Mind the transformer; the new psychology complete

Contents

Principles of Healing 13

Cell Structure of the Body 19

Mind in the Cells 27

Foreword

Where are we to begin and end our study of mind when we purpose making one volume complete upon the subject of psychology? I think we will begin at making a key and stop when we have fitted it to the lock which opens the doors to the hidden treasures in every man's body, mind and soul. Incidental to such a creation we will find our way into the intricacies of mind as it exhibits its powers and attributes in manifold incorporations besides man.

My student need not fear that he will be led into fields of mysticism or speculation, nor even idealism of the phantastic sort. Practical science is the only science worth studying, and so it is with idealism. It must have touch with the daily practices of the progressive man to warrant our attention.

Some day the race will arrive at the stage of development where it needs to give thought only to methods of growth, unfoldment, and expression. At present we have to think of ways to reclaim health and form over all of the phases of our being. This generation, at least, will need all of my psychology, for through its prin-

Nine ciples, and through them only, can transformation and growth be attained.

A friend hung up in my office a picture of two little negro boys under a ragged umbrella. One was saying to the other these words : "Wishin' for de rain storm when the drout comes

round, Wonder'n why de sunshine keeps a dryin' out de

ground.

Better stop dis kickn', doesn't help a bit; Kind ob weader wot you has is all youse gwine ter git."

So it matters not how much we may wish it, we cannot return to our place of moulding, to take a better form, for the form and whatever we are, is all we are going to get to start with.

To the earnest and unprejudiced seeker, our lessons are simple, and the results certain. The way has been more than blazed — you will find this book, as a broad road, with bright lights all the way. At the destination there is a beautiful city that shines constantly in a blaze of glory. Simple lessons merging into simple lessons, yet disclosing most technical truths, lead ultimately to a knowledge that makes life seem the privilege that it is and proves from first to last that the purpose of a man's mundane life is to build an individuality.

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You will find that our practical psychologyextends to everything that an individual is or does; there is no phase of the subject as likely to attract the attention of each one as that of healing.

Because the body is uncomfortable,, is giving evidence of disorders, every one seeks remedial power. Mind does not so readily perceive its own ailments as it does those things that go wrong in the body, therefore relief to the mind, as such, is not sought in remedies.

How to get well, is the problem that John Wesley said began as soon as man offended his Creator. "Rebelling against the sovereign of all, seeds of pain and sickness were sown in the body ; the sun and moon shed unwholesome influence from above ; the earth exhaled poisonous damps from below."

Every one has the health problem to deal with, and, although few of us these days think disease is forced upon us by an angry Deity, all would like to be in the favor of a supreme power that can release us from disease.

This power has never lost its efficacy, but in some way it seems faithful to all laws, and needs to be recognized by man, consciously. Healing, if it takes place under any circumstances, must

Eleven be a religious, not a chemical or other physical process primarily. This is proved even when chemicals are used and cure follows.

The thousand methods, where no material thing was used but a cure followed, show the religious element in healing, but no plainer than where chemistry was applied. There is no such thing, and never was any such thing, as healing except through a religious applied power. One can apply that religious power and be cured without drugs, but no one can insinuate into, or in any way give material agents to the exclusion of a supreme power that is intelligent.

"Why say healing is a religious practice ? Does that mean theological, too ?" No, I do not mean theological. Theological signifies a definite belief concerning a Creative Intelligence, in the universe.

"Religious healing ,, signifies that spirit, not matter, must heal ; that it does heal because there is no potency in matter except as mind or spirit applies it. Therefore, if by a force of any sort a man's choice of methods of healing is withheld from him, his religious privileges are interfered with.

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The New Psyclwlogy Complete

CHAPTER I. Principles of Healing

Suggestion in healing literally means that the intelligence of that department of mind that controls the body is caused to obey a suggestion that is given to it to create harmonies, removing inharmonies.

Practically, psychology shows distinctly how complete the controlling power is and teaches the method of getting a suggestion to direct this power. That is the department of suggestive therapeutics. Our department of histology and the exhibit of the evolution from the primary cell, which with its successors are all intelligent, with mind the designer, mind the builder and mind the master, shows that man is possessed of a department of mind that controls hif body. This mind remains present and supreme in its potency as long as life in the body exists. We will not repeat here the proofs of the character to show the existence of mind, the supreme presence.

