Speaker 1: The tenth lesson, Part one subconsciousing. In the ninth lesson,
Speaker 1: we called your attention to the fact that reasoning was
Speaker 1: not necessarily conscious in its operations, and that, in fact,
Speaker 1: a large part of the rational processes of the mind
Speaker 1: are performed below or above the field of consciousness. And
Speaker 1: in the eighth lesson we gave you a number of
Speaker 1: examples illustrating this fact. We also gave you a number
Speaker 1: of cases in which the subconscious field of the intellect
Speaker 1: worked out problems, and then, after a time, passed on
Speaker 1: to the conscious field of the intellect the solution of
Speaker 1: the matter. In this lesson we purpose instructing you in
Speaker 1: the methods by which this part of the intellect may
Speaker 1: be set to work for you. Many have stumbled upon
Speaker 1: bits of this truth for themselves, and in fact, the
Speaker 1: majority of successful men and women who have attained eminence
Speaker 1: in any walk of life have made more or less
Speaker 1: use of this truth, although they seldom understand the reason
Speaker 1: of it. Very few Western writers have recognized the work
Speaker 1: of this plain of the mind. They have given us
Speaker 1: full and ingenious theories and examples of the workings of
Speaker 1: the instinctive mind, and in some cases they have touched
Speaker 1: upon the workings and operations of the intuitional planes. But
Speaker 1: in nearly every case they have treated the intellect as
Speaker 1: something entirely confined to the conscious plane of mentation. In
Speaker 1: this they have missed some of the most interesting and
Speaker 1: valuable manifestations of subconscious mentation. In this lesson, we will
Speaker 1: take up this particular phase of mentation and trust to
Speaker 1: be able to point out the way to use it
Speaker 1: to the best advantage, giving some simple instructions that have
Speaker 1: been given by the Hindu teachers to their students for
Speaker 1: centuries past. Such instructions, of course, being modified by us
Speaker 1: to conform to the requirements and necessities of the Western
Speaker 1: student of today. We have taken the liberty of bestowing
Speaker 1: a new title upon this phase of mentation. We have
Speaker 1: thought it well to call it subconsciously. The word sub
Speaker 1: of course, means under below, and the word consciousing is
Speaker 1: a favorite term employed by Professor Elmer Gates and means
Speaker 1: receiving impressions from the mind in a general way. Subconscious ng,
Speaker 1: as used in this lesson, may be understood to mean
Speaker 1: using the subconscious mind under orders of the conscious mind.
Speaker 1: By referring to our eighth lesson, we see mention made
Speaker 1: of the case of the man who indulged in unconscious rumination,
Speaker 1: which happened to him when he read books presenting new
Speaker 1: points of view essentially opposed to his previous opinion. You
Speaker 1: will note that after days, weeks, or months, he found that,
Speaker 1: to his great astonishment, the old opinions were entirely rearranged
Speaker 1: and new ones lodged. There. On the same page you
Speaker 1: will see mentioned the case of Sir William Hamilton, who
Speaker 1: discovered an important law of mathematics while walking with his wife.
Speaker 1: In this case, he had been previously thinking of the
Speaker 1: missing link in his chain of reasoning, and the problem
Speaker 1: was worked out for him by the subconscious plane of
Speaker 1: his intellect. On the same page and the one following
Speaker 1: is found the case of doctor Thompson, who gives an
Speaker 1: interesting account of the workings of this part of his mind,
Speaker 1: which caused him at times to experience a feeling of
Speaker 1: the uselessness of all voluntary effort, coupled with the feeling
Speaker 1: that the matter was working itself clear in his mind.
Speaker 1: He tells us that at times he seemed to be
Speaker 1: merely a passive instrument in the hands of some person
Speaker 1: other than himself, who compelled him to wait until the
Speaker 1: work was performed for him by some hidden region of
Speaker 1: the mind. When the subconscious part of the mind had
Speaker 1: completed its work, it would flash the message to his
Speaker 1: conscious mind, and he would begin to write. On page
Speaker 1: one seventy eight, mention is also made of the great
Speaker 1: French chemist Bertelou, who relates that some of his best
Speaker 1: conceptions have flashed upon him as from the clear sky.
Speaker 1: In fact, the eighth Lesson is largely made up of
Speaker 1: examples of this kind, and we asked the student to
Speaker 1: reread the same in order to refresh his mind with
Speaker 1: the truth of the workings of the subconscious mentality. But
Speaker 1: you will notice in nearly all of the cases mentioned
Speaker 1: that those who related instances of the help of the
Speaker 1: subconscious mind had merely stumbled upon the fact that there
Speaker 1: was a part of the mind below consciousness that could
Speaker 1: and would work out problems for one if it could
Speaker 1: somehow be set in operation. And these people trusted to
Speaker 1: luck to start that part of the mind in operation.
