- 75 - impersonal and nothing distracted me here. This turned out to be very advantageous for my further development, because this first attempt had only been a test in order to show whether I could succeed with getting through at my old house.” Stead now delves further into the power of thoughts by reporting: “In their endeavour to gain a conclusive form of contact between the Earth and the hereafter, people have always placed their main focus on the possibility of the return, respectively the rematerialisation of the deceased personality. They find it rather difficult to accept any other, compelling evidence-delivering method of manifestation of otherworldly intelligences. This preconceived opinion often makes them misjudge or even disregard the excellent value of direct thought contacts – that are more personal and less dependent on external circumstance than other forms. This specific form of contact with the hereafter excludes a whole series of considerable sources of mistakes right from the start, like for instance the discolouration of the messages through the consciousness of an unfamiliar medium or the other participants at the meeting with all their mental contrasts and personal prejudices. The personal mediation of thoughts or thought transference is a much more effective and particularly instant and impressive form of contact than generally assumed by the majority of pious Spiritists. When you concentrate of the spirit of some departed person, you develop a living, active energy, one that penetrates through space like an electric vibration. It will never miss its target. When you direct a ray of thought at a specific being in the world of the hereafter, it will become instantly aware of this energy and it will pick up your thoughts. All those that live in the hereafter are incomparably more sensitive than the people on Earth. So, when a targeted thought is directed at us, it acts like a real telephone call and we are practically always able to make contact with the person sending the thought. If we find ourselves in the vicinity of a terrestrial person, we are capable of adapting to that person’s state of mind to a large degree and we can then influence them with our feelings and our thoughts. But the person concerned will hardly ever recognise our influence for what it is, but rather regard the entering ideas and concepts as their own production or maybe even as hallucinations. Nonetheless, the recogniser will be surprised about the plethora of information and the spiritual help one can receive along this path. This doesn’t just apply to those that believe in the reality of such influences from the hereafter. Everyone that sits quietly for a moment and allows their thoughts to wander towards a dear ‘deceased’ can attract their spirit in this way. Whether they will become aware of them or not, the fact that they are here remains. If terrestrial people were more aware of the effect their thoughts have on specific otherworldly people, they would keep their thoughts under far stricter control than before. There are lot of possibilities of controlling one’s mindset and each thought, no matter what its tendency is, will be most accurately registered here. Many of these thoughts have an effective effect on the otherworldly being they concern, but apart from all of this, the effect of every thought will eventually return to its originator. You might find it incomprehensible or even inconceivable when I assert here that all thoughts are registered. I would therefore like to define connotation of ‘all thoughts’ more precisely, because it isn’t entirely applicable. Instead of ‘all thoughts’ one would have to correct oneself by saying ‘all conscious thoughts’. This includes all active – positive or negative – thoughts, but not the trivial, habitual thoughts of one’s everyday life. The purely personal thoughts are a part of this whilst they are meaningless and if they do not expand into a hindering and thereby destructive form. Because a lot of people find it simply impossible to believe that all their conscious or ‘direct’ thoughts are registered and that they can trigger concrete effects on the addressed person or affair, in order to eventually return to the initiator himself, I would like to state emphatically once again: Believe me, this is a fact!
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