Psychomas A Soul Sleep Introduction

The author of Psychcoma has written this book out of the fullness of a new and remarkable experience. There are new ideas in its pages, new discoveries that will short-cut the path of attainment for every earnest student who uses the information, instead of reading it merely. It is the desire to insure to every reader the fullest benefit from these teachings that impels me to write this introduction.

These teachings and special exercises are not theoretical. They were all first discovered and then tried out by Helen Rhodes, during a period of two years when—as she wrote me in May, 1908—she was at times “consciously living outside the physical.” Later they were fully proved by a group of students in New York, with amazing results. In other words, Mrs. Rhodes has found what Dr. Maurice Bucke calls the cosmic consciousness. And in the finding she has made practical discoveries which I believe to be in advance of any other teachings yet put into print.

This belief every reader can prove by using the book as herein directed.

Mrs. Rhodes used special hours every day, and the result was a deep experience and original discoveries. Use this book faithfully, dear reader, and yours, too, shall be a soul-satisfying experience and yet other new discoveries.

First of all, do not sit down and read the book through. Decide upon a special hour for development, to be used every day for at least two months. Then keep that daily engagement with yourself as the most important thing in life.

This is not “impossible” to anybody. Don’t fool yourself with that plea. Not a man or woman but could arrange to attend a series of lectures, or a school, at a certain hour every day for two months. Everyone can arrange to attend to his soul development with the same precision, if he will. The results are sure and rich.

Let the student take one chapter at a time, reading it every day for two weeks; reading it slowly, with a quiet desire to know the truth.

After the reading let him practice, faithfully, whatever directions are given in that part of the book.

Let him not quarrel with what he reads; let him assume, for the time being, that it is all so. Let him accept with a will and aim to see things and feel them with the author.

After eight weeks of practice he will know better whether or not there is anything to reject. Did not Jesus say, “Do the will (of the Father) and ye shall know (of the doctrine) what to believe”?

And William James says it is at the moment of doing that the brain receives a new kink to correspond.

I say unto you, Do the will of this book and you will be glad for ever-more. –Elizabeth Towne.

Holyoke, Mass., Sept. 9, 1908.