< o 


^of 


* << 


IP *7\ 


o v^.y v^ f v vs5*y v* 1 


• J «J^Tw* O 


**d* 


O > . &* 


77,* % <$> 


© ♦ 


*°+ 


%> ••• ^ 


•;tt:..\ *»sjte.*+ ^-^%.V .A*S*.^ 


^ 


VSSiy* # a- " 7 * : f«^* «*°<* ^ 


^ 

^ % 


<<L o* * • ■ • • ^o A* 


Practical Psychology. 


A COURSE OF INSTRUCTION ON THE 

PRACTICAL APPLICATION OF THE LAW OF 

PSYCHOLOGY. 


BY 

T. J. EADY, 

ATLANTA, GA. 


ATLANTA, GA. 

ALLEN & HORTON, PRINTERS. 

I90O. 

V. 


Two Copies received. 
Library of C»B fffft% 
Of flea of fh# 

JUN 1 4 1800 

Kcg[«ter f Ctpyrfgftfij 

* / 7 3 2^ 


i«*ON» C«tf>Y, 


63399^ 


ENTERED ACCORDING TO ACT OF CDWTWWPSS'IN THE YEAR I9OO 

BY T. J. EADY IN THE OFFICE OF THE LIBRARIAN 

AT WASHINGEON. 


INTRODUCTORY. 


Q^t COURSE of instruction on Psychology, giving 
P" the theory and scientific explanation of the phe- 
nomena of the mind. The principles and laws govern- 
ing man's inner life and will. Explaining Hypnotism, 
Christian Science and other theories, and beliefs regard- 
ing the power and nature of the human mind or soul. 
Special attention being given to the application of the 
law of Psychology to the practical affairs of life. The 
various ways in which the knowledge imparted may be 
used to benefit, uplift, improve and bless. Explaining 
how this knowledge is the true secret of health, pros- 
perity and long life. All theories given having been 
tried and proven. And all statements of fact fully veri- 
fied. 


Practical Psychology. 


irt^ROM the most ancient times, as we learn by tradi- 
Jj| tion and history, men have studied and observed, 
wondered and speculated, over the power and nature of 
the human mind or soul. It has been the subject of the 
most profound study and often of the wildest, and most 
absurd speculation. This study, being of man himself, 
the ego, spirit, or soul within him has necessarily touched 
on religion and, probably for that reason, been subjected 
to the bitterest opposition and been wholy misunderstood 
by many of those applying the law but entirely wrong 
in their conception of its nature. What we now call 
psychology, and study as we would electricity or mathe- 
matics without prejudice, fear or superstition in order to 
use it in the every day matters of life, in making busi- 
ness transactions, in curing disease, or merely for amuse- 
ment, was at one time called blackart and those using 
it, in their imperfect understanding of the law, were re- 
garded as the servants of the devil using a diabolical 
power. It has been called witch-craft and in our own 
enlightened America, women have been burned at the 
stake for using but very little of the power explained in 
these instructions. In its various forms and uses it has 
been known as Cure by Holy Relics, Hypnotism, Mes- 
merism, etc., etc. As a rule those using the power 
were as ignorant of its true origin, force and limitations 
as their enemies. In all its forms it has been doubted 
and feared. It has been the tool of fakirs, humbugs and 
charlatans who abused what they understood of it as 
well as suffering unjust and undeserved attacks and 
abuse from those who knew nothing of it. 

To the mind of any reasonable man it is plain, after 
a little investigation along this line, that there is, or has 

5 


been, something in all these historical, traditional and 
present fads, fancies, theories, and religions known as 
witch-craft, blackart, cure by miracles, healing by the 
kings touch, spiritualistic manifestation, faith cures, 
cure by Christian science, hypnotism, mesmerism, etc. 

Our present object is to give an explanation of 
the true force or power manifested in these cases. In 
almost all logical scientific investigations it is necessary 
to begin with an hypothesis, that is just a statement 
without proof, and then by giving the facts and experi- 
ments, fit the two together and show that the hypothesis 
or theory stated at first accounts for all the experiments 
and that no other theory will do so. This is a logical 
way of establishing the truth of a theory. The hypothe- 
sis taken in studying psychology is as follows: Man is a 
dual being, that is he has two distinct and separate minds. 
One is called the objective mind, and the other the 
subjective mind. Each mind has its exclusive field ; 
each has its own work to perform and each has its own 
consciousness. The objective mind is the mind, the 
thought, or the consciousness produced by the brain cell 
action. It is a part or a product of the physical body. 
It is the reasoning power which controls and directs our 
ordinary actions. It is the part of man's brain that can 
be educated. It is the intellect and is that reasoning 
faculty which enables man to reason out the problems 
of life and arrive at logical conclusions. All its impres- 
sions are obtained through the five senses, seeing, hear- 
ing, tasting, smelling and feeling. The subjective mind 
is the finer, more ethereal part of man's consciousness. 
It is the God part ; it has powers and faculties not pos- 
sessed by the objective or physical mind. It is the 
spirit ; the emotional part ; it reaches conclusions by in- 
tuition rather than by reasoning. It is sometimes called 
the subconscious mind and its influence, force or even 


existence is often never realized, much less its impor- 
tance appreciated, by men. In a person in a normal state 
it is not in the ascendency or control, it is beneath the 
surface and its existence frequently not realized though 
it is not inactive or inert by any means. A common 
way in which its existence is made known to almost 
every one is in what we call conscience. It is the still 
small voice which tells us right from wrong. 

Sometimes it makes its presence known by reason 
of a sudden liking or distaste for another person; that is, 
a feeling of pleasure or distaste not arising from any 
cause we can explain ; from no particular impression 
gained through the senses. 

The subjective mind never sleeps ; never becomes 
tired ; never ceases to perforin its functions. It controls 
all the involuntary actions of the body ; action of the 
lungs, heart, digestive organs, etc. Impressions are 
made on the subjective mind only by suggestion. In a 
person in a normal state the impression or suggestion 
comes through the objective mind ; that is the objective 
mind observes all things and conditions surrounding the 
body, which is possible through the five senses. It rea- 
sons out the conclusions and then the impression or sug- 
gestion is made on the subjective mind according to the 
conclusion reached ; this is when in the normal state. 
But in certain conditions the objective mind is passive; 
is out of the way, as it were, ceases to stand between the 
subjective mind and external things. In this state a 
conclusion suggested to an individual reaches his sub- 
jective mind direct and is acted on as though the fact 
or conclusion stated had come through the regular chan- 
nel of the objective mind. The objective mind reasons 
deductively ; that is when a general statement or con- 
clusion is made it will reason out the minor facts or in- 
fer the things implied in the first general statement. 


It reasons inductively, that is when given a number of 
minor 'facts or circumstances it will arrive at a gen- 
eral fact or conclusion. It reasons in all ways induc- 
tively, deductively, analytically and synthetically. The 
subjective mind reasons only deductively; that is it will 
not combine a number of minor facts or circumstances 
and thereby arrive at a conclusion, but if an impression 
or suggestion is made on the subjective mind it will de- 
duce all the minor facts, or the facts which must be 
true in order to make the first impression or suggestion 
true. Now man is a dual being; each individual is a 
combination of the spiritual man or soul and a material 
man or body which includes the objective mind. By 
wisest combination of these two natures, each doing its 
appointed part, and each exercising a proper control and 
restraint over the other, we attain the perfect human 
life. The life or enabling force of the body or physical, 
mortal, part of man is nerve force which controls the 
body. The subjective mind is master of the individual; 
it is the king or ego; through it can be controlled all 
the conditions, functions and sensations of the body; it 
is controlled by suggestion from within or without and 
perceives by intuition. It reasons only deductively, but 
never makes a mistake in reasoning that way. Thought 
force, the enabling force of the subjective mind, con- 
trols and directs the nerve force or enabling force of the 
body or objective mind. It is this way; ordinarily the 
suggestion or impression is obtained through the objec- 
tive mind, then the subjective mind controls and directs 
the nerve force in accordance with the impression made. 
Thus you touch a hot stove; the objective mind knows 
and reasons that it will burn, the suggestion is made on 
the subjective mind that your finger is burned; the sub- 
jective mind sends the nerve force to the finger and there 
is pain. Now if when the pain is there, the impression 


or suggestion could be made on the subjective mind that 
there was no pain, the nerve force would be withdrawn 
and the pain cease. If the suggestion of pain were 
made when the finger was not burned, the subjective 
mind would send nerve force to the finger and it would 
be painful as before and from the same cause, viz; an 
excess of nerve force in that place; although in the first 
instance the impression made on the subjective mind was 
true and in the other case it was not true. This ac- 
counts for the healing of all disease by suggestion. Di- 
sease can be created in the same way. The important 
thing now is to know how to make suggestions on the 
subjective mind. Suggestions are of two kinds auto 
suggestions and hetro suggestions. The first are from 
within, that is from one's own objective mind, the other 
is from without, that is, from surroundings or the mind 
of another. Suggestions may be given from without 
through the sense by speaking to a person, by motions 
or actions or by telepathic communications. By 
the last is meant suggestions conveyed directly 
from one mind to another without speaking or using 
any means perceptible to the senses. This telepathic 
means of suggestion can be used by one person to an- 
other at any distance, space being no barrier. However 
for suggestions to make an impression on a persons 
subjective mind directly, that person must be in a cer- 
tain state or condition. This is called the psychological 
condition or the psychic state. When one is passive 
and in the psychological condition he may be controlled 
by any one understanding how to make the suggestions ; 
you tell such a person he is asleep and' is ; tell him that 
he can't go to sleep and he can't ; tell him he can't 
move and he cannot ; that he can't be still and he will 
not be quiet ; he is what is most commonly called hyp- 
notized, which is a wrong name implying sleep, when 

9 


as a matter of fact it as easy to prevent sleep as to in- 
duce it in one who is in this psychological condition. 
The person in this state is under the control of any one 
making suggestions and impressions on his subjective 
mind, but not absolutely, and right here is one of the 
strangest things about a person thus under the control 
of another. No one will do anything he is principled 
against doing. Self-preservation is a law of nature — 
moral preservation as well as physical' preservation 
and any suggestion which, if acted upon, would violate 
a fixed moral principle in the subject will bring him out 
of this state ; his own objective mind assumes control 
and you lose it. Now as to who are, or may be put in 
this psychological condition or who can be controlled. 
In speaking of those who can be controlled, I mean con- 
trolled absolutely and completel} 7 , for all Qan be in- 
fluenced to just the degree they approximate, this con- 
dition by one who understands making suggestions in 
the proper manner, and understand that the operator 
or person making the suggestion need not be in a 
psychic state, but in all such cases (where the subject 
is not in a psychic state) some regard must be paid to 
the reason, intellect or objective mind when, however, 
the subject is in a psychological state the suggestion 
made, however absurd or false, is made directly on the 
subjective mind and the person acts on the suggestion 
as though it were true with the exception spoken of 
above when it violates a moral principle of a subject. 

A person to be controlled must have his nerve 
force and his thought force in equilibrium, that is if we 
say a man has one hundred per cent, thought force, he 
must have one hundred per cent, of nerve force to be in 
a psychological condition. It is estimated from the ex- 
periments of numbers of investigators along this line 
that one third of the people have their nerve and thought 

IO 


force in equilibrium, that is they were born and have 
lived in the psychological condition we call this class 
''psychics.'' In the other two-thirds the nerve force is 
depleted and they cannot be controlled absolutely until 
their nerve force is increased to such an extent as to 
make it balance their thought force. These are called 
"non-psychics.'' First as to the psychics, this class com- 
posed of one-third of the people, is at once the most for- 
tunate and the most unfortunate of people ; fortunate, 
because if they understand the lav/ of psychology they 
may control themselves ; all the conditions, sensations 
and functions of the body, relieve themselves of any 
pain, in fact have perfect self-control, but, being igno- 
rant of the law and its use, they are open and defense- 
less against the suggestions of another who may under- 
stand the law and are the victims of all who wish to im- 
pose upon them through the law of psychology. The 
non-psychics are in the majority, two-thirds of the peo- 
ple. They cannot be so easily influenced as the others, 
but neither can they control themselves so perfectly as 
can the psychics. No one should rest after taking these 
instructions until he or she reaches the psychic state. 
This is done by increasing the nerve force, and the 
nerve force is increased by concentration. By concen- 
tration is meant fixing the the thoughts wholly and ex- 
clusively on one thing to the exclusion of thought in all 
other directions, not by studying about one subject but 
by intense thought on one thing. For instance, sit 
down in a quiet place where you will not be disturbed 
and look at a spot on the wall, never let your eyes wan- 
der, never let another thought enter your head except 
that spot. This at first will be found impossible except 
for a few seconds, but continue ; concentration like this 
is an art which will soon be acquired. If another method 
of concentration is preferred the eyes may be closed and 


the thumb held in the other hand, think of your thumb ; 
when the thoughts wander pinch the thumb and bring 
the thoughts back to it. This will in time increase the 
nerve force until it balances the thought force. The 
time required varies with the state of depletion the nerve 
force may be in ; possibly in five minutes the psycho- 
logical state is induced. It may take a month, that is 
if concentration for twenty minutes does not produce 
the effects indicating an equilibrium, stop for that day 
and repeat the concentration for twenty minutes the next 
day. The psychic state will most certainly be reached 
in time, though it takes twenty minutes a day for a 
month ; never get discouraged, but persevere, there need 
not be an}^ fear of ultimate failure for it is impossible 
and the end finally attained will repay for the time and 
trouble of concentrating a thousand fold. The oftener 
the mind is concentrated the more perfect it can be cen- 
tered on one thing the next time. It makes no differ- 
ence what is the one thing the mind is centered on — a 
spot — a bright object — the thumb — the tick of a watch 
or clock — the one easiest to think of exclusively should 
be the one used. Concentration increases the nerve 
force because while the body is passive and the mind 
centered on one object or sound, which is the nearest 
approach to passivity the mind can reach, the minute 
pores in the skin, of which there are millions, open and 
absorb the crude electricity in the atmosphere, which 
electricity is transformed into nerve force wheu it enters 
the body. 

