My Library

It was while standing before the ruins of the Broadway Hotel that I first got the glimmerings of a new idea. In its preliminary outlines, the new idea consisted of this: We utilize a few words to categorize so-called "paranormal phenomena" into separate categories -- and then assume that the categories are distinct. Yet, the categories define the different kinds of results of processes, but not the processes themselves. For example, we accept that there are differences between, say, intuition and telepathy and clairvoyance. But what if, I began wondering, the categories were NOT really separate ones, but only parts of a larger SPECTRUM of superfaculties indwelling in our biological species. If the spectrum was the case, then the different categories would not be independent and distinct categories. They would be MODULATIONS of and within the spectrum. In other words, if the SPECTRUM could be understood, then it would be seen that its sets of superfaculties could be modulated to result in different kinds of processes and their resulting phenomena. It was well understood that the tones or colors of sound and light spectra can be modulated to produce different sound or color phenomena. If this concept was applied to the paranormal powers, then one could NEVER learn, for example, how to be telepathic by studying "how to become telepathic," since telepathy was a result of a modulation of the spectrum.