Mind Dynamics

Mind Dynamics is a self-improvement program based around the teachings of Alexander Everett, in particular purporting to teach students how to control alpha brain waves "to solve all sorts of personal problems, get along better with other people, sense happenings through time and space and sometimes help other people overcome physical and mental problems," as well as increasing IQ, relieving physical pain, accelerating healing, and even improving extra-sensory perception. Home lessons and seminars were formerly sold through Mind Dynamics, Inc., a San Rafael, California-based corporation co-owned by Everett and William Penn Patrick of Holiday Magic, the cosmetics distribution franchise company; similarly to Patrick's main business, Mind Dynamics was licensed to paying distributors, becoming a multi-level pyramid scheme. The corporation was sued in California by the attorney general for having "falsely misled" customers, and eventually shuttered in the mid-1970s.