Los Angeles herald., 1905-01-24
Exponent of Metaphysi.
cal Healing Gives
Proof of Views

metaphysical Healing" was dis
cussed by DR.. w. L. Brown at the
service Sunday evening at the Central
Avenue Congregational church, corner
Central avenue and East Twenty
eighth street
DR.. Brown evidently created an inter-
est in his subject.
Rev. ~ l.. Rowell. the pastor. made
few appropriate remarks. introducing
DR.. Brown. who said in part:
II observed in the scripture Just read
the statement that a prophet is not
without honor save in his own country.
There is possibly something in this;
nevertheless there is an element of
pleasure in facing an audience of
friends, rather than strangers. 1 see
here many know and have known for
the past eight years. Yet realize I
have to present question which Is to
some extent an obscure one. We have
to deal with a question which very few
have looked into. and / do not reflect
any discredit on this audience when 1
say very few understand metaphysical
healing. l have delivered this lecture
before physicians who, with one ex-
ception, did not understand it.
Metaphysical healing is not new.
We find traces of it through the ages
back to the creation. However, until
recently, no one has claimed to have a
patent on it. Metaphysical healing be-
longs to the domain of psychology.
Oldest Organization
"The oldest organization of which
have knowledge for the investigation OF
psychological phenomena was organ
lied at London, England, something
less than century ago. 1t was COM
posed of learned men who tried to for
mulate some theory for psychological
phenomena This they did satisfac-
torily for themselves. In France there
was another society nearly as old, and
it, too, had been hunting for basic
theory, but the great popularity of the
two societies was that one result did
not agree with the other. The two
great organizations fought each other
IOT years ulllI Tie WOIlu OSOetiilC
gusted. During this time the American
people mad been practically dormant
on the subject, with the exception of
individual research. Yet it remained
for an American citizen to find the
harmonizing influence. 1 refer to Mr..
Hudson Of Washington, D. c., and his
book. Law of Psychic Phenomena
While / cannot indorse all his conclu-
sions, believe his basic theory is
correct. When he said l could put
suggestion produce anaesthesia so that
surgical operations could be made pain
less, did not believe him until | found
a subject on which 1 could do these
things. 1 believe the hypothesis he
gives is a correct one.
Two Distinct Minds
Briefly stated, it is that man has
two distinct minds, each independent
of the other. 1t describes those two
and their attributes, and designates
one as the objective, which goes to
sleep when a person goes to sleep,
while the other does not. The objective
mind is the physical mind and dies
with the physical body. 1t is the out
growth of physical necessities, its high
est attributes being reason, inductively
ductively. analytically and syntheti-
cally. The objective mind we use to
call up what the other contains.
THE subjective mind does not depend
upon the action of the physical brain.
1t has an independent mind and per-
ceives by intuition, and is capable of
living after the death of the PHYSICAL
in fact it is the soul of man. When
every function is dead the subjective
mind is even more keen than when the
body is in a normal condition. The
subjective mind is the tablet of mem
ory. Everything you receive intellec-
tually, from the day of your infancy
until you cease to dwell upon this
earth, is indelibly written on this
tablet. It's memory is absolutely in
fallble.
''Take for example,: Here is a man,
a great student. who has his store
house full of knowledge and cannot
tell you that of which he knows. The
objective mind does not touch the but
ton of that which the subjective mind
contains. Here is another man and we
say he has perfect memory The two
minds work in perfect harmony, the
objective mind calling up at will what
the subjective mind contains. I could
give you unlimited illustrations show
ing this statement is true. Take, for
example, the case of a woman which
at one time attracted wide attention.
She was born of poor parents, who died
when she was an infant. She grew up
domestic and later in life became in
sane. The one popularity of her in
sanity was that during her insane mo-
ments she would repeat Greek and
Latin, and yet she did not know. in
her sane moments, one word of either
Greek or Latin.
Physicians became interested in the
case and traced her history and found
that she had never been educated and