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THE MAGIC OF BELIEVING: Harnessing Law of Attraction for Manifesting Your Dreams - Claude M. Bristol · THE SECRET LAW OF ATTRACTION: Manifest Wealth, Success & Abundance

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Speaker 1: The Magic of Believing by Claude Bristol, nineteen forty eight,
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Speaker 1: Chapter one, How I came to tap the power of belief?
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Speaker 1: Is there some force or factor, or power or science,
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Speaker 1: call it what you will, which a few people understand
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Speaker 1: and use to overcome their difficulties and achieve outstanding success.
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Speaker 1: I firmly believe that there is, and it is my
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Speaker 1: purpose in this book to try to explain it so
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Speaker 1: that you can use it if you desire. Around nineteen
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Speaker 1: thirty three, the financial editor of a great Los Angeles
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Speaker 1: newspaper attended lectures I gave to financial men in that
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Speaker 1: city and read my brochure Tanti it Rocks the Earth. Afterwards,
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Speaker 1: he wrote the following, you have caught from the ether
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Speaker 1: something that has a mystical quality, A something that explains
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Speaker 1: the magic of coincidence, the mystery of what makes men lucky.
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Speaker 1: I realized that I had run across something that was
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Speaker 1: practical and workable, but I didn't consider it then, neither
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Speaker 1: do I now as anything mystic, except in a sense
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Speaker 1: that it is unknown to the majority of people. This
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Speaker 1: something has always been known to a fortunate few down
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Speaker 1: the centuries, but for some unknown reason it is still
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Speaker 1: barely understood by the average person. Years ago, when I
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Speaker 1: started to teach this science by means of lectures and
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Speaker 1: the medium of my brochure, I wasn't certain that the
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Speaker 1: concepts could be grasped by the ordinary individual. But since
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Speaker 1: then I have seen those who have used it to
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Speaker 1: double and triple their incomes, build their own successful businesses,
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Speaker 1: acquire homes of their dreams, and create sizable fortunes. I
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Speaker 1: am now convinced that any intelligent person who is sincere
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Speaker 1: with themselves can reach any heights they truly and honestly desire.
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Speaker 1: I had no intention of writing a second book, although
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Speaker 1: many urged me to do so, until a woman in
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Speaker 1: the book business who had sold many copies of my
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Speaker 1: first little book literally read me the Riot Act by stating,
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Speaker 1: you have a duty to give to the men and
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Speaker 1: women who seek places for themselves in the world, in
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Speaker 1: easily understood form the new material that you have given
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Speaker 1: in your lectures. Everyone of ambition wants to get ahead,
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Speaker 1: and you have amply demonstrated that you have something that
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Speaker 1: will help anyone. It's up to you to pass it along.
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Speaker 1: It took time to sell myself on the idea, but
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Speaker 1: having served as a soldier in World War One, mostly
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Speaker 1: in France and Germany, and having been active for many
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Speaker 1: years in ex service men's organizations as well as a
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Speaker 1: state commission for the rehabilitation of ex service men and women,
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Speaker 1: I realized that it would be hard for many individuals
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Speaker 1: to make out standing places for themselves in a world
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Speaker 1: from which they had long been separated. It is with
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Speaker 1: a sincere desire to help them, as well as all
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Speaker 1: ambitious men and women, that I write this more full
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Speaker 1: and detailed exposition of the power of belief. Thus, this
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Speaker 1: work is written also to help develop individual thinking and doing.
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Speaker 1: Since this book may fall into the hands of some
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Speaker 1: who may call me a crackpot or screwball, let me
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Speaker 1: say that I am past the half century and have
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Speaker 1: had many years of hard, practical business experience, as well
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Speaker 1: as a goodly number of years as a newspaper man.
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Speaker 1: I started as a police reporter. Police reporters are trained
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Speaker 1: to get facts and take nothing for granted. For a
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Speaker 1: two year period I was church editor of a large
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Speaker 1: metropolitan newspaper, during which I came in close contact with
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Speaker 1: clergymen and leaders of all sex and denominations. Mind healers,
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Speaker 1: divine healers, spiritualists, Christian Scientists, New thoughters, unity leaders, son
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Speaker 1: and idle worshipers, and yes, even a few infidels and pagans.
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Speaker 1: The well known English evangelist Gipsy Smith was making a
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Speaker 1: tour of America at that time. Night after night, as
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Speaker 1: I sat on his platform watching people stumble down the aisles,
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Speaker 1: some sobbing, others shouting hysterically, I wondered again. I wondered
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Speaker 1: when I accompanied the police in answering a riot call.
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Speaker 1: Some Holy Rollers, in a moment of hysteria, had knocked
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Speaker 1: over a stove and set fire to their meeting hall.
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Speaker 1: When I attended my first and only meeting of Shakers,
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Speaker 1: I wondered, as I did while attending various spiritualistic meetings.
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Speaker 1: I wondered as I heard the testimonials at the Christian
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Speaker 1: Scientists Wednesday night meetings. I wondered when I watched a
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Speaker 1: group of people immersed in the icy waters of a
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Speaker 1: mountain stream and coming up shouting Hallelujah even though their
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Speaker 1: teeth were chattering. I wondered at the Indian ceremonial dances
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Speaker 1: and their rain dance rituals. Billy Sunday also caused me
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Speaker 1: to wonder, as in later years did Amy Semple Macpherson.
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Speaker 1: In France during the First World War, I marveled at
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Speaker 1: the simple faith of the peasants and the powers of
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Speaker 1: their village cures. I heard stories of miracles at Lurd
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Speaker 1: and of somewhat similar miracles at other shrines. When in
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Speaker 1: a famous old Roman church, I saw elderly men and
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Speaker 1: women climb, literally on their knees up a long flight
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Speaker 1: of stairs to gaze upon a holy urn, a climb
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Speaker 1: that is no simple task for an athletically trained young person,
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Speaker 1: I wondered again. Business brought me into contact with the Mormons,
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Speaker 1: and when I heard the story of Joseph Smith and
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Speaker 1: the revelations on the plates of Gold, I was again
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Speaker 1: given to wonder. The Duca bors of Western Canada, who
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Speaker 1: would doff their clothes when provoked, likewise made me wonder.
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Speaker 1: While in Hawaii I heard much about the powers of
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Speaker 1: the Cohunas, who could, it was claimed, cause people to
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Speaker 1: die or live by praying. The great powers attributed to
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Speaker 1: these Cahunas profoundly impressed me. In my early days as
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Speaker 1: a newspaper man, I saw a famous medium try to
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Speaker 1: make spirits respond before a crowded courtroom of antagonistic scoffers.
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Speaker 1: The judge had promised to release the medium if he
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Speaker 1: could get the spirits to speak in the courtroom. Yet
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Speaker 1: they failed to materialize, and I wondered why, because the
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Speaker 1: medium's followers had testified to remarkable seances. Many years later,
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Speaker 1: I was commissioned to write a series of articles on
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Speaker 1: what the police were called the fortune telling racket. I
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Speaker 1: visited everyone from gypsy phrenologists to crystal ball gazers, from
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Speaker 1: astrologers to spiritualistic mediums. I heard what purported to be
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Speaker 1: the voices of old Indian guides tell me the past,
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Speaker 1: the present, and the future. And I heard from relatives
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Speaker 1: I never knew existed. Several times I have been in
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Speaker 1: a hospital room in which people around me died while
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Speaker 1: others with seemingly worse ailments were up and apparently fully
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Speaker 1: recovered within a short time. I have known of partially
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Speaker 1: paralyzed people who got over their condition in a matter
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Speaker 1: of days. I have known people who claim to have
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Speaker 1: cured their rheumatism or arthritis by wearing a copper band
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Speaker 1: around their wrists, others by mental healing. From relatives and
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Speaker 1: close friends. I have heard stories of how warts on
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Speaker 1: hands suddenly disappeared. I am familiar with the stories of
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Speaker 1: those who permit rattlesnakes to bite them and still live,
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Speaker 1: and with hundreds of other tales of mysterious happenings and healings. Moreover,
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Speaker 1: I I've made myself familiar with the lives of great
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Speaker 1: men and women of history, and have met and interviewed
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Speaker 1: many outstanding men and women in all lines of human endeavor.
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Speaker 1: Often I have wondered just what it was that took
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Speaker 1: them to the top. I have seen coaches take seemingly
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Speaker 1: inferior baseball and football teams and infuse them with something
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Speaker 1: that caused them to win. In the depression days, I
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Speaker 1: saw badly whipped sales organizations do an abrupt about face
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Speaker 1: and bring in more business men. Ever before, apparently, I
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Speaker 1: was born with a huge bump of curiosity, for I
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Speaker 1: have always had an insatiable yearning to seek answers and explanations.
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Speaker 1: This quest has taken me to many strange places, brought
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Speaker 1: to light many peculiar cases, and caused me to read
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Speaker 1: every book I could get my hands on dealing with religions, cults,
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Speaker 1: and physical and mental sciences. I have read literally thousands
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Speaker 1: of books on modern psychology, metaphysics, ancient magic, voodoo, yoga, theosophy,
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Speaker 1: Christian science, Unity truth, new thought, Couism, and many others
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Speaker 1: dealing with what I call mind stuff, as well as
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Speaker 1: the philosophies and teachings of great masters of the past.
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Speaker 1: Many were nonsensical, others strange, and many very profound. Gradually
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Speaker 1: I discovered that a golden thread runs through all the
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Speaker 1: teachings and makes them work for those who sincerely accept
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Speaker 1: and apply them, and that thread can be named in
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Speaker 1: a single word, belief. It is this same element or
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Speaker 1: factor belief that causes people to be cured through mental healing,
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Speaker 1: enables others to climb high the ladder of success, and
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Speaker 1: gets phenomenal results for all who accept it. Why belief
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Speaker 1: works miracles is something that cannot be satisfactorily explained, but
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Speaker 1: have no doubt that there is genuine magic in believing.
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Speaker 1: The magic of believing became a phrase around which my
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Speaker 1: thoughts steadily revolved. I am convinced that the so called
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Speaker 1: secret fraternal organizations guard a real royal secret which very
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Speaker 1: few members ever grasp. The conclusion must be that no
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Speaker 1: mind ever receives the truth until it is prepared to
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Speaker 1: receive it. One order provides candidates with a very profound
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Speaker 1: book to be studied in connection with the degree work,
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Speaker 1: which itself would be practically in open sesame to life
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Speaker 1: if the candidates could understand and follow its tenets. But
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Speaker 1: few read it, complaining that it is too deep for them.
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Speaker 1: I am convinced too, that some of these organizations, like
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Speaker 1: many secret orders, which possess a knowledge and understanding of life,
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Speaker 1: use parables and misinterpretations to mislead. When T and T
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Speaker 1: it Rocks the Earth was first published, I imagined that it
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Speaker 1: would be easily understood since I had written it simply.
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Speaker 1: But as the years went by, some readers protested that
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Speaker 1: it was too much in digest form. Others said they
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Speaker 1: couldn't understand it. I had assumed that most people knew
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Speaker 1: something about the power of thought. Now I realized that
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Speaker 1: I was mistaken, and those who had an understanding of
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Speaker 1: the subject were comparatively few. Later, over many years of
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Speaker 1: lecturing before clubs, business and sales organizations, I discovered that
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Speaker 1: most people were vitally interested in the subject, but that
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Speaker 1: it had to be fully explained. Finally, I undertook to
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Speaker 1: write this book in words that anyone can understand, and
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Speaker 1: with the hope that it will help many to reach
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Speaker 1: their goals in life. The science of thought is as
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Speaker 1: old as man himself. The wise men of all ages
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Speaker 1: have known it and used it. The only thing I
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Speaker 1: have done is to put the subject in modern language
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Speaker 1: and bring to the reader's attention what some of today's
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Speaker 1: outstanding minds are doing to substantiate the great truths that
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Speaker 1: have come down through the centuries. Fortunately for the world,
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Speaker 1: people are coming to the realization that there is something
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Speaker 1: to this mind stuff. After all, I believe that millions
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Speaker 1: of people would like to get a better understanding of
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Speaker 1: it and prove that it does work. Therefore, let me
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Speaker 1: start by relating a few experiences from my own life,
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Speaker 1: with the hope that they will give you a better
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Speaker 1: understanding of the entire science. Early in nineteen eighteen, I
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Speaker 1: landed in France as a casual soldier unattached to a
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Speaker 1: regular company. As a result, it was several weeks before
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Speaker 1: my service record necessary for my pay caught up with me.
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Speaker 1: During that period, I had no money to buy gum, candy,
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Speaker 1: cigarettes and the like, since the few dollars I had
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Speaker 1: before sailing had been spent at the transport ship's canteen
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Speaker 1: to relieve the monotony of the regular menu. Every time
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Speaker 1: I saw a man light a cigarette or chew a
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Speaker 1: stick of gum, it reminded me that I was without
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Speaker 1: money to spend on myself. Certainly, I was eating, and
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Speaker 1: the army clothed me and provided me with a place
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Speaker 1: on the ground to sleep. But I grew bitter at
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Speaker 1: having no spending money and no way of getting any
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Speaker 1: One night, en route to the forward area on a
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Speaker 1: crowded troop train, when sleep was out of the question,
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Speaker 1: I made up my mind that on my return to
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Speaker 1: civilian life I would have a lot of money. The
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Speaker 1: whole pattern of my life was altered at that moment. True,
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Speaker 1: I had been something of a reader in my youth.
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Speaker 1: The Bible had been a must in our family. As
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Speaker 1: a boy, I was interested in wireless telegraphy, X rays,
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Speaker 1: high frequency apparatus, and similar manifestations of electricity, and I
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Speaker 1: had read every book on these subjects I could find.
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Speaker 1: But while I was familiar with such terms as radiation frequencies, vibrations, oscillations,
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Speaker 1: magnetic influences, et cetera, in those days they meant nothing
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Speaker 1: to me outside of the strictly electrical field. Perhaps my
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Speaker 1: first inkling of a connection between the mind and electrical
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Speaker 1: or vibratory influences came when, upon my completing law school,
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Speaker 1: an instructor gave me an old book, Thomson J. Hudson's
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Speaker 1: Law of Psychic Phenomena. I read it, but only superficially.
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Speaker 1: Either I did not understand it, or my mind was
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Speaker 1: not ready to receive its profound truths. On that fateful
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Speaker 1: night in the spring of nineteen eighteen, when I told
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Speaker 1: myself that some day I would have a lot of money,
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Speaker 1: I did not realize that I was laying the groundwork
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Speaker 1: for a series of causes which would unleash forces that
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Speaker 1: would bring accomplishment. As a matter of fact, the idea
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Speaker 1: never entered my mind that I could develop a fortune
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Speaker 1: with my thinking and believing. My army classification card listed
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Speaker 1: me as a newspaper man. I had been attending an
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Speaker 1: army training school to qualify for a commission, but the
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Speaker 1: whole training school program was discontinued just as we finished
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Speaker 1: the course. Thus most of us landed in France as
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Speaker 1: enlisted men. However, I considered myself a qualified journalist and
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Speaker 1: felt that there was a better place for me in
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Speaker 1: the American Expeditionary Force. Yet, like many others, I found
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Speaker 1: myself pushing wheelbarrows and lugging heavy shells and other ammunition. Then,
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Speaker 1: one night, at an ammunition depot near tool things began
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Speaker 1: to happen. I was ordered to appear before the commanding officer,
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Speaker 1: who asked me whom I knew at First Army Headquarters.
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Speaker 1: I didn't know a soul there and didn't didn't even
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Speaker 1: know where it was located, and I told him so.
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Speaker 1: Then he showed me orders directing me to report there immediately.
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Speaker 1: A car and driver were provided, and the next morning
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Speaker 1: found me at First Army Headquarters, in charge of a
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Speaker 1: daily progress bulletin. I was answerable only to a colonel.
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Speaker 1: During the months that followed, I frequently thought about the
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Speaker 1: commission to which I was entitled. Then the lynx began
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Speaker 1: to form into a chain. One day, entirely out of
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Speaker 1: a clear sky, came orders transferring me to the Stars
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Speaker 1: and Stripes, the Army newspaper. I had long had an
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Speaker 1: ambition to be on its staff, but had done nothing
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Speaker 1: about it. The Next day, as I was preparing to
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Speaker 1: leave for Paris. I was called before the Colonel, who
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Speaker 1: showed me a telegram signed by the Adjutant General's office
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Speaker 1: at g h Q, asking if I was available for commission.
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Speaker 1: The colonel asked whether I would rather have a commission
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Speaker 1: than report to the army newspaper, foreseeing that the war
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Speaker 1: would soon end and I would be happier a mone
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Speaker 1: on other newspaper men, I said I would prefer the
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Speaker 1: transfer to the Stars and Stripes. I never learned who
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Speaker 1: was responsible for the telegram, but obviously something was working
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Speaker 1: in my behalf. Following the armistice, my desire to get
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Speaker 1: out of the army became insistent. I wanted to begin
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Speaker 1: building that fortune, but the Stars and Stripes did not
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Speaker 1: suspend publication until the summer of nineteen nineteen, and it
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Speaker 1: was August before I got home. However, the forces I
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Speaker 1: had unconsciously set in motion were already setting the stage
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Speaker 1: for me. About nine thirty the next morning after my
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Speaker 1: arrival home, I received a telephone call from the president
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Speaker 1: of a club in which I had been active. He
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Speaker 1: told me to call a prominent man in the investment
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Speaker 1: banking business who had read about my return and had
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Speaker 1: expressed a wish to see me before I resumed newspaper work.
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Speaker 1: I called the man, and two days later embarked upon
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Speaker 1: a long career as an investment banker, which later led
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Speaker 1: me to the vice presidency of a well known pacifon
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Speaker 1: coast Fern. While my salary was smart at the start,
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Speaker 1: I realized that I was in a business where there
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Speaker 1: were many opportunities to make money. Just how I was
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Speaker 1: to make it was then not revealed, but I just
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Speaker 1: knew that I would have that fortune I had in mind.
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Speaker 1: In less than ten years. I did have it, and
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Speaker 1: not only was it sizable, but I was a substantial
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Speaker 1: stockholder in the company and had several outside profitable interests.
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Speaker 1: During those years, I had constantly before me a mental
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Speaker 1: picture of wealth. Many people, in moments of abstraction or
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Speaker 1: while talking on the telephone, engage in doodling, drawing or
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Speaker 1: sketching odd designs and patterns upon paper. My doodling was
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Speaker 1: in the form of dollar signs on every paper that
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Speaker 1: came across my desk. The cardboard covers of all the
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Speaker 1: files placed before me daily were scrawled with these markings,
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Speaker 1: as were the covers of telephone directories, scratch pads, and
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Speaker 1: even the face of important correspondence. I want my readers
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Speaker 1: to remember this detail because it suggests the mechanics to
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Speaker 1: be used in applying this magic, which I'll explain in
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Speaker 1: detail later. During the past years, I have found that
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Speaker 1: by far the greatest problems bothering most people are financial ones.
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Speaker 1: With today's intense competition, millions are facing the same kinds
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Speaker 1: of problems. However, it matters little to what ends this
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Speaker 1: science is used, it will be effective in achieving the
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Speaker 1: object of your desire. And in this connection, let me
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Speaker 1: tell another experience. Shortly after the idea of T and
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Speaker 1: T it rocks the earth came to me, but before
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Speaker 1: I put it on paper, I took a trip to
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Speaker 1: the Orient and sailed on the Empress of Japan, noted
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Speaker 1: for its excellent cuisine. In my travels through Canada and
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Speaker 1: in Europe, I had developed a fondness for Trappist cheese
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Speaker 1: made by the Trappist monks of Quebec. When I couldn't
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Speaker 1: find it on the ship's menu, I laughingly complained to
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Speaker 1: the chief steward that I had sailed on his ship
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Speaker 1: only to get some of the famous Trappist cheese. He
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Speaker 1: replied that he was sorry but there was none aboard.
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Speaker 1: The more I thought about it, the more I hungered
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Speaker 1: for some of that cheese. One night, a ship's party
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Speaker 1: was held. Upon returning to my cabin quarters after midnight,
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Speaker 1: I found a big table had been set up in
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Speaker 1: one of the rooms. On it was the largest cheese
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Speaker 1: I had ever seen. It was Trappist cheese. Later I
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Speaker 1: asked the chief steward where he found it. I was
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Speaker 1: certain we had none aboard when you first mentioned it,
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Speaker 1: he answered, But you seemed so set on having some.
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Speaker 1: I made up my mind to search through all the
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Speaker 1: ship stores. We found it in the emergency store room
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Speaker 1: in the bottom of the hold. Something was working for
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Speaker 1: me on that trip, too, for I had no claim
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Speaker 1: to anything but ordinary service. However, I sat at the
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Speaker 1: executive officer's table and was frequently his personal guest in
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Speaker 1: his quarters, as well as on inspection trips through the ship. Naturally,
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Speaker 1: the treatment I received made a great impression on me,
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Speaker 1: and in Honolulu I often thought how nice it would
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Speaker 1: be to receive comparable attention on my journey home on
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Speaker 1: another ship. One afternoon, I got the sudden impulse to
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Speaker 1: leave for the mainland. It was about closing time when
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Speaker 1: I appeared at the ticket agency to ask what reservations
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Speaker 1: I could get. A ship was leaving the next day
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Speaker 1: at noon, and I purchased the only remaining cabin ticket.
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Speaker 1: The next day, just a few minutes before noon, as
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Speaker 1: I started up the gangplank, I said to myself in
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Speaker 1: an off hand manner. They treated you as a king
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Speaker 1: on the Empress of Japan. The least you can do
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Speaker 1: here is to sit at the captain's table. Sure, you'll
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Speaker 1: sit at the captain's table. The ship got under way.
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Speaker 1: As we steamed out of the harbor, the dining room
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Speaker 1: steward asked passengers to appear in the dining room for
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Speaker 1: assignment to tables. When I came before him, about half
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Speaker 1: the assignments had been made. He asked for my ticket,
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Speaker 1: glanced at it and then at me, saying, oh, yes,
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Speaker 1: table A seat number five. It was the captain's table,
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Speaker 1: and I was seated directly across from him. Aboard that ship,
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Speaker 1: many things happened which pertain to the subject of this book,
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Speaker 1: the most prominent being a party supposed to be in
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Speaker 1: honor of my birthday, just an idea of the captain's
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Speaker 1: because my birthday was actually months away. Later, when I
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Speaker 1: found myself lecturing, I thought it would be wise to
20:20
Speaker 1: get a letter from the captain substantiating the story, and
20:23
Speaker 1: I wrote him. He replied, sometimes as we go through life,
20:28
Speaker 1: instinctively we get the idea to do this or that.
20:31
Speaker 1: That noon, I was sitting in the doorway of my
20:33
Speaker 1: cabin watching the passengers come up the gangplank, and as
20:36
Speaker 1: you came aboard, something told me to seat you at
20:39
Speaker 1: my table. Beyond that, I cannot explain any more than
20:43
Speaker 1: I can explain how I can frequently stop my ship
20:45
Speaker 1: at the right spot at the pier at the first try.
