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SUBCONSCIOUS POWER: Your Secret Forces for Law of Attraction & Manifestation – William Walker Atkinson · THE SECRET LAW OF ATTRACTION: Manifest Wealth, Success & Abundance

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Speaker 1: Subconscious Power. Your Secret Forces by William Walker Atkinson, nineteen
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Speaker 1: twenty two. Your Secret Forces. In this book, you are
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Speaker 1: asked to consider some wonderful phases of your personal power,
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Speaker 1: that personal power which is the expression and manifestation through
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Speaker 1: you of that great principle of all power, from which
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Speaker 1: all phases and forms of power proceed, and in which
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Speaker 1: all such are contained. This principle is known in this
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Speaker 1: instruction as power. In several of the other volumes of
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Speaker 1: this series of instruction, upon the subject of personal power,
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Speaker 1: we have asked you to consider those particular phases of
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Speaker 1: your personal power which are known, respectively as creative power,
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Speaker 1: desire power, faith power, will power, et cetera. While in
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Speaker 1: nearly all of those books occasional reference has been made
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Speaker 1: to the activities of the subconscious planes of mind and will,
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Speaker 1: their primary subject matter has been that which is concerned
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Speaker 1: chiefly with the respective processes of the several phases of
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Speaker 1: mental activity manifesting on the planes of ordinary consciousness. In
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Speaker 1: the present book, on the contrary, you are asked to
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Speaker 1: consider those comparatively little known activities of the mind and
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Speaker 1: will which lie outside of and beyond the field of
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Speaker 1: ordinary consciousness, but which exert a tremendous influence over the
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Speaker 1: activities of that region, and which to a great extent,
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Speaker 1: supply that realm with the material of ideas, mental images,
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Speaker 1: and emotional states. While the mental planes lying outside of
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Speaker 1: and beyond the field of ordinary consciousness have been until
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Speaker 1: recent years comparatively unexplored by psychologists, and in fact have
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Speaker 1: been almost entirely ignored by Western psychology until modern times.
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Speaker 1: The best thought of the present time is in practical
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Speaker 1: agreement upon the fact that on those hidden planes of
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Speaker 1: mentality are performed the major portion of our mental work,
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Speaker 1: and that in their field are in operation some of
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Speaker 1: the most important of our mental processes. The exploration of
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Speaker 1: these obscure regions of the mind has been one of
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Speaker 1: the most fascinating tasks of modern psychology, and the minds
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Speaker 1: have yielded rich material in abundance. Many mental phenomena, formerly
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Speaker 1: either denied as impossible by the orthodox psychologists or else
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Speaker 1: regarded by the average person as evidence of supernatural agencies
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Speaker 1: and forces, are now seen to fit perfectly into the
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Speaker 1: natural order of things and to operate according to natural
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Speaker 1: law and order. Not only have such investigations resulted in
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Speaker 1: a greater increase of the scientific knowledge concerning the inner
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Speaker 1: workings of the mind. But they have also served to
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Speaker 1: place in the hands of the more advanced psychologists the
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Speaker 1: material which they have turned to practical and efficient use
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Speaker 1: by means of scientific methods of application. The effect of
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Speaker 1: these discoveries has been the presentation of an important truth
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Speaker 1: to the thinking individual, the truth that his mental realm
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Speaker 1: is a far greater and grander land that he has
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Speaker 1: heretofore considered it to be. No longer is the self
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Speaker 1: held to be limited in its mental activities to the
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Speaker 1: narrow field of ordinary consciousness. Your mental kingdom has suddenly expanded,
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Speaker 1: until it now constitutes a great empire, with borders flung
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Speaker 1: wide and far beyond the boundaries of the little kingdom
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Speaker 1: which you have been considering as the entire area of
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Speaker 1: the field of the forces, powers, and activities of the self.
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Speaker 1: The self has often been likened to the king of
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Speaker 1: a great mental kingdom, But in view of the discovery
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Speaker 1: of the new facts concerning the wonderful field of the unconscious, subconscious,
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Speaker 1: and super conscious mental activities, the self is now more
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Speaker 1: properly to be represented as a mighty emperor of a
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Speaker 1: vast empire of which only a comparatively small portion has
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Speaker 1: as yet been explored. You are being called upon to
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Speaker 1: appreciate more fully the ancient aphorism you are greater than
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Speaker 1: you know. Yourself is like a new Columbus gazing at
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Speaker 1: the great new world which it has discovered around itself,
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Speaker 1: and of which it is the owner and the ruler.
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Speaker 1: The writers on the subject of the realm of the
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Speaker 1: subconscious mentality, being impressed by the vastness of this new
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Speaker 1: empire of the self, have exercised their imaginations in the
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Speaker 1: direction of supplying familiar illustrations borrowed from the world of
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Speaker 1: concrete material things. It is astonishing to discover how close
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Speaker 1: is the analogy furnished by certain of these illustrations and
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Speaker 1: figurative symbols. We ask you to consider the following symbolic
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Speaker 1: representations in order that your mind may more readily grasp
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Speaker 1: the great truths involved in these new discoveries concerning the
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Speaker 1: realm and power of the subconscious mentality. Some writers have
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Speaker 1: compared the subconscious and the conscious regions of the mind
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Speaker 1: to the visible and invisible portions of the solar spectrum.
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Speaker 1: Science informs us that the visible portion of the solar
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Speaker 1: spectrum with its red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and
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Speaker 1: violet rays, is bounded on its lower side by a
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Speaker 1: region of infrared rays, and on its upper side by
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Speaker 1: a region of ultraviolet rays, these invisible fields of light
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Speaker 1: extending almost indefinitely in either direction. These hidden rays are
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Speaker 1: invisible to our unaided eyes, but are recorded by delicate
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Speaker 1: scientific instruments. The larger part of the heat rays emanating
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Speaker 1: from the sun is invisible to us and forms a
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Speaker 1: portion of the infrared field of the solar spectrum. Likewise,
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Speaker 1: the major portion of the chemical changes in the vegetable
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Speaker 1: world upon which depend the life and growth of the plants,
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Speaker 1: results from the action of the ultraviolet rays, which are
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Speaker 1: invisible to our unaided eyes, but which are scientific instruments
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Speaker 1: faithfully record. The most powerful rays of light, Those which
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Speaker 1: produce the most marked effects upon living creatures are the
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Speaker 1: invisible ultraviolet rays, the rays of dark light, as they
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Speaker 1: have been fancifully styled. Other writers have compared the conscious
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Speaker 1: and subconscious planes of mentation to a small luminous circle
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Speaker 1: surrounded by a great ring of twilight, and beyond this
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Speaker 1: an indefinite darkness. The events occurring in that twilight region
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Speaker 1: and in that night region being quite as real as
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Speaker 1: those occurring within the luminous circle. Others still have likened
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Speaker 1: the mind of man to the earth, with its great
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Speaker 1: underlying deposits of coal and oil, in which slow umber,
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Speaker 1: latent light, heat, and other forms of potential energy, force
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Speaker 1: and power, awaiting but some appropriate stimulus to bring to
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Speaker 1: the surface the materials from which those forces may be released.
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Speaker 1: Ignoring to a great extent the disputes and differences on
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Speaker 1: the part of the psychologists concerning the most appropriate names
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Speaker 1: and terms to be employed in the consideration of the
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Speaker 1: out of consciousness fields of mental activity and work, and
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Speaker 1: brushing aside as non essential the distinctions and differentiations between
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Speaker 1: the various phases of these activities, we shall, in this
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Speaker 1: instruction embrace the entire field and its activities under the
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Speaker 1: general term of the subconscious. Employing the term the subconscious
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Speaker 1: to indicate the entire field of activities of the mind
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Speaker 1: which are performed below, above, or in any way outside
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Speaker 1: of the field or plane of the ordinary consciousness of
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Speaker 1: the individual, we soon discover that the activities of the
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Speaker 1: subconscious extend over a very wide range of manifestation and
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Speaker 1: embrace a great variety of forms of expression. In the
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Speaker 1: first place, the subconscious presides over the activities of your
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Speaker 1: physical organism. It is the animating spirit of your physical processes.
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Speaker 1: It performs the manifold tasks of digestion, assimilation, nutrition, elimination, secretion, circulation, reproduction,
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Speaker 1: in short, all of your vital processes. Your conscious mentality
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Speaker 1: is thus relieved of these great tasks. Again, the subconscious
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Speaker 1: supervises the performance of your instinctive actions. Every action that
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Speaker 1: you perform automatically, instinctively, by habit, by heart, and without
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Speaker 1: conscious employment of thought and will, is really performed by
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Speaker 1: your subconscious mentality. Your conscious mentality, thus relieved of this work,
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Speaker 1: is able to concentrate upon those other tasks which it
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Speaker 1: alone can perform. When you learn to perform an action
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Speaker 1: by heart or by habit, the conscious mentality has turned
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Speaker 1: over this particular work to your subconscious Again. The subconscious
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Speaker 1: is largely concerned with the activities of your emotional nature.
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Speaker 1: Your emotions, which rise to the plane or level of consciousness,
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Speaker 1: are but the surface manifestations of the more elemental activities
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Speaker 1: performed in the depths of the ocean of the subconscious.
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Speaker 1: Your elemental and instinctive emotions have their source and home
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Speaker 1: in the subconscious they have accumulated there by reason of
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Speaker 1: habit heredity or racial memory. Practically all the material of
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Speaker 1: your emotional activities is stored on the planes and levels
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Speaker 1: of the subconscious. Again, the subconscious presides over the processes
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Speaker 1: of memory. The subconscious planes or levels of the mind
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Speaker 1: constitute the great storehouse of the recorded impressions of memory. Moreover,
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Speaker 1: on those planes or levels is performed the work of
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Speaker 1: indexing and cross indexing the memory records, by means of
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Speaker 1: which subsequent recollection, recognition, and remembrance are rendered possible. These
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Speaker 1: regions of your subconscious mentality contain not only the recorded
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Speaker 1: impressions of your own personal experience, but also those racial
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Speaker 1: memories or inherited memories, which manifest in you as instinct
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Speaker 1: and which play a very important part in your life. Again,
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Speaker 1: the subconscious is able to, and frequently does perform for
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Speaker 1: you important work along the lines of actual thinking. By
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Speaker 1: means of mental rumination, it digests and assimilates the materials
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Speaker 1: furnished by your conscious mentality, and then proceeds to classify these,
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Speaker 1: to compare them, and to proceed to form judgments and
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Speaker 1: decisions upon them and from them. All below the levels
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Speaker 1: of your ordinary consciousness. Careful psychologists have decided that, by
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Speaker 1: far the greater part of our reasoning processes are really
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Speaker 1: performed on mental levels and planes outside of the field
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Speaker 1: of the ordinary consciousness. Much of your creative mental work,
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Speaker 1: particularly that of the constructive imagination, is performed in this way,
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Speaker 1: the result afterward being raised to the levels of conscious thought. Finally,
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Speaker 1: there are levels and planes above those of the ordinary consciousness,
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Speaker 1: just as there are those below the latter. Just as
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Speaker 1: the lower levels are largely concerned with working over the
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Speaker 1: stored up materials of the past, so these higher levels
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Speaker 1: are concerned with reporting that which may be considered to
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Speaker 1: represent the future conscious activities of the human race. These
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Speaker 1: higher regions of the subconscious may be said to contain
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Speaker 1: the seed or embryo of the higher faculties and powers
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Speaker 1: which will unfold fully in the future stages of the
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Speaker 1: mental evolution of the race. Many of these higher faculties
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Speaker 1: and powers are even now beginning to manifest in occasional
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Speaker 1: flashes in the minds of certain individuals, and as a consequence,
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Speaker 1: such individuals are frequently regarded as inspired or as possessing
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Speaker 1: that indefinable quality or power known as genius. On these
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Speaker 1: higher planes of the subconscious abide certain marvelous powers of
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Speaker 1: the self, which powers manifest and express themselves in that
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Speaker 1: which we call genius, inspiration illumination, the exceptional mental achievements
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Speaker 1: of certain intel which stamp them as above the average.
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Speaker 1: On these high planes abide and are manifested those wonderful
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Speaker 1: mental activities which we attempt to explain under the term intuition.
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Speaker 1: These activities, however, are not contrary to reason, though they
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Speaker 1: may seem to transcend it at times. It is better
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Speaker 1: to consider them as the manifestation of a higher reason.
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Speaker 1: The investigation and exploration of these higher realms of the
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Speaker 1: subconscious form one of the most interesting and fascinating tasks
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Speaker 1: of modern psychology. Even now, the reports of the investigators
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Speaker 1: and explorers are of surpassing interest those which confidently may
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Speaker 1: be looked for in the future. Bid fair to constitute
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Speaker 1: a marvelous contribution to the pages of the history of
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Speaker 1: modern scientific research. In this book, we shall ask you
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Speaker 1: to accompany us in an exploration of the various regions
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Speaker 1: of the subconscious, those wonderful realms of your mind, from
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Speaker 1: the highest to the lowest. In this new land, there
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Speaker 1: are valuable deposits of material useful to you and to
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Speaker 1: all mankind. It is our purpose to point out these
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Speaker 1: to you, and to instruct you in the most approved
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Speaker 1: methods of mining in converting them to practical uses. You
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Speaker 1: are not specially interested in a history of the explorations
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Speaker 1: of the early travelers in this realm, nor in their
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Speaker 1: conflicting theories and their technical terms, nor in their claims
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Speaker 1: of priority of discovery. If we judge you rightly, you
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Speaker 1: are interested chiefly in the matter of being led directly
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Speaker 1: to the minds containing these rich deposits, and in being
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Speaker 1: told just how to conduct the mining operations and the
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Speaker 1: converting processes. In this spirit, then our journey of exploration
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Speaker 1: shall be conducted. The secret forces of the great subconscious,
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Speaker 1: like all other great natural forces, may be harnessed and
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Speaker 1: pressed into service by you. Like electricity, they may be
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Speaker 1: so managed and directed into the proper channels that they
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Speaker 1: may be set to work by and for you. You
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Speaker 1: have been employing these forces to a greater or less
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Speaker 1: extent in very many of your mental activities. But in
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Speaker 1: all probability you have been employing them instinctively and without
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Speaker 1: a full knowledge of the laws and principles involved in them.
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Speaker 1: When you understand just what these forces are, how they work,
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Speaker 1: and the methods best calculated to produce efficient results and effects,
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Speaker 1: then you may proceed to employ subconscious power them intelligently, deliberately,
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Speaker 1: and with conscious purpose and intent and the name. The
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Speaker 1: average man employs but about twenty five percent of his
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Speaker 1: subconscious power. The man who understands the principles and methods
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Speaker 1: to which we have just referred will be able to
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Speaker 1: employ one hundred percent of his available subconscious power. This
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Speaker 1: means that he will be able to increase fourfold his
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Speaker 1: subconscious mental work and activity, with correspondingly increased results and effects.
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Speaker 1: Inasmuch as at least seventy five percent of man's mental
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Speaker 1: processes are performed on the plane or level of the subconscious,
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Speaker 1: it will be seen that the benefits arising from quadrupling
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Speaker 1: his subconscious mental activities and available power are almost beyond
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Speaker 1: the power of adequate calculation. This increased power and efficiency, moreover,
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Speaker 1: are not obtained at the cost of increased effort and
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Speaker 1: mental wear and tear. On the contrary, the man effectively
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Speaker 1: employing his subconscious relieves himself of a great portion of
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Speaker 1: the mental strain incident to the employment of the conscious mentality.
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Speaker 1: Subconscious Power, Your Secret Forces by William Walker Atkinson, nineteen
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Speaker 1: twenty two, subconscious Mentation. For many years, Western psychology held
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Speaker 1: tenaciously to the theory that all there is of mind,
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Speaker 1: all mental processes, all thought, all feeling, all will activity,
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Speaker 1: were contained within the narrow limits of the ordinary consciousness.
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Speaker 1: It held that the ordinary consciousness was identical with mind.
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Speaker 1: We say Western psychology because Oriental psychology, for many centuries,
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Speaker 1: for over two thousand years, in fact, had recognized the
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Speaker 1: out of consciousness mental planes, states and process in spite
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Speaker 1: of the fact that many conscious mental states were perceived
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Speaker 1: to be but superficial manifestations of much deeper processes. In
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Speaker 1: spite of the fact that many such mental states were
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Speaker 1: seen to arise from the depths of mental being lying
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Speaker 1: far below the level of the ordinary consciousness. In spite
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Speaker 1: of the fact that the emotional nature undoubtedly has its
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Speaker 1: fundamental and elemental existence below the levels of the ordinary consciousness,
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Speaker 1: these old time Orthodox psychologists held firmly to their original
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Speaker 1: contention and denounced those who ventured to express a doubt
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Speaker 1: concerning it. These bold timers, it is true, found many
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Speaker 1: facts which remained unexplainable under the old theory. But like
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Speaker 1: many other Orthodox thinkers along other lines of thought, they
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Speaker 1: took the position that the old dogmas and teachings must
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Speaker 1: be supported at all costs, and that if the facts
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Speaker 1: conflicted with their theories, then so much the worse for
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Speaker 1: the facts. But finally the pressure became too strong, and
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Speaker 1: the younger men studying in thinking of about the science
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Speaker 1: of the mind began to advance tentatively the idea that
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Speaker 1: perhaps there might be other regions of the mind, regions
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Speaker 1: lying below the threshold of consciousness levels, or planes lying
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Speaker 1: below the ordinary mental levels, and planes upon which important
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Speaker 1: mental processes are performed. In spite of the continued and
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Speaker 1: strenuous opposition of the orthodox psychologists, these courageous thinkers conducted
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Speaker 1: extended experiments and made careful observations for the purpose of
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Speaker 1: discovering the nature and the laws of these great unexplored
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Speaker 1: realms of the human mind. These investigations were made, for
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Speaker 1: the most part by psychologists who felt that this unknown
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Speaker 1: region of the mind must exist in order to explain
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Speaker 1: and satisfactorily account for certain observed conscious mental phenomena. The
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Speaker 1: conscious effects were before them, but the out of consciousness,
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Speaker 1: because of these was unknown. They reasoned that if such
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Speaker 1: and such effects were present, then such and such causes
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Speaker 1: must also be present, although so far these causes had
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Speaker 1: not been discovered. These pioneers were like the astronomers who
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Speaker 1: posited the necessary existence of certain undiscovered planets by reason
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Speaker 1: of the discovered actions of certain known planets, which actions
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Speaker 1: were seen necessarily to be caused by the presence and
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Speaker 1: influence of other planets as yet undiscovered by science. Or
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Speaker 1: changing the illustration, we may say that these advanced thinkers
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Speaker 1: were like the early explorers, who, by reason of occasionally
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Speaker 1: observing strange floating trees, animals, and bodies of men in
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Speaker 1: certain far distant waters, hazarded the theory that there must
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Speaker 1: be an undiscovered world situated far to the west of
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Speaker 1: their own world. This was the idea that inspired Columbus
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Speaker 1: and which finally led to the discovery of America. In
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Speaker 1: the same scientific spirit, these pioneer psychologists sought to account
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Speaker 1: for certain observed mental activities, deflections, and influences, upon the
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Speaker 1: theory that there must exist other planes of mental activity
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Speaker 1: lying out of consciousness, which constituted the field of a
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Speaker 1: wonderful activity. The results of which afterward rose to the
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Speaker 1: surface of consciousness. Leibnitz, the great German philosopher, was one
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Speaker 1: of the first of the leading Western psychologists to advance
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Speaker 1: the theory that the mind is not limited to the
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Speaker 1: narrow field of the ordinary consciousness, and that there are
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Speaker 1: changes occurring, energies always at work, and modifications constantly taking
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Speaker 1: place in the mind of which the ordinary consciousness is
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Speaker 1: not aware. Others followed in his footsteps, until finally the
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Speaker 1: large number and high standing of the advocates of the
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Speaker 1: new idea forced recognition and respect for it on the
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Speaker 1: part of the orthodox psychologists vigorously opposed and often violently ridiculed.
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Speaker 1: This great idea gradually attracted to itself strong support, and
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Speaker 1: finally became an accepted doctrine in the standard Western psychology.
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Speaker 1: As a straw showing how the wind of even the
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Speaker 1: most conservative thought is now blowing in the direction of
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Speaker 1: the general recognition of the existence of the out of
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Speaker 1: consciousness planes or levels of mental activity, we quote the
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Speaker 1: following extract from an article contained in the Encyclopedia Britannica
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Speaker 1: eleventh edition, Volume twenty five, page ten sixty three, The
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Speaker 1: Reality of Modes of Mental Operation, which may properly be
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Speaker 1: called subconscious or subliminal, is now generally admitted. During the
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Speaker 1: last quarter of the nineteenth and the opening years of
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Speaker 1: the twentieth century, there has been accumulated a mass of
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Speaker 1: observations which suffices, in the opinion of many of those
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Speaker 1: best qualified to judge, to establish the reality of processes
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Speaker 1: which express themselves in purposeful actions, and which bear all
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Speaker 1: the marks from which we are accustomed to infer conscious
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Speaker 1: cognition and volition, but of which, nevertheless, the subject of
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Speaker 1: normal personality has no knowledge or awareness other than such
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Speaker 1: as may be shared by any second person observing his actions.
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Speaker 1: Perhaps the greatest cause of the objection of the old
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Speaker 1: time psychologists to the idea of the subconscious, and one
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Speaker 1: of the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of the
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Speaker 1: understanding of the subject by the average modern laymen, is
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Speaker 1: that of the seemingly contradictory notion of mental activities performed
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Speaker 1: without consciousness. It is indeed hard to conceive of thinking
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Speaker 1: without consciousness, But subconscious or even unconscious thinking is not
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Speaker 1: really thinking without consciousness. It is rather thinking on planes
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Speaker 1: of consciousness other than that of the ordinary consciousness. The
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Speaker 1: term unconscious so frequently applied to the activities of the
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Speaker 1: subconscious is particularly unfortunate. It serves to bewilder the student
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Speaker 1: and to arouse uncalled for opposition in the minds of
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Speaker 1: those unfamiliar with the real facts of the case. Subconsciousness
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Speaker 1: is not unconsciousness. It is rather other consciousness. This is
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Speaker 1: a most important distinction. We trust that you will fix
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Speaker 1: it in your mind and observe it in your thought.
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Speaker 1: Upon the subject, the Freudian school has given great prominence
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Speaker 1: to the term the unconscious, which was originally employed by
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Speaker 1: Vaughan Hartmann, in its consideration of certain important phases of
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Speaker 1: the activities of the subconscious. This fact has served to
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Speaker 1: add to the difficulties attached to the subject of the
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Speaker 1: out of consciousness mental processes. But the Freudians do not
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Speaker 1: intend to convey the idea that the unconscious is unknowing.
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Speaker 1: On the contrary, they hold that it knows much and
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Speaker 1: knows well. Doctor Wilfrid Lay, one of the clearest exponents
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Speaker 1: of the teachings of Freud, says on this point the
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Speaker 1: unconscious is not to be regarded as the unknowing part
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Speaker 1: of the mind, but only as the unknown part. From
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Speaker 1: one point of view, there is no such thing as
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Speaker 1: the unknowing part of the mind, because the mind is
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Speaker 1: essentially that part of the personality that is knowing, knowing
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Speaker 1: with greater or less intensity, and knowing now one and
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Speaker 1: now another object, but always knowing something from the first
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Speaker 1: day of its life until the last. But the unconscious
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Speaker 1: may be described as the generally unknown realms of the ego,
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Speaker 1: into the seemingly bottomless abyss of which the sensations and
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Speaker 1: perceptions of the individual are constantly sinking, and from which,
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Speaker 1: no matter how hard we try, we cannot, without the
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Speaker 1: help which analytic psychology offers us, recover anything except a
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Speaker 1: very limited amount of visual, verbal, or other memories. A
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Speaker 1: little further on in this section of the book, we
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Speaker 1: realms of the ego. Modern psychology is able to furnish
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Speaker 1: the explanation one that is quite satisfactory when rightly understood.
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Speaker 1: away another quite frequent cause of misconception, misinterpretation, and misunderstanding
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Speaker 1: of the character of the real nature of the subconscious, namely,
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Speaker 1: the erroneous dual mind theory, which to some extent has
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Speaker 1: become attached to it by reason of the hasty generalizations
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Speaker 1: of the great fallacies arising from the hasty generalization of
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Speaker 1: some of the early investigators, teachers, and writers upon the
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Speaker 1: subject of the subconscious, and one which has been quite
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Speaker 1: difficult to explain away to the popular mind, is that
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Speaker 1: which is early known as the two mind theory or
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Speaker 1: the dual mind hypothesis. Arising from this is that associated
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Speaker 1: fallacy consisting of identifying one of the hypothetical two minds
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Speaker 1: with the soul, instead of regarding both of these two
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Speaker 1: respective fields of mentation as particular divisions, regions, levels, or
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Speaker 1: planes of mental activity, all of which are instruments of
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Speaker 1: the manifestation and expression of the ego self or I
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Speaker 1: am I of the individual. Frederick W. H. Myers, the
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Speaker 1: English essayist and investigator of psychic phenomena, was in eighteen
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Speaker 1: the dual mind of man. But Myers was far more
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Speaker 1: conservative than were some of his followers in this respect,
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Speaker 1: as will be seen from the following brief consideration of
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Speaker 1: his ideas. Meyer's original idea was that the self is
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Speaker 1: not only a unity, but also a coordination of its
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Speaker 1: several phases and powers. He held that, in addition to
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Speaker 1: the more commonly recogni attributes, the self possesses faculties and
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Speaker 1: powers unexercised and unexercisable by the consciousness that finds employment
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Speaker 1: in the direction of the affairs of everyday life. At first,
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Speaker 1: Myers confined his attention to the conception of a level
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Speaker 1: everyday consciousness, below the threshold of that consciousness, as he
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Speaker 1: very aptly expressed it. He employed the term the subliminal
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Speaker 1: consciousness to indicate all that takes place beneath the ordinary threshold, or, say,
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Speaker 1: if preferred, the ordinary margin of consciousness, not only those
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Speaker 1: faint stimulations whose very faintness keeps them submerged, but much
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Speaker 1: else which psychology as yet scarcely recognizes, sensations, thoughts, emotions,
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Speaker 1: which may be strong, definite, and independent, but which, by
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Speaker 1: the original constitution of our being, seldom merge into that
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Speaker 1: superliminal current of consciousness which we usually identify with ourselves.
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Speaker 1: But later Myers yielded to the temptation to generalize beyond
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Speaker 1: conservative limits, and he thereby laid the foundations for much
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Speaker 1: wild thought on the part of his later followers, thought, which,
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Speaker 1: by the way, Myers would undoubtedly have repudiated had he
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Speaker 1: been living at the time. But even his generalization was
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Speaker 1: advanced quite modestly and tentatively, as will be seen by
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Speaker 1: the following statement of it made by him at the time,
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Speaker 1: perceiving that there are not only isolated subliminal processes, but
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Speaker 1: that there also is a continuous subliminal chain of memory
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Speaker 1: involving just that kind of individual and persistent revival of
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Speaker 1: old impressions and responses to new ones, which we commonly
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Speaker 1: call a self. I find it permissible and convenient to
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Speaker 1: speak of a subliminal self. The following explanation made by
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Speaker 1: Myers shows that at the last his term the subliminal
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Speaker 1: self was employed principally for the purpose of convenience and
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Speaker 1: for distinguishing between the two great planes of mental activity,
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Speaker 1: rather than as a hard and fast declaration of belief
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Speaker 1: in a two minds or two self combination of entities.
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Speaker 1: I do not intend, by using this term the subliminal self,
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Speaker 1: to assume that there are two correlative and parallel selves
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Speaker 1: existing always within each of us. Rather, I mean that
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Speaker 1: part of the self which is commonly subliminal. And I
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Speaker 1: conceive that there may be not only co operations between
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Speaker 1: these quasi independent trains of thought, but also upheavals and
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Speaker 1: alterations of personality of many kinds, so that what was
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Speaker 1: once below the surface may for a time or permanently
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Speaker 1: rise above it. And I conceive also that no self
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Speaker 1: of which we can here have cognizance is in reality
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Speaker 1: more than a fragment of a larger self, revealed in
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Speaker 1: a fashion at once shifting and limited, through an organism
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Speaker 1: not so framed as to afford it full manifestation. Another
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Speaker 1: phase of the dual mind theory became quite popular for
26:50
Speaker 1: a time as the result of the theories and teachings
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Speaker 1: of doctor Thompson J. Hudson, which were first announced in
26:56
Speaker 1: his book entitled The Law of Psychic Phenomena, published in
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Speaker 1: the year eight teen ninety three. Doctor Hudson's original fundamental
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Speaker 1: theory was that man has or appears to have two minds,
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Speaker 1: each endowed with separate and distinct attributes or powers, each
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Speaker 1: capable under certain conditions of independent action. It should be
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Speaker 1: clearly understood at the outset that for the purpose of
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Speaker 1: arriving at a conclusion, it is a matter of indifference
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Speaker 1: whether we consider that man is endowed with two distinct minds,
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Speaker 1: or that his one mind possesses certain attributes and powers
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Speaker 1: under some conditions and certain other attributes and powers under
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Speaker 1: other conditions. It is sufficient to know that everything happens
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Speaker 1: just as though he were endowed with a dual mental
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Speaker 1: organism under the rules of correct reasoning. Therefore, I have
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Speaker 1: a right to assume that man has two minds, and
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Speaker 1: the assumption is so stated in its broadest terms as
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Speaker 1: the first proposition of my hypothesis. For convenience, I shall
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Speaker 1: designate the one as the objective mind, and the other
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Speaker 1: as the subjective mind. But Hudson soon advanced from this
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Speaker 1: comparatively modest fundamental premis. He proceeded as if the duality
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Speaker 1: of the mind were an established fact, and he attributed
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Speaker 1: to his hypothetical subjective mind the most wonderful powers and properties.
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Speaker 1: In addition to the well recognized subconscious mental processes. He
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Speaker 1: attributed to the subjective mind certain mysterious powers, which he
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Speaker 1: held sufficient to account for the psychic phenomena of telepathy, hypnotism, clairvoyance,
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Speaker 1: spiritistic manifestations, psychic action at a distance, psychic movement of
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Speaker 1: material objects, et cetera. He held that the subjective mind
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Speaker 1: acted without the use of the physical senses, that it
28:41
Speaker 1: was able to see at a distance and without the
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Speaker 1: natural organs of vision, that it could leave the body
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Speaker 1: and travel to distant lands, that it could read the
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Speaker 1: thoughts of others, and the contents of sealed envelopes and
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Speaker 1: closed books, et cetera, et cetera. Finally, he announced, in
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Speaker 1: other words, it is the soul. Hutson claim that the
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Speaker 1: subjective mind operated more freely and efficiently when the person
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Speaker 1: is placed in a hypnotic state, and that it was
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Speaker 1: unqualifiedly and constantly amenable to the power of suggestion. That
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Speaker 1: is to say, the subjective mind accepts without hesitation or doubt,
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Speaker 1: every statement that is made it, no matter how absurd
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Speaker 1: or incongruous or contrary to the objective experience of the individual.
