On subtle energies and the ether.

[Tisra Til]

‘Subtle energies’ has different meanings. It is sometimes used to refer to physical energy fields (e.g. electromagnetic waves) that are very weak, but it can also refer to ethereal, nonphysical grades of energy-substance. This includes a life force, known by different cultures, traditions and researchers under a variety of names: e.g. ka (ancient Egypt), pneuma (Greece), spiritus/anima (Rome), prana/ojas (Hinduism), lung (Tibet), qi/chi (China), ki (Japan), nephesh (Judaism), animal magnetism (Franz Anton Mesmer), odic force (Karl von Reichenbach), élan vital (Henri Bergson), and orgone (Wilhelm Reich). Some researchers believe that the ‘corona discharge’ of living organisms and inanimate objects revealed by Kirlian photography (high-voltage, high-frequency electrophotography) may be a manifestation of this life energy (see Astral bodies, appendix 2).

All mystical traditions and religious philosophies recognize the existence of subtler realms, which are invisible to our normal senses, but not to the inner eye of a seer or even an undeveloped psychic. In the 18th and 19th centuries most scientists accepted that there was an ether of subtler substance underlying the physical world, which helped explain light, heat, electricity and magnetism.

However, the ether went out of fashion among mainstream scientists with the rise of relativity theory and quantum theory in the early 20th century (see Space, time and relativity). Instead of trying to understand physical matter-energy as manifestations of a subtler level of reality, orthodox scientists now try to understand them in terms of mathematical abstractions that exist only in their imaginations: e.g. zero-dimensional point particles, one-dimensional strings, and ‘probability waves’ that magically ‘collapse’ into physical particles whenever we make an observation (see The farce of modern physics). However, individual scientists have continued to explore the notion of an ether.

According to the theosophical tradition, or ageless wisdom, the ether of physics corresponds to the three highest states of matter on our physical plane (the lower four being: solid, liquid, gas and plasma), and it is merely the borderland of the endless planes of reality that lie beyond – all of which are composed of consciousness-substance of different rates of vibration, and occupy (and in fact compose) the same boundless space (see Worlds within worlds).

Nowadays, many researchers who accept that subtle energies are required to explain psychic phenomena and certain types of healing reject the concept of an ether as obsolete, and try instead to explain subtle energies by invoking extra dimensions of the physical world, or quantum entanglement, i.e. instantaneous ‘nonlocal’ connections ‘beyond space and time’ (see Psi wars). In fact, many researchers are looking for ways to explain acupuncture, homeopathy and manual healing methods without appealing to subtler, nonphysical energies of any kind; they prefer to invoke conventional electromagnetic fields (including the universal quantum field) and bioelectricity (Mayor, 2015).

David Pratt

[Tisra Til]

Post by Tisra Til
‘Subtle energies’ has different meanings. It is sometimes used to refer to physical energy fields (e.g. electromagnetic waves) that are very weak, but it can also refer to ethereal, nonphysical grades of energy-substance. This includes a life force, known by different cultures, traditions and researchers under a variety of names: e.g. ka (ancient Egypt), pneuma (Greece), spiritus/anima (Rome), prana/ojas (Hinduism), lung (Tibet), qi/chi (China), ki (Japan), nephesh (Judaism), animal magnetism (Franz Anton Mesmer), odic force (Karl von Reichenbach), élan vital (Henri Bergson), and orgone (Wilhelm Reich). Some researchers believe that the ‘corona discharge’ of living organisms and inanimate objects revealed by Kirlian photography (high-voltage, high-frequency electrophotography) may be a manifestation of this life energy (see Astral bodies, appendix 2).
All mystical traditions and religious philosophies recognize the existence of subtler realms, which are invisible to our normal senses, but not to the inner eye of a seer or even an undeveloped psychic. In the 18th and 19th centuries most scientists accepted that there was an ether of subtler substance underlying the physical world, which helped explain light, heat, electricity and magnetism.
However, the ether went out of fashion among mainstream scientists with the rise of relativity theory and quantum theory in the early 20th century (see Space, time and relativity). Instead of trying to understand physical matter-energy as manifestations of a subtler level of reality, orthodox scientists now try to understand them in terms of mathematical abstractions that exist only in their imaginations: e.g. zero-dimensional point particles, one-dimensional strings, and ‘probability waves’ that magically ‘collapse’ into physical particles whenever we make an observation (see The farce of modern physics). However, individual scientists have continued to explore the notion of an ether.
According to the theosophical tradition, or ageless wisdom, the ether of physics corresponds to the three highest states of matter on our physical plane (the lower four being: solid, liquid, gas and plasma), and it is merely the borderland of the endless planes of reality that lie beyond – all of which are composed of consciousness-substance of different rates of vibration, and occupy (and in fact compose) the same boundless space (see Worlds within worlds).
Nowadays, many researchers who accept that subtle energies are required to explain psychic phenomena and certain types of healing reject the concept of an ether as obsolete, and try instead to explain subtle energies by invoking extra dimensions of the physical world, or quantum entanglement, i.e. instantaneous ‘nonlocal’ connections ‘beyond space and time’ (see Psi wars). In fact, many researchers are looking for ways to explain acupuncture, homeopathy and manual healing methods without appealing to subtler, nonphysical energies of any kind; they prefer to invoke conventional electromagnetic fields (including the universal quantum field) and bioelectricity (Mayor, 2015).
David Pratt

Cont. Swiss-born occultist and physician Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim (1493-1541), popularly known as Paracelsus, anticipated many elements of modern conventional and alternative medicine (Wood, 2004). He is known as the founder of iatrochemistry (chemical medicine) and the father of pharmacology. Standing in the theosophic tradition, he held that, in addition to our physical body, we have an ethereal ‘sidereal body’, through which our higher, spiritual nature works. He also recognized a universal life force, the spiritus vitae or archaeus, which he described it as an ‘inner alchemist’ that maintains and repairs organisms in a dynamic fashion.

He spent much of his life wandering around Europe healing the sick and gathering information from people of every walk of life. He performed seemingly miraculous cures on many patients who had been pronounced incurable by leading doctors, a fact testified to by Erasmus. He used a variety of healing methods, including magnets and talismans. In his remedies, he applied the ‘law of similars’ or ‘like treats like’ – a principle known since ancient times (e.g. to Hippocrates) and forming the basis of modern homeopathy. Like all ancient cultures, he recognized correspondences between the macrocosm (universe) and the microcosm (individual). H.P. Blavatsky describes Paracelsus as ‘the greatest occultist of the middle ages’, ‘a clairvoyant of great powers’ and ‘a distinguished alchemist’ (Theosophical Glossary, 248-9).

Viennese doctor of medicine Franz Anton Mesmer (1734-1814) drew inspiration from reading Paracelsus, and in the early 1770s he began treating patients with magnets. He soon came to the conclusion that a magnet was merely a medium through which a healing fluid acted. He found he could also achieve cures simply by touching or moving his hands over his patients or staring into their eyes. He called this subtle force ‘animal magnetism’, which he distinguished from mineral magnetism. He believed that animal magnetism was subject to the influence of the heavenly bodies and worked through a subtle, universal, all-pervading fluid (the ether). Mesmeric healing was believed to remove blockages and restore the balanced flow of animal magnetism within the body.

D.P. https://www.davidpratt.info/bioelec.htm#a5

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Post by Tisra Til
‘Subtle energies’ has different meanings. It is sometimes used to refer to physical energy fields (e.g. electromagnetic waves) that are very weak, but it can also refer to ethereal, nonphysical grades of energy-substance. This includes a life force, known by different cultures, traditions and researchers under a variety of names: e.g. ka (ancient Egypt), pneuma (Greece), spiritus/anima (Rome), prana/ojas (Hinduism), lung (Tibet), qi/chi (China), ki (Japan), nephesh (Judaism), animal magnetism (Franz Anton Mesmer), odic force (Karl von Reichenbach), élan vital (Henri Bergson), and orgone (Wilhelm Reich). Some researchers believe that the ‘corona discharge’ of living organisms and inanimate objects revealed by Kirlian photography (high-voltage, high-frequency electrophotography) may be a manifestation of this life energy (see Astral bodies, appendix 2).
All mystical traditions and religious philosophies recognize the existence of subtler realms, which are invisible to our normal senses, but not to the inner eye of a seer or even an undeveloped psychic. In the 18th and 19th centuries most scientists accepted that there was an ether of subtler substance underlying the physical world, which helped explain light, heat, electricity and magnetism.
However, the ether went out of fashion among mainstream scientists with the rise of relativity theory and quantum theory in the early 20th century (see Space, time and relativity). Instead of trying to understand physical matter-energy as manifestations of a subtler level of reality, orthodox scientists now try to understand them in terms of mathematical abstractions that exist only in their imaginations: e.g. zero-dimensional point particles, one-dimensional strings, and ‘probability waves’ that magically ‘collapse’ into physical particles whenever we make an observation (see The farce of modern physics). However, individual scientists have continued to explore the notion of an ether.
According to the theosophical tradition, or ageless wisdom, the ether of physics corresponds to the three highest states of matter on our physical plane (the lower four being: solid, liquid, gas and plasma), and it is merely the borderland of the endless planes of reality that lie beyond – all of which are composed of consciousness-substance of different rates of vibration, and occupy (and in fact compose) the same boundless space (see Worlds within worlds).
Nowadays, many researchers who accept that subtle energies are required to explain psychic phenomena and certain types of healing reject the concept of an ether as obsolete, and try instead to explain subtle energies by invoking extra dimensions of the physical world, or quantum entanglement, i.e. instantaneous ‘nonlocal’ connections ‘beyond space and time’ (see Psi wars). In fact, many researchers are looking for ways to explain acupuncture, homeopathy and manual healing methods without appealing to subtler, nonphysical energies of any kind; they prefer to invoke conventional electromagnetic fields (including the universal quantum field) and bioelectricity (Mayor, 2015).
David Pratt