20:48
Speaker 1: People who have heard the story and who know nothing
20:51
Speaker 1: about the magic of believing, have declared that it was
20:54
Speaker 1: mere coincidence that the captain selected me. I am positive
20:58
Speaker 1: it wasn't, and I am also certain that this captain,
21:00
Speaker 1: who knows quite a bit about this science, will agree
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Speaker 1: with me. A Board that ship were dozens of people
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Speaker 1: far more important than I could ever be. I carried
21:10
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21:12
Speaker 1: can pass in a crowd, so obviously it wasn't the
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Speaker 1: clothes I wore or the way I looked that prompted
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Speaker 1: the captain to pick me out of several hundred passengers
21:21
Speaker 1: to receive personal attention. In presenting to you this very
21:25
Speaker 1: workable science, I am aware that the subject has been
21:28
Speaker 1: handled before from many angles, but also realized that many
21:32
Speaker 1: people shy away from any approach that smacks of religion,
21:35
Speaker 1: the occult, or the metaphysical. Accordingly, I am using the
21:40
Speaker 1: language of a business man who believes that sincere thinking,
21:43
Speaker 1: clear writing, and simple language will get any message across
21:47
Speaker 1: you have often heard it said that you can if
21:49
Speaker 1: you believe you can. An old Latin proverb says, believe
21:54
Speaker 1: that you have it, and you have it. Belief is
21:57
Speaker 1: the motivating force that enables you to achieve your goal.
22:01
Speaker 1: If you are ill and embedded deeply within you is
22:03
Speaker 1: the thought or belief that you will recover the odds
22:06
Speaker 1: are that you will. It's the belief for the basic
22:09
Speaker 1: confidence within you that brings outward material results. I speak
22:14
Speaker 1: of normal and mentally healthy people. I wouldn't tell a
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Speaker 1: handicapped person that he could excel in baseball or football,
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Speaker 1: nor would I tell a woman who was quite plain
22:24
Speaker 1: looking that she could make herself into a great beauty
22:26
Speaker 1: over night, since the odds are against it. Yet these
22:30
Speaker 1: things could happen, for there have been many remarkable cures,
22:34
Speaker 1: and when more is learned about the powers of the mind,
22:37
Speaker 1: I firmly believe that we shall witness many cures that
22:39
Speaker 1: to day's medical profession deems impossible. Finally, I would never
22:44
Speaker 1: discourage any one, for in this life anything can happen,
22:48
Speaker 1: and what can help bring it to pass is hope.
22:51
Speaker 1: Doctor Alexander Cannon was a distinguished British scientist and physician
22:55
Speaker 1: whose books on the general subject of thought stirred up
22:57
Speaker 1: controversy here and abroad. He declared that while to day
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Speaker 1: a man cannot grow a new leg as a crab
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Speaker 1: can grow a new claw, he could if the mind
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Speaker 1: of man hadn't rejected the possibility. The eminent scientist claimed
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Speaker 1: that if the thought is changed in the innermost depths
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Speaker 1: of the unconscious mind, then man will grow a new
23:16
Speaker 1: leg as easily as the crab grows a new claw.
23:20
Speaker 1: I know such a statement may sound incredible, but how
23:23
Speaker 1: do we know that it will not be done? Some day?
23:26
Speaker 1: Frequently I lunch with a group of medical men, all
23:29
Speaker 1: specialists in various branches of medicine and surgery. I know
23:34
Speaker 1: that if I voiced such an idea, they would suggest
23:37
Speaker 1: that I have my head examined. However, I find that
23:40
Speaker 1: some of these doctors, especially those more recently graduated from
23:44
Speaker 1: our better schools, are no longer closing their minds to
23:47
Speaker 1: the role that thought plays in causing and curing functional
23:50
Speaker 1: disturbances in the body. A few weeks before I wrote
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Speaker 1: this chapter, a neighbor came to me to explain how
23:57
Speaker 1: his warts happened to disappear. During stay at the hospital.
24:01
Speaker 1: He had wandered out on the porch where another convalescent
24:04
Speaker 1: patient was conversing with a friend. Said the visitor to
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Speaker 1: the other patient, so you would like to get rid
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Speaker 1: of the warts on your hand, Well, just let me
24:13
Speaker 1: count them and they'll disappear, my neighbor said. He looked
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Speaker 1: at the stranger for a moment, then said, while you're
24:19
Speaker 1: about it, will you count mine too? He did, and
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Speaker 1: my neighbor thought no more about it until after he
24:25
Speaker 1: had gone home, and he happened to look at his
24:27
Speaker 1: hands one day the mess of warts had entirely disappeared,
24:31
Speaker 1: he told me. I told this story to a group
24:35
Speaker 1: of doctors one day. A well known specialist and personal
24:39
Speaker 1: friend grunted, saying preposterous. Across the table, another doctor who
24:45
Speaker 1: had recently been teaching in a medical school came to
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Speaker 1: my aid, declaring that there were many authenticated cases of
24:51
Speaker 1: suggestion having been used to cure warts. I was tempted
24:55
Speaker 1: to remind them that several years before, newspapers and medical
24:58
Speaker 1: journals had reported how high Time a Swiss geologist had
25:02
Speaker 1: removed warts by suggestion, and had also cited the procedure
25:05
Speaker 1: of Professor Block, another Swiss specialist, in his use of
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Speaker 1: psychology in suggestion for the same purpose. Back in January
25:13
Speaker 1: nineteen forty five, Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons
25:18
Speaker 1: set up the first psychoanalytic and psychosomatic clinic in this
25:21
Speaker 1: country for the purpose of studying the relationship between the
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Speaker 1: unconscious mind and the body. I kept silent, feeling that
25:28
Speaker 1: I was too outnumbered for an argument. Since this conversation,
25:33
Speaker 1: considerable publicity was given to the findings of doctor Frederick Cowes,
25:37
Speaker 1: a noted Canadian authority, who flatly stated that suggestion works
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Speaker 1: in many cases, even to curing warts that are infectious
25:44
Speaker 1: and caused by a virus. In a nineteen forty five
25:47
Speaker 1: article in the Canadian Medical Association, journal, Doctor Cows declared
25:51
Speaker 1: that in every country in the world, some magic procedures
25:55
Speaker 1: to cure warts are known. It may be anything from
25:58
Speaker 1: covering the wart with spider webs to burying toaed eggs
26:01
Speaker 1: on a crossroad at New Moon. All these magic procedures
26:04
Speaker 1: are effective if the patient believes in them. In describing
26:08
Speaker 1: the treatment of patients with skin trouble, he says, I
26:11
Speaker 1: have often prescribed the very same ointment accompanied by some
26:15
Speaker 1: promising words, which has been tried unsuccessfully by some other
26:18
Speaker 1: medical man, and got credit for a quick cure. He
26:22
Speaker 1: also points out that X ray therapy is especially suggestive.
26:26
Speaker 1: It works even when the technician fails to switch on
26:29
Speaker 1: the high power. Experiments with systematic fake irradiation bear out
26:33
Speaker 1: this observation. Here in doctor Cow's work we see actual
26:37
Speaker 1: examples of the magic of believing at work in the
26:40
Speaker 1: curing of wartz and the treatment of skin trouble. Another time,
26:44
Speaker 1: my medical friends and I were discussing telepathy. I remarked
26:48
Speaker 1: that some of our greatest students and scholars believed in it.
26:52
Speaker 1: Doctor Alexis Carrell of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research
26:57
Speaker 1: was not only a thorough believer in the phenomenon, but
26:59
Speaker 1: declare that there was definite scientific proof that man could
27:02
Speaker 1: project his thought, even at great distances, into other minds. Oh,
27:07
Speaker 1: he was just a senile old man, remarked another specialist
27:10
Speaker 1: at the table, a nationally known member of the American
27:13
Speaker 1: Medical Association. I looked at him with astonishment. For doctor
27:18
Speaker 1: Corell won the Nobel Prize for his medical research. When
27:22
Speaker 1: he put forth his ideas in that remarkable book Man
27:25
Speaker 1: the Unknown, published in nineteen thirty five, he was regarded
27:28
Speaker 1: as one of the world's foremost medical scientists and investigators.
27:33
Speaker 1: I have no quarrel with the medical fraternity. Quite the contrary,
27:38
Speaker 1: for its members are generally sincere able and open minded men,
27:42
Speaker 1: and a number are among my closest friends. However, some
27:46
Speaker 1: medical specialists, especially those inclined to restrict their studies to
27:50
Speaker 1: their respective fields, refuse to accept anything that may upset
27:53
Speaker 1: their early teachings and dogmatic beliefs. This resistance is not
27:58
Speaker 1: confined to the medical profession. Countless specialists in other lines,
28:02
Speaker 1: including business, know very little outside of their chosen fields,
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Speaker 1: and their minds are closed to any idea beyond their
28:09
Speaker 1: limited imaginations. Frequently I have offered to lend books to
28:13
Speaker 1: these various specialists, only to be told, after informing them
28:17
Speaker 1: of the contents, that they were not interested. This is
28:21
Speaker 1: the paradox. Many apparently well educated men and women, successful
28:25
Speaker 1: in their respective fields, will, in their broad ignorance, condemn
28:29
Speaker 1: the idea of thought power and make no endeavor to
28:32
Speaker 1: learn more about it. Yet every one of them has
28:34
Speaker 1: unconsciously made use of it. Again, many people will believe
28:38
Speaker 1: only what they like to believe, or what fits into
28:41
Speaker 1: their own scheme of things, summarily rejecting anything to the contrary.
28:45
Speaker 1: Countless men whose ideas develop the very civilization we live
28:49
Speaker 1: and have been hooted at, slandered, even crucified by the
28:52
Speaker 1: ignoramuses of their times. I think of the words of
28:56
Speaker 1: Marie Corelli, the English novelist who became world famous in
29:00
Speaker 1: the nineteenth century. The very idea that any one creature
29:04
Speaker 1: human should be fortunate enough to secure some particular advantage
29:08
Speaker 1: which others, through their own indolence or indifference, have missed,
29:12
Speaker 1: is sufficient to excite the envy of the weak or
29:14
Speaker 1: the anger of the ignorant. It is impossible that an
29:17
Speaker 1: outsider should enter into a clear understanding of the mystical,
29:21
Speaker 1: spiritual nature world around him, and it follows that the
29:24
Speaker 1: teachings and tenets of that spiritual nature world must be
29:27
Speaker 1: more or less a closed book to such a one,
29:29
Speaker 1: a book moreover, which he seldom cares or dares to
29:32
Speaker 1: try and open. For this reason, the sages concealed much
29:36
Speaker 1: of their profound knowledge from the multitude, because they rightly
29:40
Speaker 1: recognize the limitations of narrow minds and prejudiced opinions. What
29:44
Speaker 1: the fool cannot learn, he laughs at, thinking that by
29:48
Speaker 1: his laughter he shows superiority instead of latent idiocy. Great
29:52
Speaker 1: investigators and thinkers of the world, including many famous scientists,
29:56
Speaker 1: are in the open today, freely discussing the subject, giving
30:00
Speaker 1: the results of their experiments. Shortly before his death, Charles P. Steinmetz,
30:06
Speaker 1: famous engineer of the General Electric Company, declared, the most
30:09
Speaker 1: important advance in the next fifty years will be in
30:12
Speaker 1: the realm of the spiritual, dealing with the spirit thought.
30:16
Speaker 1: Doctor Robert Gault, while professor of psychology at Northwestern University,
30:20
Speaker 1: was credited with the statement, we are at the threshold
30:23
Speaker 1: of our knowledge of the latent psychic powers of man.
30:26
Speaker 1: Much has been written and said about mystical powers, unknown forces,
30:30
Speaker 1: the occult metaphysics, beyond science, mental physics, psychology, the science
30:36
Speaker 1: of mind, black and white, magic, and many kindred subjects,
30:40
Speaker 1: causing most people to believe that they are in the
30:42
Speaker 1: field of the supernatural. Perhaps they are for some, but
30:47
Speaker 1: to me, the only inexplicable thing about these powers is
30:50
Speaker 1: that belief makes them work. During the years that I
30:54
Speaker 1: have appeared before luncheon clubs, business concerns, and sales organizations,
30:59
Speaker 1: as well as talking over the radio to thousands of
31:01
Speaker 1: people about this science, I have seen results that can
31:04
Speaker 1: be termed phenomenal. As I said before, many have used
31:08
Speaker 1: it in their business to double, treble, even quadruple their incomes.
31:13
Speaker 1: My files are filled with letters from people in all
31:15
Speaker 1: walks of life testifying what they have accomplished by using
31:19
Speaker 1: the science. As an instance, I think of Ashley C. Dixon,
31:23
Speaker 1: whose name was once known to thousands of radio listeners
31:26
Speaker 1: in the Pacific Northwest. A number of years ago, he
31:30
Speaker 1: wrote me voluntarily to say that he had studied this
31:33
Speaker 1: subject in an academic way, but had never fully believed
31:36
Speaker 1: it until he was forty three, When he had only
31:38
Speaker 1: sixty five dollars to his name, no employment, and no
31:42
Speaker 1: jobs available, he set out to prove to himself that
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Speaker 1: the science would work. I quote the following excerpts from
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Speaker 1: mister Dixon's letter. Along came your book, T and T.
31:54
Speaker 1: It put forth in workable form all that I had
31:56
Speaker 1: known before. It was like seeing Niagara fall for the
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Speaker 1: first time. One knew there was such a place, but
32:04
Speaker 1: confirmation was the actual personal contact with it. And so
32:08
Speaker 1: T and T gave me in print the facts I
32:10
Speaker 1: had known and used, but in a clear form. Here
32:14
Speaker 1: was something I could read and use day by day,
32:16
Speaker 1: holding the thoughts till they were fully demonstrated. What has
32:20
Speaker 1: all this been worth to me in dollars and cents? That,
32:24
Speaker 1: of course, is the question of the average man. He
32:27
Speaker 1: wants to see something in a profit column, something material
32:31
Speaker 1: in the way of dollars and cents. Here's the answer.
32:35
Speaker 1: I have made a hundred thousand dollars, most of it
32:38
Speaker 1: in paid up insurance and annuities. I have sold my business,
32:42
Speaker 1: which costs me five thousand dollars originally borrowed for thirty
32:46
Speaker 1: thousand dollars, and am now working on a contract to
32:49
Speaker 1: run for the next ten years, which will net me
32:51
Speaker 1: fifty thousand dollars. If I loath and moored if I
32:54
Speaker 1: care to work. This is not a boast. It is
32:58
Speaker 1: a factual statement of what has acted, actually happened in
33:00
Speaker 1: the past ten years. It cannot be done in a moment,
33:04
Speaker 1: or a day or a month, but it can be done.
33:08
Speaker 1: In nineteen thirty four, during the lowest point of the depression,
33:11
Speaker 1: the head of the better business bureau in a large
33:14
Speaker 1: Pacific coast city heard of what was happening to firms
33:17
Speaker 1: and individuals who were following my teachings. He decided to
33:21
Speaker 1: investigate my work. Later, he congratulated me publicly and subsequently
33:26
Speaker 1: wrote me as follows. My statement that the teachings have
33:30
Speaker 1: done more to stimulate business here during the past year
33:33
Speaker 1: than any other single factor or agency is based upon
33:36
Speaker 1: statements by numerous executives who have been using the theme
33:39
Speaker 1: successfully in their businesses. When I first heard of the
33:43
Speaker 1: phenomenal results you were obtaining, I was inclined to question
33:46
Speaker 1: the facts. They seemed too preposterous to be true. But
33:51
Speaker 1: upon investigation talking with heads of firms using the theme
33:54
Speaker 1: and with salesmen who have doubled and trebled their incomes,
33:57
Speaker 1: as well as hearing many of your lectures. In getting
34:00
Speaker 1: into the subject for myself, the terrific and dynamic force
34:03
Speaker 1: embraced by it all becomes apparent. It isn't going to
34:07
Speaker 1: be understood by every one in a minute, but firms
34:09
Speaker 1: and individuals that accept what you have to give and
34:12
Speaker 1: follow through can expect some startling and extraordinary results. You
34:16
Speaker 1: have fully demonstrated that, and therefore are to be congratulated.
34:21
Speaker 1: This man has since risen to great heights in the
34:23
Speaker 1: business world, and has written me of having seen other
34:26
Speaker 1: practical demonstrations of the workings of this science. When I
34:30
Speaker 1: started this book, I decided to check with some of
34:33
Speaker 1: the individuals and firms who had written me to certify
34:36
Speaker 1: the phenomenal results they had achieved by using this science.
34:40
Speaker 1: Without exception, everyone testified to the continuing progress he had made.
34:45
Speaker 1: One of the most outstanding accounts was related by mister
34:48
Speaker 1: Don Quayle, once well known to the disabled American war veterans,
34:52
Speaker 1: who was long active in veterans affairs in the Northwest.
34:56
Speaker 1: In nineteen thirty seven, he wrote me, it was no
35:00
Speaker 1: easy matter at first to completely accept your ideas, but
35:04
Speaker 1: my circumstances and physical condition forced me to keep at
35:08
Speaker 1: it continuously until understanding came. You see in February nineteen
35:13
Speaker 1: twenty four. I was stricken with partial paralysis of my
35:16
Speaker 1: lower limbs. I needed crutches to even get about it all,
35:21
Speaker 1: and at best, for only short distances and at a
35:24
Speaker 1: snail's pace. For a bank executive who had been active
35:28
Speaker 1: in the business world, this forced inactivity was not easy
35:31
Speaker 1: to get used to. It was bearable only because I
35:34
Speaker 1: received government compensation, my disability being considered due to service
35:38
Speaker 1: during the World War. However, in nineteen thirty three, the
35:43
Speaker 1: government dropped me from the compensation rolls and I was
35:46
Speaker 1: forced to make a living. My home and other properties
35:49
Speaker 1: were about to be repossessed. It was not a pleasant
35:53
Speaker 1: picture nor a hopeful future. Necessity forced me to put
35:57
Speaker 1: into practice the principles you explained so well. Sticking to
36:01
Speaker 1: it proves them. Possibly I was favored because I couldn't
36:05
Speaker 1: quit the insurance and public accounting business due to my
36:08
Speaker 1: inability to enter any other kind of work. But persistence
36:12
Speaker 1: gives confidence, and continued right mental attitude followed by consistent
36:16
Speaker 1: action will bring success. I haven't reached the degree of
36:20
Speaker 1: success I desire, but that does not bother me at all.
36:24
Speaker 1: For now I am making a good living, have saved
36:26
Speaker 1: my properties and know the formula that leads to the
36:29
Speaker 1: fullest success. When you have that knowing inside you, fear vanishes,
36:34
Speaker 1: as do the obstructions to a continued life of all
36:37
Speaker 1: good I first met mister Quayle just after he had
36:40
Speaker 1: started his business with one desk in the front of
36:43
Speaker 1: a plumbing shop. In the following years, it was a
36:46
Speaker 1: pleasure to see him move from place to place, his
36:49
Speaker 1: business growing by leaps and bounds, until he occupied the
36:53
Speaker 1: entire ground floor of a building on one of the
36:55
Speaker 1: main thoroughfares of a great Western city. Realizing that his
36:59
Speaker 1: story of anime achievement was a remarkable one, I asked
37:02
Speaker 1: permission to quote his earlier letter. By all means do so,
37:07
Speaker 1: he replied, if you think it will help others, you
37:10
Speaker 1: might add that I now have the whole quarters at
37:12
Speaker 1: twentieth and Sandy, and I employ twenty two people. I
37:16
Speaker 1: have just brought the business lot between twenty eighth and
37:19
Speaker 1: twenty ninth on Sandy, where I shall build my own
37:21
Speaker 1: office building. I sincerely wish that all people would accept
37:25
Speaker 1: your teachings. At the time I grasped this science, I
37:29
Speaker 1: had no idea that I was later to put it
37:32
Speaker 1: into book form. My primary thought was to use it
37:35
Speaker 1: to save my own organization from bankruptcy. I was then
37:39
Speaker 1: vice president of an investment banking firm, and we had
37:42
Speaker 1: been caught in the economic crisis and were headed for disaster.
37:46
Speaker 1: I don't know whether I was inspired, but I dictated
37:49
Speaker 1: the first draft of my brochure in its entirety in
37:51
Speaker 1: less than five hours, without notes or references of any
37:55
Speaker 1: kind before me. At the same time, the idea for
37:59
Speaker 1: the brochure came to me, The words cosmic consciousness floated
38:03
Speaker 1: before my mind. They meant nothing then, but after T
38:08
Speaker 1: and T it Rocks the Earth was published, it reached
38:11
Speaker 1: a woman author living in New York who wrote me
38:14
Speaker 1: as follows, seriously, I've been eating and sleeping your philosophy
38:19
Speaker 1: for the last ten years. It brought me to New
38:22
Speaker 1: York on no carfare. It sold my stuff to publishers
38:25
Speaker 1: when I had a lousy little job earning thirty dollars
38:28
Speaker 1: a week. It took me to Europe a couple of
38:31
Speaker 1: times and bought me silver Foxes. In the same letter,
38:35
Speaker 1: she urged me to read doctor Richard Maurice Buck's Cosmic Consciousness,
38:39
Speaker 1: declaring that it contained brilliant accounts of the actual experience
38:43
Speaker 1: of illumination. When I did, I was astounded to discover
38:47
Speaker 1: that my experience actually paralleled the illuminations listed and explained
38:51
Speaker 1: by doctor Buck. In the original draft of my brochure,
38:55
Speaker 1: I had described in detail my experience with brilliant white light.
38:59
Speaker 1: But subsequently, when I showed the manuscript to a close friend,
39:03
Speaker 1: he urged me to tone down the wording. People won't
39:06
Speaker 1: know what you are talking about in referring to that
39:08
Speaker 1: white light. Some may think you've gone off the deep end. Consequently,
39:13
Speaker 1: I changed it. But those of you that know something
39:16
Speaker 1: about cosmic illumination and have read my earlier small book
39:20
Speaker 1: will catch my reference to the flight. However, the memory
39:24
Speaker 1: of that singular experience will always remain with me. In
39:27
Speaker 1: those few seconds, I received more knowledge and understanding than
39:30
Speaker 1: I had ever received in years of reading and studying.
39:34
Speaker 1: In the same period, it came to me in a
39:36
Speaker 1: flash why my firm was going on the rocks. Not
39:39
Speaker 1: because of the threatening outside happenings and events, but because
39:42
Speaker 1: of the mental attitude of our employees. We were all
39:45
Speaker 1: succumbing to mass fear thoughts. We feared that the depression
39:49
Speaker 1: was weakening our spirit and sweeping everything downhill to financial disaster.
