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deserved "the most earnest consideration." The following paragraphs contain her instructions for "the art of conscious mind reading," condensed from a lengthy chapter in Mental Radio: |
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The first thing you have to do is learn the trick of undivided attention, or concentration . . . putting the attention on one object. . . . It isn't thinking; it is inhibiting thought. . . . |
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You have to inhibit the impulse to think things about the object, to examine it, or appraise it, or to allow memory-trains to attach themselves to it. . . . Simultaneously, [you] must learn to relax, for strangely enough, a part of concentration is complete relaxation . . . under specified control. . . . |
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Also, there is something else to it the power of supervising the condition. You succeed presently in establishing a blank state of consciousness, yet you have the power to become instantly conscious. . . . Also, you control, to a certain degree, what is to be presented to consciousness when you are ready to become conscious.
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Engineer René Warcollier also presents both theory and experiments of psi communication in his 1939 book, Mind to Mind.10 He describes in detail why free-response experiments are almost always greatly superior to forced-choice trials, because they free the viewer from the mental noise of memory and imagination. Unfortunately, it took another twenty years for ESP researchers to take the ideas of these brilliant amateurs into account when designing their experiments. |
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The next three experiments described here all gave the subject something much more interesting than cards to look at psychically. The researchers also carried out their experiments in environments that were much more psi-conducive than classrooms or laboratories. |
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Psychic dreams have been with us since the days of Cassandra in ancient Greece, and Joseph and the Pharaoh in the Old Testament. From the data collected by Louisa Rhine, it appears that more than half of all |
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