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The Book of Dreams and Ghosts

CHAPTER XIV
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Bacon calls it "sympathy" between two distant minds, sympathy so strong that one communicates with the other without using the recognised channels of the senses.

Izaak Walton explains in the same way Dr.Donne's vision, in Paris, of his wife and dead child.
"If two lutes are strung to an exact harmony, and one is struck, the other sounds," argues Walton.

Two minds may be as harmoniously attuned and communicate each with each.

Of course, in the case of the lutes there are actual vibrations, physical facts.

But we know nothing of vibrations in the brain which can traverse space to another brain.
Many experiments have been made in consciously transferring thoughts or emotions from one mind to another.


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