Speaker 1: Or rather, they would saturate their conscious mind with a
Speaker 1: massive material like stuffing the stomach with food, and then
Speaker 1: bid the subconscious mind assort, separate, arrange, and digest the
Speaker 1: mental food, just as does the stomach and digestive apparatus
Speaker 1: digest the natural food outside of the realm of consciousness
Speaker 1: or volition. In none of the cases mentioned was a
Speaker 1: subconscious mind directed specifically to perform its wonderful work. It
Speaker 1: was simply hoped that it might digest the mental material
Speaker 1: with which it had been stuffed in pure self defense.
Speaker 1: But there is a much better way, and we intend
Speaker 1: to tell you about it. The Hindu yogis, or rather
Speaker 1: those who instruct their pupils in Raja yoga, give their
Speaker 1: students directions, whereby they may direct their subconscious minds to
Speaker 1: perform mental tasks for them, just as one may direct
Speaker 1: another to perform a task. They teach them the methods, whereby,
Speaker 1: after having accumulated the necessary materials, they may bid the
Speaker 1: subconscious mentality to sort it out, rearrange, analyze, and build
Speaker 1: up from it some bit of desired knowledge. More than this,
Speaker 1: they instruct their pupils to direct and order the subconscious
Speaker 1: mentality to search out and report to them certain information
Speaker 1: to be found only within the mind itself, some question
Speaker 1: of philosophy or metaphysics. And when such art has been acquired,
Speaker 1: the student or Yogi rest assured that the desired result
Speaker 1: will be forthcoming in due time, and consequently dismisses the
Speaker 1: matter from his conscious mind and busies himself with other matters,
Speaker 1: knowing that day and night, incessantly the subconsciousing process is
Speaker 1: going on, and that the subconscious mind is actively at
Speaker 1: work collecting the information or working out the problem. You
Speaker 1: will see at once the great superiority of this method
Speaker 1: over the old hit or miss hope it will work
Speaker 1: plan pursued by those who have stumbled upon bits of
Speaker 1: the truth. The yogi teacher begins by impressing upon his
Speaker 1: students the fact that the mind is capable of extending
Speaker 1: outward toward an object, material or mental, and by examining
Speaker 1: it by methods inherent in itself, extracting knowledge regarding the
Speaker 1: object name. This is not a startling truth, because it
Speaker 1: is so common, every one employing it more or less
Speaker 1: every day. But the process by which the knowledge is
Speaker 1: extracted is most wonderful, and really is performed below the
Speaker 1: plane of consciousness, the work of the conscious mind being
Speaker 1: chiefly concerned in holding the attention upon the object. We
Speaker 1: have spoken of the importance of attention in previous lessons
Speaker 1: which it will be well for you to reread at
Speaker 1: this time. When the student is fully impressed with the
Speaker 1: detail tells of the process of attention and the subsequent
Speaker 1: unfoldment of knowledge, the Yogi proceeds to inform him that
Speaker 1: there are other means of obtaining knowledge about an object,
Speaker 1: by the employment of which the attention may be firmly
Speaker 1: directed toward the object, and then afterwards held there unconsciously.
Speaker 1: That is a portion of the attention, or a subconscious
Speaker 1: phase of mentation, which will hold the subconscious mind firmly
Speaker 1: upon the work until accomplished, leaving the conscious attention and
Speaker 1: mentality free to employ itself with other things. The Yogis
Speaker 1: teach the students that this new form of attention is
Speaker 1: far more intense and powerful than is the conscious attention,
Speaker 1: for it cannot be disturbed or shaken or distracted from
Speaker 1: its object, and that it will work away at its
Speaker 1: task for days, months, years, or a lifetime if necessary,
Speaker 1: according to the difficulty of the task, and in fact
Speaker 1: carries its work over from one life to another unless
Speaker 1: recalled by the will. They teach student that in every
Speaker 1: one's life there is going on a greater or less
Speaker 1: degree of this subconscious work carried on in obedience to
Speaker 1: a strong desire for knowledge, manifested in some former life,
Speaker 1: and bearing fruit only in the present existence. Many important
Speaker 1: discoveries have been made in obedience to this law, but
Speaker 1: it is not of this phase of the matter that
Speaker 1: we wish to speak in this lesson. The Yogi theory
Speaker 1: is that the subconscious intellectual faculty may be set to
Speaker 1: work under the directions of orders given by the will.
