MENTAL INFLUENCE

If it were not so pitiable, it would be amusing to look at the arrogant, complacent, and smugly self-satisfied position of the materialistic school A group of thinkers who believe that only physical matter exists and that everything, including thought and consciousness, can be explained by physical processes. of thinkers. They dismiss as a foolish delusion what many of the wisest people of past ages have accepted and taught as truth. These modern "know-it-alls" sneer contemptuously at facts that are known to occur daily in the lives of thousands of intelligent people—phenomena that human experience has demonstrated for many centuries, in all lands and among all races.

The entire problem lies in the dogmatic assumption of the materialistic school that what we call "mind" is merely a specific action of the physical brain. Some writers even claim that "the brain secretes thought, just as the liver secretes bile." This was a famous argument made by the 18th-century French materialist Pierre Jean Georges Cabanis. They refuse to see that the operation of the Mind is a manifestation of a superior form of energy—one far higher than the forms of energy known as electricity, magnetism, light, heat, gravity, cohesion, and so on.

Because mental energy does not register on their instruments—which were designed to capture and measure the vibrations of these lower forms of energy—they conclude that this higher mental energy does not exist. Having created a theory to suit their materialistic concepts, they try to ignore all facts that are not consistent with their theory. If they find a fact