The Science of Getting Rich

The Science of Getting Rich is a best-selling classic by Wallace D. Wattles that outlines a scientific approach to wealth acquisition that (according to the author) if diligently applied cannot fail to yield the desired results.

The premise of the book is that it is natural and right to seek expansion, and that this expansion is facilitated by having as much material wealth as we need and want.

Wattles asserts the existence of a reality above and beyond the physical universe and human life referred to as the thinking stuff or formless intelligence. This is commonly known as God, Spirit or Source. Thoughts made in this all-encompassing "reality" tend to create the reality imaged by the thought. This is the Law of Attraction recently popularized by The Secret. (more…)

The Secret of Dreams

by Yacki Raizizun
 
Everybody dreams, but there are few who place any importance to the phenomena of sleep. Before we can begin to comprehend or even analyze dreams, whether our dreams are symbolic or otherwise, we must first divert from our mind our materialistic conceptions of what the individual called man really is. The external or physical man, is no more the man than the coat he wears. The physical man is only an instrument of which the real inner man or soul expresses itself in the physical universe. Various materialistic theories have been given in the past, trying to explain the mighty phenomena of dreams, but these theories have always been more or less unsatisfactory. Why? Because the-materialist tries to explain the riddle of human existence without an individual human spirit his explanation will always be unsatisfactory.

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Self Development and the Way to Power

by L W Rogers

"We may be either the suffering slaves of nature or the happy masters of her laws."

It is the natural right of every human being to be happy--to escape all the miseries of life. Happiness is the normal condition, as natural as the landscapes and the seasons. It is unnatural to suffer and it is only because of our ignorance that we do suffer. Happiness is the product of wisdom. To attain perfect wisdom, to comprehend fully the purpose of life, to realize completely the relationship of human beings to each other, is to put an end to all suffering, to escape every ill and evil that afflicts us. Perfect wisdom is unshadowed joy.

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The Development of Mediumship

Mediumship is the branch of psychic functioning that permits communication with the disembodied consciousness(es) of those who have lived in human form and now passed on (back) to the Spirit realm. Mediumship, sometimes referred to as clairvoyance (or clairaudience or clairsentience depending how the communications are perceived by the medium), is central to the Spiritualist movement.

Is mediumship a gift one is born with, or can it be learned? (more…)

What is Theosophy?

The New Age movement's desire to attain meaning through the rediscovery of our Spiritual essence is often thought to have arisen from 1960's hippy culture. However, many New Age principles were already established by the 19th century doctrine of Theosophy, a system of religious philosophy and metaphysics founded by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky. Essentially, Theosophy holds that all religions are attempts by the "Spiritual Hierarchy" to help humanity in evolving to greater perfection, and that each religion therefore has a portion of the truth. Together with Henry Steel Olcott, William Quan Judge, and others, Blavatsky founded the Theosophical Society in 1875.

C W Leadbeater's 1912 classic A Textbook of Theosophy is now available to read as a free online ebook. Leadbeater, a prominent member of the Theosophical Society in its early days and a student of Blavatsky discusses issues including what Theosophy is, the evolution of life, what happens after physical death, reincarnation, and the purpose of life. (more…)

The Game of Life and How to Play It

Florence Scovel Shinn's 1925 classic The Game of Life and How to Play It is yet another earlier, and in my opinion superior, version of recent blockbuster The Secret.

Born in 1871, Scovel Shinn worked as an artist before becoming a teacher of metaphysics (or as she calls it "Truth").

The Game of Life is the first of a series of works outlining Scovel Shinn's particular take on the philosophy of abundance. Essentially, she asserts that life can offer all we desire; we simply have to ask for it, and prepare for it, in the absolute belief that what we want is already ours. (more…)

Your Invisible Power

Genevieve Behrend was the only personal student of mental scientist and pioneer of the "new thought" movement Thomas Troward. In 1921 Behrend wrote Your Invisible Power with the purpose and hope that its suggestions may furnish readers a key to open up the way to the attainment of their desires, and to explain that fear should be entirely banished from their efforts to obtain possession of the things they desire.

Behrend presupposes that the desire for possession is based upon the aspiration for greater liberty. For example, you feel that the possession of more money, lands or friends will make you happier, and your desire for possession of these things arises from a conviction that their possession will bring you liberty and happiness. (more…)

The Prophet

Written in 1923 by Lebanese artist, philosopher and writer Khalil Gibran, The Prophet is a collection of 26 poetic essays covering all aspects of human experience.

The book tells the story of the prophet Almustafa, who has lived abroad in the city of Orphalese for 12 years. Almustafa is about to board a ship which will take him home. Perhaps the voyage is a metaphor for physical death. Before leaving he is approached by a group of people, with whom he discusses matters relating to life and its meaning. His beautifully expressed messages all give insight to our Spiritual nature.

The Prophet is one of those few books that can be read again and again, at different phases of one's life, each time yielding a different interpretation.

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