Speaker 1: All of you know how the subconscious mentality will take
Speaker 1: up an order of the will, or a strong wish
Speaker 1: that the person be awakened at a certain hour in
Speaker 1: order to catch a train, or in the same way,
Speaker 1: how the remembrance of a certain engagement at say four
Speaker 1: o'clock will flash into the mind when the hands of
Speaker 1: the clock approach the started hour. Nearly everyone can recall
Speaker 1: instances of this sort in his own experiences. But the
Speaker 1: Yogis go much further than this. They claim that that
Speaker 1: any and all faculties of the mind may be set
Speaker 1: going or working on any problem, if ordered thereto by
Speaker 1: the will. In fact, the Yogis and their advanced students
Speaker 1: have mastered this art to such a surprising extent that
Speaker 1: they find it unnecessary to do the drudgery of thinking
Speaker 1: in the conscious field, and refer to relegate such mental
Speaker 1: work to the subconscious, reserving their conscious work for the
Speaker 1: consideration of digested information and thought presented to them by
Speaker 1: the subconscious mind. Their directions to their students cover a
Speaker 1: great deal of ground and extend over a long period
Speaker 1: of time, and many of the directions are quite complicated
Speaker 1: and full of detail. But we think that we can
Speaker 1: give our students an abbreviated and condensed idea in a
Speaker 1: few pages of the lesson, and the remaining lessons of
Speaker 1: the course will also throw additional light on the subject
Speaker 1: of subconscious mental action and connection with other subjects. The
Speaker 1: Yogi takes the student when the latter is much bothered
Speaker 1: by a consideration of some knotty and perplexing philosophical subject.
Speaker 1: He bids the student relax every muscle, take the tension
Speaker 1: from every nerve, throw aside all mental strain, and then
Speaker 1: wait a few moments. Then the student is instructed to
Speaker 1: grasp the subject which he has had before his mind
Speaker 1: firmly and fixedly before his mental vision by means of concentration.
Speaker 1: Then he is instructed to pass it on to the
Speaker 1: subconscious mentality by an effort of the will, which effort
Speaker 1: is aided by forming a mental picture of the subject
Speaker 1: as a material substance or bundle of thought, which is
Speaker 1: being bodily lifted up and drop down a mental hatchway
Speaker 1: or trap door in which it sinks from sight. The
Speaker 1: student is then instructed to say to the subconscious mentality,
Speaker 1: I wish this subject thoroughly analyzed, arranged, classified, and whatever
Speaker 1: else is desired, and then the results hand it back
Speaker 1: to me. Attend to this. The student is taught to
Speaker 1: speak to them the subconscious mentality, just as if it
Speaker 1: were a separate entity of being which had been employed
Speaker 1: to do the work. He is also taught that confident
Speaker 1: expectation is an important part of the process, and that
Speaker 1: the degree of success depends upon the degree of this
Speaker 1: confident expectation. In obstinate cases, the student is taught to
Speaker 1: use the imagination freely until he is able to make
Speaker 1: a mental image or picture of the subconscious mind doing
Speaker 1: what is required of it. This process clears away a
Speaker 1: mental path for the feet of the subconscious mind, which
Speaker 1: it will choose thereafter, as it prefers to follow the
Speaker 1: line of least resistance of course, much depends upon practice.
Speaker 1: Practice makes perfect, you know, in everything else, and subconsciousing
Speaker 1: is no exception to the rule. The student gradually acquires
Speaker 1: a proficiency in the art of subconsciousing, and thereafter devotes
Speaker 1: his time to acquiring new facts for mental digestion, rather
Speaker 1: than bestowing it upon the mechanical act of thinking. But
Speaker 1: a very important point to be remembered is that the
Speaker 1: will power back of the transferred thought material, which will
Speaker 1: power is the cause of the subconscious action, depends very
Speaker 1: greatly upon the attention and interests given to the acquired material.
Speaker 1: This mass of thought material, which is to be digested
Speaker 1: and threshed out by the subconscious mind, must be well
Speaker 1: saturated with interest and attention in order to obtain the
Speaker 1: best results. In fact, interest and attention are such important
Speaker 1: aids to the will that any consideration of the development
Speaker 1: and acquirement of will power is practically a development and
Speaker 1: acquirement of attention and interest. The student is referred to
Speaker 1: previous lessons in this course, in which the importance of
Speaker 1: interest and attention is explained and described. In acquiring the
Speaker 1: mass of thought material which is to be passed on
Speaker 1: to the subconscious digestion, one must concentrate a great degree
Speaker 1: of interest and attention upon each item of thought material
Speaker 1: gathered up. The gathering of this thought material is a
Speaker 1: matter of the greatest importance and must not be lightly
Speaker 1: passed by. One cannot hastily gather together all sorts of
Speaker 1: thought material and then expect the subconscious mind to do
Speaker 1: its work properly. It will not, in fact, and the
Speaker 1: student proceeding upon any such erroneous supposition is doomed to disappointment.