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Speaker 1: In his later books, doctor Hudson sought to establish the
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Speaker 1: immortality of the soul by means of his hypothesis of
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Speaker 1: the subjective mind, the latter being by him identified with
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Speaker 1: the soul. He also sought to establish the divine pedigree
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Speaker 1: of man by means of the same hypothesis, holding practically
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Speaker 1: that divine mind must be subjective mind raised to infinity,
29:44
Speaker 1: notwithstanding that he had previously asserted that the subjective mind
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Speaker 1: could be hypnotized, and that it did its best work
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Speaker 1: while in that state, and that it was subconscious mentation
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Speaker 1: amenable to suggestion to such an extent that it would
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Speaker 1: accept without hesitation the most absurd and ridiculous statement. Hudson's
30:01
Speaker 1: theories and teachings, though extremely popular for a time, are
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Speaker 1: now but seldom heard of or quoted. Their value now
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Speaker 1: is generally held to consist chiefly of the great interest
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Speaker 1: which they aroused in the public mind concerning the phenomena
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Speaker 1: of the subconscious. The extravagances of the theory and the
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Speaker 1: wildness of many of its conclusions have been gradually ironed
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Speaker 1: out by the more thoughtful and scientific treatment of the
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Speaker 1: subject by the later investigators and writers. The value of
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Speaker 1: doctor Hudson's pioneer work is gratefully acknowledged by the present
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Speaker 1: day workers along the same general lines, and much of
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Speaker 1: his teaching, which was at one time severely condemned by
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Speaker 1: the more conservative psychologists, is now seen to fit in
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Speaker 1: with the newer views of the subject, and the former
30:46
Speaker 1: is properly interpreted and rightly understood and stated. We do
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Speaker 1: not consider it necessary to enter here into an extended
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Speaker 1: recital of the theories and teachings of the multitude of
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Speaker 1: teachers and writers who followed rapidly in the footsteps of
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Speaker 1: Meyers and of Hudson, and who carried to an extent
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Speaker 1: undreamed of by those pioneers their original, comparatively conservative hypotheses
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Speaker 1: of the dual self or the dual mind. While serving
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Speaker 1: to attract to the general idea of the subconscious the
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Speaker 1: minds of many persons who otherwise would never have heard
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Speaker 1: of it, they often tended to repel the minds of
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Speaker 1: more thoughtful persons by the mass of fantastic theory and
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Speaker 1: unwarranted conclusions with which they surrounded the fundamental facts. All this, however,
31:28
Speaker 1: has now almost entirely passed away. The barnacles have been
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Speaker 1: scraped from the bottom of the ship, and it is
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Speaker 1: now quite easy sailing. We now hear very little of
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Speaker 1: the dual mind or dual self theories. The facts which
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Speaker 1: were obscured or distorted by them are now explained and
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Speaker 1: accounted for by the teachings of approved modern psychology, the
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Speaker 1: unity of the mind is still maintained, but even the
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Speaker 1: most conservative psychologists now admit, nay actually insist, that the
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Speaker 1: mental unity has many phases, many planes, levels, and regions
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Speaker 1: of manifestation in expression. Science now says, in effect, if
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Speaker 1: we are called upon to postulate a separate self or
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Speaker 1: mind to account for and explain each in every phase
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Speaker 1: or aspect of mental activity, we shall have not two,
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Speaker 1: but three, for five, seven, ten, twenty, or one hundred
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Speaker 1: different selves, minds, or entities on our list. The sane
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Speaker 1: and logical conclusion is that the mind is unitary, one,
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Speaker 1: having many phases, forms, modes, or aspects of manifestation in expression,
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Speaker 1: and many levels or planes, regions or realms of activity
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Speaker 1: in process. Professor Joseph Jastrau says concerning this point, it
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Speaker 1: is quite misleading to think of the subconscious as a veritable,
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Speaker 1: independently organized psyche or as a subservient understudy. However partially
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Speaker 1: apposite and wholly legitimate, such comparisons may be as metaphorical aids.
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Speaker 1: The conscious and the subconscious, if we may clothe these
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Speaker 1: aspects of our mental life in substantive form, are but
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Speaker 1: two souls with but a single thought, for the simple
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Speaker 1: reason that they are but one soul, and the unity
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Speaker 1: of their heartbeat is inherent in the organism that gives
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Speaker 1: them life. It is only because the silent partner in
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Speaker 1: our mental administration is only the soul head thereof in
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Speaker 1: another guise, with another occupation, that his dominant habits, interests, endowments,
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Speaker 1: experiences pervade their common business. It is again because the
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Speaker 1: one contributes to the joint undertaking so largely unheard and unseen,
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Speaker 1: that those who have intercourse with this concern, as indeed
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Speaker 1: the director thereof himself, have little occasion to come in
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Speaker 1: contact with influence and data that do not appear on
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Speaker 1: the books. Now, let us return to that point of
33:46
Speaker 1: our consideration of the subconscious, wherein we proceed to investigate
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Speaker 1: the subject of just why the contents of that great
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Speaker 1: portion of the mind is unknown to the individual. You
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Speaker 1: will remember that we have told you that modern psychology
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Speaker 1: is able to furnish this explanation, and that we promised
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Speaker 1: you that we would furnish you with it. Here is
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Speaker 1: the explanation in a nutshell. You are aware only of
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Speaker 1: such contents of your mind which are within the field
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Speaker 1: of ordinary consciousness. You are conscious of only such of
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Speaker 1: your mental states and processes which, at the moment of
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Speaker 1: ordinary consciousness are included in the radius of your conscious attention. Accordingly,
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Speaker 1: the field of ordinary consciousness and the field of conscious
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Speaker 1: attention are identical. If your conscious attention is directed to
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Speaker 1: or held by a particular object or subject, then you
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Speaker 1: are conscious of that object or subject. If your conscious
34:36
Speaker 1: attention is not so directed or held by that object
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Speaker 1: or subject, then you are not conscious of it. A
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Speaker 1: little self examination will reveal to you the truth of
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Speaker 1: the above statement. You will see at once that you
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Speaker 1: are aware or conscious at this moment of only an
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Speaker 1: infinitesimal portion of the entire contents of your mind, of
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Speaker 1: what you know, of what you feel, of your beliefs,
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Speaker 1: of your likes or dislike, and so on. Your mind
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Speaker 1: is filled with knowledge acquired by you and your past experience,
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Speaker 1: with feelings of various kinds which you have developed in
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Speaker 1: like manner, with ideas, plans, designs, purposes, aims, ends, desires, longings, aspirations.
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Speaker 1: You know that this is so, although at this present
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Speaker 1: moment these mental states are not in your field of consciousness.
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Speaker 1: Your conscious attention is not directed to or held by them.
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Speaker 1: The moment that you turn your conscious attention in the
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Speaker 1: direction of any of these things, that moment do those
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Speaker 1: things proceed to rise to the plane of ordinary consciousness,
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Speaker 1: and you become aware of them. This is what happens
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Speaker 1: when you think about things, when you indulge in revery,
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Speaker 1: when you start into motion the stream of memory and recollection.
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Speaker 1: All this is a matter of ordinary, every day experience
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Speaker 1: with you. Yet you may never have thought of it
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Speaker 1: in just this way, nor realize the principle involved in
35:54
Speaker 1: the process. You see, there are two general kinds of knowing,
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Speaker 1: as follows, One that knowing arising from the present consciousness
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Speaker 1: of things, and two that knowing which consists of the
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Speaker 1: knowledge which you have salted down and stored away in
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Speaker 1: your mind, and this in your mind really means in
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Speaker 1: your subconscious In the same way, there are two general
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Speaker 1: kinds of feeling as follows. One the feeling which is
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Speaker 1: at this moment present in your conscious attention, and two
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Speaker 1: the feelings which you know quite well are present in
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Speaker 1: your mind, although you are not at this moment aware
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Speaker 1: of them. If you would obtain a clear, illustrative idea
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Speaker 1: of the nature of the contents of the subconscious. You
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Speaker 1: need but think of the contents of your memory, For
36:39
Speaker 1: memory is one of the great phases of the subconscious.
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Speaker 1: You know quite well that there is a wealth of
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Speaker 1: knowledge stored away in your memory, of which you are
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Speaker 1: not at this moment conscious. You know equally well that
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Speaker 1: when your attention is directed to certain subjects or objects,
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Speaker 1: then your memory will raise to the plane of conscious
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Speaker 1: attention at least a considerable portion of your knowledge. Can
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Speaker 1: sins dicerning those subjects? Where were those memories? Where was
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Speaker 1: this knowledge before they arose into consciousness in response to
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Speaker 1: directed attention? Surely they existed somewhere, but where they existed
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Speaker 1: in the subconscious, just as truly as they afterward existed
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Speaker 1: in your consciousness. Do you see the point? The subconscious
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Speaker 1: is the great ocean of your mind, while your consciousness
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Speaker 1: is but the surface activities of it. Your attention brings
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Speaker 1: to the surface such contents of your mental ocean as
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Speaker 1: may be called for or drawn there by the appropriate causes.
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Speaker 1: But the attention does not create them, It merely brings
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Speaker 1: them to the surface. These contents of your mind are
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Speaker 1: just as real, just as really items of your knowledge,
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Speaker 1: while sunk in the depths of the subconscious as when
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Speaker 1: raised to the surface. To limit your mind to your
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Speaker 1: conscious states, ignoring the far greater contents of your subconscious
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Speaker 1: would be just as absurd as to limit the ocean
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Speaker 1: to its surface, ignoring the wonderful of its depths. But
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Speaker 1: not only are items of knowledge stored away in this
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Speaker 1: great ocean of the subconscious, wonderful mental activities and processes
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Speaker 1: are constantly underway in its hidden depths. The subconscious is
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Speaker 1: not a dead sea. It is a great ocean of activity.
38:18
Speaker 1: It never rests, never sleeps. It works while your ordinary
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Speaker 1: surface consciousness is resting or sleeping. A great portion of
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Speaker 1: your thinking is being performed there in its realm. There
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Speaker 1: are mental processes under weigh, the end of which is
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Speaker 1: to solve your problems, for you, to answer your questions,
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Speaker 1: to form your judgments, to work upon the materials which
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Speaker 1: your conscious mentality has handed over to it instinctively. You see,
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Speaker 1: your mental machine is a far more wonderful thing than
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Speaker 1: you had imagined. It is something bigger than you have
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Speaker 1: dreamed it to be. In the following sections of this book,
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Speaker 1: we shall show you the kind of mental work the
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Speaker 1: subconscious is doing for you and the still better work
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Speaker 1: it is capable of doing for you when you direct
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Speaker 1: it rightly. For the present, we are merely striving to
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Speaker 1: awaken you to a realization of its nature and of
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Speaker 1: the facts of its existence. Nature, or the power underlying nature,
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Speaker 1: has wisely committed the greater portion of your mental work
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Speaker 1: to the subconscious. If your conscious mentality were required to
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Speaker 1: attend even to but one thousandth part of the work
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Speaker 1: of the subconscious, you would have no time whatsoever to
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Speaker 1: attend to the tasks and problems of your everyday conscious life.
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Speaker 1: In order to allow your conscious mentality to perform its
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Speaker 1: rightful tasks, Nature has handed over to the subconscious the
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Speaker 1: greater portion of the entire mental activities, processes, and work.
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Speaker 1: You will realize this more fully as you proceed with
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Speaker 1: this instruction. Doctor Wilfrid Lay says the unconscious operates in
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Speaker 1: every act of our lives, not merely in the actions
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Speaker 1: ordinarily known as unconscious or automatic, but in that part
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Speaker 1: of our activity to which we attribute the most vivid consciousness.
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Speaker 1: For in a certain sense, we are most helped or
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Speaker 1: hindered by the unconscious part of our self. When we
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Speaker 1: think that we are most keenly alive. Our unconscious pervades
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Speaker 1: our conduct in the most minute details, just as the
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Speaker 1: air we breathe is forced by our blood through our tissues.
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Speaker 1: And it might almost be said that it is as
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Speaker 1: important and as great an extent when compared with the
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Speaker 1: conscious present as the air, so small a part of
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Speaker 1: which we breathe, is an extent in proportion to the
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Speaker 1: minute particles of it that we take into our lungs.
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Speaker 1: Subconscious Power, Your secret Forces by William Walker Atkinson, nineteen
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Speaker 1: twenty two. Subconscious vital processes. Among the most fundamental activities
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Speaker 1: of the subconscious are those which are concerned with the
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Speaker 1: vital processes of the physical body, the processes of life
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Speaker 1: in the living organism. Although the fact is not generally recognized,
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Speaker 1: it is an established scientific truth that the subconscious controls, directs, institutes,
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Speaker 1: and conducts the vital processes of the body which are
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Speaker 1: concerned with growth, nourishment, and a general operation of the
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Speaker 1: living organism. The operation of the vital process is manifested
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Speaker 1: in every organ of your body is conducted by the subconscious.
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Speaker 1: Every organ, every part, even every cell, is under the
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Speaker 1: control and direction of the subconscious. The work of repair, replacement, digestion, assimilation,
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Speaker 1: and elimination, which is underway in your physical body is
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Speaker 1: performed by the subconscious. In short, your entire vital activity
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Speaker 1: is under the control and direction of your subconscious. Although
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Speaker 1: your ordinary consciousness is not aware of this fact. Many persons,
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Speaker 1: most persons, in fact, if they think of the matter
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Speaker 1: at all, are inclined to the general notion that the
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Speaker 1: body runs itself like a machine, or rather like a
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Speaker 1: clock that has been wound up and set going. So
41:48
Speaker 1: far is this from being a fact, however, that it
41:51
Speaker 1: may be stated that every action and movement of your
41:54
Speaker 1: internal organism, with the exception of the purely mechanical or
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Speaker 1: chemical movements and changes, is effected by your will, the
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Speaker 1: latter usually manifesting along the lines of subconscious activity. All
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Speaker 1: the operations of the life forces in your body are
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Speaker 1: found to result from mental action of some kind, usually
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Speaker 1: subconscious mental action. It is an axiom of certain careful
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Speaker 1: thinkers that all life action is mind action. In every
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Speaker 1: vital process in the living organism are to be seen
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Speaker 1: the presence in activity of mind in some form, some phase,
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Speaker 1: some degree. As Carpenter says, the convertibility of physical forces
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Speaker 1: and the correlation of these with the vital forces and
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Speaker 1: the intricacy of that nexus between mental and bodily activity,
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Speaker 1: which cannot be analyzed, all lead upward to one and
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Speaker 1: the same conclusion that the source of all power is mind.
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Speaker 1: Bacon says, life is not force, it is combining power.
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Speaker 1: It is the product and presence of mind. Dunn says,
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Speaker 1: from the first movement, when the primordial cell germ of
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Speaker 1: a human organism comes into being, the entire indiviation view
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Speaker 1: is present fitted for human destiny. From the same moment,
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Speaker 1: life and mind are never for an instant separated. Their
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Speaker 1: union constitutes the essential work of our present existence. That
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Speaker 1: all which is called vital force, the healing power of nature,
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Speaker 1: or the vis medicatrix nature, is but a form, phase,
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Speaker 1: or aspect of subconscious mental action. Of the work of
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Speaker 1: those who have carefully investigated Nature's healing processes. These processes
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Speaker 1: constitute what is known as the curative efforts of nature,
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Speaker 1: or the vis vita, by which terms is indicated that
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Speaker 1: certain curative or restorative principle of nature which is implanted
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Speaker 1: in every living organized body, and which is constantly operative
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Speaker 1: for its repair, preservation, health, and well being. Instances of
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Speaker 1: the effective work of this great natural principle are seen
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Speaker 1: in the respective processes manifest in cases where a finger
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Speaker 1: or toe is lost by the man. As a prominent
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Speaker 1: medical authority has said, nature unaided will repair and fashion
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Speaker 1: a stump equal to one at the hands of an
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Speaker 1: eminent surgeon. Careful medical authorities have pointed out in their
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Speaker 1: books and in their lectures the fact that undeniable mental
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Speaker 1: action is present in the ordinary vital processes and functions.
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Speaker 1: They assure us that no machine could be constructed, nor
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Speaker 1: could any combination of solids and liquids in organic compounds
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Speaker 1: serve to regulate, control, counteract, help, hinder, or arrange for
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Speaker 1: the continual succession of different events, foods, surroundings and conditions
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Speaker 1: which are constantly affecting the body. Under no mechanistic theory
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Speaker 1: can satisfactorily be explained the fact that, in the midst
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Speaker 1: of such ever changing and varying succession of influences, the
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Speaker 1: body holds to its course of growth, health, nutrition, and
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Speaker 1: self maintenance with the most marvelous constancy. It is clear,
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Speaker 1: say these authorities, that such qualities as regulation, control, et
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Speaker 1: ce are mental qualities rather than mechanical properties. But they
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Speaker 1: bid us note it is equally clear that by no
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Speaker 1: ordinary mental actions can we consciously exercise any of these
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Speaker 1: mental powers over the organic processes of our bodies. The
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Speaker 1: inevitable conclusion, they say, is that the mental powers which
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Speaker 1: are seen to be operating in the body are exercised unconsciously.
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Speaker 1: That are unconscious mental powers, and nothing else control, guide
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Speaker 1: and govern the functions and organs of the body. As
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Speaker 1: one of these authorities says, when thoroughly analyzed, the action
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Speaker 1: and regulation of no part of the body can be
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Speaker 1: satisfactorily explained without postulating an unconscious mental element, which does,
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Speaker 1: if allowed, satisfactorily explain all the phenomena. We would call
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Speaker 1: the basis of mind cure, mental healing, mental therapeutics, or
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Speaker 1: by whatever names the various systems of mental cure of
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Speaker 1: disease may be called, undoubtedly are to be found in
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Speaker 1: the fact that the vital functions and processes of the
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Speaker 1: body are really performed by mind, operating along subconscious lines
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Speaker 1: by the subconscious. In fact, this being realized, it is
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Speaker 1: seen plainly that mental healing in each or all of
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Speaker 1: its forms, is not a case of the power of
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Speaker 1: mind over matter, but rather that of the influence of
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Speaker 1: of mind over mind. In fact, the connective nerves or
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Speaker 1: filaments which unite the cerebrospinal and the sympathetic nervous systems
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Speaker 1: serve an important purpose in the work of mental healing,
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Speaker 1: and their presence is very significant in the light of
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Speaker 1: the phenomena of mental therapeutics or faith cures, and in
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Speaker 1: the well known ordinary phases of the effect of mental
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Speaker 1: states upon physical functions. They serve to explain the vital
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Speaker 1: mechanism employed in the production of these interesting classes of
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Speaker 1: psychophysical phenomena, and likewise they serve to furnish the physical
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Speaker 1: explanation of the psychological processes operative in the phenomena of
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Speaker 1: mental healing. That mental state's produce reactions in the form
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Speaker 1: of physical conditions is admitted by even the most conservative
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Speaker 1: medical authorities. The most casual observer must have noted that
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Speaker 1: the emotions of fear, grief, anger, worry or joy have
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Speaker 1: a most marked effect upon the physical processes of digestion, assimilation,
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Speaker 1: and elimination. A change of mental state is almost immediately
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Speaker 1: followed by a change in physical function. Your appetite is
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Speaker 1: seriously affected by the receipt of bad news, while good
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Speaker 1: news imparts a new zest to the enjoyment of your meal.
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Speaker 1: The sight or the recollection of the sight of a
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Speaker 1: disgusting object will produce nausea, or at least will spoil
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Speaker 1: your appetite. The sight or the memory of appetizing food
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Speaker 1: will cause your mouth to water and your gastric juices
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Speaker 1: to flow more freely. The bad boy who stood in
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Speaker 1: front of a brass band and by means of sucking
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Speaker 1: a lemon, induced the saliva to flow copiously from the
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Speaker 1: mouths of the musicians, thus causing their playing to come
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Speaker 1: to us sudden in disastrous end, understood the practical effect
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Speaker 1: of this principle, though doubtless ignorant of the real cause
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Speaker 1: operating in the case. The practical joker who sets the
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Speaker 1: company of persons to yawning as the result of the
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Speaker 1: mental contagion produced by his simulated yawn understands how this
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Speaker 1: principle works out in practice, though he may not realize
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Speaker 1: the exact psychology or physical process involved. Experimental psychology has
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Speaker 1: demonstrated that the circulation follows the attention, and that by
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Speaker 1: concentrated attention directed to any part of the body, one
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Speaker 1: may increase the blood supply to that part. Thus, experiments
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Speaker 1: have demonstrated that the blood may be sent in increased
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Speaker 1: quantity to the hand or else withdrawn from it simply
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Speaker 1: by means of concentrated attention accompanied by mental suggestion autosuggestion,
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Speaker 1: the dark red color of the hand in one case
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Speaker 1: and the pallid appearance of the hand in the other
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Speaker 1: case being sufficient evidence of the soundness of the principle.
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Speaker 1: Many practitioners of suggestive therapeutics who have experimented along these
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Speaker 1: lines have held that the increased supply of nerve force
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Speaker 1: accompanying the increased flow of blood sent to the several
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Speaker 1: organs and parts of the body in this way, plays
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Speaker 1: a most important part in many cases of mental healing.
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Speaker 1: Just as the flow of the blood to any part
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Speaker 1: or organ of the body may be increased by concentrating
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Speaker 1: the attention upon those parts and organs, so the movements, activities,
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Speaker 1: and processes of the digestive organs, the organs of elimination,
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Speaker 1: and even of the heart may be influenced by employment
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Speaker 1: of the attention or by the presence of certain mental
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Speaker 1: states which serve to accelerate or retard such processes, as
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Speaker 1: the case may be. Modern science admits that it is
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Speaker 1: positively established that suggestion or autosuggestion can and does affect
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Speaker 1: the so called involuntary functions of the body. We shall
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Speaker 1: see just how and why suggestion and auto suggestion produce
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Speaker 1: subject a little further on in this section of the book.
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Speaker 1: That the respective states of health and disease depend materially
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Speaker 1: upon the character of the emotional states predominant in the
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Speaker 1: subconscious mentality of the individual is now universally admitted in
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Speaker 1: authoritative medical circles. Statements concerning this fact, and examples and
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Speaker 1: instances illustrating it are to be found on all sides
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Speaker 1: expressed in such statements concerning this matter. Drive Southworth says,
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Speaker 1: if mental states can change the various secretions of the body,
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Speaker 1: making them poisonous, for example, the saliva and the milk
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Speaker 1: in the human breast under the influence of anger, worry,
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Speaker 1: or fear, could it not also be productive of disease
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Speaker 1: through imperfect or non elimination. Is it improbable that fear,
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Speaker 1: which is a greater negative force than anger, may produce
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Speaker 1: the results as indicated? Professor Elmer Gates says, my experiments
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Speaker 1: show that irascible, malevolent, and day pressing emotions generate in
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Speaker 1: the system in jurious compounds, some of which are extremely poisonous.
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Speaker 1: Also that agreeable, happy emotions generate chemical compounds of nutritious
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Speaker 1: value which stimulate the cells to generate energy. Doctor Borton,
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Speaker 1: writing of the healing of the body through mental forces
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Speaker 1: in which unhealthy conditions are transformed into healthy, normal states,
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Speaker 1: says these changes are not miraculous, but proceed from natural
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Speaker 1: causes in the operation of the mind as a therapeutic agency,
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Speaker 1: operating through the functions of the body, sometimes as a
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Speaker 1: tonic or stimulant, warding off diseases under the most exposed conditions,
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Speaker 1: defending and holding the system in a state of health,
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Speaker 1: while those devoid of these mental assurances become victims to
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Speaker 1: the ravages of disease through contagion or infection. This protective
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Speaker 1: force of the mind has been demonstrated many times in
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Speaker 1: hospitals in other places where contagious diseases were prevailing. The
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Speaker 1: mental force possesses a protective power, when rightly exercised, far
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Speaker 1: beyond what is usually conceded. This not only in the
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Speaker 1: way of defense, but also in correcting diseases when in existence.
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Speaker 1: The investigations of Freud and his school have served to
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Speaker 1: and abnormal physical conditions. The work of psychoanalysis is directed
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Speaker 1: to a considerable extent to uncovering these causes, which are
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Speaker 1: hidden in the recesses of the subconscious. Briefly stated, the
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Speaker 1: case is as follows. Many abnormal physical conditions and often
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Speaker 1: chronic complaints, have as their primary cause a disturbance of
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Speaker 1: the emotional nature, arising from past experiences of an unpleasant nature,
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Speaker 1: such as, for instance, real or fancied slights, injuries injustice,
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Speaker 1: frustration of cherished desires, or similar occurrences in the past
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Speaker 1: life of the individual. As the years pass by, the
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Speaker 1: main facts of the actual event fade from the memory,
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Speaker 1: and the individual seemingly adapts himself to the conditions for
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Speaker 1: us him. But the subconscious has not forgotten these. Instead
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Speaker 1: their memories abide in the out of consciousness realms and
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Speaker 1: work their evil effects. Like a hidden cancer, or like
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Speaker 1: a great gnawing worm dwelling in the emotional nature of
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Speaker 1: the person, the old sore persists and tends to poison
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Speaker 1: his mental and physical constitution. Thus, old hates, old jealousies,
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Speaker 1: old fears abide in the subconscious, producing the physical reactions
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Speaker 1: which are well known to psychotherapy. It is the work
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Speaker 1: of the scientific psychoanalyst to dig out these cancerous mental growths,
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Speaker 1: or these psychic gnawing worms, and to bring them once
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Speaker 1: more into the field of consciousness. Once brought before the
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Speaker 1: conscious attention, they may be examined, analyzed, dissected, passed upon,
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Speaker 1: and discarded as having no real present importance. Thereupon they
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Speaker 1: are discharged from the mental realm once and for all.
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Speaker 1: By means of this cathartic process, the system is relieved
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Speaker 1: of these hidden roots and causes of disease and abnormal
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Speaker 1: physical conditions, and health and normal functioning once more is manifested.
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Speaker 1: These and similar discoveries have served to add greatly to
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Speaker 1: the efficiency of mental therapy and to broaden its field.
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Speaker 1: They verify the basic principles and theories of mind cure
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Speaker 1: to three very important facts, namely, one, that the subconscious
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Speaker 1: is amenable to suggestion and autosuggestion. Two, that the subconscious
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Speaker 1: tends to accept as true the ideas and statements which
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Speaker 1: the conscious mentality places or allows to be placed in it.
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Speaker 1: Three that the subconscious, after accepting a suggestion or autosuggestion,
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Speaker 1: proceeds to carry the suggested idea to its logical conclusion,
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Speaker 1: irrespective of its actual truth, and thereafter will tend to
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Speaker 1: completed idea, the seed of which has been so applied
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Speaker 1: by the suggestion or auto suggestion. Now there is no
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Speaker 1: need here for us to enter into a technical description
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Speaker 1: of the psychology of suggestion. It is sufficient for our
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Speaker 1: purpose to consider a suggestion as a seed idea which
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Speaker 1: An auto suggestion is merely a suggestion made by one
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Speaker 1: to himself. It is a case of says I to myself,
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Speaker 1: says I. A plain suggestion is a seed idea coming
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Speaker 1: from an outside source, a statement from another person, a
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Speaker 1: passage in a book or newspaper, a printed sign, the
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Speaker 1: manner of another person, et cetera. All suggestion, at the
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Speaker 1: last is autosuggestion for the reason that the individual permitting
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Speaker 1: a suggestion from outside to become lodged in his subconscious
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Speaker 1: really tacitly endorses it and makes it his own, just
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Speaker 1: as man endorsing a check or note assumes responsibility for
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Speaker 1: the paper. The result of the suggestibility of the subconscious
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Speaker 1: is quite marked. In the case of the subconscious vital processes.
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Speaker 1: Suggestions or auto suggestions of health tend to produce conditions
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Speaker 1: of health, while suggestions or auto suggestions of disease tend
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Speaker 1: to produce conditions of disease. It has been said that
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Speaker 1: as a man thinks in his heart, so is he
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Speaker 1: equally true, And for the same reason is the statement
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Speaker 1: that as the subconscious thinks its owner's physical condition is
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Speaker 1: or should he so, that physical condition actually becomes in time.
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Speaker 1: By reason of these fundamental facts concerning the subconscious, it
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Speaker 1: is easily seen how and why the seed ideas implanted
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Speaker 1: in the soil of the subconscious eventually sprout beare leaves
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Speaker 1: blossoms and the fruit of health or disease, as the
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Speaker 1: case may be, by means of the planting of the seed,
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Speaker 1: ideas of fear, thought, panicky feelings, mental pictures and thoughts
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Speaker 1: of diseased conditions, depressing discouraging emotional states, coupled with the
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Speaker 1: mental attitude of the expectant attention or confident expectation of
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Speaker 1: the coming or the continuance of the physical disorder, The
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Speaker 1: conscious mentality impairs and interferes with the normal action of
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Speaker 1: the subconscious mental activities, quite frequently giving to them an
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Speaker 1: entirely wrong direction or course of procedure. This wrong direction
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Speaker 1: or course of procedure in time often becomes chronic and
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Speaker 1: permanent unless removed or else neutralized by a reversal of
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Speaker 1: the method which originally brought it about. On the other hand,
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Speaker 1: by energizing, animating, and strengthening the subconscious mental processes by cheerful, happy,
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Speaker 1: and hopeful states of mind concerning the physical condition, by
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Speaker 1: inspiring emotional states and feelings by mental pictures of healthy,
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Speaker 1: normal physical conditions rather than of the abnormal, there is
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Speaker 1: aroused a strong natural power of resistance to diseased conditions,
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Speaker 1: to impaired physical functioning and to ill health in general,
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Speaker 1: a strong recuperative energy, tending to prevent disease in the
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Speaker 1: first place, and in the second place, to restore health
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Speaker 1: when it has become impaired. Avoid, as you would a pestilence,
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Speaker 1: all depressing emotions and all negative mental states such as anger, fear, worry, jealousy, envy, hatred.
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Speaker 1: Also avoid with equal care all expectations or beliefs that
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Speaker 1: you will contract disease, even when it is raging around
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Speaker 1: and about you. Refuse to allow your imagination to be
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Speaker 1: filled with the negative evil pictures of diseases or diseased conditions.
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Speaker 1: Avoid or learn to resist and throw off the evil
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Speaker 1: suggestions of others that you will contract disease or manifest
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Speaker 1: diseased conditions. Shed these suggestions, like the proverbial water from
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Speaker 1: the duck's back, when you cannot escape from the company
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Speaker 1: of persons given to the planting of such pestilential seat thoughts.
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Speaker 1: Cultivate the positive emotional states of fearlessness, calmness, poise, cheerfulness, hope, faith,
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Speaker 1: confidence in the powers that be in nature or above
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Speaker 1: and over nature. Form the habit of expecting and looking
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Speaker 1: forward to the normal natural conditions of health, not to
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Speaker 1: the state of disease. Trust the life forces and nature
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Speaker 1: to pull you through, even when you may happen to slip.
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Speaker 1: Fill your mind with the ideas and mental pictures of
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Speaker 1: health and not of disease. Frequent the company of those
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Speaker 1: who look forward, not backward, upward not downward, and whose
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Speaker 1: vision seeks the good rather than the evil aspects of life.
