The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-03-31
New Philosophy Of Health.
Copyrighted. 1897, by II. b. 3D.
Fifth Paper.)

Fifth Paper)
In view of the recent discoveries in
psychological science one Is moved TO
question what can be the reason that the
transcendent powers of the human soul
have been so long ignored. Saint Paul
gave the answer when he said: 1.-The
world by wisdom knew not God" God
given reason, the attribute which dis
tinguishes man from the brutes, is also
the faculty by which no chooses whether
TO be guided by the inner light (which
lighteth every man that cometh into the
world, " or by his own observation of ex-
ternal things. He has chosen the latter
and it has led him into by-paths of
Inaterialism, where he not only saw no
light, but persuaded himself that no light
had ever been given him. That special
revelations have been youchsafed To GER
tain men mt certain times, subject to no
fixed law, is believed by the majority of
people, but the belief in even this is often
u half-hearted one, owing To its supposed
conflict with scientific knowledge. An
cient stories of warnings by dreams OF
miraculous healing and of the immunity
from injury by wild beasts of certain saints
condemned To bo SO destroyed are received
as of very doubtful authority and as be-
longing TO an age of superstition. True,
superstition Is common among simple or
primitive peoples, but superstition is
error of tracing effects TO the wrong
causes sy-s,ssd is net, after al, so -funda-
mental as the modern error OF denying the
effects, when these can be observed and
verified If one will take the necessary
trouble.
1t has been proved beyond doubt that
tclepathic communications are quito pos
sible even in this age of unbelief, and
there can be no question that they were of
common occurrence in early times, when
men were what is now called supersti-
tious.
1t has also been proved by experiments
conducted in Paris, that wild beasts Will
not touch person under the influence of
hypnotism. Religious ecstasy can pro-
duco the same effect, and thus we see
another miracle explained Instances
might be multiplied of the scientific ex-
PLANTATION of wonders that were once be-
licycd in, contrary To reason, and that
lately have been disbclievcd because they
seemed 10 antagonize that most God like
of human faculties. But let us coniine
ourselves To the questions already sug-
gestcd. Ielcpathy plays so important "A
part in the healing of disease that it may
appropriately bo discussed here.
Thomas Jay Hudson, in his valuable
work entitled 1.-The Law OF Psychic
Phenomena, declares that telepathy is
the normal means of communication be.
tween subjective minds; that 10 Is the
chief means of communication among
animals, and also that 10 can he used by
man in controlling them. BY the sub
jective mind is meant that part of us
which is the seat of the emotions and
intuitions i'm other words, the soul, "a
distinguished from the intellectual or
objective mind. In animals mental
activity is almost wholly subjective,
showing itself as instinct, which they
never disobey. One cannot reason with
all I,,t ,ttI Ia
may even control him by silent effort
of will, as Is strikingly SHOWN by tanners
of wild animals, and by snake charmers
The human soul seems to act directly and
with absolute power upon that which in
animals corresponds TO the soul. This
animal soul is not self-conscious, and has
as we have seen no power of choice be-
tween right and wrong, owing To the
total absence of intellectual mind.
Telepathic communication. or thought
transference, among human beings, can
take place consciously, only when the
intellectual mind is mt rest. Certain in
dIviduals are said To always understand
each other" such doubtless have con-
slant unconscious communication, and il
Is between such persons that conscious
tclepathic messages are To he expected
when the power of perception il sufii-
ciently developed. Thought-transference
i'm the healing of disease Il used simply
Co bring the patients mind into the at
ttudc necessary 10 secure the operation
of the healing influences of nature. This
can be done at any distance, whether the
patient is conscious of what Is being
done or not, the only obstacle being
mental opposition on his part. The faith
required is purely subjective, and may
bc quito unconscious at first, growing
gradually i'm response 10 repeated sug-
gcstions from the healor.
The subjective condition spoken OF by
writers on psychic phenomena is simply
the condition In which tho objective mind
Is quicsccnt There are all degrees of
this condition, the most perfect being
that of sleep. Therefore many he ,lers
prefer 20 treat their patients whca the
latter are asleep. Hypnotic sleep Is In its
nature the same as natural sleep and Is
also "a perfect subjective condition. The
spirit Of true prayer Il always more or
less subjective, the body and all outward
things being forgotten, while the soul
surrendcrs itself TO the highest influences
IL is capable Of receiving. The poet, the
artist and the musical composer in
moments Of inspiration are In the stbjcc-
tive condition, although the objective mind
must seize and interpret tho visions that
the world may-ta.e cogniLancc oi them.
When the objective or intellectual facul
ties work strictly I'm harmony with the
subjective mind, obcying perfectly the
comm;.nds Of the soul, the result Is "a
of genius picture or "A poem
that brings directly within our reach the
visions of an inspired soul The ordinary
subjective condition is always healthy
condition. one of rest. Of rccupcration and
OF Inspiration The crccntricitics of genius
are due not to over activity Of the subicc.
tive mind. but to inability on the part Of
the objective to work Ina perfect unison
with 10 The more of such subjective
activity We can have I'm our mental life
the moro normal will In our physical life,
We oil recognize the nccd of slccp; many
als~ rucognizc the nod Of tue cOnsolations