Speaker 1: The proper way to proceed is to take up each
Speaker 1: bit of thought material in turn, and examine it with
Speaker 1: the greatest possible interest and consequently the greatest attention. And then,
Speaker 1: after having fairly saturated it with this interested attention, place
Speaker 1: it with the pile of material, which after a while
Speaker 1: is to be passed on to the subconscious mentality. Then
Speaker 1: take up the next bit of material, and, after giving
Speaker 1: it similar treatment, pass it along to the pile also. Then,
Speaker 1: after a while, when you have gathered up the main
Speaker 1: facts of the case, proceed to consider the mass as
Speaker 1: a whole with interest and attention, giving it, as it were,
Speaker 1: a general treatment. Then drop it down the trap door
Speaker 1: into the subconscious mind with a strong command attend to
Speaker 1: this thought material, coupled with a strong expectant belief that
Speaker 1: your order will be obeyed. The idea underlying this treatment
Speaker 1: of the thought material with interest and attention is that
Speaker 1: by so doing a strong mental image is created which
Speaker 1: may be easily handled by the subconscious mind. Remember that
Speaker 1: you are passing on thoughts for the subconsciousness to act upon,
Speaker 1: and that the more tangible and real these thoughts are,
Speaker 1: the better can they be handled. Therefore, any plan that
Speaker 1: will build these thoughts up into real things is the
Speaker 1: plan to pursue, and attention and interest produce just this result.
Speaker 1: If we may be pardoned for using a homely uncommonplace illustration,
Speaker 1: we would say that the idea may be grasped by
Speaker 1: the illustration of boiling an egg, whereby the fluid white
Speaker 1: and yoke becomes solid and real. Also, the use of
Speaker 1: a shaving brush by a man, by which the thin
Speaker 1: one lather is gradually worked up into a rich, thick,
Speaker 1: creamy mass is an illustration. Again, the churning of butter
Speaker 1: is a favorite illustration of the Hindoos, who thus call
Speaker 1: the attention of their students to the fact that thought material,
Speaker 1: if worked upon with attention and interest becomes thought forms
Speaker 1: that may be handled by the mind just as the
Speaker 1: hands handle a material object. We ask you to think
Speaker 1: of these illustrations, for when you once grasp the idea
Speaker 1: that we wish to convey to you, you will have
Speaker 1: the secret of great thinking powers within your grasp. And
Speaker 1: this power of subconsciousing is not confined alone to the
Speaker 1: consideration of philosophical questions. On the contrary, it is applicable
Speaker 1: to every field of human thought, and may be properly
Speaker 1: employed in any and all of them. It is useful
Speaker 1: in solving the problems of every day life and work,
Speaker 1: as well as to the higher flights of the human mind.
Speaker 1: And we wish every one of our students to realize
Speaker 1: that in this simple lesson we are giving them the
Speaker 1: key to a great mental power. To realize just what
Speaker 1: we are offering to you, we would remind you of
Speaker 1: the old fairy tales of all races, and which there
Speaker 1: is to be found one or more tales telling of
Speaker 1: some poor cobbler, or tailor, or carpenter, as the case
Speaker 1: may be, who had, by his good deeds, gained favor
Speaker 1: with the brownies or good fairies, who would come each
Speaker 1: night when the man and his family were asleep and
Speaker 1: proceed to complete the work that the artisan had laid
Speaker 1: out for the morrow. The pieces of leather would be
Speaker 1: made into shoes, the cloth would be sewed into garments,
Speaker 1: the wood would be joined and nailed together into boxes, chairs, benches,
Speaker 1: and what not. But in each case the rough materials
Speaker 1: were prepared by the artisan himself during the day. Well,
Speaker 1: that is just what we are trying to introduce to you,
Speaker 1: a clan of mental brownies, loving and kindly disposed toward you,
Speaker 1: who are anxious and willing to help you in your work.
Speaker 1: All you have to do is give them the proper
Speaker 1: materials and tell them what you want done, and they
Speaker 1: will do the rest. But these mental brownies are a
Speaker 1: part of your own mentality, remember, and no alien and
Speaker 1: foreign entities, as some have imagined. A number of people
Speaker 1: who have accidentally discovered this power of the subconscious mind
Speaker 1: to work out problems and to render other valuable service
Speaker 1: to its owner, have been led to suppose that the
Speaker 1: aid really came from some other entity or intelligence. Some
Speaker 1: have thought that the messages came from friends in the
Speaker 1: spirit land, and others have believed that some high intelligence
Speaker 1: God or his angels was working in their behalf. Without
Speaker 1: discussing spirit communication or divine messages, in both of which
Speaker 1: we believe, with certain provisional reservations, we feel justified in
Speaker 1: saying that the majority of cases of this kind may
Speaker 1: be referred to the subconscious working of one's own mentality.
