The Higher Powers of Mind and Spirit

There are moments when we sense lives infinitely beyond our own. We feel the gap between what we are and what we might become. This 1917 classic from Ralph Waldo Trine, a founding voice of New Thought philosophy, argues that most of us live far below our potential. We possess reservoirs of mental and spiritual power we barely understand, let alone harness. Trine draws on the wisdom of William James and the emerging science of psychology to make a radical claim: our thoughts and emotions don't merely reflect our lives, they shape them. The inner kingdom of mind and spirit operates according to knowable laws, and those who learn to work with these forces unlock a life multiplied tenfold, a hundredfold. Trine offers no empty optimism; he speaks of practical metaphysics, of concrete methods for entering into communion with the directing, molding, sustaining powers that surround us. A century later, the book endures for readers who sense there is more within them than they've accessed, and who want to do something about it.