Thomas Troward

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Yeah, and Thomas Troward spoke over and over again about it's in the contemplation of an idea.

The law of flotation, I said it in The Power of Intention, the law of flotation was not discovered by the contemplation of the sinking of things.

The law of flying, you know, like the Wright brothers, was not discovered by the contemplation of the staying on the ground of things.

What's running? The pen.

This book is sitting on top of it, Troward's pen, or Troward's book, The Secrets of Judge Troward.

You see, this is 11.

Now you do that, and you just practice what I've given you, and you're gonna find out you have a perfect memory.

This is Renegade Files, episode 143.

The Hidden Power of the Mind, Thomas Troward's Mental Science.

More than a century ago, British judge and philosopher Thomas Troward set out to understand the relationship between thought, the subconscious mind, and the conditions we experience in life.

His Edinburgh lectures on mental science became one of the foundational works of the New Thought movement and influenced generations of high achievers exploring the power of the mind.

As promised last week, in this episode, we lighten up Troward's dense early 20th century language and bring it into modern terms, focusing on practical application.

This is an exploration of one of the early systems of mental self-mastery and a practical look at what Troward believed happens when we stop allowing circumstances to direct our thinking and begin deliberately directing the mind itself.

This is not your average positive thinking lecture.

In this work, Thomas Troward answers huge questions about universal consciousness, evolution, the unity of intelligence, and how and why such a universe will always respond to your beliefs about it.

And she is going there to see a man who has already told her, no, do not come.

His name is Thomas Troward.

He's a judge.

He's a writer.

Behrend was not merely trying to acquire things.

She was trying to understand the mind that produces a life.

During her search, Behrend encountered the Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science by Thomas Troward.

Troward had served as a divisional judge in British India before retiring and writing about the relationship between individual thought and what he believed to be a universal creative intelligence.

I'm going to scoot right back here and grab another notebook.

Some time ago, I read Thomas Troward's book, The Edinburgh Lectures, which was written in 1904.

And when I have read it all, I mean, the book is amazing.

It's a concise delivery of some of the most sound and profound new thought understanding that I've ever read.

I found it on a website that lists texts from books in the public domain.

And I searched for the author because he was mentioned by Bob Proctor in something that I was watching a long time ago.

And anyway, what I did is I went through the entire Edinburgh lecture written by Thomas Troward in 1904.

And of course, he uses a lot of antique language and he says spirit when he means energy, at least my interpretation.

The necessary interaction of the conscious and subconscious mind requires a similar interaction between the corresponding systems of nerves.

Judge Troward indicates the very beautiful method in which this interaction is effected.

He says, The cerebrospinal system is the organ of the conscious mind and the sympathetic system is the organ of the subconscious.

The cerebrospinal is the channel through which we receive conscious perception from the physical senses and exercise control over the movements of the body.