When the psychic state is reached absolute control 
of self is possible but not before. To tell when the state 
is reached, after concentrating, press hard, not hard 
enough to cause pain, but enough to feel it, with the 
thumb and first finger, between the third and little fin- 
ger of the other hand about one inch from the joint ; 


this pressure will be upon the ulna nerve and if the pro- 
per amount of nerve force is present A tingling 
tickling sensation or an ache or pain will be felt up the 
entire length of the arm to the base of the brain. The 
pain or tickling will be felt, possibly onl}' to the elbow 
which shows a deficiency in nerve force; in this case 
more concentration is necessary; possibly no sensation 
at all will be felt except the pressure and if this is the 
case much concentration is needed to restore the depleted 
nervous system and induce the psychic state. 
When one is in a psychic state, either natural or in- 
duced, he is then subject to the fullest extent to the 
operation of the law of psychology. He can control 
himself, and if he wishes, can be controlled by others. 
If he is in the psychic state without understanding the 
law he will be controlled by others whether he wishes or 
not. 

The next thing is the practical application of the 
law; how to control others; self control; and how to re- 
sist the attempts of others to control you. First as to 
controlling others, it will be necessary to begin with to 
know whether the person you wish to control is a psychic 
or a non-psychic. There are certain physical peculiari- 
ties which as a rule distinguish the psychic, these are 
a square forehead going straight up (not sloping back) 
with a fullness about the temples, large liquid eyes and 
a head flat on top. These are usually to be found on a 
psychic; however the one infallible test is to press on 
the ulna nerve between the third and little finger, as de- 
scribed above, and if a sensation of any kind is felt up 
the arm and to the base of the brain, you may be as- 
sured that your subject is already in a psychic state. 

Pressure on any nerve will serve the purpose as 
well; the convenience of the ulna nerve is the only rea- 
son it is preferred. Pressure should be continued for 

. 13 


four minutes. If no sensation is felt the subject is very 
deficient in nerve force and it will take much concen- 
tration to put him in shape to operate on. If a sensa- 
tion is felt part way up the arm it will take less time. 
We will suppose now that you propose to control your 
subject in the way commonly called hypnotizing him, 
that is, be with him and control him, make the arm stiff 
make him see objects not present, make him insensible 
to pain, etc. After testing him, if you find he feels the 
sensation described, he is ready to work on at once; if 
not explain to him how to concentrate and have him do 
so. You will find that the natural psychics or those 
nearly in the state will be the easiest to start on. After 
you have the subject in the psychological state, either 
natural or induced by concentration, he is ready to re- 
ceive and act on your suggestions; he is under your con- 
trol. To be most successful, your subject should be 
willing to submit — should know you will not hurt him 
— that the control you will exercise over him is nothing 
to fear and should try to help you all he can. Impress 
upon him that any influence you may acquire will be 
but temporary and that it does not show that you are 
his superior mentally, or have a stronger will than he 
has, because you control him. Now having your sub- 
ject in a psychological condition, willing to submit and 
assist you, put him in a comfortable position, have him 
close his eyes and then make the suggestion, "You can't 
open your eyes;" speak like you meant it, and mean it. 
Don't shout nor bully, but let the command be given in 
a firm, positive tone, like one who knows what he is 
talking about — understands his business, and knows his 
orders will be obeyed. Give the command, "You can't 
open your eyes" in a positive, cool voice; such a tone as 
you use in stating a positive fact, and most important 
thing of all, back it up by your will; will that his 

H 


eyes can't open. Do not make any abnormal strain in 
doing this, but say it, mean it, and believe it. 

If you think your order will not be obeyed it prob- 
ably will not be, but you must have confidence in your- 
self. At first it is well to keep repeating to yourself the 
command given, for instance; you have your subject in 
the pS3'chological condition; he is willing to give up and 
yield to your control — he closes his eyes — you say "You 
can't open your eyes," he will assist you by saying to 
himself, "I can't open my eyes," "They will not open." 
You say to him, "You can't open your eyes; you can't 
do it; they are closed tight and are fastened together." 
Then say in a quick tone, one used in stating a fact, 
not a questioning one — "Try as hard as you can, you 
can't open them;" "You can't do it, keep trying but the}' 
will not open." And all the time you are not talking 
keep repeating in 3'our mind, "He can't do it; he can't 
do it"; and strange as it may be to you now, he will not 
be able to do so. The repetition of the command in 
your mind gives you confidence, it takes the place of 
the certainty and positive knowledge you will gain later 
after you have experimented with several and found 
that they obey your commands. When you are abso- 
lutely sure of yourself, the repetition in your own mind 
will be unnecessary. Remember to be positive in giv- 
ing the command; repeat it; tell the subject, "You can't 
open your eyes;" "you can't open your eyes;" "you 
can't do it;" "you can't do it." Tell him over and over 
again, and above all support the suggestion by your will. 
This is the secret of the whole matter. Have you sub- 
ject in the psychological condition — willing to submit 
to you and then make a suggestion and support it by 
your will. Now suppose after you have given the sug- 
gestion, "you can't open your eyes," your subject does 
open them. Do not be discouraged. There are three 

15 


things that may be the reason of your failure. He may 
not be in the psychological condition, he may have re- 
sisted yoii or yon may not have made the suggestion in 
the proper manner. 

Try again, impress upon the subject that failure 
will be certain if he does not submit and assist you. 
Ask him to repeat the suggestion you make in his own 
mind and try to believe it is true; then, for fear he is 
not in condition, have him shut his eyes and concen- 
trate on his thumb as before described; after he has con- 
centrated a few minutes go to him quietly and give him 
a light touch on the knee or hand with your finger at 
the same time saying in a positive tone "Now you can't 
open your eyes; try as hard as you can you can't open 
them, etc.; you can't do it; you can,t do it, etc." This 
is almost certain to do the work. And, try as hard as 
he may, his eyes remain closed. The subject is not 
now asleep nor is he unconscious of anything going on 
about him. He has all his faculties, can talk to you or 
do any other thing he wishes except open his eyes. Now 
if you have gone this far you have gained confidence in 
yourself. Let your subject get quiet and easy again, 
tell him in the same positive tone that his eyes are all 
right; that he can open them, and they will open as 
usual. Let your subjects eyes remain open now and 
tell him that you will make his arm stiff — have him 
hold out his arm, take your hand and stroke the arm 
held out telling the subject that it is becoming stiff; 
that he will not be able to bend his elbow when you 
stop; say "your arm is getting stiff," "it's getting stiff 
and rigid, when I stop you can't bend it, it will be 
stiff;" all the time supporting your suggestions by your 
will; willing that it is stiff and he canH bend it. Then 
stop and say to him, "Now you can't bend your arm, 
you can't do it; try your best you can't do it;" "You 

16 


can't do it," and lie will find that it is impossible to do 
so, although all other faculties are in their normal state. 
Now say "your arm is all right now, you can bend it;'' 
" there is nothing the matter with it.'' Support this sug- 
gestion with your will as before and the arm is all right. 
You will find it easier to remove any state you may 
have caused, such as a stiff arm, closed eyes, etc., than 
it was to cause it in the first place, because you are 
more confident. 

You know that if you caused it you can remove it. 
The passes spoken of, to use in making the arm stiff, 
have no great efficiency, except to arouse confidence in 
yourself and impress the subject that you are doing 
something. I do not see how, in any case, passes made 
with the hands help, except as they strengthen the be- 
lief of the operator and convince the subject that some- 
thing is being done to make your suggestion true. After 
you have closed your subjects eyes and stiffened his 
arm you may do numbers of things — make him unable 
to arise from his chair — fasten his feet to the floor — 
make him unable to open his mouth; or to close it, etc. 
You can do any of these things after you have done the 
two first. You have control of his body. If, however, 
you fail several times on one thing, that is if you can con- 
trol his body in all things except fasten his feet to the 
floor, and have tried to do that several times and failed, 
stop on that and try some other experiment. Possibly 
his mind is fixed on the fact that he will not do that 
one thing you have failed on, and if this is the case it 
is useless to keep trying. As I said before, you now 
have physical control of your subject, you have not put 
him to sleep but he obeys your commands. Now for 
the higher state or mental control. Let your subject 
become quiet and passive in an easy position. Have 
him to close his eyes and think of sleep. Then, in the. 

H 


same quiet, positive tone of voice as before used, sug- 
gest "you are getting sleepy;" "You want to go to 
sleep;" "your eyes are getting heavy;" "you are sleepy 
— sleepy — sleepy." It is well sometimes to put your 
hand lightly on his face, press on his forehead with your 
thumb and let your fingers rest on his head, pass your 
hand over his eyes, suggesting "sleep; sleep; sleep," 
and finally, "you are sound asleep." You can tell from 
his appearance if he is asleep, if so you have mental 
control of him, to some extent at least. Command him 
to stand up. You can have his eyes open or closed as 
you wish; it will make no difference in your further ex- 
periments. 

Suggest now that he is cold; that he is very cold; 
he is freezing — you might if your subject's e3^es are 
open, strengthen your suggestion by appearing cold 
yourself, shivering, buttoning up your coat, etc. The 
subject will get cold and show it. Next, suggest heat — 
"You are getting hot now", etc., and if he responds to 
this suggestion, you may be sure that you have abso- 
lute control of your subject. You can suggest that he 
is fishing, and he will see the water; that he has fallen 
into the river and he will go through the actions of 
swimming on the floor; that he is looking at any won- 
derful sight and you can tell by the expression on his 
face that he believes you. Numberless suggestions 
may be made with equal success. About the only limit 
to the things you can make him do and see is your own 
imagination, or invention. Any suggestion may be 
made and will be readily acted on. Care should be 
taken when experimenting with one whom you can con- 
trol mentally not to frighten him. If you were to tell him 
that a lion was after him, he might seriously injure 
himself in trying to get away before you had time to 
remove the impression. In this state you can make the 

18 


subject forget his own name. Tell him he is some 
other person and he will belive it and act accordingly. 
Sometimes a subject will talk readily and answer any 
question you may ask. When you get one that will do 
this, many interesting experiments may be performed. 
One in this state will be able to repeat verbatim things 
he has read. Whole pages of poetry; facts learned 
years ago; or perform many feats of memory which 
would be impossible in his normal state. Tell such a 
person that he is a great orator, and he will make an 
eloquent speech, which on investigation will probably 
be found is one he has heard at some time, but which 
he had forgotten and would be unable to recall a single 
sentence in his normal state. 

