Dr. Helen Hadsell

I recently came across an article about Helene that I hadn’t seen before. It focuses on her metaphysical teachings and the power of positive thinking, although you can never avoid talking about all the amazing adventures she won.

NOTE: I have transcribed the article for you because the screenshot I grabbed is small.

Printed in The Winsor Star, May 1st, 1973.

For U.S. metaphysicist, it was no contest

by Joe Fox

Helene Hadsell was one of two million people who entered a contest in 1966 at the New York World’s Fair for a new $50,000 home.

She then went out and chose a lot and, along with her family, had plans drawn up for their dream house.

Helen, you see, knew she was going to win. The only question was how long the sponsors would take to notify her.

In Fact, she has never yet failed to win a prize she wanted by entering contests.

Now, equipped with a Doctor of Metaphysics college degree, years of study and research in North America and Europe, and hundreds of appliances and free give-aways in her possession, she is going around telling people how they too can get anything they want through positive thinking.

She is lecturing in Windsor this week.

The ability to win contests is all done by projection of the energy each person possesses, she said in an interview.

It’s the same “auric energy” that enables communication between individuals through mental telepathy, allows medical cures to happen that seem to be miracles, and even has something to do with sex appeal.

“Everybody has an auric field of energy around them,” said Dr. Hadsell, who lives near Dallas, Tex.

“This energy field can consciously be directed to achieve whatever goal you want.”

There are five areas of the body that are centres for the energy field each person processes, she said.

They are in the heart, forehead, throat, stomach, and loins, she said.

Those with sexual energy have an “animal magnetism”, she said. Elvis Presley was offered as an example.

The energy in each of us is very subtle, she said, and she urges the people who come to hear lectures to become more aware of the energy emanating from those around them.

She started her career—that has led to the publication of a book as well as her lectures and research programs—in 1959, after reading Norman Vincent Peale’s The Power of Positive Thinking.

She applied his principle of being convinced you can do anything you want with her own experiences of concentrating her mind’s auric energy on a goal.

Her first goal was to win contests.

She won her husband—an industrial engineer—an outboard motor on her first try. She went on to win trips to Europe and all over the U.S., virtually every appliance for her home, and trips from dude ranches to Disneyland for her three children.

The highlight, however, was a new home.

She stopped entering contests when she won everything she possibly wanted, she said, and turned to studying other effects of the power of concentrating positively, such as mental telepathy and healing.

She said documentation for her accomplishments are on the public record in the form of publicity over the winning of individual prizes by the sponsors of the contests and publicity her “WISHcraft” has achieved.

“Anything the mind can conceive—and believe—it can achieve” is her catchphrase.

No people are such a thing as “lucky”, she said. They win at contests (even at the horse races) because they have learned to pick out something they truly desire, concentrate on that object, and eliminate any doubts that they might not win.

Dr. Hadsell was granted her degree in metaphysics after four years of study at the Brotherhood College in Sedalia, Colo., and is a graduate of the Institute of Psychorientology at Laredo, Tex.

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A couple of things struck me as I was reading.

• If you thought Helene’s catchphrase sounded familiar, it’s because it’s Napoleon Hill’s famous quote. I believe the reporter didn’t know that; it wasn’t as easy to research in 1973, which is why he wasn’t credited.
• I didn’t know Helene had the same Psychorientology degree as Tag Powell, but he graduated in 1982.

Did you ever see Helene lecture in-person?