History and Power of Mind by Richard Ingalese
By Richard Ingalese
VPREFACE'PHIS booklet is made up from own notes and L stenographic experiences of lectures introduced in ny urban in the course of the seasons of 1900-1901 -1902, with the addition of a few new topic within the kind of amplifications. The compilation is made on the request of my scholars and is released essentially for his or her profit. the cloth is left within the shape during which it was once added, and the picture of the writer is inserted, additionally at their request.The booklet won't attract the orthodox religionist nor to the materialist; yet might end up fascinating, if now not enlightening, to the agnostic and to the investigator of both psychic phenomena, or the phenomena of psychological therapeutics.The glossy teachings of the technological know-how of brain haven't appealed to many thinkers as a result vagueness of inspiration and expression of nearly all of those that try to current it; and in addition a result of loss of a operating speculation had to clarify the legislation lower than which either psychic and psychological phenomena ocAbout the writer Forgotten Books is a writer of old writings, reminiscent of: Philosophy, Classics, technology, faith, background, Folklore and Mythology.Forgotten Books' vintage Reprint sequence makes use of the newest know-how to regenerate facsimiles of traditionally vital writings. cautious recognition has been made to properly guard the unique structure of every web page when digitally improving the tricky to learn textual content. learn books on-line at no cost at www.forgottenbooks.org
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This evidence is sufficient to prove to the unprejudiced in- vestigator that the body is not the man, but there is within the body a recording something that is capable of sensing things external to the body. The phenomena of Hypnotism also show that the mind is Dual Mind and Its Origin. 59 not the product of the molecular vibration of the and while the brain is quiescent, the mind continues to be active. These experiments are further verified by the use of anaesthetics. When a person is etherized, the efbrain, because during hypnosis, same as if he were hypnotized; because both cases the mind, or the real man, is forced out of his physical body, which is then incapable of functioning, and remains inert until the fect is the in reasoning principle returns to its habitation.
59 not the product of the molecular vibration of the and while the brain is quiescent, the mind continues to be active. These experiments are further verified by the use of anaesthetics. When a person is etherized, the efbrain, because during hypnosis, same as if he were hypnotized; because both cases the mind, or the real man, is forced out of his physical body, which is then incapable of functioning, and remains inert until the fect is the in reasoning principle returns to its habitation. Many times, a subject has been put into hypnosis and the consciousness sent out of the body to a distant place, whence it has brought a correct report of things were occurring there at that time.
The Occultist also calls it thought because all force in its ultimate is either thought or the result of thought. With the Occultist force and are identical and force is the product of thought mind. The Divine Essence manifesting as matter is what both the physicists and Occultists call substance substance being the collective name for the atoms; and we call it substance because it is that which stands under, that which lies behind the visible Universe. The physical Universe is, therefore, but atoms in motion or vibration and back of matter and back of motion is Divine Essence.