Chapter XII
THOUGHT TRANSFERENCE
W. John Murray
Mental
Medicine
Divine Science Publishing Assoc.
New York, 1923.
[174] Thought
transference is not a new invention by some modern cult; it is a
rediscovery of the most ancient of all methods of communication. When
one stops to think, it is the only way by which man can communicate
with God, or God communicate with man, for there are no convenient
material means such as the wireless. Either we communicate with God in
prayer telepathically, or we communicate not at all.
The
communication of thought, from one mind to another without the use of
the spoken word, has been practiced from time immemorial by spiritually
developed men or adepts, and the only reason there are not more adepts
is that there are not more spiritually developed men; and the only
reason there are not more divinely enlightened men [175] is that men as
a rule "love darkness rather than light." Adepts are not especially
endowed any more than experts in any line are especially endowed; they
are like geniuses because they have "a tremendous capacity for hard
work." If we conclude that a thing cannot be accomplished, we
shall make no attempt to accomplish it; this does not mean that another
who does believe it cannot effectively accomplish
it.
Projecting
thought from one mind to another is no more difficult than sending
messages from one ship to another; yet it is only a few years ago that
very few shared Marconi's "crazy notions" in regard to wireless.
Wireless
messages are sent in perfect conformity with natural laws, and what are
called "Absent Treatments" are given effectively in conformity with
laws that are just as natural; for law is law, and all law is One Law,
susceptible of countless methods of application. Thought is not only
the most real thing in the world; it is the most far-reaching [176]
thing in the universe. It abolishes time and space, and renders matter
penetrable and unobstructive. Experiments in telephony and telegraphy
are bringing to light the fact that "matter offers no successful
resistance to mind," as every schoolboy knows who listens in on the
radio. There are vibrations of sound too low for us to hear, and there
are vibrations of sound too high for us to hear, but we are told that
there are some forms of life which hear both of the extremes which we
cannot hear.
In "Isis
Unveiled" we read, "As the physical ear discerns the vibrations of the
atmosphere (or ether) only up to a certain point, not yet definitely
fixed, but varying with the individual, so the adept, whose interior
hearing has been developed, can take the sound at this vanishing-point
and hear its vibrations in the astral light indefinitely. He needs no
wires, helices, or sounding-boards; his will-power (spiritual intention
or attention) is all sufficient. Hearing with the spirit, time and
distance offer no impediments, [177] and so he may converse with
another adept at the antipodes with the same ease as though they were
in the same room."
You have not
tried this perhaps and so you doubt it, but you must remember that your
doubt cannot upset an established fact. When the old farmer was told
that he could talk with his son in Chicago over the telephone, he
himself being in a lawyer's office in New Jersey, he stubbornly refused
to try, notwithstanding that the matter which needed to be settled
required immediate attention.
It is not
necessary to be an adept to get a message over the telephone from
Chicago to New Jersey; all that is essential is to be willing to take
up the receiver, and the trick is done. It is not a trick at all; it is
natural when you know how.
When the
centurion went to the Master, asking Him to heal his servant, Jesus
said: "I will come and heal him," but the centurion
answered: "Nay Lord, I am not worthy [178] that thou shouldst enter
under my roof. Speak the Word only and my servant shall be healed." If
this is not equivalent to saying, "Project thy healing Thought by a
method of mental action and my servant shall be restored," I do not
know what it is. He was not to shout through space in the effort to
make Himself heard audibly by the man in a far-off place; He was merely
to think truly and the Word or silent communication
would do its own work, as was evidenced by the actual fact when the
centurion reached his home, for it is written, "his servant was healed
in the selfsame hour." When we understand the laws which govern
thought-transmission, we shall see that this incident was as natural
and normal as that air should come into a room when the window is
raised or the door opened. We cannot see a sanative
idea projected from one mind to another, but we can feel
the beneficial effect of both, and this is the issue of importance.
When the man in the Scriptures [179] said to those who doubted his cure
of blindness: "Whereas I was blind, now I see," he was acknowledging
the blessing even though he could not explain the modus
operandi by which it had been brought about.
This is
precisely what thousands of people are doing today. They are testifying
at mid-week meetings, and other places, to cures of so-called incurable
ailments, without making any pretense of comprehending the underlying
principle back of their restorations. It is natural, however, for the
inquiring soul whose body has been restored, to want to know by what
means or method these cures have been accomplished. This accounts for
the rapid growth of the New Psychology, which is nothing more nor less
than Primitive Apostolic Christianity restored to twentieth century
progressiveness.
