The Milkman Bog

CHAPTER 13
THE BRAIN
A BROADCASTING AND RECEIVING STATION FOR THOUGHT
The Twelfth Step toward Riches
MORE than twenty years ago, the author, wo rking in conjunction with the late
Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, and Dr. Elmer R. Gates, observed that every
human brain is both a broadcasting and receiving station for the vibration of
thought. Through the medium of the ether, in a fashion similar to that
employed by the radio broadcasting principle, every human brain is capable of
picking up vibrations of thought which are being released by other brains.
In connection with the statement in the preceding paragraph, compare, and
consider the description of the Creative Imagination, as outlined in the chapter
on Imagination. The Creative Imagination is the “receiving set” of the brain,
which receives thoughts, released by the brains of others. It is the agency of
communication between one’s conscious, or reasoning mind, and the four
sources from which one may receive thought stimuli.
When stimulated, or “stepped up” to a high rate of vibration, the mind
becomes more receptive to the vibration of thought which reaches it through
the ether from outside sources. This “stepping up” process takes place through
the positive emotions, or the negative emotions. Through the emotions, the
vibrations of thought may be increased.
Vibrations of an exceedingly high rate are the only vibrations picked up and
carried, by the ether, from one brain to another. Thought is energy travelling
at an exceedingly high rate of vibration. Thought, which has been modified or
“stepped up” by any of the major emotions, vibrates at a much higher rate
than ordinary thought, and it is this type of thought which passes from one
brain to another, through the broadcasting machinery of the human brain.
The emotion of sex stands at the head of the list of human
emotions, as far as intensity and driving force are concerned. The brain which
has been stimulated by the emotion of sex, vibrates at a much more rapid rate
than it does when that emotion is quiescent or absent.
The result of sex transmutation, is the increase of the rate of vibration of
thoughts to such a pitch that the Creative Imagination becomes highly
receptive to ideas, which it picks up from the ether. On the other hand, when
the brain is vibrating at a rapid rate, it not only attracts thoughts and ideas
released by other brains through the medium of the ether, but it gives to one’s
own thoughts that “feeling” which is essential before those thoughts will be
picked up and acted upon by one’s subconscious mind. Thus, you will see
that the broadcasting principle is the factor through which you mix feeling, or
emotion with your thoughts and pass them on to your subconscious mind.
The subconscious mind is the “sending station” of the brain, through which
vibrations of thought are broadcast. The Creative Imagination is the
“receiving set,” through which the vibrations of thought are picked up from
the ether.
Along with the important factors of the subconscious mind, and the faculty of
the Creative Imagination, which constitute the sending and receiving sets of
your mental broadcasting machinery, consider now the principle of autosuggestion,
which is the medium by which you may put into operation your
“broadcasting” station. Through the instructions described in the chapter on
autosuggestion, you were definitely informed of the method by which
DESIRE may be transmuted into its monetary equivalent. Operation of your
mental “broadcasting” station is a comparatively simple procedure. You have
but three principles to bear in mind, and to apply, when you wish to use your
broadcasting station—the SUBCONSCIOUS MIND, CREATIVE
IMAGINATION, and AUTO-SUGGESTION. The stimuli through which you
put these three principles into action have been described—the procedure
begins with DESIRE. THE GREATEST FORCES ARE “INTANGIBLE”
The depression brought the world to the very border- line of understanding of
the forces which are intangible and unseen.
Through the ages which have passed, man has depended too much
upon his physical senses, and has limited his knowledge to physical things,
which he could see, touch, weigh, and measure. We are now entering the
most marvelous of all ages—an age which will teach us something of the
intangible forces of the world about us. Perhaps we shall learn, as we pass
through this age, that the “other self” is more powerful than the physical self
we see when we look into a mirror.
Sometimes men speak lightly of the intangibles— the things
which they cannot perceive through any of their five senses, and
when we hear them, it should remind us that all of us are controlled
by forces which are unseen and intangible.
The whole of mankind has not the power to cope with, nor to control the
intangible force wrapped up in the rolling waves of the oceans. Man has not
the capacity to understand the intangible force of gravity, which keeps this
little earth suspended in mid-air, and keeps man from fa lling from it, much
less the power to control that force. Man is entirely subservient to the
intangible force which comes with a thunder storm, and he is just as helpless
in the presence of the intangible force of electricity— nay, he does not even
know what electricity is, where it comes from, or what is its purpose!
Nor is this by any means the end of man’s ignorance in
connection with things unseen and intangible. He does not
understand the intangible force (and intelligence) wrapped up in the
soil of the earth—the force which provides him with every morsel of
food he eats, every article of clothing he wears, every dollar he carries in his
pockets.
THE DRAMATIC STORY OF THE BRAIN
Last, but not least, man, with all of his boasted culture and
education, understands little or nothing of the intangible force (the
greatest of all the intangibles) of thought. He knows but little
concerning the physical brain, and its vast network of intricate
machinery through which the power of thought is translated into its
material equivalent, but he is now entering an age which shall yield
enlightenment on the subject. Already men of science have begun to
turn their attention to the study of this stupendous thing called a
brain, and, while they are still in the kindergarten stage of their
studies, they have uncovered enough knowledge to know that the
central switchboard of the human brain, the number of lines which connect the
brain cells one with another, equal the figure one, followed by fifteen million
ciphers.
