Dwight D. Eisenhower

"There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure."

How safe are ...

The Windmill farms. People are starting to register complaints. Reminds me of the stories about living under hydro lines years ago. CBC had a neat show recently.

1863

Warren Felt Evans vists P.P. Quimby for treatment. Versed in the Swedenborgian faith he immediately latches onto Quimby's explanation. And with encouragement from Quimby he returns home to Claremont, N. H., and duplicated Quimby's work. He went on to write six volumes upon the subject of Mental Healing.

Meanwhile elsewhere:

• President Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation.
• Union forces prevail at the Battle of Gettysburg.
• Congress organizes the Arizona Territory.
• Quantrill's Raiders, a Confederate guerrilla band operating out of Missouri, terrorize Lawrence, Kansas and burning most of the town. Among the Raiders are Frank and Jesse James, and Cole and Jim Younger, who will use the hit-and-run tactics taught by their leader, William Clarke Quantrill, to create vicious outlaw gangs in the post-war West.

http://www.ppquimby.com/jdresser/jdresser.htm
http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/events/1860_1870.htm

P. P. Quimby

P. P. Quimby's perceptive powers were something remarkable. He always told the patient, at the first sitting, what the latter thought was his disease; and as he was able to do this, he never allowed the patient to tell him anything about his case. Quimby would also continue and tell to the patient what the circumstances were which first caused the trouble, and then explain to him how he fell into his error, and then from this basis prove to him, in many instances, that his state of suffering was purely an error of mind, and not what he thought it was.

http://www.ppquimby.com/jdresser/jdresser.htm

In 1896

while Thomas Troward, in England, was studying the effects of cause and effect the discovery of gold at Bonanza Creek, a tributary of the Klondike River near Dawson City, Alaska, sparks the last great Western rush for riches.

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Phineas Parkhurst Quimby

"Suppose a person should read an account of a railroad accident, and see, in the list of killed, a son. The shock on the mind would cause a deep feeling of sorrow on the part of the parent, and possibly a severe sickness, not only mental but physical. Now, what is the condition of the patient? Does he imagine his trouble? Is his body not affected, his pulse quick; and has he not all the symptoms of a sick person, and is he not really sick? Suppose you can go to him and say to him that you were on the train, and saw his son alive and well after the accident, and prove to him that the report of his death was a mistake. What follows? Why, the patient's mind undergoes a change immediately; and he is no longer sick. It was on this principle that Mr. Quimby treated the sick. He claimed that 'mind was spiritual matter,' and could be changed; that we were made up of truth and error; that disease was an error, or belief, and that the Truth was the cure. And upon these premises he based all his reasoning, and laid the foundation of what he asserted to be the 'science of curing the sick.' " * The Philosophy of P. P. Quimby, p. 18. (1895)

History in perspective 2.

The beginning of the Long Depression in 1873 is typically marked by the crash of the Vienna stock market, which sent ripples across Europe and eventually the United States with the fall of Jay Cooke & Company. Read More

Also around that time

1872

• "Buffalo Bill" Cody is awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for his service as a scout against the Cheyenne. The same year Cody begins his theatrical career, appearing as "Buffalo Bill" in Ned Buntline's The Scouts of the Plains.
  

1873

• Cable cars are introduced in San Francisco.
• Although federal authorities estimate that hunters are killing buffalo at a rate of three million per year, President Grant vetoes a law protecting the herd from extermination.
  

1874

• Mennonite immigrants from Russia arrive in Kansas with drought-resistant "Turkey Red" wheat, which will help turn the one-time "Great American Desert" into the nation's breadbasket.
• Joseph Glidden receives a patent for barbed wire which, with the destruction of the buffalo, will open the plains to more efficient agriculture and ranching.
• George Armstrong Custer announces the discovery of gold in the Black Hills of Dakota. Although the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty requires the government to protect Lakota lands from white intruders, federal authorities work instead to protect the miners already crowding along the path they call "Freedom's Trail" and the Lakota call "Thieve's Road."

1875

• Pinkerton agents fire-bomb the James family farm in Missouri in an unsuccessful attempt to kill the notorious outlaws. The incident stirs widespread sympathy for the James Gang, who are seen as populist enemies of the banks and railroads who "rob" the common man.

History in perspective 1.

Unity Church founded in 1889 by Charles Fillmore (1854-1948) and Myrtle Fillmore (1845-1931), in Kansas City, Missouri.

Also in 1889

• Wovoka, a Paiute holy man, awakes from a three-day trance to teach his tribe the Ghost Dance, with which they can restore the earth to the way it was before the whites arrived in the West. His teachings will soon touch many tribes across the West, stirring a spiritual revival that whites nervously misinterpret as a return to hostilities.
• President Benjamin Harrison authorizes opening unoccupied lands in the Indian Territory to white settlement, within nine hours, the Oklahoma Land Rush transforms almost two million acres of tribal land into thousands of individual land claims. Many of the most desirable plots are taken by "Sooners," so called because they crossed into the territory sooner than was permitted.
• At the urging of the National Farmers' Alliance, Kansas adopts first-of-its-kind legislation regulating trusts, providing an early portent of the agrarian-based progressive movement preparing to sweep through the West.
• Farm and labor representatives meet with prohibitionists in Salem, Oregon, to form a progressive Union Party.
• Washington, Montana and the Dakotas join the Union.

HIV/AIDS Emerged as Early as 1880s?

