WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.200 --> 00:00:05.320 The tenth lesson, Part one subconsciousing. In the ninth lesson, 2 00:00:05.480 --> 00:00:08.080 we called your attention to the fact that reasoning was 3 00:00:08.080 --> 00:00:12.000 not necessarily conscious in its operations, and that, in fact, 4 00:00:12.080 --> 00:00:14.599 a large part of the rational processes of the mind 5 00:00:14.880 --> 00:00:18.920 are performed below or above the field of consciousness. And 6 00:00:19.000 --> 00:00:21.120 in the eighth lesson we gave you a number of 7 00:00:21.160 --> 00:00:24.640 examples illustrating this fact. We also gave you a number 8 00:00:24.679 --> 00:00:27.600 of cases in which the subconscious field of the intellect 9 00:00:27.960 --> 00:00:30.800 worked out problems, and then, after a time, passed on 10 00:00:30.879 --> 00:00:33.719 to the conscious field of the intellect the solution of 11 00:00:33.759 --> 00:00:37.640 the matter. In this lesson we purpose instructing you in 12 00:00:37.679 --> 00:00:40.079 the methods by which this part of the intellect may 13 00:00:40.119 --> 00:00:42.920 be set to work for you. Many have stumbled upon 14 00:00:42.960 --> 00:00:45.799 bits of this truth for themselves, and in fact, the 15 00:00:45.880 --> 00:00:48.880 majority of successful men and women who have attained eminence 16 00:00:49.119 --> 00:00:51.640 in any walk of life have made more or less 17 00:00:51.759 --> 00:00:55.200 use of this truth, although they seldom understand the reason 18 00:00:55.280 --> 00:00:59.359 of it. Very few Western writers have recognized the work 19 00:00:59.399 --> 00:01:01.719 of this plain of the mind. They have given us 20 00:01:01.719 --> 00:01:04.840 full and ingenious theories and examples of the workings of 21 00:01:04.879 --> 00:01:07.920 the instinctive mind, and in some cases they have touched 22 00:01:08.000 --> 00:01:11.519 upon the workings and operations of the intuitional planes. But 23 00:01:11.640 --> 00:01:14.640 in nearly every case they have treated the intellect as 24 00:01:14.680 --> 00:01:18.680 something entirely confined to the conscious plane of mentation. In 25 00:01:18.799 --> 00:01:21.120 this they have missed some of the most interesting and 26 00:01:21.239 --> 00:01:27.239 valuable manifestations of subconscious mentation. In this lesson, we will 27 00:01:27.239 --> 00:01:30.439 take up this particular phase of mentation and trust to 28 00:01:30.480 --> 00:01:32.359 be able to point out the way to use it 29 00:01:32.400 --> 00:01:35.840 to the best advantage, giving some simple instructions that have 30 00:01:35.879 --> 00:01:38.719 been given by the Hindu teachers to their students for 31 00:01:38.799 --> 00:01:43.079 centuries past. Such instructions, of course, being modified by us 32 00:01:43.120 --> 00:01:46.159 to conform to the requirements and necessities of the Western 33 00:01:46.200 --> 00:01:50.120 student of today. We have taken the liberty of bestowing 34 00:01:50.120 --> 00:01:53.280 a new title upon this phase of mentation. We have 35 00:01:53.359 --> 00:01:57.000 thought it well to call it subconsciously. The word sub 36 00:01:57.079 --> 00:02:00.959 of course, means under below, and the word consciousing is 37 00:02:00.959 --> 00:02:04.640 a favorite term employed by Professor Elmer Gates and means 38 00:02:04.680 --> 00:02:09.599 receiving impressions from the mind in a general way. Subconscious ng, 39 00:02:09.680 --> 00:02:12.919 as used in this lesson, may be understood to mean 40 00:02:13.439 --> 00:02:16.719 using the subconscious mind under orders of the conscious mind. 41 00:02:17.840 --> 00:02:20.840 By referring to our eighth lesson, we see mention made 42 00:02:20.919 --> 00:02:24.000 of the case of the man who indulged in unconscious rumination, 43 00:02:24.400 --> 00:02:26.759 which happened to him when he read books presenting new 44 00:02:26.759 --> 00:02:30.199 points of view essentially opposed to his previous opinion. You 45 00:02:30.280 --> 00:02:33.159 will note that after days, weeks, or months, he found that, 46 00:02:33.199 --> 00:02:37.240 to his great astonishment, the old opinions were entirely rearranged 47 00:02:37.479 --> 00:02:41.039 and new ones lodged. There. On the same page you 48 00:02:41.039 --> 00:02:43.719 will see mentioned the case of Sir William Hamilton, who 49 00:02:43.719 --> 00:02:47.919 discovered an important law of mathematics while walking with his wife. 50 00:02:47.960 --> 00:02:50.400 In this case, he had