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LA VIBRACIÓN DEL PENSAMIENTO O LA LEY DE LA ATRACCIÓN
En este clásico del Nuevo Pensamiento, William Walker Atkinson examina con la prosa que lo caracteriza, la ley de la atracción en el mundo del pensamiento. Señala las similitudes entre la ley de la gravitación y la de la atracción. Explica porqué las vibraciones del pensamiento no suelen ser percibidas por nuestros sentidos. aunque sean tan reales como la luz, el calor, el magnetismo y la electricidad.
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Published May 19, 2022
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William Walker Atkinson
2,502 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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December 18, 2023
3.3☆
No se imaginan lo mucho que me relajé escuchando este audiolibro con afirmaciones positivas y un instrumental tipo "para vibrar alto". Ahora bien, cuando leo este tipo de libros que se sienten de autoayuda pero a la vez es una mezcla entre esto y un conocimiento específico explicado, por lo general nunca tengo mucho que decir porque, si lo hiciera, siento que repetiría como grabadora lo que acabo de descubrir o reflexionar.
En esta oportunidad lo único que va dando tumbos de neurona y neurona es la frase que dicen algunas señoras de que "la mente es poderosa". En efecto, ¿quién hubiese pensando que tenían razón? O sea, aún no tengo pruebas experienciales sobre la ley de atracción pero he escuchado muchas anécdotas que me hacen creer que sí es posible. Igual, mientras no confirme bien esto, soy el señor que cree en que todo es azar y que la mala suerte lo persigue. O sea, en realidad este año me persiguió la buena suerte, como que puedo pensar más en cosas positivas que negativas, no porque no me hayan pasado cosas malas sino que, por alguna razón, se me fueron olvidando con el tiempo. De todas formas, creo que están interesante los ejercicios de afirmación porque no son ta complejos, o sea, lo difícil es incorporarlos como rutina y dirigir la energía hacia un sólo deseo, porque siento que uno vive rodeado de múltiples deseos y pendientes. Eso podría ser un distractor para el deseo más urgente.
No se imaginan lo mucho que me relajé escuchando este audiolibro con afirmaciones positivas y un instrumental tipo "para vibrar alto". Ahora bien, cuando leo este tipo de libros que se sienten de autoayuda pero a la vez es una mezcla entre esto y un conocimiento específico explicado, por lo general nunca tengo mucho que decir porque, si lo hiciera, siento que repetiría como grabadora lo que acabo de descubrir o reflexionar.
En esta oportunidad lo único que va dando tumbos de neurona y neurona es la frase que dicen algunas señoras de que "la mente es poderosa". En efecto, ¿quién hubiese pensando que tenían razón? O sea, aún no tengo pruebas experienciales sobre la ley de atracción pero he escuchado muchas anécdotas que me hacen creer que sí es posible. Igual, mientras no confirme bien esto, soy el señor que cree en que todo es azar y que la mala suerte lo persigue. O sea, en realidad este año me persiguió la buena suerte, como que puedo pensar más en cosas positivas que negativas, no porque no me hayan pasado cosas malas sino que, por alguna razón, se me fueron olvidando con el tiempo. De todas formas, creo que están interesante los ejercicios de afirmación porque no son ta complejos, o sea, lo difícil es incorporarlos como rutina y dirigir la energía hacia un sólo deseo, porque siento que uno vive rodeado de múltiples deseos y pendientes. Eso podría ser un distractor para el deseo más urgente.
October 15, 2022
Muy bueno, recomendable para ser optimista, habla de principios que bien se sienten sacados del pensamiento hermético, el detalle es que de vez en cuando mencionan a dios, será bueno para varios creyentes pero para quienes creen en diferentes ideas, o teniendo una filosofía que evade la teología puede ser chocante, por lo demás está bastante bien.
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August 3, 2025
“Todo lo que somos es el resultado de lo que hemos pensado” … disfrute este libro, habla un poco de magia, y de todo un poco, enseña a “protegernos” de influencias exteriores. Hay un capítulo o parte donde me recuerda un poco a Dr. Strange, porque dice qje nos podemos visualizar un anillo-vórtice para influir en otra persona (algo así). Me recordó porque es de mi pelis favoritas.
September 22, 2022
Un gran libro que desglosa la ley de atracción desde sus principios más primigenio y que centra el resultado en lo que pasa en el pensamiento, trabajado activamente desde la visión y la acción. Es impresionante darse cuenta que esto fue escrito hace más de 100 años y tiene una vigencia total.
June 7, 2023
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