I've been looking into Atkinson since the early 1990s, when I first discovered his works, and I pulled a first draft of this bibliography together sometime in the years 1996-1998.
My own family, on my mothers side, has been into esoteric stuff--Swedenborgianism, Spiritualism, New Thought, Delsartism, and occult things in general--since around 1860, and when these ancestors moved from Chicago to the San Francisco Bay area in the 1880s, they found a fertile environment to nourish these interests further.
Atkinson (and Leland) are the authors who are closest to the New-Thought magical stuff I was exposed to when I was a boy in the '40s and the '50s, so once I discovered him, I wanted to find out as much as I could about the man and his work. Hence this bibliography. It's still a work in progress.
I've focused my own attention (so far) on his _Mind Power_, and on his two earlier books that he combined to produce it (_The Secrets of Mental Magic_ and _Mental Fascination_). I haven't read very many of Atkinson's other books. I expect to learn a lot from what others have to say about them. It's very good to know that there are other Atkinson enthusiasts out there. I'm really looking forward these discussions.
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Date: 2018-05-04 02:11 am (UTC)My own family, on my mothers side, has been into esoteric stuff--Swedenborgianism, Spiritualism, New Thought, Delsartism, and occult things in general--since around 1860, and when these ancestors moved from Chicago to the San Francisco Bay area in the 1880s, they found a fertile environment to nourish these interests further.
Atkinson (and Leland) are the authors who are closest to the New-Thought magical stuff I was exposed to when I was a boy in the '40s and the '50s, so once I discovered him, I wanted to find out as much as I could about the man and his work. Hence this bibliography. It's still a work in progress.
I've focused my own attention (so far) on his _Mind Power_, and on his two earlier books that he combined to produce it (_The Secrets of Mental Magic_ and _Mental Fascination_). I haven't read very many of Atkinson's other books. I expect to learn a lot from what others have to say about them. It's very good to know that there are other Atkinson enthusiasts out there. I'm really looking forward these discussions.