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Speaker 1: Chapter 14 The Sixth Sense The Door to the Temple
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Speaker 1: of Wisdom The Thirteenth Step Toward Riches The thirteenth principle
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Speaker 1: is known as the sixth sense, through which infinite intelligence
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Speaker 1: may and will communicate voluntarily, without any effort from or
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Speaker 1: demands by the individual. This principle is the apex of
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Speaker 1: the philosophy. It can be assimilated, understood, and applied only
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Speaker 1: by first mastering the other twelve principles. The sixth sense
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Speaker 1: is that portion of the subconscious mind which has been
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Speaker 1: referred to as the creative imagination. It has also been
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Speaker 1: referred to as the receiving set, through which ideas, plans,
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Speaker 1: and thoughts flash into the mind. The flashes are sometimes
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Speaker 1: called hunches or inspirations. The sixth sense defies description. It
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Speaker 1: cannot be described to a person who has not mastered
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Speaker 1: the other principles of this philosophy, because such a person
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Speaker 1: has no knowledge and no experience with which the sixth
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Speaker 1: sense may be compared. Understanding of the sixth sense comes
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Speaker 1: only by meditation through mind development from within. The sixth
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Speaker 1: sense probably is the medium of contact between the finite
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Speaker 1: mind of man and infinite intelligence, and for this reason
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Speaker 1: It is a mixture of both the mental and the spiritual.
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Speaker 1: It is believed to be the point at which the
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Speaker 1: mind of man contacts the universal mind. After you have
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Speaker 1: mastered the principles described in this book, you will be
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Speaker 1: prepared to accept as truth a statement which may otherwise
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Speaker 1: be incredible to you. Namely, through the aid of the
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Speaker 1: sixth sense, you will be warned of impending dangers in
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Speaker 1: time to avoid them and notified of opportunities in time
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Speaker 1: to embrace them. There comes to your aid, and to
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Speaker 1: do your bidding, with the development of the sixth sense,
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Speaker 1: a guardian angel, who will open to you at all
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Speaker 1: times the door to the temple of wisdom. Whether or
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Speaker 1: not this is a statement of truth, you will never know,
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Speaker 1: except by following the instructions described in the pages of
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Speaker 1: this book, or some similar method of procedure. The author
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Speaker 1: is not a believer in, nor an advocate of, miracles.
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Speaker 1: for the reason that he has enough knowledge of nature
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Speaker 1: to understand that nature never deviates from her established laws.
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Speaker 1: Some of her laws are so incomprehensible that they produce
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Speaker 1: what appear to be miracles. The sixth sense comes as
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Speaker 1: near to being a miracle as anything I have ever experienced,
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Speaker 1: and it appears so only because I do not understand
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Speaker 1: the method by which this principle is operated. This much
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Speaker 1: the author does know, that there is a power, or
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Speaker 1: a first cause, or an intelligence, which permeates every atom
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Speaker 1: of matter and embraces every unit of energy perceptible to man.
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Speaker 1: That this infinite intelligence converts acorns into oak trees, causes
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Speaker 1: water to flow downhill in response to the law of gravity,
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Speaker 1: follows night with day and winter with summer, each maintaining
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Speaker 1: its proper place and relationship to the other. This intelligence may,
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Speaker 1: through the principles of this philosophy, be induced to aid
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Speaker 1: in transmuting desires into concrete or material form. The author
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Speaker 1: has this knowledge because he has experimented with it and
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Speaker 1: has experienced it. Step by step, through the preceding chapters,
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Speaker 1: you have been led to this, the last principle. If
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Speaker 1: you have mastered each of the preceding principles, you are
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Speaker 1: now prepared to accept, without being skeptical, the stupendous claims
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Speaker 1: made here. If you have not mastered the other principles,
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Speaker 1: you must do so before you may determine, definitely, whether
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Speaker 1: or not the claims made in this chapter are fact
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Speaker 1: or fiction. While I was passing through the age of
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Speaker 1: hero worship, I found myself trying to imitate those whom
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Speaker 1: I most admired. Moreover, I discovered that the element of
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Speaker 1: faith with which I endeavored to imitate my idols gave
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Speaker 1: me great capacity to do so quite successfully. I have
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Speaker 1: never entirely divested myself of this habit of hero worship,
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Speaker 1: although I have passed the age commonly given over to such.
