Book excerpt: Discover Your Subconscious Power! Historian and New Thought scholar Mitch Horowitz shines a new light on Joseph Murphy's landmark, The Power of Your Subconscious Mind, showing how to maximize Murphy's methods, reverse setbacks, and remove mental blocks. He demonstrates how current insights from mind-body medicine and quantum theory show you how to strengthen Murphy’s techniques. In this powerful Master Class: • Mitch reveals posthumous letters from Murphy's readers and responds to their questions and problems; • advises what do to in the face of setbacks or failure; • writes bluntly about lifting self-imposed mental blocks that sap your abilities; • explores how Murphy's methods address the complexities of life today—and faces the facts of where they fail to and how to improve upon them; • weds current insights from placebo studies, neuroplasticity, and quantum theory to Murphy’s work; • provides a comprehensive timeline of Murphy’s life and little-known biographical details, including Murphy’s tutelage under Neville Goddard’s teacher Abdullah. Paris Match: “Mitch Horowitz, a specialist in American esotericism, traces the history of positive thinking and its influence ... takes us far from naive doctrines.” HuffPost: “Has the rare gift of making the esoteric accessible to discerning masses.” Boing Boing: “Horowitz comes across as the real deal: he is an authentic ‘adept mind’ and he knows his stuff.”