The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-09-30
The Vast Field of Mind
Study and Application

EaAyo @on lASCiy give out Oh the
knowledge that he, has acquired with
out diminishing his store. and gain in
the giving. because the very act of
teaching opens wider vistas of under
standing and possibilities. Indicating an
unlimited supply.
! The study of mental science is so diff
ferent from all objective studies that.
unless it is approached in the attitude
Of a little child: trying It's own powers
and developing them by exercise. it can
never be mastered. The investigator
of electricity did not approach it with
the assumption that he already knew
and wrangle and quarrel with the pro-
position: he found out what he wanted
to knew and knew that he knew
! Anyone who wants ito become
practical electrician does snot quarrel
and wrangle with the textbooks and en-
gage in disputes with his instructors;
but he acts in conformity with the In
formation gained and the instructions
given, and becomes an expert electri-
clan in proportion to the pains taken
in mastering the knowledge and tech
mic of the trade.
Cooperation demands a change in
mind. feeling. attitude and conduct, a
lchange that must proceed from within
and can never successfully be imposed
and enforced from without. That is
the reason why the study and under
standing of self on the part of each
would-be co-operator is SO important
and essential.
The material problems need cause no
trouble; because they have already
been solved as to the technic of gain
ing results in production and distribu
ton. The human factor is really the
only one Of any moment. Congenial |
men and women who are willing to CO.
ordinate their activities in applying APP
proved technical methods, will always !
make a success of cooperation. 1t is
not a speculative or so-called political
problem at all. At least, not at pre-
sent. 1t is a purely scientific PROPOSE
ton, which people can learn, conform
to, and gain results accordingly-as +
is done in any other practical science.
The wide bearing that mental sci
ence has in human affairs is shown in
the September. 1922, number of
Health Culture. in an article by W. /
R. c. Latson. M. D., entitled, Mental :
Habits and Health. " in which we read:
In reality, there is but one thing in
the universe-mind. All the sights ard
sounds, the tastes and touches-all that
we see, hear, feel-all is merely an ex-
ternalization of the mind. Man is his
mind and nothing else. His body is
surely the creature of his mind; just as
the shadow is the creature of the sub
stance. And the universe around him
is, as Emanuel Kant well says: Only
a projection of his own inner conscious
ness. His conception, or misconcep-
ton Of It'll
AS matter of fact, there is fun
damentally but one thing in the uni
verse; and that is mind. In the build
ing of mans body, mind was the Gre
alive power. In the maintenance Of
that body. in its orderly workings, mind
is the dominant factor. For bodily in
efficiency. weakness, disease, death.
there is Fundamentally but one cause
mind. Mind has enwrapped within
it all the potentialities of the Hindoo
trinity; for the mind is the mystic
Three-Brahma, Vishnu, and silva
the creator; Vishnu, the Pre-
server; and silva, the Destroyer. So
mind creates the body, preserves the
body, destroys the body.
Speaking in the most fundamental
sense, using the words in the most con-
crete spirit, and not at all figuratively. |
it may be said that the one cause of
the ultimate of all disease, is
faulty mental action.
This is a sweeping statement; and,
coming as it does from doctor of
medicine trained in materialistic SCI
ence. it may seem to be radical and ex-
IRENE. 1t is not. however, without
much experience. long study and earn
est thought that | make the statement:
All disease arises from the mind" i
Were we to take up another disor-
der. acute or chronic. it would be an
equally simple matter to trace It's caus-
es. immediate and remote, and to find
for each of them an ultimate ''fons ct
origo" in the mind. which is at once
the cause of all disease and the instru-
nent from which springs all cure of
disease
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