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Speaker 1: My experience has taught me that the next best thing
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Speaker 1: to being truly great is to emulate the great by
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Speaker 1: feeling and action as nearly as possible. Long before I
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Speaker 1: had ever written a line for publication or endeavored to
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Speaker 1: deliver a speech in public, I followed the habit of
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Speaker 1: reshaping my own character. by trying to imitate the nine
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Speaker 1: men whose lives and life works had been most impressive
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Speaker 1: to me. These nine men were Emerson, Payne, Edison, Darwin, Lincoln, Burbank, Napoleon, Ford,
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Speaker 1: and Carnegie. Every night, over a long period of years,
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Speaker 1: I held an imaginary council meeting with this group, whom
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Speaker 1: I called my Invisible Counselors. The procedure was this. Just
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Speaker 1: before going to sleep at night, I would shut my
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Speaker 1: eyes and see, in my imagination, this group of men
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Speaker 1: seated with me around my council table. Here I had
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Speaker 1: not only an opportunity to sit among those whom I
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Speaker 1: considered to be great, but I actually dominated the group
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Speaker 1: by serving as the chairman. I had a very definite
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Speaker 1: purpose in indulging my imagination through these nightly meetings. My
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Speaker 1: purpose was to rebuild my own character so it would
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Speaker 1: represent a composite of the characters of my imaginary counselors. Realizing,
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Speaker 1: as I did early in life, that I had to
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Speaker 1: overcome the handicap of birth in an environment of ignorance
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Speaker 1: and superstition, I deliberately assigned myself the task of voluntary
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Speaker 1: rebirth through the method here described. Building Character Through Autosuggestion
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Speaker 1: Being an earnest student of psychology, I knew, of course,
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Speaker 1: that all men have become what they are because of
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Speaker 1: their dominating thoughts and desires. I knew that every deeply
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Speaker 1: seated desire has the effect of causing one to seek
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Speaker 1: outward expression through which that desire may be transmuted into reality.
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Speaker 1: I knew that self-suggestion is a powerful factor in building character,
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Speaker 1: that it is, in fact, the sole principle through which
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Speaker 1: character is built. With this knowledge of the principles of
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Speaker 1: mind operation, I was fairly well armed with the equipment
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Speaker 1: needed in rebuilding my character. In these imaginary council meetings,
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Speaker 1: I called on my cabinet members for the knowledge I
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Speaker 1: wished each to contribute, addressing myself to each member in
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Speaker 1: audible words as follows. Mr. Emerson, I desire to acquire
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Speaker 1: from you the marvelous understanding of nature which distinguished your life.
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Speaker 1: I ask that you make an impress upon my subconscious
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Speaker 1: mind of whatever qualities you possessed, which enabled you to
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Speaker 1: understand and adapt yourself to the laws of nature. I
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Speaker 1: ask that you assist me in reaching and drawing upon
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Speaker 1: whatever sources of knowledge are available to this end. Mr. Burbank,
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Speaker 1: I request that you pass on to me the knowledge
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Speaker 1: which enabled you to so harmonize the laws of nature
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Speaker 1: that you caused the cactus to shed its thorns and
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Speaker 1: become an edible food. Give me access to the knowledge
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Speaker 1: which enabled you to make two blades of grass grow
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Speaker 1: where but one grew before, and helped you to blend
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Speaker 1: the coloring of the flowers with more splendor and harmony,
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Speaker 1: for you alone have successfully gilded the lily. Napoleon, I
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Speaker 1: desire to acquire from you, by emulation, the marvelous ability
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Speaker 1: you possessed to inspire men, and to arouse them to
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Speaker 1: greater and more determined spirit of action. also to acquire
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Speaker 1: the spirit of enduring faith, which enabled you to turn
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Speaker 1: defeat into victory and to surmount staggering obstacles. Emperor of fate,
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Speaker 1: king of chance, man of destiny, I salute you. Mr. Payne,
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Speaker 1: I desire to acquire from you the freedom of thought
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Speaker 1: and the courage and clarity with which to express convictions
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Speaker 1: which so distinguished you. Mr. Darwin. I wish to acquire
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Speaker 1: from you the marvelous patience and ability to study cause
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Speaker 1: and effect without bias or prejudice so exemplified by you
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Speaker 1: in the field of natural science. Mr. Lincoln, I desire
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Speaker 1: to build into my own character the keen sense of justice,
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Speaker 1: the untiring spirit of patience, the sense of humor, the
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Speaker 1: human understanding, and the tolerance which were your distinguishing characteristics. Mr. Carnegie,
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Speaker 1: I am already indebted to you for my choice of
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Speaker 1: a life work which has brought me great happiness and
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Speaker 1: peace of mind. I wish to acquire a thorough understanding
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Speaker 1: of the principles of organized effort which you used so
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Speaker 1: effectively in the building of a great industrial enterprise. Mr. Ford,
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Speaker 1: you have been among the most helpful of the men
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Speaker 1: who have supplied much of the material essential to my work.
