The Electric Connection: Its Effects on Mind and Body by Shallis, Michael - 1989

New York: Insight Books, Plenum Press, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in DJ; 262pp; DJ price-clipped, clean & bright, boards square, clean & bright, gift inscription to FFEP, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG/VG condition. Signed by Author. Argues that humans are more than material bodies, that we are beings of light and energy, and that our quantum fields of human power can be accessed and manipulated to cure or prevent illness. Illustrated with photos & diagrams.

Roxbury, MA: American Avatar, 1971. First Edition. Softcover. Good. Spine creased, covers rubbed with a few chips & edgewear, pages slightly age-toned, text unmarked, binding is tight, Good condition. Derived from letters written between 1958 through 1966, along with photos & poetry by Mel Lyman (1938-1978) seminal and controversial counterculture figure, musician, writer and founder of the Lyman Family aka Fort Hill Community, a family, cult and/or commune. Lyman played banjo and harmonica as a member of the Jim Kweskin Jug Band starting in 1963. In 1966 Lyman founded the Fort Hill Community in Roxbury, Boston. His underground newspaper Avatar (published 1967-68), shocked the staid Bostonians at that time.

Boston, MA: Lee and Shepard Publishers, 1896. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good-. 269pp; Green cloth boards with gilt titling to front & spine, slight wear to spine ends & corners of boards, original decorated endpapers, small light stain to front boards, boards square & bright, text unmarked, binding is sound, VG- condition. Scarce early New Thought title by Henry Wood (1834-1909) containing studies of thought and mind. Partial Contents: Ownership through Idealism; The Evolutionary Climb of Man; The Vital Energy and Its Increase; A Corrected Standpoint in Psychical Research; The Divinity of Nature; The Hygiene of the Consciousness; Has Mental Healing a Valid Scientific and Religious Basis?; The Unity of Diversity; The Dynamics of Mind; Auto-Suggestion and Concentration; Omnipresent Divinity; Mental and Physical Chemistry in the Human Economy; The Nature and Uses of Pain; The Sub-Conscious Mind; The Psychology of Crime; more.

New York: F. J. Needham, Publisher, 1889. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 299pp; Maroon cloth boards with gilt titling to front & spine, gilt and red cross emblem to front, boards square, clean & bright, original brown endpapers, text unmarked, binding is tight, Fine condition. Publisher's leaflet laid in. Autobiography of Prentice Mulford (1834-1891), American literary humorist, California author & pioneer of the New Thought self-help metaphysical movement.

Holyoke, MA: Elizabeth Towne, 1906. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 45pp; Green cloth boards with gilt titling to front, boards edgeworn, spine worn through in a few spots, bottom of rear board & spine rubbed, pages slightly age-toned, text unmarked, binding is sound, Good condition. Scarce, antique volume of New Thought poetry. Includes frontispiece portrait of the author.

New York: Insight Books, Plenum Press, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in DJ; 262pp; DJ price-clipped, clean & bright, boards square, clean & bright, gift inscription to FFEP, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG/VG condition. Signed by Author. Argues that humans are more than material bodies, that we are beings of light and energy, and that our quantum fields of human power can be accessed and manipulated to cure or prevent illness. Illustrated with photos & diagrams.

Roxbury, MA: American Avatar, 1971. First Edition. Softcover. Good. Spine creased, covers rubbed with a few chips & edgewear, pages slightly age-toned, text unmarked, binding is tight, Good condition. Derived from letters written between 1958 through 1966, along with photos & poetry by Mel Lyman (1938-1978) seminal and controversial counterculture figure, musician, writer and founder of the Lyman Family aka Fort Hill Community, a family, cult and/or commune. Lyman played banjo and harmonica as a member of the Jim Kweskin Jug Band starting in 1963. In 1966 Lyman founded the Fort Hill Community in Roxbury, Boston. His underground newspaper Avatar (published 1967-68), shocked the staid Bostonians at that time.

Boston, MA: Lee and Shepard Publishers, 1896. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good-. 269pp; Green cloth boards with gilt titling to front & spine, slight wear to spine ends & corners of boards, original decorated endpapers, small light stain to front boards, boards square & bright, text unmarked, binding is sound, VG- condition. Scarce early New Thought title by Henry Wood (1834-1909) containing studies of thought and mind. Partial Contents: Ownership through Idealism; The Evolutionary Climb of Man; The Vital Energy and Its Increase; A Corrected Standpoint in Psychical Research; The Divinity of Nature; The Hygiene of the Consciousness; Has Mental Healing a Valid Scientific and Religious Basis?; The Unity of Diversity; The Dynamics of Mind; Auto-Suggestion and Concentration; Omnipresent Divinity; Mental and Physical Chemistry in the Human Economy; The Nature and Uses of Pain; The Sub-Conscious Mind; The Psychology of Crime; more.

New York: F. J. Needham, Publisher, 1889. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 299pp; Maroon cloth boards with gilt titling to front & spine, gilt and red cross emblem to front, boards square, clean & bright, original brown endpapers, text unmarked, binding is tight, Fine condition. Publisher's leaflet laid in. Autobiography of Prentice Mulford (1834-1891), American literary humorist, California author & pioneer of the New Thought self-help metaphysical movement.

Holyoke, MA: Elizabeth Towne, 1906. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 45pp; Green cloth boards with gilt titling to front, boards edgeworn, spine worn through in a few spots, bottom of rear board & spine rubbed, pages slightly age-toned, text unmarked, binding is sound, Good condition. Scarce, antique volume of New Thought poetry. Includes frontispiece portrait of the author.