Chapter VII - Physiology
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tests this science insomuch as it proves more clearly
tests this science insomuch as it proves more clearly
than others the superiority of mind over matter, drugs,
and material law. Ignorance of the relations of mind
to the body, and the superiority of the former over the
latter, are all that occasion skepticism regarding mental
pathology.
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A physician said to us, "I know mind affects the
A physician said to us, "I know mind affects the
body somewhat, and advise my patients to be hopeful
and take less medicine, but there are organic diseases
that mind cannot affect." To this we replied, it is poor
logic that facts contradict; we have many cases on
record of cures wrought through mind alone, that ma-
teria medica had failed to reach. You admit death has
occurred from fright, and this proves every function of
the body controlled by mind; death covers the whole
ground, it stops the action of brain, heart, blood, lungs,
etc., and if all organic action can be stopped by mind,
it is controlled by it, and can be cured also. Mind
produces what is termed organic disease, as directly as
it does hysteria, and cures it as readily; the demonstra-
tion we have given of this removes the question beyond
cavil. We predicate this science on proof, and have
not more evidence of our existence, than we have gained
of the utter control mind holds over the entire organi-
zation and functions of the body. Through mind alone
we have cured organic disease of the lungs, liver, heart,
brains, bones, muscles, etc., that defied physiology and
materia medica to heal.
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But to govern the body harmoniously with mind, you
But to govern the body harmoniously with mind, you
must understand the science of being predicated on
mind and not matter. Few will admit that what is
termed involuntary organic action is governed alone by
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mind, or that mind unconsciously controls the body, but
mind, or that mind unconsciously controls the body, but
man presents this phenomenon every moment, who com-
prehends not his own being, for this proves ignorance of
mind's action on the body. Supposing a dose of poison
be administered through mistake, and physician and
patient are looking for favorable results when the patient
dies, – did mind produce this? As surely as if it had
been consciously done. Mind is ever active, for action
signifies mind and the remote and predisposing thought
furnishes a link to the present, although what we term
personal sense knows this not. Accordingly, the thought
that has risen above the verge of unconscious mind is
the only one recognized, but it has acted before, and
effects have followed this action all the same as when
the thought became conscious. The mortal body, of
matter, is but a grosser strata of mortal mind.
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When darkness is over the earth, personal sense can-
When darkness is over the earth, personal sense can-
not say where the sun is, or that there is a sun; our
antipodes must tell us this, or we must learn it of science.
Thus it is with mind; the very reverse of what we are
thinking at present, is often the remote cause or belief
that has produced the inharmony of the body, and we
must learn this belief of its opposite thought or the
effect on the body, or submit its character and rela-
tions to science. We are willing to leave the explana-
tion of light and its effect on the earth, to science, and
because sense takes no cognizance, a portion of the
twenty-four hours, of the sun, never say it has no effect
on the earth, or deny there is a sun, or that the earth
borrows light and heat from the sun. No more should
we deny the effect of mind on the body because the
belief that produces this effect is below the mental