Cont. Swiss-born occultist and physician Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim (1493-1541), popularly known as Paracelsus, anticipated many elements of modern conventional and alternative medicine (Wood, 2004). He is known as the founder of iatrochemistry (chemical medicine) and the father of pharmacology. Standing in the theosophic tradition, he held that, in addition to our physical body, we have an ethereal ‘sidereal body’, through which our higher, spiritual nature works. He also recognized a universal life force, the spiritus vitae or archaeus, which he described it as an ‘inner alchemist’ that maintains and repairs organisms in a dynamic fashion.
He spent much of his life wandering around Europe healing the sick and gathering information from people of every walk of life. He performed seemingly miraculous cures on many patients who had been pronounced incurable by leading doctors, a fact testified to by Erasmus. He used a variety of healing methods, including magnets and talismans. In his remedies, he applied the ‘law of similars’ or ‘like treats like’ – a principle known since ancient times (e.g. to Hippocrates) and forming the basis of modern homeopathy. Like all ancient cultures, he recognized correspondences between the macrocosm (universe) and the microcosm (individual). H.P. Blavatsky describes Paracelsus as ‘the greatest occultist of the middle ages’, ‘a clairvoyant of great powers’ and ‘a distinguished alchemist’ (Theosophical Glossary, 248-9).
Viennese doctor of medicine Franz Anton Mesmer (1734-1814) drew inspiration from reading Paracelsus, and in the early 1770s he began treating patients with magnets. He soon came to the conclusion that a magnet was merely a medium through which a healing fluid acted. He found he could also achieve cures simply by touching or moving his hands over his patients or staring into their eyes. He called this subtle force ‘animal magnetism’, which he distinguished from mineral magnetism. He believed that animal magnetism was subject to the influence of the heavenly bodies and worked through a subtle, universal, all-pervading fluid (the ether). Mesmeric healing was believed to remove blockages and restore the balanced flow of animal magnetism within the body.
D.P. https://www.davidpratt.info/bioelec.htm#a5

Really need to understand "New Thought " and its effect - its writers and its influencers.

Particularly William Walker Atkinson and his methods. Twitchell is a cheap copy and a piker in comparison.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Thought

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William/Walker/Atkinson

[fife]

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‘Subtle energies’ has different meanings. It is sometimes used to refer to physical energy fields (e.g. electromagnetic waves) that are very weak, but it can also refer to ethereal, nonphysical grades of energy-substance. This includes a life force, known by different cultures, traditions and researchers under a variety of names: e.g. ka (ancient Egypt), pneuma (Greece), spiritus/anima (Rome), prana/ojas (Hinduism), lung (Tibet), qi/chi (China), ki (Japan), nephesh (Judaism), animal magnetism (Franz Anton Mesmer), odic force (Karl von Reichenbach), élan vital (Henri Bergson), and orgone (Wilhelm Reich). Some researchers believe that the ‘corona discharge’ of living organisms and inanimate objects revealed by Kirlian photography (high-voltage, high-frequency electrophotography) may be a manifestation of this life energy (see Astral bodies, appendix 2).
All mystical traditions and religious philosophies recognize the existence of subtler realms, which are invisible to our normal senses, but not to the inner eye of a seer or even an undeveloped psychic. In the 18th and 19th centuries most scientists accepted that there was an ether of subtler substance underlying the physical world, which helped explain light, heat, electricity and magnetism.
However, the ether went out of fashion among mainstream scientists with the rise of relativity theory and quantum theory in the early 20th century (see Space, time and relativity). Instead of trying to understand physical matter-energy as manifestations of a subtler level of reality, orthodox scientists now try to understand them in terms of mathematical abstractions that exist only in their imaginations: e.g. zero-dimensional point particles, one-dimensional strings, and ‘probability waves’ that magically ‘collapse’ into physical particles whenever we make an observation (see The farce of modern physics). However, individual scientists have continued to explore the notion of an ether.
According to the theosophical tradition, or ageless wisdom, the ether of physics corresponds to the three highest states of matter on our physical plane (the lower four being: solid, liquid, gas and plasma), and it is merely the borderland of the endless planes of reality that lie beyond – all of which are composed of consciousness-substance of different rates of vibration, and occupy (and in fact compose) the same boundless space (see Worlds within worlds).
Nowadays, many researchers who accept that subtle energies are required to explain psychic phenomena and certain types of healing reject the concept of an ether as obsolete, and try instead to explain subtle energies by invoking extra dimensions of the physical world, or quantum entanglement, i.e. instantaneous ‘nonlocal’ connections ‘beyond space and time’ (see Psi wars). In fact, many researchers are looking for ways to explain acupuncture, homeopathy and manual healing methods without appealing to subtler, nonphysical energies of any kind; they prefer to invoke conventional electromagnetic fields (including the universal quantum field) and bioelectricity (Mayor, 2015).
David Pratt

Cont. Swiss-born occultist and physician Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim (1493-1541), popularly known as Paracelsus, anticipated many elements of modern conventional and alternative medicine (Wood, 2004). He is known as the founder of iatrochemistry (chemical medicine) and the father of pharmacology. Standing in the theosophic tradition, he held that, in addition to our physical body, we have an ethereal ‘sidereal body’, through which our higher, spiritual nature works. He also recognized a universal life force, the spiritus vitae or archaeus, which he described it as an ‘inner alchemist’ that maintains and repairs organisms in a dynamic fashion.
He spent much of his life wandering around Europe healing the sick and gathering information from people of every walk of life. He performed seemingly miraculous cures on many patients who had been pronounced incurable by leading doctors, a fact testified to by Erasmus. He used a variety of healing methods, including magnets and talismans. In his remedies, he applied the ‘law of similars’ or ‘like treats like’ – a principle known since ancient times (e.g. to Hippocrates) and forming the basis of modern homeopathy. Like all ancient cultures, he recognized correspondences between the macrocosm (universe) and the microcosm (individual). H.P. Blavatsky describes Paracelsus as ‘the greatest occultist of the middle ages’, ‘a clairvoyant of great powers’ and ‘a distinguished alchemist’ (Theosophical Glossary, 248-9).
Viennese doctor of medicine Franz Anton Mesmer (1734-1814) drew inspiration from reading Paracelsus, and in the early 1770s he began treating patients with magnets. He soon came to the conclusion that a magnet was merely a medium through which a healing fluid acted. He found he could also achieve cures simply by touching or moving his hands over his patients or staring into their eyes. He called this subtle force ‘animal magnetism’, which he distinguished from mineral magnetism. He believed that animal magnetism was subject to the influence of the heavenly bodies and worked through a subtle, universal, all-pervading fluid (the ether). Mesmeric healing was believed to remove blockages and restore the balanced flow of animal magnetism within the body.
D.P. https://www.davidpratt.info/bioelec.htm#a5

Really need to understand "New Thought " and its effect - its writers and its influencers.
Particularly William Walker Atkinson and his methods. Twitchell is a cheap copy and a piker in comparison.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Thought
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William/Walker/Atkinson

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Walker_Atkinson

[wernertrp]

