THE BRAIN Napoleon Hill

A BROADCASTING AND RECEIVING STATION FOR THOUGHT

The Twelfth Step toward Riches

MORE than twenty years ago, the author, working in conjunction with the

late Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, and Dr. Elmer R. Gates, observed that every

human brain is both a broadcasting and receiving station for the vibration of

thought. 

Through the medium of the ether, in a fashion similar to that employed by

the radio broadcasting principle, every human brain is capable of picking up

vibrations of thought which are being released by other brains. 

In connection with the statement in the preceding paragraph, compare,

and consider the description of the Creative Imagination, as outlined in the

chapter on Imagination. The Creative Imagination is the "receiving set" of the

brain, which receives thoughts, released by the brains of others. It is the agency

of communication between one's conscious, or reasoning mind, and the four

sources from which one may receive thought stimuli. 

When stimulated, or "stepped up" to a high rate of vibration, the mind

becomes more receptive to the vibration of thought which reaches it through the

ether from outside sources. This "stepping up" process takes place through the

positive emotions, or the negative emotions. Through the emotions, the

vibrations of thought may be increased.

Vibrations of an exceedingly high rate are the only vibrations picked up

and carried, by the ether, from one brain to another. Thought is energy travelling

at an exceedingly high rate of vibration. Thought, which has been modified or

"stepped up" by any of the major emotions, vibrates at a much higher rate than

ordinary thought, and it is this type of thought which passes from one brain to

another, through the broadcasting machinery of the human brain. 

The emotion of sex stands at the head of the list of human emotions, as far

as intensity and driving force are concerned. The brain which has been