Your Mind and How To Use It | William Walker Atkinson


Your Mind and How To Use It – A Manual of Practical Psychology

I really love this book. It does a fantastic job of taking you on the journey of experience from sensation, to the brain, to perception, to mind to memory and back. His explanation does a great job of showing where physical phenomenon end and meta or non physical phenomenon begins. He uses an analogy of a telegraph machine, to help you visualize the flow of information to the brain, helping you imagine then carry the analogy of signals or data to the nonphysical side of things.

 



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Conceptual Forms | Your Mind and How To Use It #1

“Mind, except in reference to its own activities, cannot be defined or conceived. It is known to itself only through its activities. Mind without mental states is a mere abstraction—a word without a corresponding mental image or concept. Sir William Hamilton expressed the matter as clearly as possible, when he said : “What we mean […]