Practical Mental Influence

Mental Influence referring back to the "investigators of Mental Influence" mentioned on the previous page have demonstrated by their experiments that there are such things as thought waves, thought radiation, thought induction, and many other phases of manifestation similar to those exhibited by electricity and magnetism.

Flammarion Camille Flammarion (1842–1925), a famous French astronomer and researcher of psychic phenomena, the well-known and eminent French scientist, has said on this subject:

"We summarize, therefore, our preceding observations with the conclusion that one mind can act at a distance upon another, without the usual medium of words or any other visible means of communication. It appears to us completely unreasonable to reject this conclusion if we accept the facts. This conclusion will be fully demonstrated. There is nothing unscientific, nothing fanciful original: "romantic" in admitting that an idea can influence a brain from a distance. The action of one human being upon another, from a distance, is a scientific fact; it is as certain as the existence of Paris, of Napoleon, of oxygen, or of Sirius the brightest star in the night sky."

The same authority also states:

"There can be no doubt that our physical force creates a movement in the ether ether: in 19th-century physics, a hypothetical substance thought to fill all space and transmit electromagnetic waves which transmits itself far away like all movements of the ether, and becomes perceptible to brains in harmony with our own. The transformation of a psychic action into an ethereal movement, and the reverse, may be similar to what takes place on a telephone, where the receiver plate, which is identical to the plate at the other [end]..."