Speaker 1: Part two. Each of us has a friend in our
Speaker 1: own mind, a score of them, in fact, who delight
Speaker 1: in performing services for us if we will but allow
Speaker 1: them to do so. Not only have we a higher
Speaker 1: self to whom we may turn for comfort and aid
Speaker 1: in times of deep distress and necessity, but we have
Speaker 1: these invisible mental workers on the subconscious plane who are
Speaker 1: very willing and glad to perform much of our mental
Speaker 1: work for us, if we will but give them the
Speaker 1: material in proper shape. It is very difficult to impart
Speaker 1: specific directions for obtaining these results, as each case must
Speaker 1: depend to a great extent upon the peculiar circumstances surrounding it.
Speaker 1: But we may say that the main thing needed is
Speaker 1: to licken to shape the material, and then pass it
Speaker 1: on to the subconscious mind in the manner spoken of
Speaker 1: a few moments ago. Let us run over a few
Speaker 1: cases wherein this principle may be applied. Let us suppose
Speaker 1: that you are confronted with the problem consisting of an
Speaker 1: uncertainty as to which of two or more courses to
Speaker 1: adopt in some affair of life. Each course seems to
Speaker 1: have some advantages and disadvantages, and you seem unable to
Speaker 1: pass upon the matter clearly and intelligently. The more you try,
Speaker 1: the more perplexed and worried do you become. Your minds
Speaker 1: aims to tire of the matter and manifest a state
Speaker 1: which may be called mental nausea. This state will be
Speaker 1: apparent to any one who has had much thinking to do.
Speaker 1: The average person, however, persists in going over the matter,
Speaker 1: notwithstanding the tired condition of the mind and its evident
Speaker 1: distaste for a further consideration of the subject. They will
Speaker 1: keep on forcing it back to the mind for consideration,
Speaker 1: and even at night time, will keep thrashing away at
Speaker 1: the subject. Now, this course is absurd. The mind recognizes
Speaker 1: that the work should be done by another part of itself,
Speaker 1: its digestive region in fact, and naturally rebels that the
Speaker 1: finishing up machinery being employed in work unsuited for it.
Speaker 1: According to the subconsciousing plan, The best thing for the
Speaker 1: man to do would be for him first to calm
Speaker 1: and quiet his mind. Then he should arrange the main
Speaker 1: features of the problem, together with the minor details, in
Speaker 1: their proper places. Then he should pass them slowly before
Speaker 1: him in review, giving a strong interest and attention to
Speaker 1: each fact in detail as it passes before for him,
Speaker 1: but without the slightest attempt to form a decision or
Speaker 1: come to a conclusion. Then, having given the matter an
Speaker 1: interested and attentive review, let him will that it pass
Speaker 1: on to a subconscious mind, forming the mental image of
Speaker 1: dropping it through the trap door, and at the same
Speaker 1: time giving the command of the will attend to this
Speaker 1: for me. Then dismiss the matter from your conscious mind
Speaker 1: by an effort of command of the will. If you
Speaker 1: find it difficult to do this, you may soon acquire
Speaker 1: the mastery by a frequent assertion, I have dismissed this
Speaker 1: matter from my conscious mind, and my subconscious mind will
Speaker 1: attend to it for me. Then endeavor to create a
Speaker 1: mental feeling of perfect trust and confidence in the matter,
Speaker 1: and avoid all worry or anxiety about it. This may
Speaker 1: be somewhat difficult at the first trial, but will become
Speaker 1: a natural feeling after you have gained the confidence arising
Speaker 1: from successful results. In several cases, the matter is one
Speaker 1: of practice, and like anything else that is new, must
Speaker 1: be acquired by perseverance and patience. It is well worth
Speaker 1: the time and trouble, and once acquired, will be regarded
Speaker 1: as something in the nature of a treasure discovered in
Speaker 1: an unexpected place. The sense of tranquility and content of
Speaker 1: calm and confidence that comes to one who has practiced
Speaker 1: this plan will of itself be worth all the trouble,
Speaker 1: not to speak of the main result. To one who
Speaker 1: has acquired this method, the old worries, fretting, and general
Speaker 1: stewed up filling will seem like a relic of barbarism.
Speaker 1: The new way opens up a whirl of new feelings
Speaker 1: and content. In some cases, the matter will be worked
Speaker 1: out by the subconscious mind in a very short time,
Speaker 1: and in fact we have known cases in which the
Speaker 1: answer would be flashed back almost instantly, almost like an inspiration.
Speaker 1: But in the majority of cases more or less time
Speaker 1: is required. The subconscious mind works very rapidly, but it
Speaker 1: takes time to arrange the thought material properly and to
Speaker 1: shape it into the desired forms. In the majority of cases,
Speaker 1: it is well to let the matter rest until the
Speaker 1: next day, a fact that gives us a clue to
Speaker 1: the old advice to sleep over an important proposition before
Speaker 1: passing a final decision. If the matter does not present
Speaker 1: itself the following day, bring it up again before the
Speaker 1: conscious mind for review. You will find that it has
Speaker 1: shaped itself up considerably and is assuming definite form and clearness.