That the department is effected in its action by suggestion we will sustain I am sure. Our work in hypnotism has enabled us to understand the principle of suggestion.

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We may take otir subject into and out of the deepest hypnosis thousands of times and produce no changes different from what would have occurred if he had taken so many brief periods of sleep. Having him in that passive state, give him a suggestion that by the time his watch has ticked ten times he will have no sense of pain in his body. Then give test by a thrust of a needle through his skin; anesthesia is found to exist. Suggest that it is gone, and instantly sensibility will return.

You can proceed indefinitely with all sorts of suggestions and produce answer in full, if they are possible, and providing also that they do not run counter to liis auto-suggestions.

Since hypnosis is a state where the sub-conscious mind is in full possession and we obtained no phenomena without suggestions being given, but all sorts with them, we must see that suggestion is the key to the action of the subconscious.

The power is in the subconscious and suggestion is the key to its action, yet a very large experience has taught us that the reason suggestion is the key to the action of the subconscious, is because through suggesting we create an expectancy upon the part of the subconscious. If we

Fourteen stop short of creating that expectancy, we fail to produce the answer. Many times, mental and audible suggestions are given to no avail because they did not create the degree of expectancy. The man did not believe in his soul that the thing would occur. The subconscious does not build what it does not first expect.

Then through hypnosis we discover that the subconscious mind is the power; that suggestion is the key and expectancy the degree. Hypnosis did not create the subconscious mind nor the power, therefore they are present whether one is hypnotized or not. The agent and power being always present and suggestion being the key, psychology is the science that must reveal to us the conditions under which the key can be applied to create an expectancy. In another subject I am giving the suggestible states, therefore refer here to the best one for treatment.

I have my patient sit or lie comfortably ; sitting position, reclining in a morris chair preferable. I instruct him to close his eyes and to relax as completely as he can ; to let his mind wander, not centering it upon anything. Very soon after this rest begins, I commence audibly to suggest to him that he will enjoy a perfect rest; every care disappearing from his mind.

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Presently I also suggest audibly that the symptoms he has had of a distressing kind will tend to disappear ; that he will be better and will continue to improve until well. I usually mention the literal symptom that will disappear; I suggest the literal form of the improvement that will take place. In half an hour of such rest I give the same suggestion three or four times at intervals of several minutes between. In that interval I give the same suggestions mentally, thinking in the actual terms of words as if I had spoken them.

I noted by repeated demonstration that therapeutic work brought more satisfactory and permanent results in the light passivity than when I used hypnosis. I'Thoose the lighter passivity then because it is better, not because hypnosis is -bad. It is simply unnecessary. There is nothing curative in either light or deep passivity; the cure is effected by suggestion, creating an expectancy in the soul of the patient. The inebriate, drug habituate, or one who is subject to moral reform, or one who wishes development of his art, psychic or other subjective power will respond to the formula given.

Having the law and the formula, we can help one another. Let no one imagine that the heal-

Sixteen ing power is in the operator, it is in the patient. Any one with the good sense of how to give constructive suggestions mentally and spoken, can cause the power of the subconscious mind to act in the direction of healing. It may be opportune to close this subject by further quotation from John Wesley's medical advice. His treatment for consumption was "Take no food but new buttermilk, churned in a bottle, and white bread. Or every morning cut up a little fresh turf of earth, and lying down, breathe into the hole for a quarter of an hour." Then for baldness he advises, "Rub the part morning and evening with onions 'til red and rub afternoon with honey," closing with this, "But I still advise in complicated cases, let every one apply without delay to a physician that fears God ; for from one who does not, be his fame ever so great I should expect a curse, rather than a blessing." Thus we see that even in the time of Wesley, mind, not matter was first. If a man's mind were not right, the drugs he gave could not cure,

My book of personal psychology, "Mind the Builder," which is still in print, treats of our science, with first regard for the department of mind that designs, and the other department that builds.

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"Mind the Transformer" has purposes which are not more than alluded to in "Mind the Builder. ,, The latter goes back to the design which is an image, something entirely spiritual, really best defined as an order of thought. The demonstration shows how that thinking, which is the mind functioning, causes the particles of ether to assemble to afford the beginning of a material fulfillment of the design. How the design determines the course of the thought. Mind uses the first cell as an instrument to aid in the production of the second, those two, become the material instrument to produce four cells, and so on until the whole design or idea has taken form.

