Welcome. Your reservation has already been made. The room is inside your own mind. And according to Charles Godfrey Leland, most people spend their entire lives without discovering what is included.

In The Mystic Will, Leland invites you into a strange borderland between psychology, auto-suggestion, concentration, psychic research, mental training, and practical mysticism. His proposition is both simple and irresistible: The Will can be trained.

With a few carefully directed exercises, Leland believed ordinary people could learn to produce states of calm, confidence, concentration, cheerfulness, memory, self-command, and mental clarity almost on demand.

Think of it as an early twentieth-century upgrade package for the human mind.

Would you like improved focus? Greater emotional control? A stronger memory? More confidence? Less hesitation? A quieter inner voice?

Excellent. Leland would like to show you something.

Long before modern conversations about neuroplasticity, affirmations, self-hypnosis, manifestation, subconscious programming, and peak performance, The Mystic Will was exploring the provocative possibility that repeated suggestion could reshape habitual states of mind.

Leland describes experiments in deliberately influencing mood, strengthening intellectual force, overcoming unwanted impulses, awakening dormant abilities, and learning to enter useful mental states through conscious direction of the Will.

No crystal ball is required. Although it probably would not hurt the atmosphere.

For readers fascinated by psychic research, mentalism, New Thought, auto-suggestion, occult psychology, self-hypnosis, manifestation, human potential, concentration training, and the hidden powers of the subconscious, The Mystic Will offers a fascinating artifact from the era when psychology and mysticism still regularly shared the same waiting room.