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Personal Magnetism
El arte y la ciencia del magnetismo personal. William W. Atkinson
Los trabajos de William Walker Atkinson son siempre muy incisivos y directos con respecto a la práctica disciplinada, pues para él cualquier teoría en el campo de las Ciencias Mentales debe recibir siempre el aval de la experiencia individual para ser reconocida y aceptada como válida.
Este libro, como todos los demás de su autoría, presenta esa misma característica de firmeza y autoridad de quien conoce el tema no sólo en la teoría, sino también en la práctica. Por ello, aborda el magnetismo personal de forma clara, sencilla y directa exponiendo las leyes que envuelven esta facultad natural que todos poseemos, pero que, por falta de conocimiento y conciencia de nuestros talentos superiores e innatos, dejamos de utilizar o los mantenemos en un estado de subdesarrollo.
El movimiento del Nuevo Pensamiento de principios del siglo XX combinó la espiritualidad cristiana con el poder paranormal en un esfuerzo por dar expresión práctica a las fuerzas del universo. O eso creían sus defensores. Uno de los pensadores más influyentes de esta temprana filosofía de la "Nueva Era" promete en este libro de 1913, mostrarle al lector "cómo desarrollar su personalidad" y "cómo desarrollar una influencia dominante" a través de ejercicios
Proyección de la Fuerza Nerviosa
Radiación Mental
El Aura Positiva
El Duelo Magnético
Autodefensa Magnética
El Poder de Controlar a los Demás.
Este libro, como todos los demás de su autoría, presenta esa misma característica de firmeza y autoridad de quien conoce el tema no sólo en la teoría, sino también en la práctica. Por ello, aborda el magnetismo personal de forma clara, sencilla y directa exponiendo las leyes que envuelven esta facultad natural que todos poseemos, pero que, por falta de conocimiento y conciencia de nuestros talentos superiores e innatos, dejamos de utilizar o los mantenemos en un estado de subdesarrollo.
El movimiento del Nuevo Pensamiento de principios del siglo XX combinó la espiritualidad cristiana con el poder paranormal en un esfuerzo por dar expresión práctica a las fuerzas del universo. O eso creían sus defensores. Uno de los pensadores más influyentes de esta temprana filosofía de la "Nueva Era" promete en este libro de 1913, mostrarle al lector "cómo desarrollar su personalidad" y "cómo desarrollar una influencia dominante" a través de ejercicios
Proyección de la Fuerza Nerviosa
Radiación Mental
El Aura Positiva
El Duelo Magnético
Autodefensa Magnética
El Poder de Controlar a los Demás.
168 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1913
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About the author
William Walker Atkinson
2,488 books399 followersPseudonyms: Theron Q. Dumont, Yogi Ramacharaka, Swami Bhakta Vishita & Swami Panchadasi
William Walker Atkinson (December 5, 1862 – November 22, 1932) was an attorney, merchant, publisher, and author, as well as an occultist and an American pioneer of the New Thought movement. He is also known to have been the author of the pseudonymous works attributed to Theron Q. Dumont, Swami Panchadasi and Yogi Ramacharaka and others.
Due in part to Atkinson's intense personal secrecy and extensive use of pseudonyms, he is now largely forgotten, despite having obtained mention in past editions of Who's Who in America, Religious Leaders of America, and several similar publications—and having written more than 100 books in the last 30 years of his life. His works have remained in print more or less continuously since 1900.
William Walker Atkinson was born in Baltimore, Maryland on December 5, 1862, to William and Emma Atkinson. He began his working life as a grocer at 15 years old, probably helping his father. He married Margret Foster Black of Beverly, New Jersey, in October 1889, and they had two children. The first probably died young. The second later married and had two daughters.
Atkinson pursued a business career from 1882 onwards and in 1894 he was admitted as an attorney to the Bar of Pennsylvania. While he gained much material success in his profession as a lawyer, the stress and over-strain eventually took its toll, and during this time he experienced a complete physical and mental breakdown, and financial disaster. He looked for healing and in the late 1880s he found it with New Thought, later attributing the restoration of his health, mental vigor and material prosperity to the application of the principles of New Thought.