Speaker 1: But right here, and this is important, do not make
Speaker 1: the mistake of again dissecting it and meddling with it
Speaker 1: and trying to arrange it with your conscious mind, But
Speaker 1: instead give it attention and interest in its new form,
Speaker 1: and then pass it back again to the subconscious mind
Speaker 1: for further work. You will find an improvement each time
Speaker 1: you examine it. But write here another word of caution.
Speaker 1: Do not make the mistake of yielding to the impatience
Speaker 1: of the beginner and keep on repeatedly bringing up the
Speaker 1: matter to see what is being done. Give it time
Speaker 1: to have the work done on it. Do not be
Speaker 1: like the boy who plant its seeds, and who each
Speaker 1: day would pull them up to see whether they had
Speaker 1: sprouted and how much. Sooner or later, the subconscious mind
Speaker 1: will of its own choice, lift up the matter, and
Speaker 1: present it to you in its finished shape for the
Speaker 1: consideration of the conscious mind. The subconscious mind does not
Speaker 1: insist that you shall adopt its views or accept its work,
Speaker 1: but merely hands out to you the results of its sorting, classifying,
Speaker 1: and arranging. The choice and will still remains yours, but
Speaker 1: you will often find that there is seen to be
Speaker 1: one plan or path that stands out clearly from the others,
Speaker 1: and you will very likely adopt that one. The secret
Speaker 1: is that the subconscious mind, with its wonderful patience and care,
Speaker 1: has analyzed the matter and has separated things before apparently connected.
Speaker 1: It has also found resemblances and has combined things heretofore
Speaker 1: considered opposed to each other. In short, it has done
Speaker 1: for you all that you could have done with the
Speaker 1: expenditure of great work and time, and done it well.
Speaker 1: And then it lays the matter before you for your
Speaker 1: consideration and verdict. Its whole work seems to have been
Speaker 1: in the nature of assorting, dissecting, analyzing, and arranging the evidence,
Speaker 1: and then presenting it before you in a clear, systematic shape.
Speaker 1: It does not attempt to exercise the judicial prerogative or
Speaker 1: function but seems to recognize that its work ceases with
Speaker 1: the presentation of the edited evidence, and that of the
Speaker 1: conscious mind begins at the same point. Now, do not
Speaker 1: confuse this work with that of the intuition, which is
Speaker 1: a very different mental phase or plane. This subconscious working
Speaker 1: just mentioned plays an entirely different part. It is a
Speaker 1: good servant and does not try to be more. The intuition,
Speaker 1: on the contrary, is more like a higher friend, a
Speaker 1: friend at court, as it were, who gives us warnings
Speaker 1: and advice in our directions. We have told you how
Speaker 1: to make use of this part of the mind consciously
Speaker 1: and knowingly, so as to obtain the best results and
Speaker 1: to get rid of worry and anxiety attended upon unsettled questions.
Speaker 1: But in fact every one of us makes more or
Speaker 1: less use of this part of the mind, uncomm anxiously
Speaker 1: and not realizing the important part it plays in our
Speaker 1: mental life. We are perplexed about a matter and keep
Speaker 1: it on our minds until we are forced to lay
Speaker 1: it aside by reason of some other demand, or when
Speaker 1: we sink to sleep. Often, to our surprise we will
Speaker 1: find that when we next think of it, the matter
Speaker 1: has somehow cleared up and straightened itself out, and we
Speaker 1: seem to have learned something about it that we did
Speaker 1: not know before. We do not understand it and are
Speaker 1: apt to dismiss it as just one of those things.
Speaker 1: In these lessons, we are attempting to explain some of
Speaker 1: those things, and to enable you to use them consciously
Speaker 1: and understandingly, instead of by chance, instinctively and clumsily. We
Speaker 1: are teaching you mastery of the mind. Now to apply
Speaker 1: the rule to another case, Suppose you wish to gather
Speaker 1: together all the information that you possess relating to a
Speaker 1: certain subject. In the first place, it is certain that
Speaker 1: you know a very great deal more about any subject
Speaker 1: than you think you do. Stored away in the various
Speaker 1: recesses of the mind or memory, if you prefer that term,
Speaker 1: are stray bits of information and knowledge concerning almost any subject.
Speaker 1: But these bits of information are not associated with each other.
