The Genie Within: Your Subconscious Mind (31 page)

You can think of the Universal Mind as separate from God or as a part of God. It makes no difference to the law. The law works either way and it works even if you do not believe in Universal Mind. Think of an analogy of something familiar. You do not have to believe in, or even know about gravity for it to work.

Consider the following partial list of circumstantial evidence that supports this concept of a Universal Mind:

       •    “Remote Viewing,” also called “mental telepathy,” has been studied and documented.
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In a typical experiment, a sender concentrates on a picture and
a receiver sits quietly with the
intent
of receiving the image from the sender. The sender and receiver can be a world apart and they can be encased in metal cages that stop electromagnetic waves. The receiver picks up on the thought and draws a reasonable rendition of the sender’s picture. Some people are naturally good at telepathy but anyone can do it with practice and knowing how. The keys, in my opinion, are 1) intent, and 2) being in the alpha state.

             Distance and time are not a factor in remote viewing. The inference is that we are operating in a continuous field of superior intelligence, a Uninet, a Universal Mind.

       •    Edgar Cayce diagnosed thousands of people while in a trance (no doubt in deep alpha or theta). If you have never heard of Edgar Cayce check out the many books about him in public libraries. There is also a host of information about him on the Internet. There are 20,000 cases of his diagnoses on record at the Edgar Cayce Library, Virginia Beach, Virginia. Most of the diagnoses were confirmed by doctors. Cases not confirmed were often due to extenuating circumstances, such as, death of the patient, inaccessibility to a doctor, or inadequate diagnostic instruments and medical knowledge. Edgar Cayce knew only the patient’s location (who could be anyplace in the world) and name. Cayce could only get this information from a field of intelligence common to himself and the patient, a Universal Mind.

       •    Carloline Myss, a contemporary author, lecturer, and medical intuitive, claims 98 percent accuracy, which is confirmed by medical doctors. Moreover, many
ordinary people have correctly diagnosed patients. I have even done it and so have many graduates of the Basic Silva Course (Silva International, El Paso, TX.) This can be done only by tuning into a higher intelligence. The keys for tuning in to the Universal Mind are intent, being in a deep state of alpha, and practice.

       •    Dowsing has been practiced for centuries, if not millennia. Dowsers use a dowsing tool, which is often a forked willow branch or bent coat hangers. Dowsers typically look for water sources, water lines, and gas lines, but dowsing is not limited to these items. Dowsing cannot be performed by the subconscious mind. The subconscious mind does not know where water, water lines, gas lines, etc. are located. This knowledge has to come from intelligence outside the dowser’s mind.

       •    The pendulum and muscle response testing have been used to get information from the subconscious mind (Lesson Five). But these methods can also be used to access information in the Universal Mind. Many cases are reported in
Power vs. Force
, and an extensive bibliography of books containing more examples is given in
The Pendulum Kit
, by Lonegren (Appendix A.)

       •    Many cases of lost animals that found their way home have been reported and verified. One confirmed case was about a family that moved from Ohio to Oregon with their pet dog. The dog was lost in Indiana. The family stayed several days in Indiana but could not find the dog. They proceeded to their new home in Oregon. Two months later their dog showed up. The dog had never been to Oregon before.

       •    The path of the dog was traced by a reporter. The reporter placed ads in newspapers to find witnesses who saw the dog along the route. He found that the dog’s route was almost a direct line. The dog could not find its family over a thousand miles away by odor, memory, or magnetic forces. The route to his master’s home had to come from intelligence outside of the dog’s mind, a higher intelligence.

             Rupert Sheldrake, a reputable English scientist, has studied many such cases and conducted scientific experiments on animals. His studies show that pets with a strong attachment to their owners react to the owner’s thoughts, even when the owners are away from home. How can these pets do that unless there is some intelligent field that is common to the pet and owner? Many examples are reported in his books.

       •    A consequential discovery in quantum physics is the phenomenon of
entanglement
. Einstein referred to it as “spooky action at a distance.” Briefly, when two or more particles react with each other (become entangled) and are then separated, each continues to react to the other when either is subjected to a force. They react regardless of the distance between them, and the response time is ten million times the speed of light. That is to say, they react as
they are really parts of one system
.

             Entanglement is based on a theory by J. S. Bell that has been verified experimentally several times.
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       •    Intercessory prayer is when the person praying and the person being prayed for are apart. Distance has no effect on results. When you think about it, most
prayer fits this description. The prayor and the prayee are seldom touching even if they are in the same room. So what is the medium that transports prayer from person to person? There has to be a field of higher intelligence that is common to both parties.

Now you have the concept of Universal Mind. I want to point out one more reason the information from the preceding lessons applies to the Universal Mind as well.

