Show I Effort Is Made to Classify All v Men Mental tal Healing i. i P P. P W. W Banning Demonstrates in Second Volume of Series Senes How Mental Illness MayBe May Be A Avoided voided By SELMA MILLER I lent j Mental l and Spiritual Healing is th the second of ot Pierson W W. Bannings Banning Bannings Banning's Ban Ban- ning ning's a Thread of or Life Series and has has just come from the the press andis and andis is creating unusual interest in the tho ranks of ot the laity as well weIl as the medical to which It is Is' Is specifically addressed In his new work Mr I Banninga task has been to classify and to analyze ze the literature of 01 mental healing which la is n no sma small under under- taking and to give ghe his own appraisal ap ap- ap- ap or condemnation as fits his own opinion The author In do doing do- do ing lag this demonstrates his sincerity his assiduity in Iii finding the kernel of thought in this thiS' mass of ot matter and is throughout tolerant to all aU schools The work has nothing to do with creed nor dogma It presents presents pre pre- the grouping trouping of ot the various schools and the methods of ot action In proper relation and sequence to one another Basing Basing his discussion on the principle prin prin- ciple of molecular vibration the author states that sickness i is pr produced pro pro- duce by Inharmonious vibrations and that therefore healing is merely a a. readjustment of ot wrongly manifesting manifesting mani mani- festing vIbrations The author arranges the methods of all schools of ot healing In six classifications commencing with the physical and extending to the highest spiritual phases The position position po po- po- po in the scale is determined by the degree with which the five senses are or are not brought into play in effecting a cure the highest high high- est eat being that in which the mind has attained its freedom The first category is suggestive and is said by the author to b be b the lowest including medicine diet osteopathy and massage The sec see end ond ond the hypnotic covers not only the stages of or hypnotism as Investigated investigated i by the Braid and Nancy Kancy school but al also o the higher phases characteristic of the Emmanuel and 1 Coue movements Autosuggestion is the third class embracing the methods of ot mental science new thought and The fourth classification Is meditation the I fifth spiritual and divine healing and the latter including Christian Christian- Science and kindred schools The sixth and last is in the absolute the highest state the mind is ca capable ca- ca pable of reaching that reaching that state which needs no denial affirmation will Imagination or visualization In In Book Concern Los Angeles An An- geles |