39:54
Speaker 1: With our own thoughts of ruin, we were attracting the
39:57
Speaker 1: disaster to ourselves. It occurred to me me that to
40:00
Speaker 1: save the firm and to begin fighting the depression itself,
40:03
Speaker 1: all I needed to do was reverse the thinking of
40:05
Speaker 1: every person connected with our organization. I set about doing
40:09
Speaker 1: that very thing. As Frank W. Camp, who wrote the
40:13
Speaker 1: introduction to my brochure, declared, it was followed by the
40:17
Speaker 1: most remarkable transformation of individuals and organization as well. I
40:22
Speaker 1: admit that some of my statements may be ridiculed by
40:25
Speaker 1: classroom psychologists, but every day thousands of people demonstrate for
40:30
Speaker 1: themselves that the science works. As for you, the reader,
40:34
Speaker 1: the main point to consider is whether it will work
40:37
Speaker 1: for you. The only way you can find out is
40:40
Speaker 1: to try it yourself. I give you this science in
40:44
Speaker 1: the confident knowledge that no matter how you use it,
40:46
Speaker 1: you will get results. But I do wish to repeat
40:50
Speaker 1: a warning given in my brochure, never use it for
40:53
Speaker 1: harmful or evil purposes. Since the beginning, there have been
40:57
Speaker 1: two great subtle forces in the world, good and the evil.
41:01
Speaker 1: Both are terrifically powerful in their respective scopes and cycles.
41:05
Speaker 1: The basic principle operating both is mind power massed mind power.
41:11
Speaker 1: Sometimes evil appears to have the upper hand, and at
41:14
Speaker 1: other times good is at the controls. It is mind
41:17
Speaker 1: power that has built empires, and we have seen how
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Speaker 1: the facts. If you read this book reflectively, you will
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Speaker 1: understand how the science can be used with terribly destructive force,
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Speaker 1: as well as for good and constructive results. It is
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Speaker 1: like many natural forces, such as water and fire, which
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Speaker 1: are among men's greatest benefactors. Yet both can be hideously catastrophic,
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Speaker 1: depending upon whether they are used for constructive or destructive purposes. Therefore,
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Speaker 1: take great care that you do not misuse the science
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Speaker 1: of mind's stuff. I cannot emphasize this too strongly, for
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Speaker 1: if you employ it for harmful or evil purposes, it
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Speaker 1: will boomerang dem destroy you, just as it has others
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Speaker 1: down through the centuries. These are not idle words, but
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Speaker 1: solemn words of warning. Chapter two, Mind Stuff Experiments. In
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Speaker 1: order to get a clearer understanding of our subject, you
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Speaker 1: should give some thought to thought itself and to its phenomena.
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Speaker 1: No one knows what thought really is other than some
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Speaker 1: sort of mental action, but like the unknown element of electricity.
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Speaker 1: We see its manifestations everywhere. We see it in the
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Speaker 1: actions and expressions of a child, in an aged person,
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Speaker 1: in animals, and to varying degrees, in every living thing.
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Speaker 1: The more we contemplate and study thought, the more we
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Speaker 1: realize what a terrific force it is and how unlimited
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Speaker 1: its powers are. Glance around as you read this. If
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Speaker 1: you are in a furnished room, your eyes tell you
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Speaker 1: that you are looking at a number of inanimate objects.
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Speaker 1: That is true so far as visual perception is concerned,
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Speaker 1: but you are actually looking at thoughts or ideas which
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Speaker 1: have come into materialization through the creative work of some
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Speaker 1: human being. It was a thought first that created the furniture,
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Speaker 1: fashioned the window glass, gave form to the draperies and coverings,
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Speaker 1: the automobile, the skyscraper, the great plains that sweep the stratosphere,
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Speaker 1: the sewing machine, the tiny pin, A thousand and one things, yes,
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Speaker 1: millions of objects. Where did they come from? Originally only
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Speaker 1: from one source, from that strange force thought. As we
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Speaker 1: analyze further, we realized that these achievements, and in fact,
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Speaker 1: all of our possessions A thousand and one things, came
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Speaker 1: as a result of creative thinking. Ralph Waldo Emerson declared
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Speaker 1: that the ancestor of every action is thought. When you
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Speaker 1: understand that, you begin to comprehend that our world is
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Speaker 1: governed by thought, and that everything external had its counterpart
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Speaker 1: originally within the mind. It is just as buddhas said
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Speaker 1: many centuries ago, all that we are is the result
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Speaker 1: of what we have thought. Life is your thinking and
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Speaker 1: the result of your thinking processes. Your flesh, bones, and
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Speaker 1: muscles can be reduced to seventy percent water and a
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Speaker 1: few chemicals of small value. But it is your mind
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Speaker 1: and what you think that makes you what you are.
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Speaker 1: The secret of success lies not outside but within the
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Speaker 1: thoughts of man. Figuratively, thought makes giants out of pigmies,
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Speaker 1: and often turns giants into pigmies. History is filled with
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Speaker 1: accounts of how thought made weak men strong and strong
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Speaker 1: men weak, and you see evidence of its working around
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Speaker 1: you constantly. You do not eat, wear clothes, run for
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Speaker 1: a bus, drive your car, turn on the television, or
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Speaker 1: read a newspaper. You don't even raise your arm without
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Speaker 1: a preceding thought impulse. While you may consider the motions
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Speaker 1: you make as more or less automatic, perhaps caused by
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Speaker 1: some physical reflexes. Behind every single step you take in life,
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Speaker 1: regardless of its direction, is that formidable and powerful force thought.
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Speaker 1: The very way you, the way you carry yourself, your talk,
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Speaker 1: your manner of dress, all reflect your way of thinking.
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Speaker 1: A slovenly carriage is an indication of slovenly thinking, whereas
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Speaker 1: an alert, upright carriage is the outward sign of inward
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Speaker 1: strength and confidence. What you exhibit outwardly you are. Inwardly,
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Speaker 1: you are the product of your own thoughts, what you
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Speaker 1: believe yourself to be. You are. Thought is the original
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Speaker 1: source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all
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Speaker 1: great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement. Without it,
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Speaker 1: there would be no medicine, no great museums, no great
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Speaker 1: plays or novels, no modern conveniences. In fact, there would
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Speaker 1: be no advance over life. In the most primitive ages,
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Speaker 1: your thoughts, those that predominate, determine your character, your career,
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Speaker 1: indeed your every day life. Thus it becomes easy to
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Speaker 1: understand what is meant by the statement that a man's
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Speaker 1: thoughts make or break him. And when you realize that
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Speaker 1: there can be no action or reaction, either good or bad,
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Speaker 1: without the generating force of thought initiating it than the
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Speaker 1: biblical saying, for whatsoever a man soureth, that shall he
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Speaker 1: also reap, and Shakespeare's words there is nothing either good
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Speaker 1: or bad, but thinking makes it so become more intelligible.
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Speaker 1: Sir Arthur Eddington, the famous English physicist, said that to
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Speaker 1: an altogether unsuspected extent, the universe in which we live
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Speaker 1: is a creation of our minds, while Sir James Jenes,
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Speaker 1: who was equally famous in the same field, suggested that
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Speaker 1: the universe was merely a creation that resulted from the
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Speaker 1: thought of some great universal mind underlying and coordinating all
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Speaker 1: of our minds. More recently, science has uncovered parallels between
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Speaker 1: the behavior of subatomic particles and various tenets of Eastern metaphysics.
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Speaker 1: The greatest scientists and thinkers are not only voicing the
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Speaker 1: ideas of the wisest men of old, but are confirming
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Speaker 1: the fundamental principle of this book. Almost since the beginning
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Speaker 1: of the human race, men have been molded by those
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Speaker 1: who knew something of thoughts great power. All the great
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Speaker 1: religious leaders, kings, warriors, and statesmen understood this science and
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Speaker 1: have known that people act as they think, and also
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Speaker 1: react to the thought of others, especially when it is
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Speaker 1: stronger and more convincing than their own. Accordingly, men of powerful,
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Speaker 1: dynamic thought have always swayed people by appealing to their minds,
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Speaker 1: whether sometimes to lead them into freedom or into slavery.
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Speaker 1: There never was a period in history when we had
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Speaker 1: more reason to study our own thoughts, understand them, and
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Speaker 1: learn how to use them to improve our lives. By
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Speaker 1: drawing upon the great source of power within each of us,
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Speaker 1: undoubtedly we become what we envisage. There was a time
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Speaker 1: when I would have laughed at people who talked about
47:48
Speaker 1: the magnetic force of thought, how thought correlates with its object,
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Speaker 1: how it can affect people and inanimate things, even at
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Speaker 1: great distances. But I no longer laugh, nor do others
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Speaker 1: who know something of its paser, For any one who
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Speaker 1: has any intelligence sooner or later comes to realize that
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Speaker 1: thought can change the surface of the entire globe. George Russell,
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Speaker 1: the famous fish editor and poet, was once quoted as
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Speaker 1: saying that we become what we contemplate, and he certainly
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Speaker 1: demonstrated it in his own life by becoming a great writer, lecturer, painter,
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Speaker 1: and poet. However, it must be kept in mind that
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Speaker 1: many of the thoughts we think are not ours at all,
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Speaker 1: at least not of our own originating. We are molded
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Speaker 1: by the thoughts of others, by what we hear in conversation,
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Speaker 1: what we read in newspapers, magazines, and books, what we
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Speaker 1: hear in the movies, on TV and on the radio,
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Speaker 1: even by chance remarks from bystanders. And these thoughts bombard
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Speaker 1: us constantly. Some of them, which harmonize with our own
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Speaker 1: inmost thoughts and open the way to greater visions in
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Speaker 1: our life, are helpful. But too often these thoughts are upsetting,
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Speaker 1: weaken our self confidence, and turn us away from our
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Speaker 1: higher purposes. It is these outside thoughts that are the
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Speaker 1: trouble makers, and later I shall explain how you can
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Speaker 1: keep free of them. Few people give much thought to
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Speaker 1: the law of cause and effect as it applies to
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Speaker 1: the operation of the mind. Much less do they understand
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Speaker 1: the meaning of such axioms as everything is within, nothing
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Speaker 1: is without, or mind is the source of power. A
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Speaker 1: superb explanation of this appeared in an article entitled El Dorado,
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Speaker 1: published in the Commercial and Financial Chronicle back on December tenth,
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Speaker 1: nineteen thirty two. El Dorado, a country rich beyond all
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Speaker 1: precedent in gold and jewels, lies at every man's door.
49:37
Speaker 1: Your bonanza lies under your feet. Your luck is ready
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Speaker 1: at hand. All is within, nothing is without. Though it
49:45
Speaker 1: often appears that men and peoples, by dumb luck or avarice,
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Speaker 1: or force or overreaching strike upon bonanzas and sail away
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Speaker 1: in fair weather on the sea of prosperity. Man, individually
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Speaker 1: and collectively is entitled to life in all abundance. It
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Speaker 1: is a most evident fact. Religion and philosophy assert it.
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Speaker 1: History and science prove it that they might have life,
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Speaker 1: and that they might have it more abundantly is the law.
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Speaker 1: What do you seek, Pay the price, and take it away.
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Speaker 1: There is no limit to the supply. But the more
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Speaker 1: precious the thing you seek, the higher the price. For
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Speaker 1: everything we obtain, we must barter the gold of our
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Speaker 1: own spirits. Where to find the gold of the all powerful?
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Speaker 1: One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.
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Speaker 1: When he finds himself, he finds freedom and all riches, achievement,
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Speaker 1: and prosperity. High sounding talk, no. The most palpable evidence
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Speaker 1: of American history and biography, of all history. The concrete
50:49
Speaker 1: proof is apparent even in current events, if we but
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Speaker 1: open our eyes. Nothing substantial, lasting, powerful, or moving was
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Speaker 1: ever accomplished, nor ever can be, except by men who
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Speaker 1: have discovered in themselves of the gold of the spirit,
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Speaker 1: which commands dominion, power and accomplishment. Men who knew themselves
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Speaker 1: know at once that all material things and ideas have
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Speaker 1: a spiritual counterpart or basis. They see it in money
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Speaker 1: in credit. The law of supply and demand is not
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Speaker 1: to an awakened man merely an economic principle, but the
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Speaker 1: material manifestation of spiritual law. Such freedom seeking men see
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Speaker 1: the same principle operating in gravitation, in chemical affinities, in macrocosm,
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Speaker 1: and in microcosm. America has long been the greatest of
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Speaker 1: el dorados, the stage upon which the most numerous of
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Speaker 1: self found men work their bonanzas and their miracles of
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Speaker 1: thought to the enrichment of themselves and mankind at large.
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Speaker 1: There is no exploitation, only a showering of gifts, easily
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Speaker 1: bought by free spirits and generously scattered on all hands,
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Speaker 1: according to the expressed law of bargain of the original
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Speaker 1: permanent owner and first producer to the self found man
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Speaker 1: of action, all the money, credit, and capital goods he
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Speaker 1: can use. Mackay O'Brien, Hurst and fair brave young Americans
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Speaker 1: of eighteen forty nine found gold in themselves before they
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Speaker 1: struck it rich in California. They had to. If there
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Speaker 1: is gold there, they told one another, we'll get our share.
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Speaker 1: How great must have been the spiritual wealth of such
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Speaker 1: a free found man as James J. Hill, who built
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Speaker 1: the Great Northern Railroad from nowhere to nowhere in a
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Speaker 1: wilderness where no one lives. His madness founded an empire
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Speaker 1: by spiritual force. He turned forests and plains into a
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Speaker 1: thousand El Dorados, and by the same force commanded all
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Speaker 1: the gold and credit needed for the markets of Amsterdam
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Speaker 1: and London, and enabled millions of Americans to discover for
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Speaker 1: themselves great bonanzas in the cold Northwest. Thomas A. Edison said,
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Speaker 1: a few years before he died, ideas come from space.
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Speaker 1: This may seem astonishing and impossible to believe, but it
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Speaker 1: is true. Ideas come from out of space. Surely Edison
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Speaker 1: should have known, for few men ever received were gave
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Speaker 1: fourth more ideas. Let each man seek the el Dorado
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Speaker 1: within himself. Power is plentiful. The source is inexhaustible, As
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Speaker 1: the canonical fathers of the Church expressed it, that which
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Speaker 1: is received is according to the measure of the recipient.
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Speaker 1: It is not the power that is lacking, It is
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Speaker 1: the will. When one finds oneself, the will becomes automatically
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Speaker 1: set toward El Dorado. By a full and powerful imagination,
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Speaker 1: anything can be brought into concrete form. The great physician
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Speaker 1: Paracelsus said, the human spirit is so great a thing
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Speaker 1: that no man can express it. Could we rightly comprehend
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Speaker 1: the mind of man, Nothing would be impossible to us
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Speaker 1: upon the earth. Through faith, the imagination is invigorated and completed.
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Speaker 1: For its really happens that every doubt mars its perfection.
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Speaker 1: Faith must strengthen the imagination, for faith establishes the will.
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Speaker 1: Faith is personal individual salvation any way you take it
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Speaker 1: is personal. Faith comes in the finding of one's self.
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Speaker 1: This self finding establishes a clear realization of one's identity
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Speaker 1: with the eternal, strong, self assertive men built up this
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Speaker 1: El Dorado of America. Man, know thyself. Thine own individual
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Speaker 1: self is everlastingly the supreme command. Self knowers always dwell
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Speaker 1: in El Dorado. They drink from the fountain of youth,
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Speaker 1: and are at all times owners of all they wish
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Speaker 1: to enjoy. The words of Paracelsus just quoted are well
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Speaker 1: worth rereading, for once you grasp their meaning and discover
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Speaker 1: how to apply the principle, you will certainly have more
54:52
Speaker 1: light on how to succeed in your undertakings. However, I
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Speaker 1: must point out that hard work alone will not bring success.
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Speaker 1: The world is filled with people who have worked hard
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Speaker 1: but have little to show for it. Something more than
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Speaker 1: hard work is necessary, namely creative thinking and firm belief
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Speaker 1: in your ability to execute your ideas. The successful people
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Speaker 1: in history have succeeded through their thinking. Their hands were
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Speaker 1: merely helpers to their brains. Another important point for success,
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Speaker 1: it is essential that your desire be an all obsessing one,
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Speaker 1: your thoughts and aims be coordinated, and your energy be
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Speaker 1: concentrated and applied without let up. It may be that
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Speaker 1: you want riches, or fame, or position or knowledge, for
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Speaker 1: each person has their own idea of what success means.
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Speaker 1: But whatever you consider it to be, you can have
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Speaker 1: your objective provided you are willing to make it the
55:45
Speaker 1: burning desire of your life. A big order you say
55:50
Speaker 1: not at all. By using the dynamic force of believing,
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Speaker 1: you can set all your inner forces in motion, and they,
55:57
Speaker 1: in turn will help you reach your goal. If you
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Speaker 1: are married, you remember the stimulating and emotional experience of
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Speaker 1: courting the person you wanted for your spouse. Certainly it
56:08
Speaker 1: wasn't nerve racking work. Quite the contrary, you'll admit. But
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Speaker 1: what were you using if not this very same science,
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Speaker 1: Even though unconsciously, from the time you got the idea
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Speaker 1: until your marriage, the desire to win a partner was
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Speaker 1: uppermost in your mind. The thought the belief was with
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Speaker 1: you every minute of the day, and perhaps in your
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Speaker 1: dreams as well. Now that you have a clearer picture
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Speaker 1: of the roles that thought and desire play in your
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Speaker 1: daily life, the first thing to determine is precisely what
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Speaker 1: you do want. Starting out with the general idea that
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Speaker 1: you simply want to be a success, as most people
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Speaker 1: do is too vague. You must have a pattern clearly
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Speaker 1: drawn in your mind. Ask yourself, where are you headed?
56:52
Speaker 1: What is your exact goal? Have you visualized just what
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Speaker 1: you really want? If success is to be measured in
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Speaker 1: terms of wealth, can you fix the amountain figures? If
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Speaker 1: in terms of achievement, Can you specify it? Definitely? You
57:07
Speaker 1: must ask these questions, for in their answers are factors
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Speaker 1: which will determine your whole life from now on. Strange
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Speaker 1: as it may seem, not one out of a hundred
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Speaker 1: people can answer these questions. Most people have a general
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Speaker 1: desire to succeed, but beyond that everything is indefinite. They
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Speaker 1: merely go along from day to day, figuring that if
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Speaker 1: they have a job to day, they will have it tomorrow,
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Speaker 1: and that somehow they will be looked after in their
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Speaker 1: old age. They are like corks floating aimlessly on the water,
57:38
Speaker 1: drawn this way and that by various currents, either washing
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Speaker 1: up on shore or becoming water logged and eventually sinking. Therefore,
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Speaker 1: it is vital that you know exactly what you want
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Speaker 1: out of life. You must know where you are headed
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Speaker 1: and keep a fixed goal in view. That, of course,
57:56
Speaker 1: is the overall picture. It makes no difference whether you
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Speaker 1: want a job or a better one, a new house,
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Speaker 1: a place in a country, or just a new pair
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Speaker 1: of shoes. You must have a fixed idea before you
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Speaker 1: will obtain what you are after. Remember, there is a
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Speaker 1: great difference between a need and a desire. You may
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Speaker 1: need a new car for driving to work, and you
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Speaker 1: may desire one in order to give pleasure to your family.
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Speaker 1: The one for business you will buy as a matter
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Speaker 1: of necessity. The one for your family you will plan
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Speaker 1: to get as soon as possible. For this car, you
58:30
Speaker 1: will read brochures and visit a number of dealers, because
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Speaker 1: it is a model you have never had before, something
58:35
Speaker 1: that will add to your responsibilities and compel you to
58:38
Speaker 1: seek new powers of judgment within yourself and new resources outside.
58:43
Speaker 1: Desire for something new, something different that is going to
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Speaker 1: change your life makes you exert an extra effort, and
58:50
Speaker 1: the power of believing alone sets in motion those inner
58:53
Speaker 1: forces by which you add what I call plus values
58:55
Speaker 1: to your life. So if you ever hope to achieve
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Speaker 1: anything or gain more than you have, now begin with desire.
59:03
Speaker 1: It is the prime motivating force in all of us,
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Speaker 1: and without an all consuming desire, nothing can be achieved
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Speaker 1: or gained. However, as you shall see, there is more
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Speaker 1: to it than mere desire. I am aware that metaphysicians
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Speaker 1: claim that thoughts are things. They may be in a
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Speaker 1: general sense, but so far as their effect upon us
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Speaker 1: individually is concerned, they do not become real to us
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Speaker 1: until we give them life with our own thinking or
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Speaker 1: through the workings of our imaginations. This may appear a
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Speaker 1: little strange at first reading, but it will perhaps become
59:36
Speaker 1: clearer if I cite a few examples. For instance, you
59:40
Speaker 1: are advised to wear rubbers when you go out in
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Speaker 1: the rain. We've all heard the remark if you don't,
59:46
Speaker 1: you'll catch your death of cold. That thought has never
59:50
Speaker 1: had the slightest effect upon me. I haven't worn rubbers
59:53
Speaker 1: since I was a small child. I have had my
59:57
Speaker 1: shoes and feet thoroughly wet hundreds of times, often for
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Speaker 1: hours at a time, Yet I cannot recall ever having
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Speaker 1: caught cold as a result. Some people have a tremendous
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Speaker 1: fear of drafts, but I have often thought that if
1:00:09
Speaker 1: they did catch cold by being in a draft, it
1:00:12
Speaker 1: was because of their fearful thoughts, rather than because of
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Speaker 1: the drafts themselves. I sit in drafts for long periods daily,
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Speaker 1: and at night I sleep in a corner room which
1:00:21
Speaker 1: has windows on two sides. I raise them in all
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Speaker 1: sorts of weather, so that the wind often sweeps across me.
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Speaker 1: Yet I have never had a cold as a result,
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Speaker 1: because I never give it a thought. However, I do
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Speaker 1: not advise any one accustomed to wearing rubbers to go
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Speaker 1: without them. Neither do I suggest to anyone afraid of
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Speaker 1: drafts to stay in them, because life long habits and beliefs,
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Speaker 1: with their consequences, are not going to change overnight. For centuries,
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Speaker 1: outstanding thinkers have claimed that man could shape events and
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Speaker 1: control matter through his mind alone, And the more you
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Speaker 1: study this science, the more you will realize the amazing
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Speaker 1: powers of your own mind. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator
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Speaker 1: of Sherlock Holmes and for many years a member of
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Speaker 1: the British Society for Psychic Research, declared that in thought
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Speaker 1: alone there was a constructive and destructive power, akin to
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Speaker 1: the faith that can move mountains. He said that while
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Speaker 1: the results themselves were conclusive, he had no idea what
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Speaker 1: power it was that came from a man's mind and
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Speaker 1: that could separate the molecules of a solid object toward
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Speaker 1: which it was directed. I know that materialists will scoff
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Speaker 1: at such a statement, but just remember how radio waves
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Speaker 1: pass right through wood, brick, steel, and other so called
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Speaker 1: solid objects. If thought waves or whatever they are, can
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Speaker 1: be tuned to even higher oscillations, why can't they affect
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Speaker 1: the molecules of solid objects. There are many professional gamblers
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Speaker 1: who contend that a strong mental influence has much to
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Speaker 1: do with achieving so called lucky results in such games
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Speaker 1: of chance as card playing, dice, roulette, et cetera. I
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Speaker 1: know one man who was able to step up to
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Speaker 1: an old fashioned cigar store punch board and with a
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Speaker 1: few punches, grab off the best prizes once. I asked
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Speaker 1: him about it, and he said, I never go near
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Speaker 1: a punch board unless I am in the mood for it,
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Speaker 1: and that means that I must be in the frame
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Speaker 1: of mind that I'm going to win. I've noticed that
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Speaker 1: if there's the slightest doubt in my mind, I don't win.
