THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1913. CURES BY SILENCE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 18 February 1913, Page 4

THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1913. CURES BY SILENCE.

In proof that the world is advancing, and that the postive of co-day is ■swept away by the negative of tomorrow, one ha-s only to consider the marvellous creations of the human mind for the prolongati6n of life, and for the cure of those manifold ills to which mankind is heir. The X rays, radium, electricity, faith, deep-breath-ing, cold water, and even whisky have played their part in eradicating disease. But it has been left to Miss Adela Curtis, of London, who is the very antithesis of the "new woman," to propound a [theory by which doctors' bills, toothache, rheumatism and chemists' prescriptions will become a tiling of the past, as by the waving of a magic wand. She effects cures simply by .silence, and has founded a "School of Silence," where people may go to learn how to get well. If the doctrine of Miss Curtis were generally accepted, and were to prove efficacious, it goes without saying that the living of the medico, the dentist and the pharmacist would becom e precarious, for their only patients would be politicians, suffragettes, scandal-mong-ers, and, possibly, clergymen, auctioneers and brokers. The doctrines of th e new cult are expounded, in Miss Curtis's "Meditation and Science " and. have the support of no less a person that the headmaster of Eton College, the Rev. E. Lyttelton. This new religion is being "taken up," so the London correspondent of an Australian paper says, by a number of wealthy women in London, and its influence is reported to be spreading rapidm' T !' e < r ClTes P° lule,lt 's summary of Miss Curtis's book does not make matters altogether as clear as they might be, ..but one gathers from it that "Meditation, or the Way of Silence is a. mental discipline by u-hich the habits of sensation, inherited from instinctive man, together with the habits of thought and emotion acquired by the intellectual and psychic man, are all simultaneously transmitted into a new kind of consciousness." This new consciousness is located in a cerebral gland—"the pituitary body, below the conarium, the special oi-o-au of the psychic man." Miss Curtic differs from the Christian Scientists in not denying the existence of matter. "It is best not to deny facts conditions, and effects, in ' the objective plane. It is waste of time to deny the illness—that can look after itself; deny its root, its subjective and psychical correspondence.' Do not deny the headache, but get at the mental state which brought about the , headache and root that out by affirm- < ing the quality of principle which s knows no such thing." I n order to practise silent meditation with beneffe- i ial results, the patient i, s instructed 1 to lock himself in his room, and sit easily on a strong, straight-backed i '

cnair. Then ho has to think about vniious parts of his anatomy, for instance, liis .pituitary body, k'is sacra plexus, iiis hypogastric jilcxns, solar plexus, cardiac plexus and ccrvial plexus, Each centre ha* to have about three seconds meditation devoted to it. Then a deep breath should lie taken and the word ''regeneration" .should be siieiulv prouounce-cl and "thought into" tiio various plexus. After "regeneration," it is well to try "iiluniinath.a" and other polysyllables. By thinking these resounding words into one's anatomy it is possible. Ivtiss Curtis say*, to cure oneself of any disease whatsoever, and to enter incidentally upon a higher plane of existence, inveterate slaves to the afternoon tea habit will probably bo relieved to know that a sure remedy for the evil effects of the insidious vice is the sotto voce utterance of the. word "wisdom" while the cup is being carried to the lips.