CHAPTER I THE MASTER MINDWhat Is Mind? How the Mind Works. That Which Feels, Thinks and Wills. Mind Mastery Versus Mind Slavery. The Stages of Mental Slavery, Partial Mental Freedom, and Mental Mastery. The Secret of the New Psychology. How to Attain the Power of Expelling Negative Thoughts, and Admitting Only Positive Thoughts. How to Enormously Increase the Power of the Thought-Machine. The Art and Science of Transforming the Mental Slave Into the Mental MasterCHAPTER II THE MIND MASTERDominion, Power and Supremacy of the Master Mind. The Central Authority of the Mental Realm. Waking the Sleeping Giant. Arousing the 'Something Within.' The Ego or Mind Master, the Sovereign of the Mental realm. What the Ego Is, and What It Is Able to Do When Its Power Is Aroused. 'That Something' Which Is Superior to keeling, Thought, or Will. The Reality Over and Above the Mental States, Which Can Create Mental States If It Will. The Ultimate Reality of the 'Self.' The Secret of the I AM.CHAPTER III THE SLAVE WILL AND THE MASTER WILLThe Innermost Garment of the Ego. The Power of Will. The Individuals of the Slave Will. Reflex Will Action. What Happens to the Will When the Ego Awakes. Freedom of the Will Possible Only to the Awakened Ego. The Man of the Master Will. The Relation of Will and Desire. How the Ego Directs the Will, and Determines the Character and Quality of Thought. The Dynamic Force of Concentrated Voluntary Attention.CHAPTER IV POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE MENTALITY'As a Man Thinketh, So Is He.' How the Awakened Ego May Create Positive Individuality and Personality. The Touchstone of Positive Mentality. How to Develop the Positive Mental Qualities, and to Restrain the Negative Mental States. Egoism Versus Egotism. Man Is a Mental Creator When His Master Mind Asserts Itself, and Expresses Itself in Creative Action. The Mental Chariot Driver and What He May Accomplish. Scientific Character Building. How the Master Mind Creates Circumstances, and Controls Environment.CHAPTER V THE SENSES AND SENSATIONWhat Are the Senses? The Raw Materials of Mind. The Sense of Touch. The Sense of Sight. The Sense of Taste. The Sense of Smell. The Sense of Hearing. The Office of the Senses. What We Would Be Like Without the Senses. What An Additional Sense Would Do for Us. How the Ego Uses the Senses. The Mental Telegraph System, and How It Is Operated. How the Senses May Be Cultivated, Developed and Trained to Greater Efficiency, Under the Control of the Master Mind.CHAPTER VI PERCEPTIONWhat Is Perception. The Difference Between Sensation and Perception. How and What We Perceive. The Laws of Perception. The Part in Perception Played by the Attention. The Nature and Laws of Apperception. The Role of Perception in the Acquisition of Knowledge. How Different Persons May Have Far Different Perceptions Arising From the Same Sensations. Why the Master Mind Is a Master Perceiver. Cultivated Sight-Perception. Developed Sound Perception. Other Forms of Trained Perception. How to Develop Efficient Perception.CHAPTER VII ATTENTIONWhat Is Attention? Concentrated Consciousness. Focalized Will. The Two Chief Offices of Attention. Attention Constitutes the BetterHalf of All Intellectual Power. Reflex Attention. Voluntary Attention. The Power of Concentrated Voluntary Attention. Instances of the Marvelous Force of Concentration. Attention the Key to Genius. The Exercise of Attention Leads to Development of the Master Will. Attention and Interest. Voluntary Attention Is the Sword of Power in the Hands of the Master Mind.CHAPTER VIII THE MASTERY OF PERCEPTIONThe Laws of Voluntary Attention. How to Cultivate Attentional Interest. How to Hold the Attention Firmly Concentrated. How to Rest the Attention. The Secret of Transmutation of Interest. The Methods of a Celebrated Scientist. How to Apply the Concentrated Attention. How to Quicken the Power of Perception. Numerous Valuable Exercises in Perceptive Culture and Development. The Oriental Methods of Perception Training. Other Valuable Methods and Exercises. What the Master Mind Can Acquire by Perception.CHAPTER IX EXERCISES IN PERCEPTIONValuable and Practical Detailed Instruction and Exercises in Efficient Perception. How to Develop the Power of Rapid and Accurate Observation. Ear-Perception. The Cause of 'Poor Hearing' Removed. How to Develop Keen Hearing. Idea Values Depend Upon