Another kind of suggestions which may be made, 
are those that will be acted upon after the subject is 
brought out from under your control. For instance, 
you have the mental control of a subject; you suggest 
sleep; put him sound asleep — then say "One hour after 
you wake up and are in your normal condition you will 
get an apple and eat it," or suggest anything which is 
not impossible; repeat the suggestion several times and 
then say, "When 3^ou are from under my control }<qu 
will not remember what I have said to you, but you will 
do it." At the time you suggested, if the thing is pos- 
sible, your subject will do as you have told him, though 
he does not remember that you told him to do so, and al- 
though at the time he does it you have no power, in- 
fluence or control over him. You may suggest that he 
do something the next day or a week from that time 
and it will work the same way. You can make the sug- 
gestion that from and after a certain time he will have 
a violent dislike for a certain person whom he has hereto- 
fore liked, or that he will be very friendly and much 
attracted by someone whom he has disliked. Almost 

19 


any suggestion may be made and will be followed if not 
impossible. This kind of suggestion, to be carried out 
at a future date, should be used very carefully so as to 
work no injury to your subject nor should he be made 
to do any absurd or ridiculous thing. Now after you 
have obtained control of your subject and experimented 
with him as much as you wish the question arises; how 
is he to be restored to his normal state? It is to be done 
by the same means as were used in putting him under 
your control. "We will suppose that he is asleep when 
you wish to awaken him. First make the suggestion, 
and this should always be done, that when he awakes 
he will feel good; will be fresh and bright; will feel no 
injurious effects from anything he has done while psy- 
chologized. Then say to him positively and firmly, 
supporting the suggestion with your will, "All right, 
Wake up, Now you are all right, Wide awake," etc. In 
nineteen cases out of twenty he will open his eyes, look 
a little confused, smile, and in a few minutes be in his 
normal condition, but, if he does not awake; if : he re- 
mains as he has been, slap him on the back between 
the shoulders and repeat your suggestion of "all right, 
wake up," etc. In almost every case this will arouse 
him; the slap stirs up his latent nerve force and the 
suggestion brings him around; but sometimes, though it 
is very rarely the case, even this will not bring him 
back to his normal state. Do not let this worry you, no 
harm has been done, even though you did nothing he 
would come around all right in time — would sleep for a 
while and then wake up as from a natural sleep — but 
you want to bring him out yourself right away. If the 
ways mentioned above do not have any effect you still 
have another method left and this last works every time. 
Lay the subject out straight and put him deeper asleep, 
making passes from the head to the feet; suggest, "you 


will sleep deeper, deeper," etc. In a few minutes you 
will see a slight twitching of the muscles, possibly 
about the corners of the mouth or eyes. When you see 
this, reverse the passes, making them from the feet to 
the head and suggest, willing it strongly; "Now you 
are waking up, You are waking up, you are waking up, 
Now you are awake, You are all right, Wake up," etc. 
This will always have the desired effect and he will 
awake. You need never be afraid that you cannot bring 
a subject out; you will not fail; you cannot. Even 
though a subject were left in a profound sleep he will 
not die; in time he will be all right. Never allow any 
one to say while near the subject that you have killed 
him or that you can't handle him, this hinders you. 

I believe any person who will read carefully the 
above will be fully competent to perform all the feats 
and duplicate the performances of any of the so-called 
professional hypnotist, mesmerists, etc. Always bear 
in mind that to secure the best results you must, at the 
outset, have your subject in a psychological condition. 
Success is more certain with a natural psychic. Before 
making an attempt, test your subject by pressing on 
the ulna nerve between the third and little finger an 
inch above the knuckle for four minutes, unless before 
that time your subject feels a sensation up the arm to 
the brain. If the sensation is not felt at all your success 
is very doubtful. If felt part of the way he must con- 
centrate before you make a suggestion; always keep 
cool. Always be clear in your mind what you want to 
suggest before you make the suggestion. Always use 
your will, speak like you meant it but not like a bully. 
Be firm and positive. Don't get mad at your subject 
nor accuse him of resisting you if he says he is not. It 
will do no good. If the one you wish to psychologize tells 
you he don't believe he can be, as most persons will, 


don't tell him lie is a fool, but with confidence tell him 
you know you can if he is willing and will do as you 
tell him. His beliefs or unbeliefs does not change the 
effect of the law of nature. As you will experiment 
more, you will gain confidence in yourself and be more 
successful. Don't let a few failures discourage you. 
Keep trying, you will succeed in time if you persevere. 
Don't tr}^ at first with a number of people around you. 
They will divert your mind and increase your chances 
of failure. Don't treat your experiment as a joke nor 
waste your time on a subject who is laughing or treat- 
ing the matter lightly. It won't pay to fool with such 
a person at first and may discourage you. Having now 
told you how to control a person, the natural question 
arises, why can he be controlled? The psychic state is 
a condition wherein the excess amount of nerve force or, 
enabling force of the objective mind, is transferred from 
the brain to the body. This excess amount is in the 
natural psychic transferred into the body at will, that is 
when the natural psychic wills that his own objective 
mind become passive it will do so and then suggestions 
may be made direct to the subjective mind of the sub- 
ject but not in non-nsychic, one whose nerve force is 
diffident, the equilibrium of the nerve force in brain 
and body must be established by concentration. 

This concentration, or the fixing of the thoughts 
on one object and holding the mind unremittingly there 
on, causes, as before stated, the pores of the body to ab- 
sorb the electricity in the atmosphere and also causes the 
amount of nerve force held in the brain to flow into the 
bod}?; this establishes the equilibrium. Now while the 
thoughts are fixed upon an object to the exclusion of 
thought in all other directions, there is still part of 
nerve force held in the brain used in concentrating. 
Now you remember in getting control of a subject you 


were, just at the time of making trie first suggestion, to 
touch him on the knee or any of the lower parts of the 
body. This touch is to take from the brain the small 
part of nerve force held there for the purpose of concen- 
tration. When this is withdaawn from the brain you 
make suggestions direct to the subjective mind of the 
subject. Your suggestions have the same force and ef- 
fect then as a similar conclusion reached by the sub- 
ject's objective mind and is impressed on his subjective 
mind in that way. And remember the subjective mind 
reasons only deductively, that is it does not, from a 
number of circumstances observed arrive a certain con- 
clusion, but takes the premises or conclusion obtained 
in the normal state from the inductive reasoning of the 
objective mind, and in the psychological state from sug- 
gestions of the operator, and acts in all things as though 
that suggestion were true. For instance, you suggest 
to a subject, "You are very cold;" and he will button up 
his coat, shiver, and show in all the unusual ways that 
he is cold. He does not reason that it is summer time, 
or that there is a hot stove in the room to warm it, or 
that the operator has his coat off and if others are not 
cold he is not. That is the way the subjects objective 
mind would reason, but that is inductive reasoning of 
which the subjective mind is incapable. It takes as a 
fact the suggestion, "You are cold;" made by the opera- 
tor on the subjective mind, and acts accordinly. Now 
suppose you suggest, "You are at the north pole, there 
is snow all around you;" the subject will probably look 
interest and curious, but does not get cold. The objective 
mind, believing the suggestion, would if it were in con- 
trol, reason that the temperature at the North Pole is 
very low. If there were snow here it must be cold, 
therefore I am cold. But the subjective mind does no 
such a thing. That again would be inductive reason- 

23 


ing — reaching a general conclusion from minor facts, 
of which the subjective mind is incapable. This one 
fact, to-wit: that the subjective mind can reason only 
deductively, will explain many things that can be ac- 
counted for in no other way. And another important 
thing to remember is that in reasoning deductively the 
subjective mind never makes a mistake; that is all con- 
clusions deduced are logically true if the suggestion is 
true. But if a false promise or suggestion is given it is 
equally true that the conclusions finally arrived at by 
the subjective mind will also be false. Now to go over 
this explanation in a little briefer way. The subjective 
mind of an individual is the part of which controls his 
nerve force; that is, every time you move a limb or 
muscle it is done by direction of the subjective mind. The 
subjective mind in a normal state acts on the sugges- 
tions made by the objective mind, which is the reason- 
ing, observing part of man. Now in psychological con- 
dition, either natural or induced, when the subject sub- 
mits, the objective mind is passive — does not act — and 
all suggestions or impressions are made directly on the 
subjective mind of a subject. 

The subjective mind is like a wax tablet on which 
you wish to make an impression but which is covered 
by a board, the objective mind, but with a subject in a 
psychological condition and consenting the board (ob- 
jective mind) is removed and you have tne wax tablet, 
(subjective mind) before you to make thereon the im- 
pression you wish. The subjective mind being the 
king of the body, and controlling the enabling force of 
the body, can carry out the suggestions it receives. 
Thus the subjective mind receives the impression, "You 
have the toothache" now what occurs? The subjective 
mind knows that the pain in the tooth is caused by an 
excess of nerve force at that place in the body, therefore 

24 


immediately on receiving the impression of an ache it 
sends the excess of nerve force to the tooth and it aches. 
There is no fancy about it aching, it does ache, just 
as surely as any tooth ever did. Now suppose you have 
the toothache and the suggestion is given that your tooth 
does not ache. Then the subjective mind removes the 
cause, excess of nerve force, and it stops aching. Now 
as to the necessity of backing up the suggestion with 
your will; this is necessary, because when an operator 
gives a suggestion, even when he does so by means of the 
voice, it is to some extent his, the operators, subjective 
mind speaking to the subject's subjective mind, and as 
the subjective minds can communicateTby some means, 
invisible and intangible, called telepathy, the objective 
mind of the subject distinguishes between the spoken 
suggestion backed by the will and the one not so sup- 
ported; so if you say, "you can't shut your eyes" 
and don't will it, the suggestion has no force — -the sub- 
jective mind of the patient perceives that it is false and 
no impression is made. There must be will or "thought 
force'' in every suggestion, to have any effect on the 
subjective mind. Heretofore, the only kind of sugges- 
tion spoken of, are those spoken and backed up by the 
will. You can make suggestions with the will alone, 
but you cannot do so by speaking alone. Remember 
the vital thing about the suggestion is the will. Sug- 
gestions may be given without the aid of any of the 
senses, that is without speaking or making an 3^ sign to 
let the subject know what you wish done. To begin 
with an experiment of the simplest kind: when you 
have the subject in the mental state, that is when he is 
made to feel cold or hot at your suggestion, have him 
to take you by the hand, close his eyes, and then say, 
"Now I want you to do something; do not resist, but 
do just what you feel like doing;" then, still holding 


him by the hand, say in your mind, "Touch the knob 
on the door,'' or of course any other simple thing. Now 
just continue to will, "Touch the door knob," and say 
it over and over in your mind. If the subject starts the 
wrong way, say in }'our mind, u No, not that way, turn 
to the right," and when he has done what you have 
wished, say in your mind "right," and then the subject 
will know that he has done what you desired. Always 
keep your mind on what you want done, do not let your 
thoughts be diverted nor do not speculate as to the suc- 
cess or failure of the experiment; just continue to will 
that he do what you wish. Many other successful ex- 
periments may be tried along this line, and are among 
the most interesting ones you can perform. They are 
no more difficult than those in which you speak to your 
subject; this phase of the psychic phenomena will be 
discussed more fully under the head of telepathy and 
thought transference, and now for the most common ob- 
jection raised against the use of psychology for any 
purpose. 

Many say they will have nothing to do with it be- 
cause one can be placed under the control of another 
and made to commit crimes, women made to give up 
their virtue, etc. This is entirely wrong and any one will 
be convinced of it after a very few experiments. As be- 
fore stated, a subject will do nothing while under psychic 
control that he is principled against; an honest man 
will not steal; a peaceable man will not kill. The auto- 
suggestion that they will not do these things is stronger 
than any suggestion you may make and, if such a sug- 
gestion is given, the subject will simply refuse to obey 
or the shock will bring him out from your influence. 
If, of course, your subject is a thief he will steal, or a 
murderer will kill when under your influence, but as 
they will do this when not under the psychic control, 

26 


how can any great harm result from the use of the laws 
of psychology? 

For an experiment to prove the truth of this; you 
have a subject whom you know to be morally and con- 
scientiously opposed to drinking whiskey. Offer him a 
drink; water if you wish, and tell him it is whiskey, 
Observe the result: though you might have had him 
under perfect control he will either flatly refuse to 
drink or will come out entirely from your influence. 
Even though there is no moral principle involved, if the 
subject has previously made up his mind that he will 
not do some certain thing you cannot make him do so. 
If, for instance, the subject has said and firmly made up 
his mind that he will not get on the floor you may be 
able to make him do any other thing but that, but you 
will most surely fail wdien you try to make him get on 
the floor. You will be convinced after trying the ex- 
periments already given that the science of psychology 
is one worthy of the most careful investigation and study, 
but the most important feature of the whole thing is 
SELF CONTROL. 