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Speaker 1: Read books having this forward and upward outlook upon life.
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Speaker 1: Above all, keep your mind filled with the bright, cheerful,
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Speaker 1: and happy mental pictures of health and normal physical conditions.
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Speaker 1: Be careful to admit only the right kind of pictures
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Speaker 1: to your mental picture gallery. Always see yourself as you
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Speaker 1: wish to be, not as you fear that you may be.
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Speaker 1: Keep ever before you the visualized ideal of health. This
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Speaker 1: no matter how much the existing conditions may strive or
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Speaker 1: tend to influence you in the opposite direction. This last
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Speaker 1: is important, for these ideal mental pictures are the patterns
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Speaker 1: which the sub conscious, which is really that which you
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Speaker 1: have been thinking of as life or nature, employs in
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Speaker 1: building your physical body and in weaving the fabric of
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Speaker 1: your physical functioning in conditions. This is the great principle
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Speaker 1: underlying all the various schools of mental healing, faith, cure,
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Speaker 1: et cetera, even of those schools which seek to veil
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Speaker 1: their teachings in metaphysical and quasi religious terminology. In dogma,
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Speaker 1: the development of the depressing negative mental weed spoils the
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Speaker 1: mental garden of the subconscious and chokes the valuable plants
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Speaker 1: which should be grown there. The act of holding before
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Speaker 1: the imagination or the ideative faculties the mental pictures of
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Speaker 1: disease is bound in time to cause the subconscious to
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Speaker 1: strive to manifest in objective physical reality the conditions presented
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Speaker 1: to it in such pictures. The confident expectation or expect
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Speaker 1: at attention of diseased or abnormal physical conditions is practically
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Speaker 1: certain to cause the subconscious to proceed in the direction
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Speaker 1: of making the ideal become real. Statement of job that
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Speaker 1: that which I feared hath come upon me expresses an
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Speaker 1: actual fact of physiological psychology or of psychological physiology. This
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Speaker 1: negative influence and condition so imparted permeates the organs and
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Speaker 1: parts directly involved, and the cells which compose those organs
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Speaker 1: and parts as well. It also by reflex and sympathetic
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Speaker 1: action and reaction of this kind. The action of the
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Speaker 1: conscious mentality upon the subconscious and the reaction of the
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Speaker 1: latter upon the former, serves to break down the natural
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Speaker 1: habits of resistance and self protection with which the subconscious
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Speaker 1: is endowed. As a result, chronic ill health frequently results.
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Speaker 1: Here we have an actual example of the truth that
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Speaker 1: to him who hath not shall be taken away even
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Speaker 1: at which he hath. In such cases, the only remedy
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Speaker 1: is to halt the progress of the downward swing of
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Speaker 1: the subconscious activity and to reverse the process by transmuting
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Speaker 1: the activity into an upward positive manifestation. The latter, however,
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Speaker 1: is equally cumulative the action and reaction proceeding in the
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Speaker 1: direction of health, so that we have an actual example
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Speaker 1: of the companion truth that to him who hath shall
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Speaker 1: be given The rule works both ways, as all good
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Speaker 1: rules are said to do. Finally, you will do well
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Speaker 1: to remember the old adage that that which will make
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Speaker 1: a sick man well will keep a well man well.
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Speaker 1: That which will cure disease will prevent disease. Therefore, you
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Speaker 1: are strongly urged to acquire, cultivate, and maintain the positive
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Speaker 1: uplooking forward looking mental attitude. Even in the days of
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Speaker 1: your most perfect health, an ounce of prevention is worth
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Speaker 1: a pound of cure. You should determine to adhere faithfully
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Speaker 1: to the ideal of health, to cultivate the habit of
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Speaker 1: holding firmly to the mental pictures of health, and to
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Speaker 1: beware of allowing that ideal and those mental pictures to
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Speaker 1: become weakened, dimmed, clouded, or hidden by adverse autosuggestions on
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Speaker 1: your own part, or by the acceptance, tacitly or actually
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Speaker 1: of similar suggestions arising from the remarks, views, beliefs, or
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Speaker 1: negative mental attitudes of other persons or from other sources. This, then,
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Speaker 1: is the part played by your subconscious in the matter
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Speaker 1: of the direction and control of your physical functions and processes.
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Speaker 1: You have at your disposal the wondrous powers of the subconscious,
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Speaker 1: which you may direct to the work of maintaining or
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Speaker 1: restoring your health. All that you have thought of as
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Speaker 1: nature or as the life forces in their healing life
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Speaker 1: maintaining processes, All that you have thought of as the
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Speaker 1: healing power outside of yourself. All this is really your
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Speaker 1: own subconscious, a part of yourself, though a part perhaps
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Speaker 1: not recognized or realized. By you up to this time.
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Speaker 1: If through ignorance you have given these powers a wrong direction,
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Speaker 1: you have now at your disposal and under your command,
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Speaker 1: a positive, upward health giving aggregate of forces. Finally, remember
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Speaker 1: that your subconscious is always your friend. Once let it
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Speaker 1: realize what is necessary for your physical well being. Once
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Speaker 1: plant the right kind of seed ideas in its soil,
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Speaker 1: and it will bend every energy within it toward manifesting
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Speaker 1: and expressing health. In you rightly understood and interpret it,
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Speaker 1: the principles which we have just announced to you will
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Speaker 1: make clear and plain to you that something in it
1:04:17
Speaker 1: which you have always intuitively felt might be found in
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Speaker 1: mind cures underlying their technical and sometimes fantastic theories and methods.
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Speaker 1: You have here the stuff that does the work, which
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Speaker 1: has been hidden in the various capsules offered you by
1:04:30
Speaker 1: the several schools, cults, and teachers. The verbal capsules serve
1:04:35
Speaker 1: to disguise the real stuff and to make it more
1:04:38
Speaker 1: attractive to the imagination. Any verbal form that appeals to
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Speaker 1: the mental taste or to the imagination will serve the purpose.
1:04:46
Speaker 1: The highly exploited verbal formulas, the miraculous statements of truth,
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Speaker 1: the wonder working affirmations of the various schools. All these
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Speaker 1: are but the verbal capsules in which are concealed the
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Speaker 1: real stuff of auto suggestion or suggest question. Anything that
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Speaker 1: will arouse the mental state of active, confident expectation, or
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Speaker 1: which will create a strong mental picture of the desired
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Speaker 1: result or condition, will do the work. If you will
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Speaker 1: analyze the various verbal formulas by means of which mind
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Speaker 1: cures are made, you will always discover that auto suggestion
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Speaker 1: or suggestion abides at their very heart and center. The
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Speaker 1: positive mental picture, accompanied by the mental state of faith,
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Speaker 1: confident expectation or expectant attention, will give to the subconscious
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Speaker 1: the desired mental pattern to be materialized into objective reality,
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Speaker 1: and the aroused faith or confident expectation will set the
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Speaker 1: machinery of the subconscious into activity. We note at the
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Speaker 1: time of the present writing, that a retired chemist of Nancy, France,
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Speaker 1: is working miracles of healing in England. His formula is
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Speaker 1: simply the continued repetition of the French words c a passe,
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Speaker 1: meaning going, going going. The patients are filled with the
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Speaker 1: idea that their diseases are going, going, going, and the
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Speaker 1: repeated auto suggestion produces the desired result. In a great
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Speaker 1: number of cases, the rapidly repeated French phrase sounding like
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Speaker 1: passipascipassapascipassaw constitutes the magic formula. In this case, the additional
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Speaker 1: statement to be repeated twenty times without stopping is every day,
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Speaker 1: in every way, I am getting better and better. If
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Speaker 1: you have studied carefully what we have told you concerning
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Speaker 1: the active principle of suggestion or auto suggestion, you will
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Speaker 1: discover the real stuff that does the work in this
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Speaker 1: verbal formula that is obtaining such marked results. According to
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Speaker 1: the Foreign Press, the great virtue of this particular formula
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Speaker 1: lies in its simplicity and in its catchy sound. It
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Speaker 1: supplies an attractive verbal capsule for the stuff that does
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Speaker 1: the work, i e. Suggestion. Subconscious Power Your Secret Forces
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Speaker 1: by William Walker Atkinson, nineteen twenty two. Subconscient habitual action.
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Speaker 1: Another interesting and important phase of the manifestations of the
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Speaker 1: subconscious is that concerned with the performance of more or
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Speaker 1: less complex habitual physical actions. By far the greater portion
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Speaker 1: of your ordinary physical movements are performed by your subconscious
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Speaker 1: operating along the lines of habit or acquired automatic action.
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Speaker 1: All habit actions or acquired automatic actions are performed under
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Speaker 1: the direction of the subconscious. Your first attempts at walking, writing,
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Speaker 1: operating a typewriter, playing an instrument, running a sewing machine,
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Speaker 1: or carrying on any similar operation involving repeated muscular movements
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Speaker 1: were accompanied by an intense consciousness of every detail of
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Speaker 1: the required movements. As you became more proficient in the
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Speaker 1: task by reason of repeated practice and repetition, and as
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Speaker 1: you acquired ease and dexterity in such performance, you gradually
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Speaker 1: became less and less conscious of those details. Finally you
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Speaker 1: reached the stage in which you were able to perform
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Speaker 1: the movements practically without conscious effort. But while your ordinary
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Speaker 1: consciousness is no longer involved in the habitual acquired action,
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Speaker 1: your subconscious is most decidedly involved in it. The performance
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Speaker 1: has been merely transferred from your ordinary conscious mental mechanism
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Speaker 1: to your extraordinary subconscious mental mechanism. Your mind is as
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Speaker 1: much involved in the performance when the habit is acquired
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Speaker 1: as it was at the beginning. Though you are not
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Speaker 1: consciously aware of the fact. Your mind has not withdrawn
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Speaker 1: from the task. It has merely transferred the performance from
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Speaker 1: one field of its activities to another. It was formerly
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Speaker 1: the fashion of philosophers to attempt to explain this well
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Speaker 1: known class of phenomena upon the theory that the acquired
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Speaker 1: muscular movements became automatic in the sense of purely mechanical.
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Speaker 1: They held that the mind was no longer concerned with
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Speaker 1: the muscular activities, and that the muscles had learned to
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Speaker 1: perform the necessary actions involuntarily, automatically and of themselves. But
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Speaker 1: they admitted it could not be denied that the mind
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Speaker 1: seemed to be always in the background, hovering around the
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Speaker 1: task as it were, and ready to resume its control
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Speaker 1: should such necessity present itself. But certain thoughtful psychologists dissented
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Speaker 1: from this crude theory, which in fact was no real
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Speaker 1: theory at all, but rather a confession of ignorance on
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Speaker 1: the part of those advancing it. Lewis, an early authority,
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Speaker 1: protested against the crude theory just mentioned. He said, we
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Speaker 1: are not conscious of the separate sensations which guide speech
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Speaker 1: and writing. Are these processes mechanical by no means? We
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Speaker 1: know that they were laboriously learned by long, tentative efforts,
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Speaker 1: each of which was accompanied by distinct consciousness. To suppose
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Speaker 1: that we pass from the psychical to the physical by
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Speaker 1: frequent repetition would lead to the monstrous conclusion that when
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Speaker 1: a naturalist has, by laborious study, become so familiarized with
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Speaker 1: the specific marks of an animal or plant that he
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Speaker 1: can recognize at a glance a particularcular species, or recognized
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Speaker 1: by a single character, the nature of the rest, the
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Speaker 1: rapidity and certainty of this judgment, proves it to be
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Speaker 1: a mechanical, not a mental act. He continues, The point
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Speaker 1: never to be left out of sight is that actions
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Speaker 1: which are known to be preceded and accompanied by sensations
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Speaker 1: do not lose their special character of sentience because they
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Speaker 1: are not preceded and accompanied by that peculiar state which
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Speaker 1: is specially called consciousness. When we see a man playing
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Speaker 1: the piano and at the same time talking of something
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Speaker 1: far removed from the music, we say that his fingers
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Speaker 1: move unconsciously, but we do not conclude that he is
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Speaker 1: a musical machine. Muscular sensations and musical sensation regulate the
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Speaker 1: movements of his fingers, and if he strikes a false note,
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Speaker 1: or if one of the notes jangles, he is instantly
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Speaker 1: aware of the fact that a particular group of sensations,
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Speaker 1: such as musical tones will set going a particular group
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Speaker 1: of muscular movements without the intervention of any conscious effort.
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Speaker 1: Is not more to be interpreted on purely mechanical principles
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Speaker 1: than that a certain phrase will cause a story teller
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Speaker 1: to repeat a certain anecdote, or an old soldier to
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Speaker 1: fight his battles over again. The later recognition that mind
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Speaker 1: may function on planes or levels other than those of
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Speaker 1: ordinary consciousness. The discovery of the plane or world of
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Speaker 1: the subconscious, in short, put an end to these early controversies,
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Speaker 1: and gave to even the most orthodox philosopher or psychologist
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Speaker 1: and avenue of escape from his previous dilemma. At the
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Speaker 1: present time, it is generally accepted that practically all of
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Speaker 1: our habitual muscular movements, and this means by far the
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Speaker 1: greater part of our entire muscular movements, are performed by
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Speaker 1: the subconscious. Not only do you walk, speak, write, operate machines,
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Speaker 1: and play instruments in this way, but you also dress yourself,
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Speaker 1: put on your shoes and your hat, adjust your spectacles,
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Speaker 1: proceed to and from your daily work, wind your clock,
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Speaker 1: lock your doors, put out your cat, and perform most
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Speaker 1: of your customary little tasks of life. In precisely this way,
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Speaker 1: I e. Largely under the direction and control of your subconscious.
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Speaker 1: How often have you been wrapped in a brown study
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Speaker 1: and have become practically unconscious of your surroundings, yet have
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Speaker 1: walked home from your train, crossing crowded streets, dodging automobiles,
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Speaker 1: escaping contact with other pedestrians, and finding yourself at last
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Speaker 1: in front of your door with latch key in hand.
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Speaker 1: A little thought on the subject will reveal to you
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Speaker 1: the startling fact that you perform the major portion of
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Speaker 1: your habitual physical actions practically automatically, that is to say,
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Speaker 1: by means of your subconscious. Hearing these statements of facts
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Speaker 1: for the first time, you may say, pooh, I simply
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Speaker 1: remembered how to do these things by repeated performance, and
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Speaker 1: did not have to use my mind about them each time.
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Speaker 1: That is all there is to it. But stop a moment.
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Speaker 1: Is this really all there is to it? You cannot
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Speaker 1: remember just what particular shoe you put on first every morning.
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Speaker 1: You cannot remember just which arm you place first in
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Speaker 1: your coat every morning. You cannot remember every little motion
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Speaker 1: twist and turn your employ in tying your necktie each
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Speaker 1: time you dress. But your subconscious remembers it perfectly, and
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Speaker 1: is thereby able to perform these tasks properly every day
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Speaker 1: without calling upon your conscious mentality for assistance. If you
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Speaker 1: try on an old and different pair of shoes long
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Speaker 1: since laid aside, if you take up once more a
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Speaker 1: style of necktie which you have not worn for years,
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Speaker 1: you will find that your subconscious will remember every motion
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Speaker 1: of tying the shoes or the necktie, though it would
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Speaker 1: be impossible for your conscious mentality to describe the process
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Speaker 1: in detail or to remember the exact motions to be employed.
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Speaker 1: Professor Joseph Jastrow, in one of his works, gives us
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Speaker 1: several interesting personal experiences designed to illustrate the trouble experienced
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Speaker 1: by the individual when his conscious mentality attempts to boss
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Speaker 1: the job which long since has been taken over by
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Speaker 1: the subconscious. The following will serve to illustrate the prince.
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Speaker 1: He says, I can readily adjust a certain kind of
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Speaker 1: necktie which I were only occasionally, if I do not
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Speaker 1: put my attention upon it, but let my hands follow
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Speaker 1: their ingrained habits. If however, I begin to reason which
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Speaker 1: end goes over and which under, and watch my movements
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Speaker 1: in the mirror, a hopeless failure is the likely issue.
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Speaker 1: The following verse furnishes a humorous illustration of the same principle. Here,
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Speaker 1: the centipede gets along quite well with its subconscious direction
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Speaker 1: of its many legs, until the playful toad suggests that
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Speaker 1: the many legged one should direct his conscious mentality to
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Speaker 1: boss the job. Then see what happens. The centipede was
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Speaker 1: happy quite until the toad, for fun said, pray which
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Speaker 1: leg comes? After which this wrought his mind to such
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Speaker 1: a pitch. He lay distracted in the ditch, considering how
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Speaker 1: to run. Many persons quite proficient in the performance of
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Speaker 1: delicate muscular movements, find it almost impossible to teach others
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Speaker 1: by words how the work is executed. It is only
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Speaker 1: when they say it is like this, accompanying the words
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Speaker 1: with the actual physical demonstration, that the desired instruction is imparted.
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Speaker 1: The instructor in any branch of manual work, the dancing master,
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Speaker 1: the teacher of skating, shooting, billiards, et cetera, can hope
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Speaker 1: to teach his pupil to catch the movement only by imitation.
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Speaker 1: He must lead his pupil to imitate the teacher's movements
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Speaker 1: until he has made them his own ie until his
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Speaker 1: subconscious assimilates the movement and takes over its performance. It
1:15:33
Speaker 1: is an axiom of manual training that the pupil never
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Speaker 1: really knows how to perform the manual task with proficiency
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Speaker 1: until he is able to perform it along subconscious lines,
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Speaker 1: although that term is not employed by the teachers and workmen.
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Speaker 1: The pupil must continue to put his mind on it
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Speaker 1: until he is able to have his subconscious take over
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Speaker 1: the task. The skilled performance of a technical musical composition
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Speaker 1: by a young woman who is conversing entertainingly with the
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Speaker 1: young man man who is turning the sheets of her music,
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Speaker 1: and who possibly is also engaged at the same time
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Speaker 1: in a roguish efflirtation with the admiring youth, demonstrates forcibly
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Speaker 1: the fact that the subconscious of the young woman is
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Speaker 1: on the job so far as the musical performance is concerned.
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Speaker 1: The subconscious of the experienced hostess, who is able to
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Speaker 1: converse brilliantly with her guests at the dinner table while
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Speaker 1: missing nothing concerning the service being furnished them, and who
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Speaker 1: at the same time is observing minutely the costumes of
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Speaker 1: the visiting women, also is manifesting its efficiency. The same
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Speaker 1: is true of the subconscious of the typist who is
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Speaker 1: busily engaged in transcribing her notes, rapidly operating her machine,
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Speaker 1: and yet at the same time is noting carefully the
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Speaker 1: conversation of her fellow workers, or of her employer and
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Speaker 1: his visitor. Examples of this kind are always at hand.
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Speaker 1: You will note them now that your attention has been
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Speaker 1: directed to the subject. You have but to recall the
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Speaker 1: thoughts indulged in by you when you were shaving this morning.
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Speaker 1: You do not remember the motions of your razor, because
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Speaker 1: you were too busy thinking about something else even to
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Speaker 1: note the physical movements at the time. But your subconscious
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Speaker 1: was on the job. Nevertheless, in fact, it shaves you
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Speaker 1: every morning. This action of your subconscious is the result
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Speaker 1: of that law of your mental being which makes for
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Speaker 1: efficiency and utility, the instinctive urge toward obtaining the maximum
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Speaker 1: of necessary muscular movement with the minimum expenditure of conscious attention.
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Speaker 1: Were you compelled to exert the original degree of conscious
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Speaker 1: attention in every repeated performance of a physical movement, you
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Speaker 1: would not only fail to obtain proficiency, speed, ease, and
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Speaker 1: general efficiency of movement, but you would also experience the
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Speaker 1: same degree of mental fatigue which marked the original performance
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Speaker 1: of the task. Conscious attention requires a great outlay of
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Speaker 1: nervous energy, and such expenditure is fatiguing. Proficiency and efficiency
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Speaker 1: in any line of work depends largely upon the ability
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Speaker 1: to pass the performance of the work on to the subconscious. This, however,
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Speaker 1: only after the conscious faculties have thoroughly mastered the necessary
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Speaker 1: experience concerning the details of the task. Kay states the
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Speaker 1: rule as follows. The more we cultivate and train any
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Speaker 1: power or faculty, the more easily and rapidly does it
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Speaker 1: perform its work. The less that consciousness is concerned in it,
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Speaker 1: the more work does it accomplish, and the less does
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Speaker 1: it suffer from fatigue. Our mental progress, then, is in
1:18:25
Speaker 1: the direction of our becoming unconscious or largely unconscious, of
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Speaker 1: many of our activities. Abercrombie says there is a remarkable
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Speaker 1: law of the system by which actions, at first requiring
1:18:36
Speaker 1: much attention are, after frequent repetition, performed with a much
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Speaker 1: less degree of it, or without the mind being conscious
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Speaker 1: of any effort. This is exemplified in various processes of
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Speaker 1: daily occurrence, as reading or writing, but most remarkably in music.
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Speaker 1: But here we must call your attention to an important
1:18:55
Speaker 1: point and to indicate a source of danger. Just as
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Speaker 1: a manager of a large establishment would be seriously handicapped
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Speaker 1: were he to be deprived of his helpers and forced
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Speaker 1: to perform all the details of the work himself, so
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Speaker 1: likewise the work of the establishment would be seriously affected
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Speaker 1: were the manager to fail to maintain a supervision over
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Speaker 1: his subordinate workers. This is just as true in the
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Speaker 1: case of the mind as in that of the establishment
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Speaker 1: to which we have just referred. The subconscious is just
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Speaker 1: as apt to pick up bad habits and methods as
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Speaker 1: good ones, and it also easily tends to fall into
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Speaker 1: bad habits of making short cuts of doubtful value, or
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Speaker 1: to adopt slouchy methods of operation. The conscious mentality, while
1:19:38
Speaker 1: not attempting to perform the detail work which is far
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Speaker 1: better and more efficiently performed by the subconscious, should nevertheless
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Speaker 1: always maintain a vigilant supervision of the results and output
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Speaker 1: of the mental establishment. It should continue to examine the
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Speaker 1: output and to pass upon the results, and if these
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Speaker 1: be faulty or unsatisfactory, it should insist upon an improved
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Speaker 1: and a correction of the erroneous methods and processes. It
1:20:04
Speaker 1: should allow the subconscious to perform the detail work without
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Speaker 1: meddlesome interference, but at the same time it should hold
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Speaker 1: the subconscious responsible for the efficient performance of the tasks
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Speaker 1: committed to its care. The work of educating the subconscious
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Speaker 1: in this matter, or of correcting it when needed, is
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Speaker 1: based upon certain quite well defined principles, which we shall
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Speaker 1: now present to you. These principles should be carefully considered
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Speaker 1: by you, and their main points committed to memory, for
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Speaker 1: they are very useful and necessary. Strange to say, while
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Speaker 1: all persons continually employ the subconscious in their everyday work,
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Speaker 1: very few are acquainted with the principles involved in the
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Speaker 1: education and correction of its faculties and powers. Notwithstanding that
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Speaker 1: these principles are very simple and are easily employed, the
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Speaker 1: scientific method is far preferable to the hit or miss
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Speaker 1: or higglely pigglety methods usually employed. Educating and directing the subconscious.
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Speaker 1: One begin with concentrated attention. This rule is based upon
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Speaker 1: the fact that the more the conscious attention is given
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Speaker 1: to a new physical movement or operation at the start
1:21:11
Speaker 1: and during the early stages, of its acquirement. The more
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Speaker 1: readily and more thoroughly does the subconscious acquire the knack
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Speaker 1: of performing that movement or operation after it has been
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Speaker 1: transmitted to it. The degree of conscious attention given to
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Speaker 1: the task in the first place determines the degree of
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Speaker 1: the impression made upon the subconscious, and the greater the
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Speaker 1: degree of such impression, the more effective will be the
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Speaker 1: subsequent performance of the task by the subconscious after it
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Speaker 1: has taken over the matter. The same rule applies to
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Speaker 1: the correction of the subconscious when it requires such by
1:21:42
Speaker 1: reason of faulty performance. The basic principles must be first
1:21:46
Speaker 1: thoroughly acquired by the conscious mentality by means of concentrated attention.
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Speaker 1: These are then transmitted to the subconscious, which thereafter acquires
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Speaker 1: proficiency by repeated performance. The start must be a good
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Speaker 1: one if the finish is to be satisfactory. Two. Recognize
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Speaker 1: the subconscious. By a strange and seldom recognized law of psychology,
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Speaker 1: the actual recognition of the subconscious by the conscious mentality
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Speaker 1: serves to establish a strong bond of mutual interest, coordination,
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Speaker 1: and cooperation between the two planes of the mind. This
1:22:21
Speaker 1: results in a far greater degree of receptivity by the
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Speaker 1: subconscious in the first place, and a far greater degree
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Speaker 1: of efficiency on its part in the second place. You
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Speaker 1: will do well to enter into the spirit of this idea,
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Speaker 1: even to the extent of thinking of the subconscious as
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Speaker 1: being a real personal helper. You may address it and
1:22:41
Speaker 1: treat it in general, as if it were indeed an independent,
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Speaker 1: intelligent entity. It certainly is intelligent, though not really independent
1:22:48
Speaker 1: of your mental being. You may mentally address it saying, here, subconscious,
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Speaker 1: this is the way I want this thing done. This
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Speaker 1: is the right way to do it. I am learning
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Speaker 1: the hang of this thing, the knack of doing it
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Speaker 1: efficiently in the best possible way, in the least possible
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Speaker 1: time and with the least possible expenditure of energy. I
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Speaker 1: want you to watch me closely so that you will
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Speaker 1: acquire the knack of efficiency in doing it, so that
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Speaker 1: you may do it still better when I turn it
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Speaker 1: over to you. You may smile at this apparently fanciful idea,
1:23:21
Speaker 1: but it works out in actual practice. Treat the subconscious
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Speaker 1: as a working partner and see how quickly, eagerly, and
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Speaker 1: effectively it will respond. Three. Don't meddle with the subconscious,
1:23:33
Speaker 1: but trust it. Following out the idea last stated, give
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Speaker 1: the subconscious a chance to do its work. When you
1:23:40
Speaker 1: have turned a task over to it, examine its results,
1:23:43
Speaker 1: supervise its output, but don't meddle with its detail work.
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Speaker 1: Do not bewilder it when it is performing the task.
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Speaker 1: Remember the fate of the centipede in the verse previously quoted.
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Speaker 1: The subconscious is somewhat sensitive and at times suffers from
1:23:58
Speaker 1: stage fright if meddled with. Treat it kindly and show
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Speaker 1: confidence in it. Employ diplomacy in dealing with it. Use
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Speaker 1: the iron hand if necessary, but do not forget the
1:24:10
Speaker 1: velvet glove on that hand. The subconscious has something like
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Speaker 1: the artistic temperament of the opera singer. It must be
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Speaker 1: handled properly in order to get the best results. It
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Speaker 1: is an excellent player of golf and a driver of automobiles.
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Speaker 1: But you must show it that you trust it while
1:24:26
Speaker 1: it is playing or driving, and must not rattle it
1:24:29
Speaker 1: by meddlesome interference. Make a friend and a brother of
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Speaker 1: your subconscious. You will never regret it. Subconscious Power your
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Speaker 1: secret Forces. By William Walker Atkinson, nineteen twenty two. Subconscious,
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Speaker 1: Emotion and Memory. The subconscious plays such an important part
1:24:50
Speaker 1: in the processes of emotion and memory, respectively, that it
1:24:53
Speaker 1: truly may be said that without taking into consideration the
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Speaker 1: part played in them by the subconscious, there can be
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Speaker 1: no intelligen understanding of the nature of emotion or memory,
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Speaker 1: nor of their manifestations. In the regions of the subconscious
1:25:07
Speaker 1: lie the emotional tendencies and inclinations which rise into conscious
1:25:11
Speaker 1: manifestation upon contact with the objects which furnish the stimuli
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Speaker 1: for such manifestation. You have often been surprised by the
1:25:19
Speaker 1: rise into conscious feeling of certain emotional tendencies, of the
1:25:22
Speaker 1: existence of which you have heretofore been unaware. You have
1:25:26
Speaker 1: often found dwelling within your inner nature the material for
1:25:29
Speaker 1: feelings and emotions from which you had previously deemed yourself
1:25:33
Speaker 1: entirely free. It has been well said that in the
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Speaker 1: subconscious emotional nature of every individual there is to be
1:25:39
Speaker 1: found the whole menagerie of elemental subconscious power, feelings, the animals,
1:25:44
Speaker 1: awaiting only the opening of the door of consciousness to
1:25:46
Speaker 1: make their appearance. Your feelings and emotions are determined not
1:25:51
Speaker 1: alone by your conscious sensations and ideas, but also by
1:25:55
Speaker 1: the imperceptible influence of subconscious impressions, of which only the
1:25:59
Speaker 1: sum of the resulting effects manifest in consciousness. This explains
1:26:03
Speaker 1: the mystery and inexplicable character of so many of your
1:26:06
Speaker 1: emotional experiences, the uprush of unsuspected feelings. Not knowing the
1:26:12
Speaker 1: definite causes of these mental states, you find them incomprehensible.
1:26:17
Speaker 1: You have within you a quiet and unseen growth of
1:26:19
Speaker 1: subconscious emotional influences, which often prove to be important factors
1:26:23
Speaker 1: in your mental life. You are not conscious of the
1:26:27
Speaker 1: existence of these influences until when the appropriate stimuli call
1:26:31
Speaker 1: them forth, they manifest a distinctly marked character and often
1:26:35
Speaker 1: a decided urge to action. Psychoanalysis of quite a simple
1:26:39
Speaker 1: character tends to reveal the existence of some of these
1:26:42
Speaker 1: hidden emotional states of which it has been said, they,
1:26:45
Speaker 1: more than knowledge, make us what we are. But there
1:26:48
Speaker 1: still exists within us an even larger area of such
1:26:51
Speaker 1: emotional character, which is unsuspected by us, and of which
1:26:54
Speaker 1: we become aware only under exceptional circumstances. Only extended in
1:26:58
Speaker 1: deep psychoanalysis reveals these elements to us. So far below
1:27:02
Speaker 1: the surface of consciousness do they lie. Professor Joseph Jastrau says,
1:27:07
Speaker 1: a still larger and more vital part lies submerged in
1:27:10
Speaker 1: the subconscious areas of character and disposition, effectively modifying the
1:27:15
Speaker 1: organic efficiency and the quality of our talents, yet so subtly,
1:27:19
Speaker 1: so fluidly as to impart an unanalyzable genius to all
1:27:22
Speaker 1: that is most worth while in what we feel and
1:27:25
Speaker 1: think and do in are such emotional factors of our
1:27:28
Speaker 1: psychology penetrate more fundamentally than do the intellectual ones into
1:27:32
Speaker 1: the fiber of our being, And so are more intrinsically
1:27:35
Speaker 1: influences of the subconscious order, more submerged, more intuitive, and
1:27:39
Speaker 1: less revealed. The subconscious emotional material from which your conscious
1:27:44
Speaker 1: emotional states are created and composed may be arranged for
1:27:47
Speaker 1: convenience into the following three classes, These, however, not being
1:27:51
Speaker 1: mutually exclusive. Viz. One, emotions arising from physical causes. This
1:27:58
Speaker 1: class of subconscious mimases. Emotional material arises from physical conditions
1:28:02
Speaker 1: themselves unperceived by conscious sensation, but which manifest in subconscious
1:28:07
Speaker 1: emotional states which gradually rise to the plane of consciousness.
