The Nome nugget., 1903-04-22
GROWTH OF 1.-THE NEW THOUGHT" ;"

Fr the magazines and newspa pers during the last few years 2 great deal has appeared concerning "'sychcaI Re-ealch" or the New Thought" or some slch thing, Men, good many men, in fact, have sneered positively it, but still 1t seems to have .,hcn greit strides. The New Thought" has it's rn,gaznc- of considerable literary merit .and it's de- voices, not without scholarship and talent, who have given themselves to its propaganda and by the re- specabiliy of their endeavor and the force and evi dent honesty of their assertions have prevented the skeptca from denouncng loudly the teachings of the cult.
 Some people, who have pre- udice in favor of exact definition and intelligby clear expression hav been bewldered and baflcd rather than enlightened by the teachings and more especially the writings of the evangelists of the "New Thought" and have strven to reduce those doctrines to comprehensble expression Failing therein they have come to the conclusion that either the New Thought was mere sbberish, creed os'wofds without meaning, or that they themselves were deficient in understanding, psychologically philisnish and given wholly to facts and figures. Of course apostles of the cult have suggested the second alternative the fact and have laid claim to some superior illumination by which they enabled clearly while the believers abide in darkness. The New Thought" doctrinare rcver can be cornered. He moves in verbose nebul-
 
 trap the New Thought" champion with sylogism and run him throu gh with either horn of q dilemma l6!hke god, in Homer lie surrounds himself with a eleGda cloud of words-and escapes while the skep- t.c vnny seeks to find his adversary's position.
 It may be some comfort to those wha have had bafng experiences with the "New Thought to learn that writer in the New York Sun has had the same experience. He set out to find definition of the "New. Thought and in the "Aind' magazine which calls tseftte leading xponcnt of he New Thought,' he found that behind and beyond the normal, sensa- tonhl consciousness there "loter states of con- sciousness ;" the 'subliminal and that they signify deeber sources of consciousness and powers or greater than those well known to the normal self" That is the personal man is but limited ex pression of the whole man." for man is "an e1- tremey complex being with vastly more profound of consciousness and of powes than he is niaiiy; aware of." This "deeper consciousness pos sssses the quality of genius the character of ecstasy snd the power of direct perception of truth. without secoefse to the slow processes of reason by meth os that play over the processes with inconceiva ble rapdity arrive at result by of knowing yet unfamiliar to the normal mind. The normal self is tho most outward and personal aspect of divine consciousness, but inward through the avenue of coscisusnees it may realize in increasing degree the more purely divine states
 Those benghted brains to whom this farrago of words conveys clear ideas will find dcfnitionsoi the "New Thought adapted totheir limited intellects iii the following paragraph, sv mnrvelousy simple and beautifully lucid:
 "1he fuDdamenta principle in" the thought of mental science might be expressed in. two words universal unity. We livngin boundless, inex- ls,lstble atmosphere of life and power As individ- usls wc paytake of the love and beauty of the over .oul. We are related, through union with the infinite, the universal life, hand to the lowest vs of existence in the evolutionary scale below us, ad the other to exalted spiritual being transcend