Communication of thought - Natural power - Birds and animals - Thoughts of children - Betraying the emotions - Guilty conscience - Detection or crime - criminal demeanor - Attracting attention - School recitations - Love and anger - Impressions during sleep - Premonitions - Distance no barrier - Tests - Transmitting thoughts - Phenomenon of clairaudience - How to transmit thoughts.

It is possible to communicate our thoughts to others without words or gestures or physical means of any kind. We can, through the exercise of will power, reveal to others the thoughts we entertain, and we can, through the same power, have revealed to us the thoughts of others, even without their being conscious of the fact.

There is nothing remarkable in the above statement; in fact, this communication of thought without the aid of physical agencies is a natural power, and it is altogether probable that in the earlier stages of existence mankind employed but few sounds to convey his ideas and emotions. The more primitive the race, the smaller is the vocabulary. This is a rule well known by scientists. The savages communicate with one another with very few words, yet they make their wants and emotions known and realize one another's feelings as readily as the most highly educated scholars comprehend the hidden meanings conveyed by a select and large vocabulary.

Savages are not only able to communicate thoughts with very few words, but they are able to comprehend, without any words, the emotions entertained by others. This is true of birds and animals and infants who cannot speak as we do. By some natural power they realize the anger or fear or kindliness we experience toward them whenever we come into their presence.

It is altogether probable that the future will establish a means of communicating thoughts, which will enable experts to largely abolish the use of words. Many persons are unable to prevent the betrayal of their feelings and reveal their inmost emotions as perfectly without words as with them.

A guilty conscience usually betrays itself, and the cause of this well illustrates the method of thought transference. Suppose a criminal has committed a criminal act, and fears detection. His mind constantly dwells upon the possibility of detection, and whenever he comes in contact with others his whole soul is engaged in the thought, "Do they realize what I have done?" Such a thought engaging the mind is quickly transferred to others. It simply cannot be retained. We may call it the escape of concentrated nerve force, or give it any explanation we please, the fact remains the same, and is recognized by all. Criminals are very frequently detected more by their criminal demeanor and their inability to control their mental influence, than by the means of clues and informants.

It is a well-known fact that almost anyone can attract attention by will power. For instance, if in a public gathering you should recognize the presence of a friend in the opposite part of the hall, concentrate your whole mind upon the desire to have him see you; earnestly will that he shall turn about and recognize you. If you are intense in your desire and your exercise of will power, you will have the satisfaction of realizing that your effort is successful.

School children are very often adepts at thought communication. If they have prepared especially well their lessons for the day, they learn to "make the teacher call upon them to recite," and are usu ally successful. But such children often experience the chagrin of disappointment when not prepared. In such instances their minds are so absorbed in fear lest the teacher should call upon them that they exert a mental influence and involuntarily transfer their thoughts, which results in their often being asked "the very question they were not able to answer."

It needs no philosophy to explain the fact that lovers can sit by the hour in each other's presence and scarcely speak a dozen words, yet be in an ecstacy of delight, and each realize that the other is experiencing" emotions of profoundest love. These are the most common and most pleasant instances of soul transference of thought, and have been experienced ever since man and woman learned the first lessons of love.

All the emotions may be similarly made manifest by thought transference on account of their intensity. Fear, anger, sympathy, passion, indignation, pity, abhorrence and delight, when intensely experienced, need no words to convey their meaning to others.

Impressions During Sleep

During profound sleep, which is natural hypnosis, the mind may become passive and subject to vivid impressions, the source of which may be at a great distance. How frequently do we hear from truthful persons that they were warned in a dream of the death of a friend or relative, and afterward found that the death was an actual occurrence. During the seige of Pekin, a mother whose daughter was in the beseiged city declared that her daughter appeared to her in a vision and announced that she was safe from harm. The vision was so real that she fully believed in its reality and secured great comfort.

Premonitions of danger experienced during sleep are exceedingly frequent, and have been common to mankind since the earliest times. Who cannot recall an individual instance where the coming of a friend or enemy was felt a short time before meeting him? Such an instance demonstrates that the mind knows no barrier of distance. Space is annihilated when the power to transfer thought has been developed. The premonition of coming friends or letters, or the seeing of objects in visions, is known as clairvoyance.

All hypnotists are nat necessarily experts in telepathy. In fact, many persons who possess undoubted hvnnotic powers are unable to successfully carry on communication of thoughts with others, while, on the other hand, persons who have never hypnotized others may become experts in telepathy.