.
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  Speaker 1: We do not purpose entering at this place into a
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  Speaker 1: detailed statement of this modern scientific conception of a living universe.
• 3:27:00
  Speaker 1: We have considered this phase of our instruction quite fully
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  Speaker 1: and completely in that volume of this series of books
• 3:27:05
  Speaker 1: entitled Spiritual Power, and do not deem it proper to
• 3:27:09
  Speaker 1: repeat this portion of the instruction in the present book.
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  Speaker 1: Those who feel attracted to this wonderful teaching of modern
• 3:27:15
  Speaker 1: scientific philosophy are referred to the book just mentioned. A
• 3:27:19
  Speaker 1: careful study of that work will open a new world
• 3:27:21
  Speaker 1: of thought to many who have heretofore realized but dimly
• 3:27:24
  Speaker 1: the great body of truth which constitutes the subject matter
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  Speaker 1: of that portion of our general instruction. We have referred
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  Speaker 1: to the conception of the living universe at this point
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  Speaker 1: in the above several paragraphs, merely because the presence and
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  Speaker 1: activity of cosmic thought power are explainable only by that conception.
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  Speaker 1: There can be no thought power without mind. There can
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  Speaker 1: be no mind without life. Cosmic thought power is inconceivable
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  Speaker 1: except as manifested by cosmic mind, and cosmic mind is
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  Speaker 1: necessarily a phase or element of the presence and power
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  Speaker 1: of cosmic life or livingness. Looking at it from another angle,
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  Speaker 1: we see that it is likewise true that a living
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  Speaker 1: universe must manifest its livingness in at least some degree
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  Speaker 1: of cosmic will and cosmic thought power, and as might
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  Speaker 1: be expected, we find evidences of such manifestations on all sides.
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  Speaker 1: When we examine closely the activities of nature, the will
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  Speaker 1: power of the living universe is manifested in spontaneity, that
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  Speaker 1: attribute of all natural things. Spontaneity means all activity which
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  Speaker 1: springs from the nature of the acting thing, and which
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  Speaker 1: does not arise from a push or pull from some
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  Speaker 1: other thing external to itself. All spontaneous action is a
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  Speaker 1: manifestation of a power which in ourselves we know directly
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  Speaker 1: as will. Philosophy and science are now in practical agreement
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  Speaker 1: upon the basic axiom that all power, at the last
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  Speaker 1: is will power. That energy which moves all nature and
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  Speaker 1: from which all natural activity proceeds, is explainable only as
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  Speaker 1: will powers power, and all things regarded as a totality
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  Speaker 1: or whole system are seen to be under the control
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  Speaker 1: and direction of one will, the cosmic will of the
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  Speaker 1: living universe. Further thought along these lines enables one to
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  Speaker 1: see that if there is a cosmic livingness manifesting cosmic will,
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  Speaker 1: then it is reasonable to conjecture that this cosmic will
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  Speaker 1: must proceed in the direction indicated by cosmic thought or ideation,
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  Speaker 1: this being the way in which the individual will proceeds
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  Speaker 1: to action. The ancient hermetic axiom as above so below,
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  Speaker 1: as within so without, as in great so, in small so,
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  Speaker 1: frequently cited by us in this instruction, applies here as
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  Speaker 1: in all other cases. Strict analogical reasoning brings the judgment
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  Speaker 1: that the cosmic will, as well as the individual will,
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  Speaker 1: proceeds according to the direction of mind and thought. An
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  Speaker 1: examination of the processes of nature tends to support and
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  Speaker 1: substantiate the conclusion reached by the analogical reasoning just mentioned.
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  Speaker 1: Everything in nature is seen to proceed according to law
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  Speaker 1: and order. Nothing is left to chance. Chance, correctly defined,
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  Speaker 1: is merely a term indicating unperceived or unknown causes, not causelessness.
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  Speaker 1: The universe is governed by law, and that law is
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  Speaker 1: clearly a law of pure logical procedure. There is a
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  Speaker 1: because for every event, as well as a cause. Everything
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  Speaker 1: happens because of certain things. Such a because is a reason,
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  Speaker 1: and such a reason is explainable only under the hypothesis
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  Speaker 1: of an operative cosmic law of logical procedure and a
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  Speaker 1: law of logical procedure. Without cosmic mind and thought is unthinkable.