1:28:11
Speaker 1: In this class are included your moods, which arise without
1:28:15
Speaker 1: any relation to your actual experiences. With the outside world.
1:28:19
Speaker 1: You are not conscious of what is going on in
1:28:21
Speaker 1: your internal physical organism, except in cases of marked abnormal conditions,
1:28:26
Speaker 1: but your subconscious is aware of these physical conditions and
1:28:29
Speaker 1: frequently reflects them in the form of emotional states. Far
1:28:33
Speaker 1: more sole experiences arise from reflected physical conditions than we
1:28:38
Speaker 1: usually realize or are willing to concede. One's romantic melancholy
1:28:43
Speaker 1: is very frequently the direct result of an inactive liver
1:28:46
Speaker 1: reflected in the subconscious emotional states, or perhaps from subconscious
1:28:50
Speaker 1: sexual activities or processes. Two combinations of minute emotional material.
1:28:57
Speaker 1: This class of emotional material consists of the scattered elements
1:29:01
Speaker 1: of personal experience, each of which is too weak or
1:29:04
Speaker 1: unimportant to manifest as emotion, but which combined and fused
1:29:08
Speaker 1: by the subconscious thereafter tend to rise to the conscious
1:29:11
Speaker 1: levels of the mind. You are constantly receiving such emotional
1:29:15
Speaker 1: material of which you are not conscious at the time.
1:29:19
Speaker 1: Emotional experiences must be of a certain magnitude or intensity
1:29:23
Speaker 1: in order to rise to the plane of consciousness. As
1:29:26
Speaker 1: Lewis says, many impressions are either so faint in themselves
1:29:30
Speaker 1: or so familiar, so submerged in stronger impressions or so
1:29:34
Speaker 1: incapable of exciting trains of reflex feeling in the preoccupied mind,
1:29:38
Speaker 1: that we are neither conscious of them when present nor
1:29:41
Speaker 1: capable of remembering them afterward. And as Ribault says, a
1:29:46
Speaker 1: certain amount of time is necessary for an impression to
1:29:49
Speaker 1: be perceived, and an essential condition of consciousness is wanting
1:29:52
Speaker 1: when the duration of the nervous process falls below the minimum.
1:29:56
Speaker 1: But although not recognized in consciousness, many of the such
1:30:00
Speaker 1: emotional impressions tend to unite and to become fused together
1:30:03
Speaker 1: in the subconscious, and thus acquire such strength as to
1:30:06
Speaker 1: cause disturbances on the conscious surface of the mind. As
1:30:10
Speaker 1: Holmes says, they never emerge into consciousness, but yet make
1:30:14
Speaker 1: their influence felt among the perceptible mental currents, just as
1:30:17
Speaker 1: the unseen planets sway the movements of those that are
1:30:20
Speaker 1: watched and mapped by the astronomer. At other times, these
1:30:24
Speaker 1: fused impressions of the subconscious will acquire such vigor that
1:30:27
Speaker 1: they will cause a veritable upheaval on the conscious plane.
1:30:30
Speaker 1: They will fairly explode into consciousness in a way startling
1:30:33
Speaker 1: to the individual who previously was not at all aware
1:30:36
Speaker 1: that he felt just that way about such things. Three
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Speaker 1: emotions of racial memory. This class of emotional material consists
1:30:45
Speaker 1: of race experiences transmitted by heredity through racial memory or instinct,
1:30:50
Speaker 1: which rise into consciousness when the appropriate stimuli present themselves.
1:30:55
Speaker 1: Most of your most fundamental and elemental emotions have come
1:30:58
Speaker 1: to you in this way, i e. Through racial memory
1:31:01
Speaker 1: of the past experiences of the race, reaching you as
1:31:05
Speaker 1: instinctive feeling. Instinct at the last is out inherited racial
1:31:09
Speaker 1: memory memory of the past experience of the race. As
1:31:13
Speaker 1: memory is fundamentally a function and process of the subconscious,
1:31:17
Speaker 1: it follows that the instinctive emotions are essentially subconscious in character.
1:31:23
Speaker 1: There flows through you the deep stream of racial memory,
1:31:25
Speaker 1: which has come down to you from countless generations of
1:31:28
Speaker 1: the race. In that stream are the materials of some
1:31:32
Speaker 1: of the most elemental and fundamental emotional states, which rise
1:31:35
Speaker 1: to the surface of your consciousness when the appropriate stimulus
1:31:38
Speaker 1: presents itself. The experiences of your long line of ancestors
1:31:42
Speaker 1: have been impressed upon that racial memory. That memory has
1:31:45
Speaker 1: been transmitted to you and forms a portion of your
1:31:48
Speaker 1: subconscious mental records. But do not let this thought disturb you.
1:31:53
Speaker 1: Do not share the popular false conception of heredity as
1:31:56
Speaker 1: a bugaboo. As Burbank has said, heredity means much. But
1:32:00
Speaker 1: what is heredity not some hideous ancestral specter forever crossing
1:32:05
Speaker 1: the path of a human being. Heredity is merely the
1:32:09
Speaker 1: sum of all the effects of all the environments of
1:32:11
Speaker 1: all past generations on the response of ever moving life forces.
1:32:16
Speaker 1: Heredity is merely racial memory, and is no more to
1:32:19
Speaker 1: be feared than is your own individual memory. All of
1:32:23
Speaker 1: the three above stated classes of subconscious emotional states, together
1:32:27
Speaker 1: with their countless variations and combinations, dwell below the levels
1:32:31
Speaker 1: of consciousness on the great planes of the subconscious, except
1:32:35
Speaker 1: at such times when they are called into conscious activity,
1:32:38
Speaker 1: when they spring from the depths, just the flying fish
1:32:40
Speaker 1: raising itself into the air from the body of deep water,
1:32:43
Speaker 1: which is its home. If asked in what form they
1:32:46
Speaker 1: abide in the subconscious or just where they rest, the
1:32:50
Speaker 1: only answer is that they abide there in the same
1:32:52
Speaker 1: general form and rest in the same general region, as
1:32:56
Speaker 1: does the subconscious memory of the actions of the fingers
1:32:58
Speaker 1: of the skilled musician, or the subconscious memories of the
1:33:01
Speaker 1: many things which you have experienced but of which you
1:33:04
Speaker 1: are not conscious at the present moment, though the recollection
1:33:07
Speaker 1: of these will take place when you demand it. You
1:33:10
Speaker 1: are conscious of only a very small percentage of the
1:33:13
Speaker 1: things you know, and of that which you feel, and
1:33:15
Speaker 1: of those actions which you are able to perform proficiently
1:33:18
Speaker 1: and efficiently. By far, the greater part of these mental
1:33:22
Speaker 1: states or conditions, or whatever you may choose to call them,
1:33:25
Speaker 1: lies beneath the levels of consciousness, in the deep regions
1:33:29
Speaker 1: of the subconscious, in the depths of that great mental
1:33:32
Speaker 1: ocean of your being, of which your ordinary consciousness is
1:33:34
Speaker 1: merely the surface. You will do well to cease thinking
1:33:38
Speaker 1: of these planes of mentality as places in space. Think
1:33:42
Speaker 1: of them rather as states of mind. Of all of
1:33:45
Speaker 1: the offices and processes of the subconscious, that phase concerned
1:33:49
Speaker 1: with memory is perhaps the most characteristic. This because memory,
1:33:54
Speaker 1: in some of its aspects, is involved in all of
1:33:56
Speaker 1: the other phases of subconscious mental activity. Memory itself is
1:34:01
Speaker 1: so involved with subconscious mentation that it cannot be disentangled
1:34:04
Speaker 1: from it. Without the processes of memory, none of the
1:34:08
Speaker 1: other manifestations of subconscious activity would be possible, and likewise,
1:34:13
Speaker 1: without the existence of the subconscious, there could not exist
1:34:16
Speaker 1: that great subconscious storehouse of memory. In which the memory
1:34:19
Speaker 1: records are stored, and from which they are brought out
1:34:22
Speaker 1: in the processes of recollection and raised again to the
1:34:25
Speaker 1: plane of consciousness. Memory, in its most general meaning, is
1:34:29
Speaker 1: the conscious revival of past mental experiences. It follows logically
1:34:34
Speaker 1: that the experience, in order to be afterward remembered i e.
1:34:38
Speaker 1: Recalled into consciousness, must in the meantime be impressed and
1:34:41
Speaker 1: stored away in some region of the mind. That such
1:34:45
Speaker 1: region of the mind is not that of the ordinary consciousness.
1:34:48
Speaker 1: We know by personal experience. We know that by effort
1:34:51
Speaker 1: we raise these impressions from somewhere up to the plane
1:34:54
Speaker 1: of consciousness. That somewhere is the realm of the subconscious,
1:34:59
Speaker 1: that part of the region of the subconscious, which is
1:35:02
Speaker 1: called the storehouse of memory. Halick says it has often
1:35:06
Speaker 1: been asked where are the images of memory when they
1:35:09
Speaker 1: are not present in consciousness. We see a man one day,
1:35:13
Speaker 1: but do not think of him again for a month.
1:35:16
Speaker 1: We can then call up a distinct image of him.
1:35:19
Speaker 1: Where was the image of the man during the month.
1:35:22
Speaker 1: The theory is that the full fledged idea is in
1:35:25
Speaker 1: the mind, but slumbering below the stream of consciousness, just
1:35:28
Speaker 1: as a person is alive when sound asleep without being
1:35:32
Speaker 1: aware of the fact. When we are not conscious of
1:35:35
Speaker 1: an idea, it is believed to disappear, just as a
1:35:38
Speaker 1: diver does beneath the surface of the water, and the
1:35:40
Speaker 1: idea is held to keep its form as intact as
1:35:43
Speaker 1: does the diver during this disappearance. It is impossible to
1:35:47
Speaker 1: account for the nature of memory except upon the hypothesis
1:35:50
Speaker 1: that there is much in the mind of which we
1:35:52
Speaker 1: are unconscious. We are conscious of only a small part
1:35:56
Speaker 1: of what exists in our minds. That which we know
1:35:59
Speaker 1: to remain in the mind, but of which we are
1:36:01
Speaker 1: not conscious at the time, must be thought of as
1:36:04
Speaker 1: being stored away in the subconscious. When we recall it,
1:36:08
Speaker 1: it rises to the plane of consciousness. At all other
1:36:11
Speaker 1: times it is below the level of consciousness. Likewise, we
1:36:15
Speaker 1: could not recognize a past experience as such when it
1:36:18
Speaker 1: is recalled in some way, unless at least some trace
1:36:21
Speaker 1: of it had continued in existence in the mind. Many
1:36:24
Speaker 1: leading psychologists, in fact, have held that an impression, once
1:36:28
Speaker 1: made upon the record sheets of the subconscious, always remains there,
1:36:31
Speaker 1: even though it may never again be called into the
1:36:34
Speaker 1: conscious field of attention. Likewise, they hold that Even though
1:36:38
Speaker 1: such impressions may never again come into consciousness, nevertheless they
1:36:42
Speaker 1: exert a subtle and silent influence upon our views, convictions, habits, feelings, emotions, judgments,
1:36:48
Speaker 1: and actions. The Freudian school lays great stress upon this fact,
1:36:53
Speaker 1: and its method of psychoanalysis is directed largely to the
1:36:57
Speaker 1: work of digging out these submerged memories of pasting experiences
1:37:00
Speaker 1: which have been disturbing the emotional balance. Morel says, every
1:37:05
Speaker 1: single effort of mind is a creation which can never
1:37:08
Speaker 1: go back again into non entity. It may slumber in
1:37:11
Speaker 1: the depths of forgetfulness, as light and heat slumber in
1:37:14
Speaker 1: the cold seams, but there it is ready at the
1:37:17
Speaker 1: bidding of some appropriate stimulus to come out of the
1:37:19
Speaker 1: darkness into the light of consciousness. Hollander says, we may
1:37:24
Speaker 1: forget objects and events, that is to say, we may
1:37:27
Speaker 1: dismiss them from our consciousness, but they are stored up
1:37:30
Speaker 1: in our subconsciousness to the end of our days. Says
1:37:34
Speaker 1: another writer, Our mental impressions may never again come up
1:37:37
Speaker 1: before consciousness, but they nevertheless remain in that vast ultra
1:37:41
Speaker 1: conscious region of the mind, subconsciously or unconsciously, molding and
1:37:45
Speaker 1: fashioning our subsequent thought and actions. Fever patients have been
1:37:50
Speaker 1: known to converse in the language of the country in
1:37:52
Speaker 1: which their early childhood has been spent, though they had
1:37:55
Speaker 1: apparently entirely forgotten that tongue. Several typical cases of this
1:38:00
Speaker 1: are recorded in the text books in which patients in
1:38:02
Speaker 1: delirium have recited long passages, sometimes entire chapters, from books
1:38:07
Speaker 1: in foreign languages, which they did not understand in their
1:38:10
Speaker 1: normal condition, but which books have been read from in
1:38:13
Speaker 1: their presence many years before. Persons rescued from drowning or
1:38:17
Speaker 1: hanging have testified that many of the events of their
1:38:19
Speaker 1: past lives were presented to their consciousness with utmost clearness
1:38:23
Speaker 1: and minuteness of detail, and with a lightning like rapidity
1:38:26
Speaker 1: of sequence. Dying persons not infrequently go back in memory
1:38:31
Speaker 1: to the days of their early childhood, and, after a
1:38:34
Speaker 1: lapse of fifty, sixty, seventy or even more years, will
1:38:38
Speaker 1: recite the most trifling events of those early days with
1:38:41
Speaker 1: wonderful minuteness of detail. Cases of this kind are numerous
1:38:46
Speaker 1: and are too well authenticated to permit a doubt of
1:38:48
Speaker 1: their substantial correctness. The theory of coincidence is absurd when
1:38:52
Speaker 1: applied to such cases. Of like nature is the frequent
1:38:56
Speaker 1: experience of dreams, in which many apparently forgotten incidents of
1:39:00
Speaker 1: childhood and youth are presented in clear detail. In some instances,
1:39:04
Speaker 1: the person is convinced of the truth of the recollection
1:39:07
Speaker 1: only by the assurances of older relatives familiar with the
1:39:10
Speaker 1: facts of the original experience. The work of the subconscious
1:39:14
Speaker 1: in the processes of memory, however, is not confined to
1:39:17
Speaker 1: the office of furnishing a subconscious storehouse of memory impressions.
1:39:21
Speaker 1: It has other and still more complicated tasks to perform.
1:39:25
Speaker 1: It not only stores away the memory records, but it
1:39:28
Speaker 1: has also its own particular system of indexing and cross
1:39:31
Speaker 1: indexing them, of searching for these records when they are
1:39:34
Speaker 1: demanded on the conscious plane, and of finding them and
1:39:36
Speaker 1: presenting them to consciousness, perhaps long after the conscious demand
1:39:40
Speaker 1: for them has ceased, and when the person is thinking
1:39:43
Speaker 1: about something entirely different. You have often experienced this delayed
1:39:47
Speaker 1: finding of the missing memory record, after you have given
1:39:51
Speaker 1: up all hope of ever recalling it to memory. Then
1:39:54
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, the missing name, number, or detail
1:39:57
Speaker 1: fairly pops into consciousness, sometimes times in an almost startling fashion.
1:40:02
Speaker 1: Let us describe in somewhat fanciful form, yet in a
1:40:06
Speaker 1: form which accurately represents the actual working out of the
1:40:09
Speaker 1: processes these activities of the subconscious which are concerned with memory.
1:40:14
Speaker 1: In the first place, we shall compare your mechanism of
1:40:17
Speaker 1: memory recording to the recording apparatus of a phonograph. In
1:40:22
Speaker 1: each case, the receiving diaphragm and the receiving record are
1:40:25
Speaker 1: both There, the impression of sensation, emotion, or action is
1:40:30
Speaker 1: recorded on the moving cylinder of the memory i e.
1:40:33
Speaker 1: Of the subconscious mechanism concerned with memory. The impression may
1:40:38
Speaker 1: be clear and strong, or else faint and weak, according
1:40:41
Speaker 1: to the circumstances of the original experience. Then begin the
1:40:45
Speaker 1: more complex activities of the subconscious in its processes of memory.
1:40:51
Speaker 1: The records bearing the impressions are immediately carried below the
1:40:54
Speaker 1: plane of consciousness, and are stored with more or less care,
1:40:57
Speaker 1: depending upon the habit of the individual, in the great
1:41:00
Speaker 1: storehouse of memory in the realm of the subconscious. But
1:41:04
Speaker 1: this is only the beginning. The stored away memory records
1:41:08
Speaker 1: would be of no practical use to you were you
1:41:10
Speaker 1: unable to find them when needed. Accordingly, the subconscious employs
1:41:15
Speaker 1: methods tending to facilitate the future finding and presentation of
1:41:18
Speaker 1: these records. In order that these memory records be rendered available,
1:41:23
Speaker 1: they must be one stored in a systematic manner, each
1:41:27
Speaker 1: in a section containing impressions of a similar class, two
1:41:30
Speaker 1: plainly labeled so that they may be recognized when seen
1:41:33
Speaker 1: by the memory clerks employed by the subconscious for this purpose,
1:41:37
Speaker 1: and three carefully indexed and cross indexed in the memory
1:41:41
Speaker 1: books of the subconscious, so that the loose end of
1:41:45
Speaker 1: memory may always be taken hold of by the searching clerks.
1:41:49
Speaker 1: The storing away process, and particularly the indexing and cross
1:41:53
Speaker 1: indexing process, constitutes the work of what we have somewhat
1:41:56
Speaker 1: fancifully called the clerks of the subconscious, Incas indeed they
1:42:01
Speaker 1: certainly act like real clerks instead of mere processes. There
1:42:05
Speaker 1: is a great difference in the degree of proficiency of
1:42:08
Speaker 1: these memory clerks, particularly in the case of the indexers
1:42:11
Speaker 1: and cross indexers. This difference depends largely upon the memory
1:42:16
Speaker 1: training of the individual. Some persons have their memory records
1:42:20
Speaker 1: so closely cross indexed that if they cannot find the
1:42:23
Speaker 1: missing record at once by means of the direct index,
1:42:26
Speaker 1: they set the memory clerks to work discovering the cross
1:42:28
Speaker 1: indexed references to it, and in a short time the
1:42:31
Speaker 1: record is found and passed on to the other helpers,
1:42:34
Speaker 1: who then raise it to the plane of consciousness, where
1:42:36
Speaker 1: it is placed on the reproducing phonograph of memory and
1:42:39
Speaker 1: cause to repeat the original impression. So you see, the
1:42:44
Speaker 1: conscious mentality plays only a subordinate part in the processes
1:42:47
Speaker 1: of memory. It merely records the impressions and afterward reproduces
1:42:52
Speaker 1: them when they are placed before its mechanism. The storing,
1:42:56
Speaker 1: the indexing, the searching, discovery of the records, and the
1:42:59
Speaker 1: final raising of the records up to the reproducing mechanism
1:43:03
Speaker 1: of consciousness, each and all are performed by the subconscious
1:43:06
Speaker 1: through its processes and clerks. In fact, through the study
1:43:10
Speaker 1: of the processes of memory, you will gain a much
1:43:13
Speaker 1: more comprehensive and much more practical idea of the nature
1:43:16
Speaker 1: of the subconscious and of its methods of work, than
1:43:19
Speaker 1: is possible through the study of any other one class
1:43:22
Speaker 1: of its activities and phenomena. The Freudian school has directed
1:43:26
Speaker 1: particular attention to the fact that the subconscious sometimes seems
1:43:30
Speaker 1: determined to make the individual forget certain things, which are
1:43:33
Speaker 1: unpleasant and disagreeable to him, and to encourage the recollection
1:43:36
Speaker 1: and remembrance of things of an agreeable nature. The many
1:43:40
Speaker 1: works written by Freud and his followers give many and
1:43:43
Speaker 1: often quite amusing instances of this particular trade of the subconscious.
1:43:48
Speaker 1: For instance, one finds it easy to forget to pay
1:43:51
Speaker 1: a bill containing charges deemed extortionate or for services not
1:43:55
Speaker 1: deemed satisfactory. This entirely aside from the common disinclination to
1:43:59
Speaker 1: part with one's money again. He tends to forget promises, engagements,
1:44:05
Speaker 1: or other duties which are associated with unpleasant persons, things,
1:44:09
Speaker 1: or events. Moreover, he tends to forget the names of
1:44:13
Speaker 1: persons and places which have unpleasant associations. Something about him
1:44:18
Speaker 1: wants to forget it in these cases, and tries in
1:44:21
Speaker 1: many ways to accomplish its purpose. In a recent magazine article,
1:44:26
Speaker 1: a celebrated psychoanalyst of the Freudian school is quoted as saying,
1:44:30
Speaker 1: earlier students of the mind assumed that forgetting was merely
1:44:33
Speaker 1: a passive process the failure to remember. Freud discovered that
1:44:38
Speaker 1: forgetting is the active effort of the mind to protect
1:44:41
Speaker 1: the individual from pain and unpleasantness. Unpleasant experiences and people
1:44:46
Speaker 1: associated with them do not merely slip out of the mind.
1:44:50
Speaker 1: They are actively thrust out and kept under control by
1:44:53
Speaker 1: a mechanism which Freud metaphorically termed the censorship. You remember
1:44:57
Speaker 1: the things you really want to remember, You do the
1:45:00
Speaker 1: things you really want to do. You recall the people
1:45:04
Speaker 1: you really like and want to recall. You will discover
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Speaker 1: that the things or the people you forget or lose
1:45:10
Speaker 1: are associated with something unpleasant and have been automatically relegated
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Speaker 1: by the censor into the limbo of the unconscious. Thus,
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Speaker 1: psychoanalysis adds to the troubles of the husband who seeks
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Speaker 1: to explain to a freud perfect wife how he came
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Speaker 1: to forget to mail those letters to her relatives, and
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Speaker 1: to those of the lover of a freud perfect sweetheart,
1:45:30
Speaker 1: who tries to account for the fact that he happened
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Speaker 1: to forget the date of his first meeting with her,
1:45:34
Speaker 1: or that he overlooked some little thing she had asked
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Speaker 1: him to do for her. Freud has contributed to the
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Speaker 1: list of the little things which serve to make modern
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Speaker 1: life so complex, particularly for the male of the species.
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Speaker 1: Subconscious Power, Your Secret Forces by William Walker Atkinson, nineteen
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Speaker 1: twenty two. Subconscious psychoanalysis. The term psychoanalysis, now so frequently employed,
1:46:01
Speaker 1: is of quite recent origin. It was originally used by
1:46:05
Speaker 1: Professor Sigmund Freud of Vienna to designate a system of
1:46:09
Speaker 1: psychotherapy devised and developed by himself, and which has since
1:46:13
Speaker 1: attracted a large following and secured a marked degree of
1:46:16
Speaker 1: public attention and interest. The method was originally designed and
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Speaker 1: employed for the purpose of the treatment and cure of
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Speaker 1: the borderline of mental diseases such as hysteria, neurasthenia, certain
1:46:27
Speaker 1: forms of neurosis, et cetera, but its principle since has
1:46:30
Speaker 1: been extended much further. The term psychoanalysis is now frequently
1:46:36
Speaker 1: employed to indicate certain methods of analyzing, synthesizing, and re
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Speaker 1: educating the unconscious or subconscious, apart from pathological conditions. A
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Speaker 1: standard reference work says psychoanalysis is a method of psychological
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Speaker 1: investigation designed for the purpose of discovering in exploring the
1:46:54
Speaker 1: unconscious psychic forces which are at the basis of normal
1:46:57
Speaker 1: and abnormal psychic manifestations. It assumes that there are definite
1:47:02
Speaker 1: reasons for all normal and abnormal mental activities that no
1:47:05
Speaker 1: psychoneurotic symptoms are accidental or meaningless, but that they have
1:47:09
Speaker 1: always unconscious underlying causes, which, if found and brought to
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Speaker 1: the surface, become dissipated and cause the symptoms to disappear.
1:47:17
Speaker 1: With this assumption, Professor Freud evolved his theory of repression,
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Speaker 1: which is the main pillar upon which rests the edifice
1:47:24
Speaker 1: of psychoanalysis. In brief, this theory states that the psychoneurotic
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Speaker 1: symptom depends upon past emotional experiences of a painful or
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Speaker 1: disagreeable nature, which were forgotten or repressed into a mental
1:47:36
Speaker 1: field called the unconscious. The aim of psychoanalysis is to
1:47:41
Speaker 1: bring back into the field of conscious memory all the
1:47:44
Speaker 1: repressed unbearable ideas, to show the patient the connection between
1:47:48
Speaker 1: them and the symptoms, thus removing the latter. Doctor Wilfrid Lay,
1:47:52
Speaker 1: an interesting and instructive writer on the subject of psychoanalysis,
1:47:56
Speaker 1: says the name given by Freud himself to the science
1:47:59
Speaker 1: is psychoanalysis, spelled also psychanalysis, or the analysis of the psyche.
1:48:05
Speaker 1: The psyche is not merely the mind regarded as a product,
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Speaker 1: a stationary or crystallized object which can be cut and
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Speaker 1: dried and labeled. The mind and soul and character and
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Speaker 1: body as a connected organic whole, and its functions or
1:48:19
Speaker 1: what it does and how it changes, are the subject
1:48:22
Speaker 1: of psychoanalysis more than how its results or finite outward
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Speaker 1: manifestations can be classified. Psychoanalysis naturally suggests psychosynthesis as a
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Speaker 1: more constructive procedure, and that is indeed the ultimate aim
1:48:36
Speaker 1: of psychoanalysis, not merely to take a part, but to
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Speaker 1: put together again, following a plan which is along the
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Speaker 1: lines of the greatest usefulness to society. Unfortunately, for the
1:48:47
Speaker 1: cause of general interest in the subject on the part
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Speaker 1: of the average non professional person, the idea of psychoanalysis
1:48:53
Speaker 1: has become identified in the public mind with the idea
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Speaker 1: of sex. This because Freud found that many of the
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Speaker 1: unconscious associations revealed by psychoanalysis were composed of more or
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Speaker 1: less erotic material or elements. It is forgotten that Freud
1:49:09
Speaker 1: employs the term sex in the general and broad sense
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Speaker 1: of love, and does not limit it to the gross
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Speaker 1: sexual phases or manifestations. Some of Freud's followers, moreover, have
1:49:20
Speaker 1: eagerly seized upon this sex element and have placed undoe
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Speaker 1: and often grossly exaggerated and quite grotesque emphasis upon it.
1:49:29
Speaker 1: In this way, they have not only attached undesirable associations
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Speaker 1: to the general idea, but have also brought the special
1:49:35
Speaker 1: method into ridicule by reason of their unwarranted extension of
1:49:39
Speaker 1: the principle to the point of absurdity. In certain instances,
1:49:42
Speaker 1: they have not only brought about a reductio ad absurdum,
1:49:46
Speaker 1: but also a condition of ad nauseum. Psychoanalysis should pray
1:49:51
Speaker 1: to be delivered from its friends by itself, it can
1:49:54
Speaker 1: take care of its enemies. In an article on the
1:49:57
Speaker 1: subject contained in a standard reference work, the conservative writer
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Speaker 1: truly and wisely says, while psychoanalysis, in the hands of
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Speaker 1: competent men has undoubtedly been of great help in exploring
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Speaker 1: subconscious states, some wild psychoanalysts have so thoroughly misinterpreted the
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Speaker 1: sexual question that it endangers the science. In the present
1:50:17
Speaker 1: consideration of subconscious psychoanalysis, we shall confine ourselves to but one,
1:50:23
Speaker 1: though a very important one, of its several phases or
1:50:26
Speaker 1: general divisions. We shall not undertake a consideration of its
1:50:30
Speaker 1: phase of psychotherapy, a branch of the subject far too
1:50:34
Speaker 1: technical for popular treatment in a book of this kind.
1:50:37
Speaker 1: Neither shall we enter into a consideration of its specific
1:50:40
Speaker 1: application to the task of character building. We have considered
1:50:44
Speaker 1: that special subject in detail in another book of this series.
1:50:48
Speaker 1: We shall confine our consideration to that phase of the
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Speaker 1: subject which is concerned with the discovery and cure of
1:50:54
Speaker 1: what are known as the negative conditions, activities, and tendencies which,
1:50:58
Speaker 1: abiding hidden and under cover in the realms of the
1:51:01
Speaker 1: subconscious lower planes of mentation, often entirely unsuspected, produce harmful
1:51:06
Speaker 1: effects upon the mental, emotional, and physical life of the individual.
1:51:11
Speaker 1: In the garden of the mind, there are many beautiful
1:51:13
Speaker 1: flowers and rich fruit bearing trees, rendered sickly, diseased, and withered,
1:51:18
Speaker 1: often indeed killed in time by the presence of gnawing, boring, tearing,
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Speaker 1: destroying creatures hidden and working beneath the surface. Rational psychoanalysis
1:51:28
Speaker 1: serves to locate these baneful creatures, to disclose their presence
1:51:32
Speaker 1: and whereabouts, to uncover and reveal them that they may
1:51:35
Speaker 1: be destroyed by the mind and will of the owner
1:51:37
Speaker 1: of the garden. Before proceeding further, let us give you
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Speaker 1: the definition for positive and negative as applied to mental
1:51:45
Speaker 1: states in the several books of this series. The touchstone
1:51:49
Speaker 1: of positivity is this, will this make me stronger, better,
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Speaker 1: and more efficient. If the answer honestly given is in
1:51:57
Speaker 1: the affirmative, then the mental state or other thing about
1:52:00
Speaker 1: which the question is asked is entitled to be classed
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Speaker 1: as positive. If not, then the thing may be either
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Speaker 1: neutral or else negative. You may decide into which of
1:52:10
Speaker 1: these two classes it fits by asking the second question,
1:52:14
Speaker 1: will this make me weaker, worse, and less efficient? If
1:52:18
Speaker 1: you are forced to answer it will to this question,
1:52:21
Speaker 1: then that thing must be classed as negative. This, then,
1:52:25
Speaker 1: is the general character of the negative mental states or
1:52:28
Speaker 1: conditions which you seek to locate, uncover, and kill out
1:52:32
Speaker 1: by means of subconscious psychoanalysis viz. The general quality, nature,
1:52:37
Speaker 1: or character tending to make you weaker, worse, and less efficient.
1:52:42
Speaker 1: Some of these negatives show their character so plainly that
1:52:45
Speaker 1: they to be hated need but to be seen. Others,
1:52:49
Speaker 1: more cleverly disguised by protective coloration and other means, are
1:52:53
Speaker 1: only to be known by their fruits. These negative influences
1:52:58
Speaker 1: abiding in them under the surface regions of the mental garden,
1:53:01
Speaker 1: must be located, uncovered, and destroyed in order that you
1:53:04
Speaker 1: may be made stronger, better, and more efficient. These negative
1:53:09
Speaker 1: mental states of the subconscious, like their kindred states of
1:53:12
Speaker 1: the conscious are found to belong to two great general
1:53:15
Speaker 1: classes viz. One anger and two fear. That negative mental
1:53:22
Speaker 1: states are always found to be either varieties, subspecies, or
1:53:26
Speaker 1: perhaps crosses or hybrids of these two great classes of negativity.
