H. P. Blavatsky PSYCHIC AND NOËTIC ACTION

By Helena P. Blavatsky
Juiy 31, 1831 to May 8,1891

Helenas claim that esoteric spiritual knowledge is consistent with new science may be considered to be the first instance of what is now called New Age thinking. In fact, many researchers feel that much of New Age thought started with Blavatsky. Throughout her career she was reputed to have demonstrated physical and mental psychic feats though she was reportedly quite adept at these accomplishments, she claimed that her interests were more in the area of theory and laws of how they worked. Making her article below one of the earliest contributions into the study of the yet unnamed field of parapsychology.

[quote]The seat of memory, then, is assuredly neither here nor there, but everywhere throughout the human body. To locate its organ in the brain is to limit and dwarf the Universal Mind and its countless Rays (the Manasa putra) which inform every rational mortal. As we write for Theosophists, first of all, we care little for the psychophobian prejudices of the Materialists who may read this and sniff contemptuously at the mention of "Universal Mind" and the Higher noëtic souls of men. But, what is memory, we ask. "Both presentation of sense and image of memory, are transitory phases of consciousness," we are answered. But what is Consciousness itself?--we ask again. "We cannot define Consciousness," Professor Ladd tells us.

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Thus, that which we are asked to do by physiological psychology is, to content ourselves with converting the various states of Consciousness by other people's private and unverifiable hypotheses; and this, on "questions of cerebral physiology where experts and novices are alike ignorant,"

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