The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-06-03
THOUGHTS CAN BE PROJECTED,
Ideas Can ne Aimed as Bullets Are
Shot From n Gun.

Oriental NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. have always
held that thoughts are things and as
capable or being projected as a bullet liz
from a gun But to project thoughts at
Will and to lodge them at the place de-
sired. without the possibility OF failure
Is one thing and haphazard experiment Is
quite another. In the far East thought
transference Is reduced to q reliable sci
enee. while in the West the basic princi-
Piles of 1t are not known by MANY.
dozen or so years ago nine occult stu
dents, three In st. Louis three in Gin
cinnati and three in New York, agreed to
meet at a given time in their respective
cities and devote one hour to experiment
The plan was for the st. Louis three to
concentrate their minds upon word
and then try and project II to Cincinnati
where II would be taken up by the three
there and projected to New York
Rooms were secured I'm high buildings
so as to be as far removed as possible
from the noise and confusion of the
streets Each group had diagram of
the quarters of the other groups, even
to the dimensions of the table and the
location of the chairs
After experimenting for several weeks
the st. Louis group succeeded in proiect
ing the word to the group in Cincinnati
In a very clear and distinct manner lint
deliver the message to New York in a
very tangled and unintelligible shane
me test was made by Cincinnati report-
Ing TO 81. Louis in writing the Impressions
received and New York also renorting
direct TO st. Louis. Although very salts.
FACTORY results were obtained considering
the snort time devoted to II. IL was foun,
!" oe impossible to rely upon all the
groups being In place at the. apnointa,
schema
not before the experimenters were fnn,.
convinced That in few months or in a
year conversation could be sustained
without missing "A word
IL Is Wei known that the American Tn.
uiahs have always claimed that their ,sd-
IN. ~ men We're adopts at projecting
thoughts. and that distant tribas u,a-s
often notified of Impending dansar ~
that method OF communication Tha D.
eh'e coast lnthans have "A tradition tba,
IN the hfst century of the Christian a.,
oand OF Buddhist priests from Janan
ana China invaded the coast country ~,
way OF bering strait and taught their
".''n1iue men occult philosophy Including
the secret Of thought projection m, -
that as 1t may, ali students az ns,,,ht
force know that the most advanced ~.
euitlsts IN America are TO be found amoro
the indians OF the Pacific coast range 80
mountains. VI
But there is phase OF thought nrotsc-
,'pH WhIVh Is very common. II was think
ing OF YOU and hoped you would come
N an almost everyday exDerte,ca In
some. That only proves. hovaycr ~.
'he one WAS intently thinking OF no ctr
ef' ana that they We're In synnathntic
mental touch. but IL amounts Ia notbtry
aside from the satisfaction those WIZ 90
o'F"' Nv 'he parties In interest derive from
III, 'T"p'e nave quit being surprised
49, ,",N He"V now a wing person TIM
pressed some one at a great llstance =,
his or her condition. and similar s,-rauas
mental Phenomena are very common or.
euffenCe those days. but they are ~,
strictly speaking. thought proterttons
They are thoughts transferred along am.
pathetic currents that have their founaa.
lions 'u the affections
Thought projection il the serair.
thoughts and forcing then, IN ana -.
meni lH the mind o. the individual dasfr.
hS'04 without reference 20 distance arA
obils'Dg NE individual 20 recognize them
and consider their import This does M,
mean tna' fhv one receiving the thoughts
3" NJ a" subject 70 'he will power Of the
Protector ~ them. any more than ono =
who cannot help hearirg tho yoio. ~ an
other buf only uccultists - hirb iasrsa
can project thoughts az a marx a, ~
speaN. aud hif the mark even. tim. I,
requires severe discipline ~ ones senses
to become such an oc0.lltlst One nrus,
pfH' ,lraat abandon haman society. The
tt'"H hAst be ~o schoelea that 10 can APP
p'' itsvif On ore obiac; TO the entire ~
fioStou 81 al others Whatever iistracfs
"i11ers CONGO ntratior, 3ui without fan
aHi ..0ni '"'- f-nEr N-r-tlHU. ~ Zane
p"intedrrss. no substantial progress can
b" made When the student has acquired
thf power to abstract the mind from ey-
er5 'hing save The oue to which Il is an
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