1:53:31
Speaker 1: The ancient Buddhists taught that anger and fear thought are
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Speaker 1: the twin devils of the emotional kingdom. They held that
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Speaker 1: anger is the burning passion, and that fear thought is
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Speaker 1: the freezing passion, each destroying in the end, the one
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Speaker 1: by burning up the other by freezing. They held that
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Speaker 1: the man who met, conquered, and mastered these twin devils
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Speaker 1: was free to enter upon the path of mastery, which
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Speaker 1: leads to the land of freedom. We now ask you
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Speaker 1: to discover by analysis the essential nature mare in character
1:54:00
Speaker 1: of these two general negative emotional states viz. Anger and fear, respectively.
1:54:07
Speaker 1: You will discover that practically all of the lesser and
1:54:10
Speaker 1: subordinate negative emotional states are either phases, forms, or aspects
1:54:15
Speaker 1: of either one of these two general states, or elser blendings,
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Speaker 1: hybrids or crosses of the two. Anger. The general emotional
1:54:24
Speaker 1: state known as anger, is defined as strong passion or displeasure,
1:54:28
Speaker 1: usually involving antagonism. And a desire to punish excited by
1:54:32
Speaker 1: a real or supposed injury or insult to oneself or
1:54:36
Speaker 1: others in whom one is interested, or by the supposed
1:54:39
Speaker 1: intent to do such injury, et cetera. In its extreme form,
1:54:43
Speaker 1: anger is known as rage. When the rage amounts almost
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Speaker 1: to madness, it is known as fury. In its milder forms,
1:54:51
Speaker 1: anger is known as vexation, annoyance, indignation, et cetera. The
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Speaker 1: more permanent emotional states resulting from from anger are known
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Speaker 1: as resentment, grudge, or grievance, defined as follows. Resentment is
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Speaker 1: hostility aroused by a real or fancied injury, injustice, hurt,
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Speaker 1: or insult, A state of moody animosity, or deep and
1:55:15
Speaker 1: lasting smoldering anger. Grudge is state of smoldering anger, sullen
1:55:20
Speaker 1: malice or malevolence, cherished animosity, enmity, ill will, dislike, spite, hatred.
1:55:28
Speaker 1: Grievance is the feeling of the burden hardship and oppression
1:55:32
Speaker 1: resulting from a real or fancied wrong, insult, injustice, or injury,
1:55:37
Speaker 1: accompanied by the feeling of resentment or grudge resulting therefrom
1:55:41
Speaker 1: the essential elements of anger in any in All of
1:55:44
Speaker 1: its forms and phases are a keen displeasure, discomfort and discontent,
1:55:50
Speaker 1: be or resentment or grudge, and see more or less
1:55:54
Speaker 1: desire to punish or get even with something or somebody
1:55:57
Speaker 1: associated with the real or fancied injury, in j justice, wrong, hurt,
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Speaker 1: or insult, giving rise to the feeling fear. The general
1:56:06
Speaker 1: emotional state known as fear is defined as a painful
1:56:10
Speaker 1: emotion of passion, excited by the anticipation, expectation, or apprehension
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Speaker 1: of possible or probable hurt, injury, wrong, insult, or other painful, unpleasant, uncomfortable,
1:56:22
Speaker 1: or discontenting experience. Its extreme phase or form is that
1:56:26
Speaker 1: of panic. Next in decreasing order is the form of
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Speaker 1: terror than that of dread. Lesser forms are those known
1:56:34
Speaker 1: as apprehension, anxiety, alarm, care, solicitude, et cetera. All phobias,
1:56:41
Speaker 1: i e Aversions, and dreads are forms or phases of fear. Blendings, hybrids,
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Speaker 1: and crosses. Among the many blendings, hybrids or crosses of
1:56:54
Speaker 1: anger and fear are found the apparently widely separated emotional
1:56:58
Speaker 1: states known respectively as jealousy, envy, hatred, malice, spite, intolerance, prejudice,
1:57:05
Speaker 1: also remorse, shame, mortification, humiliation, the sense of inferiority, distrust
1:57:12
Speaker 1: of self, cowardice, and similar mental states or complexes. In
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Speaker 1: the case of some of the above named emotional states,
1:57:19
Speaker 1: you will find no difficulty in discovering and recognizing the
1:57:22
Speaker 1: presence of anger and fear in some of their various degrees, forms, phases, aspects,
1:57:28
Speaker 1: or modes of combination and blending. In the case of others,
1:57:32
Speaker 1: you may at first doubt the presence of one or
1:57:34
Speaker 1: the other, or of both of these fundamental emotions, but
1:57:38
Speaker 1: a careful analysis will reveal the blending of both of
1:57:41
Speaker 1: these elements, which combined with certain ideas, constitute forms of
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Speaker 1: what is known as the complex i e. A combination
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Speaker 1: of feeling an idea. In each and all of them,
1:57:51
Speaker 1: you will find a a feeling of pain, discomfort, discontent,
1:57:56
Speaker 1: be or resentment or grudge, and the desire to get
1:57:59
Speaker 1: even with something or someone, and see a desire to
1:58:03
Speaker 1: escape from, avoid, or get rid of something which is painful, unpleasant, uncomfortable,
1:58:09
Speaker 1: or discontenting, either present or regard it as a possible
1:58:12
Speaker 1: or probable event or happening. There is always the phobia
1:58:16
Speaker 1: and at least some form of resentment or grievance. These negative,
1:58:21
Speaker 1: complex emotional states are always found to be associated with
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Speaker 1: some pastime, real, or imagined experience in which the pride, vanity, egotism,
1:58:30
Speaker 1: self respect, or sense of justice of the individual has
1:58:33
Speaker 1: been wounded, hurt, bruised, or injured in some way. Whether
1:58:37
Speaker 1: or not he has received physical or financial hurt or injury,
1:58:40
Speaker 1: the emotional hurt is the predominant factor. The emotional castle
1:58:45
Speaker 1: of the self must be invaded in order that these
1:58:47
Speaker 1: states may manifest. A little thought will show that this
1:58:51
Speaker 1: is so, though at first you may be disposed to
1:58:54
Speaker 1: doubt the statement. The elements of humiliation, mortification, and sense
1:58:59
Speaker 1: of injustice are the most frequent and often the strongest
1:59:02
Speaker 1: elements involved in the manifestation of resentment, grudge, and grievance,
1:59:06
Speaker 1: and such constitute the most troublesome and most persistent of
1:59:10
Speaker 1: the subconscious roots, sources and causes of mental, emotional and
1:59:14
Speaker 1: physiological disturbances, impaired functioning, and tendency toward exaggerated activity. There
1:59:21
Speaker 1: is no need here for a recital of the well
1:59:23
Speaker 1: known facts of the detrimental effect of certain negative mental
1:59:26
Speaker 1: states upon physical conditions and upon mental health and normal functioning.
1:59:31
Speaker 1: These are now matters of common knowledge, thanks to the
1:59:34
Speaker 1: reports of the investigations of the past twenty five years
1:59:37
Speaker 1: or more. The mental cause of diseases is a subject
1:59:41
Speaker 1: concerning which practically every person of average intelligence now has
1:59:44
Speaker 1: at least some knowledge, and to which he extends at
1:59:47
Speaker 1: least some degree of belief. That mind and body act
1:59:51
Speaker 1: and react upon each other is now universally accepted, and
1:59:54
Speaker 1: that certain harmful emotional states, particularly when manifested excessively and
1:59:59
Speaker 1: in extreme form, result in mental disorders, unsoundness, and abnormal conditions,
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Speaker 1: is now equally well known and accepted. Most persons, however,
2:00:09
Speaker 1: have no suspicion that such emotional states persist, often long
2:00:13
Speaker 1: after the conscious memory of them has passed away. The individual,
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Speaker 1: though he realizes that the evil they do lives after them,
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Speaker 1: does not imagine that their evil qualities, which are interred
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Speaker 1: with their bones, continue to manifest their baneful tendencies beneath
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Speaker 1: the surface of the conscious mentality, and that they have
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Speaker 1: really been buried alive, and that long after they have
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Speaker 1: been forgotten by the consciousness, they are alive and busily
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Speaker 1: at work, gnawing, boring, and cutting at the roots. Of
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Speaker 1: the plants in our mental garden. Such alas is the case,
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Speaker 1: Freud and his school of psychoanalysis have paid a special
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Speaker 1: attention to this fact, and have sought foreign devised efficient
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Speaker 1: methods whereby these subconscious moles, gophers, worms, and other underground
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Speaker 1: destroyers may be located on, covered, and destroyed. This, indeed,
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Speaker 1: is one of the chief offices and purposes of psychoanalysis.
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Speaker 1: Referring to the descriptive statement concerning psychoanalysis given at the
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Speaker 1: beginning of the present section of this book, we ask
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Speaker 1: you to consider once more the following fact. Psychoanalysis is
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Speaker 1: a method of psychological investigation designed for the purpose of
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Speaker 1: discovering and exploring the unconscious psychic forces which are at
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Speaker 1: the basis of normal and abnormal psychic manifestations. It assumes
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Speaker 1: that there are definite reasons for all normal and abnormal
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Speaker 1: mental activities, that no psychoneurotic symptoms are accidental or meaningless,
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Speaker 1: but that they have always unconscious underlying causes, which, if
2:01:41
Speaker 1: found and brought to the surface, become dissipated and cause
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Speaker 1: the symptoms to disappear. The aim of psychoanalysis is to
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Speaker 1: bring back into the field of conscious memory all the
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Speaker 1: repressed unbearable ideas to show the patient the connection between
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Speaker 1: them and the symptoms, thus removing the latter. This being
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Speaker 1: understood and remembered, let us now proceed to consider why
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Speaker 1: and how these unbearable ideas become repressed, and how they
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Speaker 1: may be discovered and brought to the surface by psychoanalysis.
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Speaker 1: In the first place, you are asked to realize that
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Speaker 1: every human being has experienced many instances of pain, discomfort,
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Speaker 1: and discontent of quite a marked, intense and poignant i e.
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Speaker 1: Piercing sharp, pricking character. This is particularly true in the
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Speaker 1: stages of infancy, childhood, youth, adolescence, in which such experiences
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Speaker 1: frequently take on an exaggerated character. The developing emotional nature
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Speaker 1: of the infant or young child. The child under five
2:02:39
Speaker 1: years of age sometimes undergoes emotional bruises and hurts, which,
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Speaker 1: though apparently forgotten, frequently leave effects which persist during the
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Speaker 1: entire after life of the individual. The same is true
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Speaker 1: of the young boy or girl up to and including
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Speaker 1: the stage of adolescence. Many of the most persistent and
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Speaker 1: annoying underground gnawers are those which have been placed in
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Speaker 1: a subconscious mind during the years of adolescence. Youth, burly childhood,
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Speaker 1: and even in infancy. This fact has been well established
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Speaker 1: by psychoanalysis. These unpleasant, uncomfortable, and discontenting experiences are not
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Speaker 1: in themselves that underground pests. It is rather the emotional
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Speaker 1: effects resulting from them that constitute the evil mental forces
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Speaker 1: in question. The reaction of them, rather than the original action,
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Speaker 1: is the chief cause of the trouble. For instance, the
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Speaker 1: emotional nature of the child or young person undergoing such
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Speaker 1: an experience tends to react in the form or phase
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Speaker 1: of anger or fear in some of their degrees, variations
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Speaker 1: or blendings. The hurt or bruise of the painful, uncomfortable
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Speaker 1: or discontenting experience, the affront, rebuke, insult, humiliation, mortification, wounded pride,
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Speaker 1: frustrated purpose, imposition of the will of another person, defeated, desire, injustice, toyranny, oppression, failure,
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Speaker 1: or whatever it may be, tends to arouse anger i e. Keen, displeasure, resentment,
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Speaker 1: and more or less desire to punish or get even
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Speaker 1: with or else. Fear i e. The painful apprehension or
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Speaker 1: expectation of evil, accompanied by the desire to escape the
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Speaker 1: feared experience. Often both anger and fear. The reaction of
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Speaker 1: anger tends to develop deep seated grudges, resentments, indignation, sense
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Speaker 1: of injustice, accompanied by more or less hatred, and desire
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Speaker 1: to hurt the offending person or thing, or that which
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Speaker 1: resembles or is associated with such. The reaction of fear
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Speaker 1: tends to develop fearfulness, fear, thought, cowardice, lack of courage,
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Speaker 1: faint heartedness, timorousness, lack of self confidence, timidity, pusillanimity, and
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Speaker 1: a general shy, shrinking, shriveling up, and retiring disposition, a
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Speaker 1: wish to get away from things. The reaction of anger
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Speaker 1: is extroversive i e. In the direction of going out,
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Speaker 1: toward or flying off to something outside in order to
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Speaker 1: grapple with, fight, combat, struggle with, defeat, or destroy it.
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Speaker 1: The reaction of fear is introversive, i e. In the
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Speaker 1: direction of shrinking back from, getting away, from retiring from
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Speaker 1: outside things. The normal person manifests a balanced position between
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Speaker 1: these two extremes. When an abnormal tendency in either direction
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Speaker 1: is experienced, there is found to be operative some lurking,
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Speaker 1: painful memory, now manifesting its hidden presence and action in
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Speaker 1: the realms of the subconscious that dead hand of past
2:05:38
Speaker 1: experience is seeking to exhibit its power over the experiences
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Speaker 1: of the present. Many of us are more or less affected, influenced,
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Speaker 1: and determined by the effects of such past experiences. We
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Speaker 1: either harbour subconscious grudges, resentments, hatreds, malice, or other forms
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Speaker 1: or phases of anger, or else the subconscious dreads terrors
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Speaker 1: and aversions of fear, or combinations of both. These, be
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Speaker 1: it noted, are not usually recognized in our conscious memory.
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Speaker 1: The memory of the original causative experience has entirely passed
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Speaker 1: out of consciousness. It is buried in the oblivion of
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Speaker 1: a parent forgetfulness. As we shall presently see, the subconscious
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Speaker 1: actually takes great trouble to bury, conceal, suppress, and cover
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Speaker 1: up the memory impression so as to make recollection of
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Speaker 1: it difficult. But like a festering sore, the repressed memory
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Speaker 1: abides on the subconscious realms, poisoning the entire system. Many
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Speaker 1: of us have concealed cancerous, malignant sores of this kind
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Speaker 1: in our subconscious mental being. But why does the subconscious
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Speaker 1: strive to suppress and cover up these old memories, you
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Speaker 1: may ask. The answer expresses one of the original discoveries
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Speaker 1: of psychoanalysis. It is quite simple when you have it
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Speaker 1: presented to you, but you would not be likely to
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Speaker 1: stumble upon it otherwise. The answer briefly stated is this.
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Speaker 1: The subconscious strives to suppress, repress, bury, hide, and cover
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Speaker 1: up memories of this kind for the reason that it
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Speaker 1: is its nature to avoid pain, discomfort, and discontent. These
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Speaker 1: memories being painful, uncomfortable, and discontenting, the subconscious strives to
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Speaker 1: hide them, conceal them, cover them up, just as in
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Speaker 1: all nature, living animals and plants proceed instinctively to hide
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Speaker 1: and cover up their wounds and hurt places. It is
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Speaker 1: an instinctive protective action of nature. Sometimes the subconscious performs
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Speaker 1: this work by overlaying the painful memory with those of
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Speaker 1: a different nature. Again, it blends and mixes with it
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Speaker 1: pleasant elements of other experiences, grafts new parts on it,
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Speaker 1: as it were, so that finally the painful elements are
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Speaker 1: lost to conscious memory. In recollection, psychoanalysis reveals many interesting
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Speaker 1: cases of this kind in which an originally painful memory
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Speaker 1: has been so overlaid or so grafted upon with new material,
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Speaker 1: that the unpleasant elements have been come completely obscured. This
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Speaker 1: would be wonderfully beneficial were it not for the fact that,
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Speaker 1: alas the roots of the trouble remain, only the above
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Speaker 1: ground portions being removed, or, to employ another figure, the
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Speaker 1: sore has been merely covered up, though uncured and still
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Speaker 1: manifesting its evil activities beneath the covering. Psychoanalysis searches for
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Speaker 1: the roots and then destroys them, or it seeks to
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Speaker 1: cure the cause, not merely to remove the symptoms. The
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Speaker 1: pages of the reports of psychoanalysis are filled with definite
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Speaker 1: reports of cases in which present troubles have been traced
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Speaker 1: back to painful past experiences, particularly to experiences in which
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Speaker 1: the individual in his younger days was subjected to humiliation, degradation, abasement, mortification, shame,
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Speaker 1: wounded pride or injured vanity, suggestions of his inferiority, loss
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Speaker 1: of dignity or self respect, in short, to wounds of
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Speaker 1: his egoistic soul nature. In some cases, these causes have
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Speaker 1: led to the cultivation and development of a character manifesting
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Speaker 1: in shrinking, retiring, drawing back, shriveling up or getting out
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Speaker 1: of things. The timidity, faint heartedness, lack of self confidence,
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Speaker 1: or the inferiority complex marking the introversive effect of fear.
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Speaker 1: In other cases, these causes have led to the cultivation
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Speaker 1: and development of the character traits of quarrelsomeness, antagonism, resentment
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Speaker 1: of things in general, prejudice, suspicion, jealousy, hatred, and general truculency,
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Speaker 1: marking the extroversive effect of anger. Even in cases in
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Speaker 1: which the phobias fears, prejudices, resentments, and antagonisms have been
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Speaker 1: of a more limited character, they have been traced back
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Speaker 1: to repressed, suppressed, buried, and covered up memories of experiences
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Speaker 1: of the kind we have mentioned. For instance, a woman
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Speaker 1: who had a morbid horror of snakes, almost an obsession
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Speaker 1: of fear concerning them, awaking nightmare regarding them, was cured
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Speaker 1: entirely when by psychoanalysis there was uncovered a forgotten experience
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Speaker 1: of early child in which she had been terribly frightened
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Speaker 1: by a toy serpent. Other phobias concerned with spiders, roaches, kittens,
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Speaker 1: certain flowers, et cetera, have been uncovered and cured in
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Speaker 1: the same way. Prejudices concerning persons of certain nationalities or
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Speaker 1: callings have been traced back to painful or humiliating specific
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Speaker 1: experiences of childhood, a cure being then effected. Unreasoning fears,
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Speaker 1: panicky thoughts, prejudices, and hatreds of certain things have been
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Speaker 1: uncovered and cured by the same general method. In short,
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Speaker 1: the roots or sources of poisonous mental traits, tendencies, and
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Speaker 1: mental attitudes have been found hidden under the surface of
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Speaker 1: the conscious mentality, and the troubles have been cured by
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Speaker 1: an application of these general principles. You now have two
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Speaker 1: important questions pressing for answers, Namely, one, how and why
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Speaker 1: are these troubles cured by discovering, uncovering, and bringing into
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Speaker 1: the light of consciousness their roots or sources. Two? By
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Speaker 1: what methods may these roots and hidden causes be discovered, uncovered,
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Speaker 1: and brought to light? In the answers to these two
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Speaker 1: questions is to be found the gist of the effective
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Speaker 1: principles of psychoanalysis. To answer them fully would require the
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Speaker 1: writing or reading of many books and excursions into many
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Speaker 1: fields of the general science of psychology, But we shall
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Speaker 1: endeavor to give you in brief concise form the essential
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Speaker 1: features of such answers. Concerning the first of the two questions,
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Speaker 1: we would say that It is an old principle of
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Speaker 1: psychology that if one can analyze, dissect, and classify cold
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Speaker 1: bloodedly the psychic elements involved in an emotion, then the heat, power,
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Speaker 1: and energy of that emotion is dissolved, disintegrated, and dissipated. Emotions,
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Speaker 1: as a rule, cannot stand a cold blooded analysis. It
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Speaker 1: chills them, often freezes them, sometimes kills them outright. Contact
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Speaker 1: with the intellect tends to weaken emotion. Hence, beware of
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Speaker 1: subjecting good emotions to such contact, but make it a
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Speaker 1: point to subject bad emotions to it. This is a
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Speaker 1: useful rule well worth remembering. This is the first factor
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Speaker 1: of this particular answer. There is more to follow. However,
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Speaker 1: when the root or source of a disturbing, subconscious emotional
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Speaker 1: disturbance has been traced to its origin and then uncovered
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Speaker 1: and brought into the light of consciousness, it is subjected
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Speaker 1: to the inspection of your intellect as now constituted, not
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Speaker 1: as it was constituted at the time of the original experience.
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Speaker 1: Your since acquired worldly wisdom, your evolved sense of the
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Speaker 1: true value of things, your gradually developed philosophy of life
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Speaker 1: and living. All these add new factors to your intellectual
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Speaker 1: inspection and judgment upon the experience. What originally seemed a
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Speaker 1: tremendous and dreadful event or happening now succeeds in bringing
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Speaker 1: merely a pitying smile to your face or a twinkle
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Speaker 1: to your eyes. In short, you are now looking with
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Speaker 1: eyes of a matured individual upon the experiences of early childhood, youth,
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Speaker 1: or period of adolescence. The mental bruises, like the physical
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Speaker 1: ones of childhood, important and terrible as they seem to
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Speaker 1: the young mind, are quite different things when viewed from
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Speaker 1: the mental position of matured experience and the philosophy of
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Speaker 1: manhood or womanhood. When the buried memory is located, uncovered,
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Speaker 1: and subjected to the light of conscious inspection by the
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Speaker 1: individual who has long since put away childish things, it
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Speaker 1: is perceived, weighed, measured, and valued by him, just as
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Speaker 1: are similar experiences which he perceives on all sides being
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Speaker 1: undergone by the children and young folks of his acquaintance.
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Speaker 1: He sees them for what they really are, not as
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Speaker 1: the child sees them. Psychologically, the original impression is brought
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Speaker 1: before his consciousness as a present happening or event, and
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Speaker 1: is valued as such and as its actual value. Is
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Speaker 1: really slight. He realizes that it is not at all
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Speaker 1: worth while, he is amazed at its insignificance, and he
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Speaker 1: is able to smile at it before he casts it
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Speaker 1: aside from him as a worthless trifle. Thereafter it has
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Speaker 1: no meaning nor importance to him. Its power over him
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Speaker 1: has passed away, and he is free from its effects.
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Speaker 1: The smoldering embers exposed to the air expire in a
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Speaker 1: final flash and are reduced to ashes, the dust of
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Speaker 1: which is blown away by the winds. Even apart from
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Speaker 1: the specific and definite application of the principles of psychoanalysis,
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Speaker 1: many persons may be benefited by a similar conscious revaluation
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Speaker 1: of old mental sores and bruises. By bringing them fully
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Speaker 1: into consciousness with all their original circumstances and associations, and
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Speaker 1: then weighing, measuring, and revaluing them by your present standards
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Speaker 1: in the light of your subsequently acquired experience and knowledge,
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Speaker 1: you will find that they never really were nearly so
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Speaker 1: great or so serious as you originally believe them to be,
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Speaker 1: and you will discover that their present day importance, significance,
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Speaker 1: and value is still less. Often it is nil. Vague
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Speaker 1: introspection is a morbid, unprofitable task and a bad habit.
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Speaker 1: But scientific psychoanalysis of past experiences conducted with a definite
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Speaker 1: purpose and end is useful, constructive, and meets the test
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Speaker 1: of positivity for rightly approached and rightly conducted. It makes
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Speaker 1: you stronger, better, and more efficient. In this connection, your
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Speaker 1: attention should be called to that large class of cases
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Speaker 1: in which the festering sore spot or the painful bruise
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Speaker 1: in the subconscious memory has been caused by the feeling
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Speaker 1: of shame, remorse, mortification, humiliation, inferiority, wickedness, vileness, filthiness, moral uncleanness,
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Speaker 1: or reproach of conscience arising from some past experience, usually
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Speaker 1: one of childhood, youth, or period of adolescence, connected with
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Speaker 1: the secret desires, dreams, or cravings of or possibly from
2:15:50
Speaker 1: some minor yielding compromise or slipping connected with the reproductive
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Speaker 1: or sexual organism and its emotional manifestations and expressions. This
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Speaker 1: particularly when the child or young person has been severely reproached, reviled,
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Speaker 1: or punished for the happening which has been discovered by parents, teachers,
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Speaker 1: or other adults, when the cry of unclean, unclean has
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Speaker 1: been loudly raised and persistently repeated and recalled to mind.
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Speaker 1: Those of us who have honest and efficient memories of
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Speaker 1: our own days of childhood, youth, and period of adolescence
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Speaker 1: know full well how frequent and common such early life
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Speaker 1: experiences are. The insistent curiosity of the young child and youth,
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Speaker 1: and the unfolding processes of puberty and adolescence result in
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Speaker 1: innumerable cases of such painful and distressing experiences, the memory
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Speaker 1: of which are too often then buried alive in the
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Speaker 1: underground regions of the subconscious, thereafter to plague and worry
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Speaker 1: the mind of the adult person. The intelligent psychoanalyst, when
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Speaker 1: such subconscious emotional sore spots, and bruised places are uncovered
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Speaker 1: by the process of psychoanalysis, proceeds to throw the light
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Speaker 1: of scientific knowledge and judgment upon these unpleasant things. Thus unearthed.
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Speaker 1: He points out to the patient the fact that there
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Speaker 1: is nothing essentially evil about the reproductive organism and its
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Speaker 1: manifestations and expressions in themselves, nor when their activities occur
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Speaker 1: under conditions approved of by the conventions, ethics, laws, customs,
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Speaker 1: and morality of the time and place. That the evil
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Speaker 1: or wrong arises only when these activities occur under opposite conditions,
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Speaker 1: i e. Under conditions and circumstances disapproved of were forbidden
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Speaker 1: by the laws, customs, ethics, or morality of the time
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Speaker 1: and place. That, in short, sexual evil and wrong consist
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Speaker 1: of the abuse, misuse, and improper employment of these great
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Speaker 1: natural forces, not of their existence and normal proper use.
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Speaker 1: In expression, he points out that consequently, the emotional disturbances
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Speaker 1: arising from the existence of this natural organism and its
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Speaker 1: subconscious activities are not not devilish, evil, unclean, filthy, or depraved.
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Speaker 1: That the person experiencing these subconscious disturbances should not regard
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Speaker 1: himself or herself as soiled, polluted, or evil minded. That
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Speaker 1: the presence of this part of one's nature and the
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Speaker 1: subconscious reminders of its existence do not constitute rational and
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Speaker 1: proper causes for self reproach, humiliation, mortification, shame, or remorse.
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Speaker 1: And that the painful memories of past experiences of this kind,
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Speaker 1: and of the unpleasant results arising from their discovery, punishment
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Speaker 1: and reproaches, should be dissipated, disintegrated, dissolved, and allowed to
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Speaker 1: blow away on the winds of time. The idea of
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Speaker 1: essential cleanness replaces the old thought of uncleanness. Thus is
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Speaker 1: the curse taken off the memories. This leads to the rational, sane,
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Speaker 1: scientific control, direction and mastery of this part of one's nature,
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Speaker 1: and as a consequence, a healthier mental, emotional, and physical
2:18:58
Speaker 1: condition is made posers when the light is turned on
2:19:02
Speaker 1: the darkness and its imaginary inhabitants disappear. The psychoanalyst also
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Speaker 1: teaches the patient the value of the principle of sublimation,
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Speaker 1: i e. The transmutation of the elemental instinctive urge into
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Speaker 1: new and other channels. For instance, the creative element underlying
2:19:20
Speaker 1: the reproductive instinct may be and often is, transmuted or
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Speaker 1: sublimated into creative work along mental, spiritual, artistic, constructive lines,
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Speaker 1: valuable in social life and progress. Some of the greatest
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Speaker 1: workers for the world's good have been men and women
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Speaker 1: who have sublimated and transmuted the reproductive instinct in this way,
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Speaker 1: though they may not have recognized the cause of their
2:19:43
Speaker 1: zeal nor the source of their energy. Sublimation or transmutation
2:19:48
Speaker 1: is the technical term employed in psychoanalysis to designate the
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Speaker 1: action compensating the individual for the frustration of an instinctive
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Speaker 1: energy tendency or craving by means of which the energy
2:19:59
Speaker 1: associate ciated with the instinct is directed to socially useful
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Speaker 1: and beneficial ends and purposes which also serve the best
2:20:06
Speaker 1: interests of the individual. The term is borrowed from the
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Speaker 1: ancient alchemists, who sought to sublime or transmute the baser
2:20:13
Speaker 1: metals into gold and thus obtain higher values from the material.
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Speaker 1: In sublimation, a higher value is obtained from the elemental
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Speaker 1: basic instincts. Sublimation is also the transference of basic instincts
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Speaker 1: to other instincts. In it, the energy which would otherwise
2:20:30
Speaker 1: be short circuited with danger to the individual and to society,
2:20:35
Speaker 1: is thrown into work, especially creative work, along other lines
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Speaker 1: of human endeavor and expression. In its some dominant instinctive
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Speaker 1: craving is sidetracked by switching it into other lines of
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Speaker 1: work and activity. This method has been found to be
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Speaker 1: quite practicable, for, as doctor Lay says, it has been
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Speaker 1: proved over and over again that humans can get interested
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Speaker 1: in anything, particularly anything human, the only requisite being the
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Speaker 1: same as that of the love of men for women
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Speaker 1: and of women for men. That is a complete devotion
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Speaker 1: to an absorption in the work that they are doing
2:21:08
Speaker 1: to the utter forgetfulness of self. The methods devised by
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Speaker 1: psychoanalysis for the location, discovery, uncovering, and bringing into the
2:21:17
Speaker 1: light of conscious inspection the hidden and covered up, sore
2:21:20
Speaker 1: spots and bruised places of the subconscious may be classified
2:21:24
Speaker 1: as follows. One free association, two analysis and interpretation of
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Speaker 1: dream symbols, and three mental catharsis. Each of these we
2:21:35
Speaker 1: shall now consider briefly. The essential features and factors of
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Speaker 1: each shall be presented for your inspection, the innumerable details
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Speaker 1: being left for the treatment given them in the scientific
2:21:44
Speaker 1: works devoted to the special technique of psychoanalysis free association.
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Speaker 1: In this method, the underlying principle is the well known
2:21:54
Speaker 1: law of association of ideas of modern psychology. This law
2:21:59
Speaker 1: may be stated as follows. The stream of ideas is continuous,
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Speaker 1: each idea or thought being linked with the one that
2:22:05
Speaker 1: immediately precedes and the one which immediately succeeds it. All
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Speaker 1: one's ideas have certain definite associations with all his other ideas,
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Speaker 1: though there are cases in which the connection cannot be traced.
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Speaker 1: In consciousness. Professor E. B. Titchener says there is no
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Speaker 1: distinct bit of consciousness answering to the associative bond, but
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Speaker 1: only conscious processes standing related and hence more or less unified.