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Post by Tisra Til
‘Subtle energies’ has different meanings. It is sometimes used to refer to physical energy fields (e.g. electromagnetic waves) that are very weak, but it can also refer to ethereal, nonphysical grades of energy-substance. This includes a life force, known by different cultures, traditions and researchers under a variety of names: e.g. ka (ancient Egypt), pneuma (Greece), spiritus/anima (Rome), prana/ojas (Hinduism), lung (Tibet), qi/chi (China), ki (Japan), nephesh (Judaism), animal magnetism (Franz Anton Mesmer), odic force (Karl von Reichenbach), élan vital (Henri Bergson), and orgone (Wilhelm Reich). Some researchers believe that the ‘corona discharge’ of living organisms and inanimate objects revealed by Kirlian photography (high-voltage, high-frequency electrophotography) may be a manifestation of this life energy (see Astral bodies, appendix 2).
All mystical traditions and religious philosophies recognize the existence of subtler realms, which are invisible to our normal senses, but not to the inner eye of a seer or even an undeveloped psychic. In the 18th and 19th centuries most scientists accepted that there was an ether of subtler substance underlying the physical world, which helped explain light, heat, electricity and magnetism.
However, the ether went out of fashion among mainstream scientists with the rise of relativity theory and quantum theory in the early 20th century (see Space, time and relativity). Instead of trying to understand physical matter-energy as manifestations of a subtler level of reality, orthodox scientists now try to understand them in terms of mathematical abstractions that exist only in their imaginations: e.g. zero-dimensional point particles, one-dimensional strings, and ‘probability waves’ that magically ‘collapse’ into physical particles whenever we make an observation (see The farce of modern physics). However, individual scientists have continued to explore the notion of an ether.
According to the theosophical tradition, or ageless wisdom, the ether of physics corresponds to the three highest states of matter on our physical plane (the lower four being: solid, liquid, gas and plasma), and it is merely the borderland of the endless planes of reality that lie beyond – all of which are composed of consciousness-substance of different rates of vibration, and occupy (and in fact compose) the same boundless space (see Worlds within worlds).
Nowadays, many researchers who accept that subtle energies are required to explain psychic phenomena and certain types of healing reject the concept of an ether as obsolete, and try instead to explain subtle energies by invoking extra dimensions of the physical world, or quantum entanglement, i.e. instantaneous ‘nonlocal’ connections ‘beyond space and time’ (see Psi wars). In fact, many researchers are looking for ways to explain acupuncture, homeopathy and manual healing methods without appealing to subtler, nonphysical energies of any kind; they prefer to invoke conventional electromagnetic fields (including the universal quantum field) and bioelectricity (Mayor, 2015).
David Pratt

Cont. Swiss-born occultist and physician Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim (1493-1541), popularly known as Paracelsus, anticipated many elements of modern conventional and alternative medicine (Wood, 2004). He is known as the founder of iatrochemistry (chemical medicine) and the father of pharmacology. Standing in the theosophic tradition, he held that, in addition to our physical body, we have an ethereal ‘sidereal body’, through which our higher, spiritual nature works. He also recognized a universal life force, the spiritus vitae or archaeus, which he described it as an ‘inner alchemist’ that maintains and repairs organisms in a dynamic fashion.
He spent much of his life wandering around Europe healing the sick and gathering information from people of every walk of life. He performed seemingly miraculous cures on many patients who had been pronounced incurable by leading doctors, a fact testified to by Erasmus. He used a variety of healing methods, including magnets and talismans. In his remedies, he applied the ‘law of similars’ or ‘like treats like’ – a principle known since ancient times (e.g. to Hippocrates) and forming the basis of modern homeopathy. Like all ancient cultures, he recognized correspondences between the macrocosm (universe) and the microcosm (individual). H.P. Blavatsky describes Paracelsus as ‘the greatest occultist of the middle ages’, ‘a clairvoyant of great powers’ and ‘a distinguished alchemist’ (Theosophical Glossary, 248-9).
Viennese doctor of medicine Franz Anton Mesmer (1734-1814) drew inspiration from reading Paracelsus, and in the early 1770s he began treating patients with magnets. He soon came to the conclusion that a magnet was merely a medium through which a healing fluid acted. He found he could also achieve cures simply by touching or moving his hands over his patients or staring into their eyes. He called this subtle force ‘animal magnetism’, which he distinguished from mineral magnetism. He believed that animal magnetism was subject to the influence of the heavenly bodies and worked through a subtle, universal, all-pervading fluid (the ether). Mesmeric healing was believed to remove blockages and restore the balanced flow of animal magnetism within the body.
D.P. https://www.davidpratt.info/bioelec.htm#a5

Really need to understand "New Thought " and its effect - its writers and its influencers.
Particularly William Walker Atkinson and his methods. Twitchell is a cheap copy and a piker in comparison.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Thought
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William/Walker/Atkinson

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Walker_Atkinson

ergab 164 Treffer
https://www.jpc.de/s/william+walker+atkinson

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if I make a bundle of all more than
those 100 books into one book
do think think I made a hit ?

[fife]

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‘Subtle energies’ has different meanings. It is sometimes used to refer to physical energy fields (e.g. electromagnetic waves) that are very weak, but it can also refer to ethereal, nonphysical grades of energy-substance. This includes a life force, known by different cultures, traditions and researchers under a variety of names: e.g. ka (ancient Egypt), pneuma (Greece), spiritus/anima (Rome), prana/ojas (Hinduism), lung (Tibet), qi/chi (China), ki (Japan), nephesh (Judaism), animal magnetism (Franz Anton Mesmer), odic force (Karl von Reichenbach), élan vital (Henri Bergson), and orgone (Wilhelm Reich). Some researchers believe that the ‘corona discharge’ of living organisms and inanimate objects revealed by Kirlian photography (high-voltage, high-frequency electrophotography) may be a manifestation of this life energy (see Astral bodies, appendix 2).
All mystical traditions and religious philosophies recognize the existence of subtler realms, which are invisible to our normal senses, but not to the inner eye of a seer or even an undeveloped psychic. In the 18th and 19th centuries most scientists accepted that there was an ether of subtler substance underlying the physical world, which helped explain light, heat, electricity and magnetism.
However, the ether went out of fashion among mainstream scientists with the rise of relativity theory and quantum theory in the early 20th century (see Space, time and relativity). Instead of trying to understand physical matter-energy as manifestations of a subtler level of reality, orthodox scientists now try to understand them in terms of mathematical abstractions that exist only in their imaginations: e.g. zero-dimensional point particles, one-dimensional strings, and ‘probability waves’ that magically ‘collapse’ into physical particles whenever we make an observation (see The farce of modern physics). However, individual scientists have continued to explore the notion of an ether.
According to the theosophical tradition, or ageless wisdom, the ether of physics corresponds to the three highest states of matter on our physical plane (the lower four being: solid, liquid, gas and plasma), and it is merely the borderland of the endless planes of reality that lie beyond – all of which are composed of consciousness-substance of different rates of vibration, and occupy (and in fact compose) the same boundless space (see Worlds within worlds).
Nowadays, many researchers who accept that subtle energies are required to explain psychic phenomena and certain types of healing reject the concept of an ether as obsolete, and try instead to explain subtle energies by invoking extra dimensions of the physical world, or quantum entanglement, i.e. instantaneous ‘nonlocal’ connections ‘beyond space and time’ (see Psi wars). In fact, many researchers are looking for ways to explain acupuncture, homeopathy and manual healing methods without appealing to subtler, nonphysical energies of any kind; they prefer to invoke conventional electromagnetic fields (including the universal quantum field) and bioelectricity (Mayor, 2015).
David Pratt

Cont. Swiss-born occultist and physician Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim (1493-1541), popularly known as Paracelsus, anticipated many elements of modern conventional and alternative medicine (Wood, 2004). He is known as the founder of iatrochemistry (chemical medicine) and the father of pharmacology. Standing in the theosophic tradition, he held that, in addition to our physical body, we have an ethereal ‘sidereal body’, through which our higher, spiritual nature works. He also recognized a universal life force, the spiritus vitae or archaeus, which he described it as an ‘inner alchemist’ that maintains and repairs organisms in a dynamic fashion.
He spent much of his life wandering around Europe healing the sick and gathering information from people of every walk of life. He performed seemingly miraculous cures on many patients who had been pronounced incurable by leading doctors, a fact testified to by Erasmus. He used a variety of healing methods, including magnets and talismans. In his remedies, he applied the ‘law of similars’ or ‘like treats like’ – a principle known since ancient times (e.g. to Hippocrates) and forming the basis of modern homeopathy. Like all ancient cultures, he recognized correspondences between the macrocosm (universe) and the microcosm (individual). H.P. Blavatsky describes Paracelsus as ‘the greatest occultist of the middle ages’, ‘a clairvoyant of great powers’ and ‘a distinguished alchemist’ (Theosophical Glossary, 248-9).
Viennese doctor of medicine Franz Anton Mesmer (1734-1814) drew inspiration from reading Paracelsus, and in the early 1770s he began treating patients with magnets. He soon came to the conclusion that a magnet was merely a medium through which a healing fluid acted. He found he could also achieve cures simply by touching or moving his hands over his patients or staring into their eyes. He called this subtle force ‘animal magnetism’, which he distinguished from mineral magnetism. He believed that animal magnetism was subject to the influence of the heavenly bodies and worked through a subtle, universal, all-pervading fluid (the ether). Mesmeric healing was believed to remove blockages and restore the balanced flow of animal magnetism within the body.
D.P. https://www.davidpratt.info/bioelec.htm#a5

Really need to understand "New Thought " and its effect - its writers and its influencers.
Particularly William Walker Atkinson and his methods. Twitchell is a cheap copy and a piker in comparison.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Thought
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William/Walker/Atkinson

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Walker_Atkinson

ergab 164 Treffer
https://www.jpc.de/s/william+walker+atkinson
search for "Gurdjieff"
if I make a bundle of all more than
those 100 books into one book
do think think I made a hit ?

Werner
I don't know if it will be a hit. I'm too busy somnambulating my way through life to try the Fourth Way. Will I need Google glasses and a hand-held GPS device to find it?

