The New Psychology, Its Basic Principles and Practical Formulas (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Arthur Adolphus Lindsay

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ISBN 10: 1330220978 ISBN 13: 9781330220979

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2020

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Excerpt from The New Psychology, Its Basic Principles and Practical Formulas

Every experience, clinical, hypnotic, or in the observation of normal or abnormal states proves that that power spoken of as the sub-consciousness or the soul, operates under suggestion. The first classification of phenomena that we will deal with under the proposition that the soul, in its subjective department, creates and controls the body, as indicated, and is itself controlled by sug gestion, will be psycho (suggestive) therapy.

In the ordinary use of the word suggestion, we would mean the introduction of an idea into the objective department of the mind, but when we speak of the Science of Suggestion, we mean the introduction of an idea into the soul. When a patient comes into my office and I tell him in his active state that his rheumatic symptoms are beginning to disappear, and will soon be entirely overcome; that the cause of the pain is being removed; that the uric acid will cease to be in excess; that the pain and swelling are going; I have introduced into his mind the idea con sistent with these words, and he looks at me incredulously and informs me he does not believe a word I have said.

None of the conditions occur as I said they would. Another person comes to me in the same condition. I say the same things to him and he believes what I say, and says so, and the pain and other symptoms begin disappearing, his entire cure ensuing.

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Excerpt from The New Psychology, Its Basic Principles and Practical Formulas However, an acquaintance with the soul, with its perceptive and expressive power, has caused us to analyze the direction of his mental activities. I will discuss herein later the various sources of discovering that there is in man something beyond sense perception and reflex action, but only declare the truth of the discovery now. The scientific study of another department of mind, which is spoken of as the subjective or psychic division has been mainly through hypnotism, which in the hands of the scientific student has disclosed mental powers, so different as well as so superior to the phenomena of the ordinary consciousness that the next serious error to thinking the intellectual of the objective was all the mind, was to conclude that there are two minds. The authors who have helped us greatly were under this impression of duality, and almost showed a line of demarkation between the "subjective and objective minds." Further researches convince us that there is but one mind or soul in the individual, and this we may correctly define as manifesting, so far as our usual states are concerned, conscious and sub-conscious. The sub-conscious may be well described under the title of the psychic department, and so the terms "subconscious or psychic powers," when speaking of the subjective mental functions are correct. But to declare a man is two men is no more correct than to say that because there are phenomena of light that illumines our buildings and the power that hurls our cars through the street, are two forces instead of the one force of electricity with different forms of expression. The quality of speed and power to draw should just as much require that a horse be two horses as that one mind must be two, else it could not do such widely different things. The clearest statement of the truth as it is, is this: Man is one entire soul (I use the word in no religious or theological sense, but

Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2020
• ISBN 10: 1330220978
• ISBN 13: 9781330220979
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 101