Astounding Science Fiction (British Edition) — page 77: what you’re looking at

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BELIEF TS course, he was only being rhetorical. No man would believe in his own insanity while even the faintest alter- native existed. I counted on that. “So I changed my tactics. I went to Deering’s seminar. I didn’t tel] him could float; I showed him, and then denied I had done it. The alternative was clear. I was either lying or he... not I, mind you, but he... was mad. It was obvious that he would sooner believe in levitation than doubt his own sanity, once he was really put to the test. All his actions thereafter ; his bullying, his trip to Washington, his offer of a job, were all intended only to vindicate his own sanity, not to help me.” Sarle said, ‘In other words you had made your levitation his problem and not your own.” Roger said, “Did you have any- thing like this in mind when we had our talk, Jim?” Sarle shook his head. “I had vague notions but a man must solve his own problems if they’re to be solved effectively. Do you think they'll work out the principle of levitation now?”’ “IT don’t know, Jim. I still can’t communicate the subjective aspects of the phenomenon. But that doesn’t matter. We'll be investigating them and that’s what counts.” He struck his balled right fist into the palm of his left hand. ‘“‘As far as I’m concerned the important point is that I made them help me.” “Is it?” asked Sarle, softly. “I should say that the important point is that you let them make you help them, which is a different thing altogether.” Pe eS INFERIORITY COMPLEX An inferiority complex is a disturbance in the Sub-conscious Mind which manifests itself in Self-consciousness, lack of confidence, nervousness, depression, worry, weak will and habits, lack of enterprise, stammering, blushing, forget- fulness, sleeplessness, etc. These are symptoms of ‘something wrong’ within your personality which you can put right—a ‘disturbance centre’ in Subconscious- ness which sends out powerful negative impulses overcoming and paralysing your positive impulses, denying you the pieasures of achievement and the joy of living. You cannot control these impulses but you can remove them altogether by eradicating from your Sub-conscious Mind the trouble from which they spring. This you can do yourself, in your own horne in your own time, Send postcard today for free copy of littie book which fully expounds the wonderful discoveries of modern psychology and how you can apply them to yourself to achieve a fuller, richer, happier, and more successful life. All. correspondence is confidentiai. \\ Write to-day to Write to-day for this FREE BOO British Institute of Practical Psychology (H.O.), 10A Highbury Piace, London, N.5 EComichooksco im ye