The Hidden Mind: An Atkinson Selection

W. W. Atkinson frequently explored thought as an active force in human life, shaping conduct, character, perception, and personal influence beneath the surface of ordinary awareness. Within the New Thought movement, he returned often to the idea that mental states are not merely private experiences, but formative powers expressed through habit, attention, emotion, and directed thought.

The Hidden Mind brings together three of Atkinson’s closely related works on thought-force, mental vibration, and dynamic mental power: Thought Vibration, Thought-Force, and Dynamic Thought. Read together, the works move from the broader New Thought idea of vibrational thought, to the directed use of mental force, and finally toward a fuller account of thought as a dynamic principle shaping character, action, and experience.

Atkinson treats the hidden mind not as a passive background, but as a field of active tendencies, repeated impressions, and directed mental energies. Across these writings, he emphasizes concentration, suggestion, belief, emotional control, and the formative power of thought in shaping both inner life and outward conduct. The selections reflect an early twentieth-century New Thought psychology concerned with the unseen but practical forces through which thought becomes influence, habit, and personal power.

Also available in the MASTER MIND: An Atkinson Selection library:

• From Thought to Action
• The Power Behind Influence
• From Mindset to Mastery
• Beyond the Conscious Mind