New Thought Healing Made Plain E-Book

Kate Atkinson Boehme

• Herausgeber: E-BOOKARAMA
• Kategorie: Ratgeber
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2023

Beschreibung

Kate Atkinson Boehme was a New Thought writer whose articles were published in Elizabeth Towne's magazine Nautilus. In 1918 she was associated with the Radiant Centre of Philosophy in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

Boehme was an advocate of personal wellness through transformative thought. Like her publisher, Elizabeth Towne, she treated New Thought as a philosophy rather than a religion. All of her books dealt to a greater or lesser extent with descriptions of personal experiences of health and healing that she said were achieved by application of New Thought principles.

As a continuation of her work "Mental Healing Made Plain" (1904), her book "New Thought Healing Made Plain" was published by Elizabeth Towne in 1918.

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Table of contents

NEW THOUGHT HEALING MADE PLAIN

Introduction

Chapter 1. What Is New Thought Healing?

Chapter 2. Thought Is A Force

Chapter 3. The Subconscious Mind

Chapter 4. The Superconscious Mind

Chapter 5. How To Heal Yourself And Others

Chapter 6. The Helping Hand

Chapter 7. Ensouling Thought-Forms

Chapter 8. The Quickening

Chapter 9. The One Will

Chapter 10. Tapping Higher Levels Of Energy

Chapter 11. First Aids To Healing

Chapter 12. New Thought Leads To The Blessed Life

Chapter 13. Affirmations For Achievement

Bibliography

NEW THOUGHT HEALING MADE PLAIN

Kate Atkinson Boehme

Introduction

IN 1902 I wrote a book entitled ''Mental Healing Made Plain." Today, sixteen years later, I have written another, "New Thought Healing Made Plain." The earlier book compared to the later is a tiny mountain rivulet, while the later is like a deep, wide river that had its birth in the rivulet. The stream of my thought has, in the passing of sixteen years of meditation and experience, grown to larger proportions, and yet I find upon rereading the first book that I still hold the same ideas, but see them in broader perspective and in clearer light.

The later book contains very little of the subject-matter of the former. Here and there a phrase or a paragraph, occasionally a helpful illustration or incident, and that is all. On the other hand the latter book contains much that is not even hinted at in the former. I rejoice that I find nothing that I would contradict or unsay in my earlier writing, nothing that a larger experience would prove to be untrue, for this convinces me that I have uttered Truth, since Truth, like God, is not subject to change or shadow of turning.

Faithfully,

The Author.

Chapter 1. What Is New Thought Healing?

IF you are at all observant of life and its happenings, you will admit the fact that your thought affects your body for good or ill. You have discovered that worry, fear and anxiety lower your heart action, deaden your circulation, give you indigestion, headache, neuralgia and other ailments. It is said that a reiteration of worried thought beating on the same brain cells wears the cellular tissue so thin that finally it breaks, usually resulting in death. Even if the result is not so serious, a long siege of worry usually ends in a spell of sickness, which, by the way, is a preservative effort of Nature, as it turns worry into a new channel, so that it beats on a different set of brain cells, or, better still, stops worry altogether, for when one is very sick, the usual causes of worry do not matter much; in fact, nothing matters but the physical suffering and how to get rid of it.

This is a mere hint at the many ill effects of thought upon the body. We will not dwell upon them, but turn to the good effects of the health-giving thought, and more especially of New Thought.

This brings us to the question — What is New Thought? I can think of no more perfect, full and complete definition of it than we find in those wonderful words of Schopenhauer — "Clear Vision of the World."

New Thought stands for a tremendous movement of the human mind toward the understanding of things as they really are. From the beginning of human life on this planet, from our earliest savage ancestors, it has been a long, hard voyage of exploration and discovery, without a chart to guide, except that of pain or pleasure. I believe that Man has always instinctively sought the Truth, but has encountered it veiled; hence his false beliefs regarding it. In the evolution of a germ of Truth existing in each false belief lies the advance to ''Clear Vision of the World."

We cannot imagine what this earth appeared to primal Man, but we know that it seemed under the dominion of grim, cruel forces, always arrayed against him in the struggle for existence.

Now, in his clear vision he sees those forces as beneficent, all working toward his highest evolution, all tending toward ultimate health, joy and general wellbeing. These states of mind and body cannot be laid on Man from the outside; they must be worked out from within, as a spider weaves its web out of its own substance. God does not confer Joy as an unearned gift upon Man. He brings it forth from him by means of the Divine Urge.

