further
information, I would recommend him to read Gregory's "Letters on Animal
Magnetism." It was published some fifty years ago, and, for all I know,
may be out of print, but if the reader can procure it, he will find that
it is a book to be relied upon, the work of a Professor of Chemistry in
the University of Edinburgh, who investigated the matter calmly with a
thoroughly trained scientific mind. But what I want the reader to lay
hold of is the fact, that whether the action occur spontaneously or be
induced by experimental means, these powers actually exist in us, and
therefore in reckoning up the faculties at our disposal they must not be
omitted.

In our more usual condition however, these faculties are subordinate to
those which put us in touch with the every-day world, and I cannot help
thinking, that at our present stage this is the best place for them. In
this place they have a special function to perform, which I will speak
of in another chapter, and in the meanwhile for my own part I should
prefer to leave their development to the ordinary course of Nature,
neither stimulating them by hypnotic influence, or auto-suggestion, nor
repressing them if they manifest themselves of their own accord.
However, every one must follow his or her own discretion in this matter;
the only thing is, do not deny the existence of these faculties in
yourself because you may not consciously exercise them, for they hold a
very important place in our complex personality.

All such evidence on the subject as has come my way, appears to me to
point to the fact, that it is through this impersonal or cosmic portion
of our mind that Thought-Power operates upon us, whether in the form of
telepathy, or of healing treatment, or in any other way; and it is
through this channel also that thought currents, not specially directed
towards ourselves, nevertheless affect us, just as the first wireless
telephone message sent on September 29, 1915, from the office of the
American Telephone Company in New York, and directed to San Francisco,
was simultaneously heard at San Diego, at Darien in Panama, and even as
far away as Pearl Island, Honolulu, in the Pacific Ocean.

We sometimes pick up messages which are not intended for us; so we must
keep our receiver in perfect syntony of reciprocal vibration with the
stations from which we require to receive messages, to the exclusion of
others which would produce confusion.

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