Mind as a transformer is working with the tangible form and is demonstrating its power and office in making other forms by modifying the first. Fundamental psychology must, like elementary physiology, begin with the cell. The cell is the physical form we wish to consider in its various phases. We shall also note how mind transforms it. Even if I treat it technically, it will be in a manner to so simplify it, that a child can understand it and by reference to the illustrations, become much interested and well informed upon the vital things in histology.

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CHAPTER II. Cell Structure of the Body

The cell is the elementary organism whose essential parts are the cell body and a nucleus, the latter lying in the middle of the cell. The cells in form may be spherical, flattened, spindleshaped or elongated, depending upon the kind of tissue they form, and the office they are to fulfill. The nucleus takes the form after the type of the cell of which it is a part.

When it was discovered that the body is made up of cells, motion was recognized. This is of many forms, of which the movement from place to place is most noticeable. Usually this is accomplished by the cell projecting one portion of its body, then permitting itself to be drawn after that. Cell reproduction is entirely by the cell division, each cell dividing into two cells by a division of the nucleus. Each portion then becomes the center of a cell.

Typical Cells

Pictorially and by word, I will illustrate sufficient kinds of cells to familiarize us with the essential facts, that we may know the fundamental things about all tissues, structures and organisms made up of cells.

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The muscle cells have elongated bodies, maybe spindle shaped, cylindrical, slightly flattened or elliptical. The nucleus, manner of reproduction and adaptation in size and form, according to their purposes, are in perfect correspondence with other typical cells.

Nerve cells are varied in form, and also the tissues which are composed of nerve cells. There is no need, for our purposes, to go into the details of the forms of cells that comprise brain, spinal cord, or the threads that go to every part of the body. Our definite aim, at present, is to show the principle to which every cell is faithful, and corresponds with the description given under physical cells.

Cartilage, bone and marrow cells are shown with the characteristics of all other cells.

To give minute description of the blood vessels would simply mean to detail the cell structure of their walls. Although the blood is itself made up of distinct kinds of cells, all of its course is through structures made of other cells.

Human Blood Cells — The colored, are in the form of a flat circular disc, slightly concave on each surface. Some are also spherical. The white blood cells travel everywhere outside or inside of the blood vessels. Their office is that

Twenty of scavengers. When in motion they may be almost any shape, but are spherical when at rest. Upon examination the hair, nails, the teeth and their enamel, all structures and tissues, special organs, the secretions and many products of the cells in their functioning, disclose cellular formation.

How Cells Multiply

The organized body is found to be made up of an aggregate of physical entities that, although they are microscopic, fulfill the law of reproduction, each one producing its kind by becoming two. Now for the sake of an easy way to understand what has been made hard to know, let us think that possibly there was a time in the history of each human body when there was just one cell of each kind of tissue present ; that as it is inherent in the cell to be possessed of the masculine and feminine element so it can reproduce of itself, then if there are two score kinds of cells, forty cells could be the source of the perfected adult body. When we have this picture in mind, I want to explain that there never is any such situation, but something more marvelous, something grander than the body with its billions of individual cells coming from forty parents. But by your thinking of how the forty could be,

Twenty-one if they exist singly, the parents of as many varieties of cells, you can follow me back to one cell, which had the potency to be the parent of all of these species that enter into the structure, the body.

The first egg, or cell, the primary cell comes into existence through the feminine ovum being fertilized by the masculine element; really a blending of two cells in one, with the characteristics of all cells, a body and a nucleus and an impulse to multiply; which it does by becoming two cells. This cell division is accomplished through the function of nutrition and absorption of food, until the cell reaches its full development when it divides the nucleus into two, which become the centers of two bodies.

By a study of the parent cell development, when it has become two and then four, then eight and so on, we find the order of their arrangement, as they multiply, is with reference to a purpose which we realize they are to fulfill by their co-operation. They comprise something made up of their bodies and they also work together to create something. They create membranes of cells, and the cells of the membranes create all of the different species of cells, ultimately present in the structures.

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The discovery of the cell structure of the body is the greatest aid to human analysis and understanding.

That all of these cells are typical eggs, fertile and alive, whose generation comes, through the potency of one egg or cell, to be the parent of all, is easily understood.

