A great student of the Science of Mind, Richard Ingalese frequently
lectured on New Thought and topics of mental therapeutics. The History
and Power of Mind is a collection of many of his lectures and articles,
first published in 1902, with Ingalese's own annotations and expansions.
Difficult subjects to wrangle, from self-control to hypnotism to
self-healing, were not a problem for the articulate and charismatic
Ingalese, who brings insight and intelligence to esoteric ideas and puts
them in a practical and applicable context that demystifies mental and
psychic phenomena for the intellectual reader curious about the mind,
how it works, and what it can do. American lawyer RICHARD INGALESE (b.
1854) was a self-taught alchemist and proponent of New Thought. He
claimed to have confected the true Philosopher's Stone, which confers
immortality and turns common metals into gold, and disappeared, along
with his wife, a psychic and healer, sometime in the early 20th century.
Before their disappearance, Ingalese authored several articles and
books, including Fragments of Truth (1921), Astrology and Health (1927),
and Cosmogony and Evolution (1907).