As Man's enlarging intelligence compasses more and more of creation he has discovered Thought to be a mighty though hidden Force. For that matter all Force is hidden, but in some instances the material means are evident, while in the working of Thought the mechanism is invisible and intangible.

How is it that Thought acts upon the nerves and muscles of your body, causing motion . Who ever saw a Thought when it so acted on nerve and muscle. No one has ever explained this mystery, and yet we accept it as a fact, not wholly because physiologists tell us it is so, but because we know it through our own experience.

I see a book on the table. I think I would like to examine it. I am conscious of that thought. Then I think I will take it up. I am conscious of that thought also. Then I do take it up and I am conscious that in some mysterious way my thought has caused my hand to reach out to the table and draw the book toward me. Hundreds of nerves and muscles have been brought into play, and yet I do not know how it was accomplished. I may have it explained to me how muscles respond to nervous stimulus, how they contract and expand in obedience to it, and I may see that the entire network of nerves and muscles throughout the body is controlled by thought; but that is not seeing how it is done.

That, it seems, must remain a mystery. But for that reason do we deny it. Not at all. I know of no one who does not acknowledge that thought controls the body, that is, that his thought controls his own body.

I may, therefore, take it for granted that you acknowledge so much, although I cannot expect you at this juncture to go so far as to acknowledge that the thought of another person can act upon your body or upon your mind. Of course we know that the audible speech or written word of another will affect your mind and, secondarily, your body, but that an unspoken thought should produce such an effect is beyond your credence.

The law of Telepathy or Thought Transmission is now accepted by scientists the world over. Such men as Sir Oliver Lodge, Sir William Crookes and Alfred Russell Wallace have tested this law and proved it to be a fact.

Or, if you seek proof nearer home, you can find it in the following simple experiment. Get together a few of your friends. Blindfold one and place him in the middle of the room, after having shown him a key or some other object which you intend he shall find. Surround this person by the rest of your friends, standing in a closed circle with joined hands, while all of you think steadily of the key in the place where it is deposited. After some hesitation the blindfolded person, with slow and uncertain steps, will move toward the key and will ultimately find it.

I will describe the sensation of the person blindfolded as I experienced it. First my mind felt utterly vacuous. All thought seemed to vanish. Then in a few seconds I felt pushed by unseen hands in a certain direction, although no hands were touching me. So strong was the inclination of my body in that direction that I would have fallen had I not put out one foot to balance myself. Then another push and another step, and so I gradually approached a chair on which the key had been placed. When I reached the chair my whole body relaxed, and I drooped over it with arms listlessly hanging until one hand touched the key. On another occasion the key was hung upon the wall, and when I touched the wall I felt a desire to stretch upward with one arm. I did so and grasped the key where it hung upon a nail.

Now, had the force of those minds been directed to my mind I might have had a definite idea of the position of the key. I would probably have thought — The key is on the chair, or. The key hangs on the wall, but I had no such definite thought, nothing but a vague blind movement for which I could not account. I was impelled to move, I knew not why. It therefore seemed that the thought of the minds concentrating upon me acted directly upon my body without passing through the medium of my mind. To me this was conclusive proof that the thought of one person can act directly upon the body of another person.

There is a large hospital in France called La Salpetriere. It is one of the oldest and largest hospitals in the world, covering an area of seventy-four acres, and consisting of forty-five large blocks. In that hospital the patients are treated almost entirely by the power of Thought, but it is used as hypnotic suggestion. They do some strange things there which you would hardly credit, did not the reputation of the physicians in charge and the standing of the hospital back up the statements.

Let me tell you what is done to those patients while in a state of hypnosis. A drop of cold water is placed on the flesh, and the patient is told that it is boiling oil. It then draws a blister. Now, how do you suppose this effect is produced. Quite a mystery, is it not. But being done and testified to by reputable physicians in a reputable hospital you cannot very well doubt it.

