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Worry is a dissociation and deflection of attention, a confusion of mental focus by anxious concern for incidentals and neglect of the essential element." It is also "deliberation turned toxic." Most Oriental languages have no word for such a typically modern state of mind. Although "forethought is essential to intelligent living, it is only when apprehension is ruled by nervous anxiety . . . that worry injures us." Brooding, it follows, is "meditation made sick by fear." Confronted by situations that we do not know how to face, or do not want to face, our concepts of the kind of action possible for us are limited by patterns of thought formed in childhood by fears of consequence or opinion, by a morbid love for our own unhappiness, by distorted evaluations of the situation based on ingrown prejudice rather than fact. We thereupon begin to worry and "the moment a man begins to worry he imperils his mind." The symptoms are plain. "There is no isolation so poignant as that which worry brings. At such a time life slips from our grasp, average contacts no longer assure us, people become strangers, to whom we talk across an unseen gulf. Smiles that .'Drought comfort somehow mock us, as if the world had become a pantomime and our intimates the weriest shadows. The day's routine stretches like a solitary waste; there is fatigue in our souls." There are three stages: the first, or stimulating phase, when there is a fair chance of facing the facts; the second, or inhibiting period, marked by self-indulgence, wandering attention, faulty observation; the third, or paralyzing stage, when bodily disorders set in, ranging from stomach ulcers, hyperacidity, twitchings, tremors, stammering, to pyloric spasms, constipation, diarrhea, insomnia. Your desires and true beliefs have a way of playing blind man's bluff. You must corner the inner facts ~ David Seabury.
The Author: Dr. David Seabury's real name was Dresser until he legally changed it to his mother's maiden name. Born in Boston, he published How to Worry Successfully on his 51st birthday. Previously he wrote four volumes of the same type (Unmasking Our Minds, Growing into Life, What Makes Us Seem So Queer, Keep Your Wits). Educated at Boston's Chauncy Hall School, in Florence, London, Paris, Munich, Rome and Harvard, Dr. Seabury began practice as a psychologist in Manhattan at the age of 29, became consulting psychologist for New York City in 1921. Married, and lived in Ossining, N. Y., he was the founder of the Centralist School of Psychology.
Time Monday, Sept. 14, 1936
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Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself, if you wish to get others. ~ David Seabury
The Dresser parents were Julius Alphonso Dresser (February 12, 1838-May 10, 1893) and Annetta Gertrude Seabury Dresser (May 7, 1843-December 5, 1935) ardent students of Phineas Parkhurst Quimby. The 1st Family of New Thought?
Children of JULIUS DRESSER and ANNETTA SEABURY were:
ANNE SOPHIA DRESSER (1859 - 1859)
HORATIO WILLIS DRESSER (1866 – 1954)
Marriage 1898 Alice Mae Reed (1870 – 1963)
Children
Dorothea Dresser (1901 - 2000) Married Charles H. Reeves(1898–1988) in 1925 in Maine
Malcolm Dresser (1905 - 1985 ) Married Patricia Schlenker Seabury(1911–1997) in 1930
RALPH HOWARD DRESSER (1872 – 1873)
JEAN PAUL DRESSER (1877 – 1935; ashes spread in the Sierra Nevada Mnts) Minister
Marriage 1906 Faith Leah Storer (1880 - ?)
Children
Gwynne Madeline Dresser Mack (1907-1994)
Leonore Dresser Poole (1913 - 1963)
m. 1934 Stewart E. Poole(1903-1995)
son:Rev Jerome A. Poole (1939 Delaware, USA - 2022 Delaware, USA)
Books by Gwynne:
ES and ESP. 1974 by Gwynne Dresser. Mack
CONTENTS
EMANUEl. SVVEDENBOBG
References for Quotations
Mysteries
Life Beyond Death
Possession
Reincarnation
Telepathy
Communication
Affinity
The Invisible Presence
Reading List
Swedenborg learned that the world as we know it is a school, and that the main stream of life goes on in a larger dimension more real than this for all who have passed the moment we call “death.” He learned that a personal relationship between God and individuals is the reason for human life, and that all of creation is for fostering this relationship. At times it has been necessary tor God to use extraordinary means to keep humanity aware of its heritage. The ministry of Christ, the Holy Bible, are reminders from God to man of his spiritual destiny. The great struggle in human existence has always been between God’s teaching and man’s reluctance to be taught!
From the book, Talking With God, first edition.
Talking with God : the healing power of prayer, 1961 / Gwynne Dresser Mack.
Contents
1. What is prayer? -- 2. Living with the Lord -- 3. Learning to pray -- 4. Prayer for others -- 5. Success and failure -- 6. The meaning of suffering -- 7. The power of thought and love -- 8. Why are we here? -- 9. Walk humbly -- 10. And teach diligently -- 11. The realm of causes -- 12. The human body -- 13. Spiritual healing -- 14. What does healing mean? -- 15. The healing ministry of Christ -- 16. How does spiritual healing work? -- 17. Why does it seem to fail? -- 18. Relaxation and imagery -- 19. There is no hopeless illness -- 20. There are miracles -- 21. The harvest years -- 22. The meaning of death -- Seven steps in prayer -- Prayers for special needs -- God speaks to us.
https://collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VvQ524X46X
The Broolin, 1943 by MACK, Gwynne Dresser
Swish, the sorrowful sea serpent, 1945 by Gwynne Dresser Mack
PHILIP DAVID SEABURY [DRESSER] (Sep 11 1885 – 1960) Psychologist & Author
1Marriage ? Hildegarde unknown(1864 - ?)
3Marriage ? Evelyn Uhler(1868 - ?)
PARKHURST QUIMBY DRESSER (Sep 11 1885) Still born Sep 11
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