The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-10-18

| JecUlVe man Is enUlfOneQ, ana Uuo III
diYidual is less capable OF protecting
human life, than in the subjective
state.
The writer Of this paper was re-
Gently called in the small hours Of
the night, to see young gentleman
with broken wrist. The history of
the accident was as follows: Ghe
young man in the somnambulistic
state, arose at night. went down
stairs, and out doors, and had his
after midnight walk. returned and
went to bed, wholly unconscious Of
anything that had transpired. After
remaining in bed few moments,
he again arose, and started some
where, when his room mate made an
adverse suggestion to him, and OPP.
posed him, which brought him into
his normal condition, but before fully
recovering consciousness he ran over
a chair, jumped out of window, met
with his accident, ran one or two
blocks distant from his boarding
place. when on the Court House
square, consciousness fully returned,
and he realized his situation.
1t will be observed in the foregoing
pages that the subjective mind is an
entity. is an organized being capable
of independent existence, endowed
with almost perfect powers of mem
| DRY, that it's inherent power is the
preservation of human life, and the
perpetuity of the human race. that it
is the seat of the emotions, that it is
incapable of all inductive reasoning,
and yet in the normal condition I'M
der absolute control of d vastly in
/ 20 hn oh
| 1t is however the synchrOnous action
of two minds that make the perfect
man, and this is best illustrated in
the life and teachings of Jesus Christ,
but, too, is well illustrated in the
immortal Shakespeare, in the blind
Milton, and the deaf Beethoven.
Poets and artists are examples that
well illustrate the intellectual labors
characterized by subjective activity.
PSYCHIC
The science of hypnotsm or Psych-
ical Phenomena recognizes the power
of one mind to communicate impress
sions to another, with, or without
audible suggestions, and it also recOg-
nizes the power of auto-suggestion.
These powers if properly and scien-
tifically employed, are potent factors
in relieving bodily ailments, and cur
ing disease. The writer has injected
hypodermically few drops of water
into patients arm, with The suggeS-
tion, and apparently positive assur-
ance that the patient would soon be
free from pain, and such was the
case. Another example under the
personal observation of the writer
was an old lady to whom was Ostens-
IDLY given cathartic pill. The fol-
lowing morning the lady's bowels
moved very freely, while her cathartic
pill remained in the cup of water
from which she slipped at the time
she was supposed to have taken the
pill.
Not long since beautiful, and in
telligent young lady living in our
own county, had been suffering from
what she and her friends believed to
be some serious spinal disease, and
she could neither stand nor walk;
drugs failed to relieve her, but she
became imbued with the idea that if
she had strong faith, she could walk.
| This acted as a powerful autO-Sugges-
tion to her subjective mentality, and
to the surprise of her family and
friends, she got up one morning and
walked down stairs, and | believe has
walked ever since. Some would call
this Christian Science, but the scien-
tific explanation lies in the auto-sug-
gestion of the objective mind to the
subjective.
We find the science of Psycho-The-
rapeuJics in it's infancy. Our curios-
ity is melted to study in it's different
phases. There is in US a power to
communicate our ideas to others indie
pendent of the objective mind. This
is called telepathy. No perception IS
communicated to the objective mind
of this, but it is held between persons
who are en- rapport, or who have SYM
pathy for each other, and are congen-
ial.
Perfect passivity on the part of the
| percipient is most favorable for the
reception of the communications; we
have illustrated this previously by
the fact that the subjective mind
works best when the objective mind
is in obeyance.
1t is we'll known fact that an ad-
verse suggestion in the sick room to
the patient will frequently make him
or her worse, while encouraging and
s..nny suggestions will often do him
or her more good than drugs. This is
especially true when the suggestions
came from one with whom the pa
tient is in sympathy.
In closing this paper | wish to re-
peat, man has a dual mind, the one,
the carnal, the earthly, the mortal or
in psychology known as the objective,
which operates only in and through
the human, and through the media of
| the five human senses, possessed of
the mental endowments, reason,
judgment, and memory. 1t is cap
able of reasoning inductively, deduc-
titvely, analytically, and synthetic
ally, is active in proportion to the
| health and integrity Of the gray
matter of the human brain, is born
with it, lives with it, and dies with
| it. The other an-independent entity.
the soul, the spirit, the immortal part
of man known in psychology as the
subjective mind, endowed with linn
tied reason, but almost unlimited
memory, incapable of inductive rea-
soning, but must always reason deduc-
lively, or syllogistically.
Its reasoning is always logical, no
matter what the premises may be,
while in it's earthly habitation it is
controlled and denominated by sug-
gestions from the objective mind,