"I took the road less traveled,
and that has made all the difference."
-Robert Frost
Lights
When an audience views a motion picture there's something we all do called "suspension of disbelief". Nobody makes a conscious decision to do so (unless the film is really bad); it's just part of the movie-viewing process which adds to the experience by making the film more real. Our subconscious minds are like that movie audience. There is no disbelief in the subconscious ever.
Camera
and you don't want the subconscious to know
you're lacking or it will reaffirm your lacking straits
by providing more lack . . .
Action
Magic indeed.
Author's note: I've had a good time poking fun at the late Dr. Murphy, but in all seriousness, I tried his technique to get my mind around life without cigarettes. Using no aid other than the advice from his book, at the time of this posting I've been nicotine free for roughly seven weeks. Take that Nicorette!
posted 10/10/10
MOVIE MAGIC
I have seen miracles happen to men and women in all walks of life all over the world. Miracles will happen to you, too - when you begin using the magic power of your subconscious mind.
Thus begins The Power of Your Subconscious Mind by Dr. Joseph Murphy, DRS, PhD, DD, LLD (Prentice-Hall, $6.95). For a man who believes in magic, he's got a lot of letters after his name. But then again, the magic Dr. Murphy's peddling here is not your garden variety fare. What he calls "magic", theologians might call "miracles", and scientists "imprinting". The Doctor's "magic" is a hybrid of science and theology that culminates - if you believe his claims - in the subconscious doing remarkable things.
The basic premise of Dr. Murphy's book is that the subconscious mind is capable of incredible accomplishments, if we teach it. Within the subconscious, he asserts, lies all the auto-response systems that keep us alive (breathing, the heart muscle reflex which pumps the blood, commands to our immune system which induces healing, etc.). And unlike the conscious within which we think and form judgments (often to our own detriment), the subconscious is a pure thing on its own, but gets sullied with bad information sent to it by the conscious. As babies, our subconscious minds are pure, free of negative imprints and full of infinite possibilities. The Doctor likens the relationship between the conscious and subconscious to the process of photography: "Your conscious mind is the camera, and your subconscious mind is the sensitive plate on which you register or imprint the picture."
Once the plate is exposed to light, an imprint is made and a picture produced. The pictures we create determine our success or failure, health or disease, happiness or discontent. The subconscious makes no judgement either way; it just acts on the images sent by our conscious mind.
The first step to utilizing the power of your subconscious mind is recognizing it for what it is. "Whatever the conscious . . . believes, the subconscious mind will accept and act upon." It's the simple law of cause and effect.
Your mind works like a syllogism. This means that whatever major premise your conscious mind assumes to be true determines the conclusion your subconscious mind comes to in regard to any particular question or problem in your mind. If your premise is true, the conclusion must be true . . .
Of course, if your premise is false the same principle applies; your subconscious mind will reach the conclusion that supports the premise as truth. Therein lies how we trip ourselves up by slipping the wrong message to the subconscious.
It should come as no surprise that a doctor of religious studies would muddy his science with religion. He even uses the term "Creative Intelligence" when describing the power that created him - some forty years before the hijacking of March of the Penguins by a certain Virginia Beach televangelist in his crusade to get Creation recognized in the science curriculum of public schools. (Oops. Did I say Creation? I meant Intelligent Design.) To the Doctor's credit, though, he's not pushing one faith over another. In fact, he maintains prayers are answered not because of religious affiliation, but "because of belief or mental acceptance and receptivity about that for which [you] pray." And that's where it gets veiled and mystical. There is, by Dr. Murphy's account, an unseen force that intervenes through what he tags "scientific prayer". A force unleashed by the subconscious mind.
The miracle-working powers of your subconscious mind existed before you and I were born, before any church or world existed. The great eternal truths and principles of life antedate all religions . . . All you have to do is unite mentally and emotionally with the good you wish to embody, and the creative powers of your subconscious will respond accordingly.
If that doesn't make the hair on your arms tingle, what will? Unfortunately, like most books with a religious bent, failure is placed squarely on the shoulders of the practitioner. If, after a week or so of prayer (they're really more like affirmations - claiming fulfillment rather than asking for it because asking acknowledges you're lacking and you don't want the subconscious to know you're lacking or it will reaffirm your lacking straits by providing more lack), your prayers haven't yielded positive results, you must not be doing it right. Re-read the book and try again, bearing in mind your goal is movie magic. Or as Dr. Murphy says, "Keep on, keeping on until the day breaks and the shadows flee away."
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