Personal Development
Now it has occurred to me that there must be a great deal
to be learned about the effect of those vibrations in the great gap where
the ordinary human senses are unable to hear, see or feel the movement. The
power to send wireless messages by ether vibrations lies in that gap, but
the gap is so great that it seems there must be much more.
You must make machines practically to supply new senses, as the wireless instruments do. Can it be said, when you think of that great gap, that there are not many forms of vibrations that may give us results as wonderful as, or even more wonderful than, the wireless waves?
It seems to me that in this gap lie the vibrations which
we have assumed to be given off by our brains and nerve cells when we think.
But then, again, they may be higher up, in the scale beyond the vibrations
that produce the ultra-violet rays.
[AUTHOR'S NOTE: The last sentence suggests the theory
held by this author.]
Do we need a wire to carry these vibrations?
Will they not pass through the ether without a wire, just as the wireless waves do?
How will they be perceived by the recipient?
Will he hear a series of signals or will he find that another man's thoughts have entered into his brain?
We may indulge in some speculations based on what we know of the wireless waves, which, as I have said, are all we can recognize of a vast series of vibrations which theoretically must exist. If the thought waves are similar to the wireless waves, they must pass from the brain and flow endlessly around the world and the universe.
The body and the skull and other solid obstacles would form no obstruction to their passage, as they pass through the ether which surrounds the molecules of every substance, no matter how solid and dense.
You ask if there would not be constant interference and confusion if other people's thoughts were flowing through our brains and setting up thoughts in them that did not originate with ourselves?
How do you know that other men's thoughts are not interfering with yours now?
I have noticed a good many phenomena of mind disturbances that I have never been able to explain.
For instance, there is the inspiration or the discouragement that a speaker feels in addressing an audience. I have experienced this many times in my life and have never been able to define exactly the physical causes of it.