Freedom Talks, number 2 | Page 2

much
told about this finer body, but it is time the sick world knows this law

of being, for then it will be in a position to control its own life. This
finer body is the "thought body" or psychic body and it is upon this that
the physical body depends for its power, just as the very best
instrument in the world depends upon the player for its expressed
melody.
All sight, all hearing, all function is in this psychic body, not in the
physical one. What many of the psychologists call the subconscious
mind is only the registered intelligence of the psychic self. This psychic
self is in direct communication with the cosmic self and with the
physical self, and it is through this we become cosmic in our human
consciousness.
The psychic body manifests through idea centers of the human brain
and it is directly related with the cosmic currents through the solar
plexus of the physical body. The higher concept centers of the mind are
the switchboard where connections are made, and it is in this way that
the psychic body registers its vibrations in the physical, and the
physical registers in the psychic--there is a circle of consciousness
established by the two minds.
This wrould be of no particular value to us, if it did not prove to us the
source of disease, for when we look scientifically and psychologically
at disease, we must see that it is simply disassociation between the
psychic and the physical selves, and comes as the natural loss of poise,
either physically, mentally or psychically.
Watching the play of human disease around us we can soon see that
there are two distinct ways by which disassociation of these selves
begins; first, through the mind by negative thinking, and second
through the emotions by negative feeling.
Our thoughts and our will are the great avenues by which we admit
anything into our psychic self, and are also the means by which we
exclude all things.
The whole poise of an individual can be destroyed by thoughts of fear,
hate, grief and anger; fright has killed and all these states of emotion
are simply grades of vibration, setting up inharmonious, psychical
activity, and leaving their corresponding effects upon the physical cells.
It is known only too well today by those who seek to know, that back
of all such physical conditions as nervousness, prostration, temporary
insanity, nervous disorders, pains resembling rheumatism, hay fever,

heart troubles, mental symptoms, nervous chills, morbid forebodings
and mild mania, there lurks the abnormal activity of the psychic or
"thought body" caused by thoughts and feelings acting abnormally
upon the vital centers of the nervous system and mind.
New Thought declares that all diseases, except accidental wounds and
fractures begin in the psychic or "thought body" as energy and then are
registered in the physical cells as organic or functional disease.
We might follow this farther in order to satisfy science, but suffice it to
go this far, and then seek the value of knowing this: We can see that the
only thing that naturally follows is, the healer and patient must be
taught how to restore the lost equilibrium of the centers and again poise
the life in a creative thought vibration. This is done simply and surely
by teaching everyone the correct use of the idea centers of the human
brain and through this he is taught to form such thoughts and produce
such ideas as will allow a normal amount of energy to register on both
planes, and not permit the psychical mind to drive the human engine on
to destruction in a wild waste and explosion of physical, mental or
psychical energy.
This is not a long or wearisome task for in the cortex of every brain
there are distinct idea centers whose business it is to take up ideas built
from thoughts, and will must follow the idea, and by constantly
selecting the thoughts which will produce harmonious vibrations within
the psychic and physical selves, we join with the great creative energy
of the universe and it flows through us, healing and harmonizing every
atom of our body.
The very first step toward healing is to teach the patient to build for
himself a health consciousness, and this is done by giving him the
positive ideas of health instead of the negative ones of disease. We
build for him the idea of health, hold it firmly in our minds, and project
it into his idea centers until it registers in his psychic mind; then this is
followed by his own increased power of willing, and finally this passes
into action and is registered in form.
_Ideation, willing_ and doing is the great _health trinity_, and when
this is produced, healing must follow. This is the