Book #12:
"The Game of Life and How To Play it" by Florence Schovel Shinn

Most of us have forgotten that "life is a game that can only be played not won" as Bagger Vance said in the movie of the same name.

He Must have read Shinn's book! Here are a couple of paragraphs from her opening chapter:

Most people consider life a battle -- but it is not a battle, it is a game.

It is a game, however, which cannot be played successfully without the knowledge of spiritual law.

The imagination has been called, "The Scissors of The Mind," and it is ever cutting, cutting, day by day, the pictures man sees there, and sooner or later he meets his own creations in his outer world. To train the imagination successfully, man must understand the workings of his mind. The Greeks said: "Know Thyself."

There are three departments of the mind, the subconscious, conscious and superconscious. The subconscious, is simply power, without direction. It is like steam or electricity, and it does what it is directed to do; it has no power of induction.

Whatever man feels deeply or images clearly, is impressed upon the subconscious mind, and carried out in minutest detail.

Shinn is one of what were called the "new thought movement" from around the turn of the century and promotes the "Metaphysics" of the bible as opposed to the religious dogma that most people know it for today.

Here's what you'll learn:

Chapter 1: The Game
Chapter 2: The Law of Prosperity
Chapter 3: The Power of the Word
Chapter 4: The Law of Nonresistance
Chapter 5: The Law of Karma and the Law of Forgiveness
Chapter 6: Casting the Burden (Impressing the Subconscious)
Chapter 7: Love
Chapter 8: Intuition or Guidance
Chapter 9: Perfect Self-Expression or The Divine Design
Chapter 10: Denials and Affirmations