reverberates, and dimly appears
in the mind of another. How does this occur? Is it a physical
process going on in some physical medium or ether connecting the
two brains? Is it a primary physiological function of the brain, or
is it primarily psychological? If psychological only, what does
that mean? Perhaps it may not be a direct immediate action between
the two minds at all; perhaps a third intelligence is in
communication with both."
Will this theory furnish the basis for a true interpretation of
telepathy?
The relations between the individual and the forces of the ethereal
realm are also determining as regards health.
[Sidenote: Health and Happiness.]
For health and illness are by no means the mere and exclusive
consideration of the physical life. Health, in its complete
significance, is mental and even moral, and involves, in its higher
aspects, the entire question of the spiritual life. Health, successful
achievement, and happiness are an indissoluble trinity, when interpreted
in their full integrity and in their inter-relations. Ideally
considered, they are in closest interpenetration. As a matter of actual
fact each is often partially manifest,--good physical health without any
special achievement; or a high degree of achievement with defective
health; or both, without much resultant happiness; or happiness even,
without outward success or physical health, resulting only from a deeper
spiritual insight and recognition of eternal laws. Still, ideally
considered, as this world goes, health should be the basis of successful
achievement, and this achievement should rest on health; and the union
of both should produce the inflorescence of happiness; for the true
sense of all successful achievement is in that it makes for the forces
of righteousness, and a successful swindler or criminal could hardly be
included under these general definitions. And so, to have good health,
and to achieve good and noble work, must produce a good degree of
personal happiness as inevitably as that certain numerical combinations
produce certain numerical results. So much we may concede. The question
is then before us: How can we secure and hold unvarying, from day to
day, from year to year, this basis of physical health on which the
superstructure of all endeavor and realization must rest? Just how shall
one be well and keep well?
It is certainly a question not restricted to the physician nor
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