stly, I believe that this change was
the result of my receiving telephathically, and upon a mental stratum
quite below the level of immediate consciousness, a healthier and more
energetic attitude, receiving it from another person whose thought was
directed upon me with the intention of impressing the idea of this
attitude upon me. In my case the disease was distinctly what would be
classed as nervous, not organic; but from such opportunities as I have
had of observing, I have come to the conclusion that the dividing line
that has been drawn is an arbitrary one, the nerves controlling the
internal activities and the nutrition of the body throughout; and I
believe that the central nervous system, by starting and inhibiting
local centres, can exercise a vast influence upon disease of any kind,
if it can be brought to bear. In my judgment the question is simply
how to bring it to bear, and I think that the uncertainty and
remarkable differences in the results obtained through mental healing
do but show how ignorant we are as yet of the forces at work and of the
means we should take to make them effective. That these results are
not due to chance coincidences my observation of myself and others
makes me sure; that the conscious mind, the imagination, enters into
them as a factor in many cases is doubtless true, but in many others,
and sometimes very extraordinary ones, it hardly seems to enter in at
all. On the whole I am inclined to think that as the healing action,
like the morbid one, springs from the plane of the normally UNconscious
mind, so the strongest and most effective impressions are those which
IT receives, in some as yet unknown subtle way, DIRECTLY from a
healthier mind whose state, through a hidden law of sympathy, it
reproduces."

CASE II. "At the urgent request of friends, and with no faith and
hardly any hope (possibly owing to a previous unsuccessful experience
with a Christian Scientist), our little daughter was placed under the
care of a healer, and cured of a trouble about which the physician had
been very discouraging in his diagnosis. This interested me, and I
began studying earnestly the method and philosophy of this method of
healing. Gradually an inner peace and tranquillity came to me in so
positive a way that my manner changed greatly. My children and friends
noticed the change and commented upon it. All feelings of irritability
disappeared. Even the expression of my face changed notic