Our research would yield us only a fraction of its value, if we stopped at the fact that the human body, or the animal world as for that, is built upon the same law of cell structure in which the individual organism descends from a fertilized egg. The lowest form of life, the highest and all between, is cell life. The amoeba, the man; the microscopic animal, the world of bacteria or the larger vegetable life, indeed everything that has life is a cell or multiple of cells.

Since all life is similar in its plan of structure to the extent that there is the universal cell organization of cells, we cannot rest until we find the whole range of similarities.

Appearances, powers and offices of organized cells in the complete individual are so varied that we can see how the difference occurs.

Without much knowledge we would say : "why, of course, the difference begins in having unlike parents; offspring so dissimilar in all character-

Twenty-three istics, except the fact of cell structure and being alive, come from eggs with equal dissimilarity." That would be an easy way to settle the matter, except for the facts, which are readily at hand with our mechanical facilities so perfected for examination of the first eggs from which creations descend.

We could go the whole range of organization and show that the correspondence in these primary eggs is perfect and alike in the physical phases, possibly excepting size. Chemically they are similar. In order of cell body and nucleus relationship all are like the typical cell.

That the conception of this principle may be perfect we present to you an illustration of the different eggs from which creatures develop. The egg of the sponge animal, in the top line of the plate, is shown in different positions; the next two lines exhibit the egg of the parasite crab, also showing the positions of that cell in moving about. The fourth line is the egg from which the cat develops; the lower left hand corner shows the ovum of a trout; the next that of a chicken, and the third is a fertilized ovum or egg, from which a human being evolves.

These are all beginnings, and when we know them to be alike, whtf can keep from asking "then

Twenty-four how can they produce such unlike results ?" Test all of the laws of matter to the utmost, and there is no available answer. There is no answer in the chemistry of the first egg being unlike nor that they have different sorts of chemistry in their food supply. If there were a difference in these respects, that would not account for the mental and spiritual range between the trout and man, or the sponge and cat. If there is no accounting for the phenomena mentioned from a physical standpoint then there must be a mind phase that applies to every living cell-built thing. That is the transcendent truth that answers all of the unsolved questions of biology that eluded our materialist scientists. This truth should be inscribed in some fashion upon every page of history of organic life.

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Fig. 1.

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Fig. 4.

DESCRIPTION OF FIGURES

Figure 1 shows in the first row, the egg (cell) from which the sponge animal develops ; illustrating different forms it takes in moving from place to place.

In the second and third rows the egg (cell) of the parasite crab is shown, undergoing changes. In the third row is shown the egg (cell) from which the cat evolves.

In the fourth row, in the corner on the left there is the primary cell of the trout ; next, that of the chicken, and the third, that fertilized egg or cell that unfolds into the human being.

Figure No. 2 illustrates the Amoeba beginning as the single cell; then it forms its two neuclei, and its body becomes elongated, then smaller around the middle until it separates, becoming two perfect cells. This is the manner of all cell multiplication, whether it is the first cell of the man or the cell of any tissue of his body.

Figure No. 3 shows the Amoeba approaching its food, then finally wrapping its body around it, encloses it and then absorbs it. This is the typical manner in which all cells treat and absorb their food.

Figure No. 4 is the coral animal beginning with the first cell ; shows the multiplication and then the manner of arrangement of the cells to perfect the animal. Several sections are made to show the internal arrangement of the cells. All of the different kingdoms of cell life are possessed of the same characteristics in cell construction, multiplication and habits.

The upper portion of Figure No. 5 illustrates the cells of the enamel of the teeth; the lower portion, nine cells of bone tissue. These convey correct ideas of all kinds of cells in the human body.

CHAPTER III. Mind in the Cells

It is axiomatic that matter, as such, cannot hold an image. An image must be something spiritual, something of mind. Affirming that there is the law of imagery operative in the primary cell, is another way of stating that the ovum is a spiritual entity — a creation with mind and body.

In our former lessons in these pages, we took the cells of the adult body to study them physically, and were lead back to the parent cell, a fertilized ovum. Now we want to study the first cell psychically and, as is the parent so is that which descends from it, showing the mind present in every cell.