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Speaker 1: I wish to acquire your spirit of persistence, the determination, poise,
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Speaker 1: and self-confidence which have enabled you to master poverty, organize, unify,
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Speaker 1: and simplify human effort, so I may help others to
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Speaker 1: follow in your footsteps. Mr. Edison, I have seated you
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Speaker 1: nearest to me at my right because of the personal
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Speaker 1: cooperation you have given me during my research into the
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Speaker 1: causes of success and failure. I wish to acquire from
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Speaker 1: you the marvelous spirit of faith, with which you have
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Speaker 1: uncovered so many of nature's secrets, the spirit of unremitting
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Speaker 1: toil with which you have so often wrested victory from defeat.
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Speaker 1: My method of addressing the members of the imaginary cabinet
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Speaker 1: would vary according to the traits of character in which
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Speaker 1: I was, for the moment, most interested in acquiring. I
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Speaker 1: studied the records of their lives with painstaking care. After
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Speaker 1: some months of this nightly procedure— I was astounded by
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Speaker 1: the discovery that these imaginary figures became apparently real. Each
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Speaker 1: of these nine men developed individual characteristics, which surprised me.
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Speaker 1: For example, Lincoln developed the habit of always being late,
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Speaker 1: then walking around in solemn parade. When he came, he
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Speaker 1: walked very slowly, with his hands clasped behind him, and
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Speaker 1: once in a while he would stop as he passed
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Speaker 1: and rest his hand momentarily upon my shoulder. he always
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Speaker 1: wore an expression of seriousness upon his face. Rarely did
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Speaker 1: I see him smile. The cares of a sundered nation
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Speaker 1: made him grave. That was not true of the others.
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Speaker 1: Burbank and Payne often indulged in witty repartee, which seemed,
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Speaker 1: at times, to shock the other members of the cabinet.
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Speaker 1: One night, Payne suggested that I prepare a lecture on
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Speaker 1: The Age of Reason and deliver it from the pulpit
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Speaker 1: of a church which I formerly attended. Many around the
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Speaker 1: table laughed heartily at the suggestion. Not Napoleon! He drew
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Speaker 1: his mouth down at the corners and groaned so loudly
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Speaker 1: that all turned and looked at him with amazement. To him,
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Speaker 1: the church was but a pawn of the state, not
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Speaker 1: to be reformed, but to be used as a convenient
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Speaker 1: inciter to mass activity by the people. On one occasion,
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Speaker 1: Burbank was late. When he came, he was excited with enthusiasm.
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Speaker 1: and explained that he had been late because of an
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Speaker 1: experiment he was making, through which he hoped to be
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Speaker 1: able to grow apples on any sort of tree. Payne
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Speaker 1: chided him by reminding him that it was an apple
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Speaker 1: which started all the trouble between man and woman. Darwin
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Speaker 1: chuckled heartily as he suggested that Payne should watch out
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Speaker 1: for little serpents when he went into the forest to
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Speaker 1: gather apples, as they had the habit of growing into
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Speaker 1: big snakes. Emerson observed, No serpents, no apples. and Napoleon remarked,
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Speaker 1: No apples, no state! Lincoln developed the habit of always
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Speaker 1: being the last one to leave the table after each meeting.
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Speaker 1: On one occasion, he leaned across the end of the table,
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Speaker 1: his arms folded, and remained in that position for many minutes.
