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Periodical: The Psychological Herald (Atlanta)

Summary:  From Pat Deveney's database:

Psychological Herald.
Occasionally to Emphasize Independent and Constructive Thinking. To Stress, Know Thyself.
Self-Knowledge, Self-reverence, Self-control; These Three Alone Lead Men to Power -- Browning
1915 Occasional
Atlanta, GA.
Language: English.
Editor: Rose M. Ashby.
1/1, April 1, 1915. 4 pp.

This was the organ of Ashby's Atlanta Psychological Society, a New Thought organization that met Sunday afternoons beginning about 1906. "The scope and influence of this Society has been far-reading. Hundreds of people testify to having been inspired to independent thinking, and to having been benefited in many ways by coming to the meetings and getting hold of constructive ideas which they applied to individual life." The society hosted talks by the likes of H.H. Brown, Harry Gaze, Henry Frank, Swami Abhedananda, et al., and espoused the comforting and uplifting side of New Thought. Rose Mae Salley Ashby (1878-1959) was active in the various national and international New Thought societies of the era and had been involved in the organization of the Georgia Woman Suffrage Association and theAtlanta Equal Suffrage League.


Related organization: Atlanta Psychological Society.
Other Sources:
Issues:Psychological Herald V1 N1 Apr 1915
Claude-Generated Themes:   The Psychological Herald is a New Thought magazine in which 'psychology' means practical mental science rather than the academic discipline. Its pages are steeped in the movement's language — the phrase 'new thought' recurs constantly, Emerson is quoted approvingly, the Kingdom of Heaven is located within, and love is named the unifying principle of the universe — alongside promotion of a metaphysical library and its circuit of teachers and lecturers. Self-culture and success themes give it a practical, aspirational edge. Occasional borrowings from spiritualism and Theosophy (mediums, karma, alchemy) surface but never organize the paper, marking it as characteristically eclectic New Thought centered on mind-cure and self-improvement.

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