Mental Currents and Vibrations

[Amelia Richardson]

For instance, currents of a certain degree or kind of vibration (that
is, of a certain mental state) when they come in contact with other
currents of similar vibration, will tend to coalesce and combine,
there being a harmony and attraction existing between them. But if
they are opposing vibrations they will antagonize each other and act
in the direction of neutralizing each other's force If they are of
equal strength, both will lose power, but if one is much stronger than
the other it will lose only in the inverse ratio of its strength, and
the weaker will suffer likewise. That is, the weaker will lose twice
as much power as the stronger, and the stronger will lose only half as
much as the weaker'supposing that the stronger is of twice the
strength of the weaker.
In this way is accounted for the well-known fact that places, towns,
cities, etc., have their own 'personal atmospheres,' which affect
persons living in them or visiting them. These 'personal atmospheres'
of towns arise from a combining, neutralizing, etc., of the various
vibrations arising from mentative currents from the minds of the
people living in the town. An average vibration is struck, which is
strongly felt by all within the 'field of induction' of that town. A
little thought will make it clear to you that this is a correct
statement of the mental conditions manifest in various towns, cities,
etc., all over the world.
Each place has its own individuality, which soon makes its impression
on those taking up their abode in it. It is more than geographical and
atmospheric conditions, although, of course, these play their parts,
as we all know. The average mental state of the people living in the
town strikes the keynote. The stronger vibrations affect the average,
and give a mental tone to the place. The best proof of this effect
being caused by mental vibrations is found in the fact that two towns
only a few miles from each other, each having the same atmospheric and
geographical conditions, will manifest entirely different mental
atmospheres.
People often ask: 'If it be true that the ether is filled with
mentative currents, why are we not affected more than we are?' The
answer is that they are affected more than they imagine, but they are
still affected much less than one would suppose at first thought, for
the reason that the currents conflict with each other and rob each
other of their force. And then again, Nature instinctively affords a
safeguard and sets up additional powers of resistance. Just as Nature
protects the hearing sense of those who are surrounded with many and
constant noises, until they fail to hear anything but an unaccustomed
noise ' just as she operates upon the smelling sense of the chemist
until he fails to notice the odors which are most apparent to the
stranger entering his shop ' so does she give additional unconscious
resisting power to people situated within an active field of mentative
induction.