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Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, and Dr. Elmer R. Gates, observed that every human
brain is both a broadcasting and receiving station for the vibration of thought.

Through the medium of the ether, in a fashion similar to that employed by the ra-
dio broadcasting principle, every human brain is capable of picking up vibrations
of thought which are being released by other brains.

In connection with the statement in the preceding paragraph, compare, and con-
sider the description of the Creative Imagination, as outlined in the chapter on
Imagination. The Creative Imagination is the "receiving set" of the brain, which
receives thoughts, released by the brains of others. It is the agency of communi-
cation between one's conscious, or reasoning mind, and the four sources from
which one may receive thought stimuli.

When stimulated, or "stepped up" to a high rate of vibration, the mind becomes
more receptive to the vibration of thought which reaches it through the ether
from outside sources. This "stepping up" process takes place through the posi-
tive emotions, or the negative emotions. Through the emotions, the vibrations of
thought may be increased.

Vibrations of an exceedingly high rate are the only vibrations picked up and car-
ried, by the ether, from one brain to another. Thought is energy travelling at an
exceedingly high rate of vibration. Thought, which has been modified or "stepped
up" by any of the major emotions, vibrates at a much higher rate than ordinary
thought, and it is this type of thought which passes from one brain to another,
through the broadcasting machinery of the human brain.

The emotion of sex stands at the head of the list of human emotions, as far as
intensity and driving force are concerned. The brain which has been stimulated
by the emotion of sex, vibrates at a much more rapid rate than it does when that
emotion is quiescent or absent.

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The result of sex transmutation, is the increase of the rate of vibration of thoughts
to such a pitch that the Creative Imagination becomes highly receptive to ideas,
which it picks up from the ether.

On the other hand, when the brain is vibrating at a rapid rate, it not only attracts
thoughts and ideas released by other brains through the medium of the ether,
but it gives to one's own thoughts that "feeling" which is essential before those
thoughts will be picked up and acted upon by one's subconscious mind.

Thus, you will see that the broadcasting principle is the factor through which you