Interesting that attention to mind would be equated with New Age religions here. In fact it was much earlier that it became somewhat popular. It was in the late eighteen and early nineteen hundreds and was widely taught in seminars to those who were responsible for shaping the industrial revolution. It was first explored as an alternative to faith. Rather than clinging to a belief systems (which lead to atrocities and war) one pays strict and drastically increased attention to the functioning of mind (which very early on proved to increase productivity). Authors such as Orage discovered that it actually raised mental capacity. Later testing confirmed it raises IQ.
It is based on something that in automotive design is widely accepted ~ we think with different centers. Those centers think in drastically different ways and at drastically different speeds. The brake peddle in most auto devices are based on the principle that your motive center operates faster than your emotive or cogent centers. Our feet are more reactive to motive center. Our hands more responsive to emotive and cogent. Much of what we now understand about psychology and the mind was seeded during those early years of attention to mind and its functioning. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Memphis Freethought Alliance" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/memphisfreethoughtalliance?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
