Helen Wilmans - A Home Course in Mental Science

Home Course in Mental Science

Helen Wilmans

Mina Parker

Create the Life You Want

A Hampton Roads Collection

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Originally published as by Benedict Lust, 1921.

eISBN: 9780-10-61940-108-2

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Lately, after a series of conversations and problem-solving sessions with friends and colleagues, I have started to get headaches. Big ones. They come on suddenly, during a meeting or phone call, and settle into the top and front of my head, the physical weight of doubt, fear, and anger taking over my mind. I need a healthy dose of mind over matter. And Helen Wilmans is the source, the true originala radical thinker, a feminist, an inspiration.

I think the headaches come from trying to lift impossible loads with my brain. My brain is not a muscle, after all, and can't do any kind of heavy lifting. Of course, it doesn't need to. My mind has a trick up its sleeve, a much more powerful force at hand: imagination. As Wilmans says in this book, it is the imagination that is the body-builder. It is this quality of untrammeled thought that is now recognized as the wings of the body; the lifting power of the body. And note this; it is not an unintelligent lifting power like steam. It is thought; it is the body's most intelligent, ethereal essence, and its most emancipated mentality. It is that part of the body's self which has not succumbed to the fixed habits of the race; it is that part of the body which is free; which feels that it does not have to accept the beliefs or conditions it was born into.

A call to arms, a radical plan for the next steps of the human race, a path toward conscious growth through the Law of Attraction, also called Being, also called Love. For love attractsand expands. I have a close friend who says, that's how you know it's love. It gets bigger. Gloriously multiplying love. I say yes, please. I think the days are numbered for my headaches.

MINA PARKER

Helen Wilmans (18311907) was an American author, journalist, publisher, healer, teacher, and pioneer of Mental Science. In many ways a foremother to the feminist movement that came many years later, she left an unhappy marriage and moved to San Francisco, where she founded her own paper called The Woman's World and published a weekly magazine, Freedom. She built a prosperous business and became a metaphysical teacher, passing on her knowledge and practice to others who would follow in her shoes.

This is the complete 20-lesson series of Helen Wilmans' Mental Science course as published by Benedict Lust, N.D., M.D., in 1921. The course is supplemented by Edward Earle Purinton's Efficiency Study Guide written exclusively for these lessons.

You were meant to achieve a great success. You can learn how to be well, strong, prosperous and happy. You can overcome disease, poverty, fear, worry, weakness of all kinds. You can do, have, and be far more than you ever dared to attempt, or even thought possible. You have wonderful powers of mind and body, that you need only recognize and use in order to reach the very height of your noblest ambitions and aspirations.

The mission of these lessons is to help you believe all this, and prove it. The author of the lessons did prove it, before writing the lessons. They are not rainbow dreams of speculation, but live chapters of personal experience taken from the record of a teacher, healer and philosopher known throughout the world as one of the most powerful thinkers and leaders that the world has produced.

Millions of people today who are using practical psychology in their professional duties, business problems, home relations or personal life gained their first knowledge of how to succeed from the author of these lessons. Not only a teacher, but a teacher of teachers, this pioneer metaphysician gave to hundreds of teachers and healers a vision of what they could do for their students and patients, and a vital impulse and force irresistible and inexhaustible.

Every student or seeker of health, and every drugless practitioner, needs a working knowledge of Mental Science. The vital organs and functions of the body depend on the nerves for healthy action; the nerves are controlled by the brain, glands, solar plexus and subconscious mind; all of which are made strong or weak, healthy or sickly, normal or abnormal, by the character of our thoughts, emotions and expectations.

The test of a teacher's truth is that he has tried it out, and proved its potency for himself, by himself, in himself. Not many teachers do this. Here is a teacher who has done it. Your big source of inspiration and expectation lies in that fact. You can study these lessons with absolute confidence in their power to guide, help and transform you, just to the extent of your faithful study and practice of their truths.

A woman of middle age, living among strangers, torn by sorrows and worn by worries, having no capital whatever, no experience in managing a business, and no money to pay her board bill, founded a publishing concern that made money from the start and put her on her feet in a month after she went in business by herself. That woman was Helen Wilmans, Founder of Mental Science. No other teacher, so far as we know, in all the range of metaphysics, ever began the work of teaching with so powerful a demonstration.

Let her tell the story in her own words:

It may not be amiss here to speak a word concerning my own experience--it often happens that the experience of another fires him who hears it to a new effort--and I want to tell how all things have conspired to push and kick and starve me into my present position of thought.

My temperament is lymphatic. I like my ease. I could amuse myself with small pleasures. I could bear much inconvenience and endure bad treatment, finding compensation in books, embroidery, and other small enjoyments.

But it seemed as if everything I touched turned to ashes--as if nature were in conspiracy with fate to drive me on. I lost my home, where I would have been content to raise poultry for a living. I was driven into newspaper work from my very hunger.

I was successful in this work only a few months. My ideas ripened too fast and I began, without knowing it, to write ahead of the demand made by the class of readers who took the paper I was on. Then this door shut in my face, and other doors did the same, until I stood, one sleety November day, out in the Chicago streets with twenty-five cents in my pocket, and not a soul on earth from whom I felt free to ask a dollar.

And now note this: I was stripped of every dependence save that which I had in my lone self. And oh, what a position it was! I shall never forget it. Do you imagine that I was frightened? The first attempt I made to analyze my feelings brought me the fact that I was not frightened at all.

Then came such a consciousness of power as I never had had before in my life. Everything was swept from me and I stood alone in my own strength. And this naked strength is a tremendous thing to stand in. There is nothing equal to it.

For the first time in my life I was perfectly erect; I touched no one at any point. I felt myself an unfathomable abyss of mighty potencies. I was glad my purse was empty; the thought of money should never master me again. I started toward my boarding house, with the exultant freedom of a bird. I held a power in my hands that nothing could quell; that power was the absence of fear--the sense of freedom, and the consciousness of my own independent and unaided strength.