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Speaker 1: The associated contents are now rich and now a mere thread.
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Speaker 1: The mass is now intensive and now weak, now clear
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Speaker 1: and now obscure, now directed by a single element, and
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Speaker 1: now by the union of two or more streams of influence,
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Speaker 1: now run through with pleasantness, and now actively indifferent. Successive
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Speaker 1: association is like every consciousness, kaleidoscopic, picking up processes here
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Speaker 1: and dropping others there, but carried always by a common core,
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Speaker 1: so that there is never a jump from one stage
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Speaker 1: to another, never in hiatus within the chain, but invariably
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Speaker 1: a gradual transition from point to point. When you think
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Speaker 1: about anything, no matter what it may be, you will
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Speaker 1: find yourself afterward thinking of something associated with and suggested
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Speaker 1: by the thing first thought of. You may satisfy yourself
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Speaker 1: of this at once, if you doubt it, by a trial,
2:23:21
Speaker 1: you will find invariably that thinking of any one thing
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Speaker 1: causes you to also think of some other thing associated
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Speaker 1: with or suggested by the first thing, and so on
2:23:30
Speaker 1: and on. This is the fact that underlies the law
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Speaker 1: of association of ideas. There are many forms and phases
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Speaker 1: of such association, but the distinction between them need not
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Speaker 1: be considered here. The fact with which we are now
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Speaker 1: concerned is that ideas do flow in a stream of
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Speaker 1: association through the field of consciousness. The stream is continuous,
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Speaker 1: flowing on and on and on, so long as we
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Speaker 1: continue to think A is followed by B, then come C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M,
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Speaker 1: and so on, until something intervenes to divert conscious attention elsewhere.
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Speaker 1: More than this, psychology teaches that every impression or record
2:24:14
Speaker 1: stored in the subconscious memory is linked by some usually many,
2:24:18
Speaker 1: associative or suggestive bonds, to every other impression or record
2:24:21
Speaker 1: stored there. Consequently, if we start with any thought as
2:24:26
Speaker 1: a loose end, we may in time unwind the unbroken
2:24:29
Speaker 1: thread until we come to the particular not for which
2:24:32
Speaker 1: we are searching. This would take much time ordinarily, but
2:24:36
Speaker 1: it has been found that by free association, the subconscious
2:24:39
Speaker 1: speedily makes a short cut or bridge over the intervening
2:24:42
Speaker 1: space and attaches Z to A without need of our
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Speaker 1: thinking of the intermediate links, just as we frequently say
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Speaker 1: from A to Z instead of naming the intervening letters
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Speaker 1: of the alphabet. Just why the subconscious does this not?
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Speaker 1: But the subconscious itself seems to know, But it itself
2:25:00
Speaker 1: will not tell enough for us, however, is the fact
2:25:03
Speaker 1: that it does do it. The psychoanalyst, seeking to locate
2:25:07
Speaker 1: and uncover a subconscious sore spot or bruised place, starts
2:25:11
Speaker 1: into operation the process of free association. He asks the
2:25:16
Speaker 1: patient to think of something anything will do, and then
2:25:19
Speaker 1: to allow the process of free association to proceed to
2:25:22
Speaker 1: wind up the loose end of the mental yarn without
2:25:25
Speaker 1: interference from the conscious, mentality, or will. He is not
2:25:29
Speaker 1: to think for a purpose, However, neither is he to
2:25:32
Speaker 1: deliberately build fanciful air castles of imagination. All that he
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Speaker 1: is to do is to keep hands off, to keep
2:25:39
Speaker 1: out of it, and allow the subconscious mental machinery to
2:25:42
Speaker 1: do the rest and do just that it certainly will.
2:25:45
Speaker 1: In free association, the individual becomes a passive spectator of
2:25:50
Speaker 1: the kaleidoscopic panorama of passing thoughts, ideas, memories, mental pictures.
2:25:56
Speaker 1: He withdraws his will, his judgment, his criticism, his tastes,
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Speaker 1: and allows the mental stream to flow past, unhindered by
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Speaker 1: conscious intervention or interference. In free association. Each thought or
2:26:08
Speaker 1: idea liberates the next one purely by reason of some
2:26:11
Speaker 1: sympathetic association between them, and without being influenced by an
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Speaker 1: intellectual interference. This is why it is called free. The
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Speaker 1: person merely sits on the fence and watches the circus
2:26:23
Speaker 1: procession go by, the marching elephants and camels, the string
2:26:27
Speaker 1: of caged animals, the clowns, the bandwagon, and all the
2:26:31
Speaker 1: rest pass by the silent spectator. A writer says, the
2:26:35
Speaker 1: sort of mental attitude aimed at is not a hard
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Speaker 1: one to acquire, and is in reality more of a
2:26:41
Speaker 1: knack than anything else. And when the requisite mental condition
2:26:44
Speaker 1: is apprehended, a little practice will enable one to comply
2:26:47
Speaker 1: with the requirements quite easily. Here is an actual illustrative example.
2:26:52
Speaker 1: The person sitting with pencil in hand and with paper
2:26:55
Speaker 1: before him, is asked to think of the word Lusitania,
2:26:59
Speaker 1: and to mark them down each item of the associated
2:27:01
Speaker 1: stream of ideas flowing from that source. He thinks of
2:27:05
Speaker 1: the sinking of the ship of that name by the submarine,
2:27:08
Speaker 1: then of the Germans, then of the Great War, then
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Speaker 1: of the entrance of the United States into the conflict,
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Speaker 1: then of the young Americans who were called to serve
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Speaker 1: their country. Then of a particular young man who volunteered.
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Speaker 1: Then of Fort Benjamin Harrison, to which that young man
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Speaker 1: was sent after his enlistment. Then of the former President
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Speaker 1: Benjamin Harrison, after whom the fort was named. Then of
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Speaker 1: the grandfather of that former president himself a president. Then
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Speaker 1: of his grandfather's hat, which the former person often was
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Speaker 1: pictured as wearing. Then of Uncle Sam, who wears a
2:27:40
Speaker 1: similar hat in the familiar cartoons. Then of a long
2:27:43
Speaker 1: since deceased particular uncle named Samuel and known to the
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Speaker 1: thinker as Uncle Sam. Then of a certain case of
2:27:50
Speaker 1: real or fancied injustice to the thinker, a very old
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Speaker 1: sore spot or bruised place, arousing irritation, vexation, resentment, and
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Speaker 1: a deeply seated grow rice or grudge in which this
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Speaker 1: particular Uncle Sam was a leading participant. Then comes the
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Speaker 1: startling realization that this particular grievance and grudge had served
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Speaker 1: to poison the mental and emotional life of the thinker
2:28:14
Speaker 1: for many years, and had given to him a decided
2:28:16
Speaker 1: undesirable trend of thought, feeling, an action. This recognition then
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Speaker 1: causes a revaluation of that ancient experience, and a consequent
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Speaker 1: dismissal of it as having been a case of much
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Speaker 1: ado about nothing, and a belated recognition of the two
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Speaker 1: sides to the question. This particular example will serve to
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Speaker 1: illustrate the entire principle and process of free association. The
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Speaker 1: loose end may be any idea or thought chosen at
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Speaker 1: random by the professional psychoanalyst, or by the person who
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Speaker 1: is psychoanalyzing himself. The subconscious will soon make the short
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Speaker 1: cut or bridge of association from at least G to Z,
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Speaker 1: leaving out the intermediate letters. There is no chance about it.
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Speaker 1: The process follows a law as regular and constant as
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Speaker 1: that governing the tides, or as the law of gravitation,
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Speaker 1: seemingly devoid of any logical character. It really follows the
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Speaker 1: law of exact logical order and sequence. There is one factor, though,
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Speaker 1: which must always be present, the factor of absolute honesty
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Speaker 1: regarding the ideas coming to view in the passing stream.
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Speaker 1: No matter how unpleasant, how distasteful, how unnice, how shocking,
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Speaker 1: the ideas may be. At times they must be taken
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Speaker 1: account of and noted down. Otherwise the logical sequence is
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Speaker 1: interrupted and the experiment spoiled. Neither should apparent nonsensicality, whimsicality,
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Speaker 1: or seeming irrelevance be allowed to cause a passing idea, thought,
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Speaker 1: or associative link to be overlooked or discarded. These little
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Speaker 1: things often are the great things of the process. The
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Speaker 1: flow must be kept free in view of the fact
2:29:55
Speaker 1: that all freely flowing mental associations eventually lead clear into
2:29:59
Speaker 1: the very core of the subconscious thought tendencies which constitute
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Speaker 1: the object of the analysis and search. Sooner or later,
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Speaker 1: something unpleasant and painful is sure to be reached. Such
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Speaker 1: must not be dodged. Occasional interruptions, stoppages, or breaks in
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Speaker 1: the flowing stream usually denote the approaching presence of sore
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Speaker 1: spots or bruised places which the subconscious shrinks from uncovering
2:30:23
Speaker 1: because of the lurking fear of pain. Such interruptions or
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Speaker 1: breaks indicate that there is present a sensitiveness resulting from
2:30:31
Speaker 1: near approach to the sores or bruises. Here should be
2:30:35
Speaker 1: noted an interesting and important fact, namely, when you reach
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Speaker 1: the final idea or thought serving to cover up the
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Speaker 1: sore or bruise, you will know it at once. Something
2:30:44
Speaker 1: will seem to say here it is or this is it,
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Speaker 1: and a flood of forgotten memories will burst into consciousness.
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Speaker 1: You will know that your quest is finished, your analysis completed.
2:30:56
Speaker 1: Analysis and interpretation of dream symbols. In this method, the
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Speaker 1: principle of free association is likewise employed, but with this difference,
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Speaker 1: namely that instead of choosing the loose end of thought
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Speaker 1: at random, one starts from some definite element of a
2:31:12
Speaker 1: remembered dream and then allows the stream of association to
2:31:15
Speaker 1: flow freely. As previously described, the dream is split up
2:31:20
Speaker 1: into its component parts, each thing, quality, and action, each
2:31:24
Speaker 1: element represented by a noun, adjective, adverb, or verb being
2:31:29
Speaker 1: regarded as a distinct component part. These component parts are
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Speaker 1: then tried out in succession along the lines of free association,
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Speaker 1: until in the separate or combined report there is revealed
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Speaker 1: the location and form of the sore or bruise. The
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Speaker 1: fundamental secret underlying this application of the general method of
2:31:48
Speaker 1: psychoanalysis may be stated as follows. Dreams are symbolic dramatizations
2:31:53
Speaker 1: of disturbing subconscious elements of memory. In symbolic form, they
2:31:57
Speaker 1: represent the repressed, suppressed, covered up pains, wish, fear, or weakness.
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Speaker 1: They always have a hidden meaning which may be found
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Speaker 1: and translated by means of scientific psychoanalysis. Their symbols give
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Speaker 1: very effective loose ends from which to unwind the ball
2:32:13
Speaker 1: of hidden memory by means of free association. Sanely and
2:32:17
Speaker 1: intelligently employed, this method produces valuable results. It is to
2:32:22
Speaker 1: be regretted, however, that some over enthusiastic followers of the
2:32:26
Speaker 1: Freudian teaching have carried this principle to such an absurd
2:32:29
Speaker 1: and fantastic extreme as to cast ridicule upon it, and
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Speaker 1: to cause many persons to overlook the scientific and valuable
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Speaker 1: elements involved in it. Mental catharsis this method, as the
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Speaker 1: name implies, is of a cathartic cleansing purifying nature. In
2:32:46
Speaker 1: mental catharsis, there is made a determined effort to get
2:32:50
Speaker 1: out of the system many objectionable emotional states, resentments, grudges,
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Speaker 1: old sores, and bruises, by means of bringing them into
2:32:58
Speaker 1: the field of consciousness by an act of will, and
2:33:01
Speaker 1: then sterilizing or neutralizing them by the power of the
2:33:04
Speaker 1: light of attention, reason and will. This process of inspection
2:33:09
Speaker 1: is aided by expressing in words the real character of
2:33:11
Speaker 1: these objectionable states, calling them by name, and showing that
2:33:15
Speaker 1: you have their number employing another figure. We may say
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Speaker 1: that by putting them into verbal form, attaching terms and
2:33:22
Speaker 1: names to them, particularly in speaking aloud the names, you
2:33:26
Speaker 1: tend to crystallize them into definite form and into an
2:33:29
Speaker 1: extremely brittle condition, so that you may deal them a
2:33:31
Speaker 1: hearty blow with the hammer of the will directed by
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Speaker 1: the eye of reason. This reduces them to dust, which
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Speaker 1: the winds then blow away. Face up the objectionable tendencies.
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Speaker 1: Call them by name, speak out their real names. Turn
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Speaker 1: the light of conscious attention upon them, the light that
2:33:50
Speaker 1: penetrates every part of them and shows plainly and in
2:33:53
Speaker 1: bold relief, every hateful quality. Instead of hiding them away
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Speaker 1: from yourself, drag them out into the light and look
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Speaker 1: at them, Analyze them, dissect them, tear them to pieces
2:34:04
Speaker 1: by the application of relentless, ruthless analytical reason. Then disperse
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Speaker 1: the fragments. You will find it easy to get rid
2:34:12
Speaker 1: of them when they are in this form. Hiding them,
2:34:15
Speaker 1: concealing them, covering them up from yourself only means burying
2:34:19
Speaker 1: them alive and having them work mischief for you. Drag
2:34:23
Speaker 1: them out, face them up, see them for what they are,
2:34:26
Speaker 1: call them by their right names, and then get rid
2:34:29
Speaker 1: of them. You will often find that these hidden things
2:34:32
Speaker 1: of the soul are really things not essentially evil or harmful,
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Speaker 1: perhaps even good in their right place and time, under
2:34:39
Speaker 1: the right conditions and environment, but which are bad when
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Speaker 1: out of place and time and under the wrong conditions
2:34:45
Speaker 1: and circumstances. Dirt, filth, refuse, garbage, and other objectionable material
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Speaker 1: are usually something all right and good in the right place,
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Speaker 1: but quite bad in other places. Your mind and soul
2:34:59
Speaker 1: is not the right place for such Refuse garbage and dirt.
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Speaker 1: Drag it out and have it hauled away to the
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Speaker 1: dumping place for such things. Repression and concealment. Hiding and
2:35:10
Speaker 1: covering up only intensifies the evil. Drag it out into
2:35:14
Speaker 1: the light and air of conscious attention, and then cast
2:35:17
Speaker 1: it away from you. Do not try to fool yourself.
2:35:20
Speaker 1: You can't, for your subconscious is on the job. Cleanse, purify,
2:35:26
Speaker 1: and renovate your mental kingdom by means of the principle
2:35:29
Speaker 1: and method of mental catharsis. This is the only way
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Speaker 1: subconscious power your secret forces. By William Walker Atkinson, nineteen
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Speaker 1: twenty two. Subconscious thought, Many persons who have been brought
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Speaker 1: to a realization of the important part played by the
2:35:48
Speaker 1: subconscious in the respective processes of physiological functioning, habitual physical action,
2:35:53
Speaker 1: emotional activity, and the mechanism of memory, and who gradually
2:35:57
Speaker 1: have become accustomed to the idea of attributing to the
2:36:00
Speaker 1: subconscious the direction and control of such processes, nevertheless, are
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Speaker 1: reluctant to admit that upon the planes of the subconscious
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Speaker 1: there are performed also many important processes of actual reasoning, thought,
2:36:13
Speaker 1: logical induction, and deduction. Yet the performance of this last
2:36:17
Speaker 1: mentioned class of mental activity is as truly a function
2:36:20
Speaker 1: of the subconscious as are the activities previously mentioned. On
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Speaker 1: the planes of the subconscious are performed many of those
2:36:27
Speaker 1: processes of classification, analysis, synthesis, adjustment, relation, combination, et cetera,
2:36:34
Speaker 1: which are usually regarded as being performed exclusively by the
2:36:37
Speaker 1: conscious mentality. Jastrow Well says that, in addition to the
2:36:42
Speaker 1: simpler mental processes performed by the subconscious mentality, we must
2:36:46
Speaker 1: note the services that subconscious processes perform in the flow
2:36:49
Speaker 1: of logically associated ideas in all the complex activities incident
2:36:54
Speaker 1: to connected and more or less reflective thinking. Professor Elmer
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Speaker 1: Gates holds that at least ninety two percent of our
2:37:00
Speaker 1: mental activities are subconscious. He holds that if we analyze
2:37:05
Speaker 1: our mental operations, we will find that our conscious thinking
2:37:08
Speaker 1: is never in a continuous line, but is a series
2:37:11
Speaker 1: of conscious states with great intervals of unconsciousness. He bids
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Speaker 1: us note that we often sit and try to solve
2:37:17
Speaker 1: a problem, only to fail. Then we walk around, try again,
2:37:21
Speaker 1: and again fail. Then suddenly there dawns upon us an
2:37:24
Speaker 1: idea that leads to the solution of the problem. The
2:37:27
Speaker 1: subconscious processes have been at work on our behalf. Maudsley
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Speaker 1: likewise holds that a close examination and analysis will reveal
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Speaker 1: the fact that consciousness is concerned in but about one
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Speaker 1: tenth of our ordinary mental operations. He states that in
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Speaker 1: every mental operation there are at work conscious, subconscious, and
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Speaker 1: infraconscious mental energies, the last as indispensable as the first.
2:37:51
Speaker 1: Jastrav directs our attention to the fact that in the
2:37:54
Speaker 1: affairs of our mental life it becomes clear that some
2:37:57
Speaker 1: sort of selective process goes on. This implying that there
2:38:00
Speaker 1: is at command a collection of material from which the
2:38:02
Speaker 1: selection is made. He speculates concerning how far. This selection
2:38:07
Speaker 1: and accumulation is the result of processes lying so far
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Speaker 1: below the surface of consciousness that introspection fails to reveal them.
2:38:15
Speaker 1: He likewise points out that in all intellectual endeavor there
2:38:18
Speaker 1: exists a period of incubation, a process which is in
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Speaker 1: a great part subconscious, a slow concealed maturing through absorption
2:38:26
Speaker 1: of suitable pabulum. The same authority directs our attention to
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Speaker 1: Schopenhauer's well known statement concerning that unconscious rumination, that chewing
2:38:35
Speaker 1: over and over again of the cut of thought preparatory
2:38:38
Speaker 1: to its assimilation with our mental tissue, the mental state
2:38:41
Speaker 1: or condition which another writer has referred to as the
2:38:44
Speaker 1: red glow that precedes the white heat. He holds that
2:38:48
Speaker 1: in such terms there is implied, first a process of
2:38:51
Speaker 1: assimilation taking place with suppressed consciousness. Second that the larger
2:38:56
Speaker 1: part of the influences that in the end determine our
2:38:58
Speaker 1: mental growth may be effective without direct exposure to the
2:39:02
Speaker 1: searching light of conscious life. There is a wealth of
2:39:05
Speaker 1: illustrative examples supporting Schopenhauer's theory of the operation of an
2:39:09
Speaker 1: unconscious rumination, in which the cut of thought is chewed
2:39:12
Speaker 1: by the subconscious. Many of These examples have been furnished
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Speaker 1: to us by the voluntary statements of eminent and careful
2:39:19
Speaker 1: thinkers concerning their own personal experiences. So typical are many
2:39:24
Speaker 1: of these experiences that they need but to be recited
2:39:27
Speaker 1: in order to awaken recollections of similar experiences on the
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Speaker 1: part of the readers or hearers, we ask you to
2:39:34
Speaker 1: consider the following several relations of experiences of this kind,
2:39:38
Speaker 1: culled from the often somewhat extended statements appearing in the
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Speaker 1: writings of the persons referred to or expressed in conversations
2:39:44
Speaker 1: with their intimate friends. Vaughan Hartmann testified to the unconscious
2:39:49
Speaker 1: rumination following the reading of books presenting conflicting points of view.
2:39:54
Speaker 1: He stated that he found that after days, weeks, or months,
2:39:58
Speaker 1: many of his old opinions were great modified, and that
2:40:01
Speaker 1: many new opinions had replaced some formerly entertained by him.
2:40:05
Speaker 1: Thompson testified that at times he had the feeling of
2:40:08
Speaker 1: the uselessness of all voluntary effort, and also the conviction
2:40:12
Speaker 1: that the matter was working itself clear in his mind.
2:40:15
Speaker 1: He became so accustomed to having to wait for the
2:40:18
Speaker 1: results of these sub conscious processes that he acquired the
2:40:21
Speaker 1: habit of getting together enough material in advance, and then
2:40:24
Speaker 1: leaving the mass to be subconsciously digested until he was
2:40:27
Speaker 1: ready to write on the chosen subject. He stated that
2:40:30
Speaker 1: once in his writing of his principal work, he came
2:40:33
Speaker 1: to a point when he could proceed no further. He
2:40:35
Speaker 1: stopped his work and deliberately thought about other things. One evening,
2:40:40
Speaker 1: while reading his newspaper, the substance of the missing part
2:40:43
Speaker 1: of his book flashed into his mind, and he began
2:40:45
Speaker 1: to write. He adds, this was only a sample of
2:40:49
Speaker 1: many such experiences. Brodie said that it often happened that
2:40:53
Speaker 1: he had accumulated a store of facts, but had been
2:40:56
Speaker 1: unable to proceed further with his thought on the general subject.
2:41:00
Speaker 1: He found by experience in such cases that after an
2:41:03
Speaker 1: interval of time, the obscurity and confusion cleared away, the
2:41:07
Speaker 1: facts had settled themselves in their right places, though he
2:41:10
Speaker 1: was not conscious of the intervening processes. Bascombe remarked how
2:41:15
Speaker 1: often his conscious conclusions were based upon premises which seemed
2:41:18
Speaker 1: to lie beneath the plane of consciousness. He said, it
2:41:22
Speaker 1: is inexplicable how the mind can wittingly take up a
2:41:25
Speaker 1: mental movement at an advanced stage, having missed its primary steps.
2:41:30
Speaker 1: Galton spoke of having dragged into the light of consciousness
2:41:33
Speaker 1: certain whole states of mental operation that had lapsed out
2:41:37
Speaker 1: of ordinary consciousness. Maudsley spoke of how uncomfortable he became
2:41:41
Speaker 1: concerning certain obscure ideas, and how there seemed to be
2:41:44
Speaker 1: an effort of the lost idea to get into consciousness,
2:41:47
Speaker 1: and of the relief experienced when the imprisoned idea finally
2:41:50
Speaker 1: burst into consciousness. Mozart testified that often he could not
2:41:55
Speaker 1: account for his musical compositions. He asserted that they frequently
2:41:59
Speaker 1: came to him all at once. He added, the rest
2:42:03
Speaker 1: is merely an attempt to reproduce what I have heard.
2:42:06
Speaker 1: Hamilton discovered a most important law of mathematics while one
2:42:10
Speaker 1: day walking with his wife in the observatory at Dublin.
2:42:13
Speaker 1: He had previously been unable to bring together the elements
2:42:17
Speaker 1: of his thought on the subject, and had ceased to
2:42:19
Speaker 1: think of the matter. Then suddenly he felt the galvanic
2:42:23
Speaker 1: circle of thought close, and the sparks that fell from
2:42:26
Speaker 1: it was the knowledge of the fundamental relations of his problem.
2:42:30
Speaker 1: His discovery was made Berthelot, the great French founder of
2:42:34
Speaker 1: modern synthetic chemistry. Once stated in a letter to a
2:42:37
Speaker 1: close friend that the final experiments which led to his
2:42:40
Speaker 1: most wonderful discoveries had never been the result of carefully
2:42:43
Speaker 1: followed and reason trains of thought, but that, on the contrary,
2:42:47
Speaker 1: they came of themselves, so to speak, from the clear sky.
2:42:51
Speaker 1: Mozart was playing billiards one day when all of a
2:42:54
Speaker 1: sudden there flashed into his consciousness the aria of the
2:42:57
Speaker 1: quartet of the magic flute. Fortunately for himself and for
2:43:02
Speaker 1: the world, he had his note book with him, and
2:43:04
Speaker 1: dropping his cue, he recorded the notes which had come
2:43:07
Speaker 1: to him in this wonderful way. A writer relates that
2:43:10
Speaker 1: an inventor who had been working without success upon the
2:43:14
Speaker 1: problem of properly constructing a prism for a binocular microscope
2:43:18
Speaker 1: one day relaxed sufficiently to become absorbed in an interesting novel,
2:43:22
Speaker 1: when lo, he suddenly conceived the elusive idea and solved
2:43:26
Speaker 1: his perplexing problem. Keechiel relates that he suddenly saw the
2:43:31
Speaker 1: atoms dancing about in midair in conformity with his evolving
2:43:34
Speaker 1: theory of atomic grouping, while he was riding on a
2:43:37
Speaker 1: London bus one day with no conscious thought upon the
2:43:40
Speaker 1: matter of his theory. Many careful students of the phenomena
2:43:44
Speaker 1: of the thought processes of the subconscious have noted that
2:43:47
Speaker 1: the finishing touch of the subconscious digestion of a perplexing
2:43:50
Speaker 1: subject seems to be performed when the attention is momentarily
2:43:53
Speaker 1: diverted to another subject or object. Psychologists hold that in
2:43:58
Speaker 1: cases in which we have been unable by conscious effort
2:44:01
Speaker 1: of will to recall something that has previously been in
2:44:03
Speaker 1: the mind, try as hard as we may, we frequently
2:44:06
Speaker 1: achieve the desired result after we have turned the attention
2:44:09
Speaker 1: to something else, the missing idea coming up spontaneously, without
2:44:13
Speaker 1: effort of will, and when we are not consciously thinking
2:44:15
Speaker 1: about it at all. The same principle is found to
2:44:19
Speaker 1: apply in the processes of subconscious thought as well as
2:44:22
Speaker 1: in those of memory. Many have found by experience that
2:44:26
Speaker 1: by deliberately employing the mind with something else, something quite
2:44:29
Speaker 1: irrelevant to the subject previously engaging the thought, they often
2:44:33
Speaker 1: obtain the answer sought for in vain before the diversion.
2:44:37
Speaker 1: As jastra Well says, the day dream through which flashes
2:44:40
Speaker 1: a happy eureka, or the dream of a deeper sleep
2:44:43
Speaker 1: that discovers the treasures that our laborious digging has failed
2:44:46
Speaker 1: to unearth are equally instances in which the fixed intent
2:44:50
Speaker 1: of the more watchful consciousness is withdrawn. Holmes holds that
2:44:54
Speaker 1: the automatic flow of subconscious thought is favored by listening
2:44:57
Speaker 1: to an uninteresting discourse contain being just enough ideas in
2:45:01
Speaker 1: it to keep the conscious mind busy. Carpenter also holds
2:45:05
Speaker 1: that the subconscious process is more likely to evolve the
2:45:08
Speaker 1: desired result, and the conscious activity is at least partially
2:45:11
Speaker 1: directed elsewhere. Jastrow compares this to the astronomer who sees
2:45:16
Speaker 1: better the star by looking a little to one side
2:45:18
Speaker 1: of it instead of gazing directly at it. He says,
2:45:22
Speaker 1: we might almost say that distraction and the idler moments
2:45:25
Speaker 1: of contemplative reverie are as essential to fruitful production as
2:45:29
Speaker 1: the intent periods of executive effort. The trough of the
2:45:32
Speaker 1: wave is as intrinsic a part of its progressive character
2:45:35
Speaker 1: as is the crest. We have here another instance in
2:45:38
Speaker 1: which it is seen that once in a while, at
2:45:40
Speaker 1: least it is well for the conscious mentality to refrain
2:45:43
Speaker 1: from actively bossing the job than allowing the detail work
2:45:47
Speaker 1: to be performed by those subconscious faculties best equipped for
2:45:50
Speaker 1: the task, in a word, by those faculties kept by
2:45:54
Speaker 1: you for that particular work. But equally true is it
2:45:58
Speaker 1: that it is well for the boss to stay around
2:46:00
Speaker 1: the shop, keeping an eye on what is going on,
2:46:03
Speaker 1: expecting and demanding the best results, and being ready to
2:46:06
Speaker 1: pass fair and righteous judgment upon the finished product. In
2:46:10
Speaker 1: the perfect coordination between the conscious mentality and the subconscious
2:46:14
Speaker 1: alone is to be found the balance and golden mean
2:46:17
Speaker 1: which makes for efficiency. Unsupervised subconscious activity is as far
2:46:22
Speaker 1: from being the ideal condition as is that in which
2:46:25
Speaker 1: there is found the refusal to permit the subconscious the
2:46:28
Speaker 1: right to perform its proper and natural work. Many writers, inventors, scientists,
2:46:34
Speaker 1: and others performing extended and continuous mental work have testified
2:46:38
Speaker 1: to the fact that, in one way or another they
2:46:41
Speaker 1: have discovered that the faculties and powers of the subconscious
2:46:44
Speaker 1: may be trained to perform much of the drudgery of
2:46:46
Speaker 1: the intellectual work, leaving the conscious faculties free to design
2:46:50
Speaker 1: and to direct the general course of the task. Many
2:46:54
Speaker 1: men of large business affairs also have made a similar
2:46:57
Speaker 1: or identical discovery, without realising the scientific principles involved. Such
2:47:02
Speaker 1: persons have stumbled upon methods whereby much of their work
2:47:05
Speaker 1: of mental digestion may be performed for them by the subconscious.
2:47:10
Speaker 1: These discoveries, followed by a practical application of the methods adopted,
2:47:15
Speaker 1: have resulted in such persons being able to perform what
2:47:17
Speaker 1: has seemed to others to be an almost incredible amount
2:47:20
Speaker 1: of intellectual labor, while still having sufficient time and energy
2:47:24
Speaker 1: to plan out great enterprises, and free to devote some
2:47:27
Speaker 1: time to amusements, games, sports, travel, and other forms of relaxation.
2:47:33
Speaker 1: No consideration of this subject would be complete without at
2:47:36
Speaker 1: least a reference to the testimony of Robert Lewis Stevenson,
2:47:39
Speaker 1: the famous writer concerning this very important phase of mental work.
2:47:44
Speaker 1: So typical and characteristic of the general principle involved are
2:47:47
Speaker 1: the statements of this master of the craft of writing
2:47:50
Speaker 1: that we feel warranted in dwelling at some length upon
2:47:53
Speaker 1: them in the present consideration of the subject of subconscious thought.
2:47:58
Speaker 1: Stevenson was fond of speaking of his son ubconscious mental
2:48:01
Speaker 1: faculties as his brownies, borrowing the illustration from the familiar
2:48:05
Speaker 1: fairy tales of childhood, in which are related the performances
2:48:08
Speaker 1: of the friendly little brownies who each night take up
2:48:11
Speaker 1: and complete the tasks left undone by the overworked friendly
2:48:14
Speaker 1: shoemaker or carpenter who had befriended the tiny creatures. He said,
2:48:19
Speaker 1: my brownies, God bless them, who do half of my
2:48:23
Speaker 1: work for me when I am fast asleep, and in
2:48:26
Speaker 1: all likelihood do the rest for me when I am
2:48:28
Speaker 1: wide awake, and foolishly suppose that I do it for myself.
