POWER OF THE MIND

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 441, 24 August 1928, Page 7

POWER OF THE MIND

AMERICAN WOMAN’S VIEW “BELIEF IS HEALTH” “Man can be his own creator, and he can mean his own destruction/* was the assertion of Mrs. Phoebe Marie Holmes, of Los Angeles, in an address in the Unity Hall last evening. Mrs. Holmes is a. psychologist, metaphysician, and scientific bodybuilder, and, for the past 10 years, has been on a world lecture tour. She has yet to cover New Zealand, Australia and South Africa. By special request, she will give her views this evening on the contention that there is life after death. “Man can be either sick or well —he decrees it for himself,” Mrs. Holmes said last evening, in declaring that man’s thoughts were recorded accurately by the sub-conscious mind. “What a man believes in his heart, he is. But he must learn the laws of mind and health to realise that within him is life, vitality, happiness and success. It is essentia/ for man to seek the truth about himself.” Mrs. Holmes quoted Scriptural connection with the subject of man’s ability to plan his future by his thoughts. She emphasised the fact that little attention was paid by the average person to breathing, and it was scarcely recognised as the basic essential it was. From this point she developed her talk on man’s power to plan his future actions by his thoughts. “If a man says he is sick, that thought is transferred to the subconscious mind, and the body is affected,” said Mrs. Holmes. “Belief in health, power and personality means the acquisition of those qualities.”