What We Are Reading Today: ‘The Power of Your Subconscious Mind’

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Updated 09 January 2024
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What We Are Reading Today: ‘The Power of Your Subconscious Mind’

Author: Dr. Joseph Murphy

“The Power of Your Subconscious Mind” is a self-help book by Irish author Dr. Joseph Murphy, published in 1963.

The book explores the concept of the subconscious mind and how it can influence various aspects of our lives, including health, relationships, and success.

It aims to provide readers with an understanding of how to harness the power of their subconscious mind to achieve their goals and lead a more fulfilling life.

Murphy emphasizes that the subconscious mind is a powerful force that can be tapped into to bring about positive changes.

He explains that the subconscious mind operates on the principle of accepting and manifesting whatever thoughts and beliefs are impressed upon it. By understanding and utilizing this principle, individuals can reprogram their subconscious mind to attract success, abundance, and happiness.

Throughout the book, Murphy presents various techniques and strategies to harness the subconscious mind’s power, including visualization, affirmations, and the practice of positive thinking. He also explores the role of faith and prayer in tapping into the subconscious mind’s potential.

Additionally, he discusses the importance of overcoming negative thought patterns and beliefs that may be holding individuals back from achieving their goals. He offers guidance on replacing negative thoughts with positive ones and developing a mindset of success and abundance.

Although the book may seem dated, it conveys some of the basic principles of psychology and self-help that are relevant today.

Murphy was a renowned author and lecturer in the field of self-help and personal development.

Throughout his career, he wrote numerous books on topics such as positive thinking, success, wealth, and spiritual development.

His teachings draw heavily from metaphysical and spiritual principles, particularly from the New Thought movement.

His other notable works include “The Miracles of Your Mind,” “The Cosmic Power Within You,” and “The Miracle of Mind Dynamics.”

 


What We Are Reading Today: ‘When the Bombs Stopped’ by Erin Lin

Updated 18 November 2024
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What We Are Reading Today: ‘When the Bombs Stopped’ by Erin Lin

Over the course of the Vietnam War, the United States dropped 500,000 tonnes of bombs over Cambodia—more than the combined weight of every man, woman, and child in the country.

What began as a secret CIA infiltration of Laos eventually expanded into Cambodia and escalated into a nine-year war over the Ho Chi Minh trail fought primarily with bombs.

Fifty years after the last sortie, residents of rural Cambodia are still coping with the unexploded ordnance that covers their land. In “When the Bombs Stopped,” Erin Lin investigates the consequences of the US bombing campaign across post conflict Cambodia.


What We Are Reading Today: ‘When the Bombs Stopped’

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Updated 18 November 2024
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What We Are Reading Today: ‘When the Bombs Stopped’

  • Fifty years after the last sortie, residents of rural Cambodia are still coping with the unexploded ordnance that covers their land

Author: ERIN LIN

Over the course of the Vietnam War, the United States dropped 500,000 tonnes of bombs over Cambodia—more than the combined weight of every man, woman, and child in the country.

What began as a secret CIA infiltration of Laos eventually expanded into Cambodia and escalated into a nine-year war over the Ho Chi Minh trail fought primarily with bombs.

Fifty years after the last sortie, residents of rural Cambodia are still coping with the unexploded ordnance that covers their land. In “When the Bombs Stopped,” Erin Lin investigates the consequences of the US bombing campaign across post conflict Cambodia.

 


What We Are Reading Today: ‘The Spike’ by Mark Humphries

Updated 17 November 2024
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What We Are Reading Today: ‘The Spike’ by Mark Humphries

We see the last cookie in the box and think, can I take that? We reach a hand out. In the 2.1 seconds that this impulse travels through our brain, billions of neurons communicate with one another, sending blips of voltage through our sensory and motor regions.

Neuroscientists call these blips “spikes.” Spikes enable us to do everything: talk, eat, run, see, plan, and decide. In “The Spike,” Mark Humphries takes readers on the epic journey of a spike through a single, brief reaction.


What We Are Reading Today: ‘Lost Souls’ by Sheila Fitzpatrick

Updated 16 November 2024
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What We Are Reading Today: ‘Lost Souls’ by Sheila Fitzpatrick

When World War II ended, about 1 million people whom the Soviet Union claimed as its citizens were outside the borders of the USSR, mostly in the Western-occupied zones of Germany and Austria.

These “displaced persons,” or DPs—Russians, prewar Soviet citizens, and people from West Ukraine and the Baltic states forcibly incorporated into the Soviet Union in 1939—refused to repatriate to the Soviet Union despite its demands.

Thus began one of the first big conflicts of the Cold War. In “Lost Souls,” Sheila Fitzpatrick draws on new archival research, including Soviet interviews with hundreds of DPs, to offer a vivid account of this crisis, from the competitive maneuverings of politicians and diplomats to the everyday lives of DPs.


What We Are Reading Today: Leibniz in His World: The Making of a Savant

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Updated 15 November 2024
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What We Are Reading Today: Leibniz in His World: The Making of a Savant

  • Drawing on extensive correspondence by Leibniz and many leading figures of the age, Audrey Borowski paints a nuanced portrait of Leibniz in the 1670s, during his “Paris sojourn” as a young diplomat

Author: Audrey Borowski

Described by Voltaire as “perhaps a man of the most universal learning in Europe,” Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716) is often portrayed as a rationalist and philosopher who was wholly detached from the worldly concerns of his fellow men. Leibniz in His World provides a groundbreaking reassessment of Leibniz, telling the story of his trials and tribulations as an aspiring scientist and courtier navigating the learned and courtly circles of early modern Europe and the Republic of Letters.

Drawing on extensive correspondence by Leibniz and many leading figures of the age, Audrey Borowski paints a nuanced portrait of Leibniz in the 1670s, during his “Paris sojourn” as a young diplomat and in Germany at the court of Duke Johann Friedrich of Hanover. She challenges the image of Leibniz as an isolated genius, revealing instead a man of multiple identities whose thought was shaped by a deep engagement with the social and intellectual milieus of his time. Borowski shows us Leibniz as he was known to his contemporaries, enabling us to rediscover him as an enigmatic young man who was complex and all too human.