2:48:32
Speaker 1: He relates that he had long been wanting to write
2:48:34
Speaker 1: a book on man's double being, and without success, had
2:48:37
Speaker 1: racked his brain for a plot of any sort relating
2:48:39
Speaker 1: to that subject. Then one night he dreamed the principal
2:48:43
Speaker 1: incidents of his great story of Doctor Jekyl and mister Hyde. These,
2:48:48
Speaker 1: he said, were all given him in bulk and details
2:48:51
Speaker 1: as he afterward wrote them in the story. He goes
2:48:55
Speaker 1: on to say further that often when he belabored his
2:48:57
Speaker 1: brains over a story needed to supply the bread and butter, behold,
2:49:02
Speaker 1: the little people began to bestir themselves in the same quest,
2:49:05
Speaker 1: and to labor all night long to supply his wants
2:49:08
Speaker 1: in that direction. Often, he said, did these sleepless brownies
2:49:12
Speaker 1: do his honest work for him? And gave him better
2:49:15
Speaker 1: tales than he could fashion for himself. He said that they,
2:49:19
Speaker 1: like him, had learned to build the scheme of a
2:49:21
Speaker 1: considerable story, and to arrange a motion in progressive order.
2:49:25
Speaker 1: They were able to tell him a story piece by piece,
2:49:28
Speaker 1: like a serial, and to keep him all the while
2:49:30
Speaker 1: in ignorance of the outcome. Only said he they had
2:49:34
Speaker 1: more talent than he himself. But while praising the work
2:49:38
Speaker 1: of his little mental brownies, Stevenson does not deny the
2:49:42
Speaker 1: important part played by his conscience every day mentality in
2:49:46
Speaker 1: his creative work. He says, I am an excellent adviser,
2:49:50
Speaker 1: something like Moliere's servant. I pulled back, and I cut down,
2:49:54
Speaker 1: and I dressed the whole in the best words and
2:49:55
Speaker 1: sentences that I can find and make. I hold the
2:49:59
Speaker 1: pen too, and I do the sitting at the table,
2:50:01
Speaker 1: which is about the worst of it. And when all
2:50:04
Speaker 1: is done, I make up the manuscript and pay for
2:50:06
Speaker 1: the registration, so that on the whole I have some
2:50:09
Speaker 1: claim to share, though not so largely as I do
2:50:12
Speaker 1: in the profits of our common enterprise. Stephenson's figurative illustration,
2:50:17
Speaker 1: in which the faculties of the subconscious are pictured as
2:50:20
Speaker 1: Brownie's must not be dismissed as merely a fancy. Beneath
2:50:25
Speaker 1: the fantastic disguise with which he has dressed up the
2:50:28
Speaker 1: subconscious faculties, they are plainly recognizable to psychologists. They run
2:50:33
Speaker 1: true to form, The psychological facts are there, the processes
2:50:37
Speaker 1: are scientifically described, notwithstanding the fanciful dressing, which serves to
2:50:42
Speaker 1: invest them with an additional interest to the non scientific reader,
2:50:46
Speaker 1: and for most scientific readers as well. Moreover, it must
2:50:50
Speaker 1: not be forgotten that Stephenson's dreams were quite as often
2:50:54
Speaker 1: day dream states as they were the ordinary dreams of
2:50:56
Speaker 1: the night. That even in the ordinary dreams of the night,
2:51:00
Speaker 1: the subconscious performs important work is attested by numerous good authorities,
2:51:05
Speaker 1: and many instances are cited to prove the fact. We
2:51:08
Speaker 1: shall quote a few examples for your consideration. Coleridge composed
2:51:13
Speaker 1: his celebrated poem Kubli Khan in a dream and wrote
2:51:16
Speaker 1: it down when he awoke. Abercrombie relates a case in
2:51:20
Speaker 1: which a distinguished lawyer went to bed after studying hard
2:51:23
Speaker 1: over a difficult case. His wife saw him rise in
2:51:27
Speaker 1: the middle of the night, sit down and write a
2:51:30
Speaker 1: long paper, which he then put in his desk and
2:51:32
Speaker 1: return to bed. Next morning, he told his wife that
2:51:36
Speaker 1: he had dreamt that he had written a clear and
2:51:38
Speaker 1: luminous opinion on the case, which he would give anything
2:51:41
Speaker 1: to be able to remember. His wife directed him to
2:51:44
Speaker 1: his writing desk, where he found the opinion fully written out,
2:51:48
Speaker 1: just as he had dreamed it. Schofield relates a case
2:51:51
Speaker 1: in which a young music pupil had great difficulty in
2:51:54
Speaker 1: correctly performing a difficult shake in a sonata. She was
2:51:58
Speaker 1: unable to master it. One night, her mother, who slept
2:52:02
Speaker 1: with the girl, was awakened by feeling her daughter's fingers
2:52:05
Speaker 1: moving on her face. She asked the girl what she
2:52:09
Speaker 1: was doing, but the child was asleep, though her fingers
2:52:12
Speaker 1: were performing the shake on the mother's face. The next day,
2:52:16
Speaker 1: to the amazement of her teacher, the pupil played the
2:52:19
Speaker 1: difficult shake perfectly and without apparent effort. The subconscious had
2:52:24
Speaker 1: taken over the task after having mastered it during the
2:52:26
Speaker 1: sleep of the girl. Holmes relates incidents of these dream helpers,
2:52:31
Speaker 1: who are wiser than ourselves, and who put thoughts in
2:52:34
Speaker 1: our heads and words into our mouths. Yet he holds,
2:52:38
Speaker 1: as do the present writers, that it is no other
2:52:41
Speaker 1: self that is doing the work, but rather that it
2:52:43
Speaker 1: is one's own self in one of its phases or
2:52:46
Speaker 1: aspects of manifestation. He says, on this point, doctor Johnson
2:52:51
Speaker 1: dreamed that he had a contest of wit with an
2:52:53
Speaker 1: opponent and got the worst of it. Of course, he
2:52:56
Speaker 1: furnished the wit for both. Tartini heard the devil play
2:53:00
Speaker 1: a wonderful sonata, and he set it down on awakening.
2:53:04
Speaker 1: But who was the devil but Tardini himself. You must
2:53:08
Speaker 1: never lose sight of the fact that these helpers, these brownies,
2:53:11
Speaker 1: these other selves are but fanciful names applied to certain
2:53:15
Speaker 1: aspects or phases of the mental activities of yourself. You
2:53:19
Speaker 1: are always yourself, your whole self, and nothing but yourself.
2:53:24
Speaker 1: All separation or division of that self is illusory, and
2:53:28
Speaker 1: all terms indicating such separation or division are but figurative
2:53:32
Speaker 1: terms employed for convenience. All these phenomena are manifested on
2:53:36
Speaker 1: some of the plains or regions of your new mental empire,
2:53:39
Speaker 1: by some of your own subordinate faculties, powers, or energies.
2:53:44
Speaker 1: Keep this fact always in mind, and you will not
2:53:47
Speaker 1: be led to follow fanciful willow the wisps which lead
2:53:50
Speaker 1: only to the quagmires of error and away from the
2:53:52
Speaker 1: main road of truth. Sometimes, however, it happens that the
2:53:57
Speaker 1: brilliant thoughts and ideas evolved in the deep dreams states
2:54:00
Speaker 1: escaped the conscious mentality, which, upon wakening seeks to remember
2:54:04
Speaker 1: and recall them to consciousness, or to record them in
2:54:06
Speaker 1: writing or speech. Nothing but a meaningless jumble of words
2:54:11
Speaker 1: is the result. In some cases, Holmes relates an experience
2:54:15
Speaker 1: in which, as he states, the veil of eternity was lifted.
2:54:19
Speaker 1: The one great truth, that which underlies all human experience
2:54:23
Speaker 1: and is the key to all the mysteries that philosophy
2:54:25
Speaker 1: has sought in vain to solve, flashed upon me. Flashed
2:54:29
Speaker 1: upon me in a sudden revelation. Henceforth all was clear.
2:54:34
Speaker 1: A few words had lifted my intelligence to the level
2:54:37
Speaker 1: of the knowledge of the Cherubim awakening. He staggered to
2:54:41
Speaker 1: his desk and wrote, in ill shaped, straggling characters, the
2:54:44
Speaker 1: all embracing truth still lingering in my consciousness. But alas
2:54:50
Speaker 1: the words he wrote were merely these, a strong smell
2:54:53
Speaker 1: of turpentine prevails throughout. Many of us have similar experiences,
2:54:58
Speaker 1: which usually we are ashamed to relate. So trite, commonplace,
2:55:02
Speaker 1: or even absurd is the recorded conscious report. One is reconciled, however,
2:55:08
Speaker 1: by the generally accepted idea that although the conscious mentality
2:55:12
Speaker 1: is often unable to grasp and retain to recall and
2:55:16
Speaker 1: record these conceptions of the highest activities of subconscious thought,
2:55:20
Speaker 1: and may even be betrayed into reporting some distorted impression
2:55:23
Speaker 1: made upon the waking consciousness. Nevertheless, the conception itself is
2:55:27
Speaker 1: impressed upon the memory records of the subconscious, thereafter to
2:55:31
Speaker 1: play an important part in our conscious mental life by
2:55:34
Speaker 1: reason of the occasional rise of the submerged ideas to
2:55:38
Speaker 1: the surface of consciousness. How to apply the principles of
2:55:42
Speaker 1: subconscious thought, I provide proper materials. You have been shown
2:55:48
Speaker 1: how the subconscious undertakes and performs the important work of
2:55:51
Speaker 1: unconscious rumination. How it chows the mental cut composed of
2:55:55
Speaker 1: the materials of mental food previously supplied to it. In
2:55:59
Speaker 1: this unconscious rumination, or chewing over the cut of thought,
2:56:03
Speaker 1: the subconscious performs the work of breaking into digestible form
2:56:07
Speaker 1: and reducing to the proper consistency the crude material of
2:56:10
Speaker 1: thought which has previously been furnished it. The subconscious in
2:56:15
Speaker 1: this process also selects the best elements of the material
2:56:18
Speaker 1: furnished it, retaining this for its future work, while rejecting
2:56:21
Speaker 1: the useless residue of the mass. Here is to be
2:56:25
Speaker 1: noted a most important point, i e. That just as
2:56:28
Speaker 1: the ruminant animal first must be furnished with the rough
2:56:31
Speaker 1: mass of food material which it then proceeds to reduce
2:56:33
Speaker 1: to the proper consistency and condition for digestion and assimilation,
2:56:38
Speaker 1: so the subconscious first must be furnished with the rough
2:56:41
Speaker 1: material of thought, which it is expected to digest thoroughly
2:56:44
Speaker 1: and assimilate after it has selected from the mass the
2:56:46
Speaker 1: available material, the rest being rejected by it. This point
2:56:51
Speaker 1: has been overlooked by many investigators of the work of
2:56:53
Speaker 1: the subconscious. They have been so carried away by the
2:56:56
Speaker 1: wonderful possibilities of this process of the subconscious that they
2:57:00
Speaker 1: have neglected to note the antecedent conditions of this operation.
2:57:04
Speaker 1: In fact, some of them have practically claimed that the
2:57:07
Speaker 1: subconscious requires no such solid material for its processes of
2:57:11
Speaker 1: unconscious rumination. They seemingly imply that it performs its work
2:57:15
Speaker 1: with the subtle materials obtained from the thin air breathed
2:57:18
Speaker 1: by it, but alas this is but a dream. The
2:57:24
Speaker 1: subconscious can no more proceed with its processes of unconscious
2:57:28
Speaker 1: rumination without material than can the ruminant animal proceed to
2:57:32
Speaker 1: chew the cut unless it has previously partaken of the
2:57:34
Speaker 1: rough materials of its food. In all cases of unconscious rumination,
2:57:39
Speaker 1: there must be present the solid material of facts to
2:57:42
Speaker 1: be chewed carefully and reduced to the proper consistency by
2:57:46
Speaker 1: the ruminative mechanism of the subconscious. Therefore, when you wish
2:57:50
Speaker 1: to set before the subconscious some important and difficult task
2:57:54
Speaker 1: of unconscious rumination, you should first saturate your mind with
2:57:57
Speaker 1: the subject in questioning ut to consciousness every associated fact
2:58:02
Speaker 1: or related principle that is possible to you, read and
2:58:06
Speaker 1: listen to all possible points of view on the subject.
2:58:09
Speaker 1: Refusing to be dismayed or discouraged by the mass of
2:58:12
Speaker 1: contradictions and irreconcilable different points of view, belief, or opinion,
2:58:17
Speaker 1: add every possible bit of associated for related material to
2:58:20
Speaker 1: the general mass, with full confidence that your subconscious will
2:58:24
Speaker 1: attend to the work of rumination, digestion, selection, and assimilation
2:58:28
Speaker 1: of that heterogeneous mass of mental food which you have
2:58:30
Speaker 1: gathered for it. Though This sometimes may seem to produce
2:58:34
Speaker 1: the preliminary symptoms of mental dyspepsia in your conscious mentality.
2:58:38
Speaker 1: Do not worry. The mental stomach of the subconscious is
2:58:41
Speaker 1: strong and enduring, and will be able to perform its
2:58:44
Speaker 1: task on the material which now dismays you. It possesses
2:58:48
Speaker 1: ostrich like powers of digestion. In addition to the material
2:58:52
Speaker 1: which you thus specially supply to the subconscious. However, the
2:58:56
Speaker 1: latter also draws upon its own large stock of associated
2:58:59
Speaker 1: and related material, which it has stored on its subconscious
2:59:02
Speaker 1: levels or mental floors, but which you have apparently forgotten.
2:59:06
Speaker 1: It may even go so far as to draw upon
2:59:09
Speaker 1: the material of the racial memory, if it becomes sufficiently
2:59:12
Speaker 1: interested in the task, and is adequately aroused by your
2:59:15
Speaker 1: strong desire and your firm faith in the possibilities of
2:59:18
Speaker 1: your subconscious. From many sources, the subconscious draws the varied
2:59:23
Speaker 1: materials for its cut of unconscious rumination. But nevertheless, you
2:59:28
Speaker 1: will fall far short of efficient performance if you fail
2:59:31
Speaker 1: to do your work in the matter of securing and
2:59:33
Speaker 1: assembling before its such useful material as you may be
2:59:36
Speaker 1: able to gather. You must always be able to say
2:59:39
Speaker 1: honestly and truthfully to your subconscious. I have done the
2:59:43
Speaker 1: best I could for you. It is up to you
2:59:45
Speaker 1: to do the rest. Two give definite directions. Many persons
2:59:51
Speaker 1: who have noted the process of unconscious rumination performed by
2:59:54
Speaker 1: the subconscious, and also many who have acquired more or
2:59:58
Speaker 1: less ability to set deliberately the sub conscious faculties to
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Speaker 1: work along these lines, have not fully grasped the definite
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Speaker 1: and clear principle involved in the process of instituting in
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Speaker 1: directing the said processes. Their efforts in this direction often
3:00:12
Speaker 1: are conducted more or less on the hit or miss principle,
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Speaker 1: and are based on the belief that somehow, some way,
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Speaker 1: the subconscious will work out the matter for them. Not
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Speaker 1: understanding the fundamental principles involved in the subconscious processes, they
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Speaker 1: are content with a more or less indefinite course of
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Speaker 1: setting the thing to work. An examination of most of
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Speaker 1: the cases cited in the text books or else related
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Speaker 1: by those who have experienced subconscious phenomena of this kind
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Speaker 1: will show you that the usual course is to fill
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Speaker 1: the mental stomach of the subconscious with material deemed appropriate,
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Speaker 1: just as one would fill the physical stomach with appropriate food,
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Speaker 1: and then to trust to nature or to instinct to
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Speaker 1: perform the complex task of reducing the mass to the
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Speaker 1: proper consistency, of chemically digesting it thoroughly, and of assimilating
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Speaker 1: it perfectly. Such a course, as a matter of fact,
3:01:04
Speaker 1: frequently produced a reasonably satisfactory result. What Jastra terms a
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Speaker 1: combination of the elements into a half consistent whole results
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Speaker 1: in such cases and is gratefully accepted by the individual
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Speaker 1: as the best of all possible results. But although our
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Speaker 1: standard modern Western psychologists have not as yet discovered and
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Speaker 1: formulated a more scientific and more certain and effective method
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Speaker 1: of applying the principle of subconscious mentation, those who have
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Speaker 1: learned some of the secrets of the ancient Oriental teachings
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Speaker 1: are aware that the stages of these older schools many
3:01:37
Speaker 1: centuries ago, evolved the true methods in question. Without attempting
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Speaker 1: to go into a detailed and technical consideration of the
3:01:45
Speaker 1: theories entertained by these Oriental teachers, we shall ask you
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Speaker 1: to consider the practical principles of their methods. We have
3:01:52
Speaker 1: here another instance of the fact that underlying the often
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Speaker 1: quite vague theories and metaphysical speculations of the Oriental philosophers,
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Speaker 1: there may be found certain very practical methods of applying
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Speaker 1: psychological principles recognized by both Eastern and Western psychology. The
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Speaker 1: chief principle of the oriental method is based upon the
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Speaker 1: fact that there exists a manifestation of attention on the
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Speaker 1: subconscious plane of mentation as well as upon its conscious planes. Moreover,
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Speaker 1: just as conscious attention may be aroused and directed in
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Speaker 1: two ways viz. One by general interest, curiosity, desire, et cetera,
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Speaker 1: and two by deliberate concentration of the will in voluntary attention,
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Speaker 1: so may the subconscious attention be aroused and directed in
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Speaker 1: a corresponding way. In both cases. Attention is the active
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Speaker 1: mental element involved. In most cases, such as we have
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Speaker 1: previously related, the subconscious attention is directed and aroused by
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Speaker 1: the power of interest, curiosity, desire, et cetera, which descends
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Speaker 1: from the conscious mentality to the plane of the subconscious.
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Speaker 1: The general interest in the subject, the cause, curiosity concerning
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Speaker 1: the solution of the problem, and the desire to reach
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Speaker 1: a successful result all tend to arouse and to direct
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Speaker 1: the subconscious attention and to set into activity its processes
3:03:10
Speaker 1: of unconscious rumination and even higher in more complex activities
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Speaker 1: of the subconscious. This is the true explanation of the
3:03:18
Speaker 1: interesting phenomena of ordinary unconscious rumination, such as are recorded
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Speaker 1: in the textbooks or experienced in everyday life by yourself.
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Speaker 1: But just as the voluntary, trained attention of the student
3:03:30
Speaker 1: and the scientist is far more efficient than the ordinary,
3:03:33
Speaker 1: more or less involuntary conscious attention of the ordinary person,
3:03:37
Speaker 1: so is the voluntary, deliberate, concentrated subconscious attention of the
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Speaker 1: trained mind far superior to and far more effective than
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Speaker 1: the ordinary, more or less involuntary attention of the person
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Speaker 1: who has just discovered that the subconscious works, but who
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Speaker 1: has not as yet learned just how it works. The
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Speaker 1: deliberate action of and direction by the will constitutes the
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Speaker 1: distinction between the involuntary state and in the voluntary state.
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Speaker 1: In the case of both the conscious and the subconscious
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Speaker 1: mental activities involved in thought, you will need but a
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Speaker 1: simple familiar example to give you the general principle involved
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Speaker 1: in this matter. You know by experience that when you
3:04:15
Speaker 1: have strongly impressed upon the subconscious the necessity of your
3:04:18
Speaker 1: being awakened at five o'clock in the morning in order
3:04:20
Speaker 1: to catch a certain train, you may count upon something
3:04:24
Speaker 1: awakening you at that particular time, or when you have
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Speaker 1: an important engagement which you have apparently overlooked. Something tells
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Speaker 1: you that you have forgotten something just in time to
3:04:34
Speaker 1: allow you to rush to keep the engagement. Well, then
3:04:38
Speaker 1: here you have set your subconscious attention upon the task,
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Speaker 1: and your subconscious has been on the job for you.
3:04:45
Speaker 1: The same principle is involved in even the highest and
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Speaker 1: most complex activities and processes of subconscious mentation in which
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Speaker 1: there is something to be done. The Oriental teacher instructs
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Speaker 1: his pupils to acquire, by repeated practice and exercise, the
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Speaker 1: knack of performing the following particular mental activity. The student
3:05:05
Speaker 1: must formulate in his mind a clear idea of the
3:05:07
Speaker 1: mental task to be performed. He must perceive it in
3:05:11
Speaker 1: general outline, and also should form a clearly defined idea
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Speaker 1: of just what task he wishes to have accomplished, just
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Speaker 1: what kind of work he wishes to have performed for him.
3:05:21
Speaker 1: He must then form a mental picture of the thought
3:05:23
Speaker 1: material being lowered or dropped to the subconscious levels of
3:05:26
Speaker 1: the mind, as for instance, being dropped through a trapdoor.
3:05:31
Speaker 1: He must then deliberately, positively and earnestly give a mental
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Speaker 1: or verbal command for direction to the subconscious mentality to
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Speaker 1: perform the task for him. For instance, he must issue
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Speaker 1: the command, subconscious, I wish you carefully and thoroughly to analyze,
3:05:47
Speaker 1: to classify, and logically to arrange the materials of this subject,
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Speaker 1: and then to carry the reasoning concerning it to its
3:05:54
Speaker 1: logical conclusion. The material so passed on to the subconscious, however,
3:05:59
Speaker 1: must have been previously subjected to a most intense and
3:06:02
Speaker 1: concentrated inspection by the conscious attention. As the Oriental teachers say,
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Speaker 1: it must be saturated with attention, until every part of
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Speaker 1: it is so permeated by attention that it carries attention
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Speaker 1: in its very substance. Thought thus energized by attention will
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Speaker 1: reawaken into being on the subconscious planes with the necessary
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Speaker 1: amount of attention involved in it. This, in turn will
3:06:25
Speaker 1: attract and hold the subconscious attention element of thought. The
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Speaker 1: subconscious attention, once having been attracted by and directed to
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Speaker 1: a subject, will never afterward release its hold on that
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Speaker 1: subject until the latter has been brought as nearly to
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Speaker 1: a successful conclusion as is possible under the circumstances. It
3:06:44
Speaker 1: may take only a few minutes, or it may take hours, days, months,
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Speaker 1: or even years to reach the conclusion, but it will
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Speaker 1: hold tenaciously to the task and will report the result eventually.
3:06:55
Speaker 1: Have you not received answers and reports from the subconscious
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Speaker 1: concerning questions and subject which perplexed you many years ago,
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Speaker 1: and which you had almost forgotten? While your conscious mentality
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Speaker 1: had practically forgotten the matter, your subconscious has remembered it
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Speaker 1: and has continued its work. This wonderful method is so
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Speaker 1: simple that there is danger that you may overlook its
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Speaker 1: great importance and its marvelous possibilities. It consists, as you
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Speaker 1: have seen, of the following simple mental processes, viz. One
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Speaker 1: concentrating the conscious attention upon the general problem or task
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Speaker 1: until the whole subject of it is fairly saturated by attention.
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Speaker 1: Two forming the mental picture or idea of the transference
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Speaker 1: of the general thought from the conscious plane or leveled
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Speaker 1: down to that of the subconscious mentality to the subconscious.
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Speaker 1: Three giving the subconscious the positive, clear, definite command for
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Speaker 1: direction concerning what you wish it to do for you
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Speaker 1: in the matter. That is all there is to it.
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Speaker 1: Though several books might be filled with illustrative examples and
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Speaker 1: adaptations to particular instances or special care, Consequently, you are
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Speaker 1: advised to commit to memory the above stated three stages
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Speaker 1: of the methods or process in question, and to apply
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Speaker 1: them in any in all cases in which you desire
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Speaker 1: the subconscious to proceed along the lines of subconscious thought
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Speaker 1: in a definite direction and towards certain definite ends. The
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Speaker 1: rest is all practice, practice, practice, and exercise, exercise and exercise.
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Speaker 1: There is, however, a peculiar little mental knack about the
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Speaker 1: method of giving the command for direction to the subconscious.
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Speaker 1: This little knack will come to you only by practice
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Speaker 1: and exercise. It cannot be expressed in words. It must
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Speaker 1: be picked up in actual practice. When once acquired, it
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Speaker 1: will never be forgotten by you. Charles Leland illustrated the
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Speaker 1: principle of this little knack in his statements concerning what
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Speaker 1: he called forethought. He says, of this principle, as I
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Speaker 1: understand it, it is a kind of impulse or projection
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Speaker 1: of will into the coming. I may here illustrate this
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Speaker 1: with a curious fact in physics. If the reader wished
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Speaker 1: to ring an old style door bell so as to
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Speaker 1: produce as much sound as possible, he would probably pull
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Speaker 1: it back as far as he could, and then let
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Speaker 1: it go. But if he would, in letting it go,
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Speaker 1: simply give it a tap with his forefinger, he would
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Speaker 1: actually redouble the sound or to shoot an arrow as
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Speaker 1: far as possible. It is not enough to merely draw
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Speaker 1: the bow to its utmost span or tension. If just
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Speaker 1: before it goes you will give the bow a quick push,
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Speaker 1: though the effort be trifling, the arrow will fly almost
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Speaker 1: as far again as it would have done without it. Or,
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Speaker 1: as is well known, in wielding a very sharp saber,
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Speaker 1: we make that a draw cut. That is, if to
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Speaker 1: the blow or chop as with an axe, we also
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Speaker 1: add a certain slight pull. Simultaneously, we can cut through
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Speaker 1: a silk handkerchief or a sheep. Forethought is the tap
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Speaker 1: on the bell, the push on the bow, the draw
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Speaker 1: on the saber. It is the deliberate but yet rapid
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Speaker 1: action of the mind when, before going to sleep or
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Speaker 1: dismissing thought, we bid the mind to subsequently respond. It
3:10:09
Speaker 1: is more than merely thinking what we are to do.
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Speaker 1: It is the bidding or ordering the self to fulfill
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Speaker 1: a task before willing it. Additional illustrations will occur to
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Speaker 1: the reader who is familiar with the games of golf, billiards, tennis,
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Speaker 1: et cetera, in each of which the skillful players discover
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Speaker 1: the little knack of putting something into the blow, the stroke,
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Speaker 1: or whatever the movement may be. He finds that by
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Speaker 1: putting that little something of himself into the movement, he
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Speaker 1: adds very materially to its power, its accuracy, and its
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Speaker 1: general efficiency. The principle of the little knack in the
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Speaker 1: giving of commands or directions to the subconscious closely resembles
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Speaker 1: the principles employed in the skilled physical movement to which
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Speaker 1: we have just referred. You must learn to put a
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Speaker 1: little of yourself into it. Subconscious thought may be set
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Speaker 1: into activity by the method previously described under nearly any
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Speaker 1: or all kinds of circumstances. It may be set ay
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Speaker 1: going during the day, or just before going to sleep
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Speaker 1: at night. Leland and some others have strongly advised the
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Speaker 1: last mentioned plan, claiming for its special advantages. In cases
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Speaker 1: where quick decisions and actions are necessary, the process may
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Speaker 1: be affected with little or no loss of time. The
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Speaker 1: time necessary to flick the ashes from your cigar before answering,
3:11:30
Speaker 1: or in which to reach out to replace an object
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Speaker 1: on your desk, or to perform any similar action, will
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Speaker 1: be sufficient for the subconscious to render you at least
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Speaker 1: some degree of assistance in response to your positive command,
3:11:41
Speaker 1: attend to this for me quickly at once. The subconscious
3:11:46
Speaker 1: is capable of the lightning like rapidity of certain dream states.
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Speaker 1: In such cases, try this method and learn for yourself
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Speaker 1: how wonderfully rapid and effective is the response. Leland says,
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Speaker 1: the practice of composing the place as perfectly yet as
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Speaker 1: succinctly as possible, combined with the energetic impulse to send
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Speaker 1: it off, will ere long give the student a conception
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Speaker 1: of what I mean by forethought, which by description I cannot,
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Speaker 1: And when grown familiar and really mastered, it will give
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Speaker 1: to its possessor a power to think and act promptly
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Speaker 1: in all the emergencies of life in a greatly increased degree.
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Speaker 1: Forethought may be brief, but it should always be energetic.
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Speaker 1: By cultivating it, we acquire the enviable talent of those
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Speaker 1: men who take in everything at a glance and act promptly,
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Speaker 1: like Napoleon. This power is universally believed to be entirely
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Speaker 1: innate or a gift, but it can be induced or
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Speaker 1: developed in all minds in proportion to the will by practice.
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Speaker 1: Free refrain from interfering in passing on to your subconscious
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Speaker 1: any certain and particular work to be performed by it.
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Speaker 1: You should refrain from interfering with the subconscious processes. You may,
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Speaker 1: and indeed should stand by as it were, ready to
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Speaker 1: seek for or to furnish any additional data or facts
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Speaker 1: for which it may call. And you should always exercise
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Speaker 1: the right of supervision, revision, and general management, as we
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Speaker 1: have already told you. But you should never meddle with
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Speaker 1: the processes of the subconscious in themselves, nor should you
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Speaker 1: attempt to boss the job in its details, as well
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Speaker 1: as in the general direction and management. A violation of
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Speaker 1: this last rule may confuse the subconscious, or in extreme cases,
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Speaker 1: may even throw it into a state of panic. This
3:13:33
Speaker 1: is a common mistake, and one especially to be guarded against.
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Speaker 1: You must cultivate and manifest confidence and trust in your subconscious.
3:13:42
Speaker 1: The subconscious, as we have previously informed you, is as
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Speaker 1: sensitive as are intelligent workers in general. In some cases,
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Speaker 1: it manifests quite a show of artistic temperament, and is
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Speaker 1: easily disturbed by what it may deem an unwarranted meddling
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Speaker 1: with its work. Exercise the iron hand upon it if
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Speaker 1: you will, but always be careful to wear the velvet
3:14:03
Speaker 1: glove on that hand, if you wish to secure the
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Speaker 1: best results from it. Sometimes the subconscious may tentatively raise
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Speaker 1: to your conscious plane of mentality its unfinished work for
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Speaker 1: your inspection. It wants you to tell it how you
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Speaker 1: like it as far as it has gone, give its
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Speaker 1: reports and results a careful examination, and add any helpful
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Speaker 1: suggestions which may occur to you. Then send it back
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Speaker 1: for completion with a word of encouragement, and with that
3:14:27
Speaker 1: little tap on the bell, as Leland puts it. Do
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Speaker 1: not make the mistake, however, of the child who, having
3:14:34
Speaker 1: planted seeds in the garden, pulls up the sprouts each
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Speaker 1: morning to see how much the roots have grown over night.
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Speaker 1: You are not dealing with a lifeless mechanism. Remember, you
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Speaker 1: are dealing with a living intelligence, which is an aspect
3:14:47
Speaker 1: of yourself subconscious thought and logic. Some persons who have
3:14:52
Speaker 1: acquired proficiency in subconscious mentation, but who have wished also
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Speaker 1: to acquire a knowledge of logic and logical thinking, have
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Speaker 1: found themselves somewhat upset at first. After they have acquainted
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Speaker 1: themselves with the principles of formal logic, they report that
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Speaker 1: they have found themselves in somewhat the same general condition
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Speaker 1: of the centipede mentioned in a foregoing section of this book,
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Speaker 1: who had lost the natural art of running many legged
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Speaker 1: after he began to think of which leg follows which.
