Comparative Study of Mantrashastra

Author(s): Mohanlal Bhagwandas Jhaveri
Publisher: Sarabhai Manilal Nawab

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NEW THOUGHT-NEW PSYCHOLOGY
thing is natural--that what has been considered super-natural is merely natural phenomena the nature of which has not been understood that natural law and order is ever in evidence in these newly understood phases of the mind." It has considered how these may be turned to account in the everyday lives of the people both in the regions of developing desirable qualities and in the restraining and inhibiting of the undesirable ones. The best authorities on the subject are Lewes, Von Hartmann, Hamilton, Taine, Maudsley, Kay, Carpenter, Halleck, Prof. Gates, Jastrow, Schofield and Sir Oliver Lodge. Leibnitz, we may state here, was the discoverer of the unconscious activities of the mind. The famous philosopher Schopenhauer also was in this respect a fore-runner of the psycho-analyst Freud. Prof. William James has criticised the Sex theory and medical materialism of the Freudian School and deprecated attempts at re-interpretation of religious experiences of mystics and others on the assumption of universal applicability of the Sex-theory. The New Psychology though recognizing the sub-conscious phase of the mind does not accept tl sex-theory nor the medical materialism as any explanation of mysticism or occultism. Although the New Psychology does not hold the activities of sub-conscious plane of mind, as supernatural, "it admits the existence of a superconscious region or plane of mind which has activities which may be considered supernormal and unusual. To some favoured ones of the present race there come flashes from this wonderful region of mind, and we call them genius, inspiration, intuition, etc."
IMAGINATION "The New Psychology regards the faculty of Imagination in its creative aspect with a degree of consideration foreign to the older view." It considers it a positive faculty and urges its scientific control and development. How that can be done is a matter of details.
In combination with Desire and Will, Imagination developes desirable faculties of mind and builds up character. It is thus, much useful for self-development and unfoldment of the latent powers of