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Speaker 1: I made no attempt to disturb him. Finally, he lifted
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Speaker 1: his head slowly, got up and walked to the door,
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Speaker 1: then turned around, came back, and laid his hand on
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Speaker 1: my shoulder and said, My boy, You will need much
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Speaker 1: courage if you remain steadfast in carrying out your purpose
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Speaker 1: in life. But remember, when difficulties overtake you, the common
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Speaker 1: people have common sense. Adversity will develop it. One evening,
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Speaker 1: Edison arrived ahead of all the others. He walked over
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Speaker 1: and seated himself at my left, where Emerson was accustomed
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Speaker 1: to sit, and said, You are destined to witness the
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Speaker 1: discovery of the secret of life. When the time comes,
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Speaker 1: you will observe that life consists of great swarms of energy,
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Speaker 1: or entities, each as intelligent as human beings think themselves
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Speaker 1: to be. These units of life group together like hives
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Speaker 1: of bees and remain together until they disintegrate through lack
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Speaker 1: of harmony. These units have differences of opinion, the same
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Speaker 1: as human beings, and often fight among themselves. These meetings
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Speaker 1: which you are conducting will be very helpful to you.
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Speaker 1: They will bring to your rescue some of the same
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Speaker 1: units of life which served the members of your cabinet
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Speaker 1: during their lives. These units are eternal. They never die.
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Speaker 1: Your own thoughts and desires serve as the magnet which
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Speaker 1: attracts units of life from the great ocean of life
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Speaker 1: out there. Only the friendly units are attracted, the ones
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Speaker 1: which harmonize with the nature of your desires. The other
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Speaker 1: members of the cabinet began to enter the room. Edison
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Speaker 1: got up and slowly walked around to his own seat.
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Speaker 1: Edison was still living when this happened. It impressed me
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Speaker 1: so greatly that I went to see him and told
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Speaker 1: him about the experience. He smiled broadly and said, Your
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Speaker 1: dream was more a reality than you may imagine it
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Speaker 1: to have been. He added no further explanation to his statement.
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Speaker 1: These meetings became so realistic that I became fearful of
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Speaker 1: their consequences and discontinued them for several months. The experiences
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Speaker 1: were so uncanny, I was afraid if I continued them,
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Speaker 1: I would lose sight of the fact that the meetings
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Speaker 1: were purely experiences of my imagination. Some six months after
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Speaker 1: I had discontinued the practice, I was awakened one night,
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Speaker 1: or thought I was, when I saw Lincoln standing at
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Speaker 1: my bedside. He said, The world will soon need your services.
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Speaker 1: It is about to undergo a period of chaos which
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Speaker 1: will cause men and women to lose faith and become panic-stricken.
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Speaker 1: Go ahead with your work and complete your philosophy. That
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Speaker 1: is your mission in life. If you neglect it, for
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Speaker 1: any cause whatsoever, you will be reduced to a primal
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Speaker 1: state and be compelled to retrace the cycles through which
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Speaker 1: you have passed during thousands of years. I was unable
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Speaker 1: to tell, the following morning, whether I had dreamed this
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Speaker 1: or had actually been awake, and I have never since
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Speaker 1: found out which it was. But I do know that
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Speaker 1: the dream, if it were a dream, was so vivid
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Speaker 1: in my mind the next day that I resumed my
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Speaker 1: meetings the following night. At our next meeting, the members
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Speaker 1: of my cabinet all filed into the room together and
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Speaker 1: stood at their accustomed places at the council table, while
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Speaker 1: Lincoln raised a glass and said, Gentlemen, let us drink
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Speaker 1: a toast to a friend who has returned to the fold.
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Speaker 1: After that, I began to add new members to my cabinet.
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Speaker 1: Until now, it consists of more than fifty. Among them, Christ, St. Paul, Galileo, Copernicus, Aristotle, Plato, Socrates, Homer, Voltaire, Bruno, Spinoza, Drummond, Kant, Schopenhauer, Newton, Confucius,
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Speaker 1: Albert Hubbard, Bran, Ingersoll, Wilson, and William James. This is
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Speaker 1: the first time that I have had the courage to
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Speaker 1: mention this. Heretofore, I have remained quiet on the subject.
