The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-04-02

give back to the objective mind the
result of that reasoning. IL the premise
is wrong the conclusion will be wrong.
You can repeat an untruth so often
that eventually You, yourself, Will be
lieve Il is true.
II you want proof as to the amena-
bility of the subjective mind OF the
medium to suggestion from the sit
ter and further proof of the power OF
misconceptions of the medium on her
own subjective mind, you have but tn
ask for communication from one
who has never existed; suggesting,
thereby, that such a person (say, a
brother) has passed into spirit life.
II is an indisputable fact that you
can obtain q communication from an
imaginary dead person as readily as
from one who actually lived providing.
of course, that the medium is not
aware of the facts. | believe, as
shall hereinafter endeavor to prove.
that the power is not from an ex-
traneous source. but is inherent.
g Science is a knowledge of facts
and forces scientific investigation
reveals the fact that man possesses in
herently the power to produce or re-
produce every phenomenon of spirit
ism; therefore 1t is unnecessary and
unscientific to seek elsewhere for the
source of power.
3. Back of the manifestation there
is, unquestionaby, an intelligence
presumably that of the medium. This
statement should be accepted until the
contrary can be proved | do not mean
the objective intelligence of the me-
dium but that knowledge which has
passed, GEOGRAPHICALLY or otherwise.
into the subjective mind.
A. Communications, all communica-
lions given by mediums are purported
to be from the spirits of the dead
Proof, however, is wanting. No me-
dunn can communicate matter which
is at once capable of veriflcation III
that matter is unknown to any living
mind. Therefore, as telepathy cannot
be eliminated, and as it is the factor
in every so-called message, 1t Is not
necessary to ascribe to spirits of the
dead (disembodieD the knowledge
which is in the subjective mind of the
living,--the embodied spirit
s. While many spirit mediums are
honest 1t must be admitted that, as n
class, they are not noted for their bril-
liant, intellectual attainments; there
fore, the easier self-deceived. Now
and then an educated man or woman
: accepts spiritism, in toto-the more's
the pity, but few of them ever become
mediums.
The majority of mediums are not
= only ignorant but neurotic; and the
5 more so, the better condition for me-
diumship,-the more abnormal To be-
come a professional medium 1t is
u necessary to become effectively pas
T. sive at command; in other words. to
Q "let go" of the objective mind. This is
> not a difficult thing for mediums to do
= as the average medium has so little to
u 'let go" of.
Verbal Messages.
- When you go to a medium and you
Y are told why you came, you may think
10 1t strange, especially If 1t is your first
" experience.
If you have written some questions
T. and they are answered correctly with
Is out having been seen by the medium
81 or having been written on padded
block, you may think 1t still more
10 strange unless, perhaps, you are wis
rs enough to attribute 1t to thought
vi transference.
he But when the medium tells you 81
III something which you have never tolt
ru a living SOUL" then you are astonished
CT But when she Il say She" because
ne "she' is in the majority tells yo,
III | thin hing nf "a
Vi the time or something you had forgot
gu ten, you are amazed at her wonderful
NJ power.
Gu But when she tells you OF something
'r- you never knew (the facts of whicl
you afterward prove true) you ar
an then dumfounded and quite ready t
80 espouse the cause of spiritism.
he But wait. Has she told you of tina
III which you never knew? Impossible
You may have no conscious recollet
~ ton of 1t, but rest assured that no me
- dunn (the most expert in the world
su' can give you any information that
not already in your subjective nina.
nd' Many things find their way into IL
ior subjective mind without objective COZ
ay seriousness. Add to this the fact tina
ia' the subjective mind is the storehous
ca of memory and that its memory Is al
'hs solutely perfect; that everything 20
Vi have ever heard or read or seen c
thought or said is registered therein
We that the medium is in telepathic touc
aus with your subjective mind and ca
u.s. delve into that storehouse and brin
MY forth those long-buried thoughts; thu
lou she gets them directly from your ow
nor embodied spirit and not from the di
WIN embodied spirit of one who previousl
ils' lived.
Copyright, 1907, by Joseph b. Bowles
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