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The Powers of the Mind

Swami Vivekananda

A lecture on the psychic phenomena that fascinated American audiences in 1900: thought-reading, healing, extraordinary powers. Vivekananda accepts them as facts of the concentrated mind but subordinates them to the spiritual goal and warns against seeking them.

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