According to Tibetan Buddhism human beings are mentally greedy, emotionally deluded, and physically stubborn. Those are the three ways. And the object is to transmute those energies into unselfishness, wisdom, and goodwill. Is that the fourth way?

Probably not. Gurdjieff like everyone else has his own idea of what to do with the mind. The only thing everyone seems to agree on for the last 5,000 years is that the mind is made up of seven parts or processes. But the descriptions of what they are and what to do with it (the mind) are as varied as the hundreds, thousands, or tens of thousands who have their own opinions about that.

[Henosis Sage]

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‘Subtle energies’ has different meanings. It is sometimes used to refer to physical energy fields (e.g. electromagnetic waves) that are very weak, but it can also refer to ethereal, nonphysical grades of energy-substance. This includes a life force, known by different cultures, traditions and researchers under a variety of names: e.g. ka (ancient Egypt), pneuma (Greece), spiritus/anima (Rome), prana/ojas (Hinduism), lung (Tibet), qi/chi (China), ki (Japan), nephesh (Judaism), animal magnetism (Franz Anton Mesmer), odic force (Karl von Reichenbach), élan vital (Henri Bergson), and orgone (Wilhelm Reich). Some researchers believe that the ‘corona discharge’ of living organisms and inanimate objects revealed by Kirlian photography (high-voltage, high-frequency electrophotography) may be a manifestation of this life energy (see Astral bodies, appendix 2).
All mystical traditions and religious philosophies recognize the existence of subtler realms, which are invisible to our normal senses, but not to the inner eye of a seer or even an undeveloped psychic. In the 18th and 19th centuries most scientists accepted that there was an ether of subtler substance underlying the physical world, which helped explain light, heat, electricity and magnetism.
However, the ether went out of fashion among mainstream scientists with the rise of relativity theory and quantum theory in the early 20th century (see Space, time and relativity). Instead of trying to understand physical matter-energy as manifestations of a subtler level of reality, orthodox scientists now try to understand them in terms of mathematical abstractions that exist only in their imaginations: e.g. zero-dimensional point particles, one-dimensional strings, and ‘probability waves’ that magically ‘collapse’ into physical particles whenever we make an observation (see The farce of modern physics). However, individual scientists have continued to explore the notion of an ether.
According to the theosophical tradition, or ageless wisdom, the ether of physics corresponds to the three highest states of matter on our physical plane (the lower four being: solid, liquid, gas and plasma), and it is merely the borderland of the endless planes of reality that lie beyond – all of which are composed of consciousness-substance of different rates of vibration, and occupy (and in fact compose) the same boundless space (see Worlds within worlds).
Nowadays, many researchers who accept that subtle energies are required to explain psychic phenomena and certain types of healing reject the concept of an ether as obsolete, and try instead to explain subtle energies by invoking extra dimensions of the physical world, or quantum entanglement, i.e. instantaneous ‘nonlocal’ connections ‘beyond space and time’ (see Psi wars). In fact, many researchers are looking for ways to explain acupuncture, homeopathy and manual healing methods without appealing to subtler, nonphysical energies of any kind; they prefer to invoke conventional electromagnetic fields (including the universal quantum field) and bioelectricity (Mayor, 2015).
David Pratt

Cont. Swiss-born occultist and physician Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim (1493-1541), popularly known as Paracelsus, anticipated many elements of modern conventional and alternative medicine (Wood, 2004). He is known as the founder of iatrochemistry (chemical medicine) and the father of pharmacology. Standing in the theosophic tradition, he held that, in addition to our physical body, we have an ethereal ‘sidereal body’, through which our higher, spiritual nature works. He also recognized a universal life force, the spiritus vitae or archaeus, which he described it as an ‘inner alchemist’ that maintains and repairs organisms in a dynamic fashion.
He spent much of his life wandering around Europe healing the sick and gathering information from people of every walk of life. He performed seemingly miraculous cures on many patients who had been pronounced incurable by leading doctors, a fact testified to by Erasmus. He used a variety of healing methods, including magnets and talismans. In his remedies, he applied the ‘law of similars’ or ‘like treats like’ – a principle known since ancient times (e.g. to Hippocrates) and forming the basis of modern homeopathy. Like all ancient cultures, he recognized correspondences between the macrocosm (universe) and the microcosm (individual). H.P. Blavatsky describes Paracelsus as ‘the greatest occultist of the middle ages’, ‘a clairvoyant of great powers’ and ‘a distinguished alchemist’ (Theosophical Glossary, 248-9).
Viennese doctor of medicine Franz Anton Mesmer (1734-1814) drew inspiration from reading Paracelsus, and in the early 1770s he began treating patients with magnets. He soon came to the conclusion that a magnet was merely a medium through which a healing fluid acted. He found he could also achieve cures simply by touching or moving his hands over his patients or staring into their eyes. He called this subtle force ‘animal magnetism’, which he distinguished from mineral magnetism. He believed that animal magnetism was subject to the influence of the heavenly bodies and worked through a subtle, universal, all-pervading fluid (the ether). Mesmeric healing was believed to remove blockages and restore the balanced flow of animal magnetism within the body.
D.P. https://www.davidpratt.info/bioelec.htm#a5

Really need to understand "New Thought " and its effect - its writers and its influencers.
Particularly William Walker Atkinson and his methods. Twitchell is a cheap copy and a piker in comparison.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Thought
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William/Walker/Atkinson

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Walker_Atkinson

eg via the trusty PTHA .... explaining Dumont was Atkinson.
(Gail Ann Twitchell's maiden name curiously enough - ever done a genealogy search? )

The Master Mind
The Key To Mental Power Development And Efficiency
By Theron Q. Dumont
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-M0yAR0UPhPbGFCNG1CTDBIbE0/view?resourcekey=0-7afOymC5fnbaOom5OY1RLQ

The Art and Science of Personal Magnetism
by Theron Q. Dumont
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-M0yAR0UPhPRTlmdmYxMjlST1k/view?resourcekey=0-RYQOT9h7B2QyJPKNbwcoig

Twitchell the great compiler and chameleon like copier of more than just words .......

[Henosis Sage]

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Post by Tisra Til
‘Subtle energies’ has different meanings. It is sometimes used to refer to physical energy fields (e.g. electromagnetic waves) that are very weak, but it can also refer to ethereal, nonphysical grades of energy-substance. This includes a life force, known by different cultures, traditions and researchers under a variety of names: e.g. ka (ancient Egypt), pneuma (Greece), spiritus/anima (Rome), prana/ojas (Hinduism), lung (Tibet), qi/chi (China), ki (Japan), nephesh (Judaism), animal magnetism (Franz Anton Mesmer), odic force (Karl von Reichenbach), élan vital (Henri Bergson), and orgone (Wilhelm Reich). Some researchers believe that the ‘corona discharge’ of living organisms and inanimate objects revealed by Kirlian photography (high-voltage, high-frequency electrophotography) may be a manifestation of this life energy (see Astral bodies, appendix 2).
All mystical traditions and religious philosophies recognize the existence of subtler realms, which are invisible to our normal senses, but not to the inner eye of a seer or even an undeveloped psychic. In the 18th and 19th centuries most scientists accepted that there was an ether of subtler substance underlying the physical world, which helped explain light, heat, electricity and magnetism.
However, the ether went out of fashion among mainstream scientists with the rise of relativity theory and quantum theory in the early 20th century (see Space, time and relativity). Instead of trying to understand physical matter-energy as manifestations of a subtler level of reality, orthodox scientists now try to understand them in terms of mathematical abstractions that exist only in their imaginations: e.g. zero-dimensional point particles, one-dimensional strings, and ‘probability waves’ that magically ‘collapse’ into physical particles whenever we make an observation (see The farce of modern physics). However, individual scientists have continued to explore the notion of an ether.
According to the theosophical tradition, or ageless wisdom, the ether of physics corresponds to the three highest states of matter on our physical plane (the lower four being: solid, liquid, gas and plasma), and it is merely the borderland of the endless planes of reality that lie beyond – all of which are composed of consciousness-substance of different rates of vibration, and occupy (and in fact compose) the same boundless space (see Worlds within worlds).
Nowadays, many researchers who accept that subtle energies are required to explain psychic phenomena and certain types of healing reject the concept of an ether as obsolete, and try instead to explain subtle energies by invoking extra dimensions of the physical world, or quantum entanglement, i.e. instantaneous ‘nonlocal’ connections ‘beyond space and time’ (see Psi wars). In fact, many researchers are looking for ways to explain acupuncture, homeopathy and manual healing methods without appealing to subtler, nonphysical energies of any kind; they prefer to invoke conventional electromagnetic fields (including the universal quantum field) and bioelectricity (Mayor, 2015).
David Pratt