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  Speaker 1: That constant and continuous creation which is perceived to be
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  Speaker 1: manifested in the world of nature, that world which we
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  Speaker 1: know as the cosmos, is explainable and understandable only upon
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  Speaker 1: the theory and general hypothesis that the creative process is
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  Speaker 1: essentially a mental process. Everywhere in nature, from the development
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  Speaker 1: and growth of an acorn to the creation and evolution
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  Speaker 1: of a solar system, we see the presence of first
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  Speaker 1: an inner image, pattern, mold, or design, and second the
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  Speaker 1: materialization in objective form of that idea, pattern or design.
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  Speaker 1: There is always first the inner ideative pattern, and second
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  Speaker 1: the outer material form. From the formation of the crystal
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  Speaker 1: to the growth and development of the human body, these
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  Speaker 1: two respective stages of creation are found present. Ideation always
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  Speaker 1: precedes materialization. Materialization is impossible without precedent ideation. This idea
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  Speaker 1: of ideative creation in the cosmos and in man's individual
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  Speaker 1: life is developed fully in that volume of this series
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  Speaker 1: entitled Creative Power, to which we feel justified in referring
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  Speaker 1: you in case this particular phase of the subject specially
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  Speaker 1: interests you. In that book, we have illustrated a certain
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  Speaker 1: point of our instruction by a quotation from Edward Carpenter,
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  Speaker 1: which we feel warranted in also introducing at this point,
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  Speaker 1: So forcibly does it bring out the idea which we
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  Speaker 1: have just been considering. Carpenter says, there is now a
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  Speaker 1: disposition to posit the mental world as nearer the basis
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  Speaker 1: of existence than is the material world, and to look
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  Speaker 1: upon material phenomena rather as the outcome and expression of
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  Speaker 1: the mental. In observing our own thoughts, in actions, and
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  Speaker 1: bodily forms coming into existence, we seem to come upon
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  Speaker 1: something which we may call a law of nature, just
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  Speaker 1: as much as gravitation or any other law the law,
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  Speaker 1: namely that within ourselves there is a continued movement outwards
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  Speaker 1: from feeling toward thought and then to action, from the
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  Speaker 1: inner to the outer, from the vague to the definite,
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  Speaker 1: from the emotional to the practical, from the world of
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  Speaker 1: dreams to the world of actual things and what we
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  Speaker 1: call reality. We may fairly conclude that the same progress
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  Speaker 1: may be witnessed both in our waking thoughts and in
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  Speaker 1: our dreams, namely, a continual abolition and birth going on
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  Speaker 1: within us, and an evolution out of mind kind stuff
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  Speaker 1: of forms which are the expression and images of underlying feelings,
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  Speaker 1: that these forms, at first vague and undetermined in outline,
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  Speaker 1: rapidly gather definition and clearness and materiality, and press forward
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  Speaker 1: toward expression in the outer world. And we may fairly
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  Speaker 1: ask whether we are not here within our own minds,
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  Speaker 1: witnessing what is really taking place everywhere and at all
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  Speaker 1: times in other persons, as well as in ourselves, and
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  Speaker 1: in the great life which underlies and is the visible universe.
