Is There an Infinite Storehouse of Ideas, Knowledge, and Power?

Many great thinkers of all ages have believed that man's "stored information" is not limited to his own memories of past experiences, and learned facts. "There is one mind common to all individual men," said Emerson, who com­pared our individual minds to the inlets in an ocean of universal mind.
Edison believed that he got some of his ideas from a source outside himself. Once, when complimented for a creative idea, he disclaimed credit, saying that "ideas are in the air," and if he had not discovered it, someone else would have.
Dr. J. B. Rhine, head of Duke University's Para­psychology Laboratory, has proved experimentally that man has access to knowledge, facts, and ideas, other than his own individual memory or stored information from learning or experience. Telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition have been established by scientific laboratory experi­ments. His findings, that man possesses some "extra sen­sory factor," which he calls "Psi," are no longer doubted by scientists who have seriously reviewed his work. As Professor R. H. Thouless of Cambridge University says, "The reality of the phenomena must be regarded as proved as certainly as anything in scientific research can be proved."