Cont. Swiss-born occultist and physician Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim (1493-1541), popularly known as Paracelsus, anticipated many elements of modern conventional and alternative medicine (Wood, 2004). He is known as the founder of iatrochemistry (chemical medicine) and the father of pharmacology. Standing in the theosophic tradition, he held that, in addition to our physical body, we have an ethereal ‘sidereal body’, through which our higher, spiritual nature works. He also recognized a universal life force, the spiritus vitae or archaeus, which he described it as an ‘inner alchemist’ that maintains and repairs organisms in a dynamic fashion.
He spent much of his life wandering around Europe healing the sick and gathering information from people of every walk of life. He performed seemingly miraculous cures on many patients who had been pronounced incurable by leading doctors, a fact testified to by Erasmus. He used a variety of healing methods, including magnets and talismans. In his remedies, he applied the ‘law of similars’ or ‘like treats like’ – a principle known since ancient times (e.g. to Hippocrates) and forming the basis of modern homeopathy. Like all ancient cultures, he recognized correspondences between the macrocosm (universe) and the microcosm (individual). H.P. Blavatsky describes Paracelsus as ‘the greatest occultist of the middle ages’, ‘a clairvoyant of great powers’ and ‘a distinguished alchemist’ (Theosophical Glossary, 248-9).
Viennese doctor of medicine Franz Anton Mesmer (1734-1814) drew inspiration from reading Paracelsus, and in the early 1770s he began treating patients with magnets. He soon came to the conclusion that a magnet was merely a medium through which a healing fluid acted. He found he could also achieve cures simply by touching or moving his hands over his patients or staring into their eyes. He called this subtle force ‘animal magnetism’, which he distinguished from mineral magnetism. He believed that animal magnetism was subject to the influence of the heavenly bodies and worked through a subtle, universal, all-pervading fluid (the ether). Mesmeric healing was believed to remove blockages and restore the balanced flow of animal magnetism within the body.
D.P. https://www.davidpratt.info/bioelec.htm#a5

Really need to understand "New Thought " and its effect - its writers and its influencers.
Particularly William Walker Atkinson and his methods. Twitchell is a cheap copy and a piker in comparison.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Thought
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William/Walker/Atkinson

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Walker_Atkinson

eg via the trusty PTHA .... explaining Dumont was Atkinson.
(Gail Ann Twitchell's maiden name curiously enough - ever done a genealogy search? )
The Master Mind
The Key To Mental Power Development And Efficiency
By Theron Q. Dumont
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-M0yAR0UPhPbGFCNG1CTDBIbE0/view?resourcekey=0-7afOymC5fnbaOom5OY1RLQ
The Art and Science of Personal Magnetism
by Theron Q. Dumont
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-M0yAR0UPhPRTlmdmYxMjlST1k/view?resourcekey=0-RYQOT9h7B2QyJPKNbwcoig
Twitchell the great compiler and chameleon like copier of more than just words .......

again via the PTHA one might find the trail to ............ Brown Landone

(1847-1945) Influential New Thought Leader ......

to http://therondumont.wwwhubs.com/
and http://williamwalkeratkinson.wwwhubs.com/

and to that prolific source of Twitchell's and Rebazar's one Charles F. Haanel
(1866-1949) Author of The Master Key System

Once in a while visitors might even read one of these referenced books and think about what it means ... re the Twitch and Eckankar and whatever else comes to mind.

Here are links to many other similar authors: (seek and thou shalt find .... hehehe)

James Allen Ralph Waldo Trine Florence Scovel Shinn
Raymond Charles Barker Prentice Mulford Wallace D.Wattles
Henry Drummond H. Emilie Cady Charles Fillmore
Charles F. Haanel Louise L. Hay Mary Baker Eddy
Emmet Fox Ursula Gestefeld Emma Curtis Hopkins
Shakti Gawain George Bendall Henry T. Hamblin
Frederick Bailes Warren Felt Evans Catherine Ponder
Thomson Jay Hudson Venice Bloodworth Sidney A. Weltmer
Thomas Troward Ralph Waldo Emerson Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Christian D. Larson Henry Wood Phineas P. Quimby
William W. Atkinson Malinda Cramer Annie Rix Militz
Orison Swett Marden Charles Brodie Patterson Albert C. Grier
Fenwicke L. Holmes Frank B. Robinson W. John Murray
Helen Wilmans Lillian DeWaters Horatio W. Dresser
Nona L. Brooks Brown Landone Julia Seton Sears
Frank Channing Haddock Claude M. Bristol Dale Carnegie
Donald Curtis Harold Sherman F.W. Sears M.P.
James Dillet Freeman Norman Vincent Peale Genevieve Behrend
Eric Butterworth Marcus Bach Ernest Holmes
Julius/Annetta Dresser Elizabeth Towne Brother Mandus
Emile Coué Theron Q. Dumont Thomas Parker Boyd
Rebecca Beard Masaharu Taniguchi Joseph Murphy
Earl Nightingale Jack Addington W. Clement Stone
Glenn Clark Joel S. Goldsmith David J. Schwartz
F. L. Rawson Napoleon Hill Ervin Seale
Alfred North Whitehead Walter C. Lanyon Uell S. Andersen
John Randolph Price Alan Cohen Agnes Sanford
Vernon Howard Neville Goddard Gary Zukav
C. Alan Anderson Robert Collier William Samuel
Marianne Williamson Deepak Chopra Wayne W. Dyer
Roy Eugene Davis Stuart Grayson Edwene Gaines


Oh well, it was a great idea at the time.

[wernertrp]

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Post by Tisra Til
‘Subtle energies’ has different meanings. It is sometimes used to refer to physical energy fields (e.g. electromagnetic waves) that are very weak, but it can also refer to ethereal, nonphysical grades of energy-substance. This includes a life force, known by different cultures, traditions and researchers under a variety of names: e.g. ka (ancient Egypt), pneuma (Greece), spiritus/anima (Rome), prana/ojas (Hinduism), lung (Tibet), qi/chi (China), ki (Japan), nephesh (Judaism), animal magnetism (Franz Anton Mesmer), odic force (Karl von Reichenbach), élan vital (Henri Bergson), and orgone (Wilhelm Reich). Some researchers believe that the ‘corona discharge’ of living organisms and inanimate objects revealed by Kirlian photography (high-voltage, high-frequency electrophotography) may be a manifestation of this life energy (see Astral bodies, appendix 2).
All mystical traditions and religious philosophies recognize the existence of subtler realms, which are invisible to our normal senses, but not to the inner eye of a seer or even an undeveloped psychic. In the 18th and 19th centuries most scientists accepted that there was an ether of subtler substance underlying the physical world, which helped explain light, heat, electricity and magnetism.
However, the ether went out of fashion among mainstream scientists with the rise of relativity theory and quantum theory in the early 20th century (see Space, time and relativity). Instead of trying to understand physical matter-energy as manifestations of a subtler level of reality, orthodox scientists now try to understand them in terms of mathematical abstractions that exist only in their imaginations: e.g. zero-dimensional point particles, one-dimensional strings, and ‘probability waves’ that magically ‘collapse’ into physical particles whenever we make an observation (see The farce of modern physics). However, individual scientists have continued to explore the notion of an ether.
According to the theosophical tradition, or ageless wisdom, the ether of physics corresponds to the three highest states of matter on our physical plane (the lower four being: solid, liquid, gas and plasma), and it is merely the borderland of the endless planes of reality that lie beyond – all of which are composed of consciousness-substance of different rates of vibration, and occupy (and in fact compose) the same boundless space (see Worlds within worlds).
Nowadays, many researchers who accept that subtle energies are required to explain psychic phenomena and certain types of healing reject the concept of an ether as obsolete, and try instead to explain subtle energies by invoking extra dimensions of the physical world, or quantum entanglement, i.e. instantaneous ‘nonlocal’ connections ‘beyond space and time’ (see Psi wars). In fact, many researchers are looking for ways to explain acupuncture, homeopathy and manual healing methods without appealing to subtler, nonphysical energies of any kind; they prefer to invoke conventional electromagnetic fields (including the universal quantum field) and bioelectricity (Mayor, 2015).
David Pratt

Cont. Swiss-born occultist and physician Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim (1493-1541), popularly known as Paracelsus, anticipated many elements of modern conventional and alternative medicine (Wood, 2004). He is known as the founder of iatrochemistry (chemical medicine) and the father of pharmacology. Standing in the theosophic tradition, he held that, in addition to our physical body, we have an ethereal ‘sidereal body’, through which our higher, spiritual nature works. He also recognized a universal life force, the spiritus vitae or archaeus, which he described it as an ‘inner alchemist’ that maintains and repairs organisms in a dynamic fashion.
He spent much of his life wandering around Europe healing the sick and gathering information from people of every walk of life. He performed seemingly miraculous cures on many patients who had been pronounced incurable by leading doctors, a fact testified to by Erasmus. He used a variety of healing methods, including magnets and talismans. In his remedies, he applied the ‘law of similars’ or ‘like treats like’ – a principle known since ancient times (e.g. to Hippocrates) and forming the basis of modern homeopathy. Like all ancient cultures, he recognized correspondences between the macrocosm (universe) and the microcosm (individual). H.P. Blavatsky describes Paracelsus as ‘the greatest occultist of the middle ages’, ‘a clairvoyant of great powers’ and ‘a distinguished alchemist’ (Theosophical Glossary, 248-9).
Viennese doctor of medicine Franz Anton Mesmer (1734-1814) drew inspiration from reading Paracelsus, and in the early 1770s he began treating patients with magnets. He soon came to the conclusion that a magnet was merely a medium through which a healing fluid acted. He found he could also achieve cures simply by touching or moving his hands over his patients or staring into their eyes. He called this subtle force ‘animal magnetism’, which he distinguished from mineral magnetism. He believed that animal magnetism was subject to the influence of the heavenly bodies and worked through a subtle, universal, all-pervading fluid (the ether). Mesmeric healing was believed to remove blockages and restore the balanced flow of animal magnetism within the body.
D.P. https://www.davidpratt.info/bioelec.htm#a5

