How to Get What You Want
Journalist, lawyer, and financier Claude M. Bristol (1890-1951) made a lifelong study of the practical powers of the psyche. Bristol discovered the royal secret encrypted throughout history in myth, parable, ceremony, and initiation:
you are as your mind is.
In his 1948 classic
The Magic of Believing, Bristol employed his skills as a journalist and straight-talking businessman to reveal this truth to the widest possible range of readers. Bristol’s actionable examples, exercises, and evidence enchanted generations of everyday seekers as well as celebrities ranging from Arnold Schwarzenegger to Liberace.
With a broad-ranging historical introduction and supplemental readings by scholar of esotericism Mitch Horowitz, this edition of
The Magic of Believing is the definitive publication of Bristol’s mind-power landmark.
/In this special edition discover:
“I suggest approaching
The Magic of Believing, ” Mitch writes in his introduction, “in a spirit of enthusiasm and personal adventure. It’s an old favorite that provides an unembarrassed invitation to intimately probe questions of mental-emotive causality—and the book may ignite in you a renewed sense of personal possibility.”
Many readers have called
The Magic of Believing a turning point in their lives—will you join them?
About the author
A widely known voice of esoteric ideas, Mitch Horowitz is a writer-in-residence at the New York Public Library, lecturer-in-residence at the University of Philosophical Research in Los Angeles, and the PEN Award-winning author of books including Occult America; One Simple Idea: How Positive Thinking Reshaped Modern Life; and The Miracle Club: How Thoughts Become Reality. Mitch introduces and edits G&D Media’s line of Condensed Classics and is the author of the Napoleon Hill Success Course series, including The Miracle of a Definite Chief Aim, The Power of the Master Mind, and Secrets of Self-Mastery. Visit him at Mitch Horowitz.com. Mitch resides in New York.