been previously thinking of the 51 00:02:50.400 --> 00:02:53.280 missing link in his chain of reasoning, and the problem 52 00:02:53.479 --> 00:02:55.840 was worked out for him by the subconscious plane of 53 00:02:55.879 --> 00:02:59.319 his intellect. On the same page and the one following 54 00:02:59.520 --> 00:03:02.319 is found the case of doctor Thompson, who gives an 55 00:03:02.360 --> 00:03:05.240 interesting account of the workings of this part of his mind, 56 00:03:05.319 --> 00:03:07.919 which caused him at times to experience a feeling of 57 00:03:07.960 --> 00:03:11.960 the uselessness of all voluntary effort, coupled with the feeling 58 00:03:12.000 --> 00:03:14.400 that the matter was working itself clear in his mind. 59 00:03:14.919 --> 00:03:17.240 He tells us that at times he seemed to be 60 00:03:17.319 --> 00:03:19.960 merely a passive instrument in the hands of some person 61 00:03:20.039 --> 00:03:22.879 other than himself, who compelled him to wait until the 62 00:03:22.919 --> 00:03:26.360 work was performed for him by some hidden region of 63 00:03:26.400 --> 00:03:29.400 the mind. When the subconscious part of the mind had 64 00:03:29.439 --> 00:03:32.000 completed its work, it would flash the message to his 65 00:03:32.080 --> 00:03:35.840 conscious mind, and he would begin to write. On page 66 00:03:35.840 --> 00:03:38.800 one seventy eight, mention is also made of the great 67 00:03:38.800 --> 00:03:42.120 French chemist Bertelou, who relates that some of his best 68 00:03:42.159 --> 00:03:45.719 conceptions have flashed upon him as from the clear sky. 69 00:03:45.800 --> 00:03:48.439 In fact, the eighth Lesson is largely made up of 70 00:03:48.560 --> 00:03:51.560 examples of this kind, and we asked the student to 71 00:03:51.599 --> 00:03:54.759 reread the same in order to refresh his mind with 72 00:03:54.840 --> 00:03:58.840 the truth of the workings of the subconscious mentality. But 73 00:03:58.960 --> 00:04:01.439 you will notice in nearly all of the cases mentioned 74 00:04:01.560 --> 00:04:04.240 that those who related instances of the help of the 75 00:04:04.280 --> 00:04:07.680 subconscious mind had merely stumbled upon the fact that there 76 00:04:07.759 --> 00:04:10.759 was a part of the mind below consciousness that could 77 00:04:10.800 --> 00:04:13.719 and would work out problems for one if it could 78 00:04:13.759 --> 00:04:17.560 somehow be set in operation. And these people trusted to 79 00:04:17.639 --> 00:04:20.480 luck to start that part of the mind in operation. 80 00:04:21.360 --> 00:04:24.000 Or rather, they would saturate their conscious mind with a 81 00:04:24.079 --> 00:04:27.720 massive material like stuffing the stomach with food, and then 82 00:04:27.800 --> 00:04:32.079 bid the subconscious mind assort, separate, arrange, and digest the 83 00:04:32.120 --> 00:04:36.079 mental food, just as does the stomach and digestive apparatus 84 00:04:36.120 --> 00:04:39.920 digest the natural food outside of the realm of consciousness 85 00:04:40.040 --> 00:04:43.519 or volition. In none of the cases mentioned was a 86 00:04:43.519 --> 00:04:48.439 subconscious mind directed specifically to perform its wonderful work. It 87 00:04:48.600 --> 00:04:51.279 was simply hoped that it might digest the mental material 88 00:04:51.360 --> 00:04:54.000 with which it had been stuffed in pure self defense. 89 00:04:54.480 --> 00:04:56.800 But there is a much better way, and we intend 90 00:04:56.800 --> 00:04:59.519 to tell you about it. The Hindu yogis, or rather 91 00:04:59.560 --> 00:05:02.720 those who instruct their pupils in Raja yoga, give their 92 00:05:02.759 --> 00:05:06.639 students directions, whereby they may direct their subconscious minds to 93 00:05:06.680 --> 00:05:09.920 perform mental tasks for them, just as one may direct 94 00:05:09.959 --> 00:05:13.800 another to perform a task. They teach them the methods, whereby, 95 00:05:13.959 --> 00:05:17.839 after having accumulated the necessary materials, they may bid the 96 00:05:17.839 --> 00:05:22.879 subconscious mentality to sort it out, rearrange, analyze, and build 97 00:05:22.959 --> 00:05:26.399 up from it some bit of desired knowledge. More than this, 98 00:05:26.759 --> 00:05:29.920 they instruct their pupils to direct and order the subconscious 99 00:05:29.920 --> 00:05:33.480 mentality to search out and report to them certain information 100 00:05:33.600 --> 00:05:37.079 to be found only within the mind itself, some question 101 00:05:37.199 --> 