Really need to understand "New Thought " and its effect - its writers and its influencers.
Particularly William Walker Atkinson and his methods. Twitchell is a cheap copy and a piker in comparison.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Thought
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William/Walker/Atkinson

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Walker_Atkinson

eg via the trusty PTHA .... explaining Dumont was Atkinson.
(Gail Ann Twitchell's maiden name curiously enough - ever done a genealogy search? )
The Master Mind
The Key To Mental Power Development And Efficiency
By Theron Q. Dumont
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-M0yAR0UPhPbGFCNG1CTDBIbE0/view?resourcekey=0-7afOymC5fnbaOom5OY1RLQ
The Art and Science of Personal Magnetism
by Theron Q. Dumont
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-M0yAR0UPhPRTlmdmYxMjlST1k/view?resourcekey=0-RYQOT9h7B2QyJPKNbwcoig
Twitchell the great compiler and chameleon like copier of more than just words .......

again via the PTHA one might find the trail to ............ Brown Landone
(1847-1945) Influential New Thought Leader ......
to http://therondumont.wwwhubs.com/
and http://williamwalkeratkinson.wwwhubs.com/
and to that prolific source of Twitchell's and Rebazar's one Charles F. Haanel
(1866-1949) Author of The Master Key System
Once in a while visitors might even read one of these referenced books and think about what it means ... re the Twitch and Eckankar and whatever else comes to mind.
Here are links to many other similar authors: (seek and thou shalt find .... hehehe)
James Allen Ralph Waldo Trine Florence Scovel Shinn
Raymond Charles Barker Prentice Mulford Wallace D.Wattles
Henry Drummond H. Emilie Cady Charles Fillmore
Charles F. Haanel Louise L. Hay Mary Baker Eddy
Emmet Fox Ursula Gestefeld Emma Curtis Hopkins
Shakti Gawain George Bendall Henry T. Hamblin
Frederick Bailes Warren Felt Evans Catherine Ponder
Thomson Jay Hudson Venice Bloodworth Sidney A. Weltmer
Thomas Troward Ralph Waldo Emerson Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Christian D. Larson Henry Wood Phineas P. Quimby
William W. Atkinson Malinda Cramer Annie Rix Militz
Orison Swett Marden Charles Brodie Patterson Albert C. Grier
Fenwicke L. Holmes Frank B. Robinson W. John Murray
Helen Wilmans Lillian DeWaters Horatio W. Dresser
Nona L. Brooks Brown Landone Julia Seton Sears
Frank Channing Haddock Claude M. Bristol Dale Carnegie
Donald Curtis Harold Sherman F.W. Sears M.P.
James Dillet Freeman Norman Vincent Peale Genevieve Behrend
Eric Butterworth Marcus Bach Ernest Holmes
Julius/Annetta Dresser Elizabeth Towne Brother Mandus
Emile Coué Theron Q. Dumont Thomas Parker Boyd
Rebecca Beard Masaharu Taniguchi Joseph Murphy
Earl Nightingale Jack Addington W. Clement Stone
Glenn Clark Joel S. Goldsmith David J. Schwartz
F. L. Rawson Napoleon Hill Ervin Seale
Alfred North Whitehead Walter C. Lanyon Uell S. Andersen
John Randolph Price Alan Cohen Agnes Sanford
Vernon Howard Neville Goddard Gary Zukav
C. Alan Anderson Robert Collier William Samuel
Marianne Williamson Deepak Chopra Wayne W. Dyer
Roy Eugene Davis Stuart Grayson Edwene Gaines
Oh well, it was a great idea at the time.

LOOKS LIKE A TWITCHELL HAS READ LIST LISTING

[fife]

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Post by Tisra Til
‘Subtle energies’ has different meanings. It is sometimes used to refer to physical energy fields (e.g. electromagnetic waves) that are very weak, but it can also refer to ethereal, nonphysical grades of energy-substance. This includes a life force, known by different cultures, traditions and researchers under a variety of names: e.g. ka (ancient Egypt), pneuma (Greece), spiritus/anima (Rome), prana/ojas (Hinduism), lung (Tibet), qi/chi (China), ki (Japan), nephesh (Judaism), animal magnetism (Franz Anton Mesmer), odic force (Karl von Reichenbach), élan vital (Henri Bergson), and orgone (Wilhelm Reich). Some researchers believe that the ‘corona discharge’ of living organisms and inanimate objects revealed by Kirlian photography (high-voltage, high-frequency electrophotography) may be a manifestation of this life energy (see Astral bodies, appendix 2).
All mystical traditions and religious philosophies recognize the existence of subtler realms, which are invisible to our normal senses, but not to the inner eye of a seer or even an undeveloped psychic. In the 18th and 19th centuries most scientists accepted that there was an ether of subtler substance underlying the physical world, which helped explain light, heat, electricity and magnetism.
However, the ether went out of fashion among mainstream scientists with the rise of relativity theory and quantum theory in the early 20th century (see Space, time and relativity). Instead of trying to understand physical matter-energy as manifestations of a subtler level of reality, orthodox scientists now try to understand them in terms of mathematical abstractions that exist only in their imaginations: e.g. zero-dimensional point particles, one-dimensional strings, and ‘probability waves’ that magically ‘collapse’ into physical particles whenever we make an observation (see The farce of modern physics). However, individual scientists have continued to explore the notion of an ether.
According to the theosophical tradition, or ageless wisdom, the ether of physics corresponds to the three highest states of matter on our physical plane (the lower four being: solid, liquid, gas and plasma), and it is merely the borderland of the endless planes of reality that lie beyond – all of which are composed of consciousness-substance of different rates of vibration, and occupy (and in fact compose) the same boundless space (see Worlds within worlds).
Nowadays, many researchers who accept that subtle energies are required to explain psychic phenomena and certain types of healing reject the concept of an ether as obsolete, and try instead to explain subtle energies by invoking extra dimensions of the physical world, or quantum entanglement, i.e. instantaneous ‘nonlocal’ connections ‘beyond space and time’ (see Psi wars). In fact, many researchers are looking for ways to explain acupuncture, homeopathy and manual healing methods without appealing to subtler, nonphysical energies of any kind; they prefer to invoke conventional electromagnetic fields (including the universal quantum field) and bioelectricity (Mayor, 2015).
David Pratt

Cont. Swiss-born occultist and physician Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim (1493-1541), popularly known as Paracelsus, anticipated many elements of modern conventional and alternative medicine (Wood, 2004). He is known as the founder of iatrochemistry (chemical medicine) and the father of pharmacology. Standing in the theosophic tradition, he held that, in addition to our physical body, we have an ethereal ‘sidereal body’, through which our higher, spiritual nature works. He also recognized a universal life force, the spiritus vitae or archaeus, which he described it as an ‘inner alchemist’ that maintains and repairs organisms in a dynamic fashion.
He spent much of his life wandering around Europe healing the sick and gathering information from people of every walk of life. He performed seemingly miraculous cures on many patients who had been pronounced incurable by leading doctors, a fact testified to by Erasmus. He used a variety of healing methods, including magnets and talismans. In his remedies, he applied the ‘law of similars’ or ‘like treats like’ – a principle known since ancient times (e.g. to Hippocrates) and forming the basis of modern homeopathy. Like all ancient cultures, he recognized correspondences between the macrocosm (universe) and the microcosm (individual). H.P. Blavatsky describes Paracelsus as ‘the greatest occultist of the middle ages’, ‘a clairvoyant of great powers’ and ‘a distinguished alchemist’ (Theosophical Glossary, 248-9).
Viennese doctor of medicine Franz Anton Mesmer (1734-1814) drew inspiration from reading Paracelsus, and in the early 1770s he began treating patients with magnets. He soon came to the conclusion that a magnet was merely a medium through which a healing fluid acted. He found he could also achieve cures simply by touching or moving his hands over his patients or staring into their eyes. He called this subtle force ‘animal magnetism’, which he distinguished from mineral magnetism. He believed that animal magnetism was subject to the influence of the heavenly bodies and worked through a subtle, universal, all-pervading fluid (the ether). Mesmeric healing was believed to remove blockages and restore the balanced flow of animal magnetism within the body.
D.P. https://www.davidpratt.info/bioelec.htm#a5

Really need to understand "New Thought " and its effect - its writers and its influencers.
Particularly William Walker Atkinson and his methods. Twitchell is a cheap copy and a piker in comparison.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Thought
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William/Walker/Atkinson

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Walker_Atkinson

eg via the trusty PTHA .... explaining Dumont was Atkinson.
(Gail Ann Twitchell's maiden name curiously enough - ever done a genealogy search? )
The Master Mind
The Key To Mental Power Development And Efficiency
By Theron Q. Dumont
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-M0yAR0UPhPbGFCNG1CTDBIbE0/view?resourcekey=0-7afOymC5fnbaOom5OY1RLQ
The Art and Science of Personal Magnetism
by Theron Q. Dumont
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-M0yAR0UPhPRTlmdmYxMjlST1k/view?resourcekey=0-RYQOT9h7B2QyJPKNbwcoig
Twitchell the great compiler and chameleon like copier of more than just words .......