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Speaker 1: But I can't recall the time that I didn't get
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Speaker 1: winning numbers when the winning idea was firmly fixed in
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Speaker 1: my mind before I started to play. At Duke University,
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Speaker 1: doctor J. Beef Rhine and his associates demonstrated that psychokinesis
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Speaker 1: the name given to designate the mind's power to influence
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Speaker 1: material objects is much more than idle theory. Dice. Yes,
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Speaker 1: the regular old dice used in crap games were thrown
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Speaker 1: by a mechanical device to eliminate all possibility of personal
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Speaker 1: influence and trickery. Experiments of this type were started in
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Speaker 1: nineteen thirty four, and there were many tests in which
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Speaker 1: millions of throes of the dice were made. The results
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Speaker 1: were such that doctor Rhine declared there is no better
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Speaker 1: explanation than the subjects influenced the fall of the dice
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Speaker 1: without any recognized physical contacts with them. By mentally concentrating
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Speaker 1: upon the appearance of certain numbers while standing at a
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Speaker 1: distance to avoid all physical contact with the mechanical thrower
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Speaker 1: and with the dice, the experimenters were frequently able to
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Speaker 1: control the way the dice landed. In a number of
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Speaker 1: the experiments, the scores refuted some of the traditional mathematical
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Speaker 1: odds of millions to one against the reappearance of certain
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Speaker 1: combinations of numbers in repeated succession. Meditate over this for
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Speaker 1: a few minutes and realize what it means to you.
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Speaker 1: Those experiments give you some idea of what is meant
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Speaker 1: by thought creates after its kind, thought correlates with its object,
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Speaker 1: thought attracts that upon which it is directed, and similar
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Speaker 1: statements that metaphysicians have been claiming for years. It was
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Speaker 1: job who said, for the thing which I greatly feared
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Speaker 1: is come upon me. Our fearful thoughts are just as
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Speaker 1: creative and magnet in attracting troubles to us, as are
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Speaker 1: the constructive and positive thoughts in attracting welcome results. So,
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Speaker 1: no matter what the character of your thoughts, they do
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Speaker 1: create after their kind. When this sinks into your consciousness,
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Speaker 1: you get some inkling of the awe inspiring power which
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Speaker 1: is yours to use. While thoughts do create an exercise
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Speaker 1: control far beyond any limits yet known to man, I
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Speaker 1: cling to the theory that they create only according to their pitch, intensity,
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Speaker 1: emotional quality, depth of feeling, or vibratory plane. In other words,
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Speaker 1: thoughts have a creative or controlling force in the exact
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Speaker 1: ratio of their constancy, intensity, and power comparable to the
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Speaker 1: wave length and wattage of a broadcasting station. While many
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Speaker 1: explanations have been offered, it is fairly certain that thought
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Speaker 1: is not a form of electrical energy, but something else
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Speaker 1: yet to be defined. In a series of telepathy experiments,
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Speaker 1: subjects were placed in a Faraday cage which effectively blocked
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Speaker 1: any part possible transmission of electrical energy. Yet the subject's
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Speaker 1: scores were still well above chance. Whatever was carrying data
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Speaker 1: from one mind to another, it was clearly not electrical. Nevertheless,
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Speaker 1: I have done a great deal of experiments with high
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Speaker 1: frequency electricity, the field in which the great electrical genius
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Speaker 1: Nicola Tesla pioneered, and so whenever I think of thought
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Speaker 1: and its radiations or vibrations, I instinctively link them up
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Speaker 1: with electricity and its phenomena. In this manner, they become
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Speaker 1: more understandable to me. I find that I am far
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Speaker 1: from being alone in holding this analogy. Nowadays, practically every
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Speaker 1: hospital is equipped with an EEG or electro encephalograph, an
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Speaker 1: apparatus that detects and records a patient's brain waves. These
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Speaker 1: waves are, in effect, the electrical oscillations of the brain's
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Speaker 1: two hemispheres. Doctors use them to diagnose not only the
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Speaker 1: health of the brain and nervous system, but as clues
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Speaker 1: to a patient's general mental health, to his or her
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Speaker 1: dreams in emotional state, and even to the existence of
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Speaker 1: disease elsewhere in the body. In nineteen forty four, doctor
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Speaker 1: haroldes Burr and his co workers at Yale University, after
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Speaker 1: experimenting for twelve years reached the conclusion that all living
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Speaker 1: things are surrounded by an electrical aura of their own making,
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Speaker 1: and that life is connected electrically to the whole pattern
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Speaker 1: of the universe. For years, mystics, occultists, and metaphysicians have
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Speaker 1: claimed that each individual possesses such an aura, and there
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Speaker 1: are countless cases in which these auras have been recorded
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Speaker 1: as actually seen. Then, in the late nineteen sixties, Soviet
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Speaker 1: researchers announced the discovery of Curlean photography, a technique for
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Speaker 1: capturing the aura on photographic film. Curlean photos of a
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Speaker 1: leaf showed it to be a galaxy of bright sparkles, which, however,
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Speaker 1: slowly dimmed as the leaf wilted. Curlean photographs of subjects
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Speaker 1: hands showed the right rays emanating from the fingers, which
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Speaker 1: seem to confirm the metaphysician's age old belief that one's
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Speaker 1: hands are a source of healing energy. Critics objected that
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Speaker 1: the Curlean process was recording nothing more than an electrical
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Speaker 1: coronal discharge generated by the mild electrical field in which
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Speaker 1: the photographs were taken. Yet at the same time, it
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Speaker 1: was clear that the strength of the Curlean bora does
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Speaker 1: correlate with the subject's emotional state. A number of psychologists,
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Speaker 1: notably doctor Lee or Steiner of New York, found this
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Speaker 1: correlation so reliable that they used Curlyan photography as an
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Speaker 1: objective measure of their patient's progress. We can reconcile this
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Speaker 1: apparent paradox if we look at electricity, coronal discharges, and
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Speaker 1: the curle in effect as byproducts of that yet to
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Speaker 1: be identified thought energy. Just as tidal waves in the
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Speaker 1: ocean are visible translations of earthquakes that may have taken
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Speaker 1: place hundreds of miles away on the seafloor. Kerme's Trismagistus
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Speaker 1: and the inent Hermetic philosophers all taught the theory of vibration. Pythagoras,
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Speaker 1: the great geometrician and philosopher who lived in the sixth
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Speaker 1: century before Christ, held that everything that exists is a vibration.
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Speaker 1: This is the very essence of our scientific electronic theory
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Speaker 1: of today, that all matter consists of electrons with a
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Speaker 1: negative charge, neutrons with a neutral charge, protons with a
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Speaker 1: positive charge, and other subatomic particles, each with their own charges,
1:08:27
Speaker 1: which constantly act and react with one another. For one
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Speaker 1: of a better term, I use the word vibration or oscillation.
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Speaker 1: When the vibrations of its component molecules are speeded up,
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Speaker 1: the form of a material object often changes, as when
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Speaker 1: an ice cube melts in a hot skillet and soon
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Speaker 1: evaporates into steam. But the essential differences in matter and
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Speaker 1: in the so called elements as we know them, arise
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Speaker 1: mainly from their differing numbers of electrons, neutrons, and protons.
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Speaker 1: By adding and subtracting protons, nuclear scientists can actually change
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Speaker 1: atoms of one element into atoms of another, thus verifying
1:09:04
Speaker 1: the ancient alchemists claim that lesser elements such as iron
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Speaker 1: and lead could be transmuted into silver and gold. The
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Speaker 1: alchemists also were able to heal all disease by the
1:09:14
Speaker 1: same forces. When you realize that your nervous system is
1:09:18
Speaker 1: reached only through vibration, in other words, that our five
1:09:22
Speaker 1: known senses record vision, hearing, touch, taste, and smell by
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Speaker 1: means of vibrations given off by the external things themselves,
1:09:30
Speaker 1: you get a better understanding of the nature of vibrations.
1:09:34
Speaker 1: For example, we hear a loud noise, it comes to
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Speaker 1: us only via the sound vibration through the air. We
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Speaker 1: see a green leaf, but it is merely a pattern
1:09:44
Speaker 1: of light waves as gathered by the eyes and transmitted
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Speaker 1: to the brain. There are, however, many vibrations pitched at
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Speaker 1: a much greater frequency than our senses are attuned to,
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Speaker 1: and of which we never have any conscious knowledge. For example,
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Speaker 1: there is a wis whistle pitched so high that only
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Speaker 1: a dog can hear it. We have all heard of
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Speaker 1: the power of the laying on of hands, and most
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Speaker 1: of us know how soothing hands stroking our temples can
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Speaker 1: lessen the intensity of a headache. Can this be due
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Speaker 1: to some form of energy flowing from our finger ends?
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Speaker 1: The Bible tells of numerous instances where healing was accomplished
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Speaker 1: by the touch of Jesus hand. Does the explanation lie
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Speaker 1: in this little known field of electricity, the science of vibration?
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Speaker 1: And does this electrical atmosphere, which doctor Burke claims is
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Speaker 1: of our own making, in which surrounds all living things,
1:10:36
Speaker 1: enable us to cause certain impulses to pour forth, literally
1:10:39
Speaker 1: from our fingers or from our minds, vibratory forces that
1:10:42
Speaker 1: can act upon others and upon so called material objects.
1:10:46
Speaker 1: In the winter time and at high altitudes, you can
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Speaker 1: feel and often see the electric spark that results from
1:10:52
Speaker 1: walking across the rug and then touching some metallic object. That,
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Speaker 1: of course is a form of static electricity generated by friction,
1:11:01
Speaker 1: but it gives an idea of how one kind of
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Speaker 1: electricity can be developed through the body. Among pictures descriptive
1:11:08
Speaker 1: of the experiments of Yale investigators is one showing that
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Speaker 1: when subjects dipped their forefingers in salt water cups connected
1:11:14
Speaker 1: with a galvanometer, there was a flow of electricity between
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Speaker 1: the positive left hand and the negative right hand, measuring
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Speaker 1: one point five millivolts. In another picture, two middle fingers,
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Speaker 1: one with a slight cut at the tip, were partially
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Speaker 1: immersed in the cups, but this time the polarity of
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Speaker 1: the hands changed, the left hand changing from positive to
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Speaker 1: negative and the right becoming positive, with the current stepping
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Speaker 1: up to twelve millivolts. As I looked at those pictures,
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Speaker 1: I recalled an instrument perfected many years ago by a
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Speaker 1: French scientist, doctor Hippolyte Bereduc, known as a biometer. It
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Speaker 1: consisted of a bell shaped glass in which was suspended
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Speaker 1: a copper needle fastened to a fine silk thread below
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Speaker 1: the needle, but inside the glass was a circular piece
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Speaker 1: of cardboard marked off into degrees. Two of these instruments
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Speaker 1: were placed side by side, and the operator held the
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Speaker 1: fingers of both hands within half an inch of the glass,
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Speaker 1: his mind concentrated on the delicately balanced needle. By changing
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Speaker 1: his mental attitude or the polarity of his thinking, the
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Speaker 1: operator could cause corresponding changes in the direction of the needle,
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Speaker 1: now in one direction, and now in another, the needle
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Speaker 1: following his changing thought currents. Here is a simple experiment
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Speaker 1: embodying similar principles. Take a piece of medium weight paper
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Speaker 1: about three inches square, and fold it diagonally from corner
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Speaker 1: to corner. Then open it and make another diagonal fold,
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Speaker 1: so that there are two folds or creases forming intersecting diagonals. Again,
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Speaker 1: open the paper, which will now present the appearance of
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Speaker 1: a low, partially flattened out pyramid. Now, take a long
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Speaker 1: needle and force it through a cork so that the
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Speaker 1: point extends an inch or so above the top of
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Speaker 1: the cork. Place the cork with its needle point up
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Speaker 1: on an inverted water glass, so that there may be
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Speaker 1: free movement of the paper, which is to revolve on
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Speaker 1: the needle point. Then take the piece of paper and
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Speaker 1: place the spot where the creases intersect on the point
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Speaker 1: of the needle, with the four sides of the pyramid
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Speaker 1: sloping downward. Place the glass with the cork, needle and
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Speaker 1: paper on a table or desk in a room free
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Speaker 1: from drafts. Keep away from heat registers or windows, thus
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Speaker 1: avoiding possible heat waves or air currents. Then place your
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Speaker 1: hands around the piece of paper in a semicupped position,
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Speaker 1: keeping the fingers a half inch or so away, so
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Speaker 1: that the paper may revolve freely. Now order it to
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Speaker 1: revolve upon the needle point. At first, it will wobble,
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Speaker 1: perhaps revolving slowly at first and in one direction or
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Speaker 1: the other. But if your hands remain steady and you
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Speaker 1: concentrate upon a certain direction of movement, the paper will
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Speaker 1: revolve until it turns rapidly upon the needle point. If
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Speaker 1: you mentally order a change in direction, the one way
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Speaker 1: movement will cease and the paper will start revolving in
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Speaker 1: the opposite direction. Of course, it is essential that you
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Speaker 1: do not breathe or exhale in the direction of the paper.
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Speaker 1: Many explanations of what causes the paper to revolve have
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Speaker 1: been offered. Heat waves from the hands, a body reflex,
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Speaker 1: of some kind and the like. If the paper revolved
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Speaker 1: in only one direction, then one of these explanations could
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Speaker 1: be possible. But when a person with a little practice
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Speaker 1: and confident and concentrated thinking can cause the paper to
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Speaker 1: revolve first in one direction and then in another by
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Speaker 1: reversing the polarity of their thinking, it is clear that
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Speaker 1: the principle is the same as that which governs experiments
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Speaker 1: with the biometer. Another similar experiment uses a dialet, a
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Speaker 1: small disc of cardboard bearing the facsimile of the face
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Speaker 1: of a clock with numbers from one to twelve. This
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Speaker 1: is better known as the Rosicrucian dialet and is issued
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Speaker 1: by a Morc Rosicrucian brotherhood. A sharp needle is pushed
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Speaker 1: through it its center, and on top of the needle
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Speaker 1: is balanced a sliver of thin cardboard in the shape
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Speaker 1: of an arrow. The disc is placed on top of
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Speaker 1: a glass filled with water, in which the lower part
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Speaker 1: of the needle is submerged. The operator places their hands
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Speaker 1: around the top of the glass the disk an arrow,
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Speaker 1: then orders the arrow to revolve, change its position, or
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Speaker 1: stop at any desired position or number. However, not everyone
1:15:25
Speaker 1: can immediately get satisfactory results. In these experiments because the
1:15:29
Speaker 1: power of mind, thought, concentration, and projective influence vary from
1:15:33
Speaker 1: individual to individual. If a form of electricity emanates from
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Speaker 1: our hands or fingers in particular, and if waves either
1:15:40
Speaker 1: dynamic or magnetic vibrations are set up by our thinking,
1:15:44
Speaker 1: we then have an explanation of table tipping, automatic writing,
1:15:48
Speaker 1: the performances of the planchette or wijaboard, and many other
1:15:51
Speaker 1: mediumistic and occult operations. Doctor Phillips Thomas, research engineer for
1:15:57
Speaker 1: the Westinghouse Electric Company, in nineteen thirty, told the Utah
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Speaker 1: session of the American Electric Institute. We feel certain that
1:16:04
Speaker 1: whatever we do, say, or think is accomplished by some
1:16:07
Speaker 1: type of radiation. We think such radiations are electricity. In
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Speaker 1: the near future, we may be able to capture and
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Speaker 1: interpret these radiations of personality and thought through electrical impulses.
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Speaker 1: Since some of my readers may not have a clear
1:16:23
Speaker 1: understanding of the radiation of thought, I offer a simple explanation.
1:16:28
Speaker 1: A pebble tossed into a pond immediately sets up a
1:16:31
Speaker 1: series of ripples or small waves, which spread out circle
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Speaker 1: like on the surface of the water and ultimately reach
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Speaker 1: the shoreline, where they appear to stop. The larger the pebble,
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Speaker 1: the higher the waves. Two stones of different sizes and
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Speaker 1: weights tossed in simultaneously at different places, but in close proximity,
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Speaker 1: will each set up a series of waves converging upon
1:16:53
Speaker 1: each other. Where the two sets meet, there appears to
1:16:57
Speaker 1: be a struggle as to which is to overcome or
1:16:59
Speaker 1: pass the other. As far as our physical vision is concerned.
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Speaker 1: If the waves are of the same size, both seem
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Speaker 1: to stop or merge at their meeting point. But if
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Speaker 1: one is larger than the other, it sweeps over the
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Speaker 1: smaller and creates waves in the wake of the smaller ripples.
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Speaker 1: Think about this in connection with your own mental impulses,
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Speaker 1: for example, how thoughts of one nature stop or overwhelm others.
1:17:23
Speaker 1: You can readily appreciate that the more powerful or concentrated
1:17:27
Speaker 1: the thought, the quicker its tempo, the greater its vibration,
1:17:30
Speaker 1: the more it sweeps aside weaker vibrations, and the more
1:17:33
Speaker 1: rapidly it does its creative work. We hear much about
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Speaker 1: various stages of meditation, levels of consciousness, thought, concentration, the
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Speaker 1: strength of our faith, all of which deals with the
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Speaker 1: intensity or degree of power We send forth. Creative force
1:17:49
Speaker 1: comes only when a thought is completely rounded out, when
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Speaker 1: the imagination can visualize the fulfillment of your ambition. See
1:17:55
Speaker 1: in your mind a picture of the object you desire,
1:17:57
Speaker 1: a house, a car, a television, just as if you
1:18:00
Speaker 1: already possessed them. After studying the so called mystic teachings,
1:18:05
Speaker 1: the various mental sciences, and the regular church teachings, I
1:18:09
Speaker 1: am convinced that they all work in varying degrees, but
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Speaker 1: only to the extent that their followers believe. So it
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Speaker 1: is with prayer, whether it be a part of a
1:18:18
Speaker 1: church service or the purely spontaneous and personal supplication of
1:18:22
Speaker 1: the individual. However, I am forced to conclude that many
1:18:26
Speaker 1: people go through the lip service of saying their prayers
1:18:28
Speaker 1: without the slightest belief that those prayers will be answered. Consequently,
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Speaker 1: they are not answered. I am frequently reminded of the
1:18:37
Speaker 1: story of the old lady, professing a belief in prayer,
1:18:40
Speaker 1: who plan to go shopping the day before. She prayed
1:18:44
Speaker 1: that the sun would shine on her shopping day. Upon
1:18:47
Speaker 1: completion of her prayer, she glanced out of the window,
1:18:50
Speaker 1: saw some black clouds and instantly declared, but I know
1:18:54
Speaker 1: it is going to rain. In the late fall of
1:18:57
Speaker 1: nineteen forty four, an article by Thomas Segru in the
1:19:00
Speaker 1: Saturday Review of Literature declared that the mind cure movement
1:19:03
Speaker 1: had grown so rapidly that it was now encountered everywhere.
1:19:07
Speaker 1: He cited several cases in which sufferers had secured phenomenal results.
1:19:12
Speaker 1: One woman, who at sixty two had been partially crippled
1:19:16
Speaker 1: her fingers bent with arthritis, had taken up a system
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Speaker 1: of yogi breathing and had entirely recovered from her physical ailments.
1:19:23
Speaker 1: Mister Sagru declared that after her restoration to health, those
1:19:27
Speaker 1: who saw her judged her to be about forty. Another
1:19:30
Speaker 1: woman achieved excellent results under an occult system of metaphysics,
1:19:34
Speaker 1: and guesses as to her age were fifteen years under
1:19:37
Speaker 1: her real age. Segru told also of a retired missionary
1:19:42
Speaker 1: who for the past twelve years had experimented with psychic
1:19:44
Speaker 1: phenomena and had obtained most startling results. We can come
1:19:49
Speaker 1: to only one conclusion. That is that all the systems,
1:19:52
Speaker 1: creeds and cults work as a result of the firm
1:19:55
Speaker 1: beliefs of the individual, and that brings us to the
1:19:57
Speaker 1: magic of believing. Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, brought
1:20:03
Speaker 1: forth the hypothesis that a powerful force within us, an
1:20:06
Speaker 1: unilluminated part of the mind, separate from the conscious mind,
1:20:10
Speaker 1: is constantly at work molding our thoughts, feelings, and actions.
1:20:14
Speaker 1: It isn't an organ of so called physical matter, such
1:20:17
Speaker 1: as we know the brain to be, and science hasn't
1:20:20
Speaker 1: located its tangible position in the human body. Nevertheless, it
1:20:24
Speaker 1: is there, and from the beginning of recorded time man
1:20:27
Speaker 1: has known that it exists. The ancients often referred to
1:20:31
Speaker 1: it as the spirit. Paracelsus called it the will. Others
1:20:36
Speaker 1: have called it the mind, an adjunct of the brain.
1:20:39
Speaker 1: Some have referred to it as conscience, the creator of
1:20:42
Speaker 1: the still small voice within. Others have called this division
1:20:46
Speaker 1: of our mental existence the soul, and some metaphysical teachers
1:20:50
Speaker 1: claim that it is located in the solar plexus. Others
1:20:54
Speaker 1: call it the super ego, the inner power, the super consciousness,
1:20:58
Speaker 1: the unconscious, the subcons conscious, and various other names. Still
1:21:03
Speaker 1: others have asserted that it is a part of the
1:21:05
Speaker 1: supreme intelligence to which we are all linked, hence the
1:21:09
Speaker 1: name universal mind, that which embraces every living thing, all
1:21:12
Speaker 1: human as well as plant, and animal life. No matter
1:21:16
Speaker 1: what we call it, I prefer the term subconscious. It
1:21:20
Speaker 1: is recognized as the essence of life, and the limits
1:21:23
Speaker 1: of its power are unknown. It never sleeps. It comes
1:21:27
Speaker 1: to our support in times of great trouble. It warns
1:21:30
Speaker 1: us of impending danger. It often aids us to do
1:21:33
Speaker 1: what seems impossible. It guides us in many ways, and,
1:21:37
Speaker 1: when properly employed, performs so called miracles. Objectively, it does
1:21:42
Speaker 1: as it is told, that is, when it is commanded
1:21:45
Speaker 1: or besought by the conscious mind. Subjectively, it acts primarily
1:21:49
Speaker 1: upon its own initiative, although there are times when its
1:21:52
Speaker 1: activity appears to be the result of influences from the outside.
1:21:56
Speaker 1: Sir Arthur Eddington is quoted as saying, I belie believe
1:22:00
Speaker 1: that the mind has the power to affect groups of
1:22:02
Speaker 1: atoms and even tamper with the odds of atomic behavior,
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Speaker 1: and that even the course of the world is not
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Speaker 1: predetermined by physical laws, but may be altered by the
1:22:10
Speaker 1: uncaused volition of human beings. When this idea is fully comprehended,
1:22:16
Speaker 1: it becomes breathtaking. It is more understandable in the light
1:22:20
Speaker 1: of the electronic or vibratory theory. Every student of the
1:22:24
Speaker 1: subject knows what may be accomplished by getting into direct
1:22:27
Speaker 1: contact with the subconscious mind. Thousands have employed it to
1:22:30
Speaker 1: achieve wealth, power, and fame in this world, as well
1:22:34
Speaker 1: as to cure physical ailments and solve countless human problems.
