Spirit Matter Before The Bar Of Modern Science

Excerpt from Spirit Matter: Before the Bar of Modern Science The time seems to have come for a clear and dispassionate statement of the inevitable trend of Psychology, as it now is, and as it is reaching out to newer and grander fields of discovery in the realms of life, mind and spirit. We have passed the regions of darkness and doubt, and to-day it is true, in all its fulness and strength, that the greatest and profoundest students of Psychology, and of its kindred sciences, most of these sciences new, and all of them reconstructed by fuller knowledge, are agreed, with practical unanimity, that the old past theories, or hypotheses rather, of materialism, of nihilism, of empiricism, have been proven untenable and altogether worthless, and that the so-called physical sciences have never been at all capable of taking sides in the controversy which is now about ended. We have advanced so far and so surely, now, that the alternatives presented are few, as regards the general outcome, and that these are non-physical, in any sense in which the term physical has ever been legitimately employed. In other words, the transcendental has been the final victor, and we are dealing to-day with the various phases of transcendentalism, and even here we have reached a plane in which serious conflict has terminated, and psychical students are searching out, with perfect and friendly interest, the solution of the still remaining open questions. We are clearly able to see that the final conclusions lie along lines already far advanced, and that the future advances will be to still higher planes, which we already clearly see, and can more or less definitely follow and map out. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Though he made his fortune pioneering practical uses for electricity, Frederick Lawson was also an active and vocal adherent of New Thought philosophies, early "New Age" thinking that promoted the belief in "mind over matter" and in the concept that godly powers could be found within us all. This classic book-first published in 1912 and the textbook of the organization Lawson founded, the Society for Spreading the Knowledge of True Prayer-explores the new realms of human experience New Thought thinking was uncovering, including: . Unaccounted-for human capacity and animal wonders . Hell as an individual state of human consciousness . New truths "hateful to the sluggard" . Proof of our knowledge of Heaven . Constant conscious communion with God . The value of prophecy . Instantaneous healing . The collective force of foolish beliefs . And much, much more. British engineer, businessman, and author FREDERICK LAWRENCE RAWSON (1859-1923) also wrote How to Bring About Permanent Peace (1916), Secret of Divine Protection (1918) and Nature of True Prayer (1920).