The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-05-11
new THOUGHT FOLKS GATHER
rue SOLAR PLEXCS THEORY
one SUBJECT DISCUSSED.

fun. DInOA ht DNhNNAN VS. AAeAH@A
and Little Hungary and other nerve centres
II the cult met in Carnegie Lyoeum yester-
day afternoon and last night 10 swap ldsaA
The New Thoughtists believe in Creation,
pmanatlon and evolution; the maorocosm
and the miorocosm; in the Goldman and
the man-God; and, coming down to par
%tlculars. in the solar pleXus, fasting A. q
cure for all miseries, love a. a general pur-
poee graphing hook and silence-to a GER
tain extent
DR. Julia Seton Sears, whose husband
took tickets and sold DR.. Sears's New
Thought books, was the real bOss Of the con-
ference yesterday, although Ralph Waldo
Urine, who somewhat resembled W.. j,
Bryan, was chairman Of the convention.
Navitiates had the pleasure also Of meet
ing Edwin Earle Purinton. the Poet Of
Passion, and Ella Wheeler Wilcox, the Poet
css Of Passion; and IVA Augusta VesOelius
and John Milton Scott, celebrated lecturer
IN The Power Of Love: and Edwin Mark
ham, Poet OF the Hoe; not TO speak Of Saint
Nihal Sing. Elizabeth Towns. discoverer
II the Solar PleXus Theory Of Life; Grum-
uino, the Seer; Llewellyn George and q
coyey Of minor poets, pamphleteers, bal
adists, palmists, h~oroscopiSts and phil
rsophers,
There was a great buzzing Of tongues
IN the stairways and in the halls before
the conference got down to business, and
DR.. Sears had to shake hands with so many
people. II was very annoying, but the
doctor explained that they would come to
her with their problems and she simply
had 10 listen. She was so busy that she had
to call Mr.. Sears frequently to run and get
rapers for her, whereupOn Mr., Sears would
cry out very amiably Why, certainly,
,octor. One minute, doctor. I'm coming,
doctor"
" course the visiting New Thoughts Is
had to he introduced TO DR.. Sears and Miss
Iva Augusta Vescelius. and the Poet Of
Passion and the Poet Of the Hoe and the Man
Who Looks Like Bryan, and every prom
lpent New Thoughtists had to take time to
rlplain 10 his own particular group why his
theory Of the great cosmic union was SUI
error in its essentials to the solar plexus
rhpory or the macrOoosm and microcoSin
theory Of the other New Thoughtists, and
70 read the punches OF letters he had re-
ceived testifying TO the peace vhich had
come TO the souls OF seekers for the truth
ont in Kansas. folk that had been cropping
helpIessly in mental darkness until they hap
rened on his now celebrated book On the
subject. There was the lady in Wichita
who had taken her pen in hand and written
enthusiastically;
-Oh, / have gained 50 much this month,
my second. Have stood with ease what
ordinarily would have been a great dlsap-
p1intme1t. And my money receipts have
eel q source Of great wonder to me.
hnoD thinking how could II all come 10
H. Iily!'
,ne conference had some very important
alters To discuss. There was the solar
le,us theory II Elizabeth TOwne. for in
p aEce. which seemed to have the call over
m. Sears = deep breGtliHg in the sllences
Nih or without COTsets.' Miss IOwns
% disco, ercd that the solar plexus is the
Irai centre Of all life aud acti, ity and love
i'd hate aud health aud sickness, Mr..
,anes j. tOrbett came To a conclusion
somewhat similar SOM years ago in Carson
iCy. New, after a oOurss VI treatment
1.-THE capable hands Of old DR. FitzsimmOns.
The theory il simplicity itself. You SCI,
here is in all Of US a great central sun,
tho solar pleXus, which radiates love and
GOOD will. II your feelings are unpleas-
ant il shows that the solar pleKus isn't
working easily. Maybe microbes have
got stuck In the plumbing somewhere;
hut II you are feeling fine and would like
10 20 out and lick somebody just for the
fun Of It, why, your pleIus Is In tip top
shape and you needn't bother about liver
or stomach or kidneys or any Of the old
fashioned organs that doctors pull a long
face over.
Corsets. whether worn by men or women,
are mighty bad for your central sun. AZ
Miss Towne said herself, II you are a mar
never mind about the straight front
corset, just stand X an athlete, cnest
out and abdomen in and take long swlgs
from the sun. II you wear the old high
corset drop It. Don't trhe with your
delicate plexus. II you must have q corset
20 buy a straight front. You can't AFFORD
10 take chances in these days. With or
without the corset, though, the breathing
exercise for the benefit Of the inner sun
lie important and has to be carried out just
this way:
bodv and eyes closed. Inhale slowly, but
not too slowly, Just easily; as you inhale
say mentally (never bawl II out, with eyes
raised under your closed lids, Il AM'-say
il slowly and distinctly and try quietly TO
realize that the Infinite IL really you'll and
the Father are One Keep the chest walls
expanded for q moment and the throat
open. Then slowly and very smoothly
eIhale the breath, lowering your eyes as
you do 90, under closed lids always, saying
-oftly, lingeringy, mentally; VT down
There's the whole business according to
the E1iSabeth T0Wne school, but you've got
10 follow directions explicitly. II you mess
I'D the formula the inner sun may quit
shining altogether, and then what would
happen TO youi Things too awful TO con-
Ths DR.. Julia Seton Sears School work
along somewhat different lines since the
doctor discovered the great cosmic ether
through which the conscious mind mhoWs
and outiows. When you locate the great
cosmic ether with your s~upra-conscious
mind and begin TO throw OF vibrations IKE
a jewshArpl you are ready for the healer
who will send you into the silence.
Then you withdraw your min from the
external world and you relax and live IN
the consciousness Of power and you assume
a listening attitude. Get .quiet-guiet-
quiet-and still more quiet listen
this is the way 10 the centre OF betng-listen
lsten-so deep that you can bear your
" heart beat, and when you hear the
heating, or even fully feel the vibrations OF
the blood you have come into universal
rhythm and are ready TO make the great
cosmio union. Dr.. Sears's theory seemed 70
many Of the New Thoughtists TO have many
points Of excellence over Miss ToWDe's,
one being that no work was involved.
But il wa made pretty clear that you
can't afford TO stall around either with Dr,
Scars's treatment or the panacea advocated
by Miss Towne. You've got 10 70 at the
thing not liEhtmindedly but firmly, seri-
ously. Miss Towno put the necessary atu-