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Speaker 1: because I knew, from my own attitude in connection with
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Speaker 1: such matters, that I would be misunderstood if I described
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Speaker 1: my unusual experience. I have been emboldened now to reduce
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Speaker 1: my experience to the printed page, because I am now
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Speaker 1: less concerned about what they say than I was in
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Speaker 1: the years that have passed. One of the blessings of
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Speaker 1: maturity is that it sometimes brings one greater courage to
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Speaker 1: be truthful, regardless of what those who do not understand
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Speaker 1: may think or say. Lest I be misunderstood, I wish
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Speaker 1: here to state most emphatically that I still regard my
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Speaker 1: cabinet meetings as being purely imaginary, but I feel entitled
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Speaker 1: to suggest that, while the members of my cabinet may
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Speaker 1: be purely fictional and the meetings existent only in my
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Speaker 1: own imagination, they have led me into glorious paths of adventure,
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Speaker 1: rekindled an appreciation of true greatness, encouraged creative endeavor, and
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Speaker 1: emboldened the expression of honest thought. Somewhere in the cell
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Speaker 1: structure of the brain is located an organ which receives
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Speaker 1: vibrations of thought ordinarily called hunches. So far, science has
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Speaker 1: not discovered where this organ of the sixth sense is located,
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Speaker 1: but this is not important. The fact remains that human
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Speaker 1: beings do receive accurate knowledge through sources other than the
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Speaker 1: physical senses. Such knowledge, generally, is received when the mind
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Speaker 1: is under the influence of extraordinary stimulation. Any emergency which
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Speaker 1: arouses the emotions and causes the heart to beat more
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Speaker 1: rapidly than normal may, and generally does, bring the sixth
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Speaker 1: sense into action. Anyone who has experienced a near accident
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Speaker 1: while driving knows that on such occasions the sixth sense
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Speaker 1: often comes to one's rescue and aids, by split seconds,
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Speaker 1: in avoiding the accident. These facts are mentioned preliminary to
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Speaker 1: a statement of fact which I shall now make, namely,
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Speaker 1: that during my meetings with the invisible counselors, I find
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Speaker 1: my mind most receptive to ideas, thoughts, and knowledge which
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Speaker 1: reach me through the sixth sense. I can truthfully say
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Speaker 1: that I owe entirely to my invisible counselors full credit
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Speaker 1: for such ideas, facts, or knowledge as I received through inspiration.
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Speaker 1: On scores of occasions, when I have faced emergencies, some
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Speaker 1: of them so grave that my life was in jeopardy,
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Speaker 1: I have been miraculously guided past these difficulties through the
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Speaker 1: influence of my invisible counselors. My original purpose in conducting
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Speaker 1: council meetings with imaginary beings was solely that of impressing
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Speaker 1: my own subconscious mind through the principle of auto-suggestion with
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Speaker 1: certain characteristics which I desired to acquire. In more recent years,
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Speaker 1: my experimentation has taken on an entirely different trend. I
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Speaker 1: now go to my imaginary counselors with every difficult problem
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Speaker 1: which confronts me and my clients. The results are often astonishing,
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Speaker 1: although I do not depend entirely on this form of counsel. You,
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Speaker 1: of course, have recognized that this chapter covers a subject
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Speaker 1: with which a majority of people are not familiar. The
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Speaker 1: sixth sense is a subject that will be of great
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Speaker 1: interest and benefit to the person whose aim is to
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Speaker 1: accumulate vast wealth, but it need not claim the attention
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Speaker 1: of those whose desires are more modest. Henry Ford undoubtedly
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Speaker 1: understands and makes practical use of the sixth sense. His
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Speaker 1: vast business and financial operations make it necessary for him
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Speaker 1: to understand and use this principle. The late Thomas A.
