Thoughts Are Things
Prentice Mulford · 1889
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About the book
Mulford named the thing — thoughts are things — and then spent a book on what follows if it is true. He wrote much of it living alone in a boat in the New Jersey marshes, which explains the trees.
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Thoughts are things. Mulford meant those four words as plainly as they sound. Not that thoughts matter, not that they are like things, but that a thought is made of something.
He gives the ordinary view to what he calls the material mind, the part of you that trusts only the senses. It “does not regard its thought as an actual element as real as air or water.” The wiser part of you, he says, knows better.
So picture thought the way you already picture air. You cannot see it. You take it for granted. And you would never dream of saying that air does nothing, because everything it touches moves. Mulford’s claim is that thought behaves the same way, and that most of us have simply never looked for it.
Inside the course
12 parts- «Thoughts are things»: the sentence, and the claim inside itFree above
- The material mind and the spiritual mind, at odds
- Thought currents: what you send out and what finds you
- Who our relations really are, by Mulford's reckoning
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Is Thoughts Are Things free to read in Astra Trainer?
Yes. The full book opens free in the app’s reader, in English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, and Russian.
What is the short course?
12 short parts that walk through the book’s key ideas in slides, each with a quick quiz. The first six slides are free to try on this page.
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