Avoid Psychic Absorption


"You can waste your time, and you can sit in circles, absorb all kinds

of psychological influences, exhaust your own, and in many cases become

so filled up with contending influences that you are in a state of

psychological fever all the time, or so exhaust yourself that you will

become as limp and useless as a rag. This is not the way to use the

opportunities you have; and you should avoid the injudicious,

promiscuous
and insane methods of development of many who are extremely

anxious to develop you as a medium, and who often bring discredit upon

the subject of mediumship, and do no one the slightest practical

good--not even themselves. We admit that the motives of those who

conduct public promiscuous developing circles are good in most cases,

but their methods are frequently 'injudicious'--to put it mildly. Under

ordinary circumstances, your own pure purpose and the spirits who are in

sympathy with your exalted desires and intentions, are sufficient

safeguards against the intrusion of low, mischievous or malicious

spirits, but you should not venture into conditions which require the

trained and disciplined will, and the influence of wise and powerful

spirits to protect you against danger, until you have acquired the

ability to render yourself positive to the psychic spheres of

undesirable people, both in or out of the physical body, and can

voluntarily become passive and responsive to the true and trustworthy

friends whom you know and love."



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