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The Science of Psychic Healing2064
force behind the treatment. Suggestion depends almost altogether upon
verbal suggestions, etc., while Mental Healing depends upon telepathy
or thought-transmission. The best healers combine both methods when
the patient is in their presence. But mental healing does not require the
presence of the patient, the treatments often being given to patients many
miles away by what is known as “Absent Treatment,” but which is really a
form of telepathy.
Telepathy, once laughed at as a superstitious fancy, is now beginning to
be recognized by the scientific world, and will soon be adopted as a law. It
has been known to occultists in all ages and times, among all people and it
is not a “new” thing by any means, although many claim to have “discovered”
it in our own times.
We give a few examples of its general acceptance among men of
intelligence and prominence in our own times.
Edw. T. Bennett, late secretary of the Society of Psychical Research, says:
“The conclusion seems to be irresistible that the five senses do not exhaust
the means by which knowledge may enter the mind. In other words, the
investigator seems to be driven to the conclusion that thought-transference
or telepathy must now be included among scientifically proven facts.”
Prof. John D. Quackenbos, the eminent New York scientist, says: “The time
has indeed come, as Maeterlinck predicted it would, when souls may know
of each other without the intermediary of the senses.”
Clark Bell says: “Telepathy, as it is regarded by scientists who accept it as
a fact, is some unknown sense of power of the human body, by which as
a physical process communication is held between brain and brain or the
human organism—some means by which the perceptions are reached in
some manner analogous to the known and well defined transmission of the
electric current, or the action of gravitation which we know exists. But we are
as yet unable to comprehend how it acts, or to know its methods.”
Prof. Wm. Crookes, the well known English scientist, says: “If we accept
the theory that the brain is composed of separate elements—nerve cells—