Some time after his healing, Atkinson began to write articles on the truths he felt he had discovered, which were then known as Mental Science. In 1889, an article by him entitled "A Mental Science Catechism," appeared in Charles Fillmore's new periodical, Modern Thought.
By the early 1890s Chicago had become a major centre for New Thought, mainly through the work of Emma Curtis Hopkins, and Atkinson decided to move there. Once in the city, he became an active promoter of the movement as an editor and author. He was responsible for publishing the magazines Suggestion (1900–1901), New Thought (1901–1905) and Advanced Thought (1906–1916).
In 1900 Atkinson worked as an associate editor of Suggestion, a New Thought Journal, and wrote his probable first book, Thought-Force in Business and Everyday Life, being a series of lessons in personal magnetism, psychic influence, thought-force, concentration, will-power, and practical mental science.
He then met Sydney Flower, a well-known New Thought publisher and businessman, and teamed up with him. In December, 1901 he assumed editorship of Flower's popular New Thought magazine, a post which he held until 1905. During these years he built for himself an enduring place in the hearts of its readers. Article after article flowed from his pen. Meanwhile he also founded his own Psychic Club and the so-called "Atkinson School of Mental Science". Both were located in the same building as Flower's Psychic Research and New Thought Publishing Company.
Atkinson was a past president of the International New Thought Alliance.
Throughout his subsequent career, Atkinson wrote and published under his own name and many pseudonyms. It is not known whether he ever acknowledged authorship of these pseudonymous works, but all of the supposedly independent authors whose writings are now credited to Atkinson were linked to one another by virtue of the fact that their works were released by a series of publishing houses with shared addresses and they also wrote for a series of magazines with a shared roster of authors. Atkinson was the editor of a
William Walker Atkinson (December 5, 1862 – November 22, 1932) was an attorney, merchant, publisher, and author, as well as an occultist and an American pioneer of the New Thought movement. He is also known to have been the author of the pseudonymous works attributed to Theron Q. Dumont, Swami Panchadasi and Yogi Ramacharaka and others.
Due in part to Atkinson's intense personal secrecy and extensive use of pseudonyms, he is now largely forgotten, despite having obtained mention in past editions of Who's Who in America, Religious Leaders of America, and several similar publications—and having written more than 100 books in the last 30 years of his life. His works have remained in print more or less continuously since 1900.
William Walker Atkinson was born in Baltimore, Maryland on December 5, 1862, to William and Emma Atkinson. He began his working life as a grocer at 15 years old, probably helping his father. He married Margret Foster Black of Beverly, New Jersey, in October 1889, and they had two children. The first probably died young. The second later married and had two daughters.
Atkinson pursued a business career from 1882 onwards and in 1894 he was admitted as an attorney to the Bar of Pennsylvania. While he gained much material success in his profession as a lawyer, the stress and over-strain eventually took its toll, and during this time he experienced a complete physical and mental breakdown, and financial disaster. He looked for healing and in the late 1880s he found it with New Thought, later attributing the restoration of his health, mental vigor and material prosperity to the application of the principles of New Thought.
Some time after his healing, Atkinson began to write articles on the truths he felt he had discovered, which were then known as Mental Science. In 1889, an article by him entitled "A Mental Science Catechism," appeared in Charles Fillmore's new periodical, Modern Thought.
By the early 1890s Chicago had become a major centre for New Thought, mainly through the work of Emma Curtis Hopkins, and Atkinson decided to move there. Once in the city, he became an active promoter of the movement as an editor and author. He was responsible for publishing the magazines Suggestion (1900–1901), New Thought (1901–1905) and Advanced Thought (1906–1916).
In 1900 Atkinson worked as an associate editor of Suggestion, a New Thought Journal, and wrote his probable first book, Thought-Force in Business and Everyday Life, being a series of lessons in personal magnetism, psychic influence, thought-force, concentration, will-power, and practical mental science.
He then met Sydney Flower, a well-known New Thought publisher and businessman, and teamed up with him. In December, 1901 he assumed editorship of Flower's popular New Thought magazine, a post which he held until 1905. During these years he built for himself an enduring place in the hearts of its readers. Article after article flowed from his pen. Meanwhile he also founded his own Psychic Club and the so-called "Atkinson School of Mental Science". Both were located in the same building as Flower's Psychic Research and New Thought Publishing Company.