00:05:41.279 of philosophy or metaphysics. And when such art has been acquired, 102 00:05:41.560 --> 00:05:44.759 the student or Yogi rest assured that the desired result 103 00:05:44.800 --> 00:05:48.639 will be forthcoming in due time, and consequently dismisses the 104 00:05:48.680 --> 00:05:52.439 matter from his conscious mind and busies himself with other matters, 105 00:05:52.959 --> 00:05:57.399 knowing that day and night, incessantly the subconsciousing process is 106 00:05:57.480 --> 00:06:01.000 going on, and that the subconscious mind is actively at 107 00:06:01.040 --> 00:06:05.720 work collecting the information or working out the problem. You 108 00:06:05.800 --> 00:06:08.560 will see at once the great superiority of this method 109 00:06:08.680 --> 00:06:11.120 over the old hit or miss hope it will work 110 00:06:11.160 --> 00:06:14.199 plan pursued by those who have stumbled upon bits of 111 00:06:14.240 --> 00:06:18.399 the truth. The yogi teacher begins by impressing upon his 112 00:06:18.480 --> 00:06:21.839 students the fact that the mind is capable of extending 113 00:06:21.920 --> 00:06:26.199 outward toward an object, material or mental, and by examining 114 00:06:26.240 --> 00:06:30.319 it by methods inherent in itself, extracting knowledge regarding the 115 00:06:30.360 --> 00:06:33.600 object name. This is not a startling truth, because it 116 00:06:33.639 --> 00:06:36.160 is so common, every one employing it more or less 117 00:06:36.160 --> 00:06:39.040 every day. But the process by which the knowledge is 118 00:06:39.079 --> 00:06:42.480 extracted is most wonderful, and really is performed below the 119 00:06:42.519 --> 00:06:45.519 plane of consciousness, the work of the conscious mind being 120 00:06:45.600 --> 00:06:50.240 chiefly concerned in holding the attention upon the object. We 121 00:06:50.279 --> 00:06:54.120 have spoken of the importance of attention in previous lessons 122 00:06:54.160 --> 00:06:56.480 which it will be well for you to reread at 123 00:06:56.480 --> 00:06:59.720 this time. When the student is fully impressed with the 124 00:06:59.720 --> 00:07:02.879 detail tells of the process of attention and the subsequent 125 00:07:02.959 --> 00:07:06.519 unfoldment of knowledge, the Yogi proceeds to inform him that 126 00:07:06.560 --> 00:07:09.399 there are other means of obtaining knowledge about an object, 127 00:07:09.920 --> 00:07:12.480 by the employment of which the attention may be firmly 128 00:07:12.519 --> 00:07:17.120 directed toward the object, and then afterwards held there unconsciously. 129 00:07:17.240 --> 00:07:20.800 That is a portion of the attention, or a subconscious 130 00:07:20.839 --> 00:07:24.519 phase of mentation, which will hold the subconscious mind firmly 131 00:07:24.600 --> 00:07:28.279 upon the work until accomplished, leaving the conscious attention and 132 00:07:28.360 --> 00:07:33.560 mentality free to employ itself with other things. The Yogis 133 00:07:33.560 --> 00:07:36.000 teach the students that this new form of attention is 134 00:07:36.079 --> 00:07:39.600 far more intense and powerful than is the conscious attention, 135 00:07:40.160 --> 00:07:43.319 for it cannot be disturbed or shaken or distracted from 136 00:07:43.319 --> 00:07:46.120 its object, and that it will work away at its 137 00:07:46.160 --> 00:07:50.319 task for days, months, years, or a lifetime if necessary, 138 00:07:50.639 --> 00:07:53.680 according to the difficulty of the task, and in fact 139 00:07:53.720 --> 00:07:57.240 carries its work over from one life to another unless 140 00:07:57.279 --> 00:08:01.160 recalled by the will. They teach student that in every 141 00:08:01.160 --> 00:08:03.600 one's life there is going on a greater or less 142 00:08:03.600 --> 00:08:07.120 degree of this subconscious work carried on in obedience to 143 00:08:07.160 --> 00:08:10.680 a strong desire for knowledge, manifested in some former life, 144 00:08:11.160 --> 00:08:15.439 and bearing fruit only in the present existence. Many important 145 00:08:15.439 --> 00:08:18.720 discoveries have been made in obedience to this law, but 146 00:08:18.800 --> 00:08:20.720 it is not of this phase of the matter that 147 00:08:20.759 --> 00:08:24.560 we wish to speak in this lesson. The Yogi theory 148 00:08:24.680 --> 00:08:27.800 is that the subconscious intellectual faculty may be set to 149 00:08:27.839 --> 00:08:31.600 work under the directions of orders given by the will. 150 00:08:31.920 --> 00:08:34.559 All of you know