Clear Perception. Attention-Interest the Great Factor in Efficient Perception, and How It May be Developed. Building Strong Perceptive Foundations. Building Clear Perceptive Outlines. How to Classify Perceptive Details. The Law of Perceptive Association.CHAPTER X THE MASTER OF EMOTIONEmotion the Power Behind the Throne of Will. The Force and Motive Power of Feeling. Feeling Is the Secret of Interest. Feeling Is the Guardian of the Gates of Knowledge. How Feelings Affect Judgments, Ideals, Beliefs and Actions. How Thought Is Deflected by Emotion. The Distinction Between Feeling and Emotion. The Quantity and Quality of Feelings. Pleasure and Pain. Inner States and Outer Actions. The Dynamic Power of Desire, and How It Manifests in Action. Desire Is the Steam of Action.CHAPTER XI THE CATEGORIES OF FEELINGThe Various Classes of Likes and Dislikes. The Elemental Feelings, Which Are Concerned With Our Physical Welfare and Comfort. The Affections, Which Are Concerned With the Welfare of Others. The Social feelings, Which Are Concerned With Championship and Society. The Moral Feelings, Which Are Concerned With the Ethical Relations. The Religious Feelings, Which Are Concerned With Worship, Devotion, and Religious Experiences. The Aesthetic feelings, Which Are Concerned With the Sense of Beauty, Taste, arid Art. The Intellectual Feelings Which Are Concerned With Intellectual Attainment. How the Master Mind Rules the Emotional Kingdom.CHAPTER XII THE MASTERY OF DESIREThe Control of Desire by the Power of the Master Mind. bow to Restrain Feelings, Emotions, and Desires. Physical Expression and Desire. Habit and Desire. Mental Images and Desire. Cultivation of Opposite Desires. How to Cultivate Feelings, Emotions, and Desires. Effect of Physical Expression. Effect of Habits of Expression. Effect of Visualization. Weeding the Garden of Desire. The Laws of Character Building. How the Master Mind Builds a Character to Suit Itself, and Through Which to Efficiently Express Itself.CHAPTER XIII THE MASTER OF THOUGHTWhat Thought Is. The Processes of Thought. How Man Has Evolved Through Thought. The Master Mind Thinks With a Purpose. The States of Thought. The Secret of Effective Analysis. Comparison. The Pairs of Opposites. Classification. Generalization. How Thoughts Are Tied Into Bundles. The Mental Drawers and Pigeon-Holes. How to Store Away knowledge Scientifically. The Science of Mental Conception. General Ideas. Concepts vs. Mental Images. Verbal Symbols of Thought. The Master blind Thinks What It Wills to Think, and How It Wills to Think.CHAPTER XIV MASTERY OF REASONINGMental Concepts and General Classes of Ideas. Conceptual Terms. Reasoning: What It Means. Reasoning by Analogy. Examples. Reasoning by Induction. Examples. Observation. Hypothesis. Testing. Verification. Laws and Principles. Reasoning by Deduction. The Principles of Deduction. The Logical Syllogism. The Premises and the Logical Conclusion. fallacy, Sophistry, and Casuistry. 'Begging the Question.' Circular Reasoning. Irrelevant Conclusions. False Cause. Burden of Proof. Abuse of Opponent. Prejudice. Illogical Deduction. General Rules Regarding Correct Reasoning by the Master Mind.CHAPTER XV SUBCONSCIOUS MENTALITYThe 'Other Consciousness.' 'Unconscious Cerebration.' The Infra-Conscious Planes of Mind. Memory, Imagination, Subconscious Thought. The Processes of Memory. Remembrance. Recollection, and Reminiscence. Memory Impressions. Memory Records and the Storage. The Rule of Association. Recalling Memory Impressions. The Processes of Imagination. Constructive Imagination. The Processes of Subconscious Thought. Unconscious Logical Processes. Inspiration of Genius. The 'Mental Brownies.' How to Develop Efficient Subconscious Thought.CHAPTER XVI THE MASTERY OF WILLThe Modern Conception of Will. Will and Action. Desire-Will Deliberative-Will. Action-Will. Training the Will. The Rules of Will Development. Exerting the Will Power. Weighing the Motives. Cultivating the Attention. Acquiring the Habit of Will plastery. Training the Will to Perform Disagreeable Tasks, and the Reason Therefor. The James and Bain Formulas for Will Training. Inspiring Ideals for Will Culture. How to Acquire Invincible Determination, Indefatigable Will, Unwearied Will, the Firm Decisive Spirit, the forceful Purpose, the Iron Will, Not the Wood or Straw WilL Hammer or Anvil: Which? Make Your Cho1ce. Finis."