To make it possible to appreciate the mind in an egg cell and hence all the cells developing out of it, we may happily, apply our knowledge of the intelligence of the single celled animals that we have studied, with the aid of the microscope. The first of these being the amoeba. Natively this is a water animal life that lives and dies a single cell. Reference to our illustrations shows it to be after the type of the cells of structures of the human body, the sponge, the coral, the

Twenty-seven vegetable, crab, cat, trout, chick and the primary cell of the human body. The picture of the amoeba aprpoaching its food and wrapping its body around it, until finally it is absorbed, is characteristic of cells taking their material supply. Furthermore the illustration of the amoeba, as it proceeds to multiply by self-division, is the common cleavage method of cells, whether they live in individual or community life.

The amoeba recognizes food and seeks to apply it for his comfort and rejects that which is not food. Cells, that are part of a body of multiple cells, do the same. Mere matter would not do this — mind must be present and functioning, to exercise this choice. The amoeba recognizes its enemies and flees from them, choosing a hiding place. Individual cells that are a part even of the human body show the same scope of intelligence the amoeba shows, being under impulse to reproduce, and does reproduce its kind. So do all cells, but mere matter could not have impulse. Impulse must be in the mind operating over matter; operating for the purpose of building a physical instrument for its use. At present it is not my purpose to show the scope of intelligence in cells, but to aid you in the conception of the fact of mind the builder, MIND THE

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TRANSFORMER being present and master in the primary and succeeding cells.

I am sure you are ready now for me to say, and be understood, that the ovum in its -spiritual phase holds an image, a design, and is possessed of an impulse and a potency to apply, under the law of food and nutrition, matter so as to build more cells which it, the mind, arranges in such a manner as to build an organism in perfect fulfillment of the design. Original spirit and ancestry have created the design or image that is over the primary cell, the mind present in the organism that produced the egg would specifically impress the image that is present in the egg. I do not know that I will, in this volume, treat extensively the question of the ONE MIND that has its specific and individual impressions and impulses, which are conveyed to integral members of the universe by the myriad tiny or mammoth separate organizations that keep producing their kind.

My purpose now is to give the practical lesson on "Mind the Transformer" that has commenced with an egg, but which must be changed in form before it becomes man. Give this egg over to matter to build a man, and you quickly realize there could be no evolution. Place the material

Twenty-nine ovum in the hands only of mind outside to act upon the egg and you remove all individual responsibility, possibility and purpose. There would be no distinctness of kind.

Just Where Mind Lays Hold of Matter

The next privilege I eagerly accept is to portray the glory, the good, the beauty and the power of the NEW PSYCHOLOGY as it conceives of the instant when mind begins to take a body. What matters it now whether we say mind or soul in this connection? You know I mean the intelligence that is operating to get a body, which it must do through controlling matter. Soul is the best word, because the psychic of the cell, or soul of the cell, has been a term at least, of scientists. For our best purpose in showing the universal principle whether it is to build a grain of wheat, a coral, or a sponge animal, fowl or fish, I will show where soul first begins to apply matter to build a human body and thereby define Mind the Transformer in dealing with substance.

The first cell is a blending of a masculine element with a feminine element, but before this cell is created, mind has acted upon each of these elements. Mind is present in the masculine cell also in the feminine egg, but neither could pro- Thirty duce a human being without uniting with the other. Through the natural functioning of the organism of woman an egg is created. The're was a time in her history when that ovum did not exist, it is a product of her mind and body, and she gives that egg its mind. No one would read from this that mind did not exist before nor that matter which the mind uses to build itself a body did not exist before this process, which has for its purpose, the individualizing of a new being, a man that did not exist before, as a man.

One can think of the sweet of candy and his salivary glands will create certain chemical forms, and so will the stomach glands. Certain others did not exist in such form until his organism produced them. His subconscious mind lays hold upon matter in these secretory glands, to produce cells with minds and bodies which have impulse to digest food. Just where and how and when mind took hold of matter in this instance is perfectly clear. The man did not get the candy so it is not a case of physical stimulus.

There is a time when the masculine element, which is the present object of our research, does not exist as such. The activities of his mind upon his body organism, produces the cells with their minds and bodies. Their minds are under im-

Thirty-one pulse to unite with the feminine element just as the digestive cells are under impulse to act upon food. One is no more mysterious than the other ; neither one is supernatural in any way. Mind, functioning in thought (creating an image) uses a physical organism to produce a cell which is possessed of mind and impulse and potency, to deal further with matter until its ideal has taken form.

When these cells have blended to produce the one primary cell, there is an image present given to it by what is innate in original mind, modified by species or ancestry and by immediate parents.