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    The Magic of Believing (Condensed Classics): The Immortal Program to Unlocking the Success-Power of Your Mind
    The Magic of Believing (Condensed Classics): The Immortal Program to Unlocking the Success-Power of Your Mind
    The Magic of Believing (Condensed Classics): The Immortal Program to Unlocking the Success-Power of Your Mind
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    The Magic of Believing (Condensed Classics): The Immortal Program to Unlocking the Success-Power of Your Mind

    By Claude M. Bristol and Mitch Horowitz

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    Your Mind Is a Storehouse of Amazing Possibilities.
    Start Using Them Right Now for Success and Achievement!

    In 1948, journalist Claude M. Bristol produced a book that has touched generations of readers: The Magic of Believing. Artists and businesspeople, athletes and entrepreneurs, have sworn by Bristol’s program for harnessing the higher energies of the mind for peak performance.

    Now, this condensed edition of The Magic of Believing allows you—within the space of a lunch hour or morning commute—to discover:

    • How to transfer your thoughts to other people.

    • Why a focused aim leads to achievement.

    • How to project powerful confidence.

    • What your outer appearance reveals about you.

    • The one great mental secret to success.

    Abridged and introduced by PEN Award-winning historian Mitch Horowitz, The Magic of Believing is at once the most grounded and the boldest work of self-development you will ever encounter. Discover what it can do for you.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherG&D Media
    Release dateOct 9, 2018
    ISBN9781722520168
    The Magic of Believing (Condensed Classics): The Immortal Program to Unlocking the Success-Power of Your Mind
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    Claude M. Bristol

    The late Claude M. Bristol was a lawyer, lecturer, investment banker, and foreign correspondent. He is the coauthor of the long-time bestseller, TNT: The Power Within.

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      The Magic of Believing (Condensed Classics) - Claude M. Bristol

      INTRODUCTION

      The Metaphysics of Success

      The American metaphysical scene has produced no other figure quite like Claude M. Bristol. Born in 1891, Bristol had a background as varied as the nation itself: a veteran, a seeker, a sometime journalist, a sometime businessman, and an enthusiast of the possibilities and powers of the mind.

      As a veteran, Bristol returned from World War One to witness a nation in transition. The American economy was growing but the mass of people returning from the war, many of whom came from agrarian roots and had never worked in manufacturing or large offices, were unsure of how to enter the new economy. Bristol believed that the threshold of prosperity began in the mind. He wrote his two and only books—the fullest being The Magic of Believing—in order to place his ideas about the powers of the mind within reach of the broadest range of people.

      Within this abridgement of his immensely popular book you’re going to hear about topics that are not always held in high repute these days: ESP, telepathy, and telekinesis, among them. When abridging this book, I made the decision to retain this material—and I did not do so lightly. As I’ve written in my own analysis of the positive-thinking movement, One Simple Idea, I believe that many journalists and academics today have failed to understand, or even attain basic familiarity with, the experiments to which Bristol refers, particularly those conducted by ESP researcher J.B. Rhine at Duke University beginning in the early 1930s.

      I take seriously Bristol’s contention that legitimate parapsychology has much to offer the motivational seeker. Speaking as a historian who has considered this field, I can vouch for the general validity of Bristol’s popularizations and suggested applications of some parapsychological experiments. Indeed, Bristol was one of the few positive-mind theorists of his day who rightly highlighted the work of J.B. Rhine and his contemporaries.

      I think that you will find The Magic of Believing, first published in 1948, a surprising and still-radical journey into the possibilities of the mind. We remain at the early stages of grappling with higher mental possibilities today, gaining a glimpse of them in a new wave of experiments in placebo studies, neuroplasticity, precognition, and quantum theorizing.

      Bristol, in his way, makes very large questions about the mind seem simple—because he believed that simple, personal experiments were possible, and could prove the efficacy of positive-mind mechanics in daily life, including in matters of career, creativity, and relationships.

      I think

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