Telepathy

TELEPATHY
The action of one being upon another at a distance, is a scientific fact.
Telepathic action is to-day a verified fact, but it is also true that it remains indefinable. This action from a distance requires an intermediary, but no one is able to say whether this intermediary is of a physical order. The inner life of the soul rises from a region unknown to science, a region which by hypothesis or for convenience of speech we may call the psychic element. Yet despite this, and whatever it may be, it is quite certain that the soul cannot be made manifest to this material world except by means of a physical expression.

Telepathic action would be incomprehensible and even inconceivable if there were not, in the ether, a dynamic element that holds all being in its embrace.
It is only by the intermediary of this element that the relations between body and soul may be explained, more especially the telepathic communications which experience and repeated observations have forced us to admit.

Telepathy is the universal phenomenon diffused throughout the world, the one phenomenon uniting all human beings and reaching as well to matter in which it calls forth life.

Existent in the cosmos is an element which is to the life of the soul, what oxygen is to physical life. The effects of this upon ourselves we shall observe. The first experimenters declared that, if spontaneous telepathy gave the results of which we have many witnesses, there must be some faculty in man, even if it be but a germ, which it must be possible to control.

This so-called telepathic phenomenon acts in us constantly without in the least attracting our attention.
In this way we are in telepathic communication with all our organs. We also take no note of the telepathic action which is translated to us by inspiration. Who is able to affirm whether he, himself, is the author of a brilliant idea or of an obsession?
Who is sure of being the author of his own ideas? From a thousand obscure sensations, from reservoirs of our memory, we create within ourselves combinations which we call our thought, but we have only made manifest a synthesis of sensations already received
which have come to us from sources of which we know nothing.

But we are able to affirm that exterior thought flows in upon us in a more direct fashion, and we are able to say this from the observations which have been made. This influence can be localized; sometimes it reaches the brain directly and that seems natural. Sometimes it flows directly into secondary centers and that seems incredible, supernatural.
The lower centers act, in this case, according to the normal process known to them alone, for they perceive telepathically, being like ourselves incapable of determining whence the perception comes to them. It is this which gives rise to automatisms.

It is in observing ourselves and in observing the automatisms whose source we have been able to control, that it has sometimes been possible to determine the origin of the phenomena. As these
sources are exterior, it is perfectly certain to-day that thought, emotion, and desire may influence at a distance either the brain or the sense organs.

This is the case to which one pays the least attention, because it is the conscious ego which perceives this kind of influence, and the ego deliberates whether it will accept or reject the influence.

THE SENSE ORGANS PERCEIVE TELEPATHICALLY In the relations of the brain with the organs telepathy acts visibly. Man communicates with his sensory organs, such as the visual and auditory centers.

Automatism and hallucination might be easily explained as the awakening in special centers of a sensation unknown to us. Strangers as we are to the inmost perceptions of these small lower centers of consciousness, we are fully aware that a sensation,
known only to them and awakened in them without our knowledge, reaches us telepathically, and creates in us the identical interpretation whatever may be the cause of the excitation of the organ.

In other words, if a memory is capable of arousing a sensation in these lower centers, we are not capable ourselves of distinguishing this sensation from that transmitted by the same organ when it is in the presence of the real image. We have thus an illusion that is like reality.

It is doubtless a modified image, as the picture produced upon a photographic plate differs from nature. But in the consciousness of the percipient this image is real and sufficiently similar to be sent to the spectator in the manner of a motion picture
projection.

Experience and numerous observations of this phenomena determine that telepathy reaches not only the brain, but is quite capable under certain conditions, still unknown, of reaching the psychic
element directly in its secondary centers of consciousness.

From this it follows that the ego is greatly surprised to receive thus indirectly an image which it has never seen, or to execute, automatically, actions which are beyond the reach of its knowledge.

This proves quite simply that the sense organs can be impressed by a foreign influence. The transmitted image impresses itself first upon the secondary center and from there enters the consciousness of the percipient.

Thus telepathy explains not only hallucinations, but also suggestions come from without, automatisms, etc.

Sourced from "Proofs of the Spirit World", Chevreuil Leon 1920
Edited by Jade Ashcroft