Word: mentality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...realm which has been most conspicuously charted by such Britons as Rev. G. Vale Owen and Sir Oliver Lodge. The fact that Brandon uses such contemporary words as "job" and "fun" he explains by recounting how a number of "Masters" (i. e., veteran spirits) transported him "by their mental power," on a lengthy tour of the great cities of the world. The ability of spirits to visit the Earth, Brandon makes clear, has nothing to do with their life on the "Astral" plane, from which eventually they may ascend to a "Spiritual" plane. Spirit Brandon broadly corroborates the view held...
...most extraordinary figures in British science. Bald, round-faced Dr. Cannon is co-author of respectable treatises on psychiatry and neurology, an active staff member of the London County Mental Hospital Service. A member in good standing of the British Medical Association, he was on its Executive Council in 1934-35. Nevertheless he has delved so deeply into Oriental mysticism that he has been elevated to the rank of Master-the-Fifth of the Great White Lodge of the Himalayas, which he considers to be a survival of a great university in Atlantis, "sunk by the selfish powers of mankind...
...first thing to appear was a dizziness, with diplopia [double vision]. The following day, I was unable to hold a cup in my right hand, and my mental processes were beginning to fail me. On the third day, I was a wreck. I saw everything double, and in trying to feed myself, I was always feeding the wrong face. . . . Mental processes were askew. . . . My surgical instruments that I had used for years seemed strange to me, and while I knew what they were, could not get it through my head how to use them. Writing was out of the question...
...educate myself all over again. My brave little wife essayed to teach me, and she would press my finger down on the typewriter keys, and spell the word 'cat.' I could not mentally visualize what a cat was, though the name was familiar. I began to lose the confusing diplopia. ... As I saw other signs of improvement in my co-ordinate movements, I began to have hope. In about 16 months after the onset, mental confusion had almost disappeared as had dizziness; coordination of the arm and hand are about normal, although my writing is yet a little...
...sort of world in which such things could happen. He adopted the deterministic universe cherished by many a philosopher and scientist from Plato to Einstein*;a universe in which Future and Past are both parts of a unified reality, and in which the distinction between them is a purely mental one. In the preoccupied waking state, reasoned Philosopher Dunne, the mind has no contact with the "future" in sleep, when it wanders more freely, it does...