具体描述
In the Secret of the Ages, Robert Collier shares with us the secrets of success. This book gives you the tools to have a happier and more successful life. Collier will show you how the way you think and the decisions you make have a direct influence on how successful and happy you are. With out the foundation that Collier laid herein, Rhonda Byrnes' The Secret could never have been written. Long before Michael Losier and James Arthur Ray reminded the world just how effective the power of positive thinking could be in Laws of Attraction and The Science of Success, there was Robert Collier's Secret of the Ages. This edition is complete and unabridged.
Read it online: http://www.sacred-texts.com/nth/tsoa/index.htm
作者简介
Robert "Bob" Collier was born April 19, 1885, in St. Louis, Missouri, the son of Mary Ferguson and John Collier. His mother died when he and his older brother were quite young, and his father traveled widely for Collier's Magazine, which was founded and published by his uncle, Peter F. Collier. Bob was expected to become a priest, but before taking his vows he decided against the life of a clergyman and headed off to seek his fortune.
Because of an earlier, seemingly undiagnosable illness which he finally cured through Christian Science, he started investigating how the Mind could so quickly and surely cure an illness which doctors had been working on for months. Clearly there must be powers in the Mind he'd never suspected -- and if it had dominion over his physical self, why could it not cure any financial lack? Why could it not bring him anything of good he might wish?
For long months, Bob studied hundreds of books and courses on everything relating to metaphysics and success in life. Whole religions seemed to be built on it. It was a long time before he began to find parts that were really workable in everyday life; a long time before he realized tangible results from his efforts -- but when results began, they came quickly.
For some time Robert Collier had had the idea for a set of books on practical psychology. He put this idea into action, working night and day writing the books. Within six months of publication of these books he received more than one million dollars-worth of orders for them. The books were later combined into a single volume entitled The Secret of the Ages. He sold over 300,000 sets of them -- and received thousands of letters telling of wonderful results obtained from the books. He wrote four more courses, and this excellent material was later combined into one book: Riches Within Your Reach. It has been translated into German, Italian, French, and Spanish, and sold all over the world.
