thought wave n.

Then kissed our thought-waves, mingling on the way.

When some thin thought-wave/From the shadow shore/Brings the Voice once more/From beyond the grave.

The true Success I ask to come to me, / Is that the Truth, whose flag I hold aloft, / And Justice and kind Love shall triumph o’er / The reign of Falsehood, Cruelty, and Hate. / For this I send forth thought waves far and wide, / May their returning tide bring back to me / My bride, Success, whom I court from afar.

This is Monday afternoon? Yes, well, it was on Tuesday last that we entered the trance condition. On Thursday, by earth counting of days, I was with my cousin’s spirit at an instruction meeting on the sixth plane, absorbing the ideas of a soul of the ninth altitude, when I suddenly received a thought-wave message from the lowest Spheres that I should return to earth immediately.

You understand the radio. Well, this machine is similar. It must be tuned into the thought-wave length of the man you wish to reach. But the machine must broadcast to receive, that is, the tuning consists of the broadcasting of a key thought.

I did not even have to speak to it. The mechanical mind that I have installed in the ship responds to thought-waves. I merely have to impart to it the impulse of the thought that wish it to act upon.

He could see the fountain he wanted, a great, glittering shape with its sparkling streams of water. But there was too much artificial light, too many minds around, a confusion of vibrations that must be interfering with the one thought wave his mind was reaching for—if the damned thing was still there after all these hundreds of years. If it wasn’t there, God help him!

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Dhar Ry sat alone in his room, meditating. From outside the door he caught a thought wave equivalent to a knock, and, glancing at the door, he willed it to slide open. It opened. ‘Enter, my friend,’ he said. He could have projected the idea telepathically; but with only two persons present, speech was more polite.

‘How can I hear you?’ ‘Direct telepathic contact. I am not speaking to you, specifically, but to your soul. [...]’ ‘Then—why doesn’t Helix get the same messages?’ ‘Because he is on a different—er—wavelength. That’s one way of putting it, though thoughtwaves are not electrical.’

Up in the First Elder’s chamber Carol and the Sensorite leader watched anxiously as Susan tried to contact Barbara and John. Her face was stretched in concentration as she struggled desperately to receive Barbara’s thoughtwaves; but Barbara’s skill at using the mind transmitter was limited and Susan could catch only a few indistinct words.

As for you, your talent’s empathy. And on Duma Key, empathy got raised to telepathy. [...] Would you trade one for the other in any case? Your eyesight for the occasional thoughtwave?