Accepting the Supremacy of Mind over Matter - part 1

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· MIND OVER MATTER - part 1

· MIND OVER MATTER - part 2

THAT MIND-OVER-MATTER stuff is all bunk," a man declared after he had listened to a talk on the efficacy of mind power. "Anyone believing in it is not too bright," he added.

His is not an isolated case, although it is rare these days; but around the turn of the century, the subject could not be mentioned without many people taking issue with it.

The fact is that nothing man-made has ever been created without having been started with a thought; therefore, statements to the contrary are just plain wrong.

It may be, perhaps, that the opponents to the principles of mind over matter are not, in reality, antagonistic to them as such, but that they have difficulty in believing that the way they think—negatively or positively—can have any bearing on what happens to them.

To get the amount of good from this book that you should— and can—get, it is absolutely necessary that you accept the supremacy of mind over matter. And this will not be difficult since, as I said above, every accomplishment starts with a thought.

Please remember: In talking about mind over matter I am not talking about cults, dogmas, "isms," black magic, or anything bordering on the supernatural. I am discussing only the normal manner in which mind operates.

In discussing the mind and how it operates I do not wish to convey the idea that I know all about the subject. I would fall dismally short if I tried to give a correct definition of mind.

Dr. J. B. Rhine of Duke University—a man who probably knows more about the human mind than any other man of our time—opens his book, The Reach of the Mind, by saying: "Science cannot explain what the human mind really is and how it works with the brain. No one even pretends to know how consciousness is produced. What kind of a natural phenomenon is thought? There isn't even a 'theory.' "

Electrical engineers are adept in the use of electricity, but if you asked any one of them to explain what electricity really is, he could do no more than guess.

In my many years devoted to the study of the mind, I have learned much regarding its use, but as to what the mind really is, I am in complete accord with Dr. Rhine.

Many times, the expression "mind over matter" is used with reference to the influence of mind over the motion of objects, referred to as psychokinesis. Experiments at Duke University and elsewhere seem to indicate that the power of mind can be actually directed to influence the motion of objects.