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Preface - Introduction - The New Point of View - Educational Ideals - Equanimity - The Subconscious Mind - The Spiritual Ideal in Childhood - An Experiment in Education - The Expression of the Spirit - An Ideal Summer Conference - The Ministry of the Spirit - The Mystery of Pain and Evil - The Philosophical Ideal - The Criteria of Truth - Organic Perfection - Immortality - Index - p. 247

itself through the body by means of the mind, or consciousness. It is the soul that acts, compelling the body to respond. It is the soul that possesses the intelligence. And the soul can be complete master of its states of consciousness, and through them master of the body.

In order, then, to understand the effect of the mind upon the body, we must remember that the soul has the power to net the physical forces in motion, and either to keep them in equilibrium or start them into unwonted activity. One can, for example, arouse one's self from reverie, and instantly start the body in rapid motion toward the door and out over the fields at full speed. It is a mental decision, resulting in volition and heightened brain activity, which brings about this sudden change.

Again, suppose one hears the news of a terrible accident in which a dear friend may have been killed. The mind is at once thrown into a fever of excitement, followed by an emotional state which rapidly extends throughout the body, increases the beating of the heart, changes the facial expression, quickens the circulation, and causes a strained condition of the nerves from which, unless one knows how to avoid it, there is likely to be a nervous reaction.

The instantaneous effect of anger illustrates still more forcibly the power of mind to translate its emotions into physical changes. The rapid physical response—the reddened face, the contracted muscles, the clenched fists, and the blow which

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