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Colours and emotions

8. Procure some water-colours and paint solid strips of colour on a piece of white paper. Make these about half an inch broad and three inches long. On one piece paint a bright red strip, on another a vivid blue, on another emerald green, on another black, etc. Blindfold your eyes, shuffle the papers, and then place your hand on the topmost one, and see whether you can tell from your impressions what colour you are touching. Red will give you a sensation of warmth, light blue of cold, etc.
9. Try to cultivate what is known as Sensitiveness to “psychic contagion.” You must remember that thoughts and emotions are just as contagious as diseases ; and that you can “catch” them in just the same way! “When in the company of other persons, therefore, endeavour to catch or feel their emotions and feelings. You will probably get, at first, the thoughts, etc., they are expressing ; then those which they are just about to express bo that you “take the words out of their mouths.” Then you will begin to sense the feelings and emotions of the speaker before they are put into words; finally you will be enabled to appreciate his whole feeling and thinking Self, by a species of intuition or impression. Endeavour to draw this out of your subject, and do not let it come to you without any effort on your part. Be active, that is, instead of merely passive. In this way lies safety and success.

10. Finally, you must teach yourself to express what you feel. Often this is most difficult. You may feel a thing, and feel inclined to say it, but something seems to hold you back until it is too late. Overcome this restrictive feeling. It is important you should do so, for this is one of the most important things to learn in the cultivation of mediumship. When you have learned to express your impressions, you have progressed far along the road.
These practices in the cultivation of sensitiveness are the most valuable you can have as a preparation for the cultivation of true mediumship. At the same time, they are safe exercises to follow. Practise them, therefore, before you attempt any definitely mediumistic exercises; and you will be rewarded by a safe and sane increase of your inner, spiritual faculties.

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Self development

It may be, however, that you do not care to develop your sensitiveness in this direction. You wish only to develop it for your own progress, and not for the purpose of becoming a healer at all. In that case you must follow a slightly different method of development though all the exercises we have described will be found helpful and advantageous.
If you desire to cultivate your own sensitiveness, the following exercises will be found very useful in this connection ;
1. Try to analyse your own emotions when in the presence of (a) a large company of people, and (b) a small gathering. You will probably find that your impressions are very different, and that a large crowd will give you the impression of being more scattered in mind than a small one. In other words, you will begin to sense or feel the “mind of the crowd.” It is well known that such a thing exists, for crowds will often do things and perform actions which no individual in it would perform alone. If you can sense this mind of the crowd, your sensitiveness is progressing favourably and rapidly.

2, Stand before a mirror. See whether or not you are enabled to perceive any influence coming from your reflected image in the mirror. Many sensitive persons can do this, and the more sensitive you are, the more will you feel this. You will sense a magnetic fluid, coming from the reflected form in the mirror.
3. If you are in the habit of sleeping with any one regularly, endeavour to analyse the impressions you receive from the aura emanating from the body of the person with whom you may be sleeping. See whether this is positive or negative. Positive aura is slightly warm, negative aura is somewhat cold.
4. Hold your right hand above a mirror ; then the left hand. Try to feel whether one hand feels cooler than the other; or whether both are of equal temperature. The hand which is warmest is on the more positive side of the body,
5. Close your eyes, and have some one make magnetic passes over your head and shoulders. Try to tell whether those passes are being made in an upward or downward direction. Downward passes are positive or sleeping passes; upward passes are negative or waking passes.
6. Procure several metals, such as copper, iron, tin, zinc, etc. Place your hands over each in turn, and ascertain the different impressions you get from each one. Then wrap them in separate pieces of paper (making all alike in appearance) and see whether you can always tell the correct metal from feeling the paper. Then place your open hand over the paper, without touching it. Next remove your hand gradually further and further away, until you are some distance from the metal. After a time, you should be enabled to do all this from a considerable distance. It is only an extension of this power which enables “dowsers” or metal and water-finders to locate the whereabouts of metal and water under the ground, by walking over the spot, above ground, with hands outstretched, or with a divining or dowsing rod held in their hands.
7. Always have flowers in your sleeping room. They are a good influence. Analyse the difference between your impressions when the flowers are removed; and when they are in the room.

