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Date Posted: 16:06:57 07/01/08 Tue
In reply to:
Maryse
's message, "Re: From Spirit John J. INGALLS: MEDIUMSHIP, ITS LAWS, CONDITIONS AND RESULTS" on 15:58:44 07/01/08 Tue
LXXVII
SUB-CONSCIOUS MIND
By MICHAEL FARADAY
You will all realize that much of your valuable information and experience comes when the active mind is passive or asleep, or as it were, when your waking faculties are closed in with the walls of slumber. Some authorities will tell you that dreams are all nothing but astral visions or visitations, but it has been my experience to learn that only a part of them are such.
Many things, persons and places will be visited by you in your sleeping hours, and these happenings are real, just as the occurrences of your waking state; only it is your astral body that carries you to these places in sleep, as your material body in the moments of wakefulness. Oftentimes the mind in sleep will experience, and the eye will see a panorama of visions, will visit certain friends; and this is invariably the action of the subconscious mind when these appearances are very swift and not very clearly defined.
When there is a crowd of pictures going continually before you, and you go very swiftly and without reason to places of great distance, it is usually the action again of the sub-conscious mind. There are times when the sub-conscious mind acts on various thoughts of yours even in the waking state.
There are also numbers of persons who even use the subconscious mind more than the commonly conscious. The souls of these individuals are more or less inspired, as they are more often artists of some distinction.
They are always called the dreamers of the world by their fellows. The look of the distant soul-fire is shining gloriously in their eyes. All their ideas are born through the ideal, while the prosaic mind only forms its ideas through clear-eyed reason.
The sub-conscious mind dreams dreams which are never realized. Hypnotic demonstration must always act upon the sub-conscious mind and most of the so-called wonders of hypnosis are simply the actions of the subconscious mind moved by the operator.
Persons who are much given to somnambulism, develop a certain lively action of the sub-conscious mind and often their movements are foolish and aimless, but at times they display a great amount of speed and intelligence.
Somnambulism is a phase of the sub-conscious mind's action that has been studied by many of the best scientific men in your world for many years.
But aside from the mental demonstration of the sub-conscious mind, we can find no physical demonstration whatever.
Much of the phenomena of Spiritualism is said to be due to the sub-conscious mind; but if this is true, then all the phenomena of Nature are caused by mind action simply.
This, my friends, you will have to deny, and as the materialization of Nature's garden is acted upon by the same laws as form or spirit materialization, then you will have to acknowledge that the sub-conscious mind has nothing whatever to do with the phenomena of Spiritualism. Any result given by action of this mind force must first be conceived in the mentality and then generated into action when the subject is somewhat in an unconscious condition. The phenomena of Spiritualism come from the elements acted upon by the intelligence of departed human beings, there is nothing more impossible than to suppose the action of mind alone is responsible.
To suppose for one instant that the sub-conscious mind is in any way responsible for any class of physical or spiritual manifestation, is to suppose an impossibility. And those authors who have written and likewise spoken so much on the subject, claiming the sub-conscious mind as the true hypothesis for such manifestation, are only making excuses to clear away the right definition of a subject upon which they are woefully ignorant.
You can gaze around you every day and witness the various materializations of nature; the flowers, the trees, the oceans thundering forth their mighty voices, the mountains arising in all their varied majesty, and the tiny rivulet that winds its peaceful way through pleasant valleys of gentleness and plenty. Watch the expression of all the glorious flowers and see if you can notice any workings there of the sub-conscious mind of man that are responsible for all of this life and beauty.
Remember and always keep in mind that all materialization can but occur on the same law precisely; and so the same Father-Mother which is building the materialization of Nature for you of earth to enjoy, so does the Father-Mother build the materialization of spirits and other manifestation, to enlighten you of the darkness of earth.
We have oftentimes heard many persons on attending séances of any kind say: "Oh, well, it might have been the sub-conscious mind which caused those forms to float before us as our power of thought might have caused that moving panorama of faces and forms to pass before us, that was all I think; yet it is the most wonderful thing I ever saw."
Oh, the mind of man in all its vanity and folly, that it is at once more satisfied with a meaningless, soulless form thrown on the wall as the reflection of a moving picture than with the truth and blessed knowledge that these wonderful visitors are really in evidence to prove to us the existence of another life! They would much prefer any excuse that they might flee the further from the truth.
Then there are some, indeed, who wish to sound very learned in the ears of their hearers when they prate impossibilities of the much worn subconscious mind. They probably believe that only a few people have ever heard of the sub-conscious mind, and they will straightway enlighten them. Then, too, they sometimes think they will astound their hearers with their superior wisdom and explanations, and are vainglorious enough to feel proud of mystifying a few, if convincing none.
My friends, in all earnestness and sincerity, you should all learn early in life to be justly proud only of a real truth, however simple it may be; for it is only the truth and simplicity of a thing which makes that thing cognizable. To know the real power of the so-called sub-conscious mind is valuable; but to over-estimate it is folly, nothing- short of childishness.
We have now, however, some young authors who are coming up swiftly in the world who will set, the people right on a great many things; for your present age on earth is one of righteousness and reason, veracity and truth, and the time is present when the people will no longer take the hollow, empty but high sounding excuse for a thing, but will clamor until they get that thing in all its truth.
MICHAEL FARADAY
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