1:22:38
Speaker 1: And its power is there for you to use. The
1:22:41
Speaker 1: only steps you have to take are to believe in
1:22:43
Speaker 1: its power and use the technique set forth in this book,
1:22:46
Speaker 1: or else devise a system of your own that will
1:22:48
Speaker 1: put it to work for you. Danesleith's syndicated column covering
1:22:53
Speaker 1: the observations of a Hillbally was well known to newspaper
1:22:56
Speaker 1: readers in the nineteen twenties. He once told me that
1:22:59
Speaker 1: he considered the subconscious mind one of his greatest aids,
1:23:03
Speaker 1: not only in furnishing him with ideas, but in helping
1:23:05
Speaker 1: him find lost tools and other articles. Mister Sleath, at
1:23:10
Speaker 1: the time was living in the hills, remote from cities
1:23:12
Speaker 1: and towns, alternating as a columnist and farmer. He had
1:23:16
Speaker 1: made an extensive study of the subject, and we often
1:23:19
Speaker 1: discussed it in letters covering our ideas. It's a wonderful thing,
1:23:24
Speaker 1: the subconscious mind, said mister Sleeth, and for the life
1:23:28
Speaker 1: of me, I can't see why more people don't learn
1:23:30
Speaker 1: about it and its use. I don't know how many
1:23:33
Speaker 1: thousands of times it has helped me with my problems.
1:23:36
Speaker 1: Ideas for feature stories have often come to me when
1:23:39
Speaker 1: I was engaged in such lowly tasks as stump grubbing.
1:23:43
Speaker 1: And as for locating lost tools, it's a knockout. You know,
1:23:47
Speaker 1: nothing is ever lost, it's just misplaced. It's right there
1:23:52
Speaker 1: to be found in the exact place where you left
1:23:54
Speaker 1: it or dropped it. I have found dozens of misplaced
1:23:57
Speaker 1: tools in the identical spot where my sub conscious mind
1:24:00
Speaker 1: told me to look. Say, for example, it was a
1:24:04
Speaker 1: pocket knife. Mine's a good sized one that I had
1:24:07
Speaker 1: misplaced or dropped. I would say, pocket knife, where are you?
1:24:13
Speaker 1: Then I would close my eyes for a moment, or
1:24:15
Speaker 1: I might gaze off into space. The answer might not
1:24:18
Speaker 1: always come immediately, but when it did, it would come
1:24:21
Speaker 1: in a flash, and I would be led right to
1:24:23
Speaker 1: the spot where lay the knife. It always seemed to
1:24:26
Speaker 1: work unfailingly, even to such things as axes, rakes and
1:24:30
Speaker 1: other tools that I was constantly leaving around somewhere. You know,
1:24:33
Speaker 1: we newspaper people are not very methodical. I used to
1:24:37
Speaker 1: have a great deal of difficulty in remembering names. But
1:24:40
Speaker 1: I have found that if I could visualize the man
1:24:42
Speaker 1: or woman whose name I had temporarily forgotten, and see
1:24:45
Speaker 1: an outline of his or her features, the color of
1:24:48
Speaker 1: the eyes, hair, manner of dress, et cetera, the subconscious
1:24:52
Speaker 1: would bring me the name without difficulty. I don't know
1:24:55
Speaker 1: where I learned this, but in trying to recall something,
1:24:58
Speaker 1: a certain story or so certain fact that appeared at
1:25:01
Speaker 1: the moment to escape me, I would relax, elevate my
1:25:04
Speaker 1: head and put my right hand a couple of inches
1:25:06
Speaker 1: above my forehead. Sometimes I might close my eyes or
1:25:10
Speaker 1: gaze off into space, but this little trick always seemed
1:25:14
Speaker 1: to get results. Never forget inventions, great musical compositions, poetry, fiction,
1:25:21
Speaker 1: and all other ideas for original accomplishment come from the subconscious.
1:25:26
Speaker 1: Give it the thought or the material, and keep it
1:25:28
Speaker 1: going with a deep rooted desire for performance, and you
1:25:31
Speaker 1: will get results. There is an old saying that once
1:25:34
Speaker 1: we start weaving, the gods will furnish the skein. And
1:25:37
Speaker 1: how true that is. When you start to operate with
1:25:41
Speaker 1: the aid of this power, the bricks automatically fall into place,
1:25:44
Speaker 1: as though a magical hand had touched them. Results will
1:25:48
Speaker 1: certainly follow in a most astounding manner. Ideas for accomplishment
1:25:53
Speaker 1: will pop here, and they will pop there. What may
1:25:56
Speaker 1: appear as coincidences are not coincidences at all. But since
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Speaker 1: the working out of the pattern which you started with
1:26:02
Speaker 1: your own weaving, I am certain that thousands of successful
1:26:06
Speaker 1: men and women reach great heights and accomplish marvelous results
1:26:09
Speaker 1: without knowing anything about the subconscious mind, and with no
1:26:12
Speaker 1: knowledge that it was the power which made for accomplishments.
1:26:16
Speaker 1: Living here in the hills, away from people and everyday influences,
1:26:20
Speaker 1: I have often felt that those who live close to
1:26:22
Speaker 1: nature were in a much better position to utilize the
1:26:25
Speaker 1: subconscious than others. I believe that day will come when
1:26:29
Speaker 1: science will prove that the great power of the subconscious
1:26:32
Speaker 1: is one of the most formidable forces in shaping and
1:26:35
Speaker 1: controlling our lives. A passing momentary thought flicker dies almost
1:26:40
Speaker 1: in birth, although it may later reveal cumulative power. But
1:26:44
Speaker 1: the force that brings into play the great system of
1:26:46
Speaker 1: the subconscious is a sustained thought, or, as I mentioned before,
1:26:50
Speaker 1: a fixed mental picture. In order to bring subconscious forces
1:26:55
Speaker 1: into action, there are many methods for stepping up the
1:26:58
Speaker 1: tempo of the vibrations of conscious thought, although sometimes just
1:27:01
Speaker 1: a single utterance, a momentary glance, and a word or
1:27:04
Speaker 1: two traveling from one person to another will bring the
1:27:07
Speaker 1: subconscious into immediate action. So it is with catastrophic danger,
1:27:12
Speaker 1: moments of great peril, and periods of great stress which
1:27:16
Speaker 1: suddenly confront a person with the necessity for immediate action.
1:27:20
Speaker 1: The subconscious comes to the aid of those in the
1:27:22
Speaker 1: habit of making quick decisions almost instantaneously, and it comes
1:27:26
Speaker 1: into operation when you have cleared your conscious mind of
1:27:29
Speaker 1: its multitude of conflicting thoughts. Going into the silence is
1:27:33
Speaker 1: another way of expressing it. Don Juan told Carlos Castaneda
1:27:37
Speaker 1: that the mind's constant chatter was a major barrier to
1:27:40
Speaker 1: getting in touch with any higher guidance. Perhaps the most
1:27:44
Speaker 1: effective method of bringing the subconscious into practical play is
1:27:47
Speaker 1: through making mental pictures. Use your imagination to perfect an
1:27:52
Speaker 1: image of the thing or situation as you would like
1:27:54
Speaker 1: it to exist in physical form. This is usually referred
1:27:58
Speaker 1: to as visualization. However, most sustained and continuing manifestations come
1:28:04
Speaker 1: as a result of deep seated belief. Through this belief,
1:28:08
Speaker 1: with its strange power. Miracles happen in peculiar phenomena occur
1:28:12
Speaker 1: for which there appears to be no known explanation. I
1:28:15
Speaker 1: refer now to unquestioning belief, a firm and positive conviction
1:28:19
Speaker 1: that goes through every fiber of your being. When you
1:28:22
Speaker 1: believe with your heart and soul. Call it a phase
1:28:25
Speaker 1: of emotion, a spiritual force, a type of electrical vibration.
1:28:29
Speaker 1: Anything you please, but that's the force that brings outstanding results.
1:28:33
Speaker 1: Sets the law of attraction into operation and allows sustained
1:28:37
Speaker 1: thought to correlate with its object. Belief changes the tempo
1:28:41
Speaker 1: of the mind or thought frequency like a huge magnet.
1:28:46
Speaker 1: It draws the subconscious forces into play, changing your whole
1:28:49
Speaker 1: aura and affecting everything about you, including people and objects
1:28:53
Speaker 1: at great distances. It often brings into your individual's sphere
1:28:57
Speaker 1: of life results that are sometimes startling, results you never
1:29:01
Speaker 1: dreamed possible. Countless references to belief appear in the Bible.
1:29:06
Speaker 1: It is the first condition for membership in many religious,
1:29:09
Speaker 1: fraternal and political organizations. Leaders everywhere are looking for people
1:29:15
Speaker 1: who have the kinds of beliefs they will fight for.
1:29:17
Speaker 1: Because the people charged with the vibrations of strong beliefs
1:29:20
Speaker 1: sometimes do the miraculous things others often say are unbelievable.
1:29:26
Speaker 1: That kind of belief has the magic touch. Indeed, it
1:29:30
Speaker 1: is the basic principle in both white and black magic.
1:29:34
Speaker 1: Chapter three, what the subconscious really is. There is no artist,
1:29:39
Speaker 1: man of science, or writer of any distinction. However, little
1:29:43
Speaker 1: disposed to self analysis is not aware by personal experience
1:29:47
Speaker 1: of the unequaled importance of the subconscious, wrote Gustav Gelli,
1:29:51
Speaker 1: distinguished French psychologist and author of From the Unconscious to
1:29:54
Speaker 1: the Conscious. He pointed out that up to the nineteenth century,
1:29:58
Speaker 1: the psychology of the sub conscious was completely ignored and
1:30:02
Speaker 1: was considered only as the cause of abnormal disease or accident.
1:30:06
Speaker 1: Gelly added that the best results in life were obtained
1:30:09
Speaker 1: by close harmony and cooperation between the conscious and subconscious minds.
1:30:15
Speaker 1: The subconscious plays a very important part in the magic
1:30:18
Speaker 1: of believing. It will bring you a quicker understanding of
1:30:21
Speaker 1: this science. You will have a clear and detailed picture
1:30:25
Speaker 1: of what the subconscious mind is, where it is located,
1:30:28
Speaker 1: and how it functions, both by itself and in collaboration
1:30:32
Speaker 1: with the conscious mind. Some of the material in this
1:30:34
Speaker 1: chapter you will find referred to or repeated in later chapters.
1:30:39
Speaker 1: But remember that repetition is an essential part of the
1:30:41
Speaker 1: technique of this science. Repetition is equally effective in presenting
1:30:46
Speaker 1: the knowledge of this science. Furthermore, the faster you get
1:30:50
Speaker 1: an understanding of it, the quicker you will be on
1:30:53
Speaker 1: your way to getting whatever you desire. In giving you
1:30:56
Speaker 1: this picture of the subconscious mind, I must use scientific
1:31:00
Speaker 1: terms here and there, since practically all the knowledge of
1:31:02
Speaker 1: the subconscious has come from the study and experimentation of
1:31:06
Speaker 1: some of the world's greatest psychologists. But even if you
1:31:09
Speaker 1: find this a little difficult to understand at first, repeated
1:31:13
Speaker 1: readings will make it all clear, giving you a solid
1:31:15
Speaker 1: foundation upon which to proceed with the active part of
1:31:18
Speaker 1: the science. As I told you in the first chapter,
1:31:22
Speaker 1: The Law of Psychic Phenomena by Thompson J. Hudson first
1:31:25
Speaker 1: got me thinking about the subconscious mind and its great
1:31:28
Speaker 1: possibilities for helping individuals in everyday life. Since that time,
1:31:33
Speaker 1: other books such as The Subconscious Speaks by IRMA. Ferrell
1:31:36
Speaker 1: grab and Paul C. Ferrell, The Source of Power by
1:31:39
Speaker 1: Theodore Clinton Foote, The Unconscious by Morton Prince M. D.
1:31:43
Speaker 1: And Common Sense and its cultivation by Hanbury Hanken have
1:31:47
Speaker 1: greatly added to the knowledge of the subject. I intend
1:31:50
Speaker 1: to give you a picture of the conscious and subconscious minds,
1:31:54
Speaker 1: as well as definite instructions as to how you can
1:31:56
Speaker 1: bring them under control and direct their energies toward fulfilling
1:31:59
Speaker 1: your desire. There is dormant in each human being a faculty,
1:32:04
Speaker 1: whether developed or not, which will enable that particular individual
1:32:07
Speaker 1: to succeed if the desire for success is present in
1:32:10
Speaker 1: his conscious mind. Thus wrote the authors of The sub
1:32:13
Speaker 1: Conscious Speaks. This faculty has always been known and recognized
1:32:18
Speaker 1: for its strange and unusual powers, but not until about
1:32:21
Speaker 1: a century and a half ago did psychologists, who made
1:32:24
Speaker 1: it the subject of their special investigation and experimentation, call
1:32:28
Speaker 1: it the sub conscious mind. Emerson was certainly aware of
1:32:30
Speaker 1: the dual character of the human mental organization when he
1:32:33
Speaker 1: wrote in his journals, I find one state of mind
1:32:36
Speaker 1: does not remember or conceive of another state. Thus I
1:32:40
Speaker 1: have written within a twelve month verses days which I
1:32:43
Speaker 1: do not remember the composition or correction of, and could
1:32:46
Speaker 1: not write the like to day, and have only for
1:32:48
Speaker 1: proof of their being mine various external evidences, as the
1:32:52
Speaker 1: ms in which I find them, and the circumstances that
1:32:55
Speaker 1: I have sent copies of them to friends, et cetera,
1:32:58
Speaker 1: et cetera. Today, the words conscious and subconscious are widely understood.
1:33:04
Speaker 1: It is recognized that we all have two minds, each
1:33:07
Speaker 1: one endowed with separate and distinct attributes and powers, and
1:33:11
Speaker 1: each one capable under certain conditions of independent action. There
1:33:16
Speaker 1: is no difficulty in comprehending that the conscious mind operates
1:33:19
Speaker 1: in the brain, for whenever you do any concentrated thinking,
1:33:23
Speaker 1: you feel it in your head. Sometimes the thought is
1:33:26
Speaker 1: so intense and prolonged that your head aches, or your
1:33:29
Speaker 1: eyes become tired, or your temples throb. Also, you can
1:33:34
Speaker 1: generally trace the source of the thought. It may be
1:33:37
Speaker 1: suggested by something you have seen or heard or read.
1:33:40
Speaker 1: Perhaps it is a new idea for your business or home.
1:33:43
Speaker 1: Maybe it is the continuation of some thought you have
1:33:45
Speaker 1: been pondering for a long time. In short, you can
1:33:48
Speaker 1: connect it with something already related to your consciousness. Sometimes
1:33:53
Speaker 1: your thought is concerned with trying to solve a difficult problem,
1:33:56
Speaker 1: and you have become so exhausted and discouraged at failing
1:33:59
Speaker 1: to arise. I've at a solution that you give it up,
1:34:02
Speaker 1: let the whole thing go, dismiss it from your mind,
1:34:04
Speaker 1: an action you often take at night when you can't
1:34:06
Speaker 1: sleep because of the thought that is pounding and gripping
1:34:09
Speaker 1: your brain. The moment you let it go, it begins
1:34:13
Speaker 1: to sink, as though it were moving downwards somewhere inside
1:34:16
Speaker 1: of you. The tension in your conscious mind then decreases,
1:34:19
Speaker 1: and you are soon asleep. The next morning, when you
1:34:22
Speaker 1: wake up, your conscious mind begins to think again about
1:34:26
Speaker 1: the problem, when suddenly there appears before your mind's eyes
1:34:29
Speaker 1: a mental picture of the complete solution, with all the
1:34:32
Speaker 1: necessary directions for appropriate action on your part. When you
1:34:36
Speaker 1: released it from your conscious mind, where did the thought
1:34:38
Speaker 1: go through? What power inside of you? Was the problem solved?
1:34:43
Speaker 1: Many writers, orators, artists, musical composers, designers, inventors, and other
1:34:49
Speaker 1: creative workers have long made use of their subconscious minds,
1:34:53
Speaker 1: either consciously or unconsciously. Merton s u Dale, well known
1:34:58
Speaker 1: book editor, called my attention to a statement by the
1:35:01
Speaker 1: American novelist Lewis Bromfield, one of the most helpful discoveries
1:35:05
Speaker 1: I made long ago, in common with some other writers,
1:35:08
Speaker 1: is that there is a part of the mind which
1:35:10
Speaker 1: the psychologists call the subconscious that works while you are sleeping,
1:35:14
Speaker 1: or even while you are relaxing or engaged in some
1:35:16
Speaker 1: other task far removed from writing. I have found it
1:35:20
Speaker 1: possible to train this part of the mind to do
1:35:22
Speaker 1: a pretty organized job. Very often I have awakened in
1:35:26
Speaker 1: the morning to find a problem of technique or plot
1:35:29
Speaker 1: or character which had long been troubling me, completely solved
1:35:32
Speaker 1: while I had been sleeping. The judgment of the subconscious mind,
1:35:37
Speaker 1: which represents inherited instincts and the accumulation of experience, is
1:35:41
Speaker 1: virtually infallible, and I would always trust its decisions over
1:35:44
Speaker 1: any judgment arrived at through a long and reasonable process
1:35:48
Speaker 1: of conscious thinking. No doubt you already have a mental
1:35:51
Speaker 1: picture of your two minds, the conscious mind in your
1:35:54
Speaker 1: head above the line of consciousness, and the subconscious mind
1:35:58
Speaker 1: in your body below the line of consciousness, with a
1:36:01
Speaker 1: means of communication between them. Now the conscious mind is
1:36:05
Speaker 1: the source of thought. Also, it gives us the sense
1:36:09
Speaker 1: of awareness in our normal, waking life, the knowledge that
1:36:12
Speaker 1: we are ourselves here and now, the recognition and understanding
1:36:15
Speaker 1: of our environment, the power to rule over our mental faculties,
1:36:19
Speaker 1: to recall the events of our past life, and to
1:36:22
Speaker 1: comprehend our emotions and their significance. More concretely, it enables
1:36:27
Speaker 1: us to have a rational understanding of the objects and
1:36:30
Speaker 1: persons about us, of our own successes or shortcomings, of
1:36:33
Speaker 1: the validity of an argument, or the beauty of a
1:36:36
Speaker 1: work of art. The chief powers of the conscious mind
1:36:40
Speaker 1: are reason, logic, form, judgment, calculation, conscience, and the moral sense.
1:36:47
Speaker 1: By it we take cognizance of the object world and
1:36:49
Speaker 1: its means of observation. Are our five physical senses. Our
1:36:54
Speaker 1: conscious mind is the outgrowth of our physical necessities, and
1:36:57
Speaker 1: likewise our guide in the struggle with our material environment.
1:37:01
Speaker 1: Its highest function is that of reasoning, and by all
1:37:04
Speaker 1: methods inductive and deductive, analytic and synthetic. For example, suppose
1:37:10
Speaker 1: you are undertaking to discover a new theory. You use
1:37:14
Speaker 1: your conscious mind and employ the inductive method of reasoning.
1:37:18
Speaker 1: That is, you first collect the facts and elements presented
1:37:21
Speaker 1: to your sense perceptions. Then you compare them one with another,
1:37:25
Speaker 1: noting similarities and dissimilarities. Then you select those which are
1:37:29
Speaker 1: alike in qualities, in uses, or in function, after which
1:37:33
Speaker 1: you proceed to form a generalization or law that certain
1:37:36
Speaker 1: things which have such qualities will function in such a way.
1:37:40
Speaker 1: This is the scientific method of arriving at knowledge, and
1:37:43
Speaker 1: it forms the basis of modern education in schools and colleges.
1:37:48
Speaker 1: We all use it in some form or other to
1:37:50
Speaker 1: help solve our problems, whether personal, social, business, professional, or economic.
1:37:57
Speaker 1: Many times the solution of our problems results from this
1:38:00
Speaker 1: use of our conscious mind. But now and then, when
1:38:03
Speaker 1: the solution is not forthcoming, we become exhausted with continued trying.
1:38:09
Speaker 1: We begin to lose confidence in ourselves, and we often
1:38:12
Speaker 1: resign ourselves to the idea that we have failed and
1:38:15
Speaker 1: that nothing can be done about it. Here is where
1:38:17
Speaker 1: the subconscious mind comes in to help renew our belief
1:38:21
Speaker 1: in ourselves, to assist us to overcome our difficulty, and
1:38:24
Speaker 1: to put us on the road to achievement and success.
1:38:28
Speaker 1: Just as the conscious mind is the source of thought,
1:38:30
Speaker 1: so the subconscious is the source of power. Rooted in instinct,
1:38:35
Speaker 1: it is aware of the individual's most elemental desires, and
1:38:38
Speaker 1: it is always pressing upward into conscious existence. It is
1:38:42
Speaker 1: a repository of spontaneous impressions of man and nature, and
1:38:46
Speaker 1: a memory vault in which are kept the records of
1:38:49
Speaker 1: facts and experiences sent down to it from time to
1:38:51
Speaker 1: time by the conscious mind for safe keeping and future use. Thus,
1:38:56
Speaker 1: the subconscious mind is not only a mighty storehouse of
1:38:59
Speaker 1: ever ready miss material that can be placed at the
1:39:01
Speaker 1: disposal of the conscious mind, but also a powerhouse of
1:39:04
Speaker 1: energy with which the individual can be charged, thus enabling
1:39:08
Speaker 1: them to recover their strength, courage, and faith in themselves.
1:39:12
Speaker 1: Such is the power of your subconscious mind. The subconscious
1:39:16
Speaker 1: mind is beyond space and time, and is fundamentally a
1:39:20
Speaker 1: powerful sending and receiving station with a universal hookup. It
1:39:24
Speaker 1: can communicate with the physical, mental, psychic, and, according to
1:39:28
Speaker 1: many investigators, spiritual worlds. In brief, the subconscious embodies the
1:39:34
Speaker 1: feeling and wisdom of the past, the awareness and knowledge
1:39:38
Speaker 1: of the present, and the thought and vision of the future. Emerson,
1:39:42
Speaker 1: though he wrote of instinct, endowed it with so many
1:39:45
Speaker 1: superior attributes that he undoubtedly was thinking of the subconscious
1:39:49
Speaker 1: mind when he wrote, all true wisdom of thought and
1:39:52
Speaker 1: of action comes of deference to this instinct patience, with
1:39:55
Speaker 1: its delays. To make a practical use of this instinct
1:39:58
Speaker 1: in every part of life constitutes true wisdom, and we
1:40:02
Speaker 1: must form the habit of preferring in all cases its guidance,
1:40:05
Speaker 1: which is given as it is used. The powers of
1:40:08
Speaker 1: the subconscious are many intuition, emotion, certitude, inspiration, suggestion, deduction, imagination, organization,
1:40:18
Speaker 1: and of course memory. In dynamic energy, it takes cognisance
1:40:23
Speaker 1: of its environment by means independent of the physical senses
1:40:27
Speaker 1: it perceives by intuition. It operates most successfully and performs
1:40:32
Speaker 1: its highest function when the objective senses are quiescent, but
1:40:36
Speaker 1: it can function during the waking hours as well as
1:40:38
Speaker 1: during sleep. As a distinct entity, it possesses independent powers
1:40:43
Speaker 1: and functions with a unique mental organization all its own.