They also take a fly-blister and divide it into three equal parts, 1, 2, and 3. Number 1 they place upon a patient's right arm, number 2 upon the left arm, and number 3 upon the arm of a person who is not hypnotized. This done, the doctor says of number 1 that it will not draw a blister, and says nothing of numbers 2 and 3, The result is that number 1 does not draw a blister. They call that negative suggestion, which means that the blistering power is taken out of the number 1 piece of fly-blister, while it remains in the other two pieces, numbers 2 and 3. I say the blistering power is removed from number 1, but perhaps it is more correct to say that the skin of the patient is made positive against it. The fly-blister becomes negative, therefore, to the skin of the patient, and produces no effect upon it, although it is a good, strong blister, as may be seen by the effects of numbers 2 and 3, of which it was originally a part, the one fly-blister having been cut into three parts for the experiment.

This, then, is the power of Thought. It can turn a drop of cold water into a violent irritant, or a fly-blister into something as harmless as a bit of paper.

When you realize that cold water when used with suggestion can draw a blister, can you doubt the power of Thought over the secretions of the body? Moreover, the drop of water is not actually necessary in the experiment, for Thought without material aid has caused a blister, in the tests just quoted, and Thought alone has prevented a blister.

New Thought Healing is not Hypnotic Suggestion. I am only quoting the latter to prove the power of Thought.

The late Professor William James of Harvard said that tumefaction can be produced by Thought in any part of the body. On the same principle, applied in the opposite manner, tumefaction can be removed by Thought.

Dr. Elmer Gates of Washington proved to me conclusively that blood can be sent here and there through the body by simply turning the thought upon it and directing its current. This he showed me by actual experiment. Other men of science are giving out quite as remarkable statements, and their word must go for something. You accept a great deal on the evidence of chemists, astronomers and naturalists, and the evidence in favor of the power of Thought is just as convincing. No one who investigates thoroughly can doubt it.

I think perhaps the greatest obstacle to our believing that Thought can pass from one mind to another is that there seems to be no material agent of transmission, no vehicle for travel. But there is. It is a refined matter in the form of ether, and on this ether Thought travels. There are things we may not detect with our senses which nevertheless exist, and this ether is one of them.

Who would have supposed, some years ago, that today we should be telegraphing without wires. A transmitter is set up in New York and a receiver in Boston, or any other two points, and the message goes straight from one to the other.

Why then may not a message travel on the ether from healer to patient. The healer is the transmitter and the patient the receiver, the message going straight and true from one to the other no matter how great the separation between the two. A telepathic message goes from here to England, Finland, Australia, South Africa, or wherever the receiver, in the form of a patient, is located. It takes weeks and months for letters to go to those distant points, but Thought goes in an instant, like an electric flash. We have an electrical Thought Power, and we live in an electrical age. Greater wonders still are to be revealed in the coming years.

It is not the message sent from healer to patient that heals. It is not the thought of the healer that heals. What is it, then? It is the Spirit of God dwelling within the patient himself.

And why does it not heal without the intervention of a healer. Sometimes it does, and again it needs to be called into expression by the faith and realization of another mind, such as the mind of the healer, — one that has superabounding faith in the power of spiritual healing.

While the Spirit of God is all-powerful, it must flow through certain channels in order to do its work, and those channels are mental processes. For that reason we formerly used the term "Mental Healing," but have discarded it, as it does not suggest the spiritual principle at work. Mental processes are dead and automatic unless infused by the life of the Spirit, as I shall show you in the next chapter.

Spirit is formless, but it takes upon itself form when it creates a tree, a flower, a planet, a man or an insect, yes, or a thought, for thoughts have form, although invisible to the physical eye, as are myriads of other forms in the universe, being of finer matter than the retina of the eye can register.

Thought-Forms are ensouled with life and intelligence and they perform a wonderful work in healing disease and unhappiness. When I said that the thought of the healer does not heal the patient, I should have added that it has an influence for good upon the patient in that it calls forth its correspondence in the mind of the patient, as, for instance, thoughts of courage and hope call into being thoughts of courage and hope in the patient, and these thoughts are conducive to health and happiness. Thoughts of faith going from healer to patient arouse faith in the patient, and that is instrumental in healing, so in that way the healer is an agent in the cure, but what I wish to impress upon your mind is the fact that you are as close to the Divine Healing Power as the healer, and that when you learn to open the channels of your thought to its in- flux, it flows straight from God through you. The true healer is, therefore, a teacher, both consciously and subconsciously, teaching consciously by means of lessons and subconsciously by means of thought transmission, by the sending out of thoughts of Truth and Love.