The Washington herald., 1917-01-31
Thinking by Wireless.

telephone completely around the
globe. You may sit in one booth
and speak into receiver, while an
other man sits in the next booth and
waits for your words.
"Your voice will go to San Francis
co by wire. 1t will leap the Pacific
through the air and be returned to
another wire. 1t will cross Europe
by wire, then span the Atlantic
through the ether and return to an
other wire here in New York, which
will lead it to your friend few
feet away"
This prediction by the wireless ex-
pert Bancroft Gherardi, engineer of
the American Telephone and Tele
graph Company's New York plant,
amazing as it is, will, without doubt,
be fulfilled when the European war is
over.
How will this be accomplished?
On precisely the same principle as
the voice is carried by telephone to
the next room to us or only a few
miles away.
When we talk by telephone to
people at distance our voices are
not simply transmitted over the
wire as sound, without the aid of any
other medium. The human voice
merely sets in motion a series of
vibrations which cause it to be ex-
actly reproduced at the other end of
the wire. No sound whatever passes
over the wire, yet you hear the voice
OF the person to whom you are
speaking almost as distinctly as
though you were both in the same
room.
The vibrations set in motion by
the voice causes the particles in the
wire to start vibrations into the ether
which the wire directs and protects
from being lost, but wireless tcle-
graphy has shown us that these
vibrations are not dependent upon
wire. These are ethereal vibrations
We are only beginning to realize
that in similar way our thoughts
start vibrations which are transmit
ted to our friends, and also to our
enemies or those antagonistic to us.
We have all had experience in re-
ceiving love vibrations from dear
ones which have been transmitted to
US through space. We have all re-
ceived, felt flowing in on us, dis
cordant vibrations which originated
in the hatred, the envy or the
jealousy of others.
Through wireless connection,
scientists on land can explode a
torpedo away out at sea. So we can
send our thoughts, good thoughts
or vicious thoughts, out into the uni
versal ether to bless or curse both
ourselves and others.
We live in the midst of all sorts OF
currents and cross-currents of other
peoples thoughts, and every time
we fear, or worry, or doubt, we make
connection with the currents of the
fears, the worries and the doubts of
others, which then flow in upon US
and add to our misery.
Few OF us consciously realize that
every thought we let loose, every
emotion, every passion that moves
us, starts a vibration which unites
with its affinity in the universal eth
er, and goes on its mission of life
and death, carrying its message of
helpfulness and hopefulness, OF Joy,
good will, and health, on its oppo-
slte-a message of destruction and
Encouragement, of hatred, of dis
cord, Of disease and suffering.
Every human being makes his own
world by his thoughts. The vibra-
tions they start determine what sort
OF world it shall be.
Two people who belong to the
same family, live under the same
roof, under the same influences. NAV
be farther apart than the poles of the
earth. No two people in the same
environment live in the same world,
because their thoughts, their motives,
their emotions, their acts, connect
them with their affinity currents. One
of them may live in the current OF
truth, love, and helpfulness, while
the other may live in the vilest cur
rent Of thought, because his own
thinking connects him with other
minds on the same plane.
Fortunately every one can choose
and direct his thought currents. He
can send out and draw unto himself
whatever manner of thought he wills.
No one is at the mercy of his thought.
No one need be a victim of the dis
tressing, discouraging thought cur-
rents which are flying in every di-
rection from other minds. Look to
your thoughts. They are the verv
staff of life.