HOW FEAR KILLS.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5319, 29 August 1928, Page 2

HOW FEAR KILLS.

“ MAN’S WORST ENEMY.” Dr. P. Fenne.lly, a past president o.C the, British Association of Practical Psychology, delivered a very interesting lecture at Wellington last week on “Man’s 'Worst Enemy.” The lecturer, distinguished between two kinds of fear: the. fear which one had when crossing tire streets, and the fear of things which were always coming but never anivc-d. Ninety-,nine per. cent- of people, were going through life- with a dual person,ality, he. said, the first the: real personality, and the secon-J a rejected personality which they were holding in repressiOjii. When these two came into convict there was brought intq bejijig tliat which wo knew as “fear.” Every time the second personality arose the first one was menaced, and if one could make these into, one, one wQuld be whole. ( Everything had its opposite l , and as tire,re was a will to live, s 'o .there was a will tq die. People generated within them, said the lecturer, in pqin tint, the effe ; ct of the mind over, the body, the poisoins which would kill them. A cliamclon changed its skin,' by the attitude of its mind. A person’s eye would unconsciously manifest whatwas back of it. The secretions of

bees, waspii, and poisonous sna.kcs an.d spiders taken from the sacs when the creature was not (frightened, when analysed were perfectly harmless, but when the animal or insect was frightened- the liquid became poisonous. A boa constrictor in the Lonjdoii Zoo,, creamy white in' normal conditions, became scarlet when prodded with a stick. So the mind of a person reacted upon bis bodiy. Also, if a wife promised her huisbapd a meal of steak and baked potiUoes when he returned from work, he unic'onsciously produced within himself during the day the juices necessary for its digestion, and if, when he returned, he found Irish stew in front qf him 'he would.be unable to digest it. He could not adjust himself from steak to stew. The poisons which were created by the mental attitude manifested themsselves iii ; cysts,- cancers, and the, like, and those ,would yield, to his psychological meaps. If the mind wftf?, directed, material things must obey.