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  Speaker 1: You may say that there is no evidence that man
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  Speaker 1: ever produces a particle of matter out of himself, and
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  Speaker 1: I will admit that this is so. But there is
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  Speaker 1: plenty of evidence that he produces shapes and forms. And
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  Speaker 1: if he produces shapes and forms, that is all we
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  Speaker 1: need for what matter is. In the abstract. No one
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  Speaker 1: has the least experience and knowledge. All that we know
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  Speaker 1: is that the things we see are shapes and forms
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  Speaker 1: of what we call matter. And if, as is possible
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  Speaker 1: and indeed probable, matter is of the same stuff as mind,
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  Speaker 1: only seen and envisaged from the opposite side, then the
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  Speaker 1: shapes and forms of the actual world are the shapes
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  Speaker 1: and forms of mind, thus projected for us mutually to
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  Speaker 1: witness and to understand, we are not here trying to
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  Speaker 1: convert you to the idea that all is mind. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: we do not hold to such an idea ourselves, and
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  Speaker 1: have no intention of trying to preach a doctrine which
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  Speaker 1: we do not ourselves accept. In our book of this series,
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  Speaker 1: entitled Spiritual Power, we advance the teaching that there exists
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  Speaker 1: two cosmic principles viz. The positive principle of spiritual essence
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  Speaker 1: and power and the negative principle of material substance. We
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  Speaker 1: hold that the cosmic processes result from the action of
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  Speaker 1: spirit upon matter, and the reaction arising therefrom. The point
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  Speaker 1: we are trying to bring before your attention here and
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  Speaker 1: now is merely this mental power and energy work changes
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  Speaker 1: in material substance. This principle is true not only in
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  Speaker 1: the cosmos as a whole, but also in the end
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  Speaker 1: of Vidual's own world, which exists on all sides of him,
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  Speaker 1: and which at least to a great extent he creates,
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  Speaker 1: builds up, and maintains by the character and quality of
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  Speaker 1: his thoughts, by his thought power. In fact, if you
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  Speaker 1: once grasp this general truth, you will be able to
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  Speaker 1: see just how and to some extent just why thought
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  Speaker 1: power creates for the individual the world on all sides
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  Speaker 1: of him. You may here feel tempted to say to us,
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  Speaker 1: this is all very interesting, no doubt, but what has
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  Speaker 1: it to do with the subject of the practical employment
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  Speaker 1: of thought power as taught in this book. We hasten
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  Speaker 1: to answer that it has a very important connection with
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  Speaker 1: that subject, a connection which you will carefully note if
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  Speaker 1: you are wise. If you will carefully follow us in
• 3:35:43
  Speaker 1: these concluding pages of the book, you will realize just
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  Speaker 1: what is this important connection and why we have introduced
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  Speaker 1: this additional phase of the instruction here at the close
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  Speaker 1: of this book on thought power, a difference as marked
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  Speaker 1: as that between the two poles of anything is here
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  Speaker 1: discovered between the two respective men mental attitudes manifested by
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  Speaker 1: various persons undertaking to apply consciously and deliberately the forces
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  Speaker 1: of thought power or radiomantalism. On the one hand, there
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  Speaker 1: is that class of persons who regard thought power as
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  Speaker 1: a form of force somewhat apart and separate from the
• 3:36:15
  Speaker 1: forces of nature in general, something partaking of the character
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  Speaker 1: of the supernatural rather than the natural. On the other hand,
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  Speaker 1: there is that class of persons who recognize and realize
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  Speaker 1: that thought power is essentially a force of nature, a
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  Speaker 1: subtle and fine force. It is true, but still strictly
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  Speaker 1: in natural power. The persons of this first class are
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  Speaker 1: able to apply the forces and energies of thought power
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  Speaker 1: with more or less effect and with greater or less success,
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  Speaker 1: according to the degree of effectiveness employed by them in
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  Speaker 1: their respective methods of calling forth and directing these forces.
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  Speaker 1: But at the best they are never able fully to
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  Speaker 1: enter into contact with the great body of cosmic thought power,
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  Speaker 1: which is ever operative on all sides of them, and
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  Speaker 1: thus to call to their aid the subtle forces and
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  Speaker 1: potent energies inherent in such power. The persons of the
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  Speaker 1: second class, on the contrary, enter more or less into
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  Speaker 1: this contact or relationship by reason of their consciousness that
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  Speaker 1: the individual thought power is but a focal point or
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  Speaker 1: center of manifestation in the great cosmic thought power, and
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  Speaker 1: that the power of the latter may be drawn into
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  Speaker 1: the individual channel if the person will but open up
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  Speaker 1: those channels by knowledge and faith, then directing the flow
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  Speaker 1: of that power by means of ideation and volition, As
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  Speaker 1: the ancient teaching states it, the individual may manifest the
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  Speaker 1: cosmic thought power in the degree that he recognizes and
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  Speaker 1: realizes the relation of his own thought power to it.
