accepted the theory that telepathy
is more or less spontaneous, and cannot be produced to order. This theory
is true as far as it goes, but there is a side of the case that these
investigators overlook, probably because of their lack of the occult
principles involved in the phenomena. I mean this: that their most
brilliant successes have been obtained by reason of their unconscious
"switching on" of the astral telepathic sense, the clairvoyant sense.
While in this condition, they obtained startling results; but the next
time they tried, they failed to awaken the astral sense, and, therefore,
had to depend entirely upon the physical telepathic sense, and,
consequently, their results were comparatively poor.

You will understand the difference and distinction between physical-sense
telepathy, and astral-sense telepathy, if you will carefully consider the
nature of each, as I shall now present it to you. I ask your close
attention to what I shall have to say on this subject in the remaining
pages of this chapter. Do not pass over these explanations as "dry," for
unless you have a clear fundamental understanding of the thing, you will
never be able to get the best results. This is true of every phase of
learning, physical as well as psychical--one must get started right, in
order to obtain the best results.

In the first place, every thought process, every emotional activity,
every creation of ideas, is accompanied by a manifestation of force--in
fact, is the result of the manifestation of a force. Without entering at
all into the question of what mind is, in itself, we may rest firmly on
the natural fact that every manifestation of mental or emotional activity
is the result of an action of the brain or nervous system, manifesting in
a form of vibrations. Just as in the case of the manifestation of
electricity in which certain chemical elements are consumed, or
transformed, so in the case of mental or emotional activity there is a
consuming or transformation of the substance of which the nervous system
is composed. When I say "nervous system" in this connection, I include the
brain, or brains of man--for these are but a part of his great nervous
system in which all emotional or mental activity is manifested.

Moreover, just as there is no real destruction of matter in any of
Nature's processes--all seeming destruction being but a transformation--so
in the case before us there is a transformation of the energy released in