Spiritual Impressions—or Inspirations

Spirits have the power to introduce thoughts into our brain. They do this by whispering in our ear—the ear of the spirit body, not the material body. The spirit body is asleep, so to speak, whilst the material body is awake; hence they can only communicate with the spiritual body in a peculiar manner. We have heard it said that if we whisper in the ear of a sleeping man, we will make him dream of what we have whispered. This may be true or not but, if so, the case is precisely the same as spirits' mode of communicating thoughts to the semi-conscious spirit body, whence they penetrate into the brain of the physical body and are used by the owner as his own ideas. Thus, we are always in communication with the spirit world though we do not know it and if we would take the trouble to enquire of anyone who has had the experience of impressional mediumship, we would find that the words come into his head one after another as distinctly as if someone were dictating them.  All the most brilliant geniuses of any age have been such. They could not have originated the ideas which are conveyed by the works of men like Shakespeare, Spenser, Milton, Dante, Plato, Aristotle and others unless the writers or speakers had been inspired by men from the spirit world. This is the secret of all inspiration. We see it at work in everyday life just the same. From the spirit side—seen behind the scenes, as it were—the process is so simple and commonplace that he who runs may read. Spirits have much to tell us for our own good—it makes them happy to impart knowledge; hence, they seek out an impressional mind amongst us and pour into his brain the thoughts which they are full of.