The Million Dollar Mind: The High Road to Success and Power

By Mitch Horowitz

In an age when “success by all means” is too often the norm, Mitch Horowitz sets the record straight by highlighting how to develop your personal power with honor, nobility, poise, and effectiveness. 

Through a series of powerful yet simple techniques, Horowitz outlines how you can pursue your highest material, career, and financial aims with dignity. Discover how to combine power with principle and success with self-respect. 

The book includes these topics: 

• The power of simple ideas
• The power of right relations
• The power of a single aim
• Lifting emotional blocks
• The power of decision

• Language: English
• Publisher: G&D Media
• Release date: Jan 6, 2021
• ISBN: 9781722526320

Mitch Horowitz

A widely known voice of esoteric ideas, Mitch Horowitz is a writer-in-residence at the New York Public Library, lecturer-in-residence at the University of Philosophical Research in Los Angeles, and the PEN Award-winning author of books including Occult America; One Simple Idea: How Positive Thinking Reshaped Modern Life; and The Miracle Club: How Thoughts Become Reality. Mitch introduces and edits G&D Media’s line of Condensed Classics and is the author of the Napoleon Hill Success Course series, including The Miracle of a Definite Chief Aim, The Power of the Master Mind, and Secrets of Self-Mastery. Visit him at MitchHorowitz.com. Mitch resides in New York.

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ETHICS AND POWER

Welcome to book two of our Master Class series. Our theme is The Million-Dollar Mind.

I was doing a webinar the other night about this theme. One of the participants in the webinar said to me, You seem like a pretty serious guy. I’m surprised that you chose a sensationalistic sounding title like this.

The fact is, the title is actually based on a 1963 New Thought book, widely forgotten, by a writer named Anthony Norvell titled The Million-Dollar Secret Hidden in Your Mind.

I was inspired by his book because, first of all, I don’t mind the sensationalistic title. We are beings who live in multiple worlds, including a transcendent world, an inner world, and what has been called the world of Caesar—the outer world, the world of resources, the world of commerce, the world of materiality—which we are obligated to function in as much as we are obligated to function in any other area of life.

I want to recognize in a very explicit way that resources are necessary; commerce is necessary. Nothing that we do in life—from educating a child, to printing a book, to building a studio—would be possible if it weren’t for currency and resources. The simple fact is, a lot of people come to the metaphysical path because they have a need in their life. Which very often announces itself as a need for career advancement, or money, or simply the desire to see through their aspirations in the world, to get things done in the world.

So, from that perspective, I like bluntness. I like that somebody is willing to make a bold promise, provided they back up that promise. I don’t like empty promises. I mention Anthony Norvell, who wrote the book which serves as the jumping off point for this book because I feel it’s important to pay tribute to him.

Norvell is not one of the hallowed, wildly known names in metaphysical tradition. This isn’t Charles and Myrtle Fillmore. This isn’t Ernest Holmes. This isn’t Florence Scovel Shinn. This isn’t Neville Goddard. This isn’t one of the canonical figures in the New Thought world. You don’t hear your friends walking around saying, Oh, I love Anthony Norvell. More likely, they’ll say, What? Who? He was a popular metaphysical and occult writer who was born in 1908 and lived until 1990. He was middlingly popular for a period time in the 1940s and 1950s.

He used to lecture in New York at Carnegie Hall. Essentially, he would rent out Carnegie Hall, and use it as a lecture space. He referred to himself as the philosopher of the 20th century. Well, that may be true of Wittgenstein and some others, but Norvell wasn’t one to suffer people through false humility.

He wrote a lot of different books. He was prolific almost to a fault. He probably came to depend upon the income that comes from writing a regular steady stream of books. Of course, in the pre-digital age, when print media was the way that everybody got information aside from TV and radio, there was a market for all kinds of popular metaphysical books.

Norvell was willing to fill that market. He wrote books on everything from astrology to mediumship, to various practices of spell casting, and different forms of meditation. He wasn’t always in his element. Sometimes he stretched his abilities thin, I think for the purposes of just getting another book out there into the hands of paying customers.

But when he wrote The Million-Dollar Secret Hidden in Your Mind in 1963, I think he wasn’t stretching himself thin. I think he was right in his element. This is the kind of book that at another time or place, I might have just ignored in favor of one of the more widely recognized or hallowed books of the New Thought, Unity or Science of Mind tradition.

I was moved to revisit the book recently, however. There was just something in me that was moved to revisit it. I read it and I thought to myself, "In a certain sense, this sensationally titled book by this somewhat fee-for-service metaphysician is better and more noble than