Author: Arthur Adolphus Lindsay

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-06-26

Total Pages: 97

ISBN-13: 9781330220979

Excerpt from The New Psychology, Its Basic Principles and Practical Formulas However, an acquaintance with the soul, with its perceptive and expressive power, has caused us to analyze the direction of his mental activities. I will discuss herein later the various sources of discovering that there is in man something beyond sense perception and reflex action, but only declare the truth of the discovery now. The scientific study of another department of mind, which is spoken of as the subjective or psychic division has been mainly through hypnotism, which in the hands of the scientific student has disclosed mental powers, so different as well as so superior to the phenomena of the ordinary consciousness that the next serious error to thinking the intellectual of the objective was all the mind, was to conclude that there are two minds. The authors who have helped us greatly were under this impression of duality, and almost showed a line of demarkation between the "subjective and objective minds." Further researches convince us that there is but one mind or soul in the individual, and this we may correctly define as manifesting, so far as our usual states are concerned, conscious and sub-conscious. The sub-conscious may be well described under the title of the psychic department, and so the terms "subconscious or psychic powers," when speaking of the subjective mental functions are correct. But to declare a man is two men is no more correct than to say that because there are phenomena of light that illumines our buildings and the power that hurls our cars through the street, are two forces instead of the one force of electricity with different forms of expression. The quality of speed and power to draw should just as much require that a horse be two horses as that one mind must be two, else it could not do such widely different things. The clearest statement of the truth as it is, is this: Man is one entire soul (I use the word in no religious or theological sense, but as being the only word that possesses the meaning, comprehending life, mind and immortality in one word) having a body with many members, for the purpose of a multiplicity of acts and varied, and the two very distinct forms of mental expression. It is just as though soul had appointed a department of itself to preside over the senses, give and receive impressions, as to the physical world, collate the data of that world, reason upon it, form conclusions, which it may transmit to the soul and there record in perfect memory, where it shall remain, unless an equally forceful suggestion either neutralizes or supplants it, and while it is there, it is a part of the character, or the individual. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.