During the
war a sensitive mother whose son was at the front was awakened one
night by her son coming into the room and saying to her something which
she interpreted to mean that he had been badly [180] wounded. She
aroused her husband and told him of her experience which was as real to
her as if it had happened in broad daylight. She was fully awake. Her
husband sought to calm her, and finally succeeded in getting her back
to sleep. Weeks went by and no word came until one day news arrived
from the War Office informing them that the son had been badly wounded
on the exact date of his mother's experience and that he had passed
away as a result of his injuries.
Such things
have happened so often that they can neither be ascribed to miracle nor
coincidence, and since this is true, it is the purpose of the New
Psychology to discover the law and work with it intelligently.
We have no idea how much we are helped or injured by the thoughts of
others. The more delicately attuned we are to the spiritual the more
sensitive we are to thoughts; if these are good and pure we can accept
them and make them our own; if they are bad we can reject them and cast
them out of consciousness.
[181]
Cornelius Agrippa is credited with saying, "Out of everybody proceed
images, individual substances, and on that account a man is in a
condition to impart his thoughts to another man who is hundreds of
miles away." Now, if you wish to put this to the test, try sometime
when someone dear to you is ill, so far away that you cannot reach him
in person, to reach him in spirit. Go into your room alone; compose
yourself. Relax all over. "Be still and know" that
God is all in all, in your beloved one as in all things else. Fill your
consciousness with the conviction of the abiding Presence, and fill it
so full with this conviction that the belief in the presence of
anything else will be impossible to you. Feel that just as the
atmosphere in which you live and breathe is everywhere, so the presence
of God is in every place, surrounding and permeating your loved one, as
ether surrounds and permeates all things. Realize that in this Presence
there is nothing "that maketh or worketh a lie" and that sickness is
a lie, "and the [182] Truth is not in it." Know
that if God is the Author of sickness it is incurable, for that which
He creates shall stand forever. Know that if God
does not create sickness, it is a shadow cast by wrong thinking which
you, by right-thinking, or righteousness, can cure. Silently tell your
loved one there is nothing to fear, and this will tend to calm his
troubled thoughts as the assurances of the mother tends to dissipate
fear from the mind of her child. The worst feature of all disease is
fear, and when this is overcome, the sick will rise as a spring rises
when a weight is removed from it. Fear is a weight which keeps a
patient down when he should be up and about. Do not be afraid that your
unspoken thoughts will not reach your distant patient. The Marconi
operator is not afraid that his message will not reach the ship to
which he is sending it merely because there are no wires between. Take
your example from him and keep on telling your loved one in the Silence
that he is well, perfectly well, because God made him so and [183]
keeps him so. See him with your mind's eye in the full possession of
that perfect health to which man, made in God's image, is entitled.
Expect a good report in due time, as you expect an answer to your
wireless, and then dismiss the case from your mind until evening or
morning as the case may be. Above all things, have faith in your
unspoken message of Truth, and it shall not return unto you void.
It has been
found by every person who is engaged in mental or spiritual healing,
that when a patient at a distance is in a receptive mood and is anxious
to be healed, the silent impartation of the truth of his being is taken
up by his subconscious mind, which commences at once to work out in
objective form the mental picture of health imposed upon it.
It goes
without saying that the same principle which will work for another will
also work in the direction of self-healing. If erroneous thinking is
manifesting itself in some form of bodily discomfort or disease, [184]
we must seek the seclusion of our rooms and take ourselves in hand, and
talk to ourselves as we would to another person, remembering that it is
to the subconscious mind we are addressing ourselves, and also
remembering that this mind is extremely sensitive to suggestion and
that its creative power will work accurately to produce whatever
impression is given to it in the silence.
There is
relativity in metaphysics as there is in mathematics, and it should be
our object in self-healing to take thought out of the relative and lift
it through truth to the plane of the absolute where all is perfection.
Apart from all that is relative we must impress the subconscious mind
with those "facts of life" which obtain on the plane of the perfect or
pure spirit.
Unless we do
this we are not working as Jesus worked, and unless we labor as Jesus
labored, we shall not get the results that characterized His efforts.
The most practical method of procedure, according to the Christ method,
is to look away from "appearances," [185] or "relativity," to the
"real" which is the "ideal." We must learn to think of things as they
are in the spiritual universe, for by so doing we form in consciousness
a true mental picture of what we are in spirit, and of what we wish to
be in outward expression; it is the externalization of this mental
picture which will effect the desired results. It is the seed from
which the flower of health will proceed, but we must water and nurture
it by constant affirmation.
We must daily
weed our garden of thought so that no tares shall spring up in it to
choke the seed of health of its vitality; for then we shall rejoice in
that "Life more abundant" that is promised to them that think truly.
Remember that
you are today what you thought yesterday, and you will be tomorrow what
you think today; therefore, always think the best. Think health, and
health shall be your portion; think abundance, and abundance shall flow
through you; think peace, and you shall manifest it in tranquility.
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