“The figure is so stupendous,” said Dr. C. Judson Herrick, of the University of
Chicago, “that astronomical figures dealing with hundreds of millions of light
years, become insignificant by comparison.
It has been determined that there are from 10,000,000,000 to 14,000,000,000
nerve cells in the human cerebral cortex, and we know that these are arranged
in definite patterns. These arrangements are not haphazard. They are orderly.
Recently developed methods of electro-physiology draw off action currents
from very precisely located cells, or fibers with micro-electrodes, amplify
them with radio tubes, and record potential differences to a millionth of a
volt.”
It is inconceivable that such a network of intricate machinery should be in
existence for the sole purpose of carrying on the physical functions incidental
to growth and maintenance of the physical body. Is it not likely that the same
system, which gives billions of brain cells the media for communication one
with another, provides, also the means of communication with other intangible
forces?
After this book had been written, just before the manuscript went to the
publisher, there appeared in the New York Times, an editorial showing that at
least one great University, and one intelligent investigator in the field of
mental phenomena, are carrying on an organized research through which
conclusions have been reached that parallel many of those described in this
and the following chapter. The editorial briefly analyzed the work carried on
by Dr. Rhine, and his associates at Duke University, viz:— “What is
‘Telepathy’?
“A month ago we cited on this page some of the remarkable results achieved
by Professor Rhine and his associates in Duke University from more than a
hundred thousand tests to determine the existence of ‘telepathy’ and
‘clairvoyance.’ These results were summarized in the first two articles in
Harpers Magazine. In the second which has now appeared, the author, E. H.
Wright, attempts to summarize what has been learned, or what it seems
reasonable to infer, regarding the exact nature of these ‘extrasensory’ modes
of perception.
“The actual existence of telepathy and clairvoyance now seems to some
scientists enormously probable as the result of Rhine’s experiments. Various
percipients were asked to name as many cards in a special pack as they could
without looking at them and without other sensory access to them. About a
score of men and women were discovered who could regularly name so many
of the cards correctly that ‘there was not one chance in many a million million
of their having done their feats by luck or accident.’ “But how did they do
them? These powers, assuming that they exist, do not seem to be sensory.
There is no known organ for them. The experiments worked just as well at
distances of several hundred miles as they did in the same room. These facts
also dispose, in Mr. Wright’s opinion, of the attempt to explain telepathy or
clairvoyance through any physical theory of radiation. All known forms of
radiant energy decline inversely as the square of the distance traversed.
Telepathy and clairvoyance do not. But they do vary through physical causes
as our other mental powers do. Contrary to widespread opinion, they do not
improve when the percipient is asleep or half-asleep, but, on the contrary,
when he is most wide-awake and alert. Rhine discovered that a narcotic will
invariably lower a percipient’s score, while a stimulant will always send it
higher. The most reliable performer apparently cannot make a good score
unless he tries to do his best.
“One conclusion that Wright draws with some confidence is that telepathy and
clairvoyance are really one and the same gift. That is, the faculty that ‘sees’ a
card face down on a table seems to be exactly the same one that ‘reads’ a
thought residing only in another mind. There are several grounds for believing
this. So far, for example, the two gifts have been found in every person who
enjoys either of them. In every one so far the two have been of equal vigor,
almost exactly. Screens, walls, distances, have no effect at all on either.
Wright advances from this conclusion to express what he puts forward as no
more than the mere ‘hunch’ that other extrasensory experiences, prophetic
dreams, premonitions of disaster, and the like, may also prove to be part of the
same faculty. The reader is not asked to accept any of these conclusions unless
he finds it necessary, but the evidence that Rhine has piled up must remain
impressive.”
In view of Dr. Rhine’s announcement in connection with the
conditions under which the mind responds to what he terms
“extra—sensory modes of perception, I now feel privileged to add to his
testimony by stating that my associates and I have discovered what we believe
to be the ideal conditions under which the mind can be stimulated so that the
sixth sense described in the next chapter, can be made to function in a
practical way. The conditions to which I refer consist of a close working
alliance between myself and two members of my staff. Through
experimentation and practice, we have discovered how to stimulate our minds
(by applying the principle used in connection with the “Invisible Counselors”
described in the next chapter) so that we can, by a process of blending our
three minds into one, find the solution to a great variety of personal problems
which are submitted by my clients.
The procedure is very simple. We sit down at a conference table, clearly state
the nature of the problem we have under consideration, then begin discussing
it. Each contributes whatever thoughts that may occur. The strange thing
about this method of mind stimulation is that it places each participant in
communication with unknown sources of knowledge definitely outside his
own experience.
If you understand the principle described in the chapter on the Master Mind,
you of course recognize the round-table procedure here described as being a
practical application of the Master Mind. This method of mind stimulation,
through harmonious discussion of definite subjects, between three people,
illustrates the simplest and most practical use of the Master Mind.
By adopting and following a similar plan any student of this
philosophy may come into possession of the famous Carnegie formula
briefly described in the introduction. If it means nothing to you at this time,
mark this page and read it again after you have finished the last chapter.
THE “depression” was a blessing in disguise.
It reduced the whole world to a new starting
point that gives every one a new opportunity.