50That is, mental telepathy – Tr.
419- Why is it that the same idea – a discovery, for example – arises at the same time in many places?
“We have already stated that during sleep spirits communicate with one another. Well then, when the body awakens, the spirit remembers what it has learned and the person thinks he or she has invented it. Thus, many may seem to have discovered the same thing at the same time. When you say that an idea is ‘floating around’, you employ a figure of speech that is more precise than you think. Without even suspecting it, everyone has contributed toward developing it.”
In this way, our spirit itself often unknowingly reveals the object of our waking preoccupations to other spirits.
420- Can spirits communicate with one another when the body is completely awake?
“A spirit is not enclosed in its body as if it were in a box; it radiates all around in every direction. Hence, it can communicate with other spirits even in the waking state, although it does so with more difficulty.”
421- Why do two perfectly awake persons sometimes have the same thought at exactly the same time?
“They are two attuned spirits who communicate with each other and read each other’s thoughts even when they are not asleep.”
When spirits meet, there is sometimes a communication of thought that enables two persons to see and understand each other without the need for verbal language. They may be said to speak the language of spirits.
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