Mitch Horowitz - Daydream Believer: Unlocking the Ultimate Power of Your Mind

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DAYDREAMBELIEVER

UNLOCKING
THE ULTIMATE POWER
of YOUR MIND

MITCH HOROWITZ

author of The Miracle Club

Published 2022 by Gildan Media LLC
aka G&D Media
www.GandDmedia.com

Copyright 2022 Mitch Horowitz

No part of this book may be used, reproduced or transmitted in any manner whatsoever, by any means (electronic, photocopying, recording, or otherwise), without the prior written permission of the author, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. No liability is assumed with respect to the use of the information contained within. Although every precaution has been taken, the author and publisher assume no liability for errors or omissions. Neither is any liability assumed for damages resulting from the use of the information contained herein.

First Edition: 2022

Front cover design by Tom McKeveny
Front cover photo by Ebru Yildiz
Back cover photo by Jacqueline Castel

Interior design by Meghan Day Healey of Story Horse, LLC.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available upon request

eISBN: 978-1-7225-2691-7

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To Neville

My metaphysics are to the end of use.
I wish to know the laws of this wonderful power, that I may domesticate it.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON,
Powers and Laws of Thought

1. Introduction
   The Will to Create
2. Chapter One
   The Power of a Single Wish
3. Chapter Two
   School of War
4. Chapter Three
   The Truth about Mind Causation
5. Chapter Four
   Are We Gods in Our Own Realities?
6. Chapter Five
   Time Travel
7. Chapter Six
   Why Prayer Works
8. Chapter Seven
   We Are Mighty
9. Chapter Eight
   The Wish Machine
10. Chapter Nine
    Mantra Magick
11. Chapter Ten
    Determination
12. Chapter Eleven
    Optimism of the Will:
    Mind Power as a Philosophy of Life
13. Chapter Twelve
    The Parapsychology Revolution
14. Interlude
    The Bird-Lizard, a true story
15. Chapter Thirteen
    What Do You Want?
16. Appendix
    Depression and Metaphysics

What are all beliefs but the possibilities of I?

AUSTIN OSMAN SPARE, THE FOCUS OF LIFE

Several years prior to this writing, a famous political operativesomeone you would immediately recognize and perhaps be surprised byasked me to meet him at a suite in a posh Park Avenue hotel. I biked up from my then-home on Manhattans Lower East Side. As I settled into a sofa with my helmet in my lap, he asked me: Who is the best writer in New Thought? My questioner referred to the philosophy of positive-mind metaphysics that began in the transcendentalist ferment of New England in the mid-to-late 1800s and mushroomed across the nation.

Neville, I immediately replied, referring to Neville Goddard, one of the most intriguing mystical voices of the past century.

No, he said, ribbing meI didnt ask whos the coolest, I asked whos the best.

I repeated my assessment. The British-Barbadian Neville, whose career spanned from the late 1930s until his death in California in 1972, was a resplendent speaker who, under his solitary first name, wrote more than ten books on the limitless powers of thought. He has been my greatest influence. But I have differences with Nevilles ideas, which I do not believe cover the full gamut of human crises and mortality. I wondered then as I have other times: who could I recommend unreservedly?

Although I do not approve of the actions of the political figure who put the question to me, I nonetheless determined to allow it to serve as a personal goad. I decided right there to adopt it as my challenge to lay out a metaphysics of thought causation that shied from neither the sublime heights of possibility nor the severity of the barriers facing us. Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote in his journals of February 22, 1824: If Knowledge be power, it is also Pain.

Daydream Believer is the result of that effort. It deals with the interdimensional and infinite nature of your psycheby which I mean a compact of thought and emotionand also the paradoxical limits that create the tension of existence.

This book considers your psyches causative abilities, practically and theoretically; it responds to the ablest critics of mind-power metaphysics; it presents the evidence for extra-physical mentality, which is overwhelming; and it considers the role of ethics in thought causation. I equate ethics with reciprocity. And reciprocity, as I use it, is a wild force not to be understood as simple cause-and-effect between individuals but as part of a vast cycle of action and reaction within the human symmetry. Reciprocity must be approached with great care and acknowledgment of ones limited perspective.

My hope is that Daydream Believer takes the last 150 years of experimentation in New Thought to its sharpest peak and sets us on a path for the next stage. More importantly, I wish that the book shines a light for your own practice and experiments, frames mind-power as a meaningful response to life, and provides you with the tools to surpass its insights. If you find my claims bold, I trust that you will find my self-disclosuresnecessary for any honest reckoning of practical philosophyequally so.

What is the purpose of a spirituality of personal creation? All events that result from intention are reducible to the intention to increase power. Friedrich Nietzsche wrote those words in 18851886 in his notes to an incomplete and posthumously published book The Will to Power, as translated in 1967 by Walter Kaufmann and R.J. Hollingdale. Let me be plain: that is my driving principle in this book.

When people speak of pursuing truth, peace, understanding, freedom, justice, forgiveness, patience, or faith, they are indirectly identifying means to power: to the growth of their capacities for expression, attainment, and connection to the source of causation and creation. To argue against this framing inadvertently demonstrates its activity. Philosophies seek primacy.

Desire is a manifestation of power, wrote Wallace D. Wattles in The Science of Getting Rich in 1910. A leading light in New Thought, the socialist and metaphysical explorer belonged to an early and influential strain of positive-mind philosophers.

Indeed, I believe that a great deal of what gets defined or expressed as neurosis is the frustration of the power-seeking impulse in the individualnot power as brutality or force but as