WILLIAM WALKER ATKINSON - COLECCIÓN TRES LIBROS: (LA LEY DE LA ATRACCIÓN EN EL MUNDO DEL PENSAMIENTO; SUGESTIÓN Y AUTOSUGESTIÓN; EL SECRETO DEL ÉXITO) (Biblioteca del Éxito nº 5)
Este QUINTO volumen de la Biblioteca del Éxito recoge tres de las obras más conocidas de William Walker Atkinson. En esta colección de libros, Atkinson analiza en detalle muchísimos conceptos del éxito y la prosperidad. El primero está dedica a la ley de la atracción –en una clara y concisa exposición-, y nos demuestra como una mente positiva y con fe en sí misma es un imán para la prosperidad y la felicidad, y podrá alcanzar su potencial. En el segundo, analiza todos los conceptos de la sugestión y sobre todo, de la autosugestión, pues aprender a conocer los increíbles poderes de nuestro subconsciente nos permitirá usarlos para nuestro desarrollo personal, pero también nos permitirá defendernos de las influencias negativas del entorno, y de las sugestiones de vendedores y manipuladores, que conociendo la forma de manejar nuestras mentes, se aprovechan para su beneficio, muchas veces sin que nos demos cuenta. El tercer libro es un tratado sobre el Éxito, en el cual Atkinson redondea algunos de los más aceptados conceptos acerca de cómo ser exitoso en la vida. Sin duda, !una colección que cambiará vidas!William Walker Atkinson fue parte del movimiento del nuevo pensamiento, y junto a Wallace Wattles, James Allen, Orison Swett Marden y otros (la mayoría de los cuales son ahora parte de nuestra Biblioteca), pusieron las bases de la literatura de Superación Personal, e inspiraron a todos los demás autores del siglo 20, y siguen inspirando a los del siglo 21, pues su sabiduría simplemente no pasa de su mensaje es a prueba del paso del tiempo.Esta versión es una traducción fiel por el reconocido autor y novelista Mauricio Chaves Mesén, y es parte de la siempre creciente Biblioteca del Éxito, que compila los mejores libros de motivación e inspiración de todos los tiempos.
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