how the subconscious mentality will take 151 00:08:34.639 --> 00:08:37.240 up an order of the will, or a strong wish 152 00:08:37.559 --> 00:08:39.840 that the person be awakened at a certain hour in 153 00:08:39.919 --> 00:08:42.480 order to catch a train, or in the same way, 154 00:08:42.559 --> 00:08:45.879 how the remembrance of a certain engagement at say four 155 00:08:45.919 --> 00:08:48.720 o'clock will flash into the mind when the hands of 156 00:08:48.759 --> 00:08:52.720 the clock approach the started hour. Nearly everyone can recall 157 00:08:52.799 --> 00:08:56.840 instances of this sort in his own experiences. But the 158 00:08:56.919 --> 00:09:00.200 Yogis go much further than this. They claim that that 159 00:09:00.240 --> 00:09:03.000 any and all faculties of the mind may be set 160 00:09:03.080 --> 00:09:06.879 going or working on any problem, if ordered thereto by 161 00:09:06.879 --> 00:09:10.679 the will. In fact, the Yogis and their advanced students 162 00:09:10.720 --> 00:09:13.960 have mastered this art to such a surprising extent that 163 00:09:14.039 --> 00:09:17.279 they find it unnecessary to do the drudgery of thinking 164 00:09:17.320 --> 00:09:20.480 in the conscious field, and refer to relegate such mental 165 00:09:20.480 --> 00:09:23.799 work to the subconscious, reserving their conscious work for the 166 00:09:23.799 --> 00:09:28.200 consideration of digested information and thought presented to them by 167 00:09:28.200 --> 00:09:32.120 the subconscious mind. Their directions to their students cover a 168 00:09:32.159 --> 00:09:35.240 great deal of ground and extend over a long period 169 00:09:35.240 --> 00:09:38.600 of time, and many of the directions are quite complicated 170 00:09:38.639 --> 00:09:41.519 and full of detail. But we think that we can 171 00:09:41.559 --> 00:09:45.000 give our students an abbreviated and condensed idea in a 172 00:09:45.000 --> 00:09:48.320 few pages of the lesson, and the remaining lessons of 173 00:09:48.360 --> 00:09:51.080 the course will also throw additional light on the subject 174 00:09:51.120 --> 00:09:56.279 of subconscious mental action and connection with other subjects. The 175 00:09:56.399 --> 00:09:59.000 Yogi takes the student when the latter is much bothered 176 00:09:59.039 --> 00:10:02.799 by a consideration of some knotty and perplexing philosophical subject. 177 00:10:03.519 --> 00:10:07.279 He bids the student relax every muscle, take the tension 178 00:10:07.320 --> 00:10:11.159 from every nerve, throw aside all mental strain, and then 179 00:10:11.240 --> 00:10:14.679 wait a few moments. Then the student is instructed to 180 00:10:14.720 --> 00:10:17.320 grasp the subject which he has had before his mind 181 00:10:17.399 --> 00:10:21.919 firmly and fixedly before his mental vision by means of concentration. 182 00:10:22.960 --> 00:10:25.279 Then he is instructed to pass it on to the 183 00:10:25.279 --> 00:10:29.480 subconscious mentality by an effort of the will, which effort 184 00:10:29.519 --> 00:10:32.080 is aided by forming a mental picture of the subject 185 00:10:32.240 --> 00:10:35.720 as a material substance or bundle of thought, which is 186 00:10:35.759 --> 00:10:39.039 being bodily lifted up and drop down a mental hatchway 187 00:10:39.200 --> 00:10:42.799 or trap door in which it sinks from sight. The 188 00:10:42.840 --> 00:10:46.360 student is then instructed to say to the subconscious mentality, 189 00:10:47.240 --> 00:10:52.519 I wish this subject thoroughly analyzed, arranged, classified, and whatever 190 00:10:52.559 --> 00:10:55.639 else is desired, and then the results hand it back 191 00:10:55.679 --> 00:10:59.480 to me. Attend to this. The student is taught to 192 00:10:59.519 --> 00:11:03.080 speak to them the subconscious mentality, just as if it 193 00:11:03.120 --> 00:11:06.360 were a separate entity of being which had been employed 194 00:11:06.360 --> 00:11:09.360 to do the work. He is also taught that confident 195 00:11:09.480 --> 00:11:13.200 expectation is an important part of the process, and that 196 00:11:13.240 --> 00:11:16.120 the degree of success depends upon the degree of this 197 00:11:16.279 --> 00:11:21.519 confident expectation. In obstinate cases, the student is taught to 198 00:11:21.600 --> 00:11:24.559 use the imagination freely until he is able to make 199 00:11:24.639 --> 00:11:28.120 a mental image or picture of the subconscious mind doing 200 00:11:28.120 --> 00:11:31.759 what is required of it. This process clears away a 201 00:11:31.840 --> 00:11:35.120 mental path for the feet of the subconscious mind, which 202 00:11:35.159 --> 00:11:38.279 it will choose thereafter, as it prefers to follow the 203 00:11:38.279 --> 00:11:42.519 line of least resistance of course, much depends upon practice. 