The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-07-25
ABOUT THE MIND CURE.
HOW IT FLOURISHES IN BOSTON
AMONG THE FIRST FAMILIES.
The Ideal Bone Over Which Theological
Lions GrowI-Thought Medicine
and How it is Administered.
A New Science.
Special Correspondence

cine is "a arm not easy to grasp outside OF
Boston ere it and other inexplica BILE kin
dred phrases are on everybody's lips. The
philosophy of idealism," Christian sci
e1ce.r sycho-therapeutics,' ''psychical
virus" hrenopathy,n 1.-The sympathetic
sense a nterlard table and parlor CONVEX
saricn Elentifully as weather opinions in
New Yol They are all different names for
tha -ulI curer which now holds Boston, SC
p SPEAK Ii the hollow of it's ideal hand.
This ]. not merely the craze Of a few fan
st1s. 5 plant that has taken root in in
elect / and aristocratic soil, and hourishes
% an tent that would cause any ambitious
green-bay tree to hang its head in shame. So
powerful hold has this new science taken
on the city that regular" physicians are
looking to both their laurels and their purses
with alarm. Iheard one say he was certain
that half if not more than half, the practice
of the city was in the hands of irregular"
practitioners, phrenopathic, magnetic and
every other shade of departure from the old
established code. 1 don't doubt this asser-
ton. 1t seems to me that every other house
bears doctors shingle, and the ''irregulars'
certainly take the lead.
But about this mind cure and its dis
at least, not often Idoa't think they are
given to other methods of advertising,
either. It is one of those things that gets
talked about to such an extent that its prac-
titioners are Overrun with patients and
pupils. 1t is so new, so mysterious and $50
fascinating that everybody wants to know
something about it. L saw one advertise
ment which read thus:
metaphysical Healing-This method dis
penses with all material aid or will power,
and is known as the mind cure' Those who
are unwilling to give up drugs are not in
condition to be benefited"
The mind cure is taught in term of twelve
lessons, usually one every day until a class
graduates. The pupils obligate themselves
not to teach until they have had two years
practice. Meantime they are sent forth to
operate on themselves and others, for good.
it may be supposed, since as they have naught
to do with drugs they are not armed with the
power for harm which makes the new prac-
titioner of the regular school a creature to
hold in r until he has demonstrated his
competency. Prices for the twelve lessons
ary, l am told from SO to $50, according
q the means and needs of the pupil. So po-
tent power is the mastery of mental cure
said TO be that the natural Supposition is no
one possessed of ample worldly means would
hesitate on $50. 1t does not stop with
curing bodily ills, but promises aIlur-
ing things in the way of correcting inherited
tendencies Satanward, improving uncertain
dispositions, eliminating ignoble thoughts
and mailing the subject not only lord of him
self, but of his surroundings In short, it
ushsrs in a sort of mountaineering era of
faith, very fascinating to such of us as have
been putting in our time ON mole-hills with
out brilliant success.
FAITH is strong element in the mental
cure-faith in ones self as well as faith in
higher powers ''To desire and to deserve is
the sum of it" said one of its disciples. He
declared in public meeting where it was
under discussion that in 20 he had cured
himself of rheumatism of an aggravated
character and long standing. Having read |
DR.. w. F. Evans books the greatest mind |
cure exponen0, he went to his room one |
Sunday determined to stay there till he was |
cured or proved phrenopathy failure On !
the following Thursday he left his room, |
walked down stairs and out in the street |
without crutches- nay, forgetting his |
crutches altogether until he returned to his |
room and saw them standing in a corner
The audience heard this statement with |
approving mods. Here and there pair of |
ayes bulged out far into space, indicating |
hat, to their owner, mind cures were new |
but the majority seemed to have |
been previously saturated with recitals of a |
similar kind, which had left them in a condi-
ion of receptivity.
The man who said he had effected this re-
cure on himself also said he could |
,ut himself to sleep in five minutes at any
ime, no matter what torments, mental or
,hysical, beset him. 1 asked for practical
directions. He said that on lying down he
,ut his head in a position to turn his eyes far
Jack, and then painted an imaginary spot on
us forehead or on the ceiling, at which he
orced himself to look with his minds eve.
The slight effort necessary to concentrate his
thoughts on that took his mind from any,
hing else After four or five nights of this
ractice he gained such a mastery over him
elf that he could command sleep any time
Miss Louisa NJ. Alcott asserts that after
hirty mind-cure treatments she was forced
D consider the system failure. mentioned
his to one of the faithful. ''Oh, ves,r he
aid, Il have seen that statement in print.
Tut did you notice that she says she left
and massage in the hope of find
lg a short and easy way to undo in month
be overwork of twenty years? Would she
ave expected any other system under the
IN to effect cure from such ills in such
me! We do work what look like miracles.
ut they are perfectly natural cures, after
Il. Our fundamental doctrine is that to
mink and to exist are one and the same, and
nat every disease is the translation into a
oddly expression of a fixed idea of the mind.
nd morbid way of thinking. If, by any
svice, therapeutic or otherwise you remove
MS morbid idea, which is the spiritual image
fter the likeness of which the body is formed, ,
on cure the malady. Every thing in the 3
inverse is an idea before it is a fact. Of 9
purse, the idea is not always easily removed. il
1.-THE subject treated acts in conjunction i
it'll the healer toward the removal of the
sease, when he can. If not, the cure is 9
ade, if made at all, as in the case of children,
ithout his assistance, possibly without his
1owledge."