Toward Ecosophy

During the most recent Magic Monday open post, one of my readers asked about a forgotten system of mind training called Pelmanism, which was extremely popular during the first half or so of the last century. I'd looked into it some years before, and at that time I was unable to find a complete set of the twelve lessons online. I decided to take another look, with very welcome results: it's all available now, for free download.

Pelmanism was named after a psychologist, Christopher Pelman, who came up with the first draft of it, but it was developed into a complete system by William Ennever. It was taught by correspondence lessons. Its goal was to teach students to use the full capacities of their brains by exercises that developed attention, memory, and mental clarity.

Mentat stuff? Well, the first steps in that direction, certainly. I've experimented with the exercises and found them useful enough that I plan on working through the course. I field enough requests for training along these lines, though, that I figure the links are worth posting here.

Pelmanism Lessons 1-6

Pelmanism Lesson 7

Pelmanism Lesson 8

Pelmanism Lesson 9

Pelmanism Lesson 10

Pelmanism Lesson 11

Pelmanism Lesson 12

If any of my readers has the spare time to clean these up and convert them to other formats, btw, that might be very helpful. Given the embarassingly low quality of thinking that's become commonplace these days, anything that helps people learn how to use their minds is worth getting back into circulation!