The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-06-03

Every person who is somewhat in touch
with the trend of contemporaneous thought
must have observed the growing interest
in regard TO the different schools of mental
healing. There is no doubt that mental
action can and does sometimes produce
physical effects, either injurious or bene-
fetal, and il is not unreasonable to suppose
that IL may possess curative influences
capable of being utilized in the healing of
SC me forms Of disease. In fact, every ex-
perienced physician knows that within GER
tain limitations mental action does possess
such influence. How potent it may be and
what extent it is capable of being used
for healing purposes is still an unsolved
problem. The subject is discussed in this
volume by Leander Il. Whipple in a style
as free from mysticism SO abstruse d
subject will admit of. The author is him
self a practitioner of mental healing and
i'll this book he claims have presented,
though in a form necessarily limited, the
results or experience derived from many
years of constant study of mental innu-
ences and their physical effects in prac-
tlce OF wide extent among people or the
highest grades of intelligence. where the
action of mind could be observed in all Its
varying phases. The basic idea Of the
book is that thought precedes all visible
physical expression and that its outward
OF human existence Mental or meta
pysical healing" says the author, 'consid-
erS every sickness to be an effect, mathe-
natically determines the cause, which rests
lit the original wrong mental action. acct
dentally or otherwise, which has caused
the sickness, obliterates II by causing that
action TO cease and establishes a mental
action of the opposite character in the
place thereof. In this way sickness is re-
placed by health. the mental plane.
from which it was originally reflected. and
h. ed.
Again: THE remedy Tor every inharmoni-
Gus state is found i'm a reversal of the ac-
ton which produced it. Incorrect thought
develops wrong action. which must inev-
develops right activity. which will endure
forever in harmonious life on the spiritual
plane" Notwithstanding this complacent
assumption that all sickness is the result
of wrong mental action. many persons Will
continue TO believe that deranged physical
organs and functions have much to do with
IL. The author has a good deal to say
about 1.-The ina aging faculty of the mind "
which he says is really the instrument OF
human existence" This being true" he
says. If il were a demonstrated fact
1T follows that only through the natural
laws by which mind images ideas can any
real mode OF action in human life become
established. On examination. this state
ment proves TO be a truth that withstands
every form of honest investigat ion-the
hotter the fire the brighter and purer the
metal which energies from the flames"
But, notwithsta nding occasional passages
OF mysticism and rather cornplacent aSsur
ance the book is really an interesting dis
cussion OF a phase Of mental science that
is attracting more and more attention. and
one cannot read II without being strongly
impressed with the idea that perhaps
after all. the invisible and spiritual world
* the most real one and that METAPHYSICS
nav be. as the author claims 1t IS the
science of the real life Of being. The
book is published hy the Metaphysical Pub
fishing Company. New York.