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Periodical: The Journal of Practical Metaphysics

Summary:  From Pat Deveney's database:

Journal of Practical Metaphysics, The.
Devoted to the Unification of Scientific and Spiritual Thought and the New Philosophy of Health.
1896-1898 Monthly
Boston, MA. Language: English.
Publisher: Philosophical Publishing Company. Editor: Horatio Willis Dresser. Succeeded by: The Arena (December 1898)
Corporate author: Metaphysical Club of Boston
1/1, October 1896-3/1, November 1898. $1.50 a year, 10 cents a copy.

This was the journal of the Metaphysical Club of Boston, founded in 1895, the first association devoted to New Thought properly so called. It was merged into The Arena. Noted in the literature review in Neue Metapsychische Rundschau, June-July 1908. Horatio Willis Dresser (1866-1954) was the son of Annetta Gertrude Dresser and Julius Dresser, who were among the first practitioners of what would become New Thought, as their son was its preeminent historian.

Other Sources:LOC; Yale University; Tulane University; Harvard University; University of Texas, Austin; NYPL.
Issues:Journal Of Practical Metaphysics V2 N1 Oct 1897
Journal Of Practical Metaphysics V2 N2 Nov 1897
Journal Of Practical Metaphysics V2 N3 Dec 1897
Journal Of Practical Metaphysics V2 N4 Jan 1898
Journal Of Practical Metaphysics V2 N5 Feb 1898
Journal Of Practical Metaphysics V2 N6 Mar 1898
Journal Of Practical Metaphysics V2 N7 Apr 1898
Journal Of Practical Metaphysics V2 N8 May 1898
Journal Of Practical Metaphysics V2 N9 Jun 1898
Journal Of Practical Metaphysics V2 N10 Jul 1898
Journal Of Practical Metaphysics V2 N11 Aug 1898
Journal Of Practical Metaphysics V2 N12 Sep 1898
Journal Of Practical Metaphysics V2 Wrappers
Journal Of Practical Metaphysics V3 N1 Oct 1898
Journal Of Practical Metaphysics V3 N2 Nov 1898
Claude-Generated Themes:   The Journal of Practical Metaphysics was a Boston New Thought monthly of the late 1890s, associated with the Quimby-derived 'practical metaphysics' worked out by Horatio Dresser and his circle. Its pages join the movement's signature vocabulary — the silence, concentration, the subconscious, spiritual healing, and 'success' understood as freedom and self-mastery — to an earnest program of social reform, from the treatment of the insane and the prison system to a distaste for sensational newspapers. A pronounced strand of suggestive therapeutics runs alongside the metaphysics, marking the journal's place in the mental-science healing project that grew out of, and defined itself against, Christian Science. It is best read as a doctrinal and therapeutic organ of mature New Thought rather than as an occult or spiritualist periodical, despite scattered borrowings from both.

Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
Topics:New Thought