Life Skills - Learning - Mind And Memory Training, Angielski
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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, W.C.1
ADYAR - MADRAS - INDIA
WHEATON - ILL. - U.S.A.
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
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II. THE ROADS OF THOUGHT
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III. CONCENTRATION OF MIND
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IV. AIDS TO CONCENTRATION
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SECTION II
IMAGINATION AND ITS USES
V. MENTAL IMAGES
23
VI. FAMILIARIZATION
29
VII. FAMILIARIZATION OF FORMS .
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VIII. FAMILIARIZATION OF WORDS .
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IX. PROJECTION OF THE MEMORY .
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X. SIMPLIFICATION AND SYMBOLIZATION
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65
SECTION III
THE ART OF THINKING
XI. MODES OF COMPARISON
73
XII. A LOGICAL SERIES.
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XIII. FOOTSTEPS OF THOUGHT.
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XIV. THE POWER OF A MOOD .
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XV. EXPANSION OF IDEAS
100
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CONTENTS
SECTION IV
A BAG OF TRICKS
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XVI. NUMBER ARGUMENTS AND DIAGRAMS
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. 105
XVII. NUMBER-WORDS
111
XVIII. PLACING THE MEMORY .
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120
XIX. MEMORY-MEN OF INDIA
128
SECTION V
THE MIND AT WORK
XX. READING AND STUDY
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37
XXI. WRITING AND SPEECH-MAKING
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. 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 the
lid, and takes out of it, one by one, with exquisite care, nine
more boxes, which seem to be of the same size as the original
one, but are of different colours.
You think that the trick is now finished. But no; he opens
one of the new boxes and takes out nine more; he opens the
other eight and takes nine more out of each—all with
Oriental deliberation. And still he has not done; he begins to
open up what we may call the third generation of boxes,
until before long the ground is strewn with piles of them as
far as he can reach. The nine boxes of the first generation
and the eighty-one boxes of the second generation have
disappeared from sight beneath the heaps. You begin to
think that this conjurer is perhaps able to go on for ever—
and then you call a halt, and open your purse right liberally.
I am taking this imaginary conjuring entertainment as a
simile to show what happens in our own minds. Something
in us which is able to observe what goes on in the mind is the
spectator. The field of imagination in the mind itself may
be compared to the spread cloth. Each idea that rises in the
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