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Speaker 1: Edison understood and used the sixth sense in connection with
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Speaker 1: the development of inventions, especially those involving basic patents, in
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Speaker 1: connection with which he had no human experience and no
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Speaker 1: accumulated knowledge to guide him, as was the case while
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Speaker 1: he was working on the talking machine and the moving
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Speaker 1: picture machine. Nearly all great leaders, such as Napoleon, Bismarck,
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Speaker 1: Joan of Arc, Christ, Buddha, Confucius, and Muhammad, understood and
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Speaker 1: probably made use of the sixth sense almost continuously. The
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Speaker 1: major portion of their greatness consisted of their knowledge of
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Speaker 1: this principle. The sixth sense is not something that one
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Speaker 1: can take off and put on at will. Ability to
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Speaker 1: use this great power comes slowly. through application of the
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Speaker 1: other principles outlined in this book. Seldom does any individual
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Speaker 1: come into workable knowledge of the sixth sense before the
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Speaker 1: age of forty. More often the knowledge is not available
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Speaker 1: until one is well past fifty, and this for the
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Speaker 1: reason that the spiritual forces with which the sixth sense
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Speaker 1: is so closely related do not mature and become usable
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Speaker 1: except through years of meditation, self-examination, and serious thought. No
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Speaker 1: matter who you are or what may have been your
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Speaker 1: purpose in reading this book, you can profit by it
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Speaker 1: without understanding the principle described in this chapter. This is
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Speaker 1: especially true if your major purpose is that of accumulation
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Speaker 1: of money or other material things. The chapter on the
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Speaker 1: sixth sense was included because the book is designed for
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Speaker 1: the purpose of presenting a complete philosophy by which individuals
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Speaker 1: may unerringly guide themselves in attaining whatever they ask of life.
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Speaker 1: The starting point of all achievement is desire. The finishing
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Speaker 1: point is that brand of knowledge which leads to understanding.
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Speaker 1: Understanding of self, understanding of others, understanding of the laws
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Speaker 1: of nature, recognition and understanding of happiness. This sort of
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Speaker 1: understanding comes in its fullness only through familiarity with and
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Speaker 1: use of the principle of the sixth sense. Hence, that
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Speaker 1: principle had to be included as a part of this philosophy.
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Speaker 1: for the benefit of those who demand more than money.
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Speaker 1: Having read the chapter, you must have observed that while
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Speaker 1: reading it, you were lifted to a high level of
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Speaker 1: mental stimulation. Splendid! Come back to this again a month
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Speaker 1: from now, read it once more, and observe that your
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Speaker 1: mind will soar to a still higher level of stimulation.
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Speaker 1: Repeat this experience from time to time, giving no concern
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Speaker 1: as to how much or how little you learn at
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Speaker 1: the time, and eventually... you will find yourself in possession
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Speaker 1: of a power that will enable you to throw off discouragement,
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Speaker 1: master fear, overcome procrastination, and draw freely upon your imagination.
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Speaker 1: Then you will have felt the touch of that unknown
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Speaker 1: something which has been the moving spirit of every truly
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Speaker 1: great thinker, leader, artist, musician, writer, statesman. Then you will
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Speaker 1: be in position to transmute your desires into their physical
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Speaker 1: or financial counterpart as easily as you may lie down
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Speaker 1: and quit at the first sign of opposition. Faith vs.
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Speaker 1: Fear Previous chapters have described how to develop faith through autosuggestion, desire,
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Speaker 1: and the subconscious. The next chapter presents detailed instructions for
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Speaker 1: the mastery of fear. Here will be found a full
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Speaker 1: description of the six fears which are the cause of
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Speaker 1: all discouragement, timidity, procrastination, indifference, indecision, and the lack of ambition, self-reliance, initiative, self-control,
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Speaker 1: and enthusiasm. Search yourself carefully as you study these six enemies,
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Speaker 1: as they may exist only in your subconscious mind, where
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Speaker 1: their presence will be hard to detect. Remember, too, as
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Speaker 1: you analyze the six ghosts of fear, that they are
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Speaker 1: nothing but ghosts because they exist only in one's mind. Remember, also,
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Speaker 1: that ghosts— creations of uncontrolled imagination, have caused most of
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Speaker 1: the damage people have done to their own minds. Therefore,
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Speaker 1: ghosts can be as dangerous as if they lived and
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Speaker 1: walked on the earth in physical bodies. The ghost of
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Speaker 1: the fear of poverty, which seized the minds of millions
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Speaker 1: of people in 1929, was so real that it caused
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Speaker 1: the worst business depression this country has ever known. Moreover,
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Speaker 1: this particular ghost still frightens some of us out of
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Speaker 1: our wits. You have been listening to Think and Grow Rich,
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Speaker 1: written by Napoleon Hill. We hope you enjoyed this classic rendition.
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