Psycho-therapy in the practice of medicine and surgery . nsciousnessitself is in a measure dependent on the* integrityof certain parts usually regarded as belonging tothe unconscious. Certain mental feelings seem connected with differ-ent parts of the body—love with the heart and melan-choly with the liver, while to arrive at the highestpoint of mental insight there has always been a ten-dency to direct the thoughts to the pit of the stomach,or just above the navel; here lies the great solar plexus,the chief center of the sympathetic system. Manyfeelings are connected with this region, and we
Psycho-therapy in the practice of medicine and surgery . nsciousnessitself is in a measure dependent on the* integrityof certain parts usually regarded as belonging tothe unconscious. Certain mental feelings seem connected with differ-ent parts of the body—love with the heart and melan-choly with the liver, while to arrive at the highestpoint of mental insight there has always been a ten-dency to direct the thoughts to the pit of the stomach,or just above the navel; here lies the great solar plexus,the chief center of the sympathetic system. Manyfeelings are connected with this region, and we speak ofa sickening story, sickening thoughts, etc. The Biblespeaks of bowels of mercies, straitened in yourown bowels, etc.—Scbofield. The new methods, it will be understood, re-ject the suggestion offered by some, that mind 3 (65) 66 NEW METHODS IN DETAIL. can be interpreted in terms of matter. Thebrain and nervous systems are regarded asmedia merely, mind itself being independent,and human mind but an inlet of the Univer-sal Mind. CO/VSC/OUSNESS. Figure 1. A Schematic Representation of the Dual Mind. In this view I do not need to say they aresustained by the best authorities. Here, indeed, we arrive at a barrier, remarks HerbertSpencer, * which needs to be perpetually pointed outalike to those who seek materialistic explanations ofmental phenomena and to those who are alarmed lestsuch explanations may be found. The last class proveby their fears almost as much as the first prove bytheir hope, that they believe that mind may possibly beinterpreted in terms of matter, whereasthere is not the remotest possibility of so interpreting the concept we form of matter is but the symbol ofsome form of power absolutely and forever unknown tous. Mind is also unknowable, and the simplest formunder which we can think of its substance is but a sym-bol of something that can never be rendered intothought. Nevertheless, we are compelled to choose be-tween translating mental phenomen
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