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我认为，这本书最核心的价值在于它成功地建立了一种“怀疑的勇气”。许多宣扬人生哲理的书籍，往往要求读者放下质疑，全盘接受作者的体系，从而获得一种虚假的确定感。但这本书的行文风格却截然相反，它始终保持着一种温和的、邀请式的对话姿态，鼓励读者去检验、去质疑作者提供的每一个论点。在探讨“心智力量对现实的塑造”时，作者反复强调，我们必须先精确地描绘出我们内心恐惧和局限的边界，只有当我们真正理解了这些“幻象”是如何构建的，才能谈得上超越它们。这种对“透明度”的坚持，让整个阅读过程充满了智力上的挑战和乐趣。它不是提供一剂速效药，而是递给了一套精密的工具箱，告诉你如何自行诊断和维修你对世界的认知框架。读完合上书本的那一刻，我没有那种“终于搞懂了”的满足感，反而有一种“我还有很多需要去探索”的紧迫感，这种激发自主思考的能力，才是它留给我最宝贵的遗产。
评分我个人对书中关于“时间观”的探讨给予极高的评价。这一点常常是这类主题书籍处理得最薄弱的环节，往往要么是机械地重复“时间是相对的”，要么就是陷入虚无主义的泥潭。然而，这本书的作者采取了一个极其务实且富有启发性的角度。他没有试图去挑战物理学的前沿理论，而是聚焦于个体生命经验中如何“编织”时间感。他引入了“记忆的折叠点”这一概念，非常精妙地解释了为什么我们在回顾人生时，某些短暂的瞬间会占据不成比例的记忆权重，而漫长的日常却被迅速略过。这种对主观时间流逝的细致剖析，让我联想到许多自己生命中那些“慢下来的瞬间”——比如童年夏日午后阳光的味道，或者某个关键抉择前的短暂停顿。作者的文字在描述这些内在体验时，其精确度和细腻度简直令人叹为观止，简直就像是精密的外科手术刀，精准地切开了我们习以为常却从未深究的心理结构。读完这一章，我感到自己对“当下”这个词的理解被彻底刷新了，不再是一个单纯的时间标记，而是一个充满多重维度的心理容器。
评分这本书，说实话，拿到手的时候我就被它的封面设计吸引住了。那种略带做旧的牛皮纸质感，配上烫金的标题字体，透露着一种古老智慧的神秘感，让人忍不住想一探究竟。我通常对这类声称揭示“古老秘密”的书籍抱持着谨慎的态度，毕竟太多打着旗号的读物不过是故纸堆里的陈词滥调，或者更糟，是毫无根据的胡编乱造。然而，这本书的序言部分却展现出一种令人耳目一新的严谨性。作者并没有急于抛出惊天动地的结论，而是花了大量的篇幅去梳理历史上不同文明中关于“终极真理”的探讨脉络，从赫尔墨斯主义到东方哲学中的“道”，那种跨学科的视野和对原始文本的尊重，让我感到作者是真正下过苦功的。他似乎在构建一个宏大的知识框架，而不是简单地摘抄一些碎片化的励志格言。那种细腻的文字处理，尤其是在描述那些难以言喻的形而上学概念时，没有落入晦涩难懂的陷阱，反而用一种近乎诗意的散文笔调，将复杂的思想轻巧地铺陈开来，让人在阅读时能感受到一种心智被缓缓打开的愉悦感，而不是被知识点硬生生塞满的痛苦。这让我对后续的内容充满了期待，相信它会提供一些真正有价值的洞察，而非流于表面的鸡汤。
评分这本书的叙事节奏掌握得非常高明，它不是那种平铺直叙、让你能一眼望到底的说明文。相反，它更像是一部精心编排的探险日志，引导着读者一步步深入迷宫的核心。我特别欣赏作者在引入关键理论时所采用的“情景化”手法。他不是直接抛出理论定义，而是通过讲述历史上那些伟大思想家在遭遇困境或灵光乍现时的心路历程来侧面烘托。比如，在阐述“潜意识的共振”那一章，作者引用了多位科学家的早期实验记录，那些充满试错和自我怀疑的片段，一下子让抽象的理论变得鲜活起来，充满了人性的温度和求知的艰辛。这种叙事策略极大地降低了阅读门槛，即便是对哲学或心理学基础不甚了解的普通读者，也能顺着作者的思路自然而然地进入情境。而且，这些引用的案例选择得非常巧妙，它们并非那些被过度解读的、烂熟于心的“名人轶事”，而是更偏向于学术界内部流传的、需要一定专业背景才能理解的细节。这不仅保证了内容的深度，也让老读者不会感到乏味，仿佛在老友的带领下重温了一遍熟悉的经典，但总能发现新的角落。
评分这本书的装帧设计和排版细节，也体现了出版方极大的诚意，这对于提升阅读体验至关重要。字体选择上，他们放弃了常见的新宋体，而是选用了一种略带衬线的、笔画粗细变化更自然的字体，这在长篇阅读中极大地缓解了视觉疲劳。更值得称赞的是，那些被作者用作论据支持的图表和示意图，印刷质量堪称艺术品级别。它们并非简单地复制粘贴的黑白线条图，而是采用了精细的套色印刷，许多复杂的概念结构图，其色彩的运用本身就蕴含着一种象征意义，例如用冷色调描绘“外在限制”，而用暖色调勾勒“内在潜力”的连接路径。这种视觉语言的辅助，比单纯的文字描述更具穿透力。我甚至愿意花时间去研究这些图表的细节，而不是直接跳过，这在其他理论书籍中是极少发生的现象。可以说，这不仅仅是一本可以阅读的书，更是一件可以被珍藏和反复摩挲的实体物品，每次翻阅，都会因其质感和细节而带来新的触动。
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