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Inner sensitiveness

The first thing to do, in cultivating your inner sensitiveness, is to stimulate your physical senses to the point of their highest activity. Endeavour to perceive and feel vibrations unfelt by others, for much depends upon vibration. Train your senses. Then train yourself in seeing auras and in psychometry, as before explained, in this way getting further along the road. Try to see and to feel the emanation coming from people you meet; look at them steadily, and see whether yon cannot discover a sort of hot air or vaporous emanation issuing from their bodies, and radiating out into space. As soon as you have succeeded in this, begin to analyse your feelings and emotions, and interpret them.

Do this, (1) when you touch the person in question; (2) when you receive a letter from him, which you should hold in your hand or between both hands; (3) when you hear him speak and (4) when you merely see him.

When trying these experiments, assume a “listening” attitude and breathe slowly and deeply. (This breathing must not be too conscious, so as to fake your attention, however.) Relax yourself as much as possible during this period. Try in the dark or semi-dark, at first, in the light later on.

When you are walking along the street, cultivate the practice of sensing persons, and seeing their aura. You will soon be able to feel a sort of air or atmosphere about each individual just as there is a definite air or atmosphere about a house or a town. Thus, a manufacturing town has quite a different “atmosphere” from one which is not. You will soon be able to get this, in a general manner.
After you have progressed thus far, you should endeavour to feel any cuts, bruises, pains, etc., which may be upon a person’s body. You should do this, at first, by passing your open hands gently over the surface of the body, and, as soon as you come to the spot which is sensitive and sore, you will feel a slight pain in your own hody in the corresponding place. Before you are able to do this with much success, however, you should develop certain phases of psychometry, as for instance the following.
Make a number of small paper packages, all exactly alike in appearance. In these place salt, pepper, mustard, cloves, nutmeg, sugar, cayenne, etc. Mix these all up so that you cannot tell which is which. Now practise feeling or handling these until you can tell the contents of any given package by merely feeling the paper in which it is wrapped. As soon as you have done this, you are ready for more advanced practices.
Having progressed thus far, you are in a position to try your first experiments in psychical diagnosis. Pass your hands over the body of your patient, (who should be divested of as many clothes as possible), and if your sensitiveness has begun to develop, you will feel a pain or some sensation in your hand or arm, or in some corresponding part of your own body, as you reach the diseased spot in your patient’s body. Cultivate this until you can succeed with more or less certainty and precision. The more you practise this, the more perfect you will become, and the more rapid your advancement will be.

When you have reached this stage, you must go one step further. Having located the seat of the trouble, and its general nature, you must seek to know how to cure it. Hold the mind in a receptive attitude, when doing this, and you will soon begin to receive the distinct impression that you must do something for the patient but you will not know as yet what it is. After a little time, you will get the distinct impression what to do to make certain passes or manipulations, to prescribe a certain drug, to apply certain water applications, etc. As soon as you have reached this stage, you are on the high-road to becoming a successful “spiritual healer” and your power will develop with every sitting. It would be well for you, at this stage, to sit by yourself especially for development in this direction; and added power will doubtless be given you with wich to work your cures.

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Cultivation of sensitiveness

“Sensitiveness” means the ability to sense or perceive in some subtle manner, auras, impressions and influences, either issuing from another living person, or from some thing, or emanating from “spirits.” In so far as a sensitive or medium can sense or feel these influences, he is a psychic; and the cultivation of this power is, in a sense, the essence of all true progress in mediumship. This is, therefore, one of the most important Lea- sons which can be learned, for as you progress in psychic sensitiveness, you also progress in mediumship, other things being equal.
chapter, since the subject is too vast and too delicate.

One of the greatest difficuIties, doubtless, in the cultivation of sensitiveness, is how to distinguish true from false hallucination from reality. At first, this will doubtless be next to impossible, and many false steps will have to be taken before you find, from actual bitter experience, what is true and what is not. But as the inner sense becomes developed, you will find that it not only gives you the knowledge in question, but that it also enables you to distinguish one from the other true from false, and illuminates the whole subject so that mistake is almost impossible. This certainty, which you will then have, cannot be communicated to another; it is often impossible to prove to one who does not experience this inner vision of reality that what you receive is true, none the less!

This is the function of the Mystic Sense to do, aided by the full complement of inner faculties. In a measure the Mystic Sense, like the bodily senses, acts automatically, but like them it needs special training in order to separate phantasm from reality, to determine values, and to grade and classify ideals until they reveal themselves to be ordered unity, not less but more mysterious because more intelligible … to the whole man.” It is because of all this that long training in psychic development is necessary and sudden jumps or leaps into full possession of this knowledge is impossible.

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