CURE FOR MENTAL ILLS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2686, 24 January 1924, Page 4

CURE FOR MENTAL ILLS.

MAKING MEN LIKE ANGELS. SCIENCE OF SELF-POWER. America has produced a superCoue. He is Mr John D. Boyle, the high priest of Recreationism and the inventor of Reactionalysis. Coueism, according to Mr Boyle, is “pure suggestion, with no selfpower in it.” Reactionalysis, which is the “self-application of Reactionism,” turns on the dynamo of self-power. It is all made clear in Mr Boyle’s remarkable new hook, “Reactionism —the Science of You” —just published. Coue is content with the repetition of the same little phrase—- “ Every day,” etc. —but- Mr Boyle provides a complete and varied 50days’ course of Reactionalysis. It does not cure diseases, but it produces- —or helps to produce — super mind. “In 50 days,” asserts Mr Boyle, “a surprising benefit will be found in the clarity of ideas, the strength of purposes, the speed of concurrent perceptions, and the finality of decisions.” The student of Mr Boyle’s method has to grip hard. Reactionalysis. which presumes to lay (town a method for your mental improvement, is limited io your own powers of application,” writes Mr Boyle. MINE, THE CREATION OF PURPOSE. “Reactionalysis can only point the way, instruct in principles, inspire by its truths and understanding, leaving to your ability and will to obtain the benefits which it can in this way only bestow.” Every man can become a kind of superman by the aid of Reactionalysis. “From the faculty of Attention, by which we control the outer and inner perceptions that come to us, then to Judgment by which we weigh the things in Attention, and then to Will, by which we support our judgements,” writes Mr Boyle, “there are contributory and intermediate forces which may be fully dealt with under 50 headings.” So we come to the Fifty Days of Reactionalysis, begining with “First Day —My Mind.” On this day the student recites the following five paragraphs:— “My Mind is me. Its perfection is my perfection. Its weakness is my weakness. As it has balance so have I balance. As it lias understanding, so have I understandiuft- . * , . “My Mind is my power of thinking of planning. It is the creator or my purposes and the means of their achievement. As my mind is judicious, careful and thorough, so will my pmposes he wise. As my mind is bold, fearless, and ambitious, so will my purposes he brought to fruition. DESIRE TO ACHIEVE AND IMPROVE. “My mind is my ability to select from a myriad of realities, to choose the beautiful, the stimulating, and the wise. It is mv ability to act with decision, with deliberation, and without fear. My mind is the sum of my mental forces, my most wonderful power, my greatest gift, “I see in my mind the desire to achieve and to improve. I daily find new powers, new knowledge, new mental strength. I see the possibility of faster progress and more accurate understanding'. I see in knowledge of mv mind, knowledge of my strengths and frailities. On this first day of my examination of my mind I will note them as they are shown in my daily tasks.” The second day’s exercise dealing with “My Mental Forces,” includes this hit of reactionalysis: “Do I find myself lazy? Then shall I understand inertia and its lacking in decision? Then shall I understand the forces that destroy my power of will, turning them into understanding, and by understanding into new sources of' will power and decision.” On the third day, devoted to“My mental World,” one declares: — “I am king of my world, and 1 am responsible for every unclean street and dangerous avenue, just as T am responsible for the beauty and charm and hope and fineness that others see when the obtain a glimpse into inv world of self. So Oil through “My Reason,” “My Discretion,” “My Imperfections,” “My Inflexibility,” and “My Future,”- to the fiftieth day, on Love”: — “Love is a pure consciousness, perfect understanding, supreme confidence, devout humility. Love is not blind.” AN ANALYSIS OF LOVE. “Love marks the work and wavs of men, it changes faces and voices it is a force so powerful that it may draw to itself all the hunger of humanity from high or lowly place. Love endures through centuries of time. Love finds a response where power and force ai'e unanswered.” Mr Boyle has developed a new theory about the mind, which he calls the “theory of life ether.” He holds that mind is indestructible, and eternal, and that there is no thought or idea for which there is not a counterpart in the form of a particle or continuation of particles of life ether. He believes that Reactionism holds greater promise for humanity, that error must vanish before understanding, and that “the fear of death, the belief in hate as an everlasting quality of humanity, are superstitions” that will disappear. He insists that what happens after death is “not absolutely a closed ibook.” Death is only “the removal of

the grosser sense of sight for the finer sense,” and “w 7 e learn that now our ether, unharnessed bv a physical body, is finding its relation with the universal ether; that consciousness is finding more delicate pulsations of force.”