The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-30
THE "NEw THOUGHT.v
Medical Writer Makes a study OF IL,
and Is Not Edfhed.
American Medicine.


When one makes study Of the weeds OF
morbid psychologist literature and sects SO
luxuriously springing up in our country.
ana after he has grown tired of Mother
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her children, ne will next come upon the
New Thought" represented best by a
journal OF that name, edited by Ella Wheel
er Wilcox and William Walker Atkinson
(In proportion to the fame OF great ones
the entire set OF names must be spelled I'm
full.) The perusal OF a half dozen numbers
OF this periodical viii only take an hour
two. and although far OF much interest
and instructive one will then begin TO tire
OF the emptiness OF the new thought. and
anr repetitive lessons. One will get a weary
ing conviction that IT, as the publisher
AYERS, there are 10000 subscribers who find
this childish stun adapted TO their needs,
then surely the schoolmaster is not abroad
in the land or he is not doing his duty
very thoroughly. Had we space we would
like to reproduce a few of the hundreds
of excerpts we had marked, to give an idea
of this, the silly season OF American
growth. There is nothing directly vicious
or nauseating about IL. as is so common i'm
other forms, but it is, Of course. Indirectly
morbid. The people who are ministered 10
and treated are surely sick. very much SO
mentally and socially, but the teachers, the
high priestesses, and their little amen-say-
ers, the priests, are surely much "sicker
Inc marx OF HloIolu sell-cOhsciousheS II
in every article and sentence Of most OF tho
crazy or crank literature so rampant
among us. 1t is indeed not only marked
Dy IL, out is rather OreDcne0 IN so mat
teachers, prlesteSSes and humble pupils
seem to delight in standing and padding i'm
their own sluSh. 1t is an old and we'll
recognized law of disease and insanity that
one is unconscious OF the healthy organ
Most people, for instance, go through life
without moments attention TO their
knees, their ears. or their desires" But
let them get synovitis, middle-ear infam-
nation, or the new-thought disease, and
at once all their attention is absorbed by
their knee ear or mind" In all OF this
literature "phychopetry." fortune-telling,
character readings" "Somnopathy," phre-
nology, mediumship. .'graphology." ''astroI-
ana hundred forms OF morbid minister
ing to the mind diseased form the staple
OF instruction, the substance or page
after page OF magniloquent nonsense, and.
more important still, I'LL all the advertising
pages to repletion. The personal answers
to correspondents illustrate il TO safety.
How shall / get rid OF fear" How pre-
vent mean thoughts?' lis the love between
the sexes incompatible with the highest
mental states?' The jealous wife, "misun-
derstood woman" Observation-Disclosures with
husbands. how TO get well. soul mates"
1.-The wearing Of glasses and the magnetic
gaze" bashfulness, the second aivoTce-
takes upon himself TO write about TO the
victims who appeal to him for advice.
''Thought-Forc IS a book by one OF the
omniscient teachers. and its purpose Is thus
stated by him to be:
"a wonderfully vivid book answering the
questions: Can / make my life more happy
and successful through mental control?
How can i affect my circumstances by my
mental effort? Just how shall go about IL
TO free myself from my depression, failure,
tmidity. weakness and care? How can in
f1uence those more powerful ones from
whom desire favor? How am i TO recog-
nize the causes OF my failure and thus avoid
them?
Can I make my disposition into one
which is active, positive. nigh strung and
masterful? How can / draw vitality OF
mind and body from an invisible source?
How can / directly attract friends and
friendship? How can influence other peo-
pie by mental suggestion? How can j in
fuence people at a distance by my mind
alone? How can i retard old age. preserve
health and good looks? How can / cure
myself OF Illness, bad habits, nervousness.
ETC.? 'Thought-Force' gives an answer to
questions like these.
1t Is evident that here is new disease in
the world. genuinely epidemic, too. The
diagnosis is easily made, but IL there any
therapeutist would dare suggest a treat
ment?