Creative Realism: A New Method of Winning
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Dr. Rolf Alexander theorizes that we are all hypnotized to a considerable degree by what has happened to or around us in our lives. Assigning many of our personality troubles on "hypnosis-without-a-hypnotist," he offers a method which he calls 'self-realization,' and which is used to dehypnotize ourselves. The use of this method is urged as a preliminary to the administering of autosuggestion, and provides an antidote to remaining in a suggestible trance to some extent after the use of autohypnosis.
Dr. Rolf Alexander devoted himself to a lifelong program of private research and experimentation, and following extensive worldwide travel and the meticulous investigation of many little-known systems, he discovered the new and revolutionary philosophy named 'Creative Realism,' which this book outlines.
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ROLF ALEXANDER M.D. was born in 1891 to a Scottish physician and his wife, on the American Clipper ship Luzon en route to New Zealand. He was taken by his parents to Canada as a boy, graduated in medicine in Prague in 1912, and studied as a personal pupil of the Greek-Russian philosopher Gurdjieff in 1913. A former physician at the Mayo clinic, Dr. Alexander became disenchanted with the limits of modern medicine and traveled around the world in search of healing techniques from other cultures. Around 1938 Dr. Alexander travelled to India and on to Tibet, where he lived and studied with Tibetan lamas, Buddhist monks, Hopi Indians, North African medicine men, and West Indies sorcerers. After decades of study and experimentation, Dr. Alexander began writing books, including Your Unknown Doctor (1939); The Doctor Alone Can't Cure You (1943); The Voice of Talking Valley (1946); and The Mind in Healing: A Practical Guide to Full Mental and Physical Health (1958). He died on October 22, 1970 and was buried in the Montreal region of Outremont.
DR. EDWARD T. WHITNEY (1894-1969) was an eminent proctologist and surgeon practising in Boston, Massachusetts. Born on February 25, 1894 in Townsend, Massachusetts, he earned an A.B. from Harvard in 1917, an A.M. from Brown in 1920, and an M.D. from the Harvard Medical School in 1924. He served with the U.S. Army in Europe from 1917-1919. He interned at Carney Hospital from 1924-1924 and was a special assistant to Dr. Hilbert Day from 1926-1931. He was made a diplomate of the American Board of Surgery in 1944. He studied science, religion, occultism and esotericism over a period spanning sixty years, and authored the book The Coming Great Golden Age of Esotericism (1969). He died on December 16, 1969, aged 75.