By this is meant the absolute control of all the con- 
ditions, sensations and functions of the body. One who 
has perfect control of himself can relieve himself of any 
disease, stop any pain in his body, in other words does 
all that the expression self-control implies. To gain 
this control the first step necessary is to get in the psy- 
chological condition. First test yourself by pressing on 
the ulna nerve between the third and little finger for 
four minutes as before described. If you are a natural 
psychic you will feel some sensation up your arm and 
to the back of the neck. If you do not you must con- 
centrate. The time and trouble this concentration will 
require will be repaid many times, and no one should 
let anything prevent him from getting in the psycho- 


ogical condition. You will never know what it is to 
live until your will controls yourself and not habit nor 
surroundings. Select some method of concentration. 
Let it be^the thing that yon find the easiest to fasten 
your mind upon. Looking at some object is the easiest 
for some. Others prefer the tick of a watch. Some 
can concentrate on their thumb by holding it and press- 
ing as described before. The method you select will 
make no difference. Do not confuse concentration with 
study or analysis, do not do anything but think 
of the thing selected; don't study nor count the 
ticks"of the watch nor anything but make the mind as 
near blank as possible, which you will do when the 
thoughts are fastened on one thing to the exclusion of 
thought in all other directions. Now possibly in ten 
minutes you can, by concentration, so restore your de- 
pleted nerve force as to put you in a psychological con- 
dition, but perhaps you will need much more time than 
that. An excellent plan is to take twenty minutes each 
day and when alone and undisturbed concentrate. Af- 
ter you have done this you should always test yourself 
by pressing on the nerve as described. You may try 
several times before you discover any sensation at all 
but after concentrating a sufficient number of times you 
will feel a sensation, possibly to your elbow. Keep on 
after this until it is felt to the back of the neck. It 
may take a month of concentrating, twenty minutes a 
day before you reach the psychological condition, but 
this is when the nerve force is very much depleted, ordi- 
narily it will not take nearly so long. The longer it 
takes the more you need it; for one whose system is 
so depleted, is in a very bad fix and should be the more 
anxious to get in condition where he can control himself. 
Do not concentrate after you have gone to bed. Take 
time during the day. If you drop off to sleep 

28 


while concentrating it shows that your thoughts have 
wandered and will do you no good. The condition of 
mind preceding sleep is more of abstraction than concen- 
tration — two very different things. Now after you have 
concentrated as described you wish to prove that you 
have self-control. To do this shut your eyes and place 
one hand on your head and will strongly that "As long 
as I keep my hand on my head I can't open my eyes," 
keep saying in your mind "I can't open them, I can't 
open them," and strange as it may seem to you, it will 
be found that as long as the hand stays on the head the 
eyes remain shut. Understand in making the test, af- 
ter you have given yourself the suggestion that the 
eyes will remain closed, you are then to try to open 
them. But you will find most surely so long as the 
hand stays on the head the eyes cannot be opened, try 
as hard as you may. This test will indicate to you that 
you have physical control of yourself, and now for the 
test as to mental control. Hold up one finger and look- 
ing at it wz// y "there is a pain in that finger;" "that fin- 
ger hurts me;" "there is a sharp pain in it;" you will 
very soon feel the pain you willed to be there. There 
will be no doubt about the matter, but there will be a 
sharp and well defined pain in the finger. If this test 
is successful it shows that you have mental control of 
yourself. And no one should discontinue concentrating 
until by these tests he can prove to himself that he has 
absolute and complete control of his own body. One 
with this power over himself is then in position to meet 
all the difficulties of life and overcome them; to go forth 
among men with confidence, which means that others 
will have confidence in him. When self-control is pos- 
sible you need never be sick — never suffer any physical 
pain — never become despondent — never be a slave of hab- 
it; in fact you are a man in the fullest, grandest, broad- 

29 


est sense of the word. Suppose, for instance, you have 
used tobacco up to the time you gain self-control. Now 
if you want to stop you can do so. How? Simply by 
giving yourself the suggestion, "from now on I shall 
not want tobacco." This is different from the good res- 
olutions that you have made every New Year's Da}^ 
since you smoked your first cigar. In them you said, 
"I will not use tobacco any more." Now you give your- 
self the suggestion, "I will not want it." Now perhaps 
you have given yourself this suggestion and in a short 
time you will want it. The thing to do is to give yourself 
another suggestion similar to the first one. In this 
manner you^can break the strongest habits. In doing 
this you will not suffer as you will when you just stop 
some accustomed indulgence, for you can in this man- 
ner take away the desire and remove any bad effects of 
the thing you wish to stop. 

If, on abstaining from tobacco, you get nervous, sim- 
ply give yourself the suggestion that you will not be 
nervous. Now suppose that you mash your finger, it 
will hurt you of course, but it need not continue to do 
so, just make the suggestion, "that finger will not pain 
me any more," "it will stop hurting;" "there is no pain 
there now," you will most surely be relieved from the 
pain. Now your bruised finger is not well of course; 
you cannot suggest that the bruised flesh will imme- 
diately unite and be sound and whole, and have it so; to 
say this would be absurd, but what really will occur, 
is this, when you give yourself the suggestion that the 
pain will leave the bruised finger it does so, and when 
the innamation, which causes the pain is removed, na- 
ture will get in her work and the wound will heal quick- 
er than it would if left alone. This is true in healing 
yourself of any disease. Any pain can be relieved in- 
stantly, but when the pain is caused by some morbid 

30 


condition of the body, only nature can remove or heal, 
but she does her work very quickly when all the condi- 
tions are favorable. Any disease which you can cure 
in another by psychology, you can cure in yourself. In 
one case you make an impression on the subjective 
mind of another and in the other case you impress your 
own subjective mind. 

All the experiments, tests, etc., heretofore given 
have been of the simplest kind — that is where you have 
a subject present and willing to assist you in all you do. 
This branch of psychology, which is the one most talked 
about, the showiest part — is in reality a very unimpor- 
tant and insignificant branch of the science, except that 
it shows and illustrates the principles and laws which 
are used in all cases by one practicing this science. I 
shall now take up some of the various subjects to which 
psychology may be applied with great success. 

TRADING. 

By this I mean dealing with men, generally in a 
business way, where there is something you wish an- 
other man to do — buy, sell, take stock, swap horses, etc. 

Every one knows that some men are "natural born 
traders." The}' can do business where any ordinary 
man would fail. They can sell goods to men who 
would not buy from another, and who probably do not 
know why they buy after they have done so. They are 
successful men; we say he is a "magnetic" fellow. They 
make people think just as they want them to while 
they are with them. Why? These successful traders, 
salesmen, etc., use the law of psychology in their deal- 
ings without knowing they are doing so. All that they 
know is that when they go at a deal in a certain man- 
ner, things come their way. The "certain manner" to 
go at it is to conform to the law of psychology. Now 
how is this to be done? It has been seen that when you 

3 1 


have a subject who consents for you to work on him 
and you make a suggestion to his subjective mind, the 
suggestion, no matter how absurd, is believed and acted 
on accordingly. Now no one is going to let you psy- 
chologize him; put him to sleep, etc., when you are 
dealing with him. But this rule still holds good, "im- 
pressions made on the subjective mind of the one you are 
dealing with will cause hi7n to act as though it were true, 
you may say, "of course if you convince a man that your 
proposition is a good thing for him he will accept it 
there is nothing new in that." But how to convince 
him is the thing to know. Now the one that yoyx. are 
trading with will not act until an impression is made on 
his subjective mind, that it is best for him to do so. As 
stated before there are two kinds of suggestions, from 
within, and from without; self suggestions and sugges- 
tions of another. The objective or reasoning and ob- 
serving part of a man stands between all the world and 
his subjective mind. It is the sentinel which guards his 
subjective mind from false impressions. When 3^011 sit 
down and convince a man's reason; when you appeal to 
his judgment and convince his objective mind that your 
proposition is a good one then you have gained your point. 
You make no use of the law of psychology, but the one 
you are dealing with makes a self suggestion to his 
subjective mind, that it is a good thing and he acts ac- 
cordingly. This is all right in its way, but you will 
never be a dazzling success as a trader if you never do 
more. If you are a salesman and never make sales ex- 
cept to those who are waiting for you to come to give 
you an order you wont amount to much. The man 
who stands behind the counter and gives customers the 
goods they come in and ask for don't need psychology 
to get them to buy goods, but the drummer who goes" 
to the customers and sells them stuff they don't want 

32 


and had never thought of buying does need it. Now 
how does he go at it? In the first place he must 
have self-confidence; every one knows this, but 
then every one does not know how to get it. I have 
told how, by getting self control in the way described 
and then give yourself the suggestion, "I will make this 
sale;" "I am sure I will carry out this deal/' etc. Be 
sure of yourself; don't doubt yourself, if you do the 
other fellow will doubt more. Now to get a suggestion 
on a man's subjective mind you must get his objective 
mind passive. Don't be short or abrupt. Don't make 
a proposition that is plainly in your favor and say, 
"you must accept this,'' for he won't. What you must 
have in your first approaches to a man with whom you 
wish to deal is 

TACT. 
That is you must avoid doing or saying any thing that 
will disturb or offend. The first thing to do is of course 
to get a hearing, to hold the attention of your man. 
Get him to listen to your proposition and get him to do 
so without being prejudiced against you before begin- 
ning. To do this make your first talk on the advantage 
he will have in accepting your offer. Talk on what you 
will do — what he will get, don't, at first, talk of what he 
will have to do or pay for what he gets, but dwell 
strongly on the advantages that he will derive from the 
deal. Now as soon as you get your man to say, 
or as soon as you believe he thinks that it is a good 
thing, tell him what he will have to do and then keep 
zvilling that he will do as you wish — that he will accept 
your offer — that he wants to trade with you. First 
you understand you must, by a tactful address, remove 
any prejudice or bias that he may have against you or 
your proposition. Experience will bring }^ou this skill 
but self confidence is a potent factor in removing the feel- 


ing of opposition that lie may have in his mind. If yon 
don't talk like yon believe what yon say, he will not 
believe yon. Now when his mind is passive — when he 
is thinking, or says, "That seems to be a good thing;" 
which he will say many times and still not intend to 
trade with yon: just as soon as yon believe he is pas- 
sive, in a negative state of mind — not resisting you— 
then is the time to nse psychological snggestion. Keep 
always in your mind the idea and give the mental sug- 
gestion, "You will accept my proposition;" "You will 
make this trade," etc., and then at the proper time, when 
he is not resisting, say, "You want to make this deal;" 
"You know that this will make money for you and you 
wont miss the opportunity." Make these suggestions, 
of course not in a bullying, bluffing way, but in a posi- 
tive tone; like you were stating a fact that was true be- 
yond question, and above all when saying it will it. 
Keep repeating in your mind, "You want to do this;" 
"You will do this," etc. To sum up the matter; have 
confidence in yourself, this you will have if you get 
self control in the manner described. Use tact in ap- 
proaching your man, that is put the very best face on 
your proposition possible in making your first ap- 
proaches; this tactful skill, this "touch faculty," will be 
acquired by a little experience, it is half learned when 
you have confidence in yourself. Next make a tactful 
talk — when have presented your proposition and your 
man is ready to accept or reject it, to say, "yes," or 
"no," give a psychological suggestion, both mental and 
oral that he will accept and also say, "You want this" 
Do not say that I think this is a good thing for }^ou, or 
I hope that you will do this, but be positive. Be 
positive in the cool positive manner of one with confi- 
dence in himself and certain of his statements not in 
the bullying, blurring way of a tough. The secret is 

34 


confidence and positive suggestion. If you ask a favor 
of a man, ask it as a favor, but if you go to make a 
trade with him don't go as if he were to give you some- 
thing; make it as a chance for him to benefit himself. 
Don't give the impression that you want him to trade, 
but give the suggestion that he wants to accept. There 
is absolutely no reason or excuse for any one being a 
failure who understands the law of psychology. Be- 
lieve in yourself and deny any chance of falure in the 
end. Have self-control and by that means confidence, 
and then throw in a reasonable amount of industry and 
you will amount to something. I do not teach that suc- 
cess or prosperity comes by "asserting your right to it," 
by any "mental attitude" as some do. It comes by do- 
ing, but with psychology you know how to do things, 
and the results of what you do are much greater than 
without it. By means of psychology an employee can 
not only make his employer pay him more, but can be 
worth more to him , and an employer can control better 
and get more work out of his employees. 

Any one with the confidence in himself that self- 
control will give him, will make friends if he wishes 
them. He will be able to attract and hold the interest 
of those around him. In talking to one he wisjies to be 
his friend he can give suggestions that he will be liked 
and favored in the future by that person. One having 
control of himself, which is possible by following these 
instructions, will never feel embarrassed in speaking in 
public. His thoughts and words will be under his con- 
trol and will flow as readily as with an intimate friend. 
The practical application of the law will soon be appre- 
ciated by one who understands it. It will be used to 
advantage in all the affairs of life. A politician may, 
by means of self-confidence and the proper sugges- 
tions, make votes and a lawyer can shape the verdict to 

35 


suit himself. Of course a politician can't make a man 
vote against what he (the voter) believes to be his own 
interest by psychology, but he can make an indifferent 
man in his favor. A lawyer can remove from a jury- 
man's mind often times by his confidence, his positive 
oral suggestkms and telepathic mental impressions, 
what that juryman would otherwise consider a Reason- 
able doubt," or put such a doubt where, without the use 
of psychology, there would have been none. One with 
this self-control and understanding psychology, may 
also control animals, dogs, horses or wild animals, the 
secret of all trainers of animals is perfect self-control 
expressed in look, manner and voice. Any one can 
control the most vicious animals by first getting their at- 
tention and then by controlling himself, by appearing 
absolutely fearless — master of the situation — by feeling 
and knowing that he can control the animal and then 
by doing it. The psychological suggestion will work 
as well on animals as on people. If a dog understands 
what you want when you give a certain command, when 
you give that order will that it be obeyed and you will 
succeed. If you control yourself you can control ani- 
mals. 

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. 

This is a faith, a creed or a science, which has aroused 
the bitterest attacks and criticism of a large part of the 
people and still it has many followers. Numbers have 
adopted it as their religion for the reason that they have 
seen the sick cured by those claiming to act according 
to the beliefs which constitute the Christian Science 
creed. 

