Thounght transference

Excerpt from "A prisoner in fairyland' by Algernon Blackwood

the most successful thought-transference is probably unconscious and not deliberate—'

Such as, for instance—'

Public opinion,' replied Minks, after a moment's search, 'which is the result of waves of thought sent out by everybody—by a community; or by the joint thinking of a nation, again, which modifies every mind born into that nation, the result of' centuries of common thinking along definite familiar channels. Thought-currents rush everywhere about the world, affecting every one more or less, and—er— particularly lodging in minds receptive to them.'