Feeling is the Secret

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To seek on the outside for that which you do not feel you are is to seek in vain, for we never find that which we want; we find only that which we are. Incurable diseases, wars, starvation, human suffering - all can be solved without lifting a finger from your couch. You just have to imagine it and it'll come true. And if it didn't, well then, you've probably tried not hard enough. How does this make you feel? Happy? Do you feel all-powerful? Good. This is the only thin strand that holds this philosophy together - the superficial feeling of happiness. Away with the truth if it interferes with your happiness, away with reality if it obscures your dreams. This is pragmatism in its most naked form. When you pray, enter into your closet, and when you have shut your door, pray to your Father which is in secret and your Father which is in secret shall reward you openly. The subconscious never sleeps. Sleep is the door through which the conscious, waking mind passes to be creatively joined to the subconscious. To be realized, then, the wish must be resolved into the feeling of being or having or witnessing the state sought. This is accomplished by assuming the feeling of the wish fulfilled.”

If you are discouraged, dissatisfied, or feel like a failure: change this state of consciousness before falling asleep. Imagine the realized wish. Don’t worry about how you got there; only focus on the fulfilled state. Feel it as best you can. The conditions and events of your life are your children formed from the molds of your subconscious impressions in sleep. They are made in the image and likeness of your innermost feeling that they may reveal you to yourself.

Never think about the 'how' aspect of your desire manifesting, but only that it has been manifested already;

Although the subconscious faithfully serves man, it must not be inferred that the relation is that of a servant to a master as was anciently conceived. The ancient prophets called it the slave and servant of man. St. Paul personified it as a "woman" and said, "The woman should be subject to man in everything" [Ephesians 5:24; also, 1Corinthians 14:34, Ephesians 5:22, Colossians 3:18, 1Peter 3:1]. The subconscious does serve man and faithfully gives form to his feelings. However, the subconscious has a distinct distaste for compulsion and responds to persuasion rather than to command; consequently, it resembles the beloved wife more than the servant. So why don’t we impress upon our minds what we want to receive and feel happiness, which is an act of faith as we haven’t yet received it but are already in the “thank you, Jesus” mode? And as promised, we will receive what we have already received in our minds and hearts as our senses absorb that happiness and impress it upon the subconscious mind, which, in turn, RESPONDS and draws that result to us. It is easier to ascribe your feeling to events in the world than to admit that the conditions of the world reflect your feeling. However, it is eternally true that the outside mirrors the inside. Whatsoever things ye desire, when ye pray believe that you have received them, and ye shall have them.

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The world cannot change until you change your conception of it – that is, the world changes when you change the way you feel about it. To realize a worldly change, assume the feeling that you would have if it were just how you desire it to be. It is in sleep and in prayer, a state akin to sleep, that man enters the subconscious to make his impressions and receive his instructions. In these states the conscious and subconscious are creatively joined. The male and female becom he should always assume the feeling of accomplishment and satisfaction before here tires in sleep…”

The subconscious transcends reason and is independent of induction. It contemplates a feeling as a fact existing within itself and on this assumption proceeds to give expression to it. The creative process begins with an idea and its cycle runs its course as a feeling and ends in a volition to act. The quality of the conscious two-thirds of our life is measured by the degree of attention we give our sleep. In sleep and prayer – a state akin to sleep – a person enters their subconscious to make impressions and receive the necessary instructions to objectify them. During these times, the conscious & subconscious minds are creatively joined. The conditions and events that take place in your life are results of the impressions made on your subconscious during sleep. What you have in your conscious mind right as you fall asleep is what will be expressed in your waking life. In a little while, a faraway feeling accompanied by a general lassitude and loss of all desire to move envelops you. You feel a pleasant, comfortable rest and not inclined to alter your position, although under other circumstances you would not be at all comfortable. When this passive state is reached, imagine that you have realized your wish – not how it was realized, but simply the wish fulfilled. Imagine in picture form what you desire to achieve in life; then feel yourself as having already achieved it. Thoughts produce tiny little speech movements which may be heard in the passive state of prayer as pronouncements from without. However, this degree of passivity is not essential to the realization of your prayers. All that is necessary is to create a passive state and feel the wish fulfilled. All you can possibly need or desire is already yours. You need no helper to give it to you; it is yours now. Call your desires into being by imagining and feeling your wish fulfilled. As the end is accepted, you become totally indifferent as to possible failure, for acceptance of the end wills the means to that end.” Let’s take the popularly quoted passage Mark 9:23: If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.

Feeling Is The Secret – Sleep

On the other hand, the undisciplined man finds it difficult to believe that which is denied by the senses and usually accepts or rejects solely on appearances of the senses. Because of this tendency to rely on the evidence of the senses, it is necessary to shut them out before starting to pray, before attempting to feel that which they deny. Whenever you are in the state of mind "I should like to, but I cannot", the harder you try, the less you are able to yield to the wish. You never attract that which you want, but always attract that which you are conscious of being. Even though the book is a small one, it is full of nuances. It is, therefore, advisable to have read this book several times, which shouldn’t be a problem with a reading time of less than an hour. Al oír esto, Jesús se maravilló de él, y volviéndose, dijo a la gente que le seguía: Os digo que ni aun en Israel he hallado tanta fe. SLEEP, the life that occupies one-third of our stay on earth, is the natural door into the subconscious… Chapter 3: Prayer