H.S.
No, I've never done a genealogy search. But, yes I've noticed the coincidence with the Atkinson surname. I've wondered why no one dug into Gail's background more. It would have been much easier than T.s years ago. Family history... high school acquaintances would still have been in the Seattle area... college acquaintances... library co-workers. Might have been insightful. I've wondered about the Atkinson/Twitchell relationship and how that developed. And in light of subsequent history, just who was using whom. Both, I suspect, from different angles.

And for that matter, Darwin's profile is pretty thin. No one seems to be interested.

As for me, I wouldn't want to do this now, at my age. Digging into warped personalities, or at least warped intentions is absolutely not on my list. I know enough as it is.

[wernertrp]

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Post by Tisra Til
‘Subtle energies’ has different meanings. It is sometimes used to refer to physical energy fields (e.g. electromagnetic waves) that are very weak, but it can also refer to ethereal, nonphysical grades of energy-substance. This includes a life force, known by different cultures, traditions and researchers under a variety of names: e.g. ka (ancient Egypt), pneuma (Greece), spiritus/anima (Rome), prana/ojas (Hinduism), lung (Tibet), qi/chi (China), ki (Japan), nephesh (Judaism), animal magnetism (Franz Anton Mesmer), odic force (Karl von Reichenbach), élan vital (Henri Bergson), and orgone (Wilhelm Reich). Some researchers believe that the ‘corona discharge’ of living organisms and inanimate objects revealed by Kirlian photography (high-voltage, high-frequency electrophotography) may be a manifestation of this life energy (see Astral bodies, appendix 2).
All mystical traditions and religious philosophies recognize the existence of subtler realms, which are invisible to our normal senses, but not to the inner eye of a seer or even an undeveloped psychic. In the 18th and 19th centuries most scientists accepted that there was an ether of subtler substance underlying the physical world, which helped explain light, heat, electricity and magnetism.
However, the ether went out of fashion among mainstream scientists with the rise of relativity theory and quantum theory in the early 20th century (see Space, time and relativity). Instead of trying to understand physical matter-energy as manifestations of a subtler level of reality, orthodox scientists now try to understand them in terms of mathematical abstractions that exist only in their imaginations: e.g. zero-dimensional point particles, one-dimensional strings, and ‘probability waves’ that magically ‘collapse’ into physical particles whenever we make an observation (see The farce of modern physics). However, individual scientists have continued to explore the notion of an ether.
According to the theosophical tradition, or ageless wisdom, the ether of physics corresponds to the three highest states of matter on our physical plane (the lower four being: solid, liquid, gas and plasma), and it is merely the borderland of the endless planes of reality that lie beyond – all of which are composed of consciousness-substance of different rates of vibration, and occupy (and in fact compose) the same boundless space (see Worlds within worlds).
Nowadays, many researchers who accept that subtle energies are required to explain psychic phenomena and certain types of healing reject the concept of an ether as obsolete, and try instead to explain subtle energies by invoking extra dimensions of the physical world, or quantum entanglement, i.e. instantaneous ‘nonlocal’ connections ‘beyond space and time’ (see Psi wars). In fact, many researchers are looking for ways to explain acupuncture, homeopathy and manual healing methods without appealing to subtler, nonphysical energies of any kind; they prefer to invoke conventional electromagnetic fields (including the universal quantum field) and bioelectricity (Mayor, 2015).
David Pratt

Cont. Swiss-born occultist and physician Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim (1493-1541), popularly known as Paracelsus, anticipated many elements of modern conventional and alternative medicine (Wood, 2004). He is known as the founder of iatrochemistry (chemical medicine) and the father of pharmacology. Standing in the theosophic tradition, he held that, in addition to our physical body, we have an ethereal ‘sidereal body’, through which our higher, spiritual nature works. He also recognized a universal life force, the spiritus vitae or archaeus, which he described it as an ‘inner alchemist’ that maintains and repairs organisms in a dynamic fashion.
He spent much of his life wandering around Europe healing the sick and gathering information from people of every walk of life. He performed seemingly miraculous cures on many patients who had been pronounced incurable by leading doctors, a fact testified to by Erasmus. He used a variety of healing methods, including magnets and talismans. In his remedies, he applied the ‘law of similars’ or ‘like treats like’ – a principle known since ancient times (e.g. to Hippocrates) and forming the basis of modern homeopathy. Like all ancient cultures, he recognized correspondences between the macrocosm (universe) and the microcosm (individual). H.P. Blavatsky describes Paracelsus as ‘the greatest occultist of the middle ages’, ‘a clairvoyant of great powers’ and ‘a distinguished alchemist’ (Theosophical Glossary, 248-9).
Viennese doctor of medicine Franz Anton Mesmer (1734-1814) drew inspiration from reading Paracelsus, and in the early 1770s he began treating patients with magnets. He soon came to the conclusion that a magnet was merely a medium through which a healing fluid acted. He found he could also achieve cures simply by touching or moving his hands over his patients or staring into their eyes. He called this subtle force ‘animal magnetism’, which he distinguished from mineral magnetism. He believed that animal magnetism was subject to the influence of the heavenly bodies and worked through a subtle, universal, all-pervading fluid (the ether). Mesmeric healing was believed to remove blockages and restore the balanced flow of animal magnetism within the body.
D.P. https://www.davidpratt.info/bioelec.htm#a5

Really need to understand "New Thought " and its effect - its writers and its influencers.
Particularly William Walker Atkinson and his methods. Twitchell is a cheap copy and a piker in comparison.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Thought
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William/Walker/Atkinson

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Walker_Atkinson

eg via the trusty PTHA .... explaining Dumont was Atkinson.
(Gail Ann Twitchell's maiden name curiously enough - ever done a genealogy search? )
The Master Mind
The Key To Mental Power Development And Efficiency
By Theron Q. Dumont
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-M0yAR0UPhPbGFCNG1CTDBIbE0/view?resourcekey=0-7afOymC5fnbaOom5OY1RLQ
The Art and Science of Personal Magnetism
by Theron Q. Dumont
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-M0yAR0UPhPRTlmdmYxMjlST1k/view?resourcekey=0-RYQOT9h7B2QyJPKNbwcoig
Twitchell the great compiler and chameleon like copier of more than just words .......

H.S.
No, I've never done a genealogy search. But, yes I've noticed the coincidence with the Atkinson surname. I've wondered why no one dug into Gail's background more. It would have been much easier than T.s years ago. Family history... high school acquaintances would still have been in the Seattle area... college acquaintances... library co-workers. Might have been insightful. I've wondered about the Atkinson/Twitchell relationship and how that developed. And in light of subsequent history, just who was using whom. Both, I suspect, from different angles.
And for that matter, Darwin's profile is pretty thin. No one seems to be interested.
As for me, I wouldn't want to do this now, at my age. Digging into warped personalities, or at least warped intentions is absolutely not on my list. I know enough as it is.

I've also never read a report from a guy or girl who met Twitchell in school and talk a little bit about him.
War er Klassensprecher ?