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/10/081001-hiv-aids-africa.html

The Long Depression of 1873: Lessons.

The Long Depression of 1873: Parallels and Comparisons. Are we Missing Economic Information from an Important Piece of American Financial History?

The Year Was 1873
The year was 1873 and much of the world was entering into a long period of economic depression. The beginning of the Long Depression is typically marked by the crash of the Vienna stock market, which sent ripples across Europe and eventually the United States with the fall of Jay Cooke & Company. Read More

Panic of 1873
America experienced an economic boom following the end of the Civil War. Wall Street banks took part in financing a massive expansion of industry and the country's railroad system. Wages for both skilled and unskilled labor rose to their highest levels ever in the late 1860s and early 1870s. In 1873, however, the boom turned to bust. Read more

Panic and Depression 1869-1871

History of Economic Recessions

Napoleon Hill

• Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
• Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
• What ever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Robert Redford

If you can do more, you should.

Solomon

A wise person will listen and take in more instruction.

Socrates

Wisdom belongs in wonder.

Sandra Sharpe

What do you pack to pursue a dream, and what do you leave behind?

John Wooden Quotes

• It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
• Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
• Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
• Be prepared and be honest.
• Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.
• Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
• Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.
• Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.
• It isn't what you do, but how you do it.
• It's not so important who starts the game but who finishes it.
• It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.
• Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.
• Never mistake activity for achievement.
• Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.
  

John Robert Wooden (born October 14, 1910, near Martinsville, Indiana) is a member of the Basketball Hall of Fame as both a player (Class of 1961) and a coach (Class of 1973). He was the first person ever enshrined in both categories; only Lenny Wilkens and Bill Sharman have since been so honored. He was the coach for UCLA winning 10 championships in 12 years. He coached such names as Kareem Abdul Jabar and Bill Walton.

John Wooden's Seven Point Creed , given to him by his father Joshua upon his graduation from grammar school:

1. Be true to yourself.
2. Make each day your masterpiece.
3. Help others.
4. Drink deeply from good books, especially the Bible.
5. Make friendship a fine art.
6. Build a shelter against a rainy day.
7. Pray for guidance and give thanks for your blessings every day.

Wooden also has authored a lecture and a book about the Pyramid of Success. The Pyramid of Success consists of philosophical building blocks for winning at basketball and at life. http://www.woodencourse.com/woodens_wisdom.html
He is also the author of several other books about basketball and life.

William James

William James (January 11, 1842 – August 26, 1910) was a pioneering American psychologist and philosopher trained as a medical doctor. He wrote influential books on the young science of psychology, educational psychology, psychology of religious experience and mysticism, and the philosophy of pragmatism. He was the brother of novelist Henry James and of diarist Alice James.

In 1909 William James published Expériences d'un Psychiste, a book which relates many experiments that he had with the medium Leonora Piper.

The Lamsa Bible ...

is the most popular and well known Bible that has been translated from the original Aramaic Peshitta. Enjoy using it online on this website!

http://www.lamsabible.com/

The Way of Peace(1907) , by James Allen

"I looked around upon the world and saw that it was shadowed by sorrow and scorched by the fierce fires of suffering. And I looked for the cause. I looked around, but I could not find it. I looked in books, but I could not find it. I looked within, and found there both the cause and the self-made nature of that cause. I looked again, and deeper, and found the remedy. I found one Law, the Law of Love; one Life, the life of adjustment to that Law; one Truth, the Truth of a conquered mind and a quiet and obedient heart. And I dreamed of writing books which would help men and women, whether rich or poor, learned or unlearned, worldly or unworldly to find within themselves the source of all success, all happiness, accomplishment, all truth. And the dream remained with me, and at last became substantial; and now I send forth these books into the world on a mission of healing and blessedness, knowing that they cannot fail to reach the homes and hearts of those who are waiting and ready to receive them."

http://manybooks.net/titles/allenjam10741074010740-8.html
http://self-improvement-ebooks.com/books/twop.php

Typos can be interesting

I was emailing a friend and typed this:

the wRONGmIND-eGO AND the RightMind-Christ

Warren G. Bennis

• Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
• You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future.
• Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
• The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
• There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.
• Managers do things right, leaders do the right things.
• The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.
• The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective.
• There is a profound difference between information and meaning.

Warren G. Bennis is an American scholar, organizational consultant and author, widely regarded as a pioneer of the contemporary field of Leadership Studies.
Bennis’ impact on the fields of leadership and management theory is significant. The Wall Street Journal named him as one of the top ten most sought speakers on management in 1993; Forbes magazine referred to him as the “dean of leadership gurus” in 1996. The Financial Times referred to Bennis in 2000 as “the professor who established leadership as a respectable academic field.” In August, 2007, Business Week ranked Bennis as one of the top ten thought leaders in business.
Bennis has been ranked as one of the top 30 Leadership professionals in the international Leadership Gurus survey for 2008. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Bennis

Quotes from Winston Churchill

• We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.
• Never, never, never give up!
• The empires of the future are empires of the mind.

Quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson

• We aim above the mark to hit the mark.
• The ancestor of every action is a thought.
• Concentration is the secret of strength.
• Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is to you.

Lee Iacocca

• The ability to concentrate and to use time well is everything.
• Management is nothing more than motivating other people.
• People want economy and they will pay any price to get it.
• The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.
• The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
• There ain't no free lunches in this country. And don't go spending your whole life commiserating that you got raw deals. You've got to say, 'I think that if I keep working at this and want it bad enough I can have it.'