AS ABOVE, SO BELOW

A law is valid in the vertical as well as the horizontal direction. That is, if a law is valid on one level of consciousness, it has to be valid on all levels. A law is universal. So if the laws discussed in the previous seven lessons are correct, they must be correct at this higher level of mind as well. A law could not work one way in the conscious mind and subconscious mind and another way in the Universal Mind. So if the laws discussed in the previous eight lessons are valid, they are valid for prayer as well.

There are four
key
concepts carried over from the previous lessons that are critical for making your prayers more effective. They are: 1) Pray in the Alpha/Theta States, 2) Be Affirmative, 3) Be Single-Minded, and 4) Make Your Subconscious Mind Faith Full.

KEY NO. 1: PRAY IN THE ALPHA STATE

Praying in the alpha (and/or theta state) makes prayers more effective—hundreds, if not thousands, of times more effective. When praying in the beta state your brain waves are diffused and unfocused. The energy is scattered. When praying in the alpha state, your brain waves are focused and more powerful. Think of the difference between an
incandescent light bulb and a laser beam. The incandescent bulb emits light in all directions and wastes most of the energy as heat. All the energy in a laser beam is focused and it is so powerful that it can burn through steel. All of the waves in a laser beam are in sync and their energy is added exponentially. That is why lasers are so powerful.

There is yet another reason for praying in the alpha state of mind. I propose that the subconscious mind plays a large part in prayer. Thus, you need to be in the alpha state to access your subconscious mind.

Conscious mind supplies the will, shows the intent, and couches the words in a prayer. But the subconscious mind supplies the passion, i.e., the energy. In some way the subconscious mind is an important link to the Universal Mind. Possibly prayer is amplified by the subconscious mind as it passes through the subconscious mind to get to the Universal Mind. Whatever the mechanism is, the subconscious mind adds the power and plays a critical part in successful prayer.

Consider this circumstantial evidence to support the above theory.

       •    As described earlier, dogs have access to the Universal Mind, and dogs do not have a conscious mind, at least not one anywhere near as developed as in humans. This implies the conscious mind is not critical for accessing the Universal Mind.

       •    Education is not a factor in prayer. A person with a Ph.D. is not necessarily better at praying because of his or her education, even if it is in religion. A person with a degree or position in religion is probably better, but only because of experience and passion. It is noteworthy that Eastern practices of healing, prayer, or meditation, teach getting the educated mind (conscious mind) out of the way. Success in prayer comes from the heart (subconscious mind), not from the intellect (conscious mind).

       •    I propose that devout religious persons are better at prayer because, when they pray, they naturally go into the alpha state. This is because they have been exposed to, and trained in procedures that teach going into alpha automatically. Such procedures include: quietude, relaxation, slowed breathing, altruistic passion, emotion, rituals, meditation, and repeating a simple prayer over and over (rosary beads, chanting, and drumming). Also, their intent is probably more altruistic than the average lay person.

       •    Emotion is very important, maybe the most import, factor in prayer and emotion comes from the subconscious mind. The logical conscious mind tends to inhibit emotion. Dossey found that love and compassion were strong forces in prayer.

       •    Scientists recently found that when highly religious people prayed or meditated, they exhibited intense
theta brain waves. This study implies going in deep theta state of mind is even better than the alpha state.

       •    At another facility, scientists studied subjects who have deep religious experiences during prayer or meditation
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. Among these subjects were nuns and Buddhists. The scientists made several surprising observations when the subjects had their peak religious experiences. There is a small area in the back of the subconscious mind that constantly calculates spatial orientation—the sense of where one’s body ends and the world begins. During intense prayer or meditation, this area becomes “a quiet oasis of inactivity.” And in a related article published in
Psychiatry Research
, “...they have a complete dissolving of the self, and sense of union, a sense of infinite spacelessness.” This area is in the subconscious mind.

In each case above, the key to successful praying was the subconscious mind, not the conscious mind.

KEY NO. 2: USE AFFIRMATIVE PRAYER

Many prayers are an affirmation of something desired. A prayer can be, for example, for a physical healing for yourself or someone else, better job, or bringing more loving relationships into your life. Thus, your affirmative prayer should be based on the same rules outlined in Lesson Eight. Take a minute and go back to Lesson Eight and review the section on affirmations.

Importantly, the subconscious mind and the Universal Mind do not operate in the same time frame your conscious
mind does. So your affirmative prayer must be stated in the
present
tense. You must talk, see, feel, and act as if you
already have
the results you are praying for. If you pray for better health but think and visualize yourself as being sick,
being sick
is what your subconscious mind projects to the Universal Mind. And the Universal Mind will grant your prayer—being sick.