The Christian Scientists have in their explanations 
of matters and things in general, reversed the accepted 
theory of most people. They claim that all things 
called material are immaterial and only exist in the 

36 


mind. That what is generally considered immaterial 
viz: thought, is the only real existant thing or mat- 
ter. If one is sick, suffering from the headache, 
for instance, the Christian Scientist will tell the 
sufferer that it is only thought that pains him — 
impress on the patient the fact that his head 
which hurts exists only in his thoughts — that the pain 
is only a perverted mental effort. In other words there 
is no headache but that the person who thinks that the 
head belongs to him only thinks that the said immate- 
rial head aches. Plainly they tell the patient that he 
is not sick, he only thinks that he is. To make this 
impression is the end and aim of all the}^ do in attempt- 
ing to cure disease. They, of course, have elaborate 
theories and beliefs as to the origin of spirit, its rela- 
tion to God, etc., which it is unnecessary to discuss. 
Many people, good, intelligent, educated people, have 
accepted their belief in spite of its absurd vague, theories. 
They accept Christian Science usually, if not always, on 
account of cures they have made. An}^ one who denies 
that they do make cures, is either ignorant, prejudiced, 
or simply refuses to believe his own eyes. They cure, 
but why? It is not to be accounted for by their own 
fanciful theories, but by this law of psychology. Their 
whole method of treatment, every thing they do in 
treating a patient, follows the law of psychological sug- 
gestion; it makes no difference why you follow the law 
of ps3^chology or what you believe about it, the. result 
will be the same. Now a patient who is in, or ap- 
proaches a psychological condition, will most surely be 
benefited or cured by Christian Scientists who make to 
him, in their treatment, strong suggestions of health — 
of the absence of disease, etc. When, however, the 
patient is not in condition to receive the 
suggestion, the treatment is useless. Much more 

37 


can he accomplished hy one who understands ps; 
chology. He can tell if the patient is in condition an 
if not, can induce the state necessary to receive tl 
health suggestion. He knows what he is doing an 
wh.37; and one treating by psychology does not not r 
quire nor insist on the absence of medicine nor obje( 
to a physician attending on the person he is treatin| 
If a patient has a strong auto-suggestion, if he firml 
believes that he cannot get well without drugs, the ps 
chologist permits their use. The drugs themselves ai 
suggestions in such a case, and bread pills are foun 
very efficient with this kind off patients. 

MIND READING, THOUGHT TRANSFERENCE 
AND TELEPATHY. 

By this is meant the conveyance of a thought c 
an idea from one mind to another without the ai 
of the senses. One of the methods by which thi 
may be done has been described: that is when the re 
ceiver is under psychological control. Experiments 
this kind are always most successful. It is not neces 
sary, however, that the receiver be under the control c 
the transmitter, but it is necessary to successful result 
that the receiver be in the psychological condition. 

In trying experiments, remember that for a though 
to be transfered it must be so willed by the transmitter 
The receiver should make his mind as near a blank a 
possible — should be passive. To do this let him fix hi; 
mind — concentrate — on an object. Then think of some 
thing — a simple thing such as a number — and wili 
that the receiver shall be conscious of the thing in you: 
mind, do not let the thoughts be distracted, nor the imagi 
nation to interfere, with steady persistent thought of 
number selected, and constantly will that the receivei 
know what you are thinking. Now let the receivei 

38 


ently turn his thoughts from the object on which he 
as been concentrating, to you. There should be no 
fort in it; just a quiet state of mind with the desire to 
now the thoughts of the transmitter, and you will most 
robably succeed. While for various causes — distracted 
loughts, unconscious wandering of the mind of the 
•ansmitter from the idea to be transmitted, and the 
tck of passivity on the part of the receiver, you may 
ot succeed every time, still, by these experiments 
lough will be discovered to convince you that there is 
ich a thing as though transference or telepathy. No,' 
] course, that it is possible for a person to tell all an- 
:her is thinking of, but to get the prominent idea or 
uage in anothers mind — especially when that person 
esires you to do so. This desire or will of the trans- 
litter has much to do with successfully communicating 
' thought. For this reason, as in an experiment the 
Isire is more artificial than real, these experiments are 
ot successful to the degree reached when there is a 
*al wish to convey an idea. 

PRESENTMENTS 

ire an instance of this, where for instance a calamity 
as occurred, or a great danger is imminent and is known 
) some one, the thought is frequently transferred to 
toother and that other "feels" that something is wrong 
ir that some misfortune has occurred; that is called a 
resentment. Some may not believe in any such things 
ccurring, but many others know that they do and have 
ccurred, either from their own experience or from state- 
ments of those whose word they cannot doubt. They 
;re not always true, it must be admitted, and one does 
lot always have a presentment when it might be 
toought he would, but the conditions and circumstances 
leccessary to the transmission of thought are so nu- 
merous and complicated that we cannot always tell why 

39 


it occurs in one case and not in another; still we cannot, 
after a fair investigation, doubt that it does occur some- 
times and under favorable conditions, we can produce 
the phenomena at will. 

SPIRITUALISM. 
There is no phenomenon or effect produced by the 
Spiritualists, which cannot be accounted for by the law 
of psychology. To deny that the Spiritualists do pro- 
duce phenomena is to show ignorance, or to flatly con- 
tradict well authenticated facts. They do produce cer- 
tain phenomena beyond a doubt and many people base 
their faith in a future life on these same manifestations. 
In denying the supernatural nature of the results ob- 
tained by the Spiritualists, of course it does not follow 
that there is no future existance, it simply means that 
the Spiritualistic mediums do not prove it. Through the 
mediums, it is claimed, communication may be had 
with persons who are dead. The Spiritualists claim 
that the departed spirits can come in touch through the 
"medium" of these members of the faith giving them- 
selves that name — mediums. In one of these spiritual- 
istic seances if you wish to communicate with, say your 
dead father, you tell the medium, and he or she will 
probably tell you that you can talk to him, your 
father; upon asking him questions, through the 
medium of course, such answers may be given as to 
convince you that the medium is in touch with a de- 
parted spirit, from the knowledge shown of events 
and facts known only to you and your dead father. 
Many leave such seances firmly convinced of the truth 
of spiritualism and it must be confessed that without a 
more reasonable explanation of some of the things they 
do, it is the natural decision to reach — that you have 
communicated with the spirit; but now what was it? 
The medium was a psychic with the subjective mind in 

4 o 


control, or uppermost and one who has carefully studied 
the nature and faculties of the subjective mind as here- 
tofore explained, can readily see and explain all he has 
witnessed. The medium, when telling of a circum- 
stance known only to you and the deceased person to 
whom you are supposed to be in communication, has 
read your mind — telepathy — possibly you were not con- 
scious that 3'ou were thinking of the circumstance men- 
tioned, but remember the medium read your subjective 
mind— not your objective— and the subjective mind forgets 
nothing, it is the storehouse of memory— the subconscious 
mind — and even though there is no recollection of the 
event that the medium has spoken of in your conscious, 
objective, mind it is recorded on your subjective mind 
and from it the medium gets the suggestion of such an 
incident. A simple and convincing test of the truth of 
this explanation may be made by calling up the spirit 
of an imaginary person. Communication may be had 
with those who never existed as easily as with one who 
has lived. It seems as though this would anihilate the 
theory of the spiritualists. Another feature of the phe- 
nomena is. that while you may talk with the spirit of 
Bacon, Shakespere, or Daniel VVebster, the conversa- 
tion you may have with the spirits of these intellectual 
giants will be no more learned, profound or logical than 
the mind of the medium through whom it is re- ■ 
ceived. To sum up the matter — all communication 
received through the spiritualistic medium comes from' 
the medium's subjective mind and not from supernatural 
agents. The medium is often honest in the belief that 
the cause is supernatural; that departed spirits do talk 
through him. The explanation of their good faith is that 
they have the suggestion — either by themselves or 
others, made on their subjective mind that they are the 
spirts of some one who is dead and according to the law 

41 


of psychology they believe it, and act accordingly. The 
whole creed of the spiritualists is simply an eroneous 
and illogical explanation of certain psychological phe- 
nomena. Some persons calling themselves spiritualists 
have had their methods and means of producing mani- 
festations shown up and proved to be the rankest frauds 
and fakes, but I have been discussing the better class — 
those who are honest in their belief. I give the better 
class of spiritualists credit for being honest but they are 
mistaken. 

HYPNOTISM. 
This is a name given to certain phenomena pro- 
duced by psychology, such as have been described; that 
is controling a person by direct suggestion when he 
consents and is willing to assist you. It is but a small 
part of psychology- The word was coined by Doctor 
Braid, an English doctor who investigated and develop- 
ed the subject considerable about 1840. The only ob- 
jection to be urged against calling these phenomena 
hypnotism, is that the word implies nerve sleep, 
and in your first experiments you will prove yourself, 
that a subject under psychological control may be as 
wide awake as he ever was; that hypnotism, meaning 
nerve sleep, is a misnomer, giving a wrong idea of what 
the condition really is, and psychology (science of the 
soul) seems to be a much more exact word to use. Hyp- 
notism is merely a name for the phenomena produced 
by psychological control. 

MESMERISM. 
This is a name frequently used to denote the same 
thing as hypnotism. It comes from MesmER. Mesmer 
was a Frenchman, who, it might be said, re-discovered 
the use of psychology in the treatment of disease, about 
the year 1766. The theory by which he accounted for 
the effects produced by psychological suggestion was, 

42 


that passes must be made with the hands in curing a 
patient and that a subtil fluid flowed from his fingers 
and entered into the patient, thereby curing him. Mes- 
merism, as a name for the pS3/chological treatment of 
disease, is objectionable because the theory pro- 
pounded by Mesmer was wrong and untrue. It failed 
entirely to account for even the simple psychological 
phenomena he produced. 

DREAMS. 
Dreams have aroused the vvoncer, curiosity and in- 
terest of mankind from earliest times. Much weight 
is sometimes given to them and important matters have 
been decided according to their nature. The " Stuff 
that dreams are made of" has been the subject of much 
speculation. Dreams are merely the activities of the 
subjective mind while the individual is asleep, and these 
remembered are the ones which occur during the light- 
est slumber. There is scarcely any doubt — though I 
shall not attempt to prove it as it is immaterial — that 
the subjective mind is always active, in other words, we 
dream all the time during sleep, but like many other 
activities of the subjective mind they are not always 
made known to the objective or conscious mind. 
Dreams occur during natural sleep — which differs but 
slightly from the sleep induced by suggestion in a 
psychic — and are caused by suggestions made upon the 
subjective mind of the sleeper. These suggestions are 
of various kinds and are known to every one; getting 
cold while asleep will cause dreams of winter; indiges- 
tion will cause a nightmare, dreams of being trampled 
on by monsters, etc. That dreams are effected by the 
conditions and surroundings of the sleeper is known to 
all. If the mind is occupied with business just before 
going to sleep it will cause dreams regarding business, 
etc. While many of those dreams remembered on 

43 


awakening cannot be traced to the original suggestion 
which caused them, still enough of them can be ac- 
counted for to make us certain that they are all caused 
by suggestions, made either by ones own objective 
mind, surroundings, or the subjective mind of another. 
It is possible to dream of whatever is desired. To do so 
however, one must have self-control — must be able to 
turn his thoughts to any subject desired and exclude 
other things from the mind. One having self-control 
and wishing to dream of — say, a certain person — can do 
so by giving himself a suggestion that " to-night I shall 
dream of A." The suggestion must be strong — strong 
enough to overcome the other things which the mind 
may dwell upon. Give yourself the suggestion that 
you will dream of the thing you wish. Keep it on 
your mind. Make it strong and positive and if you are 
in the psychic state, you will most certainly dream as 
you wished. It is well to give the additional sugges- 
tion that on waking you will remember the dream as 
otherwise you might dream as you wished but not re- 
member it when you awoke. If that occurred you 
would of course think you had failed, at any rate you 
would not know that you had succeeded. 

TO MAKE OTHERS DREAM AS YOU WISH. 
This is done by a kind of telepathy. Upon going 
to sleep will that the person you wish to influence will 
dream of the person or thing you have selected. The 
will must be exerted strongly and you should go to 
sleep yourself with the idea in your mind that the per- 
son will dream as you wish. It is also well to add the 
suggestion, that the dream will be remembered, for the 
same reason as when controlling your own dreams. To 
successfully control the dreams of another, the one 
whom you are working must have no auto-suggestion 
stronger than the one you give. For instance, if you 

44 


suggest to yourself that you will dream of a certaiu 
thing and another person is trying to make you dream 
of something different, your auto-suggestion will most 
likely be the stronger and the person trying to control 
your dreams will have no effect on you. In this, as in 
all other cases of psychic suggestion, the mind of the 
subject should be passive. In making this test it is 
well not to tell the one you wish to work on what you 
are going to do, as the expectancy will fill his mind 
with all sorts of suggestions; but try it without the 
knowledge of your subject and afterwards ascertain if 
he dreamed as you suggested. 

MEMORY. 

The subjective mind is the store-house of memory. 
It forgets nothing. The subjective mind notes and re- 
cords everything seen, heard, or observed in any way 
by the senses. It is the part of man that will some day 
stand before his Maker to be judged, and every thought, 
act and desire, as well as all that has been seen and 
heard on this earth will be carried by the God-part — 
soul — of man to God himself. 