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  Speaker 1: The recognition and realization of the truth that the universe
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  Speaker 1: is alive, that livingness is the universal state, that the
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  Speaker 1: cosmos manifests will power and thought power, both in its
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  Speaker 1: totality and in its every part. That all power is
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  Speaker 1: will power, and that all will power is directed by
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  Speaker 1: thought brings as a natural consequence, the ability to manifest
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  Speaker 1: the hidden forces of the cosmic thought power under the
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  Speaker 1: direction of the individual. Will and thought power. Demonstration must
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  Speaker 1: always be preceded by perception. Manifestation must be preceded by
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  Speaker 1: recognition and realization. You must know the truth before you
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  Speaker 1: are able to do the works. All thought power, the
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  Speaker 1: cosmic phase, as well as the individual, is radioactive. The
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  Speaker 1: great centers of expression of the cosmic thought power are
• 3:38:28
  Speaker 1: continually sending strong, powerful waves of force, energy, and power
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  Speaker 1: in all directions throughout all space. The individual instrument of
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  Speaker 1: thought power, which has been carefully keyed and attuned to
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  Speaker 1: the wavelengths of the cosmic sending stations, is able to
• 3:38:44
  Speaker 1: pick up the power thus radiated, as well as to
• 3:38:47
  Speaker 1: listen in to the messages from those great centers. Other
• 3:38:51
  Speaker 1: individual instruments not so keyed and attuned are unable to
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  Speaker 1: avail themselves of the infinite energies and power of the cosmos,
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  Speaker 1: which are open to the use of those properly attuned
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  Speaker 1: and keyed. We have here given you a hint at
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  Speaker 1: a mighty truth of a great principle, which is known
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  Speaker 1: to those who have made a careful study of the subject.
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  Speaker 1: If you are wise, you will read and reread these statements,
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  Speaker 1: both in the lines and between them. This to be
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  Speaker 1: followed by that conscious recognition and realization which must always
• 3:39:20
  Speaker 1: precede the manifestation and demonstration of that truth. Commit to
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  Speaker 1: memory these three words in the order above given viz.
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  Speaker 1: Recognition two, realization three, manifestation. Then add the following dynamic aphorism.
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  Speaker 1: In the degree in which I recognize and realize the principle,
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  Speaker 1: in that same degree will I be able to manifest
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  Speaker 1: and demonstrate it. In that statement is contained an ancient
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  Speaker 1: occult secret of power. Those who are ready for it
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  Speaker 1: will find it revealed in the statement. Those who are
• 3:39:51
  Speaker 1: not as yet ready will find that the statement merely
• 3:39:53
  Speaker 1: serves to conceal the secret. There is a tremendous truth
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  Speaker 1: revealed or concealed, as the case may be be in
• 3:40:00
  Speaker 1: the ancient occult aphorism above quoted, it means, in its
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  Speaker 1: essential truth, that you are living and moving and having
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  Speaker 1: your being in a living universe of infinite power. It
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  Speaker 1: means that this infinite power is at your command, disposal,
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  Speaker 1: and direction, in the degree in which you are able
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  Speaker 1: truly and fully to recognize and realize the fact of
• 3:40:20
  Speaker 1: its existence, your relation to it, and your power and
• 3:40:24
  Speaker 1: ability to contact and draw to yourself its inherent energies, forces,
• 3:40:28
  Speaker 1: and powers. The statement, in fact, is so tremendous that
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  Speaker 1: the average person fails to comprehend its innern actual meaning
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  Speaker 1: in truth, and instead contents himself with passing it by
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  Speaker 1: as mere words, or else as but a symbolic or
• 3:40:43
  Speaker 1: poetical figurative expression. If what we have said in this
• 3:40:47
  Speaker 1: book will serve to hasten your recognition and realization of
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  Speaker 1: the tremendous facts of thought power, we shall be well satisfied.
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  Speaker 1: For as truly as night follows day, so will that
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  Speaker 1: perception and cognition be followed by your ability to manifest, express,
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  Speaker 1: and demonstrate the principles involved in conclusion. Let us once
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  Speaker 1: more remind you of the great truth expressed in the
• 3:41:09
  Speaker 1: Master Formula of Attainment upon which the practical methods of
• 3:41:12
  Speaker 1: this instruction are based. Here it is stated in popular
• 3:41:16
  Speaker 1: form committed to memory, if you have not already done
• 3:41:19
  Speaker 1: so Master Formula of Attainment, you may have anything you want,
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  Speaker 1: provided that you one know exactly what you want, two
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  Speaker 1: want it hard enough, three confidently expect to obtain it
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  Speaker 1: for persistently determined to obtain it, and five are willing
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  Speaker 1: to pay the price of its attainment.