80 THE PRINCIPLES OF SELF-MASTERY
The modern radio apparatus substantiates, to a considerable extent,
this same theory. Powerful sending or broadcasting stations must be
erected through which the vibration of sound is stepped up before it
can be picked up by the much higher vibrating energy of the ether and
carried in all directions. A Master Mind made up of many individual
minds, so blended that they produce a strong vibrating energy, con-
stitutes almost an exact counterpart of the radio broadcasting station.
Every public speaker has felt the influence of mind chemistry, for it
is a well-known fact that as soon as the individual minds of an audience
become en rapport with the speaker (attuned to the rate of vibration
of the mind of the speaker), there is a noticeable increase of Enthusiasm
in the speaker's mind, and he or she often rises to heights of oratory
which surprise all, including themsel£
The first five to ten minutes of the average speech are devoted to
what is known as warming up. This is the process through which the
minds of the speaker and the audience are becoming blended in a spirit
of peifect barmony.
Every speaker knows what happens when this state of perfect har-
mony fails to materialize on part of their audience.
The seemingly supernatural phenomena occurring in spiritualistic
meetings are the result of the reaction, upon one another, of the minds
in the group. These phenomena seldom begin to manifest themselves in
less than ten to twenty minutes after the group is formed, for the reason
that this is about the time required for the minds in the group to become
harmonized or blended.
Vibrations
The "messages" received by members of a spiritualistic group probably
come from one of two sources, or from both:
- From the vast storehouse of the subconscious mind of some
member of the group; or