Numerous tests ma}' be made to show that the 
memory of the subjective mind is perfect. Psychics, 
when under control, can frequently be made to repeat 
sermons, lectures, pieces of poetry, etc., which they 
have heard or read and which, objectively, they are to- 
totally unable to remember. As to practical applica- 
tion of this part of psychology — suppose you wish to 
remember a date, a name or an3^thing which has 
"slipped your mind." If you are in a psychic state you 
can do so. 

First make you mind passive. If necessary, con- 
centrate for a few minutes, then gently turn your mind 
to the thing you wish to recollect. Don't exert any 
particular force or will power, but just make your mind 

45 


passive and youfwill remember the thing you wish very 
soon. This is^very^ different from the mental effort 
usually exerted in such cases, "Racking your mind," 
as it is sometimes very properly called. This is simply 
being passive and waiting, and is sure to have the de- 
sired effect if you are in the psychic state. To remove 
unpleasant thoughts the[method is similar; the psychic 
state must, of course, be reached, and here again I wish 
to impress the absolute necessity of reaching this con- 
dition in order to reap the full benefits of psychology. 
One in the psychic state, who is constantly worried and 
annoyed by unpleasant thoughts — remorse, business 
worries or mental distractions of any kind or nature^ 
can be relieved of the mental strain and unhealthy con- 
dition. Suggestion is the cure. When troubled, wor- 
ried or harrassed by your thoughts, get in a passive 
state — get quiet — concentrate a few minutes, then give 
the auto-suggestion that the thoughts now troubling 
you will annoy you no longer — that from now on you 
will think of some other subject. It is better to give 
yourself, in addition to the negative suggestion, that 
you will NOT think of one thing, a positive suggestion 
that you will think and become interested in some 
other matter or subject. This can be practiced with en- 
tire success. All these kinds of self-control simply fol- 
low the general statement already made that one in the 
psychic state can control all the conditions, sensations 
and functions of the body. This includes power to 
relieve a disordered condition of the brain. No one un- 
derstanding the law of psychology need ever be tortured 
by recollections of his past, as many of the human 
race are. 

CHILDREN. 
The subject of pre-natal influence on the minds 
and bodies of children is well recognized by all. The 

4 6 


laws of psychology apply liere as well as in all other 
matters affecting the human mind. It frequently hap- 
pens that children resemble persons not related to them 
at all. Many pure wives have suffered the most unjust 
and unfounded suspicions on this account. It is a well- 
known fact that if a mother who is a psychic thinks 
much or often sees a person, the child will resemble 
that individual. For instance, previous to her child's 
birth, the mother as a rule, sees a great deal of the doc- 
tor; she depends on him to take care of her health; she 
thinks of him often; he is constantly in her mind; now 
when the child is born it is nothing strange nor unusual 
if it resembles that doctor. It may be the preacher who 
most occupies her mind and in such a case the child 
would, of course resemble him. This occurs where 
the mother is a psychic. The image of the preacher 
or doctor, being constantly in her mind, makes such an 
impression on her subjective mind that the child re- 
sembles the one thought of. Birthmarks are caused by 
the operation of the same law. Whenever you see a 
person with a birthmark you may be sure that his 
mother was a psychic; especially if a mother believes 
that certain things will cause her child to be marked, 
will that, prove true. For instance, there is a case on 
record where, before her child was born, a mother 
saw a baby which was born without hands. As soon 
as she saw the deformed child she remarked that her 
child, when born, would be the same way, and it proved 
true as the mother had said. Sometimes something 
frightens the mother, possibly a snake, a frog, a person 
with a scar on his face, etc. She gets the idea that on 
account of this fright her child will be marked and it 
proves true if the mother is a psychic. Now this can 
be prevented b}^ making a counter suggestion. When 
the prospective mother gets an impression from any 

47 


cause, that her child will be birth-marked, the thing to 
do is to put her under your control and make sugges- 
tions that her child will not be marked. Do this sev- 
eral times if the belief that it will be marked is strong 
and in all cases you can counter-act the effect of the 
first impression. This kind of suggestion may be car- 
ried much further. If desired, the suggestions can be 
made that the child, when born, will resemble any par- 
ticular person; or a picture may be selected and kept con- 
stantly before the mothers eyes. About once a week 
make psychological suggestions to her that her child 
will resemble the picture. Do this regularly during 
pregnancy and in this manner children may be made 
to resemble the most beautiful portraits, in face and fig- 
ure. Beautiful children will, by following this method, 
be born to the ugliest people. The same is true of 
childrens mental and moral nature as of their bodies. 
A child who is not wanted — whose birth is preceeded by 
a dissatisfied, resentful and moody frame of mind on 
the part of its mother will certainly be endowed with a 
surly, viscious and generally unlovely disposition. One 
whose advent is looked forward to with joy and hope 
and is ushered into surroundings glad to receive it will 
naturally have a bright, happy nature. Talents can 
also be bestowed on a child by its mother. Let her 
reach a psychic state and then give herself the sugges- 
tion that her child will, for instance, have a natural 
talent and taste for music. Let the mother listen to 
music at every opportunity; let her play on any instru- 
ment she can or sing a great deal. Let her give her- 
self the suggestion frequently that her child will have 
have musical talent and she will find that one of the 
prominent characteristics of her child will be a love and 
taste for music. The same method may be used in 
giving the unborn child a mathematical, poetical, or 

4 8 


literary turn of mind. Study and suggestions regard- 
ing religion will develop the spiritual nature. When 
the truth of this application of psychology is realized it 
seems reason able to hope and expect that the world will 
be better, and humanity in general, more intelligent, 
talented and higher minded. "The hand that rocks the 
cradle is the hand that rules the world," and at least as 
much of the power and influence of mothers is exerted 
before her child's birth as is used in the training of it 
after birth. 

CURING DISEASE. 
That disease is cured by psychological suggestion 
is now a fact disputed by none who have made the 
slightest investigation. Man has at all times been 
treated in this manner — suggestion — under a great va- 
riety of names, some of which are Mesmerism, hypno- 
tism, cure-by-holy-relics, prayer-cure, faith-cure, Kings 
touch, mental science, spiritualism, etc. Each of the 
healers curing disease under these different names have 
a different theory to account for the cures made, but on 
investigation, we find that every one, without an excep- 
tion, use exactly the same means to effect their end, viz: 
suggestions made on the subjective mind. The success 
of all the persons treating under the different S} T stems, 
theories and beliefs, shows that it makes no difference 
what name you may give to the application of a mental 
suggestion, nor what theory you may have to account 
for its effect, the result will be the same. The whole 
explanation of all the cures wrought by all the advo- 
cates of Christian Science, faith cure, etc., is simply 
this; man is a dual being, possessed of an objective and 
a subjective mind. The objective mind is the one con- 
trolling all the voluntary actions, it is the mind by 
which we do business; it operates through the five 
senses. It develops and finally dies with the physical 

49 


body. The subjective mind is distinct. When not op- 
posed in any way, it has absolute control over all the 
functions, sensations and conditions of the body. While 
the objective mind has control of the voluntary func- 
tions and motions, the subjective mind controls all of 
the silent, involuntary, vegetative functions. Nutrition, 
waste, all secretions and excretions, the action of the 
heart in the circulation of the blood, the lungs in respi- 
ration or breathing, and all cell life, cell changes and 
development, are under the complete control of the sub- 
jective mind. This subjective mind perceives by intui- 
tion, can communicate with others without the aid of 
ordinary physical means and can read the thoughts of 
others. It receives intelligence and transmits it to peo- 
ple at a distance. Distance oilers no resistance against 
the successful missions of the subjective mind. It nev- 
er forgets anything, never sleeps and can live and exist 
in dependant of the body. It is the SOUL. 

Any suggestion made on the subjective mind in 
regard to the condition of the body, if not counter-acted 
or opposed by other stronger suggestions, will be acted 
upon. It is a well-known and accepted fact that a per- 
son expecting and fearing a particular disease is much 
more liable to contract it than one who does not. Es- 
pecially is this true of one who is convinced that he has 
inherited a certain disease — consumption for instance. 
One who has a strong impression that on account of 
some member of his family dying with lung trouble he 
will also die in the same way, is laying the way open 
for consumption to attack him. In all such cases a 
proper understanding of the law of psychological sug- 
gestion is invaluable, for when properly made, it will 
not only relieve the fear of a disease but prevent it. 
Every one can and should, after learning the law, con- 
centrate until the psychic state is reached and then 

50 


constantly give himself suggestions of health, strength 
and freedom from fear of disease of any kind. And 
every one not understanding the law, or who lacks faith 
in the power of his own suggestions can be treated by 
another to remove the fear of and prevent disease. If we 
expect and look for sickness and bad health, in the nat- 
ural course of events they will be found. Now in treat- 
ing people by suggestion, the two things necessary are 
confidence in yourself in order to make your suggestions 
forceful and a passive condition and desire to get well 
on the part of the person to be treated. Faith on the 
part of the patient is not necessary except that that he 
must become passive and have a desire to get well; two 
conditions certainly easy to conform to. First, when 
treating one when you are with him and he understands 
what method you are going to use on him. The best 
results can be obtained by getting them completely un- 
der your control. Follow the method described in these 
instructions until your patient will act on your sugges- 
tion of sleep, till you can stiffen his arms, close his 
eyes, etc. Now if you know the particular trouble of 
your patient, that is if you wish to remove a pain he 
has described to you — relieve tooth-ache and the like — 
make the suggestions particularly apply to that trouble 
say the pain in your right hand will be relieved, or 
this tooth — touching it — will stop aching. Be specific 
in what pain, ache, or disease you wish to relieve or 
cure and it will take less time to succeed. However it 
is not necessary to diagnose a case in order to apply 
the laws of suggestion. For instance, one may wish 
you to relieve the headache — now you do not know the 
cause of the pain; it may be from indigestion, consti- 
pation, nervousness, a blow, or many other things. In 
this case suggest, of course, that the head will give no 
more trouble — the pain will leave it, and then, to pre- 

51' 


vent its return, if you do not know the cause of it, give 
the suggestion that the pain will not return — that the 
cause will be removed — and give repeated suggestions 
of health and a normal condition to your patient. Some 
times it is best to simply suggest that the patient will 
be relieved for one day. This is better in some cases 
because you may have more confidence in your ability 
to give temporary relief and the patient will more read- 
ily accept such suggestions. When the time you have 
specified that your subject will be relieved has expired 
give another treatment and continue until you have ef- 
fected a complete cure which will not be long if you 
faithfully and regularly follow the method here laid 
down. Let your manner when giving a treatment by 
suggestion be earnest, positive and confident. Act and 
talk like you know what you are about. Don't have 
an}' foolishness. Treat any one you wish who you be- 
lieve will honestly co as you tell him. Who will con- 
centrate his mind — be passive so as to receive your sug- 
gestions — and who really wishes to be cured or relieved. 
Decline to work with one who simply wishes to prove 
that you can't help him. You won't benefit him as his 
object in being treated is to prove you won't. As be- 
fore stated a belief in you on the part of }^our patients 
is not essential but they must do their part. If one 
comes to you saying that they do not believe }^ou can 
cure or benefit, but they are willing to follow your direc- 
tions that is all }^ou require; they can be cured. In 
treating remember you do not deny the existance of 
pain or disease, you do not suggest that there is nothing 
the matter with your patient; he will know that there is 
something troubling him and such suggestions will 
cause resentment and prejudice against you. What 
you should do is to suggest that the pain or disease is 
removed, is better, or is cured. Admit — and you cer- 

52 


tainly will for it is true — that your patient is sick, but 
suggest a cure — not that he has been healthy all the 
time but that he will be healthy. Always make your 
suggestions as specific as 3'ou can but when you do not 
know exactly what is the matter, general suggestion of 
health — relief from pain, etc., will answer as well — 
only takes more time — that is you will have to treat 
them oftener. Remember that you work no miracles 
but that time is necessary in most cases. The natural 
condition of the body is one of perfect health and per- 
fect health w T ill be enjoyed as long as there is no sug- 
gestion from physical or outside agencies which tend to 
produce pain or disease. Now to illustrate what can 
be done, and what cannot be done by suggestion sup- 
pose a dyspeptic comes to you to be relieved. He is in 
great discomfort at the time. You can by suggestion 
relieve him of his pain and make him feel well and re- 
lieved, but if he then proceeds to eat something which 
disagrees with him the discomfort will certainly be felt 
again. This is caused by the disordered condition of 
his digestive aparatus. To effect a permanent cure it will 
be necessary to give frequent treatments and during that 
time reasonable and common sense rules should be ob- 
served by him in regard to his diet — but by treating 
him often and frequently giving him the suggestion 
that permanent relief will be found, nature, acting on 
these impressions you are making on the subjective 
mind, will restore the digestive organs to their original 
strength, and then your dyspeptic patient can eat with 
impunity the same food that any other healthy man 
can. In all chronic cases or conditions where there has 
been some organic change in the body, time is neces- 
sary for nature to act on your suggestions. Pain can 
always be removed at once when in the psychic state. 
In a wound the pain can be removed and suggestions 