1:40:48
Speaker 1: It sustains an existence closely allied to the physical body
1:40:51
Speaker 1: and the life of the individual, yet also operates independently
1:40:55
Speaker 1: of the body. Now, the subconscious mind has three primary functions. First,
1:41:01
Speaker 1: with its intuitive understanding of the bodily needs, it maintains
1:41:05
Speaker 1: and preserves, unaided by the conscious mind, the well being
1:41:09
Speaker 1: and indeed the very life of the physical body. Second,
1:41:13
Speaker 1: as pointed out in the last chapter, in times of
1:41:16
Speaker 1: great emergency, it springs into immediate action, again independently of
1:41:20
Speaker 1: the conscious mind, and takes supreme command, acting with incredible
1:41:23
Speaker 1: certitude rapidity, accuracy, and understanding. Third, it is operative in
1:41:29
Speaker 1: the psychic world. The psychic powers of the subconscious are
1:41:34
Speaker 1: manifested in such phenomena as telepathy, clairvoyance, and psychokinesis. But
1:41:40
Speaker 1: also it can be summoned to help the conscious mind
1:41:43
Speaker 1: in time of great personal necessity, when the conscious calls
1:41:46
Speaker 1: upon the subconscious to use its powers and resources to
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Speaker 1: solve a vital problem or bring to pass whatever the
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Speaker 1: individual seeks or desires. In this book we are concerned
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Speaker 1: particularly with the technique by which the subconscious mind opera
1:42:00
Speaker 1: rates for your benefit. Accordingly, to draw upon the resources
1:42:04
Speaker 1: and powers of the subconscious and awaken it into action,
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Speaker 1: you must first be sure you are asking for something
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Speaker 1: that is rightfully yours to have and within your ability
1:42:12
Speaker 1: to handle, for the subconscious manifests itself only according to
1:42:16
Speaker 1: a person's capabilities. Next, in conveying your need to the subconscious,
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Speaker 1: it must be in images of the work having already
1:42:23
Speaker 1: been done. Thus, while it is necessary for you to
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Speaker 1: feel and think yourself successful, it is important to go
1:42:30
Speaker 1: one step further and actually see yourself as already successful,
1:42:34
Speaker 1: either in the performance of some selected task or as
1:42:36
Speaker 1: actually occupying the position to which you aspire for the
1:42:40
Speaker 1: next and final step. You must wait patiently while the
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Speaker 1: subconscious assimilates the elements of your problem and then goes
1:42:47
Speaker 1: about its own way to work it out for you.
1:42:49
Speaker 1: You must have patience and absolute faith, for, as Theodore
1:42:53
Speaker 1: Simon Geoffroy, the French philosopher, said, the subconscious mind will
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Speaker 1: not take the trouble to work for those who do
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Speaker 1: not believe in it. In due course, with the flowing
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Speaker 1: of the ideas and plans of the subconscious into your
1:43:05
Speaker 1: waiting conscious mind, the solution of your problem will be
1:43:09
Speaker 1: revealed to you and the correct course of action indicated.
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Speaker 1: You must receive the message from the subconscious freely, and
1:43:16
Speaker 1: after understanding it, you must act at once, immediately and unquestioningly.
1:43:21
Speaker 1: There must be no hesitation on your part, no mental reservation,
1:43:25
Speaker 1: no deliberation. Only by a prompt and automatic response will
1:43:29
Speaker 1: you make your subconscious continue to respond whenever you call
1:43:33
Speaker 1: upon it. However, your problem may be one that cannot
1:43:36
Speaker 1: be solved in this manner. Instead of receiving the solution
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Speaker 1: in the form of a blueprint to guide your steps
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Speaker 1: to the final fulfillment, at intervals, you may feel some
1:43:45
Speaker 1: mysterious force urging you to do certain things that seem
1:43:47
Speaker 1: to have no special significance or logical connection. Nevertheless, you
1:43:52
Speaker 1: must continue to believe in the power and wisdom of
1:43:55
Speaker 1: the subconscious, obediently perform the seemingly irrelevant thing, and one
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Speaker 1: day you will find yourself in the position you sought,
1:44:03
Speaker 1: doing the work you envision for yourself. Then when you
1:44:07
Speaker 1: look back, you will see how the things you were
1:44:09
Speaker 1: called upon to do, through the aid of the subconscious,
1:44:12
Speaker 1: all formed a logical line of events, the last one
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Speaker 1: of which was your final arriving the reward of your
1:44:18
Speaker 1: sincerest hopes and desires your own triumphant personal success. Chapter four.
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Speaker 1: Suggestion is power. How many times have you heard it said,
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Speaker 1: just believe you can do it, and you can. Whatever
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Speaker 1: the task. If begun with the belief that you can
1:44:33
Speaker 1: do it, it will be done perfectly. Often belief empowers
1:44:38
Speaker 1: a person to do what others consider impossible. The act
1:44:41
Speaker 1: of believing is the starting force, the generating power that
1:44:45
Speaker 1: leads to accomplishment. Come on, fellows, we can beat them.
1:44:50
Speaker 1: Shout someone in command, whether in a football game, on
1:44:53
Speaker 1: the battle field, or in the strife of the business world.
1:44:57
Speaker 1: That sudden voicing of belief challenging in election, reverses the
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Speaker 1: tide and success from defeat to victory, and all because
1:45:06
Speaker 1: some mighty believer knew that it could be done. You
1:45:09
Speaker 1: may be shipwrecked and tossed into the water near a
1:45:12
Speaker 1: rocky shore. Momentarily you may fear that there isn't a
1:45:16
Speaker 1: chance for you. Suddenly a feeling comes that you will
1:45:19
Speaker 1: be saved or that you can save yourself. The moment
1:45:23
Speaker 1: you have that feeling, it begins to take the form
1:45:25
Speaker 1: of belief, and along with the belief comes the power
1:45:29
Speaker 1: to assist you. You may be in a fire, surrounded
1:45:33
Speaker 1: by flames and enveloped in smoke and frantic with fear.
1:45:37
Speaker 1: This same power asserts itself and you may be saved.
1:45:41
Speaker 1: Emerson explains it by saying that in a difficult situation
1:45:44
Speaker 1: or a sudden emergency, our spontaneous action is always the best.
1:45:49
Speaker 1: Many stories have been told of the great reserves of
1:45:52
Speaker 1: the subconscious mind, how under its direction and by imparting
1:45:56
Speaker 1: its superhuman strength, frail men and women have been able
1:45:59
Speaker 1: to perform felt far beyond their normal powers. Speakers, stand
1:46:04
Speaker 1: up comedians, and writers are often amazed at the subconscious
1:46:07
Speaker 1: mind's power to furnish them with a steady flow of
1:46:10
Speaker 1: thoughts that their audiences enjoy. After studying the various mystical
1:46:15
Speaker 1: religions and different teachings and systems of mind stuff, I'm
1:46:18
Speaker 1: impressed that they all have the same basic modus operandi,
1:46:22
Speaker 1: That is, they achieve success through repetition, the repeating of
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Speaker 1: certain mantras, words, or formulas. William Sebrook declared that which doctors, voodoo,
1:46:33
Speaker 1: high priests, Hexer's and many other followers of strange cults
1:46:37
Speaker 1: use just plain mumbo jumbo to invoke the spirits or
1:46:40
Speaker 1: work black magic. One finds the same principle at work
1:46:44
Speaker 1: in the chants, incantations, litany's daily lessons to be repeated
1:46:49
Speaker 1: at frequently as possible during the week, and the frequent
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Speaker 1: praying of the Buddhists and Moslems alike, Or consider the
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Speaker 1: affirmations of the Theosophists and the followers of Unity, the Apps, Truth,
1:47:01
Speaker 1: new Thought, divine science. In fact, it is basic in
1:47:05
Speaker 1: all religions, although here it is white magic instead of black.
1:47:10
Speaker 1: When you seek further, you find the same principle at
1:47:13
Speaker 1: work in the beating of tom tom's or kettle drums
1:47:15
Speaker 1: by primitive peoples. In all parts of the globe. The
1:47:19
Speaker 1: sound vibrations arouse similar vibrations in the psychic nature of
1:47:22
Speaker 1: these so called primitives, so that they become stimulated, excited,
1:47:27
Speaker 1: and emotionalized to the point where they can defy death.
1:47:30
Speaker 1: The war dances of the American Indians with their repeated
1:47:33
Speaker 1: rhythmic physical movements, the tribal ceremonies to bring rain, the
1:47:37
Speaker 1: dancing of the whirling dervishes, given the playing of martial
1:47:41
Speaker 1: music at critical times, and the soothing background music played
1:47:44
Speaker 1: for the workers in industrial plants all embody the same principle.
1:47:49
Speaker 1: In his book Penthouse of the Gods, published in nineteen
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Speaker 1: thirty nine, Theas Bernard recounts some interesting facts as to
1:47:56
Speaker 1: the repetition of certain mystical chants and prayers. When he
1:48:00
Speaker 1: wrote it, he claimed to be the first white person
1:48:03
Speaker 1: to enter the mysterious Tibetan city of Leasa, high in
1:48:06
Speaker 1: the Himalayas, where the monasteries contain thousands of Lamas followers
1:48:10
Speaker 1: of Buddha. On reading the book, you get the impression
1:48:14
Speaker 1: that when the Lamas and monks are not eating or
1:48:16
Speaker 1: attending to the material wants of their bodies, they are
1:48:19
Speaker 1: constantly and continuously engaged in their mystical chance using their
1:48:23
Speaker 1: prayer wheels. Bernard declared that in one temple, the monks
1:48:28
Speaker 1: started at daybreak and spent the entire day repeating prayers.
1:48:32
Speaker 1: The exact number of their repetitions was one hundred eight thousand.
1:48:36
Speaker 1: He told also of how Lama's accompanying him repeated certain
1:48:40
Speaker 1: fixed chants in order to give him additional strength. In
1:48:43
Speaker 1: all religions, cults, and orders, there is an obvious prescribed
1:48:48
Speaker 1: ritual in which the repetition of words, mystical or otherwise
1:48:52
Speaker 1: plays an important part. And this brings us to the
1:48:55
Speaker 1: law of suggestion. Forces operating within its limits are capable
1:49:00
Speaker 1: of producing phenomenal results. That is, the power of suggestion,
1:49:04
Speaker 1: either autosuggestion your own to yourself or heterosuggestion coming to
1:49:09
Speaker 1: you from outside sources. Starts the machinery into operation, causing
1:49:13
Speaker 1: the subconscious mind to begin its creative work. And right
1:49:17
Speaker 1: here is where the affirmations and repetitions play their part.
1:49:21
Speaker 1: Repetition of the same chant, the same incantations, the same affirmations,
1:49:25
Speaker 1: leads to belief, and once that belief becomes a deep conviction,
1:49:29
Speaker 1: things begin to happen. A builder or contractor looks over
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Speaker 1: a set of plans and specifications for a bridge or
1:49:36
Speaker 1: a building, and, urged by a desire to get the
1:49:39
Speaker 1: contract for the work, declares to himself, I can do that. Yes,
1:49:44
Speaker 1: I can do that. He may repeat it silently to
1:49:47
Speaker 1: himself a thousand times without being conscious of doing it. Nevertheless,
1:49:52
Speaker 1: the suggestion finds a place in which to take root,
1:49:55
Speaker 1: he gets the contract, and the structure is eventually built. Converse,
1:50:00
Speaker 1: he may say that he can't do it, and he
1:50:02
Speaker 1: never does. Hitler used the identical force and the same
1:50:06
Speaker 1: mechanics in inciting the German people to attack the world.
1:50:10
Speaker 1: A reading of his main camp will verify that. Doctor
1:50:14
Speaker 1: Renee Fauvel, a famous French psychologist, explained it by saying
1:50:18
Speaker 1: that Hitler had a remarkable understanding of the law of
1:50:21
Speaker 1: suggestion and its different forms of application, and that he
1:50:24
Speaker 1: mobilized every instrument of propaganda in his mighty campaign of
1:50:28
Speaker 1: suggestion with uncanny skill and masterly showmanship. Hitler openly stated
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Speaker 1: that the psychology of suggestion was a terrible weapon in
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Speaker 1: the hands of anyone who knew how to use it.
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Speaker 1: Let's see how he worked it to make the Germans
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Speaker 1: believe what he wanted them to. Slogans, posters, huge signs,
1:50:46
Speaker 1: massed flags appeared throughout Germany. Hitler's picture was everywhere, One Reich,
1:50:53
Speaker 1: one people, one leader, became the chant. It was heard
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Speaker 1: everywhere that a group gathered today we own Germany, tomorrow
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Speaker 1: the entire world. The marching song of the German youths
1:51:05
Speaker 1: came from thousands of throats daily, such slogans as Germany
1:51:09
Speaker 1: has waited long enough, stand up, you are the aristocrats
1:51:13
Speaker 1: of the Third Reich. Germany is behind. Hitler to a
1:51:16
Speaker 1: man and hundreds of others bombarded them twenty four hours
1:51:19
Speaker 1: a day from billboards, sides of buildings, the radio, and
1:51:23
Speaker 1: the press. Every time they moved, turned around, or spoke
1:51:28
Speaker 1: to one another, they got the idea that they were
1:51:30
Speaker 1: a superior race. And once that belief took hold, they
1:51:33
Speaker 1: started their campaign of terror. Under the hypnotic influence of
1:51:37
Speaker 1: this belief, strengthened by repeated suggestion, they started out to
1:51:41
Speaker 1: prove it. Unfortunately for them, other nations also had strong
1:51:46
Speaker 1: national beliefs that eventually became the means of bringing defeat
1:51:49
Speaker 1: to the Germans. Mussolini, too, used the same law of
1:51:53
Speaker 1: suggestion in an attempt to give Italy a place in
1:51:56
Speaker 1: the sun. Signs and slogans such as believe, obey, fight,
1:52:01
Speaker 1: Italy must have its great place in the world. We
1:52:04
Speaker 1: have some old scores and new scores to settle. Covered
1:52:07
Speaker 1: the walls of thousands of buildings, and similar ideas were
1:52:10
Speaker 1: dinned into the people via the radio in every other
1:52:12
Speaker 1: means of direct communication. Joseph Stalin, too, used the same
1:52:17
Speaker 1: science to build Russia into what she is today. In
1:52:21
Speaker 1: November nineteen forty six, the Institute of Modern Hypnotism, recognizing
1:52:26
Speaker 1: that Stalin had been using the great power of the
1:52:28
Speaker 1: repeated suggestion in order to make the Russian people believe
1:52:31
Speaker 1: in their strength, named him as one of the ten
1:52:34
Speaker 1: persons with the most hypnotic eyes in the world and
1:52:37
Speaker 1: rated him as a mass hypnotist. The Japanese warlords used
1:52:41
Speaker 1: it to make fanatical fighters out of their people. From
1:52:45
Speaker 1: the very day of their birth, Japanese children were fed
1:52:48
Speaker 1: the suggestion that they were direct descendants of heaven and
1:52:50
Speaker 1: destined to rule the world. They prayed it, chanted it,
1:52:54
Speaker 1: and believed it. But here again it was used wrongly.
1:52:59
Speaker 1: For forty four years. Ever since the Russo Japanese War,
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Speaker 1: the Japanese immortalized naval warrant officer Magashichi Sujino, one of
1:53:07
Speaker 1: Japan's early suicide fighters and greatest heroes. Thousands of statues
1:53:12
Speaker 1: were erected to his memory. In repeated song and story,
1:53:16
Speaker 1: young Nippanese were taught to believe that they could die
1:53:19
Speaker 1: in no more heroic manner than by following his example.
1:53:22
Speaker 1: Millions of them believed it, and during the war, thousands
1:53:25
Speaker 1: of them did die as Kamikazi pilots. Yet Sujino, who
1:53:29
Speaker 1: was supposed to have gone to his death while scuttling
1:53:31
Speaker 1: a ship to bottle up the Russian fleet at Port Arthur,
1:53:35
Speaker 1: didn't die in battle. He was picked up by a
1:53:38
Speaker 1: Chinese boat. Upon learning that he was being lauded by
1:53:41
Speaker 1: his people as a great martyr, he decided to remain
1:53:44
Speaker 1: obscure and became an exile in Manchuria. Although he was
1:53:48
Speaker 1: alive and well, it continued to be dinned into the
1:53:51
Speaker 1: years of young Nippanese that there was no greater heroic
1:53:54
Speaker 1: act than to die as Sujino had. This terrible, persistent
1:53:59
Speaker 1: and deeply founded belief, though based entirely on a fable,
1:54:02
Speaker 1: caused thousands of Japanese to throw away their lives during
1:54:06
Speaker 1: the war finally associated. Press dispatches from Tokyo in November
1:54:11
Speaker 1: nineteen forty six told how he was discovered after many
1:54:14
Speaker 1: years and was being returned home. Americans too were subjected
1:54:19
Speaker 1: to the power of suggestion long before World War One,
1:54:23
Speaker 1: and got it again in a big way under the
1:54:25
Speaker 1: direction of General Hugh Johnson with his NRA plan. In
1:54:29
Speaker 1: World War II, we were constantly told that Germany and
1:54:32
Speaker 1: Japan had to be defeated unconditionally. Under the constant repetition
1:54:36
Speaker 1: of the same thought, all individual thinking was paralyzed and
1:54:40
Speaker 1: the mass mind became grooved to a certain pattern when
1:54:43
Speaker 1: the war unconditionally, as one writer so ably said, in war,
1:54:48
Speaker 1: the voice of dissension becomes the voice of treason. Again,
1:54:52
Speaker 1: we see the terrific force of thought repetition. It is
1:54:55
Speaker 1: our master, and we do as we are ordered. This
1:54:58
Speaker 1: subtle force of the repeated suggestion overcomes our reason, acting
1:55:02
Speaker 1: directly on our emotions and our feelings, finally penetrating to
1:55:06
Speaker 1: the very depths of our subconscious minds. This is the
1:55:09
Speaker 1: basic principle of all successful advertising, the continued and repeated
1:55:14
Speaker 1: suggestion that first makes you believe, after which you are
1:55:17
Speaker 1: eager to buy. In recent years, we have enjoyed a
1:55:20
Speaker 1: vitamin spree. Vitamins, minerals, and various natural and organic foods
1:55:26
Speaker 1: have come to us from all sides, and millions by them.
1:55:29
Speaker 1: So potent is the repeated suggestion of their value. For centuries,
1:55:34
Speaker 1: tomatoes were looked upon as poisonous. People dared not eat
1:55:38
Speaker 1: them until some fearless person tried them and lived. Today,
1:55:42
Speaker 1: millions of people eat tomatoes, not knowing that they were
1:55:45
Speaker 1: considered unfit for human consumption. Conversely, the lowly spinach nearly
1:55:51
Speaker 1: went into the garbage pale after the United States government
1:55:54
Speaker 1: declared that it did not contain the food values attributed
1:55:57
Speaker 1: to it. For decades, millions believed this and refuse to
1:56:01
Speaker 1: honor Popeye's favorite dish any longer. Clearly, the founders of
1:56:05
Speaker 1: all great religious movements knew much about the power of
1:56:08
Speaker 1: the repeated suggestion and gained far reaching results with it.
1:56:12
Speaker 1: Religious teachings have been hammered into us from birth, into
1:56:15
Speaker 1: our mothers and fathers before us, and into their parents
1:56:18
Speaker 1: and their parents before them. There's certainly white magic in
1:56:22
Speaker 1: that kind of believing such statements as what we don't
1:56:26
Speaker 1: know won't hurt us, and ignorance is bliss. Take on
1:56:29
Speaker 1: greater significance when you realize that only the things you
1:56:32
Speaker 1: become conscious of can harm or bother you. We have
1:56:36
Speaker 1: all heard the story of the man who didn't know
1:56:38
Speaker 1: it couldn't be done, and went ahead and did it.
1:56:41
Speaker 1: Psychologists tell us that as babies, we have only two fears,
1:56:45
Speaker 1: the fear of loud noises and the fear of falling.
1:56:48
Speaker 1: All of our other fears are passed on to us
1:56:51
Speaker 1: or develop as a result of our experiences. They come
1:56:54
Speaker 1: from what we are taught or what we hear and see.
1:56:57
Speaker 1: I like to think of men and women as staunchoke
1:56:59
Speaker 1: trees that can stand firm amid the many cross currents
1:57:02
Speaker 1: of thought that whirl around them. But far too many
1:57:05
Speaker 1: people are like saplings that swayed by every little breeze,
1:57:09
Speaker 1: ultimately grow in the direction of some strong wind of
1:57:12
Speaker 1: thought that blows against them. The Bible is filled with
1:57:16
Speaker 1: examples of the power of thought and suggestion. Read Genesis
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Speaker 1: chapter thirty, verses thirty six to forty three, and you'll
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Speaker 1: learn that even Jacob knew their power. The Bible tells
1:57:28
Speaker 1: how he developed spotted and speckled cattle, sheep, and goats
1:57:31
Speaker 1: by placing rods from trees, partially stripping them of their bark,
1:57:35
Speaker 1: so they would appear spotted and marked in the watering
1:57:38
Speaker 1: troughs where the animals came to drink. As you may
1:57:41
Speaker 1: have guessed, the flocks conceived before the spotted rods and
1:57:45
Speaker 1: brought forth cattle, ringstraked, speckled and spotted, and incidentally, Jacob
1:57:50
Speaker 1: waxed exceedingly rich. Moses, too, was a master at suggestion.
1:57:56
Speaker 1: For forty years. He used it on the Israelites, and
1:57:59
Speaker 1: it took them to the promised land of milk and honey. David,
1:58:03
Speaker 1: following the suggestive forces operating on him, slew the mighty
1:58:07
Speaker 1: heavily armed Goliath with a pebble from a slingshot. Joan
1:58:11
Speaker 1: of Arc, the frail little Maid of Orleans, heard voices,
1:58:14
Speaker 1: and under their suggestive influences, became imbued with the idea
1:58:18
Speaker 1: that she had a mission to save France. She was
1:58:21
Speaker 1: able to transmit her indomitable spirit to the hearts of
1:58:24
Speaker 1: her soldiers, and she defeated the superior forces of the
1:58:27
Speaker 1: English at Orleans. William James, father of modern psychology in America,
1:58:33
Speaker 1: declared that often our faith in advance of a doubtful
1:58:36
Speaker 1: undertaking is the only thing that can assure its successful conclusion.
1:58:40
Speaker 1: Man's faith, according to James, acts on the powers above
1:58:44
Speaker 1: him as a claim and creates its own verification. In
1:58:47
Speaker 1: other words, the thought becomes literally father to the fact.
