In addition to perception, the Subconscious Mind is also home for our Permanent Memory. Every piece of data ever received through any of our five senses is stored in our Subconscious Mind for recall and review. In fact, this is what makes us who we truly are. We will think our next thought, act our next action and feel our next feeling based upon everything that has happened in our past. We are the sum total of all our past.
Next in the subconscious is Emotion, all of them, good and bad. The Subconscious Mind is the feeling mind. Wait until you see the importance of Emotions to our health. You may know that they are important-but wait until you see to what extent! One of the things that scares me about our society is that we give free rein to filth, obscene language, sex and violence under the banner of free speech, while goodness must fight for its right to even whisper. There is a reason for this: consumer science. These scientists of consumption are the ones who determine what you get to see and hear via the TV, radio and printed media. Consumer scientists know that people consume when they are feeling empty. Goodness breeds fullness. Filth and conflict breed emptiness. But filth and conflict also breed bigotry, violence and corruption.
Consumer scientists harmonize with another group I will describe later and in more detail as the equalogists. The equalogists campaign for laws designed to scare us into not feeling the emotions hypnotically installed by the consumer scientists. Allowing negative emotions to be hypnotically installed by our wonderful consumer scientists, and then punishing their unknowing subjects if they act out the post-hypnotic suggestions installed by these creators of emptiness, is poisonous to the human psyche. Holding in negative emotions is repression. It fills prisons, it kills and holy cow, does it sell a lot of medicine!
The last thing you need to know about the Subconscious Mind is that it’s the Protective Mind. It will protect us from dangers, real or imagined. That’s what phobias are all about. The mind is protecting us from a danger that isn’t even there. But the subconscious imagines it’s real; the panic attack a phobic feels is the Subconscious Mind telling the person to get out of the current situation it perceives as a danger.
When we’re dealing with the Protective Mind, we have to ask: What’s important to this mind? What are its priorities? What is it protecting and how? Well, the number one need of any human being is security. Number two is love. Now, love is not less important than security. But security is the one thing that we as humans are given a sample of by default. When we’re in the womb, it’s the warmest, safest, most secure environment we know as a human being. It’s the first thing we know as a human being. For nine months, it’s the only thing we know. Then all of a sudden there’s a squeeze, a push, bright lights, cold steel table and we go from the only environment we’ve known for nine months (and by coincidence a pretty cozy and nice environment) to someplace new and opposite everything we knew for those first nine months.
But too many people, including most professionals, make a mistake here. They align security with pleasure. Security doesn’t come from the pleasure of the first nine months. Security comes from the familiarity of the first nine months. It was the same thing every day, from the first moment the soul took the body. Everyone wants to spin security and pleasure as one thread and weave it throughout all of maternity. Security is not that which is pleasurable! Security is that which is familiar!
Let’s say you have a certain perception of something. The second you acquire this perception, you have something to compare new input against. From here, any new experience that harmonizes with that first impression will create a very secure feeling. “The rest of the world just agreed with how I feel.” That is a very secure feeling. When information coming from the outside is not in harmony with that inner perception, it creates a very insecure feeling. We will see the mechanism of the mind that makes this so, later.
Love may be just as important as security and the lack of it may be even more detrimental. The difference is that we aren’t guaranteed a taste of love by default. You see, if two love-starved people bring a child into this world, they can’t give that child what they themselves don’t have. I might want to give a million dollars to every homeless person on the street. But if I don’t have a million dollars, no matter what my intention, I can’t give to another what I myself don’t first possess. So a child born to two love-starved parents has never had a taste of love. The child doesn’t know what love tastes like or feels like, but the child does have something inside we might consider a calling. The child is looking for it, but he doesn’t know what “it” is.
A child accepts whatever is offered earliest in life as love. If that is distance and criticism, distance and criticism becomes the inner, goal-achieving mind’s definition of love. Now, as an adult looking for love, that person will naturally gravitate toward people whose tendency is toward the condition of distance and criticism. Now don’t worry. That sounds sad, and we’ve all heard of the person who “married their father or mother,” but there is a healthy reason for not being encoded with a true definition of love. In fact, this touches on the essence of life’s meaning. More on that later!
Now we have the last and most important piece of equipment in the Conscious Mind. We call it the Critical Faculty of the Conscious Mind. It resides in the Conscious Mind, but it takes its orders from the subconscious condition. This is the part of the mind that I get paid to bypass as a professional hypnotist. Remember, the most powerful goal-achieving agency known to man cannot judge a suggestion. That’s a pretty vulnerable combination. If a suggestion reaches the Subconscious Mind, it will accept that suggestion as fact and make it so-no questions asked!
So the Critical Faculty exists to protect this vulnerable nature of the Subconscious Mind. Here’s how the Critical Faculty does its job. It takes every incoming suggestion from the outside world and stops it. It then compares that incoming suggestion to every perception we hold on the subject. If the new suggestion is not in harmony with the old perception, the critical faculty’s job--and it is incredibly effective--is to stop the new suggestion, and like a mirror reflecting light, reject it. If, however, the new suggestion is stopped and found to be in harmony with the inner perception, the critical faculty swings open and lets it pass. Right here we encounter one of the most powerful laws of the mind, the law of compounding. It says that every impression carries a weight ... a weight of belief, you might say.
Every time a new suggestion from the outside world is stopped and found to be in harmony with our inner perceptions, like accumulating mass, the weight of the new impression is compounded into the pre-existing beliefs (or perception). Through that compounding, our belief in the accumulating perception grows proportionately stronger than ever. In this way a person’s subconscious, goal-achieving mind works to manifest perceptions with increasing or lessening enthusiasm over time, depending upon life’s accumulating experiences, factored against the existing weight of the first suggestion on any subject discussed. A first suggestion goes in unrestricted. Immediately a protective barrier forms in its wake. Any approaching thought from this point is stopped. If its implications are familiar to our inner perceptions, it’s accepted. If they are not in harmony, then it’s rejected. Now we see why security is not that which is pleasurable, but that which is familiar. This is the mechanism of the mind that makes familiarity the number one goal of the human mind! And by the way, this is the one piece of the mind that Western medicine refuses to acknowledge, respect or understand. Without respect for this part of the mind there can be little healing.
Now, if this Critical Faculty was hard to identify, I could understand why certain people and professionals would be so resistant. But I’m going to show you your critical faculty in action, and you tell me if you have to be a born-again Freud to see this thing perform. Follow along. This is the actual test! Read the next statement and feel your mind respond.
Now, true or false--not just figuratively,