53 


can be made that the wound will heal rapidly and nat- 
urally, which suggestion will be acted upon. Nature 
cures long-standing or chronic diseases, where there is 
usualy some organic change in the body, in the same 
way she does the cut, both of which take time. In giv- 
ing proper healthful suggestions you remove the un- 
healthy impressions from the subjective mind and a 
normal, healthy state is the result. When you have 
your patient under complete physical and mental con- 
trol, which you can have by the method described, it is 
possible by suggestion to produce ansesthesia in any 
part of the body. A dentist may, by the use of this law 
extract teeth without giving pain. Let him simply 
follow the instruction as heretofore given. Suggest that 
no pain will be felt, and the patient will most assured- 
ly feel no pain. Suggestion can be and is used in the 
most painful, surgical operations. If doubt is felt on 
this point to convince yourself of its truth take any 
subject whom you have under your control and suggest 
that when you stick a pin in his hand he will not feel 
it. Then do so, and prove to yourself, beyond the 
shadow of a doubt, that the hand is absolutely incapa- 
ble of giving pain. This simple experiment will show 
that, as claimed, perfect ansesthesia may be produced 
by psychology. If one understands this law and is a 
psychic, natural or induced, he can control himself 'to 
the same, or greater extent, so that he need never take 
chloroform or any like drug to endure any surgical 
or dental operation. Now in discussing this subject of 
the cure of disease I have presumed that you had your 
patient in a psychic state and you should insist that he 
reach this state to be treated for any chronic disease or 
for any trouble which will require a number of treat- 
ments, but much can be accomplished by suggestion 
without the patient being completely under your con- 

54 


trol; when the patient does not know what yon are 
doing even. In this kind of treatment many methods 
may be used; you should be governed by circumstances. 
For instance, a Doctor wishes to use suggestion to cure 
some patient; one very good way if his medicines have 
failed to have the desired effect is to tell the patient 
that he is now going to administer a very powerful drug 
— that it will have a certain effect beyond a doubt; that 
it is impossible for it to fail, etc. The drug will then 
be much more efficient than if taken without having 
had its effects spoken of. Many Doctors make it a rule, 
and it is certainly a good one and in strict conformity 
to psychological law, to give no medicine without stat- 
ing what its effects will be; telling what it is for and 
how it will act. If you wish to treat a sick friend with- 
out his knowledge, when you visit him always be 
hopeful, look bright and cheerful rather than depressed; 
insist that you see an improvement, talk encouragingly 
of the progress being made; be bright, be hopeful, be en- 
couraging and sanguine and inspire with your health 
rather than sympathize by telling how sick you know 
he is, and how he must suffer etc. Again, suppose the 
person you wish to benefit knows of and consents to your 
using the power of suggestion on him but is not a 
pS3'chic. Remember that the suggestions have effect 
on the subjective mind in proportion as the psychic 
state is approached. Now you cannot put this non- 
psychic to sleep or produce anaesthesia perhaps, but 
you can have a strong influence. Treat him just as 
though he were a psychic, only do not attempt to put 
him to sleep, suggest that whatever is troubling him 
will cease; that he will feel well, etc. While perfect 
success is not assured in these cases, still you will al- 
ways benefit. All diseases can be successfully treated 
by psychological suggestion but some are easier to cure 

55 


than others. Nervous diseases especially are cured by 
this means to an extent almost incredible to one familiar 
with the constant failure of drugs in such cases. Epi- 
lepsy is one form of disease in which drugs are almost 
useless, and so admitted by physicians. An epileptic 
who is treated by suggestion will show immediate im- 
provement and can be cured absolutely and made sound 
and whole by continued treatment. It may take some- 
time but no one will stop after seeing the constant im- 
provement that will most surely be shown. Other dis- 
eases, which at first glance, might be considered proof 
against psychology, but which can and are being cured 
every day by its use are those of the blood. Old ulcers 
and sores may be healed by giving suggestion to that 
effect, by impressing the idea of pure blood and general 
good health in addition to the one that the ulcer will 
heal — the success which will certainly follow it is ac- 
counted for in the same old way — the cause is removed 
and nature restores the body to its normal, healthy, 
sound state. Tumors of the most serious nature have 
been and can be removed simply and solely by sugges- 
tion. Suggest that it is getting smaller, is decreasing, 
even when not giving the treatment, speak of its de- 
creased size, the better appearance, etc., of your patient. 
It will take time but it will certainly be removed by na- 
ture if the treatment is persisted in and will be benefited 
even though the treatment is not continued long enough 
to entirely cure. Persons who have fainted may be 
revived immediately by simple suggestion. Remember 
in giving a suggestion to a person who has fainted and 
is apparently unconscious, that his subjective mind is 
not asleep, that it hears and will act on a suggestion 
properly given. In such a case, talk positively to the 
one who has fainted and, as in all suggestion, back your 
words up by your will. You can have him relieved in 

56 


thir manner much quicker than by any other means, 

GIVING SUGGESTIONS WHILE ASLEEP. 
This is one of the most interesting branches of the 
study of psychology. Telepathy, or the communica- 
tion of the subjective mind without the aid of the senses 
is, as already stated, a positive fact; one that can be 
demonstrated by any one to his own satisfaction in the 
manner described. Distance is no barrier to this kind 
of mental communication. If, when a person is asleep 
— natural sleep — suggestions be made, they have the 
same force and effect as when given during sleep in- 
duced by one operating on a subject. It is also a fact 
that if before going to sleep you will, or mentally com- 
mand, in other words give yourself a suggestion, that 
while you are asleep }'ourself your subjective mind 
shall go to another and make certain impressions it 
will do so. For instance, you wish on the following- 
day to make some kind of a business deal with a cer- 
tain person. When you retire at night fix your mind on 
that person and will that during the night your subjec- 
tive mind shall communicate with his and influence him 
in favor of the deal you are desirous of making, for in- 
stance, you may suggest that he will call at your office, 
or that when approached on the subject he will look fa- 
vorably upon it. Now when you awake next morning 
you will be wholly unconscious of having been in com- 
munication with the person you wished, and the one* 
you have been working on will be ignorant of what you 
have done, but in the majority of cases you will see the 
effect you have had — results will follow your treatment 
that will remove any doubts you may have as to the 
efficiency of your treatment, and, though you may re- 
gard it as an absurd proposition on hearing it stated y 
you cannot but believe as asserted, that you can in- 
fluence another when you are both asleep. Any sug- 

57 


gestion may be made, of course, friends can be made 
and kept in this way. If you wish the friendship, re- 
spect, or love of another, give them such a treatment 
for several nights and you will soon see the results. 
Now as to treating disease at a distance when the pa- 
tient is not asleep, is passive and has a knowledge of 
the fact that another subjective mind is treating him; 
I call this home treatment. 

It follows as a natural conclusion that if healthful 
impressions can be made on a person while he is asleep 
and unconscious of your efforts to aid him that, when a 
patient is assisting you, is in a passive state of mind 
for the purpose of receiving and accepting suggestions 
of health, specified suggestions, made by one who 
knows what disease is troubling the patient and is using 
all the powers of his subjective mind to relieve and 
benefit; that the effect must be greater. This is giving 
home treatment. In treating patients this way the dis- 
ease is known. The patient, according to directions 
sent him, in a receptive frame of mind, is passive and 
desirous of getting relief; assisting in every way to 
carry out the suggestions given him telepathicly. The 
subjective mind knows no such thing as distance. It 
is as easy to telepath a thought one thousand miles as 
it is one foot. The natural means of communication 
between subjective minds is telepathy. Even when you 
make suggestions to a subject by speaking to him the 
will you use to back up the words spoken is the real 
effective part of the suggestion. Words are only an 
accessary to the \vill and can be dispensed with. So 
that, in treating disease by home treatment the whole 
law of suggestion is complied with and only the super- 
nous verbal sound is dispensed with. Results are often 
obtained by this home treatment that cannot be ob- 
tained when with a subject as there are no diverting 

58 


sights or sounds to distract the mind of a patient who is 
in his own house and is putting his mind in a passive 
receptive condition; while in a strange place with the 
psychologist present, giving verbal suggestions, the 
thoughts often wander and are led off from the sugges- 
tions by unusual sights and sounds. The efficiency of 
this method of treatment is evidenced by the thousands 
who have found health through it, many of whom have 
been utterly hopeless and despondent of ever being free 
from disease. 

CORRECTION OF VICES. 

Bad habits, the use of tobacco, whisky, morphine, 
etc., can be cured by suggestion to an extent almost in- 
credible to those familiar with the usual failure of other 
means. Of course to get the full effect of the sugges- 
tion the patient must be in the psychic state. When 
in this state there must be a desire to quit on the part 
of the person being treated. When these two condi- 
tions are complied with, success is certain. Make your 
suggestions gradual if it is a bad case, a confirmed and 
long continued habit. For instance, if you were treat- 
ing one in the habit of smoking twenty cigarettes per 
day, make your first suggestion that he will not want 
so many; say, "Tomorrow you will not want or smoke 
one-half as many," give several treatments. Always 
suggest that the desire will be less and finally that 
there will be no craving at all. Always insist that the 
person you are treating be earnest and sincere in the 
desire to stop the habit and always back your suggestion 
by your will. In this manner the habit may be cured. 
The cure of those addicted to the use of whisky, tobac- 
co, or any drug is, from its very nature, mental, and 
suggestion is almost the only means for the relief of 
such cases. 

59 


BURIED ALIVE. 
The time was when persons who worried over be- 
ing buried alive were considered foolish; when it was 
regarded as absurd to even suspect that a person who 
had been pronounced dead by physicians might still 
live and be put in the grave before the spirit had left 
the body but, in the light of modern investigation and 
on account of the numerous facts which have been dis- 
covered, it is now considered by a large class of intelli- 
gent people as a very imminent danger. Many foreign 
countries have laws to prevent such an occurence and 
the state of New York has legislated on the subject. 
There is absolutely no doubt but that many have been 
buried alive but how many, of course we shall never 
know. That there may be a complete suspension of ani- 
mation is a fact not recognized by medical men gener- 
ally. By complete suspension of animation, I mean all 
breathing and circulation of the blood is stopped. There 
is absolutely no test by which one in this state may be 
told from one who has recently died. It frequently oc- 
curs after a long illness, when the whole system is worn 
out and exhausted by the fight that has been going on 
against disease, that the patient apparently dies when 
as a matter of fact nature is simply exhausted and the 
functions of the body are suspended but death has not oc- 
curred. Now any one in the psychic state can by their 
own will restore the functions and relieve themselves 
when from any cause they go into this condition. Any 
one who keeps himself in the psychic state need never 
fear premature burial; it is within his own power to 
throw off the death-like appearance and to let it be 
known that he still lives. In all cases where one not 
understanding the laws of psychology or not in a psy- 
chic state apparently dies, attempts should be made to 
revive him by strong suggestions but if these do not 

60 


have the desired effect it is never safe to allow the un- 
dertaker to prepare the supposed dead body for burial 
until some signs of decomposition, however slight, show 
conclusively that all life has departed. Absolutely the 
only infalible and sure sign of death is some sign of 
decomposition in the body. Of course the slightest 
sign of this is proof positive but all other tests; the 
coldness, the appearance of the eyes, cessation of the 
heart's action, etc., may be deceptive. This matter is 
most certainly a serious one and the prevention of its 
occurrence is not the least of the benefits derived from 
having self-control. 

CLAIRVOYANCE. 

Clairvoyance means literally, clear-seeing, it is a 
name given to the alleged phenomenon of foreseeing 
events; of telling what will take place in the future. 
I will candidly admit that the hypothesis by which the 
other phenomena discussed are accounted for will not 
account for any human, being able to tell what will oc- 
cur in the future but I have never been convinced that 
any one has foretold the future, only as they guessed it, 
or reasoned out the probable course of events from cir- 
cumstances with which they were familiar. What I 
mean is that no one gets any knowledge in any way, 
other that by natural and well-known means, that is not 
known at the time by some other person. If a fact is 
known to any one it is possible for another person to 
know that fact but as to telling what events will occur in the 
future in the way called clairvoyance I have never been 
satisfied or convinced that there has ever been such a case. 
WELTMERISM. 

This is simply a name which a man teaching and 
practicing psychology to a certain extent has given to 
the branches of the science used by him. As he uses 
nothing new, has no new theories, nor makes any cures 

61 


but through, psychological laws with which many other 
people are as familiar as he is, it seems rather pre- 
sumptuous to give the science his own name and for 
that reason no one uses the name but Mr. Weltmer, al- 
though Weltmerism is a familiar term on account of 
extensive advertising. 

RESISTING THE INFLUENCE OF OTHERS. 