204 00:11:43.000 --> 00:11:46.679 Practice makes perfect, you know, in everything else, and subconsciousing 205 00:11:46.799 --> 00:11:50.559 is no exception to the rule. The student gradually acquires 206 00:11:50.600 --> 00:11:54.639 a proficiency in the art of subconsciousing, and thereafter devotes 207 00:11:54.639 --> 00:11:58.360 his time to acquiring new facts for mental digestion, rather 208 00:11:58.399 --> 00:12:02.080 than bestowing it upon the mechanical act of thinking. But 209 00:12:02.120 --> 00:12:04.720 a very important point to be remembered is that the 210 00:12:04.759 --> 00:12:08.399 will power back of the transferred thought material, which will 211 00:12:08.519 --> 00:12:12.240 power is the cause of the subconscious action, depends very 212 00:12:12.240 --> 00:12:16.000 greatly upon the attention and interests given to the acquired material. 213 00:12:17.000 --> 00:12:19.840 This mass of thought material, which is to be digested 214 00:12:19.879 --> 00:12:23.360 and threshed out by the subconscious mind, must be well 215 00:12:23.480 --> 00:12:27.279 saturated with interest and attention in order to obtain the 216 00:12:27.320 --> 00:12:31.840 best results. In fact, interest and attention are such important 217 00:12:31.879 --> 00:12:35.360 aids to the will that any consideration of the development 218 00:12:35.399 --> 00:12:39.240 and acquirement of will power is practically a development and 219 00:12:39.279 --> 00:12:42.879 acquirement of attention and interest. The student is referred to 220 00:12:42.960 --> 00:12:45.679 previous lessons in this course, in which the importance of 221 00:12:45.759 --> 00:12:50.559 interest and attention is explained and described. In acquiring the 222 00:12:50.559 --> 00:12:52.919 mass of thought material which is to be passed on 223 00:12:53.000 --> 00:12:57.080 to the subconscious digestion, one must concentrate a great degree 224 00:12:57.080 --> 00:13:00.279 of interest and attention upon each item of thought material 225 00:13:00.360 --> 00:13:03.480 gathered up. The gathering of this thought material is a 226 00:13:03.519 --> 00:13:06.799 matter of the greatest importance and must not be lightly 227 00:13:06.840 --> 00:13:10.799 passed by. One cannot hastily gather together all sorts of 228 00:13:10.840 --> 00:13:14.000 thought material and then expect the subconscious mind to do 229 00:13:14.080 --> 00:13:18.000 its work properly. It will not, in fact, and the 230 00:13:18.039 --> 00:13:22.159 student proceeding upon any such erroneous supposition is doomed to disappointment. 231 00:13:23.840 --> 00:13:26.240 The proper way to proceed is to take up each 232 00:13:26.279 --> 00:13:29.200 bit of thought material in turn, and examine it with 233 00:13:29.279 --> 00:13:33.759 the greatest possible interest and consequently the greatest attention. And then, 234 00:13:33.799 --> 00:13:38.200 after having fairly saturated it with this interested attention, place 235 00:13:38.279 --> 00:13:40.600 it with the pile of material, which after a while 236 00:13:40.759 --> 00:13:43.919 is to be passed on to the subconscious mentality. Then 237 00:13:43.960 --> 00:13:46.519 take up the next bit of material, and, after giving 238 00:13:46.559 --> 00:13:50.679 it similar treatment, pass it along to the pile also. Then, 239 00:13:50.720 --> 00:13:52.759 after a while, when you have gathered up the main 240 00:13:52.919 --> 00:13:55.919 facts of the case, proceed to consider the mass as 241 00:13:55.960 --> 00:13:59.679 a whole with interest and attention, giving it, as it were, 242 00:14:00.120 --> 00:14:03.080 a general treatment. Then drop it down the trap door 243 00:14:03.519 --> 00:14:07.240 into the subconscious mind with a strong command attend to 244 00:14:07.279 --> 00:14:11.000 this thought material, coupled with a strong expectant belief that 245 00:14:11.080 --> 00:14:15.320 your order will be obeyed. The idea underlying this treatment 246 00:14:15.399 --> 00:14:18.360 of the thought material with interest and attention is that 247 00:14:18.440 --> 00:14:22.000 by so doing a strong mental image is created which 248 00:14:22.039 --> 00:14:25.919 may be easily handled by the subconscious mind. Remember that 249 00:14:25.960 --> 00:14:29.159 you are passing on thoughts for the subconsciousness to act upon, 250 00:14:29.600 --> 00:14:32.159 and that the more tangible and real these thoughts are, 251 00:14:32.679 --> 00:14:36.039 the better can they be handled. Therefore, any plan that 252 00:14:36.120 --> 00:14:39.039 will build these thoughts up into real things is the 253 00:14:39.080 --> 00:14:43.600 plan to pursue, and attention and interest produce just this result. 