Mastery [IAPSOP]

Periodical:	*Mastery*

Summary:	From Pat Deveney's database: Mastery. A Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Living of the New Life. 1914--1915 Monthly, bimonthly Isleworth, London, England. Language: English. Publisher: New Life Center. Editor: Orlando Edgar Miller. Succeeds: Temple of Health Idea Succeeded by: Chapala Round Table; Psychological Review of Reviews 1/1, August 1914-October 1915. 48 pp., 5s. a year. This was a product of the New Life Centre / New Education University Centre in London, a New Thought venture of Orlando Edgar Miller and Paul Tyner. The Centre featured regular services on Sundays, with talks by the principals. The journal was very high-toned and intellectual in its approach and seems not to have prospered. Contributions by a host of minor English New Thought figures and by Mabel Gifford Shine, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, and others. In addition to the Centre, Miller had a Healing Home business and the Miller Institute, a New Thought sanitarium -- and probably house of assignation. Miller was in Wormwood Scrubs for manslaughter from October 1914 to January 1915, during which interlude the journal was probably edited by Paul Tyner, a frequent contributor. On Miller and his exploits, see the notes under Psychological Review of Reviews and Chapala Round Table.
Other Sources:	NYPL; University of Cambridge.
Issues:	Mastery V1 N7 Mar 1915
	Mastery V1 N8 Apr 1915
	Mastery V1 N9 May 1915
	Mastery V10 N7 Jun 1915
	Mastery V2 N2 Aug-Oct 1915
	Mastery 2S V1 N1 Jun 1920
	Mastery 2S V1 N3 Jul 1920
	Mastery 2S V1 N3 Aug-Sep 1920
	Mastery 2S V1 N4 Sep 1921
	Mastery 2S V1 N9 Jul 1922
Claude-Generated Themes:	Mastery was a self-mastery monthly built around Dr. Miller's course in applied psychology, which the Mastery Publishing Company sold as a series of graded lessons. Its doctrine is New Thought in the plainest terms — the subconscious, affirmation, concentration, suggestion and demonstration, harnessed to success and self-command — and it names itself as New Thought rather than leaving the reader to infer it. What gives the magazine its particular character is how much of it is about the body. Dietetics, breathing, drugless treatment and physical culture run through the pages, and one article imagines a Coming University that would be a sanatorium as well, where students learn the laws of health and are made to practise them until the habits are fixed and disease becomes impossible; another argues that the human ancestor was a frugivore, shaped by a diet of fruits, nuts, foliage, wild honey and birds' eggs. A light occult physiology of cell-entities and accumulated vital force tints the whole without making it an occult journal, and Mary Baker Eddy appears as the acknowledged origin the magazine has moved on from. It sits at the crossroads of New Thought, applied psychology, success literature and natural healing. Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
Topics:	Health Reform and Alternative Medicine \| New Thought