Treatment
"When I first went to Ernest Holmes, I expected a prayer or treatment before I left his office, but he was silent for about five minutes. Afterward, he shook my hand, and I left.
"I told his secretary, ‘Dr. Holmes was going to have a treatment with me, but he didn’t say a word.’ She smiled and said, ‘That’s right.’ I discovered that Ernest Holmes rarely gave an audible treatment directly for another person. We are lucky to have a few treatments on cassettes which were given during lectures.
"But I did feel something."
"And what did you feel?" I asked curiously. "The spirit of God move, or...
"I came back later and asked Ernest what I’d felt," Reverend Hornaday chuckled. "Ernest told me, ‘You’ve had certain negative experiences which are in your subconscious mind. The conscious mind may change these thought patterns and thereby cause a different flow of energy and intelligence toward the object of its desire. In mental treatment we should feel as though the whole power of the universe were running through the words we speak, whether we speak them for ourselves or for another. By your acceptance, you have a feeling of renewal — a renewal that changes you.'"
The Goal
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