Theos-Talk Archives (April 2005 Message tt01204)

Also no brow fronzing?
oh poor me ;both brows frozen off yet, forgot the salt with me.
Christina Deutekom High-singing now for the good spirits of the 
light.!!!

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, Niki Durand <nikidurand@y...> 
wrote:
> Yeah, delusions are sad, aren't they...good thing none
> of us here suffer from that, huh? What a lovely group
> of experienced experts, all versed through vast
> experience in what it means to be in vibrant contact
> with spirits and other beings. Whew! Glad I'm amongst
> peers who have as much experience as I do and never
> resort to quoting scripture without ever had any
> paranormal experiences themselves and who know to
> trust another's accounts of their own experiences...no
> browbeating here, oh no...lucky me...
> 
> Niki
> 
> 
> --- "W.Dallas TenBroeck" <dalval14@e...>
> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Apl 19 2005
> > 
> > Dear T and Friends:
> > 
> > This may supply a part of the answer:
> > 
> > 
> > DELUSIONS OF CLAIRVOYANCE
> > 
> > SOME years ago it was proposed that psychometry
> > should be used in detecting
> > crime and for the exposing of motive in all
> > transactions between man and
> > man.
> > 
> > This, the alleged discoverer said, would alter the
> > state of society by
> > compelling people to be honest and by reducing
> > crime. 
> > 
> > Now for those who do not know, it may be well to say
> > that when you
> > psychometrize you take any object that has been in
> > the immediate vicinity of
> > any person or place of any action, or the writing of
> > another, and by holding
> > it to your forehead or in the hand a picture of the
> > event, the writer, the
> > surroundings, and the history of the object, comes
> > before your mental eye
> > with more or less accuracy. 
> > 
> > Time and distance are said to make no difference,
> > for the wrapping from a
> > mummy has been psychometrized by one who knew
> > nothing about it, and the
> > mummy with its supposed history accurately
> > described. Letters also have been
> > similarly treated without reading them, and not only
> > their contents given
> > but also the unexpressed thoughts and the
> > surroundings of the writers. 
> > 
> > Clairvoyants have also on innumerable occasions
> > given correct descriptions
> > of events and persons they could never have seen or
> > known. But other
> > innumerable times they have failed.
> > 
> > Without doubt if the city government, or any body of
> > people owning property
> > that can be stolen, had in their employment a man or
> > woman who could declare
> > beyond possibility of ever failing where any stolen
> > article was, and who
> > stole it, and could in advance indicate a purpose on
> > the part of another to
> > steal, to trick, to lie, or otherwise do evil, one
> > of two things would
> > happen. 
> > 
> > Either criminals or intending offenders would abide
> > elsewhere, or some means
> > of getting rid of the clear-seer would be put into
> > effect. 
> > 
> > Looking at the alluring possibilities of
> > clairvoyance so far as it is
> > understood, many persons have sighed for its power
> > for several different
> > reasons. Some would use it for the purposes
> > described, but many another has
> > thought of it merely as a new means for furthering
> > personal ends.
> > 
> > Its delusions are so manifold that, although
> > mystical and psychical subjects
> > have obtained in the public mind a new standing,
> > clairvoyance will not be
> > other than a curiosity for some time, and when its
> > phenomena and laws are
> > well understood no reliance greater than now will be
> > placed upon it. And
> > even when individual clairvoyants of wonderful power
> > are known, they will
> > not be accessible for such uses, because, having
> > reached their power by
> > special training, the laws of their school will
> > prohibit the exercise of the
> > faculty at the bidding of selfish interest, whether
> > on the one side or the
> > other.
> > 
> > If it were not always a matter of doubt and
> > difficulty, natural clear-seers
> > would have long ago demonstrated the unerring range
> > of their vision by
> > discovering criminals still uncaught, by pointing
> > out where stolen property
> > could be recovered, by putting a finger on a moral
> > plague-spot which is
> > known to exist but cannot be located. Yet this they
> > have not done, and
> > careful Theosophists are confirmed in the old
> > teaching that the field of
> > clairvoyance is full of delusions. Coming evil could
> > in the same way be
> > averted, since present error is the prelude and
> > cause of future painful
> > results.
> > 
> > The prime cause for delusion is that the thought of
> > anything makes around
> > the thinker an image of the thing thought about. And
> > all images in this
> > thought-field are alike, since we remember an object
> > by our thought-image of
> > it, and not by carrying the object in our heads.
> > Hence the picture in our
> > aura of what we have seen in the hands of another is
> > of the same sort for
> > untrained seers -- as our ideas on the subject of
> > events in which we have
> > not participated. So a clairvoyant may, and in fact
> > does, mistake these
> > thought-pictures one for the other, thus reducing
> > the chances of certainty. 
> > 
> > If an anxious mother imagines her child in danger
> > and with vivid thought
> > pictures the details of a railway accident, the
> > picture the seer may see
> > will be of something that never happened and is only
> > the product of emotion
> > or imagination.
> > 
> > Mistakes in identity come next. These are more
> > easily made a the astral
> > plane, which is the means for clairvoyance, than yen
> > upon the visible one,
> > and will arise from numerous causes. So numerous and
> > complex is this that to
> > fully explain would not only be hopeless but
> > tedious. 
> > 
> > For instance, the person, say at a distance, to whom
> > the clairvoyant eye is
> > directed may look entirely different from reality,
> > whether as clothing or
> > physiognomy. He may, in the depths of winter, appear
> > clad in spring
> > clothing, and your clairvoyant report that, adding
> > probably that it
> > symbolizes something next spring. But, in fact, the
> > spring clothing was due
> > to his thoughts about well-worn comfortable suit of
> > this sort throwing a
> > glamour of the clothing before the vision of the
> > seer. Some cases exactly
> > like this I have known and verified. 
> > 
> > Or the lover, dwelling on the form and features of
> > his beloved, or the
> > criminal upon the one he has wronged, will work a
> > protean change and destroy
> > identification.
> > 
> > Another source of error will be found in the
> > unwitting transfer to the
> > clairvoyant of your own thoughts, much altered
> > either for better or worse.
> > Or even the thoughts of some one else whom you have
> > just met or heard from.
> > For if you consult the seer on some line of thought,
> > having just read the
> > ideas on the same subject of another who thinks very
> > strongly and very
> > clearly, and whose character is overmastering, the
> > clairvoyant will ten to
> > one feel the influence of the other and give you his
> > ideas.
> > 
> > Reversion of image is the last I will refer to. It
> > has been taught always in
> > the unpopular school of Theosophy that the astral
> > light reverses the images,
> > just as science knows the image at the retina is not
> > upright. 
> > 
> > Not only have the Cabalists said us, but also the
> > Eastern schools, and those
> > who now have studied these doctrines along
> > Theosophical lines have
> > discovered it to be a fact. So the untrained
> > clairvoyant may see a number or
> > amount backwards, or an object upside down in whole
> > or in part. The reliance
> > we can place on the observations of untrained people
> > in ordinary life the
> > scientific schools and courts of law have long ago
> > discovered; 
> === message truncated ===
> 
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