The housewife will be busy ironing and will keep up this wonderful process of mediation. She will do her work mechanically - subconsciously - and, although her body is not resting, she finds that in the rhythm of her work she is aided in her mediation. Thus we find that, even though relaxation may not be present, there is much in rhythm, or the continuation of regular vibrations or movements. This will aid often in mediation. For example, we will take the railroad train at night. You sit there dreamily and, the steady click, click of the wheels passing over the rail-joints will take on some familiar air and in the harmony of that music you will forget environments, and your reflective faculties will figure out some of the serious problems of life.

Thus the phenomena of thought-transferance fade when we look at the lessons the study will teach us. It is scarcely probable that the time will ever arrive in which people will utilize telepathy as they probably will wireless telegraphy. The senses of man were given him for a purpose. Until he reaches that stage of development, or evolution, wherein he can do without those senses, he will have to look to them as a means of gaining information from the outside world. It has been said that man was given speech and hearing that he might conceal his thoughts. Whether this is true or not there is a great deal of philosophy in it. If we were all gifted with the ability of reading unuttered thought, we would find that we would all have to be good or go to jail! There would be a revolution at our present stage of advancement! When we are all good, likely, we will have the power of conversing without other means than telepathy.

We now come to another step in the occult - Clairvoyance, or "Clear Seeing." The clairvoyant closes his eyes and says that he sees a street. He describes it and tells of incidents that are happening there. It is found later that, at the time he was performing this feat, the incidents cited were actually transpiring. This cannot be separated from telepathy. Rut when he closes his eyes and says: "I see a man coming this way. He is tall and fair. His name is Charley. In front of him yawns a great gulf. He does not seem to heed it. but is looking for something that is on this side of the difficulty. Yes. I can see him walking right into it. He is going to meet with an accident, a material accident on about the tenth of next month".

The Charley in question is far away. There is no reason to believe that he will meet with any accident through any carelessness of his own. But the date in question bears that intelligence that this same young man is injured. I cite this, not as an actual occurrence, but as an example of things that are occurring about us every day. Out of a hundred clairvoyants - so claiming - about three will be able to give phenomena in the least convincing. There seems to be the element of failure that cannot be separated from the genuine. It is this fact that impels the cautious ones to combat things of this nature.

Closely allied to Clairvoyance is Psychometry. In this science - as its adherents are wont to call it - the operator feels instead of sees the message. That is, he will take a bit of rock and will tell where it came from, what has been enacted in its presence and other things of interest.

But real productions of psychometric phenomena are rare. There is little that can be used as explanatory in clairvoyance or psychometry.

The foretelling of events and the prophesying that appear to have always held an important place in the history of the world would indicate that Destiny is mapped for every man, that all he does and says may be due to circumstances, but, that, no matter where he goes, nor what he may do, he will eventually swing around and perform the things he is destined to perform in this life and he will die at the appointed time.

In this New Thought we have the opposing element who, although they may believe in these strange psychic phases, will insist that Destiny lies with every man; it is the individual who has the power to shape his life and mold his future. Without casting any reflections on the Fate theory, I will state that this latter view is better to take. Even though our lives may be mapped out long before this incarnation, we will undoubtedly live better lives and accomplish much more if we take the stand that there is no Fate, that every man forms his own Destiny and that Environments can be overcome.

The power to act and to think, to live as we should live - or to strive to live as we should - the desire to ever work upward and onward and the overcoming of little obstacles all serve to make life happier and brighter. All about us we see the works of these things psychic. The halt and lame are healed, the sick made well, the sorrowing are made joyous and the weak strong. For those in the blackness of despair there is Hope, for those who hunger for something higher there is light and for the weary there is rest.

Back of the phenomena of it all are arrayed many lessons of value and out of the chaotic darkness that surrounds the wonder of mind, it may be that we will rescue some great truth that will aid the human race, of all colors, of all branches, to get upon a higher plane. In this system may be found some means of lifting the burden of life in our ceaseless grind into eternity. In the yesterdays that have passed since time was inaugurated, in the todays that will ever be and in the tomorrows that are ever to come, there may be some great purpose that is "occult" so far as we at present are concerned. We grope for the light and it is to be hoped that we will find it. In the meantime there is one thing we can do and that is to study mind, psychology, and all that pertains to man and apply the best principles we deduce for his advancement, for he must pass through the slow process of evolution no matter how we may hurry it. and in the end, when even psycholosy has ceased to be. we or they or whosoever are. will realize, perhaps, that the study of the mind has served its purpose well.

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This is your lecture. I have given you something: that would take about forty minutes to deliver. In it I have not aimed to give you all the elements as they would relate to several separate lectures, but I have given them as a whole. Hypnotism you will find by itself. Study the points I touch therein. The same with mind-reading or with psychology in general. My lesson has been this: Do not give too much theory: tell your hearers in a plain manner what the different terms imply and illustrate by "examples." Tell them the brighter side to all these studies and point out the good things of psychology. Never talk to them on the subject in a manner that would imply that you were nervous and thought your audience knew more than you - the speaker. Make your lecture a "talk" and use simple language. Large words are too burdensome even to those who understand. The mind likes elementary stuff and seldom cares for complications. Make your talk so simple that they all know what you are saying and what lesson you wish to impart.

If you, as students, find any little thing in this model I have framed for you, take the lecture home with you and "Meditate." You may have been looking for something quite ordinary. I may have given it to you. Again, I may have disappointed you inasmuch as I have told my imaginary audience that there is something on its way that will discount our present psychology. But it is coming. It is not scheduled here for a few generations to come, so you are safe for your occupation.

Whether you are stage hypnotists, mind-readers, lecturers or anything else along psychic lines, endeavor to make your points clear to your audience and show them what there may be in all this something truly helpful to humanity in general. In looking after the financial side of this subject, take a care lest you misuse your power and thereby give psychology an unsavory flavor!