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Periodical: Impulse

Summary: From Pat Deveney's database:

Impulse, The.
An Aid to Effective Activity / A Pocket Magazine of Inspiration / Published in Behalf of the Competent Ones Who Would Make More Rapid Progress Along the Highway of Life.
1929--1930? Monthly, "periodically," bimonthly
Los Angeles, CA.
Language: English.
Editor: Franklin L. Graves / Franklyn Llewis.
Publisher: F.L Graves.
Succeeded by: The Scientific Forum (with Harry LaVerne Twining)-->Parapsychology Bulletin
1/1, April 1929-March 1930 (?)
32 pp., 25 cents.

Franklin L. Graves, (1880-1972), who usually styled himself as Franklyn Llewis, was an "Efficiency Counselor" who practiced and taught a form of auto-suggestion that promised "Sure Success Methods!," "Transforms timidity into Courage," etc.

Other Sources:NYPL.
Issues:Impulse V1 N1 Apr 1929
Impulse V1 N2 May 1929
Claude-Generated Themes:   The Impulse was a 1929 Los Angeles self-improvement magazine subtitled 'An Aid to Effective Activity,' produced by a self-styled 'Efficiency Counselor' for readers who were already doing well but meant to do more. In a jaunty, needling tone it dispensed practical counsel on courage, mind power, judgment, and the disciplined cultivation of ideas, promising booklets like 'Replacing Fear with Courage.' Its worldview is New Thought turned toward personal effectiveness rather than religion or healing, with autosuggestion enlisted in the service of success. Panel signals for spiritualism and mesmerism are misfires: 'control' here means self-mastery. It belongs to the interwar success-literature tradition of Hill, Marden, and their many imitators.

Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
Topics:Hypnotism and Suggestion | Psychical Research and Parapsychology