1:58:52
Speaker 1: For further illumination of faith and its power, I suggest
1:58:55
Speaker 1: that you read the General Epistle of James in the
1:58:57
Speaker 1: New Testament. Everyone who has ever witnessed a football or
1:59:02
Speaker 1: baseball game has seen this power of suggestion at work.
1:59:06
Speaker 1: Newt Rockney, the famous coach at Notre Dame, knew the
1:59:09
Speaker 1: value of suggestion and used it repeatedly, but always suited
1:59:13
Speaker 1: his method of applying it to the temperament of the
1:59:15
Speaker 1: individual team. On one Saturday afternoon, Notre Dame was playing
1:59:20
Speaker 1: in a particularly grueling game, and at the end of
1:59:22
Speaker 1: the first half was trailing badly. The players were in
1:59:26
Speaker 1: their dressing room nervously awaiting Rockney's arrival. Finally, the door
1:59:31
Speaker 1: opened and Rockney came in slowly. His eyes swept inquiringly
1:59:35
Speaker 1: over the squad. Oh, excuse me, I made a mistake.
1:59:40
Speaker 1: I thought these were the quarters of the Notre Dame team.
1:59:43
Speaker 1: The door closed and Rockney was gone. Puzzled and then
1:59:48
Speaker 1: stumm with fury. The team went out for the second
1:59:50
Speaker 1: half and won the game. Other writers, too, have explained
1:59:55
Speaker 1: the psychological methods Rockney used and have told how Fielding
1:59:58
Speaker 1: Yost of Michigan, Dani McGuinn of Vanderbilt, Herbert Krysler of Princeton,
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Speaker 1: and dozens of others used the magic of suggestion to
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Speaker 1: arouse their teams to great emotional heights. Before the Rose
2:00:10
Speaker 1: Bowl Game of nineteen thirty four, the whi's tipsters rated
2:00:14
Speaker 1: the Columbia team as underdogs. They hadn't counted on coach
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Speaker 1: Lou Little and his stirring talks to his player's day
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Speaker 1: after day. When the whistle blew for the end of
2:00:23
Speaker 1: the game, the Columbia Men were the top dogs over
2:00:26
Speaker 1: the superior Stanford team. In nineteen thirty five, Gonzaga University
2:00:32
Speaker 1: beat powerful Washington State thirteen to six in one of
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Speaker 1: the biggest upset games ever seen in the West. Gonzaga
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Speaker 1: was a non conference team, while the Washington State team,
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Speaker 1: because of its great record, was thought to be unbeatable.
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Speaker 1: Newspapers at the time reported assistant coach Sam Dagley as
2:00:50
Speaker 1: having declared that Gonzaga played inspired football. He revealed that
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Speaker 1: for half an hour before the game, coach Mike Pekarovitch
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Speaker 1: played over and over a phonograph record of one of
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Speaker 1: Rockney's most rousing pep talks. Years ago, Mickey Cochrane of
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Speaker 1: the Detroit Tigers literally drove a second division minded group
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Speaker 1: of baseball players to the top of the American League
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Speaker 1: by using the power of the repeated suggestion I quote
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Speaker 1: from a newspaper dispatch. Day after day, through the hot,
2:01:19
Speaker 1: hard grind, Cochrane preached the gospel of victory, impressing on
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Speaker 1: the Tigers that continued thought that the team which wins
2:01:26
Speaker 1: must go forward. You see the same force actively at
2:01:30
Speaker 1: work in the fluctuations of the stock market. Unfavorable news
2:01:35
Speaker 1: immediately depresses prices, while favorable news raises them. The intrinsic
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Speaker 1: values of stocks are not changed, but there is an
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Speaker 1: immediate change in the thinking of the market operators which
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Speaker 1: is reflected at once in the minds of the holders.
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Speaker 1: Not what will actually happen, but what security holders believe
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Speaker 1: will happen causes them to buy or sell. In the
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Speaker 1: depression years, and there may be years like them in
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Speaker 1: the future. We saw this same suggestive force working overtime.
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Speaker 1: Day after day, we heard expressions such as times are hard,
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Speaker 1: business is poor, the banks are failing, prosperity hasn't a chance,
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Speaker 1: and wild stories about business failures on every hand. Until
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Speaker 1: they became the national chant, millions believe that prosperous days
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Speaker 1: would never return. Hundreds, yes, thousands, of strong willed men
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Speaker 1: go down under the constant hammering, the continuous tap tapping
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Speaker 1: of the same fearful thoughts. Money always sensitive, runs to cover.
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Speaker 1: When feer suggestions begin to circulate, and business failures in
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Speaker 1: unemployment quickly follow. We hear thousands of stories of bank failures,
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Speaker 1: huge concerns going to the wall, et cetera, and people
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Speaker 1: readily believe them and act accordingly. There will never be
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Speaker 1: another business depression. If people generally realize that their own
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Speaker 1: fearful thoughts literally create hard times, they think hard times,
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Speaker 1: and hard times follow. So it is with wars. When
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Speaker 1: peoples of the world stop thinking of depressions and wars,
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Speaker 1: they will become non existent. For nothing comes into our
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Speaker 1: economic sphere unless we first create it with our emotional thinking.
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Speaker 1: Doctor Walter Dill Scott, eminent psychologist and long president of
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Speaker 1: Northwestern University, told the whole story when he said success
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Speaker 1: or failure in business is caused more by mental attitudes
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Speaker 1: even than by mental capacities. You may have read of
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Speaker 1: the night of October twentieth, nineteen thirty eight, when Orson
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Speaker 1: Wells and his Mercury Theater players broadcast a dramatization of H. G.
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Speaker 1: Wells novel The War of the Worlds. It was a
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Speaker 1: story of an invasion by some strange warriors from the
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Speaker 1: planet Mars, but it caused fright among thousands of people.
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Speaker 1: Some rushed out of doors, police stations were besieged, Eastern
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Speaker 1: telephone exchanges were blocked. New Jersey highways were dogged. In fact,
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Speaker 1: for a few hours following the broadcast, there was genuine
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Speaker 1: pas among millions of listeners who believed our Earth was
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Speaker 1: being attacked by invaders from Mars. Yes, indeed, belief does
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Speaker 1: cause some strange and unusual happenings. Human beings are human
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Speaker 1: beings the world over all, subject to the same emotions,
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Speaker 1: the same influences, and the same vibrations. And what is
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Speaker 1: a big business, a village, a city, a nation, but
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Speaker 1: merely a collection of individual humans controlling and operating it
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Speaker 1: with their thinking and believing as individuals think and believe
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Speaker 1: so they are. As a whole city of them thinks
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Speaker 1: so it is, and as a nation of them think
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Speaker 1: so it is. This is an inescapable conclusion. Every person
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Speaker 1: is the creation of themselves, the image of their own
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Speaker 1: thinking and believing. As King Solomon put it, for as
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Speaker 1: he thinks in his heart, so is he. Rallies held
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Speaker 1: in schools and colleges just before important athletic contests, are
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Speaker 1: based on the same principles. Speeches, so and yells become
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Speaker 1: the means of creating suggestion and arousing the will to win.
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Speaker 1: Many sales managers employ the same principle in their morning
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Speaker 1: sales meetings, when frequently music is used to emotionalize the
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Speaker 1: salesmen and to get the idea over to them that
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Speaker 1: they can beat all their previous sales records. The same principle,
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Speaker 1: with varying technique, is basic in the army. In fact
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Speaker 1: all armies. The commands and formations constantly repeated in close
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Speaker 1: order drill develop in the men instant obedience, which ultimately
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Speaker 1: becomes instinctive. The commands and formations become so fixed in
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Speaker 1: their minds and bodies that their movements are almost automatic.
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Speaker 1: All of which in turn creates that self confidence which
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Speaker 1: is absolutely necessary in active conflict. It is very important
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Speaker 1: to remember that the subconscious will go into action at
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Speaker 1: once under the impetus of the commands or suggestions it
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Speaker 1: receives from the conscious mind, or which come from outside
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Speaker 1: sources and are transmitted to it via the conscious mind.
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Speaker 1: But it gets results quicker if the conscious mind accompanies
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Speaker 1: its message with a mental picture of the desired goal.
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Speaker 1: It may be faint, sketchy, or even unfinished, but even
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Speaker 1: if only an outline, it will be enough for the
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Speaker 1: subconscious to act upon. And this brings us to the
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Speaker 1: rituals and ceremonies performed amid dramatic settings in churches and
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Speaker 1: secret orders, all designed to appeal to the emotions and
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Speaker 1: to create a mystical picture in the beholder's minds. These rituals,
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Speaker 1: no matter what the setting, are there to hold your
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Speaker 1: attention and link these symbols hidden meanings with the particular
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Speaker 1: ideas to be implanted in your mind. Various lighting arrangements,
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Speaker 1: different paraphernalia, often a special garb for those directing the operations,
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Speaker 1: all to the accompaniment of soft, often religious music, all
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Speaker 1: help to put you in the proper emotional and incidentally
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Speaker 1: receptive state. The idea is as old as history. Not
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Speaker 1: only the most civilized peoples, but also the most primitive
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Speaker 1: tribes have their characteristic ceremonmmonials. Similar methods for impressing the
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Speaker 1: individual are employed at mediumistic stances and crystal gazing performances.
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Speaker 1: Even the gypsy phrenologist considers it a part of her props.
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Speaker 1: Without this atmosphere, which tends to make our conscious mind
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Speaker 1: drowsy and even puts it temporarily to sleep, we would
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Speaker 1: not be so easily convinced. For by itself, the desire
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Speaker 1: to satisfy completely our longings for the mystical and miraculous
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Speaker 1: is often not strong enough to permit conviction. This is
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Speaker 1: not said with any idea of being sacrilegious, but to
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Speaker 1: present a picture of the historic method of appealing to
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Speaker 1: the masses. Appeal by drama is the first step in
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Speaker 1: arousing people's emotions, no matter for what purpose. Awakening and
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Speaker 1: stirring their emotional interest prepares the way to approach their
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Speaker 1: reasoning minds. Could Amy Semple Macpherson, with the long flowing
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Speaker 1: white robe and picturesque auburn hairdew, have put over her
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Speaker 1: great act of saving souls as well as achieving healings
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Speaker 1: without her superb under standing of the power of the dramatic.
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Speaker 1: It's something to wonder about because Billy Sunday, in his
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Speaker 1: best table sliding act, was a novice compared to Amy
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Speaker 1: when it came to showmanship and plain impressiveness. She, with
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Speaker 1: her many artifices and stage settings, put on a most
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Speaker 1: solemn performance, and her followers on the Pacific Coast at
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Speaker 1: least declare that the results she got were real and lasting.
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Speaker 1: This is no reflection on missus mac Pherson, for her
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Speaker 1: followers were very sincere and believed in her work, her teachings,
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Speaker 1: and the results, and that's all that matters. However, men
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Speaker 1: and women with strong personal magnetism and great orders can
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Speaker 1: get the same emotional effect without props or stage settings
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Speaker 1: to aid them. They are masters of tone effects, emotional appeal, gesticulations,
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Speaker 1: bodily movements, i magnetism, et cetera, by which your attention
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Speaker 1: is held and you, yourself are thrown wide open to
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Speaker 1: their driving appeal. Let's consider charms, talismans, amulets, good luck pieces,
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Speaker 1: four leaf clovers, old horseshoes, rabbit's feet and countless other
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Speaker 1: trinkets which thousands of people believe in. By themselves, they
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Speaker 1: are harmless, inanimate objects with no power, But when people
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Speaker 1: breathe life into them by their thinking, they do have power.
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Speaker 1: Even though the power isn't in empress The power comes
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Speaker 1: only with the believing, which alone makes them effective. An
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Speaker 1: outstanding illustration of this is found in the story of
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Speaker 1: Alexander the Great and Napoleon. In Alexander's day, an oracle
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Speaker 1: proclaimed that whoever unloosened the Gordian knot would become ruler
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Speaker 1: of all Asia. Alexander cut the knot with one stroke
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Speaker 1: of his sword and rose to tremendous heights and power.
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Speaker 1: Napoleon was given a star sapphire when a child, with
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Speaker 1: the prophecy that it would bring him luck and some
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Speaker 1: day make him emperor. Could anything but the supreme belief
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Speaker 1: in the prophecy have carried this great man to become
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Speaker 1: Emperor of France. He and Alexander became superman because they
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Speaker 1: had s supernormal beliefs. A cracked or broken mirror isn't
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Speaker 1: going to bring you bad luck unless you believe in it,
2:10:07
Speaker 1: but as long as the belief is fertilized, nurtured and
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Speaker 1: made a part of your inner self. Believe it or not,
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Speaker 1: it is going to bring you bad luck because the
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Speaker 1: sub conscious mind always brings to reality what it is
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Speaker 1: led to believe. Bird and Tomkins The Secret Life of
2:10:22
Speaker 1: Plants claim there are people with certain mind powers which,
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Speaker 1: when directed at plant life such as grain, vegetables, flowers,
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Speaker 1: and trees, can make them grow more abundantly. A number
2:10:34
Speaker 1: of years ago we had an old Swiss gardener who
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Speaker 1: insisted that we replace a number of small trees and
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Speaker 1: shrubs in our yard. At first, I couldn't see the
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Speaker 1: reason for digging up the old ones and replanting others,
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Speaker 1: but the old man's insistence prevailed. I observed that while
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Speaker 1: planting them, just after he got the small trees in
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Speaker 1: the soil and covered the roots, he engaged in some
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Speaker 1: sort of audible mumbo jumbo. He did the same with
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Speaker 1: the shrubs. One day, my curiosity piqued, I asked him
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Speaker 1: what he was mumbling about as he placed the trees
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Speaker 1: and shrubs in the ground. He looked at me searchingly
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Speaker 1: for a moment, then said, you may not understand, but
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Speaker 1: I'm talking to them, telling them they must live and bloom.
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Speaker 1: It's something I learned as a boy from my teacher
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Speaker 1: in the Old Country. Anything that grows should have encouragement,
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Speaker 1: and I'm giving it to them. Certain humans appear to
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Speaker 1: have a kind of affinity for plants, which the plants
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Speaker 1: seem to feel. Thousands of professional gardeners will plant seeds
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Speaker 1: only at certain times of the moon. Superstition, you say,
2:11:38
Speaker 1: perhaps it is practical mysticism. The Yale investigators concluded that
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Speaker 1: electrical fields play a major part in plant life, and
2:11:46
Speaker 1: certainly that is a scientific observation. It is a long
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Speaker 1: way from Switzerland to British Columbia, but in that Canadian
2:11:54
Speaker 1: province is a tribe of Indians, the members of which
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Speaker 1: always talk to their lines and hooks before actually starting
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Speaker 1: to fish, claiming that if they didn't, the halibut and
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Speaker 1: salmon wouldn't bite. Many are the tales of south Sea
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Speaker 1: islanders who offer food to their tools and implements, talking
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Speaker 1: to them as though they were alive, and beseeching them
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Speaker 1: to get results. It isn't a great jump from those
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Speaker 1: customs to the blessings offered at ship launchings or at
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Speaker 1: sailing times of large fishing fleets in civilized countries where
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Speaker 1: prayers are offered even today for successful voyages or ventures.
2:12:27
Speaker 1: I recall a thrifty neighbor of mine, who, although a
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Speaker 1: man of intelligence and mature years, had his hair cut
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Speaker 1: at only certain times of the moon. I don't remember
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Speaker 1: whether it was when the moon was waxing or waning,
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Speaker 1: but he maintained that whatever phase he selected caused his
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Speaker 1: hair to grow less abundantly than if he had visited
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Speaker 1: the barber at other times. I asked him once where
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Speaker 1: he got such an idea. He glared at me as
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Speaker 1: though I were belittling his intelligence, and I never did
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Speaker 1: get an answer to my question. What I have said
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Speaker 1: about plant and animal life may cause a lot of
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Speaker 1: materialistic people to take violent issue, but it must be
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Speaker 1: remembered that at work in the world are many forces
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Speaker 1: of which we know little or nothing. Consider how many
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Speaker 1: new principles were developed in World War II. In the
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Speaker 1: late nineteen forties, the American Rocket Society made application to
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Speaker 1: the United States government for land on the Moon. Perhaps
2:13:20
Speaker 1: the application was made in a spirit of facetiousness, but
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Speaker 1: Americans landed on the Moon only twenty years later. Without question.
2:13:28
Speaker 1: Human imagination, visualization, and concentration are the chief factors in
2:13:33
Speaker 1: developing the subconscious mind's magnetic forces. You have often heard
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Speaker 1: the statement hold that pose. That, of course, means holding
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Speaker 1: the mental picture or vision. Here again, suggestion, repeated suggestion
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Speaker 1: plays its part. For example, you would like a new home,
2:13:53
Speaker 1: your imagination goes to work. At first, you have only
2:13:57
Speaker 1: a hazy idea of the kind of house you would like. Then,
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Speaker 1: as you discuss it with other members of your family,
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Speaker 1: or ask questions of builders, or look at illustrations of
2:14:07
Speaker 1: new houses, the mental picture becomes clearer and clearer until
2:14:11
Speaker 1: you can visualize your ideal house in all its particulars.
2:14:15
Speaker 1: After that, the subconscious goes to work to provide you
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Speaker 1: with that house. It may come into manifestation in any
2:14:22
Speaker 1: number of ways, but do you really care whether you
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Speaker 1: build it with your own hands, or whether it comes
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Speaker 1: to you through purchase or from the actions of outsiders.
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Speaker 1: How it comes to you is of no great consequence.
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Speaker 1: When you are after a better job or planning a
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Speaker 1: vacation trip, the process is the same. You've got to
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Speaker 1: see it in your minds. I see yourself as holding
2:14:44
Speaker 1: that job or actually taking the trip. Some of our
2:14:47
Speaker 1: fears become realities through our imaginations. Just as jobs did. Fortunately,
2:14:53
Speaker 1: many of them do not, as long as we hold
2:14:55
Speaker 1: the mental picture only temporarily, or at least not long
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Speaker 1: enough to focus it fully upon the screen of our subconscious.
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Speaker 1: The biblical warning, where there is no vision, the people
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Speaker 1: perish is a fundamental truth, whether considered individually or collectively,
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Speaker 1: for without the mental picture of accomplishment, little is done.
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Speaker 1: You want a better job, you'll get it when you
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Speaker 1: give your subconscious mind a mental picture of yourself holding
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Speaker 1: that job. As I write this, I think of the
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Speaker 1: many experiences confided to me by those who have used
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Speaker 1: this science during the years. I want to give you
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Speaker 1: some of their stories, for in them you may perhaps
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Speaker 1: find clues to an even more effective use of the
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Speaker 1: principles and the mechanics which I am setting forth. A
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Speaker 1: friend got the idea of building a boat. He knew
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Speaker 1: nothing about boat construction, but believed that with some simple
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Speaker 1: instructions he could build one, so he went ahead. In
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Speaker 1: the course of the work, he found that he needed
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Speaker 1: an electric drill, but he didn't want to spend seventy
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Speaker 1: five dollars or eighty dollars for the kind he wanted,
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Speaker 1: especially when he would be using it for only a
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Speaker 1: few months. First he tried renting a drill, but inasmuch
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Speaker 1: as he could use it only at night and had
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Speaker 1: to return it early the next morning. He found such
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Speaker 1: an arrangement very inconvenient. He told me, I got to
2:16:15
Speaker 1: thinking one night that somewhere there was a drill for me,
2:16:17
Speaker 1: and I would have it placed in my hands. The
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Speaker 1: more I thought about it, the more I thought it possible. However,
2:16:25
Speaker 1: nothing happened for several days. Then one evening a friend
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Speaker 1: who owned a sizeable garage. A man I hadn't seen
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Speaker 1: for a couple of years, came to see me. He
2:16:34
Speaker 1: too was interested in boats, and hearing that I was
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Speaker 1: building one, said he'd like to look it over. He
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Speaker 1: saw me floundering around with the heavy half inch drill
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Speaker 1: I was using and asked me where I got it.
2:16:46
Speaker 1: I told him I had rented it, and he laughed, saying,
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Speaker 1: come over to the shop tomorrow and I'll lend you
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Speaker 1: a smaller one, which you can handle much easier. Needless
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Speaker 1: to say, I got it and kept it during all
2:16:57
Speaker 1: the period I was constructing the boat. A somewhat similar
2:17:01
Speaker 1: experience happened. When I was cutting the ribs. I found
2:17:05
Speaker 1: that a small jig saw wouldn't cut through three quarter
2:17:07
Speaker 1: inch lumber. Then I caught myself wishing for a band saw.
2:17:12
Speaker 1: That thought led me to a wood working shop a
2:17:14
Speaker 1: few blocks away from my house. I could use the
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Speaker 1: band saw if I paid the owner fifty cents an
2:17:20
Speaker 1: hour for its use. However, I found that I was
2:17:23
Speaker 1: running to and from my home first to fit the
2:17:26
Speaker 1: ribs and then to shape them, and losing much time
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Speaker 1: in the process. I frequently said to myself during those
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Speaker 1: days that there must be some easier way to get
2:17:35
Speaker 1: the use of a band saw, and there was. The
2:17:38
Speaker 1: following Sunday, another friend came to see how the boat
2:17:41
Speaker 1: was getting along. When I told him that I had
2:17:44
Speaker 1: been slowed down without the use of a band saw,
2:17:47
Speaker 1: he too laughed, saying, I bought one Thursday and won't
2:17:50
Speaker 1: be using it for some time. Got to get my
2:17:53
Speaker 1: shop fixed up, and in the meantime, you're welcome to
2:17:56
Speaker 1: use it. As a matter of fact. He delivered it
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Speaker 1: to me that same day, and I kept it a
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Speaker 1: number of months. I finished the boat. Another man told
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Speaker 1: me how he got the use of a thirty foot
2:18:08
Speaker 1: extension ladder with which to paint his house. I thought
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Speaker 1: I would undertake the painting in my spare time, he
2:18:14
Speaker 1: told me, and began looking around to find where I
2:18:17
Speaker 1: could get the use of a ladder. I found places
2:18:20
Speaker 1: where I could rent one, but their fixed time requirements
2:18:23
Speaker 1: didn't fit into my plans. I don't know how many
2:18:26
Speaker 1: times I said to myself, You're going to find a ladder,
2:18:30
Speaker 1: and I did. It was Memorial Day, and while in
2:18:33
Speaker 1: my back yard I happened to notice that a neighbor
2:18:36
Speaker 1: across the street was using a long ladder to wash
2:18:39
Speaker 1: off the walls of his house. I called to him,
2:18:42
Speaker 1: asking where he got the ladder. He told me he
2:18:45
Speaker 1: had bought it when he purchased the house. That afternoon.
2:18:49
Speaker 1: It was in my back yard and I had the
2:18:51
Speaker 1: loan of it for several weeks. Another man told me
2:18:55
Speaker 1: that shortly after Pearl Harbor he had been looking for
2:18:57
Speaker 1: a garbage can of a certain size, but because of
2:19:00
Speaker 1: wartime priorities, he was unable to locate what he wanted.