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Speaker 1: The trouble here, however, should not be blamed upon logic.
3:15:25
Speaker 1: It arises rather from an attempt to take away from
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Speaker 1: the subconscious all the thinking work that had previously been
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Speaker 1: performed by it, and to attempt now to perform this
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Speaker 1: on the conscious plane alone. According to the rules of logic,
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Speaker 1: had such persons continued to permit their subconscious to perform
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Speaker 1: its accustomed work instead of trying to rob it of
3:15:43
Speaker 1: its natural tasks, they would have discovered that the subconscious
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Speaker 1: was performing its work even more effectively than before. By
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Speaker 1: reason of the superimposition of the knowledge of the laws
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Speaker 1: and rules of logical thought. It will be found as
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Speaker 1: a rule that the subconscious thought of a logical thinker
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Speaker 1: will be far more logical than that of an illogical person.
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Speaker 1: One may improve the logical quality of his subconscious mentation
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Speaker 1: by studying the elements and principles of practical logic. The
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Speaker 1: training received thereby by the conscious mentality is reflected upon
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Speaker 1: the subconscious planes. This being the case, those feeling the
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Speaker 1: need of improvement along the lines of logical thinking need
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Speaker 1: fear no interference with the thought processes of their subconscious
3:16:25
Speaker 1: Quite the reverse is the fact, as we have said.
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Speaker 1: But in studying along the lines of logical thought for
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Speaker 1: this purpose, confine yourself to works on the subject of
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Speaker 1: practical logic. Leave formal logic for those who are fond
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Speaker 1: of the academic technical phases of the subject. Select those
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Speaker 1: works in which the subject of logic is brought down
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Speaker 1: to solid earth instead of being raised to the upper
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Speaker 1: regions in which the clouds abound. We feel warranted in
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Speaker 1: here directing to your attention that volume of this series
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Speaker 1: entitled Reasoning Power, the subject of which is Practical Logic
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Speaker 1: and the Laws and Rules of Practical Logical Thought. Subconscious Power,
3:17:05
Speaker 1: Your Secret Forces by William Walker Atkinson, nineteen twenty two.
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Speaker 1: The super conscious plains. One of the most interesting and
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Speaker 1: at the same time one of the most perplexing features
3:17:18
Speaker 1: attending the investigation of the phenomena of the other consciousness
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Speaker 1: states of mental activity which are included in the general
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Speaker 1: category of the subconscious, is the undoubted evidence of the
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Speaker 1: existence of what may be called, respectively, the higher and
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Speaker 1: lower plains of mental activity. In the great Region of
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Speaker 1: the subconscious, the subconscious, in fact, is discovered to be
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Speaker 1: not merely a simple other mind, but rather to be
3:17:42
Speaker 1: a greater region of other consciousness, mental activity, having its
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Speaker 1: plains and its mountain peaks, its highlands, and its lowlands,
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Speaker 1: the great area of your new mental empire. In the
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Speaker 1: lowlands of the subconscious are discovered those activities which seem
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Speaker 1: to be more or less automatic, although manifeststing both intelligence
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Speaker 1: and a logical method of procedure. In the highlands are
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Speaker 1: discovered certain other activities which transcend the ordinary intelligence of
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Speaker 1: the conscious, mentality activities which, while not contrary to reason,
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Speaker 1: nevertheless seem to proceed further and with less effort than
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Speaker 1: the ordinary reasoning processes of the human mind. In short,
3:18:20
Speaker 1: in the great region of the other consciousness, there is
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Speaker 1: discovered to be present a strange and perplexing mixture of
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Speaker 1: both high and low of that which seems little more
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Speaker 1: than simple instinct, and of that which seems to partake
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Speaker 1: of the nature of what may be called intuition. This
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Speaker 1: discovery has caused much confusion and has served to upset
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Speaker 1: many otherwise quite reasonable theories and hypotheses. Probably the most
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Speaker 1: pronounced emphasis placed upon the distinction between the highlands and
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Speaker 1: the lowlands of the subconscious is that maintained by certain
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Speaker 1: schools of thought on the subject, which, borrowing the idea
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Speaker 1: from the Oriental philosophers, have sought to divide the region
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Speaker 1: of the other consciousness into two great as areas, known
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Speaker 1: respectively as the subconscious and the super conscious. The former
3:19:05
Speaker 1: area including the lower phases of subconscious mental activity, the
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Speaker 1: latter area including the higher phases to which we have referred.
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Speaker 1: But it is impossible to draw a positive and definite
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Speaker 1: line between the high and the low areas of the subconscious.
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Speaker 1: That great region is not one in which all the
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Speaker 1: lowlands are on one side of a given line and
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Speaker 1: all the highlands on the other side. Instead, in it,
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Speaker 1: just as in any great physical region, there are alternating
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Speaker 1: areas of valleys and plains, and of hills and mountains.
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Speaker 1: As in the physical world, so in the psychical world
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Speaker 1: one unusually needs but to travel upward, not merely east, west, north,
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Speaker 1: or south, in order to reach the high levels. Moreover,
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Speaker 1: it is impossible to draw a hard and fast line
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Speaker 1: between the higher and the lower activities. These activities frequently
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Speaker 1: blend so into each other that it is most difficult
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Speaker 1: to det determine whether they belong to the higher or
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Speaker 1: to the lower. There is, in fact an indefinite intermediate
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Speaker 1: area in which the higher and lower blend, mingle and
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Speaker 1: form combinations. It has been found more satisfactory to employ
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Speaker 1: the illustrative example of the solar spectrum with its various colors,
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Speaker 1: with their shadings and blendings, with its infrared regions existing
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Speaker 1: in invisible form on the one side, and its ultraviolet regions,
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Speaker 1: likewise invisible, existing on the other side, with the great
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Speaker 1: visible regions existing in the center. While we are favorable
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Speaker 1: to the occasional employment of the term the super consciousness
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Speaker 1: to designate the highest of the activities of the subconscious,
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Speaker 1: we still prefer the general term of the subconscious to
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Speaker 1: designate the entire region of the other consciousness plains of
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Speaker 1: man's mental activity. Many leading writers on the subject of
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Speaker 1: the subconscious have testified to the existence of these plains
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Speaker 1: of its activities and powers, and have pointed out the
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Speaker 1: distinction between these and the lower planes of its manifestation.
3:21:03
Speaker 1: They have demonstrated that there are out of consciousness, mental
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Speaker 1: operations which are above the horizon of ordinary consciousness, rather
3:21:10
Speaker 1: than below it, regions of the higher soul and spirit life,
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Speaker 1: of which we are only at times vaguely conscious, but
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Speaker 1: which always exist and link us to eternal verities. They
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Speaker 1: have expressed the conviction that there exist in the realm
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Speaker 1: of human mentality certain supernormal and transcendental powers of which
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Speaker 1: at present we catch only occasional glimpses, and that behind
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Speaker 1: these there are fathomless abysses, the divine ground of the soul,
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Speaker 1: the ultimate reality of which our consciousness is but a
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Speaker 1: reflection or faint perception. In these high regions of mentality,
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Speaker 1: say they, all the higher mental operations are conducted. It
3:21:46
Speaker 1: is here that genius works. This is the higher mental
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Speaker 1: realm of which Carlyle speaks when he says, Shakespeare's intellect
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Speaker 1: is what I call unconscious intellect. There is more virtue
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Speaker 1: in it than he himself is aware of. The Generations
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Speaker 1: of men will find new meanings in Shakespeare, new elucidations
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Speaker 1: of their own human being. It is this that Gerda
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Speaker 1: had in mind when he said, I prefer that the
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Speaker 1: principle from which and through which I work shall be
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Speaker 1: hidden from me. It is this to which Ferrier refers
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Speaker 1: when he says, the sublimest works of the intelligence are
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Speaker 1: quite possible, and may easily be conceived to be executed
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Speaker 1: without ordinary consciousness of them on the part of the
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Speaker 1: immediate agent. It is this which inspired Emerson to bid
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Speaker 1: us to trust the higher consciousness, even though you can
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Speaker 1: render no reason, and whose reports shall ripen into truth,
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Speaker 1: and you shall know what you believe. Emerson also hints
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Speaker 1: at the same truth in his lines Delicate omens traced
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Speaker 1: in air to the lone barred, true witness bear birds
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Speaker 1: with auguries on their wings, chanted, undeceiving things him to
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Speaker 1: beckon him to warn, while might then the poet scorn
3:22:55
Speaker 1: to learn if scribe or Courier hints, writ in vaster character,
3:22:59
Speaker 1: the lower plains of the subconscious contain only that which
3:23:02
Speaker 1: has been placed there by heredity, by the suggestions of others,
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Speaker 1: by the conscious experiences of the individual, or by the
3:23:09
Speaker 1: imperfect reflection of the super conscious faculties before the latter
3:23:13
Speaker 1: have unfolded their message to the conscious mentality. The higher
3:23:17
Speaker 1: regions the super conscious, on the contrary, contain much which
3:23:21
Speaker 1: man has never before experienced consciously or subconsciously. Many careful
3:23:26
Speaker 1: thinkers hold that just as that which manifests on the
3:23:29
Speaker 1: conscious plains today will be passed on to the subconscious
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Speaker 1: levels tomorrow, so much that is now locked up in
3:23:35
Speaker 1: the regions of the super conscious will be passed down
3:23:37
Speaker 1: and revealed to consciousness at a later period in the
3:23:40
Speaker 1: evolution of the individual and of the race. Much that
3:23:44
Speaker 1: is now a familiar manifestation in the ordinary consciousness was
3:23:47
Speaker 1: at one time the exclusive property of the super conscious. Likewise,
3:23:52
Speaker 1: in the future states of the spiritual evolution of the race,
3:23:55
Speaker 1: the super conscious will bestow upon the ordinary consciousness much
3:23:58
Speaker 1: that is now revealed only an occasional flashes of inspiration, genius,
3:24:03
Speaker 1: or illumination. One of the present writers expressed the following
3:24:07
Speaker 1: ideas in a much earlier work published in nineteen o two,
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Speaker 1: which he has found no reason to change in the
3:24:13
Speaker 1: intervening twenty years. From the region of the super conscious
3:24:17
Speaker 1: comes that which is not contrary to reason, but which
3:24:20
Speaker 1: is beyond ordinary reason. This is the source of illumination, enlightenment, genius, inspiration.
3:24:27
Speaker 1: This is the region from which the true poet obtains
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Speaker 1: his inspiration, the exceptional writer his gift, the real seer
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Speaker 1: his vision, the veritable prophet his knowledge. Many have received
3:24:38
Speaker 1: messages of this kind from the region of the super conscious,
3:24:41
Speaker 1: and have thought that they heard the voice of God,
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Speaker 1: of angels, of spirits, But the voice came from within.
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Speaker 1: In this region are to be found the sources of intuition.
3:24:52
Speaker 1: Some of the super conscious faculties are higher than are others,
3:24:56
Speaker 1: but each has its own part to play. Many a
3:24:59
Speaker 1: man has received eve inspiration from within and has given
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Speaker 1: a message which has astonished the world. Many poets, painters, writers,
3:25:07
Speaker 1: sculptors have acted upon the inspiration received from their super consciousness.
3:25:12
Speaker 1: Certain great poems, certain great writings, certain great pictures, certain
3:25:17
Speaker 1: great statues have about them an indefinable something which appeals
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Speaker 1: to us and make us feel their wonderful strength, that
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Speaker 1: mysterious quality absent from the productions of ordinary mental effort.
3:25:28
Speaker 1: Even scientists commonly regarded as materialistic have frankly admitted that
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Speaker 1: they can conceive of the possibility of mental states as
3:25:36
Speaker 1: much higher than those of the average man, as the
3:25:38
Speaker 1: latter are higher than the mental states of the black beetle,
3:25:41
Speaker 1: and that there is no difficulty in conceiving the existence
3:25:44
Speaker 1: of degrees of intelligence as much superior to ordinary intelligence,
3:25:48
Speaker 1: as the latter is superior to mechanical motion. Science informs
3:25:52
Speaker 1: us that consciousness has evolved from the state of mere sensitiveness,
3:25:56
Speaker 1: which was but little more than the chemical sensitiveness to stimulus,
3:26:00
Speaker 1: thence on to true sensation high and low, thence on
3:26:03
Speaker 1: to simple consciousness high and low, thence on to self
3:26:07
Speaker 1: consciousness high and low. Is it to be supposed that
3:26:11
Speaker 1: evolution has nothing further to unfold in the nature of consciousness?
3:26:15
Speaker 1: Is it not more reasonable to believe that, just as
3:26:18
Speaker 1: sensation evolved from mere sensitiveness, just as simple consciousness evolved
3:26:22
Speaker 1: from sensation, and justice self consciousness evolved from simple consciousness,
3:26:27
Speaker 1: so may there be other and higher forms of consciousness
3:26:30
Speaker 1: destined to evolve and unfold from our present stages of consciousness.
3:26:34
Speaker 1: In fact, it would appear that even at the present time,
3:26:37
Speaker 1: some of these higher faculties are beginning to dawn upon
3:26:40
Speaker 1: the race. Is it unreasonable to believe that this new
3:26:43
Speaker 1: consciousness will partake of the character of that which we
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Speaker 1: seek to indicate by the term intuition. The term intuition,
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Speaker 1: rightly understood perhaps best, indicates the characteristic elements of the
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Speaker 1: higher subconscious knowing or activity of that phase or aspect
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Speaker 1: of the subconds, which has been called the super consciousness.
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Speaker 1: Webster defines intuition as ordinarily understood as direct apprehension or cognition,
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Speaker 1: immediate knowledge as in perception or consciousness, involving no reasoning power,
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Speaker 1: quick or ready insight or apprehension. Many seek to convince
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Speaker 1: us that intuition is the source of its own knowledge,
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Speaker 1: that it has no need for data derived from experience,
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Speaker 1: but this view is disputed by others who hold that
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Speaker 1: intuition is merely a higher form of reasoning. We, however,
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Speaker 1: are inclined to the view that intuition is a higher
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Speaker 1: form of reasoning, proceeding perhaps by short cuts impossible to
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Speaker 1: our ordinary conscious reasoning processes, and manifesting its action in
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Speaker 1: an almost incredibly brief period of time. The marked difference
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Speaker 1: between the clear, acute, and rapid reasoning processes of the
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Speaker 1: trained thinkers of the race and the clumsy, dull, heavy
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Speaker 1: and slow reasoning of untrained minds gives us a hint
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Speaker 1: concerning the nature of inns in tuition and contains a
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Speaker 1: hopeful promise of further evolution along the same lines. It
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Speaker 1: is possible in imagination to conceive of mental faculties and
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Speaker 1: powers sufficiently evolved and developed to be able to grasp
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Speaker 1: the essential relations and data involved in a problem in
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Speaker 1: a new way, in a way in which there is
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Speaker 1: manifested a highly increased power of perception, apperception, and generalization,
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Speaker 1: and able to perform the processes of induction and deduction,
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Speaker 1: or perhaps a reasoning process higher than either, with intensive
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Speaker 1: effort and greatly increased speed. An individual possessing this power
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Speaker 1: would appear to the ordinary thinker as one able to
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Speaker 1: know without thinking at all, though such individual would really
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Speaker 1: be performing each and every stage of thought. The rapid
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Speaker 1: movement of the moving picture films causes us to perceive
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Speaker 1: the picture as continuous and unbroken, whereas in reality it
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Speaker 1: is composed of many separate and particular units. A rapidly
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Speaker 1: revolving object seems to us to stand still. So may
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Speaker 1: it be with the mind operating with a highly increased speed,
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Speaker 1: accompanied with a highly increased power of perception, apperception, generalization,
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Speaker 1: et cetera. The careful examination of the thought processes of
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Speaker 1: certain exceptional thinkers of the race would seem to support
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Speaker 1: the idea of an intuitive reasoning proceeding in the way
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Speaker 1: just indicated. Careful thinkers have held the scientific faith that
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Speaker 1: man will evolve the mechanism of thought sufficient to deal
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Speaker 1: with the more complex and difficult problems which are forcing
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Speaker 1: themselves before the human mind and which are demanding solution.
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Speaker 1: Heckel has said, there is no scientific problem which we
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Speaker 1: may dare to say. The mind of man will never solve,
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Speaker 1: no mystery so deep or profound. No question has or
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Speaker 1: ever will be asked. But a mind or brain will
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Speaker 1: be evolved capable of solving or answering. Stephen says, if
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Speaker 1: it becomes essential for mankind to know infinite nature, will
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Speaker 1: evolve an organ of mind that can comprehend. Psychology furnishes
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Speaker 1: us with analogies of fic to warrant us in speculation
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Speaker 1: concerning the possible effect of mental processes greatly speeded up
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Speaker 1: and yet proceeding in logical sequence. The intensely rapid action
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Speaker 1: of the mind in certain dream states and in cases
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Speaker 1: in which certain anesthetics have been administered, gives us a
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Speaker 1: valuable hint. It is within the proper limits of scientific
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Speaker 1: imagination to speculate concerning the possible existence of mental states
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Speaker 1: in which the logical conclusion from a given premiss might
3:30:26
Speaker 1: seem to be arrived at practically instantaneously, just as a
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Speaker 1: sufficiently speeded up moving picture projector would be able to
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Speaker 1: present to us in an almost simultaneous picturing the beginning
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Speaker 1: and ending of a scene. All that came between being imperceptible.
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Speaker 1: Time as experienced by the mind is purely relative and comparative.
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Speaker 1: The midge lives a lifetime of vivid experience in an
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Speaker 1: hour of time or less, while on the other hand,
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Speaker 1: we may conceive of beings of a high order, to
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Speaker 1: whom a thousand years is but a day under intense
3:30:59
Speaker 1: press u sure, the minds of human beings have been
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Speaker 1: known to act with an almost incredible rapidity and with
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Speaker 1: an almost superhuman clearness, power and effect. We say, even
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Speaker 1: of ordinary efficient thinkers, that they think in a flash,
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Speaker 1: or that they reach a result almost intuitively. These facts
3:31:17
Speaker 1: serve as striking hints concerning the character and nature of
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Speaker 1: the processes of the intuition manifested by the higher planes
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Speaker 1: of the subconscious, the so called superconscious planes of mentation,
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Speaker 1: the only known method whereby the individual may increase and
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Speaker 1: develop the degree of the manifestation of the intuitive powers
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Speaker 1: of the higher planes of the subconscious, apart from the
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Speaker 1: mystical practices, many of which are of quite doubtful value,
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Speaker 1: and apart from certain psychic methods which are often positively
3:31:46
Speaker 1: dangerous and harmful. Consists of the calm recognition of the
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Speaker 1: existence of these higher powers of the subconscious, and the
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Speaker 1: courteous reception and entertainment of the reports coming from them.
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Speaker 1: Recognize its power as those of your higher self, and
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Speaker 1: accept its services as rightfully belonging to you, Yet receive
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Speaker 1: them with thanks. Open your mind to the rays coming
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Speaker 1: from above, and profit by the energizing power of that light.
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Speaker 1: Seek development along these times, and let the power unfold naturally,
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Speaker 1: gradually and in accordance with the law of evolution. Do
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Speaker 1: not try to force the growth, nor to employ unnatural methods.
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Speaker 1: Here is the rule by which you may determine whether
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Speaker 1: a report of intuition comes from the true higher planes
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Speaker 1: of mind, or whether it is a distorted reflection reaching
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Speaker 1: you from some of the lower planes. The true intuitive
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Speaker 1: report will never run contrary to reason properly exercised and interpreted,
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Speaker 1: though it may transcend the possible reports of the ordinary
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Speaker 1: reasoning processes. Do not accept the report as correct if
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Speaker 1: it runs contrary to your highest reason, or if it
3:32:51
Speaker 1: is opposed to your common sense. Intuition is higher reason,
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Speaker 1: reason plus, or reason. More so, it is never anti
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Speaker 1: reason or the opposite of reason. Reason has been evolved
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Speaker 1: by nature to provide man with his sane and safe
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Speaker 1: standards of belief and action. Therefore, you should never seek
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Speaker 1: to discard it in order to adopt some anti rational report,
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Speaker 1: attractive though the latter may appear to be at first sight,
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Speaker 1: nor how highly recommended it may come. You should welcome
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Speaker 1: the opening and unfoldment of the higher planes of reason,
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Speaker 1: but you should always assure yourself that the essential principle
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Speaker 1: of reason is present in the reports of any part
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Speaker 1: of your mind before you accept them as final. You
3:33:31
Speaker 1: should regard reason as the evolving instrument of your experience
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Speaker 1: and expression, not as a fixed and unalterable mechanism beyond
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Speaker 1: the possibility of further growth, improvement, and development. Avail yourself
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Speaker 1: of the services of intuition, your higher reason, but always
3:33:47
Speaker 1: stand firmly on the solid rock of practical reason, for
3:33:50
Speaker 1: their your safety lies. Intuition, if real and true, is
3:33:55
Speaker 1: always reason plus. Never by any chance is it reason minus.
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Speaker 1: It is reason raised to a much higher degree than
3:34:02
Speaker 1: we commonly experience, but its essential character, nature, and principle
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Speaker 1: remain unchanged. Keep this fact in mind, and your feet
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Speaker 1: will rest on solid rock. Lose sight of it and
3:34:13
Speaker 1: ignore it, and you may wander on to the sinking
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Speaker 1: sands of error. In addition to the offices and powers
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Speaker 1: of the super conscious which we have mentioned, there is another,
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Speaker 1: and a most important function of that phase of the mentality,
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Speaker 1: which may be called the protective power. Many persons, most persons,
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Speaker 1: in fact, have at times experienced this beneficent power. They
3:34:35
Speaker 1: have felt strongly that they were in close contact with
3:34:38
Speaker 1: a force, power, or entity of some kind, which was
3:34:41
Speaker 1: in some way higher than themselves, but which was concerned
3:34:44
Speaker 1: with their welfare. This beneficent presence has been interpreted in
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Speaker 1: various ways in accordance with the trend of thought of
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Speaker 1: those experiencing it. Some of the ancients called it the
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Speaker 1: kindly Genius. Others termed it the guardian Angel. Still others
3:34:59
Speaker 1: have thought of it it as my spirit friend, while
3:35:02
Speaker 1: many others, though quite vividly conscious of its presence and power,
3:35:06
Speaker 1: have failed to give it a special name. But by
3:35:09
Speaker 1: whatever name it may have been thought of, or even
3:35:11
Speaker 1: when no name at all, has been applied to it.
3:35:14
Speaker 1: The mysterious something has been recognized as a beneficent presence power,
3:35:18
Speaker 1: a hovering and brooding something or somewhat animated by a warm,
3:35:21
Speaker 1: kindly interest in the individual and seemingly devoted to his
3:35:24
Speaker 1: interests and disposed to render to him useful services. This
3:35:29
Speaker 1: beneficent presence power has often acted as a warning guardian
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Speaker 1: in the lives of many persons. In other cases, it
3:35:36
Speaker 1: has been felt to have acted subtly to bring about
3:35:38
Speaker 1: advantageous results and conditions for the persons whom it protected.
3:35:43
Speaker 1: It has led some into circumstances and conditions calculated to
3:35:46
Speaker 1: be of advantage to them. It has drawn others away
3:35:49
Speaker 1: from conditions and circumstances calculated to bring harm to them.
3:35:53
Speaker 1: In short, it has played the part of the kindly
3:35:56
Speaker 1: genius or the guardian angel to many an individual. The
3:36:00
Speaker 1: touch of this unseen hand has been felt by countless individuals,
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Speaker 1: very likely by you, who are now reading these lines.
3:36:08
Speaker 1: It has cheered men when the tide of circumstances seem
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Speaker 1: to be running against them. It has animated them with
3:36:13
Speaker 1: a new, lively spirit, has encouraged them to renewed endeavor,
3:36:17
Speaker 1: has filled them with new courage when they needed it most.
3:36:21
Speaker 1: It has seemingly led persons into the presence of other
3:36:23
Speaker 1: persons and things, into conditions and environments which have proved
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Speaker 1: advantageous to them. Men in all ages, some of the
3:36:31
Speaker 1: most practical and hard headed men of affairs, among others,
3:36:36
Speaker 1: have felt the touch of this unseen hand and have
3:36:38
Speaker 1: gratefully acknowledged its help in times of need, even though
3:36:41
Speaker 1: they have been perplexed concerning its real character. To many
3:36:45
Speaker 1: careful thinkers who have earnestly investigated this phenomenon, it has
3:36:49
Speaker 1: seemed that this beneficent presence power, this unseen hand that
3:36:52
Speaker 1: has reached out in times of need, is not an
3:36:55
Speaker 1: external power nor an entity outside of themselves, but is
3:36:59
Speaker 1: rather a manifestation of that part of man's mental nature
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Speaker 1: which we have here considered under the term the super conscious.
3:37:06
Speaker 1: Instead of being an entity outside of us, it is
3:37:08
Speaker 1: believed to be a part of ourselves, a phase, part
3:37:12
Speaker 1: or aspect of our self that manifests above the levels
3:37:15
Speaker 1: or planes of the ordinary consciousness. In short, this kindly
3:37:20
Speaker 1: genius or guardian angel is your own super conscious self
3:37:24
Speaker 1: manifesting on some of its higher levels or planes of
3:37:27
Speaker 1: activity in power. In this higher self. You have a
3:37:30
Speaker 1: friend far truer, more constant, and more loyal than can
3:37:34
Speaker 1: be any other friend, For it is yourself in its essence.
3:37:37
Speaker 1: In substance, your interests are its interests, for you are
3:37:41
Speaker 1: one with it in essential being in power, it will
3:37:44
Speaker 1: manifest a fidelity to you and a watchfulness over your
3:37:48
Speaker 1: real interests, which is amazing in its devotion and constancy.
3:37:52
Speaker 1: It will manifest toward you in turns the protecting care
3:37:55
Speaker 1: of a father, the brooding, watchful loving care of a mother,
3:37:59
Speaker 1: and the help fraternal interest of a brother. It will
3:38:03
Speaker 1: be all of these things to you and more if
3:38:05
Speaker 1: you will but give it the chance to unfold its
3:38:07
Speaker 1: presence and to manifest its power in your life. This
3:38:11
Speaker 1: higher self, this phase of your super consciousness, needs but
3:38:15
Speaker 1: the encouragement of your recognition and realization in order to
3:38:18
Speaker 1: manifest its power in your behalf. It is seemingly discouraged,
3:38:23
Speaker 1: disheartened and abashed by your indifference, unbelief, and the failure
3:38:27
Speaker 1: to recognize its presence and to realize its power. It
3:38:31
Speaker 1: does not need training or developing. All that it asks
3:38:34
Speaker 1: is to be recognized and realized by you, and to
3:38:37
Speaker 1: have from you a kindly sympathetic reception. It has done
3:38:41
Speaker 1: much for you in the past. It will do more
3:38:43
Speaker 1: for you in the future if you will but meet
3:38:46
Speaker 1: it half way. This higher part of yourself is full
3:38:49
Speaker 1: of discernment and of cold, keen edged wisdom. It can
3:38:53
Speaker 1: see far ahead and is able to discern and select
3:38:56
Speaker 1: the right road for you to travel, and then to
3:38:58
Speaker 1: lead you into that road, and to keep your feet
3:39:00
Speaker 1: on its solid substance. In spite of your efforts to
3:39:03
Speaker 1: take a side path or to wander into the ditches
3:39:06
Speaker 1: which lie on either side of the road, You will
3:39:09
Speaker 1: do well to get off by yourself once in a while,
3:39:12
Speaker 1: then and there to commune with your higher self, to
3:39:15
Speaker 1: have a little heart to heart visit with it. You
3:39:18
Speaker 1: will find this higher self to be a wonderful companion,
3:39:21
Speaker 1: one closer to you than can be any human being,
3:39:24
Speaker 1: for it is yourself and nothing but yourself, manifesting on
3:39:27
Speaker 1: the higher plains and levels of your being. You will
3:39:30
Speaker 1: emerge from these periods of self communion with renewed strength
3:39:34
Speaker 1: and vigor, filled with new hope and faith, animated by
3:39:37
Speaker 1: new ambitions and purposive determination. In this book we have
3:39:41
Speaker 1: presented to you a view of your new mental empire.
3:39:44
Speaker 1: A view of its lowest and its highest, plains and levels,
3:39:47
Speaker 1: of its highlands and its lowlands. It is your own empire,
3:39:51
Speaker 1: yours yours. It is to rule and to govern, to explore,
3:39:56
Speaker 1: and to cultivate. You are at home in it. The
3:40:00
Speaker 1: many wonderful phenomena manifested in its immense region are your phenomena,
3:40:04
Speaker 1: yours to control, direct, develop, cultivate, yours to restrict, restrain,
3:40:09
Speaker 1: inhibit at your will as you will by your will,
3:40:13
Speaker 1: Do not allow yourself to be tempted by the wonderful
3:40:16
Speaker 1: powers manifested by some of your subordinate mental machinery or instruments.
3:40:20
Speaker 1: Do not allow yourself to fall under the spell of
3:40:23
Speaker 1: any of the phenomenal manifestations in your mental wonderland. View
3:40:27
Speaker 1: all respect all, use all demand, and secure aid and
3:40:31
Speaker 1: work from all, But never lose sight of the fact
3:40:33
Speaker 1: that you, your real self, the I am I, is the
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Speaker 1: master of this land, the ruler of this empire, and
3:40:40
Speaker 1: that you rightfully have power and dominion over it, all
3:40:43
Speaker 1: its inhabitants, and all contained in its realm. Your I
3:40:47
Speaker 1: am I, your real self. You are a center of
3:40:50
Speaker 1: consciousness and will, of personal power in that infinite and
3:40:54
Speaker 1: eternal power, that ultimate power from which all things proceed,
3:40:58
Speaker 1: and in which we live and move and have Our being,
3:41:02
Speaker 1: your physical body and your physical energies, your mental mechanism
3:41:06
Speaker 1: and its energies, manifesting on any or all the planes
3:41:09
Speaker 1: or levels of consciousness, subconsciousness, or super consciousness. All these
3:41:13
Speaker 1: are but instruments or channels of expression of your real self.
3:41:17
Speaker 1: The I am I of you. You, the I Am I,
3:41:21
Speaker 1: are the center of your personal world of experience and manifestation.
3:41:26
Speaker 1: Keep ever your rightful place at the center of that world.
3:41:28
Speaker 1: Observe all the rest whirling in revolving around that center.
3:41:32
Speaker 1: As the planets revolve whirling around the sun. You are
3:41:36
Speaker 1: the Sun. Do not lose your balance, nor be induced
3:41:40
Speaker 1: to move away from your central position to accommodate any
3:41:43
Speaker 1: of your subordinate planets, not even the greatest of them. Hail,
3:41:48
Speaker 1: Mighty Emperor, Enter into and possess, rule and govern your
3:41:53
Speaker 1: new mental empire. It is yours. Here at the conclusion,
3:41:58
Speaker 1: as at the beginning of this book, let us remind
3:42:01
Speaker 1: you of the truth of the ancient aphorism. You are
3:42:03
Speaker 1: greater than you know.