THE MIND: A HUMAN RADIO
So much is said in occult and mystical literature about the
power of thought and the radiation of mental energy that the student is often
misled in understanding just how these radiations manifest themselves and how
there really can be any radiations at all.
To thoroughly understand the
power of thought without resorting exclusively to psychological principles, we
should turn first to physiology and understand that all nerve energy is
electrical.
This fact immediately opens the
doorway to a vast field of research and incidentally to a vast field of
speculation. Too many writers on occult and mystical literature, who are not
properly trained in the real principles, delve too deeply and too freely into
the field of speculations regarding the nature of nerve energy, and too
casually or too superficially into the field of research.
In other words, such writers or
students are profoundly impressed with the scientific statement that nerve
energy is electrical, and with this fact as a premise or stating point begin to
speculate wildly and illogically, and therefore come to all sorts of erroneous
conclusions. The real conclusions, which should be the result of their proper
reasoning, are far more interesting and surprising than the speculative ones.
It was Mesmer who discovered a
method of proving the ancient mystical principle that all nerve energy is
electrical. Up to this time this principle had been taught in the schools, and
Mesmer was a deep student of mystical work in his country.
But, some society in their
laboratories had ways and means of proving that a nerve impulse was an
electrical impulse.
Mesmer wanted to prove that they
caused or set up in the field around them certain vibrations of an electrical
or magnetic nature. If Mesmer were living today, he would not have to resort to
the involved methods he used to establish the fact that every electrical
impulse sets up an electrical or magnetic field of radiations.
There are thousands of
experiments recorded in the annals of the science of electricity showing that
in recent years this fact has been well established. Many wonderful electrical
devices now in use depend entirely upon the principle that an electrical field
surrounds a point of electrical impulse; and if this were not so, we would have
no telephones, radio, or many other things in common use.
However, in Mesmer’s time the
science of electricity was not greatly advanced except in the laboratories of
the mystic, the alchemist, and the free-lance investigator who was not bound by
traditions or principles of science; therefore, many things now common
knowledge in electricity were not known.
Mesmer believed that if the nerve
impulse in the human body was electrical in nature, then more than just the
physiological manifestation would result from such an impulse, and there would
be put into operation some secondary impulse or radiation of the original
impulse which would move outside of the human body.
In other words, he came to the
conclusion that if the nerve energy in the human body was directed and
concentrated to points in the fingers, then in addition to merely producing a
physiological effect within the finger, a secondary effect in the nature of
radiations of that energy would result, and this secondary effect would tend to
radiate or move outward from the point or place of the original impulse.
This led him to believe that
there would be radiations from the ends of the fingers in the form of very
subtle waves of power or energy which could be detected by sensitive persons or
perhaps sensitive instruments.
It is not my intention to review
the experiments of Mesmer, although these will be found intensely interesting
to every student of mysticism, especially inasmuch as Mesmer was greatly
misunderstood by the average person in his time, and absolutely condemned as a
fraud or a person self-deceived by the scientists and those who were not ready
to accept his discoveries.
It was unfortunate, indeed, that Mesmer’s
early experiments took on the form of such test of these radiations as were
soothing and quieting to the nervous systems of other persons, and caused them
to go to sleep or to go into a quiet, peaceful, relaxed condition.
HEALING POWER
We know today that such conditions
as this not only quiet the nerves and cause a sleepiness, but tend to cure
nervous troubles and establish a condition of harmonium in the body where
disease and pain are lessened. That is the reason why so-called magnetic
healers have been able to produce such wonderful effects by the use of their
hands, and this explains why many of the great masters in the past, and
especially the Essenes, were able to do such wonderful healing by the laying of
hands.
However, the ignorant populace
became fearful of this sleeping condition, and compared it to some strange coma
or trance condition that might come to the patient.
They wrongfully believed that if
the “magnetic fluid” which emanated from the end of the fingers of Mesmer or
other persons could produce a light sleep or a peaceful condition, that a
little more of such fluid or a continuation of such treatments might cause them
to go into a very deep or endless sleep. Such a continuation was absolutely
false and groundless, as we know today, but in Mesmer’s day fear and
superstitious beliefs, based on ignorance of facts, were always easily
developed in the minds of persons and adopted as truths without investigation.
Therefore, Mesmer was accused of
having devised a method of inducing trance or deep sleep. This condition was
called MESMERISM, and later was likened unto hypnotism, whereas in fact there
was no relationship to hypnotic sleep in anything that Mesmer really did.
Because his experiments were dubbed and considered wrongly in this manner, the scientific
and medical worlds ridiculed him, and his work had to end with disgrace to
himself and to the ideas he tried to establish.
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