254 00:14:44.080 --> 00:14:47.639 If we may be pardoned for using a homely uncommonplace illustration, 255 00:14:48.200 --> 00:14:50.480 we would say that the idea may be grasped by 256 00:14:50.480 --> 00:14:53.960 the illustration of boiling an egg, whereby the fluid white 257 00:14:54.039 --> 00:14:57.480 and yoke becomes solid and real. Also, the use of 258 00:14:57.480 --> 00:14:59.879 a shaving brush by a man, by which the thin 259 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:02.679 one lather is gradually worked up into a rich, thick, 260 00:15:02.720 --> 00:15:07.399 creamy mass is an illustration. Again, the churning of butter 261 00:15:07.519 --> 00:15:10.559 is a favorite illustration of the Hindoos, who thus call 262 00:15:10.639 --> 00:15:13.519 the attention of their students to the fact that thought material, 263 00:15:13.919 --> 00:15:17.679 if worked upon with attention and interest becomes thought forms 264 00:15:18.039 --> 00:15:20.159 that may be handled by the mind just as the 265 00:15:20.240 --> 00:15:23.720 hands handle a material object. We ask you to think 266 00:15:23.720 --> 00:15:27.120 of these illustrations, for when you once grasp the idea 267 00:15:27.200 --> 00:15:29.480 that we wish to convey to you, you will have 268 00:15:29.519 --> 00:15:33.639 the secret of great thinking powers within your grasp. And 269 00:15:33.720 --> 00:15:36.879 this power of subconsciousing is not confined alone to the 270 00:15:36.919 --> 00:15:41.799 consideration of philosophical questions. On the contrary, it is applicable 271 00:15:41.840 --> 00:15:44.799 to every field of human thought, and may be properly 272 00:15:44.840 --> 00:15:47.879 employed in any and all of them. It is useful 273 00:15:47.879 --> 00:15:50.600 in solving the problems of every day life and work, 274 00:15:50.919 --> 00:15:53.559 as well as to the higher flights of the human mind. 275 00:15:54.200 --> 00:15:56.639 And we wish every one of our students to realize 276 00:15:56.679 --> 00:15:59.080 that in this simple lesson we are giving them the 277 00:15:59.159 --> 00:16:02.600 key to a great mental power. To realize just what 278 00:16:02.720 --> 00:16:05.360 we are offering to you, we would remind you of 279 00:16:05.360 --> 00:16:08.519 the old fairy tales of all races, and which there 280 00:16:08.600 --> 00:16:11.320 is to be found one or more tales telling of 281 00:16:11.360 --> 00:16:14.759 some poor cobbler, or tailor, or carpenter, as the case 282 00:16:14.799 --> 00:16:17.639 may be, who had, by his good deeds, gained favor 283 00:16:17.679 --> 00:16:20.519 with the brownies or good fairies, who would come each 284 00:16:20.600 --> 00:16:23.200 night when the man and his family were asleep and 285 00:16:23.279 --> 00:16:25.679 proceed to complete the work that the artisan had laid 286 00:16:25.679 --> 00:16:28.320 out for the morrow. The pieces of leather would be 287 00:16:28.360 --> 00:16:31.639 made into shoes, the cloth would be sewed into garments, 288 00:16:31.960 --> 00:16:35.799 the wood would be joined and nailed together into boxes, chairs, benches, 289 00:16:35.799 --> 00:16:38.919 and what not. But in each case the rough materials 290 00:16:38.919 --> 00:16:43.039 were prepared by the artisan himself during the day. Well, 291 00:16:43.080 --> 00:16:45.320 that is just what we are trying to introduce to you, 292 00:16:45.879 --> 00:16:50.200 a clan of mental brownies, loving and kindly disposed toward you, 293 00:16:50.559 --> 00:16:52.960 who are anxious and willing to help you in your work. 294 00:16:53.320 --> 00:16:55.440 All you have to do is give them the proper 295 00:16:55.440 --> 00:16:58.679 materials and tell them what you want done, and they 296 00:16:58.720 --> 00:17:01.679 will do the rest. But these mental brownies are a 297 00:17:01.720 --> 00:17:05.400 part of your own mentality, remember, and no alien and 298 00:17:05.559 --> 00:17:09.799 foreign entities, as some have imagined. A number of people 299 00:17:09.839 --> 00:17:13.079 who have accidentally discovered this power of the