2:19:04
Speaker 1: He visited second hand stores, junk shops, bakeries, and garages
2:19:09
Speaker 1: to find the kind of container he wanted, but without success.
2:19:13
Speaker 1: He was about to give up hope when one morning
2:19:16
Speaker 1: he noticed workmen making repairs on a concrete building across
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Speaker 1: from his home. They were using some water proofing material
2:19:23
Speaker 1: from exactly the kind of can he had pictured for
2:19:25
Speaker 1: his own use. He asked the man in charge of
2:19:28
Speaker 1: the work what would be done with the container when
2:19:30
Speaker 1: the work was finished, and was told it would be
2:19:33
Speaker 1: left on the ground to be hauled away. He then
2:19:36
Speaker 1: explained his wants, and a couple of days later the
2:19:38
Speaker 1: container was in his garage. The workmen had not only
2:19:42
Speaker 1: emptied it, but had washed and scrubbed it before delivery.
2:19:46
Speaker 1: I had taken my car to a shop owner for
2:19:48
Speaker 1: repairs to the ignition system after several mechanics had failed
2:19:51
Speaker 1: to locate the trouble. I told him how the car
2:19:54
Speaker 1: had been acting, and after listening, he said, I believe
2:19:58
Speaker 1: I can fix it. I casually remarked. Belief is a
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Speaker 1: great thing, isn't it. You bet it is. Thought is
2:20:06
Speaker 1: the greatest force in the world, and the dumb ducks
2:20:09
Speaker 1: laugh when you talk about it. He answered, rather caustically.
2:20:13
Speaker 1: I don't. I'm interested, I replied, tell me of some
2:20:17
Speaker 1: instances where you have demonstrated the power of thought. I
2:20:21
Speaker 1: could keep you here all day telling you of its power,
2:20:24
Speaker 1: at least in my own life. Tell me a few
2:20:28
Speaker 1: When did you first become aware of it? Oh, I
2:20:31
Speaker 1: guess about twelve years ago when I fell and broke
2:20:34
Speaker 1: my back. I was in a cast for a long time,
2:20:37
Speaker 1: and the doctors told me that even if I recovered,
2:20:40
Speaker 1: I would be crippled the rest of my life. As
2:20:43
Speaker 1: I lay on my back in the hospital worrying about
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Speaker 1: my future, I frequently thought of the words used by
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Speaker 1: my mother to the effect that one just has to believe.
2:20:51
Speaker 1: One day it dawned on me that if I could
2:20:53
Speaker 1: hold on to the mental picture, I was going to
2:20:55
Speaker 1: be all right, and if I believed in it sufficiently,
2:20:58
Speaker 1: I could get well. To make a long story short,
2:21:02
Speaker 1: here I am crawling over and underneath cars and far
2:21:05
Speaker 1: from being a cripple, as you can see for yourself.
2:21:08
Speaker 1: Very interesting, I urged. Tell me more. Well, I've used
2:21:14
Speaker 1: it frequently to get more business. As a matter of fact,
2:21:18
Speaker 1: this present location is a result of it. As you know,
2:21:22
Speaker 1: I was burned out at my old place a few
2:21:24
Speaker 1: weeks ago, and space like this in the city is
2:21:26
Speaker 1: well nigh impossible to find. For two or three days,
2:21:30
Speaker 1: I worried about not being able to find another location,
2:21:33
Speaker 1: and deliberated whether I should attempt to go to work
2:21:36
Speaker 1: for some one else. Then one night I made up
2:21:39
Speaker 1: my mind I would continue in business for myself. That
2:21:43
Speaker 1: was the turning point. Just before I went to sleep,
2:21:46
Speaker 1: I said to myself, Oh, you'll find a place within
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Speaker 1: the next few days. This thought power hasn't failed you yet.
2:21:54
Speaker 1: I went to sleep with full confidence that the place
2:21:56
Speaker 1: would be forthcoming. The very next day, I went over
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Speaker 1: to see see a painter where I had taken the
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Speaker 1: car I saved from the fire and mentioned I was
2:22:04
Speaker 1: looking for another place. That's funny, he commented, you can
2:22:08
Speaker 1: rent this space. I've just bought the building in the
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Speaker 1: next block from an owner who wanted to retire, and
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Speaker 1: so now here I am on a main thoroughfare and
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Speaker 1: with more business than I can possibly handle. I know
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Speaker 1: that some readers will say that these are merely coincidences,
2:22:24
Speaker 1: but my files are filled with similar coincidences. To some
2:22:29
Speaker 1: of you, they may be just that, but those acquainted
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Speaker 1: with this science know that these things come about as
2:22:34
Speaker 1: the result of intensified thought or mental picture making. However,
2:22:39
Speaker 1: we come again to a matter of opinion. The difference
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Speaker 1: in conclusions between those who think this is all nonsense
2:22:44
Speaker 1: and those who know that the things we think materialize
2:22:47
Speaker 1: after their kind. Again, we are reminded of what Paracelsus said.
2:22:52
Speaker 1: Men devoid of the power of spiritual perception are unable
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Speaker 1: to recognize anything that cannot be seen externally. It is
2:22:59
Speaker 1: pretty well agreed that the subconscious mind works as a
2:23:02
Speaker 1: result of images thrown upon its screen. But if there
2:23:05
Speaker 1: is something wrong with your projection apparatus or the original slide,
2:23:08
Speaker 1: then the projected image is blurred, inverted, or a total blank. Doubts, fears,
2:23:15
Speaker 1: counterthoughts all manage to blur the pictures you consciously desire
2:23:19
Speaker 1: to project. Those who have well developed imaginations, such as
2:23:23
Speaker 1: great artists, writers, and inventors, possessed the ability to visualize
2:23:28
Speaker 1: or to make mental pictures almost at will. However, with
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Speaker 1: the mechanics which I will enlarge upon later, and the
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Speaker 1: explanations already given, anyone following them should have no difficulty
2:23:38
Speaker 1: in being able to see in their minds either things, objects,
2:23:42
Speaker 1: or situations that they desire in reality. One of the
2:23:46
Speaker 1: greatest fishermen I ever knew used this visualizing method. He
2:23:50
Speaker 1: could sit in a boat with one or two others
2:23:52
Speaker 1: and pull trout after trout out of the water, while
2:23:55
Speaker 1: his companions, using the same kind of bait and with
2:23:58
Speaker 1: apparently the same mechanical technique, dropped their hooks in the
2:24:01
Speaker 1: same places repeatedly without results. I asked him about it
2:24:05
Speaker 1: one time, and he laughingly replied, I put the old
2:24:09
Speaker 1: squeezemogentum his word for magic, on them. I figuratively or
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Speaker 1: mentally get down there where they are and tell them
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Speaker 1: to hook the bait or fly. In other words, I
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Speaker 1: see them snapping at the hook and believe that it
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Speaker 1: will work. That's all I can give you in the
2:24:25
Speaker 1: way of explanation. This story was told to another fisherman
2:24:29
Speaker 1: not blessed with the first fisherman's luck, and he scoffed
2:24:32
Speaker 1: at it ridiculous. He declared, any good fisherman must know
2:24:37
Speaker 1: the stream, the holes, the habits of fish, the type
2:24:41
Speaker 1: of bait or flies to use, and he'll catch them
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Speaker 1: if they are there. However, he couldn't explain how others
2:24:47
Speaker 1: skilled in fishing technique could fish in an identical spot
2:24:51
Speaker 1: and still not catch them like the man who used
2:24:53
Speaker 1: the old squezemogentum. Ben her Lampman was associate editor of
2:24:58
Speaker 1: the Oregonian, author of many art articles and books, on
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Speaker 1: fishing and kindred subjects and a recognized naturalist. Upon reading
2:25:06
Speaker 1: this story, he said, the man who says that it
2:25:09
Speaker 1: is ridiculous to consider there some sort of magic or
2:25:12
Speaker 1: attraction at work, makes himself ridiculous by displaying his ignorance.
2:25:17
Speaker 1: I can't explain how your friend is always so fortunate
2:25:20
Speaker 1: in making his catches. Beyond saying that there is decidedly
2:25:23
Speaker 1: something psychic about successful fishing. Anyone who has studied the
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Speaker 1: habits of fish and tried to catch them sooner or
2:25:30
Speaker 1: later realizes that there is more to successful fishing than
2:25:33
Speaker 1: merely throwing a lure or bait into a place where
2:25:36
Speaker 1: the fish are supposed to be. Just what the relationship
2:25:39
Speaker 1: is between mind and fish if any eye cannot explain.
2:25:43
Speaker 1: But having been a student of fish, their ways and
2:25:46
Speaker 1: habits practically all my life, I do know that in
2:25:49
Speaker 1: successful fishing there is an unexplainable element or factor at work.
2:25:53
Speaker 1: Call it what you please. Undoubtedly in the realm of
2:25:56
Speaker 1: psychic phenomena lies the explanation of the so called fishermen luck,
2:26:00
Speaker 1: or the the souizomagentam of your successful fisherman friend. I
2:26:05
Speaker 1: am not a fisherman, but surely If this law of
2:26:07
Speaker 1: attraction works in other ways, there is no reason why
2:26:10
Speaker 1: it could not be used advantageously in fishing. For many
2:26:14
Speaker 1: years I was interested in a game of golf and
2:26:17
Speaker 1: was a member of several clubs. I frequently played with
2:26:20
Speaker 1: a man who had been one of the world's tennis champions.
2:26:23
Speaker 1: In his younger days. He was one of the most
2:26:26
Speaker 1: amazing short shot players on the Pacific coast. With his
2:26:30
Speaker 1: Mashie or Mashie Niblick, he could place the ball on
2:26:33
Speaker 1: any desired spot on the green with a dead stop,
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Speaker 1: as close to or as far from the pin as
2:26:38
Speaker 1: he desired, and he was usually down in one put
2:26:42
Speaker 1: His putting, too, was an art to marvel at. One day,
2:26:46
Speaker 1: he amazed everyone in our foursome with what could be
2:26:49
Speaker 1: called phenomenal shots. How did you do it, George, I asked, Well,
2:26:56
Speaker 1: he replied, You've played handball and squash, and you know
2:26:59
Speaker 1: what it means to place your shots on the front wall.
2:27:03
Speaker 1: You intuitively place it high or low, or so it
2:27:05
Speaker 1: will rebound to a side wall or result in a
2:27:08
Speaker 1: kill or an extremely low ball. I learned placement years
2:27:12
Speaker 1: ago in tennis. You have sort of a mental picture
2:27:15
Speaker 1: where you want the ball to go or land before
2:27:17
Speaker 1: you hit it with your racket. I use the same
2:27:20
Speaker 1: principle with my short shots and putting. In other words,
2:27:24
Speaker 1: when I face the green and before I swing my club,
2:27:27
Speaker 1: I have an instant mental picture of where I want
2:27:29
Speaker 1: the ball to land, and when I put I actually
2:27:32
Speaker 1: see the ball dropping into the hole. Of course, a
2:27:35
Speaker 1: proper stance and knowledge of handling the clubs are vital,
2:27:40
Speaker 1: but most golfers have that and still don't get results.
2:27:44
Speaker 1: It is true that I spend many hours in practice,
2:27:47
Speaker 1: so do others, But the main thing is that I
2:27:50
Speaker 1: just seem to know where the ball is going to
2:27:52
Speaker 1: land before the club hits it. There's a confidence or
2:27:55
Speaker 1: a belief existing that I can do it, and with
2:27:58
Speaker 1: a mashy or mashy niblic I cause a backspin that
2:28:01
Speaker 1: will bring the ball to a dead stop when it lands.
2:28:04
Speaker 1: For you, who may raise your eyebrows at this, Let's
2:28:07
Speaker 1: examine the facts given in a newspaper story written in
2:28:10
Speaker 1: the middle thirties by the famous sports writer Grantland Rice.
2:28:14
Speaker 1: Rice declared that the phenomenal amateur golf player John Montague
2:28:18
Speaker 1: could run rings around any one the ball always landed
2:28:22
Speaker 1: where he wanted to place it, whether three hundred yards
2:28:25
Speaker 1: down the fairway or a chip shot to within two
2:28:27
Speaker 1: or three feet of the cup. And then when he
2:28:29
Speaker 1: put it, it was like the crack of doom. Rice
2:28:33
Speaker 1: said that the ball went where Montague wanted it to go. Now,
2:28:37
Speaker 1: let's read Montague's own explanation, as given in the same
2:28:40
Speaker 1: newspaper story. Golf, to me is played with the head, mind,
2:28:44
Speaker 1: or brain, or whatever you wish to call it. Of course,
2:28:48
Speaker 1: there are fundamentals of stance, grip, swing, but I must
2:28:51
Speaker 1: have a clear, clean mental picture of what I am
2:28:54
Speaker 1: doing before I play the shot. That mental picture takes
2:28:58
Speaker 1: charge of the muscular reaction. If there is no mental picture,
2:29:02
Speaker 1: what happens is a mere guess. This means almost endless
2:29:06
Speaker 1: concentration of thought if you are under pressure, and there
2:29:09
Speaker 1: is no thrill in any game unless you are under pressure.
2:29:13
Speaker 1: Gene Sarazen, one of the greatest golf professionals of all times,
2:29:17
Speaker 1: used similar methods in his matches. His little book Golf
2:29:22
Speaker 1: Tips has much to say about mental pictures, objectives, concentration,
2:29:27
Speaker 1: and confidence. All golfers have heard of mental hazards. In reality,
2:29:33
Speaker 1: they are bunkers, traps, water, hazards, et cetera. But in
2:29:38
Speaker 1: the imaginations of many, they are formidable handicaps that put
2:29:42
Speaker 1: fear into the hearts of the players. On one course
2:29:45
Speaker 1: where I often played, there was a water hole. The
2:29:48
Speaker 1: distance from the tee to the hole was about one
2:29:51
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty yards, spanning a small pond approximately fifty
2:29:54
Speaker 1: feet wide, an easy shot with a mashy or a
2:29:57
Speaker 1: mashy niblick for the average player. For a long time,
2:30:01
Speaker 1: one member of the club, who had been a great
2:30:03
Speaker 1: baseball and football player in his younger days, could never
2:30:06
Speaker 1: get over this water hazard. Invariably, he would put ball
2:30:10
Speaker 1: after ball into the water with his irons, to the
2:30:13
Speaker 1: accompaniment of profanity on his part and laughter on ours. Finally,
2:30:18
Speaker 1: as the months went by, he took to using his
2:30:20
Speaker 1: spoon and hitting the ball far beyond the green. One
2:30:24
Speaker 1: day I said to him, I know the water fools you,
2:30:27
Speaker 1: but the next time, just blot out of your mind
2:30:29
Speaker 1: the picture of water between the tea and the green
2:30:31
Speaker 1: and sea instead, mentally an easy short fair way before you.
2:30:36
Speaker 1: The first time he followed the suggestion, his ball fell
2:30:39
Speaker 1: a few inches from the pin, and from that time
2:30:43
Speaker 1: on he later told me as long as he followed
2:30:45
Speaker 1: the blotting out technique, he never had any trouble, But
2:30:49
Speaker 1: when he was unable to concentrate on his own mental
2:30:52
Speaker 1: picture due to the joshing from other members of his forsome,
2:30:55
Speaker 1: he landed in difficulties. In observing many pool and billiard
2:30:59
Speaker 1: game games, I am convinced that certain skilled players influence
2:31:03
Speaker 1: the direction and fall of the balls by mind control,
2:31:06
Speaker 1: although they may be in complete ignorance of the power
2:31:09
Speaker 1: they are using. If it can work on a golf ball,
2:31:12
Speaker 1: it certainly can work on a billiard ball. The naturalist
2:31:16
Speaker 1: Roy Chapman Andrews told the story of a man from
2:31:19
Speaker 1: San Antonio, Texas, who, with a point two two caliber rifle,
2:31:23
Speaker 1: fired more than fourteen thousand, five hundred shots at small
2:31:26
Speaker 1: blocks of wood tossed into the air without a single miss.
2:31:30
Speaker 1: Mister Andrews emphasized his perfect timing and remarkable accuracy. Nothing
2:31:35
Speaker 1: was said of the mind pictures, But if you have
2:31:37
Speaker 1: ever done any prolonged trap or target shooting, you know
2:31:40
Speaker 1: the part visualizing plays. One finds the same sort of
2:31:44
Speaker 1: magic at work in all fields of sports. Great baseball batters,
2:31:49
Speaker 1: expert forward passers in football, accurate drop kickers all consciously
2:31:54
Speaker 1: or unconsciously picture connecting with the ball and placing it
2:31:57
Speaker 1: where they wanted to go. Certainly, bactice and timing all
2:32:01
Speaker 1: have their primary importance, but the mental side must never
2:32:04
Speaker 1: be overlooked in this connection. I was impressed by several
2:32:08
Speaker 1: statements made by doctor Marcus Bach in one of his
2:32:11
Speaker 1: first books, They Have Found a Faith. Doctor Boch tells
2:32:15
Speaker 1: of bowling with Father Divine and of observing from the
2:32:18
Speaker 1: way Father Divine selected a ball, and from his stance
2:32:21
Speaker 1: and delivery that he was no bowler. Yet Father Divine
2:32:25
Speaker 1: made a strike on his first try, and it was
2:32:27
Speaker 1: one of the prettiest strikes doctor Bach ever saw. Father's
2:32:31
Speaker 1: nonchalance was characteristic. He rubbed the soft palms of his
2:32:35
Speaker 1: hands together as if to say, well, what do you
2:32:38
Speaker 1: expect when the Lord rolls? Won? Doctor Bock also wrote
2:32:42
Speaker 1: of an interview with Rickard Fillmore, manager of Unity City,
2:32:45
Speaker 1: in son of one of the founders of the Unity movement.
2:32:48
Speaker 1: Doctor Bach asked if the Works of Unity could be
2:32:51
Speaker 1: applied to a real estate venture. Mister Fillmore replied, if
2:32:55
Speaker 1: it works at all, it works everywhere. Many readers of
2:32:59
Speaker 1: this book may not be golfers, or billiard players. But
2:33:02
Speaker 1: a simple experiment will demonstrate to you this strange power
2:33:05
Speaker 1: of attraction through visualizing or making the mental picture actually work.
2:33:10
Speaker 1: Find a few small stones or pebbles which you can
2:33:13
Speaker 1: easily throw, and locate a treaty or post between six
2:33:16
Speaker 1: and ten inches in diameter. Stand away from it twenty
2:33:20
Speaker 1: five or thirty feet and start throwing the pebbles in
2:33:23
Speaker 1: an attempt to hit it. If you have average aim,
2:33:26
Speaker 1: most of the stones will go wide of their mark.
2:33:29
Speaker 1: Now stop and tell yourself that you can hit the objective.
2:33:33
Speaker 1: Get a mental picture of the tree figuratively stepping forward
2:33:36
Speaker 1: to meet the stone, or of the pebble actually colliding
2:33:39
Speaker 1: with the tree in the spot where you want it
2:33:40
Speaker 1: to strike, and you'll soon find yourself making a perfect score.
2:33:45
Speaker 1: Don't say it's impossible. Try it, and you'll prove it
2:33:48
Speaker 1: can be done if only you will believe it. In
2:33:52
Speaker 1: the early days of wartime gasoline rationing, most people didn't
2:33:55
Speaker 1: consider getting additional coupons a criminal offense. A friend found
2:34:00
Speaker 1: he didn't have enough gas to take him to his
2:34:02
Speaker 1: duck lake one Sunday. He told me how he had
2:34:04
Speaker 1: secured enough coupons to make several trips to the shooting grounds.
2:34:09
Speaker 1: I had just about given up the idea of duck
2:34:11
Speaker 1: shooting this fall when the thought occurred to me that
2:34:13
Speaker 1: I could put this mind stuff to work and get
2:34:15
Speaker 1: some more gas. Of course, everyone around the office knew
2:34:19
Speaker 1: that I wanted to go duck shooting, and most of
2:34:21
Speaker 1: them knew of my problem. Whether they passed out word
2:34:25
Speaker 1: to their friends, I do not know. But I got
2:34:27
Speaker 1: more coupons than you could shake a stick at. I
2:34:30
Speaker 1: had a constant picture of going hunting and using my automobile,
2:34:34
Speaker 1: and of someone giving me gasoline coupons. It may be hooey,
2:34:38
Speaker 1: but I got the coupons. Even a farmer friend gave
2:34:42
Speaker 1: me gas out of his allotment. Now let's take this
2:34:45
Speaker 1: same science into the kitchen. Did it ever occur to
2:34:49
Speaker 1: you that the so called good cooks use this same science,
2:34:52
Speaker 1: some consciously in others unconsciously. Two people can attempt to
2:34:56
Speaker 1: make the same kind of pie, use identical ingredients, and
2:35:00
Speaker 1: follow instructions to the letter. One will be a failure,
2:35:03
Speaker 1: while the other will be the last word in culinary achievement.
2:35:07
Speaker 1: Why in the first case, the one cook approaches pie
2:35:11
Speaker 1: making with trepidation. She knows she has had pie failures
2:35:15
Speaker 1: in the past and worries how this one is going
2:35:17
Speaker 1: to come out. She doesn't have a perfect mental picture
2:35:21
Speaker 1: of an appetite satisfying, golden brown crust with a wonderful,
2:35:24
Speaker 1: zestful filling. She's upset and nervous, and without her knowing it,
2:35:29
Speaker 1: her uneasiness is communicated to her pie making. The second
2:35:33
Speaker 1: one is aware. She knows that her pie is going
2:35:36
Speaker 1: to be tops and it is that primary mental picture.
2:35:40
Speaker 1: Her belief makes it so. If you are a mediocre
2:35:44
Speaker 1: chef but you like to cook, that's a very necessary
2:35:47
Speaker 1: requisite to sell yourself on the idea that you can
2:35:50
Speaker 1: prepare superior dishes. You can do it for you have
2:35:54
Speaker 1: the forces inside of you, and they will come to
2:35:56
Speaker 1: your aid if only you will believe in them and
2:35:58
Speaker 1: call upon them. So put your heart and soul into
2:36:02
Speaker 1: the next pie you make. Envision it as perfect, and
2:36:06
Speaker 1: you will be surprised when you see the realization of
2:36:08
Speaker 1: your mental picture. The same law will work no matter
2:36:12
Speaker 1: where it is applied, and that goes for everything from
2:36:15
Speaker 1: fishing to money making or success in business. Let's take
2:36:19
Speaker 1: an example out of the war. When he left the Philippines,
2:36:22
Speaker 1: General Douglas MacArthur declared, I shall return with our Pacific
2:36:27
Speaker 1: fleet in ruins at Pearl Harbor and with the Japanese
2:36:30
Speaker 1: in control of most of the South Pacific. MacArthur had
2:36:33
Speaker 1: no physical evidence that he would ever return, However, it
2:36:37
Speaker 1: was a statement of confidence or belief. He must have
2:36:41
Speaker 1: had a mental picture of his returning, and history relates
2:36:44
Speaker 1: how he kept his promise. Thousands of similar cases happened
2:36:48
Speaker 1: during the war and are happening to day.