Controlling and influencing others is no more im- 
portant than knowing how to resist the psychological 
suggestions that may be made to yourself by some one 
understanding or using in ignorance the law of psy- 
chology. The whole secret of throwing off the influ- 
ence or suggestions of another is auto-suggestion, that 
is suggest to yourself, whenever dealing with another, 
"I will act on my own judgment in this matter." Place 
yourself in the attitude of listening to reason but that 
you will not act on impulse but on conclusions reached 
by your own objective mind after hearing the facts. In 
talking to a man when making a deal there is no reason 
to fear a psychological suggestion causing you to act if 
you will simply give yourself the suggestion at the out- 
set that you will act solely on your own judgment and 
not on the suggestion or judgment of another. If you 
wish to act on the advice of another, act knowingly. 
The resistance of the influence is much easier practised 
than described. When you know of this law; when 
you understand its operation, you will instinctively re- 
fuse to act on a suggestion made to you. There is al- 
ways in your mind the fixed idea that you will not act on 
suggestions which do not meet the approval of your rea- 
son it is only those not realizing the power of psycholog- 
ical suggestions that suffer from them. Their nature 
once understood, involuntarily — without giving any 
special or particular suggestion, that at that special 

time you will not act on them — causes the resistance 

62 


and they will have no effect. The mere knowledge of 
what might be done in this way will be sufficient to pre- 
vent its being done. You are then on your guard and 
know what to guard against, which is all that is necessary. 
You may, of course, act unwisely but it will be on ac- 
count of mistakes of judgment. You may take the ad- 
vice of another and the advice prove to be bad, but you 
will know when you act that you are acting on anoth- 
er's advice. What it does prevent is being " talked into 
a deal;" buying goods that you don't want or need, 
which every business man has done at times. It will 
allow your judgment to control your acts; your own 
reason to be the director. You won't make trades and 
regret that you did it as soon as you think it over. You 
will be master of yourself; without the knowledge of the 
nature and power of psychology you are, to a certain 
extent, the servant of those who do understand it. 

Many persons who study and practice psychology 
to some extent never do fully realize its power. For 
instance they will believe a person can be cured when 
the operator is present and gives the suggestions verb- 
ally, but they are so hard of faith in regard to treating 
those at a distance, that they never attempt it — natur- 
ally they accomplish nothing along that line. They 
find out that they relieve temporary pain but are so 
doubtful as to the efficiency of suggestion in relieving 
tumors, or in healing ulcers, or curing a long-standing 
case of deafness that they will not try to help people 
suffering from these troubles. One of the hardest 
things to impress on a person, even after they see and 
realize some of the things that can be accomplished, is 
the immense field for the use of psychology. 

I have tried and experimented with psychology in 
many ways and one thing which I have discovered is 
that I can make hair grow on baldheads. What I have 

63 


done myself can be done by any one who will do as I 
have. There is no special power in any one when 
it comes to the nse of psychology. Any man who 
wishes to have more hair on his head and will follow 
the directions can have it. 

Suggestion is, of course, the means by which this 
may be accomplished. Make your patient concentrate 
until he is in the psychic state. Then give him the sug- 
gestion, "Your hair will begin to grow from now on;" 
"In two weeks you will see that the hair has started to 
grow on your head," etc. Give repeated suggestions of 
this nature each time you treat your patient. You 
must be in earnest in the matter and so must the one 
you are treating. If you or your patient start into the 
treatment with the idea that you will prove it can't be 
done you will probably prove it, to your own satisfac- 
tion at least, but don't start with that idea. You 
must have faith, that is subjective faith at any rate. 
Make the patient suggest to himself, "My hair will be- 
gin to grow;" I will have hair in the time stated," etc. 
This self-suggestion is what is meant b}^ subjective 
faith. The patient must render all the assistance he 
can by making these auto-suggestions. In addition to 
this let him rub a little vaseline on his head every night 
and morning to soften the scalp. This is, of course, a 
material remedy but it assists the suggestions and is 
in itself a suggestion. It makes no difference if the pa- 
tient has tried putting all kinds of stuff on his head. 
It is not that which will cause the hair to grow but it 
aids and strengthens the suggestions, and helps to give 
confidence and faith to the patient. Putting something 
on the head each night and morning brings to his mind 
the thoughts of his hair and his desire to have it grow. 
Treatment should be given once a day for several weeks 
— b}' treatment I mean you should be with the person 

6 4 


to be treated and after making him concentrate his 
mind a few minntes give him the suggestions in a posi- 
tive firm tone that his hair is going to grow, always 
back up what you say by your will. It may take some 
time, three or four weeks, before you see that the hair 
has started to grow, but it will surely do so in time, 
and no one need have a bald head who will take the 
time and go to the trouble of following the simple di- 
rections given above. 

INSANE PEOPLE. 
That those who have self-control can never go in- 
sane is a self evident fact. Insane persons are those 
whose objective and subjective minds are incapable of 
any harmonious action. On accout of some strain, 
shock or disease, the proper restraint and control which 
the objective mind should have over the subjective 
mind is not exercised. A very frequent kind of insan- 
ity is where on one subject or class of subjects the mind 
is preverted. These cases come from some impression 
having been made on the insance persons mind so 
strongly that it cannot be removed. Every one who is 
in the slightest danger of going insane on account of 
any nervous strain, shock or sorrow should gain self- 
control, which he or she can do, if they are not already 
insane, and when a psychic state is reached all danger 
is passed. The mind can be controlled and directed in 
other channels than the one which threatens to drive 
the sufferer insane and in that manner the mind 
strengthened and insanity averted. Our asylums are 
full of people to-day who have taken up ideas that have 
displaced all other thoughts or ideas from the mind and 
by not being in position or not knowing how to control 
their whole thoughts and actions. To the exclusion of 
other thoughts and actions. So they get their hobby 
and not knowing how to control it, they soon let it get 

65 


full control of them, and they are subject to be landed 
in a mad-house. When you see that you have some- 
thing worrying or absorbing too much of your mind 
throw it off. Say, "I will not think about it again." 
Ee positive and every time you think of it, give your- 
self this treatment, or if you are treating others 3-ou 
can soon clear it off their minds. Remember to always 
back up what you say with your will. 

PSYCHOLOGY AND THE BIBLE. 

In closing these instructions I wish to say a little 
in regard to its relation to religion. With no desire or 
intention of interfering with any one's creed or belief, 
much less to lay down any new one on my own responsi- 
bility, I simply wish to show how, to my mind, it 
proves and convinces one of the truth of the Bible. 

Any reasonable, logical man, I believe, will be con- 
vinced after reading and verifying the facts I have 
told in these instructions of the truth of my hypothesis 
laid down at the start, to-wit: — that man is a dual being 
— that there is in him a consciousness or a subjective 
mind that is not material — that it is possible for this 
subjective mind to act independant of the body and 
without the aid of any of the five senses, in other words 
he has a soul. From the very nature of this soul; its 
separate consciousness and its immateriality, we are 
justified in saying it is immortal. There is no expla- 
nation for the origin of life that meets the ideas of logic 
natural to the finite mind except that of a God. If 
men have immortal souls it seems but logical to say 
that a God created them. Now it is true that all of a 
man's actions and doings as well as the very nature of 
his thoughts are stored in the subjective mind. That 
the memory of his soul is perfect. This being true is 
it not plain that the record carried from this life, by our 
subjective mind — the immortal part of man — the soul — 

66 


will make the future a heaven or a hell for us? Is any- 
thing more conducive to happiness, even on this earth 
than an easy conscience — the belief that we have done 
right; or does any feeling approach one's idea of hell 
nearer than remorse, regret for a bad act? Does not 
the theory of our objective; mortal minds, the part 
which comes in contact with the world; making impres- 
sions on our subjective and immortal minds carry out 
the doctrine of free will — that we determine our future 
by our lives on this earth. There is implanted in every 
man, it is apart of his subjective mind — an instinctive 
perception of right from wrong. We call it conscience. 
Every one knows what he should do — every one may 
do as he chooses. His soul carries the record, good or 
bad, according to the way he has chosen, with it at 
death; if wrong it gives pain — if right, happiness. We 
reach then these conclusions — an Almigty God — Mans 
immortal soul — a future determined by our acts in this 
life. Without giving all the reasoning by which the 
following conclusions were reached; but the logic of 
which will be plain to one interested in this phase of 
the science after a little thought, I will simply state 
that I believe Adam and Eve were the most perfect hu- 
man beings ever created — that the patriarchs had al- 
most perfect self-control and for that reason were free 
from sickness and attained their great age. That 
Christ in all his miracles in healing the sick conformed 
to psychological laws — not that he could not have healed 
otherwise, but he did conform to the law of psychol- 
ogy and he told his disciples to do the same. Christ 
came into the world in conformity to God's laws, and he 
never had to violate an 3' of God's laws to do anything. 
He being all love and all knowledge knew all things. 
He came to save man from his lost state. Christ told 
the people all and much more than they could compre- 

67 


liend in those days. One thing he did was to impress 
npon them the power within themselves to do all things, 
if they had faith or wonld only believe they conld. As 
your faith, so be it unto you. Christ told them if they 
had faith they could move mountains. This shows 
Christ put no limit on the human mind; man was made 
a free moral agent. All men that had faith would be 
saved, for if they had the faith they would conform to 
to the laws of God, which was made from the beginning. 
God being all love, all knowledge made man in his own 
image, with all powors necessary to conform to his laws. 
These laws having been broken; sin, sickness and death 
came into the world. God being all love never made 
any one sick or unhappy. When we violate or break 
his laws we pay the penalty. If we conform to them 
we are well and happy, for God intended every man to 
have health and happiness. If we fail to enjoy them it 
is our fault for w T e have not the faith as Christ told us. 

Paul's teachings were in the line with psychology 
as I understand it — a carnal man and a spiritual man, 
etc. In a word a thorough understanding of psychol- 
ogy will convince one that the bible is the inspired 
word of God, and every word of it true. 

In closing up these lessons I will say. Do not 
think after reading them over once, you are ready to ac- 
cept a professorship in a college to teach psychology. 
This is a science and a study that you will improve in 
daily if you will start in to work on it. And there is no 
limit to the benefit it can be to you in every conceivable 
way if you will apply it, and heed its teachings. You 
have spent your life in learning what you now know. 
Anything worth knowing takes our thoughts and en- 
ergy to carry to perfection, so to a beginner I will say, 
read these instructions carefully, then read over the 
book I send you. Get you some subject who you can 

68 


experiment on. Tell him yon will not hnrt him, pnt 
him in a passive state, get him qniet, make him look at 
some object for ten or fifteen minntes if he is not in a 
psychic state already, if he is yon can go to work on 
him withont delay. Another good way is to have him 
sit for five minutes and look and think of something. 
Then yon sit down in front of him and tell him 
to look into your eyes ; not to take his eyes ? off yours 
for five minutes , tell him his eyes will get heavy, he 
is getting sleepy, his eyes are beginning to close. 
Keep repeating to him until you see his eyes begin to 
get heavy. Let your eyes close, closer together like you 
tell him his are doing. What you tell him, say it in a 
positive, firm voice. Tell him positively that his eyes 
are getting heavy, you are getting sleepy, and be sure 
to back up what you say by your will, and keep your 
mind and will on it and keep repeating to him and 
yourself, you are getting sleepy, your eyes are closing ; 
when you see them heavy put your hand on his head, 
tell him to close his eyes, and tell him that he can not 
open them. Keep trying this experiment until you 
succeed. You can work any one by so doing. If you 
fail on a dozen subjects do not get discouraged, for any 
one can do this after they start. You know that you 
have as much sense as other people, so say to yourself, 
"I can and will succeed. After you handle the first one 
your confidence will be stronger and then you will know 
you can soon do all these lessons teach you to do. 
Remember it is all with you, and your first subject is 
harder than all the rest. It is simple, you have only 
to say, what you say, positive, and to back it up by 
your will, and with confidence in yourself. There is no 
limit to your power. Say to yourself. I will not stop 
trying until I succeed in doing all these lessons teach me. 


6 9 


JUN 14 1900 


\ 08 


Practical psychology 


■ » >i i nm« iwr 


A Coarse of Jnstructm on 

the Practical Application of 
the £a# of Psychology, 


<£ J. &adtf< 


» ^ • 


> ^ 


O, *«».»* A <* *?7 Deacidified using the Bookkeeper process. 

<y . o * • „ ^ ' Neutralizing agent: Magnesium Oxide 

Treatment Date: Nov. 2004 

^ PreservationTechnologies 

S A WORLD LEADER IN PAPER PRESERVATION 


^ o " 


SERVATION 

1 1 1 Thomson Park Drive 
Cranberry Township, PA 16066 
(724) 779-21 


: -ov* 


v .•--:* o 


lO^ . 


•.Hall' n refill' >*^ s&M/h'. "%• ** •« 


^ 


4* .••- 


r 


V> .&> V. ' • • • 


§1% JAN 82 

ffl=^ N. MANCHESTER, 
^^^ INDIANA 46962 


\/?$r\</ \ *->ISy .0*°' 


» • _ * /r\