Atkinson was a past president of the International New Thought Alliance.
Throughout his subsequent career, Atkinson wrote and published under his own name and many pseudonyms. It is not known whether he ever acknowledged authorship of these pseudonymous works, but all of the supposedly independent authors whose writings are now credited to Atkinson were linked to one another by virtue of the fact that their works were released by a series of publishing houses with shared addresses and they also wrote for a series of magazines with a shared roster of authors. Atkinson was the editor of a
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September 27, 2012
A couple of interesting points, but it had a strange atmosphere of the occult around it. People of a rational/logical bent of mind will need to take a leap of faith in order to follow this book. Some familiarity with Napoleon Hill's "Think and Grow Rich" will help, as both authors use the same concepts and some of the same terminology as well.
July 20, 2021
Aku tidak mengerti, kenapa buku rumit yang sukar dipahami dan cenderung diberikan rating rendah (karena terjemahannya mempusingkan) bisa membuatku menyukainya. Topik-topik berat, kemudian disusul kalimat keseharian membuat buku ini nyaman dibaca. Cover buku di series ini sangat bagus, bahkan harga yang affordable sangat memungkinkan kita memiliki semua serinya. Buku ini bisa jadi terapi untuk orang yang punya masalah dengan sosialnya. Banyak penyadaran lainnya untukku, seperti untuk mengategorikan hal positif dan negatif, dan hanya melakukan yang positif, kemudian jika kita tidak bisa memberikan pengaruh daya tarik kuat, kita bisa menyangkal bila tak bisa mempengaruhi. Semua juga sesederhana jika kita melawan balik kalimat atau tindakan buruk yang selama ini kita lakukan.
Aku hanya menyayangkan kutipan profesor atau riset yang terlalu sukar dibaca sehingga kepala jadi makin pusing. Namun, bisa diatasi dengan melewatkannya ke kalimat berikutnya. Kemudian, fakta bahwa ada hal yang tidak bisa kita lawan dalam kehidupan sehari-hari: orang berbadan besar, punya senjata, daya Tarik dan mental ini akan mudah ciut dan tidak bisa dipraktekkan, kecuali hanya menyangkal.
Aku hanya menyayangkan kutipan profesor atau riset yang terlalu sukar dibaca sehingga kepala jadi makin pusing. Namun, bisa diatasi dengan melewatkannya ke kalimat berikutnya. Kemudian, fakta bahwa ada hal yang tidak bisa kita lawan dalam kehidupan sehari-hari: orang berbadan besar, punya senjata, daya Tarik dan mental ini akan mudah ciut dan tidak bisa dipraktekkan, kecuali hanya menyangkal.
July 3, 2022
Dubious claims,confirmation bias, and placebo are littered throughout, but certain aspects such as the “flash” exercise (self-affirmations repackaged) are worth hearing described in a different manner than usual.
December 31, 2025
1,5🌟/5🌟
dnf🫨
idk, at first i was really interested in this book. but with time goes on, it's getting boring and there's just smth weird with the occult and stuff, so i just stopped reading it. also there are several words which were hard to understand for me.
dnf🫨
idk, at first i was really interested in this book. but with time goes on, it's getting boring and there's just smth weird with the occult and stuff, so i just stopped reading it. also there are several words which were hard to understand for me.
June 2, 2018
The middle chapters about hypnotism didn't interest me, but much of the rest was right on.
Worth investing a couple of spare hours in this.
Worth investing a couple of spare hours in this.
April 16, 2020
Great book for learning magnetism
As always Mr Atkinson does not disappoint.
His books are enlightening and informative and this one is no exception. My favorite author.
As always Mr Atkinson does not disappoint.
His books are enlightening and informative and this one is no exception. My favorite author.
June 7, 2020
This is a book filled with positive affirmations and practical advice on personal magnetism.
December 1, 2022
I love these types of books, love love.
August 28, 2023
isinya mudah dipahami dan dilakukan, cukup menarik
October 31, 2024
Magnets!
December 30, 2012
meji na okultizem.
December 10, 2013
4 out of 5
February 25, 2014
Genial as they come
January 14, 2022
i think this book just trying to explain how to be attractive with LOA, and expand solar plexus & sacral chakra
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