[Tisra Til]

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Post by Tisra Til
‘Subtle energies’ has different meanings. It is sometimes used to refer to physical energy fields (e.g. electromagnetic waves) that are very weak, but it can also refer to ethereal, nonphysical grades of energy-substance. This includes a life force, known by different cultures, traditions and researchers under a variety of names: e.g. ka (ancient Egypt), pneuma (Greece), spiritus/anima (Rome), prana/ojas (Hinduism), lung (Tibet), qi/chi (China), ki (Japan), nephesh (Judaism), animal magnetism (Franz Anton Mesmer), odic force (Karl von Reichenbach), élan vital (Henri Bergson), and orgone (Wilhelm Reich). Some researchers believe that the ‘corona discharge’ of living organisms and inanimate objects revealed by Kirlian photography (high-voltage, high-frequency electrophotography) may be a manifestation of this life energy (see Astral bodies, appendix 2).
All mystical traditions and religious philosophies recognize the existence of subtler realms, which are invisible to our normal senses, but not to the inner eye of a seer or even an undeveloped psychic. In the 18th and 19th centuries most scientists accepted that there was an ether of subtler substance underlying the physical world, which helped explain light, heat, electricity and magnetism.
However, the ether went out of fashion among mainstream scientists with the rise of relativity theory and quantum theory in the early 20th century (see Space, time and relativity). Instead of trying to understand physical matter-energy as manifestations of a subtler level of reality, orthodox scientists now try to understand them in terms of mathematical abstractions that exist only in their imaginations: e.g. zero-dimensional point particles, one-dimensional strings, and ‘probability waves’ that magically ‘collapse’ into physical particles whenever we make an observation (see The farce of modern physics). However, individual scientists have continued to explore the notion of an ether.
According to the theosophical tradition, or ageless wisdom, the ether of physics corresponds to the three highest states of matter on our physical plane (the lower four being: solid, liquid, gas and plasma), and it is merely the borderland of the endless planes of reality that lie beyond – all of which are composed of consciousness-substance of different rates of vibration, and occupy (and in fact compose) the same boundless space (see Worlds within worlds).
Nowadays, many researchers who accept that subtle energies are required to explain psychic phenomena and certain types of healing reject the concept of an ether as obsolete, and try instead to explain subtle energies by invoking extra dimensions of the physical world, or quantum entanglement, i.e. instantaneous ‘nonlocal’ connections ‘beyond space and time’ (see Psi wars). In fact, many researchers are looking for ways to explain acupuncture, homeopathy and manual healing methods without appealing to subtler, nonphysical energies of any kind; they prefer to invoke conventional electromagnetic fields (including the universal quantum field) and bioelectricity (Mayor, 2015).
David Pratt

Cont. Swiss-born occultist and physician Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim (1493-1541), popularly known as Paracelsus, anticipated many elements of modern conventional and alternative medicine (Wood, 2004). He is known as the founder of iatrochemistry (chemical medicine) and the father of pharmacology. Standing in the theosophic tradition, he held that, in addition to our physical body, we have an ethereal ‘sidereal body’, through which our higher, spiritual nature works. He also recognized a universal life force, the spiritus vitae or archaeus, which he described it as an ‘inner alchemist’ that maintains and repairs organisms in a dynamic fashion.
He spent much of his life wandering around Europe healing the sick and gathering information from people of every walk of life. He performed seemingly miraculous cures on many patients who had been pronounced incurable by leading doctors, a fact testified to by Erasmus. He used a variety of healing methods, including magnets and talismans. In his remedies, he applied the ‘law of similars’ or ‘like treats like’ – a principle known since ancient times (e.g. to Hippocrates) and forming the basis of modern homeopathy. Like all ancient cultures, he recognized correspondences between the macrocosm (universe) and the microcosm (individual). H.P. Blavatsky describes Paracelsus as ‘the greatest occultist of the middle ages’, ‘a clairvoyant of great powers’ and ‘a distinguished alchemist’ (Theosophical Glossary, 248-9).
Viennese doctor of medicine Franz Anton Mesmer (1734-1814) drew inspiration from reading Paracelsus, and in the early 1770s he began treating patients with magnets. He soon came to the conclusion that a magnet was merely a medium through which a healing fluid acted. He found he could also achieve cures simply by touching or moving his hands over his patients or staring into their eyes. He called this subtle force ‘animal magnetism’, which he distinguished from mineral magnetism. He believed that animal magnetism was subject to the influence of the heavenly bodies and worked through a subtle, universal, all-pervading fluid (the ether). Mesmeric healing was believed to remove blockages and restore the balanced flow of animal magnetism within the body.
D.P. https://www.davidpratt.info/bioelec.htm#a5

Really need to understand "New Thought " and its effect - its writers and its influencers.
Particularly William Walker Atkinson and his methods. Twitchell is a cheap copy and a piker in comparison.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Thought
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William/Walker/Atkinson

I had heard of New Thought, but never looked into it. I believe in the core beliefs on that page.

That William Atkinson sounds like an interesting fella, based on the Wikipedia page. I actually have a copy of The Kybalion, by “three initiates” (possibly written by Atkinson). I was also into the Hermetic philosophy. I think it falls into the nondualist mode.

[fife]

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Post by Tisra Til
‘Subtle energies’ has different meanings. It is sometimes used to refer to physical energy fields (e.g. electromagnetic waves) that are very weak, but it can also refer to ethereal, nonphysical grades of energy-substance. This includes a life force, known by different cultures, traditions and researchers under a variety of names: e.g. ka (ancient Egypt), pneuma (Greece), spiritus/anima (Rome), prana/ojas (Hinduism), lung (Tibet), qi/chi (China), ki (Japan), nephesh (Judaism), animal magnetism (Franz Anton Mesmer), odic force (Karl von Reichenbach), élan vital (Henri Bergson), and orgone (Wilhelm Reich). Some researchers believe that the ‘corona discharge’ of living organisms and inanimate objects revealed by Kirlian photography (high-voltage, high-frequency electrophotography) may be a manifestation of this life energy (see Astral bodies, appendix 2).
All mystical traditions and religious philosophies recognize the existence of subtler realms, which are invisible to our normal senses, but not to the inner eye of a seer or even an undeveloped psychic. In the 18th and 19th centuries most scientists accepted that there was an ether of subtler substance underlying the physical world, which helped explain light, heat, electricity and magnetism.
However, the ether went out of fashion among mainstream scientists with the rise of relativity theory and quantum theory in the early 20th century (see Space, time and relativity). Instead of trying to understand physical matter-energy as manifestations of a subtler level of reality, orthodox scientists now try to understand them in terms of mathematical abstractions that exist only in their imaginations: e.g. zero-dimensional point particles, one-dimensional strings, and ‘probability waves’ that magically ‘collapse’ into physical particles whenever we make an observation (see The farce of modern physics). However, individual scientists have continued to explore the notion of an ether.
According to the theosophical tradition, or ageless wisdom, the ether of physics corresponds to the three highest states of matter on our physical plane (the lower four being: solid, liquid, gas and plasma), and it is merely the borderland of the endless planes of reality that lie beyond – all of which are composed of consciousness-substance of different rates of vibration, and occupy (and in fact compose) the same boundless space (see Worlds within worlds).
Nowadays, many researchers who accept that subtle energies are required to explain psychic phenomena and certain types of healing reject the concept of an ether as obsolete, and try instead to explain subtle energies by invoking extra dimensions of the physical world, or quantum entanglement, i.e. instantaneous ‘nonlocal’ connections ‘beyond space and time’ (see Psi wars). In fact, many researchers are looking for ways to explain acupuncture, homeopathy and manual healing methods without appealing to subtler, nonphysical energies of any kind; they prefer to invoke conventional electromagnetic fields (including the universal quantum field) and bioelectricity (Mayor, 2015).
David Pratt

Cont. Swiss-born occultist and physician Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim (1493-1541), popularly known as Paracelsus, anticipated many elements of modern conventional and alternative medicine (Wood, 2004). He is known as the founder of iatrochemistry (chemical medicine) and the father of pharmacology. Standing in the theosophic tradition, he held that, in addition to our physical body, we have an ethereal ‘sidereal body’, through which our higher, spiritual nature works. He also recognized a universal life force, the spiritus vitae or archaeus, which he described it as an ‘inner alchemist’ that maintains and repairs organisms in a dynamic fashion.
He spent much of his life wandering around Europe healing the sick and gathering information from people of every walk of life. He performed seemingly miraculous cures on many patients who had been pronounced incurable by leading doctors, a fact testified to by Erasmus. He used a variety of healing methods, including magnets and talismans. In his remedies, he applied the ‘law of similars’ or ‘like treats like’ – a principle known since ancient times (e.g. to Hippocrates) and forming the basis of modern homeopathy. Like all ancient cultures, he recognized correspondences between the macrocosm (universe) and the microcosm (individual). H.P. Blavatsky describes Paracelsus as ‘the greatest occultist of the middle ages’, ‘a clairvoyant of great powers’ and ‘a distinguished alchemist’ (Theosophical Glossary, 248-9).
Viennese doctor of medicine Franz Anton Mesmer (1734-1814) drew inspiration from reading Paracelsus, and in the early 1770s he began treating patients with magnets. He soon came to the conclusion that a magnet was merely a medium through which a healing fluid acted. He found he could also achieve cures simply by touching or moving his hands over his patients or staring into their eyes. He called this subtle force ‘animal magnetism’, which he distinguished from mineral magnetism. He believed that animal magnetism was subject to the influence of the heavenly bodies and worked through a subtle, universal, all-pervading fluid (the ether). Mesmeric healing was believed to remove blockages and restore the balanced flow of animal magnetism within the body.
D.P. https://www.davidpratt.info/bioelec.htm#a5

Really need to understand "New Thought " and its effect - its writers and its influencers.
Particularly William Walker Atkinson and his methods. Twitchell is a cheap copy and a piker in comparison.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Thought
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William/Walker/Atkinson

I had heard of New Thought, but never looked into it. I believe in the core beliefs on that page.
That William Atkinson sounds like an interesting fella, based on the Wikipedia page. I actually have a copy of The Kybalion, by “three initiates” (possibly written by Atkinson). I was also into the Hermetic philosophy. I think it falls into the nondualist mode.

I'm glad you liked it, T.T. :-)