subconscious mind 300 00:17:13.119 --> 00:17:16.400 to work out problems and to render other valuable service 301 00:17:16.440 --> 00:17:18.960 to its owner, have been led to suppose that the 302 00:17:19.000 --> 00:17:22.720 aid really came from some other entity or intelligence. Some 303 00:17:22.799 --> 00:17:25.039 have thought that the messages came from friends in the 304 00:17:25.079 --> 00:17:28.559 spirit land, and others have believed that some high intelligence 305 00:17:28.880 --> 00:17:32.599 God or his angels was working in their behalf. Without 306 00:17:32.640 --> 00:17:36.799 discussing spirit communication or divine messages, in both of which 307 00:17:36.799 --> 00:17:41.440 we believe, with certain provisional reservations, we feel justified in 308 00:17:41.480 --> 00:17:44.400 saying that the majority of cases of this kind may 309 00:17:44.440 --> 00:17:48.119 be referred to the subconscious working of one's own mentality. 310 00:17:49.480 --> 00:17:52.440 Part two. Each of us has a friend in our 311 00:17:52.480 --> 00:17:55.279 own mind, a score of them, in fact, who delight 312 00:17:55.319 --> 00:17:58.240 in performing services for us if we will but allow 313 00:17:58.279 --> 00:18:00.839 them to do so. Not only have we a higher 314 00:18:00.920 --> 00:18:03.000 self to whom we may turn for comfort and aid 315 00:18:03.039 --> 00:18:06.039 in times of deep distress and necessity, but we have 316 00:18:06.160 --> 00:18:10.039 these invisible mental workers on the subconscious plane who are 317 00:18:10.119 --> 00:18:12.480 very willing and glad to perform much of our mental 318 00:18:12.519 --> 00:18:14.880 work for us, if we will but give them the 319 00:18:14.920 --> 00:18:18.559 material in proper shape. It is very difficult to impart 320 00:18:18.640 --> 00:18:22.480 specific directions for obtaining these results, as each case must 321 00:18:22.559 --> 00:18:26.279 depend to a great extent upon the peculiar circumstances surrounding it. 322 00:18:27.119 --> 00:18:29.200 But we may say that the main thing needed is 323 00:18:29.240 --> 00:18:31.960 to licken to shape the material, and then pass it 324 00:18:32.000 --> 00:18:34.480 on to the subconscious mind in the manner spoken of 325 00:18:34.519 --> 00:18:37.039 a few moments ago. Let us run over a few 326 00:18:37.079 --> 00:18:41.039 cases wherein this principle may be applied. Let us suppose 327 00:18:41.079 --> 00:18:43.440 that you are confronted with the problem consisting of an 328 00:18:43.559 --> 00:18:46.039 uncertainty as to which of two or more courses to 329 00:18:46.079 --> 00:18:49.160 adopt in some affair of life. Each course seems to 330 00:18:49.200 --> 00:18:52.839 have some advantages and disadvantages, and you seem unable to 331 00:18:52.880 --> 00:18:56.640 pass upon the matter clearly and intelligently. The more you try, 332 00:18:56.680 --> 00:19:00.000 the more perplexed and worried do you become. Your minds 333 00:19:00.000 --> 00:19:02.400 aims to tire of the matter and manifest a state 334 00:19:02.440 --> 00:19:05.759 which may be called mental nausea. This state will be 335 00:19:05.799 --> 00:19:08.279 apparent to any one who has had much thinking to do. 336 00:19:09.000 --> 00:19:12.000 The average person, however, persists in going over the matter, 337 00:19:12.400 --> 00:19:15.680 notwithstanding the tired condition of the mind and its evident 338 00:19:15.759 --> 00:19:19.160 distaste for a further consideration of the subject. They will 339 00:19:19.240 --> 00:19:21.839 keep on forcing it back to the mind for consideration, 340 00:19:22.400 --> 00:19:24.839 and even at night time, will keep thrashing away at 341 00:19:24.839 --> 00:19:28.839 the subject. Now, this course is absurd. The mind recognizes 342 00:19:28.880 --> 00:19:31.440 that the work should be done by another part of itself, 343 00:19:31.680 --> 00:19:35.200 its digestive region in fact, and naturally rebels that the 344 00:19:35.240 --> 00:19:38.680 finishing up machinery being employed in work unsuited for it. 345 00:19:39.640 --> 00:19:42.720 According to the subconsciousing plan, The best thing for the 346 00:19:42.759 --> 00:19:45.039 man to do would be for him first to calm 347 00:19:45.079 --> 00:19:47.799 and quiet his mind. Then he should arrange the main 348 00:19:47.880 --> 00:19:51.000 features of the problem, together with the minor details, in 349 00:19:51.039 --> 00:19:54.440 their proper places. Then he should pass them slowly before 350 00:19:54.519 --> 00:19:57.599 