WHAT A MAN THINKS

Northern Advocate, 22 January 1927, Page 7

WHAT A MAN THINKS

THAT HE BECOMES. Under the auspices of the Theosophieal Society, Professor Ernest j Wood, late Principal and Professor of I Physics in the Hyderabad Scind Col-j lege, India, who is at present lectur- j ing in Wellington, dealt with the .«nb-1 Jed. of “The New Psychology.” \ The new psychology, said the speak- j er, dealt with certain aspects of the j mind that wore sometimes called of; an abnormal kind, which aspects came} into prominence every now' and then.j There w'ere various aspects of the I mind that were not, perhaps, as fam-j iliar as wore the ordinary typos of I human thought. Unquestionably, he | considered, with the development ] of man in refinement and culture,! these unfamiliar aspects of mind would increase. In the. evolution of humanity there would be a manifesta-

tion of these powers even on a longer and larger scale. The lecturer pointed out that one of the objects of the Theosophieal Society was to forward the progress of humanity. Nothing, ho continued, could make more for the progress of humanity than the understanding of man, of his owm nature and his own mind. Perhaps it was for this reason, he suggested, that a number of years ago the Theosophieal Society added a third object to the two which had previously been held before its members—“to investigate the unexplained laws in Nature, and the powers latent in man.”

After explaining his theory by references to the phenomena, of telepathy and dreams, Professor Wood went on to say that these extended pow'ors of the mind were usually regarded as putting us into touch with knowledge, and with other parts of the world which w'e could not reach by means of our normal senses. There was another side to the matter, however. For every faculty had two sides —a receptive side and a “power” side. Thought, as other faculties, possessed a “power” side, a positive side which exercised a positive influence upon the world. This - fact, said the loc-

turer, was not sufficiently realised. “People do not realise,” lie said, “to what an enormous extent the imagination is reallv a power in our lives.” It. was in character especially, he continued, that this power of the mind could be found at work. “What a man thinks upon, that he becomes. ’ ’