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clairvoyance or psychometry will gradually become sensitive, lucid, and
eventually be clearly able to distinguish between what are purely
unrestrained works of imagination (or fictions) and the impressions and
perceptions which have spiritual warrant and a basis of fact. B. G. E.
A variety of 'directions' for the cultivation of psychical perception have
been published, but unless you possess the natural organic, temperamental
sensitiveness you are not likely to realize satisfactory results without
prolonged effort. True, the power may lie dormant in your nature; it may
have been neglected, misunderstood, and crushed, and in such a case your
latent 'gifts' will soon become active if you persist in your endeavors to
understand and use them, but unless you are prepared to seriously and
steadily devote yourself to the task of your own education on these lines,
do not waste your time or strength in dabbling with the subject.
Spiritualists have not yet realized their duty in the matter of providing
training schools and teachers for the
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development of sensitives, consequently it devolves upon each one to
endeavor to train himself.
THOUGHT TRANSFERENCE.
As a rule, thoughts can only be transferred from one person to another
as a result of the exercise of will by the operator, and if you can obtain the
assistance of a few friends to try what is called the 'willing game,' you may
soon ascertain if you are responsive to their thoughts and telepathically
conscious of their wishes; or whether you are sufficiently positive to
transfer your own thoughts to someone else.
One of the party, having been chosen to act as the 'subject,' should be
requested to retire from the room, and during his absence an article should
be selected for the purpose of this experiment.
The subject having been recalled, one member of the company, acting as
spokesman, should say: A certain article in this room has been fixed upon,
and we are all thinking of it, and 'willing' you to touch it. We want you to
render your mind passive; to follow whatever impulse you experience, and
touch the first article upon which you feel impelled to place your hand.
This experiment may be varied in a number of ways. For instance, the
subject may be willed to touch one of the sitters; to take something to a
certain person; to discover a hidden article, etc.
Each one should concentrate his thoughts upon the subject, willing him
to proceed to, and touch, the article selected for that purpose.
The sitters should not look at the article, although they may at the
'subject,' but should not touch him or make any sign or movement that
would in any way give him a clue.
The 'subject' will find it best to stand still (and, if he prefers to do so,
close his eyes), until some inclination, 'drawing,' or prompting impels him
to move. Some people readily respond and are successful at once. Others
are rather too self-conscious and nervous at first, but succeed when those
feelings wear off. Others expect too definite
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and decided an impression, and do not obey the first impulse, lest it
should be their own mind operating, and in that way they become
confused, and fail.
By this simple means it is possible to find out those who are
impressionable, and then more systematic experiments can be made with a
smaller number of sitters, say three, who may act as operator, subject, and
note-taker alternately (or as agent, percipient, and recorder), until they
ascertain, as the result of the experiments, which of the three is the most
susceptible and which is the most positive.
The agent needs to possess the power of visualizing and concentration.
Thinking of a definite number, figure, name, or color, he must picture it in,
his mind as though he could see it, and then try to project the picture that
he has thus imagined to the percipitent, and enabled him to see it also.
This is by no means an easy operation. It requires steady thought,
concentrated purpose, and the expenditure of considerable psychical
energy.
It is unwise to fidget and strain and insist, and make repeated mental
affirmations; such methods tend to destroy the placidity which is so
essential to success. A steady, concentrated, and expectant frame of mind
should be maintained, as a more definite mental picture and a more
continuous mind wave can thus be produced than by spasmodic, vehement
willing.
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