him in review, giving a strong interest and attention to 351 00:19:57.680 --> 00:20:00.440 each fact in detail as it passes before for him, 352 00:20:00.680 --> 00:20:03.519 but without the slightest attempt to form a decision or 353 00:20:03.559 --> 00:20:06.640 come to a conclusion. Then, having given the matter an 354 00:20:06.680 --> 00:20:10.319 interested and attentive review, let him will that it pass 355 00:20:10.359 --> 00:20:13.559 on to a subconscious mind, forming the mental image of 356 00:20:13.640 --> 00:20:16.079 dropping it through the trap door, and at the same 357 00:20:16.119 --> 00:20:19.240 time giving the command of the will attend to this 358 00:20:19.359 --> 00:20:23.119 for me. Then dismiss the matter from your conscious mind 359 00:20:23.240 --> 00:20:26.000 by an effort of command of the will. If you 360 00:20:26.079 --> 00:20:29.160 find it difficult to do this, you may soon acquire 361 00:20:29.160 --> 00:20:32.799 the mastery by a frequent assertion, I have dismissed this 362 00:20:32.920 --> 00:20:36.079 matter from my conscious mind, and my subconscious mind will 363 00:20:36.079 --> 00:20:39.440 attend to it for me. Then endeavor to create a 364 00:20:39.480 --> 00:20:42.279 mental feeling of perfect trust and confidence in the matter, 365 00:20:42.720 --> 00:20:46.240 and avoid all worry or anxiety about it. This may 366 00:20:46.279 --> 00:20:49.559 be somewhat difficult at the first trial, but will become 367 00:20:49.599 --> 00:20:52.759 a natural feeling after you have gained the confidence arising 368 00:20:53.039 --> 00:20:57.039 from successful results. In several cases, the matter is one 369 00:20:57.079 --> 00:21:00.319 of practice, and like anything else that is new, must 370 00:21:00.359 --> 00:21:04.079 be acquired by perseverance and patience. It is well worth 371 00:21:04.079 --> 00:21:06.880 the time and trouble, and once acquired, will be regarded 372 00:21:06.920 --> 00:21:09.640 as something in the nature of a treasure discovered in 373 00:21:09.720 --> 00:21:14.319 an unexpected place. The sense of tranquility and content of 374 00:21:14.400 --> 00:21:17.400 calm and confidence that comes to one who has practiced 375 00:21:17.400 --> 00:21:20.400 this plan will of itself be worth all the trouble, 376 00:21:20.759 --> 00:21:24.119 not to speak of the main result. To one who 377 00:21:24.119 --> 00:21:27.640 has acquired this method, the old worries, fretting, and general 378 00:21:27.680 --> 00:21:30.799 stewed up filling will seem like a relic of barbarism. 379 00:21:31.119 --> 00:21:33.519 The new way opens up a whirl of new feelings 380 00:21:33.559 --> 00:21:37.279 and content. In some cases, the matter will be worked 381 00:21:37.319 --> 00:21:40.000 out by the subconscious mind in a very short time, 382 00:21:40.160 --> 00:21:42.240 and in fact we have known cases in which the 383 00:21:42.319 --> 00:21:46.480 answer would be flashed back almost instantly, almost like an inspiration. 384 00:21:47.039 --> 00:21:49.440 But in the majority of cases more or less time 385 00:21:49.519 --> 00:21:52.920 is required. The subconscious mind works very rapidly, but it 386 00:21:52.960 --> 00:21:56.079 takes time to arrange the thought material properly and to 387 00:21:56.119 --> 00:21:59.799 shape it into the desired forms. In the majority of cases, 388 00:21:59.839 --> 00:22:02.000 it is well to let the matter rest until the 389 00:22:02.039 --> 00:22:04.799 next day, a fact that gives us a clue to 390 00:22:04.839 --> 00:22:08.759 the old advice to sleep over an important proposition before 391 00:22:08.799 --> 00:22:13.119 passing a final decision. If the matter does not present 392 00:22:13.160 --> 00:22:15.880 itself the following day, bring it up again before the 393 00:22:15.920 --> 00:22:18.880 conscious mind for review. You will find that it has 394 00:22:18.920 --> 00:22:23.079 shaped itself up considerably and is assuming definite form and clearness. 395 00:22:23.799 --> 00:22:26.759 But right here, and this is important, do not make 396 00:22:26.799 --> 00:22:29.880 the mistake of again dissecting it and meddling with it 397 00:22:29.960 --> 00:22:32.720 and trying to arrange it with your conscious mind, But 398 00:22:32.839 --> 00:22:35.880 instead give it attention and interest in its new form, 399 00:22:36.200 --> 00:22:38.799 and then pass it back again to the subconscious mind 400 00:22:38.960 --> 00:22:41.799 for further work. You will find an improvement each time 401 00:22:41.799 --> 00:22:44.680