The Edinburgh lectures on mental science / by T. Troward.

  • Thomas Troward
Date:
1914
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    But it should be noted that the control must be our own and not that of any external intelli- gence whether in the flesh or out of it. But perhaps the most important fact which hyp- notic experiments have demonstrated is that the subjective mind is the builder of the body. The sub- jective entity in the patient is able to diagnose the character of the disease from which he is suffering and to point out suitable remedies, indicating a phy- siological knowledge exceeding that of the most highly trained physicians, and also a knowledge of the correspondences between diseased conditions of the bodily organs and the material remedies which can afford relief. And from this it is but a step further to those numerous instances in which it entirely dispenses with the use of material remedies and itself works directly on the organism, so that complete restoration to health follows as the result of the suggestions of perfect soundness made by the operator to the patient while in the hypnotic state. Now these are facts fully established by hundreds of experiments conducted by a variety of investi- gators in different parts of the world, and from them we may draw two inferences of the highest import- ance ; one, that the subjective mind is in itself abso- lutely impersonal, and the other that it is the builder of the body, or in other words it is the creative power
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