by Napoleon Hill
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3. Hypnotism by amateurs and vaudeville entertainers, as well as the trickery and frauds practiced by fakirs, mediums, and charlatans abused the minds of the public.
4. Basic religious principles were twisted in a direction that led to evil.
Anything associated with psychic phenomena became repellent. It was taboo.
In spite of the dangers, taboos, and social or professional ostracism, there were courageous, honorable men with good common sense who had the courage to explore for the truth.
But it remained for the long, courageous fight of Dr. Joseph Banks Rhine, formerly of Duke University, inspired and assisted by his wife Dr. Louisa E. Rhine, to clothe the study of psychic phenomena with respectability. This is due to the impeccable character of Dr. Rhine and to his 30 years of controlled laboratory experiments based on mathematical laws. His task was a difficult one because spontaneous psychic phenomena are not apt to occur in a laboratory. Such phenomena occur when least expected, and most often when a person is under the greatest emotional strain, or possessed of an intensified obsessional desire ? often simultaneously with the death of a loved one.
Westinghouse invests in ESP communication. It is apparent that any writer on the subject of psychic phenomena today
endeavors to have the protection of a part of the cloak of Dr. Rhine's respectability by referring to Dr. Rhine and Duke University to make his own theories digestible. We are no exception. We urgently suggest that if you are interested further, you read The Reach of the Mind and the other books of which Dr. Rhine is the author or co-author. Our recommendation: Let Dr. Joseph Banks Rhine be your guide.
And how successful has Dr Rhine's work been in breaking down the resistance to investigation and belief in these strange mindpowers? A fair test, it would seem to us, lies in the fact that hard-headed businessmen are convinced and are making experiments of their own: In an interview, Dr. Peter A. Castruccio, Director of the Westinghouse Astronautics Institute, confirmed that Westinghouse scientists are engaged in research to find a means of using telepathy and clairvoyance for long distance communication. Dr. Castruccio too had many lengthy visits with Dr. Rhine before a decision was reached to engage in this great experiment.
And will the search for ways and means to harness telepathy and clairvoyance and make them commercially feasible be successful? Let us answer this as follows: Not too long ago people were scoffing at ideas that were unbelievable to them then but are taken for granted today: (a) matter being turned into energy and energy into matter; (b) the breaking of the atom; (c) man-made satellites; (d) jet power; or (e) everyday necessities like television, for example.
And what about the electronic computer that was designed from the human computer: the human brain and the nervous system. Every one was conceived, believed and achieved by men with PMA! Machines that operate with the speed of light ? 186,300 miles per second! Machines that can calculate 40,000 arithmetical operations per second and detect and correct their own errors!
Machines that became a reality because man built into them electrical circuits which in many respects function like the known electrical activity of the nervous system of your own physical body. Our answer:
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, the mind of man can achieve with PMA!
But no machine or manmade invention is as marvelous as the wonderful human computer you own: your brain and your nervous system, with their power of electrical activity.
Man is more than a body with a brain.
You are a mind with a body ? a mind, possessing, and also affected by, powers known and unknown! A mind composed of two parts: the conscious and the subconscious.
Here we have stressed most the concept of the subconscious mind ? its powers and the forces known and unknown that affect it. But what about the conscious mind? That is equally important. And you will read about it in the next chapter entitled... And
Something More!
Now, if your reaction to what you have read has not given you an insight on how you can turn the right knob or push the right button to get what you want from the machine you own, dare to explore the powers of your mind. Be guided by Pilot No 4... And Something More!
PILOT NO. 4 Thoughts to Steer By
1. You are a mind with a body. Your body is an electrical machine. Your brain is a mechanism that is an electrical marvel.
2. Your mind has two parts: the conscious and the subconscious. They work together.