Speaker 1: You have never attempted to think attentively upon the particular
Speaker 1: question before you, and the facts are not correlated. In
Speaker 1: the mind. It is just as if you had so
Speaker 1: many hundred pounds of anything scattered throughout the space of
Speaker 1: a large warehouse, a tiny bit here and a tiny
Speaker 1: bit there, mixed up with thousands of other things. You
Speaker 1: may prove this by sitting down some time and letting
Speaker 1: your thoughts run along the lines of some particular subject,
Speaker 1: and you will find emerging into the field of consciousness
Speaker 1: all sorts of information that you had apparently forgotten, and
Speaker 1: each fitting itself into its proper place. Every person has
Speaker 1: had experiences of this kind. But the work of gathering
Speaker 1: together the scattered scraps of knowledge is more or less
Speaker 1: tedious for the conscious mind, and the subconscious mind will
Speaker 1: do the work equally well with the wear and on
Speaker 1: the attention. In fact, it is the subconscious mind that
Speaker 1: always does the work, even when you think it is
Speaker 1: the conscious mind. All the conscious mind does is to
Speaker 1: hold the attention firmly upon the object before it, and
Speaker 1: then let the subconsciousness pass the material before it. But
Speaker 1: this holding the attention is tiresome work, and it is
Speaker 1: not necessary for it to expend its energies upon the
Speaker 1: details of the task, For the work may be done
Speaker 1: in an easier and simpler way. The best way is
Speaker 1: to follow a plan similar to the one mentioned a
Speaker 1: few pages back, that is, to fix the interested attention
Speaker 1: firmly upon the question before you until you manage to
Speaker 1: get a clear, vivid impression of just what you want answered.
Speaker 1: Then pass the whole matter into the subconscious mind with
Speaker 1: a command attend to this, and then leave it. Throw
Speaker 1: the whole matter off of your mind, and let the
Speaker 1: subconscious work go on. If possible, let the matter run
Speaker 1: along until the next morning, and then take it up
Speaker 1: for consideration, when, if you have proceeded properly, you will
Speaker 1: find the matter worked out, arranged in logical sequence, so
Speaker 1: that your conscious attention will be able to clearly review
Speaker 1: the string of facts examples, illustrations, experiences, et cetera relating
Speaker 1: to the matter in question. Now, many of you will
Speaker 1: say that you would like this plan to work in
Speaker 1: cases in which you have not the time to sleep
Speaker 1: over it. In such cases, we will say that it
Speaker 1: is possible to cultivate a rapid method of subconsciousing, and
Speaker 1: in fact, many business men and men of affairs have
Speaker 1: stumbled upon a similar plan, driven to the discovery by necessity.
Speaker 1: They will give a quick, comprehensive, strong flash of attention
Speaker 1: upon the subject, getting right to the heart of it,
Speaker 1: and then will let it rest in the subconscious mind
Speaker 1: for a moment or two killing a minute or two
Speaker 1: of time in preliminary conversation until the first flash of
Speaker 1: answer comes to them. After the first flash, and taking
Speaker 1: hold to the first loose end of the subject that
Speaker 1: presents itself to them, they will unwind a string of
Speaker 1: information and talk about the subject that will surprise even themselves.
Speaker 1: Many lawyers have acquired this knowledge and are what is
Speaker 1: known as resourceful. Such men are often confronted with questions
Speaker 1: of conditions utterly unsuspected by them a moment before. Practice
Speaker 1: has taught them the folly of fear and the loss
Speaker 1: of confidence at such moments, and has also impressed upon
Speaker 1: them the truth that something within them will come to
Speaker 1: the rescue. So, presenting a confident error, they will manage
Speaker 1: to say a few platitudes or commonplaces while the subconscious
Speaker 1: mind is most rapidly gathering its materials for the answer.
Speaker 1: In a moment, an idea passes before his conscious and
Speaker 1: eager attention, sometimes so rapidly that it is almost impossible
Speaker 1: to utter them, and lo, the danger is over, and
Speaker 1: a brilliant success is often snatched from the jaws of
Speaker 1: an apparent failure and defeat. In such cases, the mental
Speaker 1: demand upon the sub conscious mind is not voiced in words,
Speaker 1: but is the result of a strong mental need. However,
Speaker 1: if one gives a quick verbal command attend to this,
Speaker 1: the result will be heightened. We have known of cases
Speaker 1: of men prominent in the world's affairs who made a
Speaker 1: practice of smoking a cigar during important business interviews, not
Speaker 1: because they particularly cared for tobacco, but because they had
Speaker 1: learned to appreciate the value of a moment's time for
Speaker 1: the mind to gather itself together. As one man expressed it,
Speaker 1: a question would be asked, or a proposition advanced, suddenly
Speaker 1: demanding an immediate answer, under the watchful eyes of the
Speaker 1: other party. The question party tried not to show by
Speaker 1: his expression any indication of searching for an answer for
Speaker 1: obvious reasons, so instead he would take a long puff
Speaker 1: at the cigar, then a slow attentive look at the
Speaker 1: ashes on its tip, and then another moment consumed in
Speaker 1: flicking the ash into the receptacle. And then came the
Speaker 1: answer slowly well as to that or some other words
Speaker 1: of that kind, prefacing the real answer, which he had
Speaker 1: been rapidly framed by the subconscious mind, in time to
Speaker 1: be uttered in its proper place. The few moments of
Speaker 1: time gained had been sufficient for the sub conscious mind
Speaker 1: to gather up its materials and the matter to be
Speaker 1: shaped properly without any appearance of hesitation on the part
Speaker 1: of the answerer. All of this required practice, of course,
Speaker 1: but the principle may be seen through it all and
Speaker 1: in every similar case. The point is that the man
Speaker 1: in such cases set some hidden part of his mind
Speaker 1: to work for him, and when he begins to speak,
Speaker 1: the matter is at least roughly licked into shape for him.
