文档介绍：MIND AND MEMORY
TRAINING
BY
ERNEST E. WOOD
FORMER PRINCIPAL OF THE D. G. SIND NATIONAL
COLLEGE, HYDERABAD, SIND
THE THEOSOPHICAL PUBLISHING HOUSE, LTD.,
68 Great Russell Street,
ADYAR - MADRAS - INDIA WHEATON - ILL. - .
First Edition . 1936
Second Edition . 1939
Reprinted . . 1945
Revised Reprint . 1947
Reprinted . . 1956
Reprinted . . 1961
Reprinted . . 1974
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PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY
FLETCHER AND SON LTD, NORWICH
CONTENTS
PAGE
PREFACE V
SECTION I
THE MIND AND ITS MANAGEMENT
CHAP.
I. THE MAGIC BOX 3
II. THE ROADS OF THOUGHT .... 6
III. CONCENTRATION OF MIND . . . .11
IV. AIDS TO CONCENTRATION . . . . 16
SECTION II
IMAGINATION AND ITS USES
V. MENTAL IMAGES 23
VI. FAMILIARIZATION 29
VII. FAMILIARIZATION OF FORMS . . . -39
VIII. FAMILIARIZATION OF WORDS . . . -50
IX. PROJECTION OF THE MEMORY . . . -57
X. SIMPLIFICATION AND SYMBOLIZATION . . 65
SECTION III
THE ART OF THINKING
XI. MODES PARISON 73
XII. A LOGICAL SERIES. . . . . . 8l
XIII. FOOTSTEPS OF THOUGHT. . . . 89
XIV. THE POWER OF A MOOD . . . . 94
XV. EXPANSION OF IDEAS 100
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SECTION IV
A BAG OF TRICKS
PAGE
XVI. NUMBER ARGUMENTS AND DIAGRAMS . . 105
XVII. NUMBER-WORDS 111
XVIII. PLACING THE MEMORY ..... 120
XIX. MEMORY-MEN OF INDIA 128
SECTION V
THE MIND AT WORK
XX. READING AND STUDY 137
XXI. WRITING AND SPEECH-MAKING . . . 148
XXII. MORE CONCENTRATION 151
XXIII. MEDITATION 158
SECTION VI
SOME PARTING ADVICE
XXIV. USES OF THE WILL 171
XXV. BODILY AIDS l80
INDEX 187
MIND AND MEMORY
TRAINING
CHAPTER I
THE MAGIC BOX
IMAGINE yourself to be standing with a party of friends in
some Oriental market-place, or in a palace garden. Enter, a
conjurer with a magic box. The strange man spreads a
square of cloth upon the ground, then reverently places upon
it a coloured box of basket-work, perhaps eight inches
square. He gazes at it steadily, mutters a little, removes t