OPERATIONS OF THE OTHER MIND - Shaftesbury, 1924 - UNIVERSE HYPNOSIS EUGENICS

OPERATIONS OF THE OTHER MIND: MAKING KNOWN THE UNSEEN POWERS OF THE UNIVERSE   Book Details + Condition: Ralston University Press (Meriden, CT). First reprint edition, 1924. Hardcover. Measures 9.75" x 7". 445 pages. In very good condition, with firm binding; interior is clean and free of markings, save pencilled owner info on front free endpaper. An unusual volume "making known the unseen powers of the Universe in their control over human life". Contents include: Thought Transference; Hypnosis; Natural Sleep Suggestion; Power over the Body; Mind over Matter; Dangers of Hypnotism; Telepathy; Unseen Powers; and more. Written by the founder of the health and utopian movement Ralstonism, Edmund Shaftesbury [pseudonym of Webster Edgerly]. Ralstonism was a social cult movement in the 19th century, and the brainchild of Edgerly (1852–1926). Ralstonism began as the Ralston Health Club, which published Edgerly's writings. He offered pseudo-scientific advice on everything from sex and marriag