Speaker 1: Our students will understand, of course, that this is not
Speaker 1: advice to smoke cigars doing interviews of importance, but is
Speaker 1: merely given to illustrate the principle. We have known other
Speaker 1: men to twirl a lead pencil in their fingers in
Speaker 1: a lazy sort of fashion, and then drop it at
Speaker 1: the important moment. But we must cease giving examples of
Speaker 1: this kind. Less be accused of giving instructions in worldly
Speaker 1: wisdom instead of teaching the use of the mind. The
Speaker 1: impressive pause of the teacher before answering his pupil's question
Speaker 1: is also an example of the workings of this law.
Speaker 1: One often says, stop, let me think a moment, and
Speaker 1: during his pause, he does not really consciously think at all,
Speaker 1: but stares ahead in a dreamy fashion, while his subconscious
Speaker 1: mind does the work for him. Although he little suspects
Speaker 1: the nature of the operation, one has but to look
Speaker 1: around him to realize the importance and frequent application of
Speaker 1: this truth. And not only may the subconscious mind be
Speaker 1: used in the directions indicated on preceding pages, but in
Speaker 1: nearly every perplexity and problem of life. May it be
Speaker 1: called upon for help. These little subconscious brownies are ever
Speaker 1: at our disposal, and seem to be happy to be
Speaker 1: of service to us, and so far from being apt
Speaker 1: to get us in a position of false dependence, it
Speaker 1: is calculated to make us self confident, for we are
Speaker 1: calling upon a part of ourselves, not upon some outside intelligence.
Speaker 1: If those people who never feel satisfied unless they are
Speaker 1: getting advice from others would only cultivate the acquaintance of
Speaker 1: this little home adviser within them, they would lose that
Speaker 1: dependent attitude and frame of mind, and would grow self
Speaker 1: confident and fearless. Just imagine the confidence of one who
Speaker 1: feels that he has within him a source of knowledge
Speaker 1: equal to that of the majority of those with whom
Speaker 1: he is likely to come in contact, and he feels
Speaker 1: less afraid to face them and look them fearlessly in
Speaker 1: the eyes. He feels that his mind is not confined
Speaker 1: to the little field of consciousness, but is an area
Speaker 1: infinitely greater, containing a massive information, undreamed of everything that
Speaker 1: the man has inherited or brought with him from past lives.
Speaker 1: Everything that he has read, heard, or seen or experienced
Speaker 1: in this life is hidden away there in some order
Speaker 1: of that great subconscious mind. And if he will but
Speaker 1: give the command, the essence of all that knowledge is his.
Speaker 1: The details may not be presented to his consciousness. Often
Speaker 1: it is not for very good occult reasons, but the
Speaker 1: result or essence of the knowledge will pass before his attention,
Speaker 1: with sufficient examples and illustrations or arguments to enable him
Speaker 1: to make out a good case for himself. In the
Speaker 1: next lesson, we will call your attention to other features
Speaker 1: and qualities of this great field of mind, showing you
Speaker 1: how you can put it to work and master it.
Speaker 1: Remember always the eye is the master, and its mastery
Speaker 1: must always be remembered and asserted over all phases and
Speaker 1: planes of the mind. Do not be a slave to
Speaker 1: the subconscious but be its master mantrum or affirmation. I
Speaker 1: have within me a great area of mind that is
Speaker 1: under my de man and subject to my mastery. This
Speaker 1: mind is friendly to me and is glad to do
Speaker 1: my bidding and obey my orders. It will work for
Speaker 1: me when I ask it, and is constant, untiring, and faithful.
Speaker 1: Knowing this, I am no longer afraid, ignorant, or uninformed.
Speaker 1: The eye is master of it all and is asserting
Speaker 1: its authority. I am master over body, mind, consciousness, and subconsciousness.
Speaker 1: I am I, a center of power, strength, and knowledge.
Speaker 1: I am I, and I am Spirit, a fragment from
Speaker 1: the divine flame. End of the tenth lesson