A course of practical psychic instruction.

  • Psychic Research Co.
Date:
1901,
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Credit: A course of practical psychic instruction. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    complicated proceeding. Each nerve is composed of a bundle of nerve fibers or tubes, and each nerve trunk has numerous bundles or nerve fibers, each bundle having its sheath enabling it to conduct independently of the other. The nerves conduct; they convey information; they are intelligent; they are there- fore the home or the seat of intelligence. The nerves receive and require nourishment from the blood; they ireceive and require electricity; they convey sensation and feeling, as has been said, and they also convey nourishment, the nourishment which is of the Spirit, and the nourishment which is of the mind. There are two great systems of nerves, the Cerebro- spinal and the Sympathetic; distinct and independent; yet closely connected and at times interdependent the one upon the other. The Comprehensiveness of Magnetic Healing. Mag- netic Healing deals with the action of both nerve-systems, and is the first rational science of treatment to recognize the necessity of combining treatment of cerebrospinal and sympathetic at one and the same time, forming by the hands of the Healer the required current from positive to negative. It will simplify the study of the nerve systems for you if we divide them bluntly into two kinds, the motor and the sensory. Motor nerves act upon muscles, and any stimulus to the motor nerves thus pro- duces physical action. The Sympathetic Nerve System possesses two ganglionic chains running parallel with the whole vertebral column. The Cerebro-Spinal System includes the Cerebrum the Cerebellum, the Medulla Oblongata, and the Spinal Cord How Nerves Feel.—In order to best illustrate how sen- sation is produced, I quote the following excellent definition by Dr. Babbitt, of Los Angeles, California, who has done as much as any modern investigator to familiarize his students With the principles of Light and Color, and the finer forces of nature which surround us. > We will say a very keen sensation is felt at the knee. How is this done? The cutaneous sensory nerves carry their thermal fluid to the ganglion of the posterior spinal nerve, which immedi- ately flashes up under the chemical stimulus of a motor nerve cell The force connected with the spine is radiated by means of the motor nerves in all directions, but those nerves which connect im- mediately with the point of excitement at the knee would be espec rally active, as nature is ever aiming to establish circuits W why
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