Sleep Brings Counsel
A young lade in Los Angeles who listens to my morning radio talks told me that she had been offered a lucrative position in New York City at twice her present salary. She was wondering whether to accept or not and prayed prior to sleep as follows: “The creative intelligence of my subconscious mind knows what is best for me. Its tendency is always lifeward, and it reveals to me the right decision which blesses me and all concerned. I give thanks for the answer which I know will come to me.”
She repeated this simple prayer over and over again as a lullaby prior to sleep and in the morning she had a persistent feeling that she should not accept the offer. She rejected the offer and subsequent events verified that her inward sense of knowing, because the company went bankrupt a few months following their offer of employment to her.
The conscious ind may be correct on the facts objectively known, but the intuitive faculty of her subconscious mind saw the failure of the concern in question and prompted her accordingly.
Saved From Certain Disaster
I will illustrate how the wisdom of your subconscious mind can instruct you and protect you relative to your request for right action as you go to sleep.
Many years ago, before the Second World War, I was offered a very lucrative assignment in the Orient, and I prayer for guidance and right decision as follows: “Infinite Intelligence within me knows all things, and the right decision is revealed to me in divine order. I will recognize the answer when it comes.”
I repeated this simple prayer over and over again as a lullaby prior to sleep and in a dream came the vivid realization of things to come three years hence. An old friend appeared in the dream and said, “Read these headlines – do not go!” The headlines of the newspaper which appeared in the dream related to war and the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Occasionally, the writer dreams literally. The aforementioned dream was undoubtedly a dramatization of the subconscious mind which projected a person whom I trusted and respected. To some a warning may come in the form of a mother who appears in a dream. She tells the person not to go here or there, and the reason for the warning. Your subconscious mind is all-wise. It knows all tings. Oftentimes it will speak to you only in a voice that your conscious mind will immediately accept as true. Sometimes your subconscious mind will warn you in a voice which sounds like that of your mother or some loved one which may cause you to stop on the street, and you find, if you had gone another foot, a falling object from a window might have struck you on the head.
My subconscious mind is one with the universal subconscious and it knew the Japanese were planning a war, and it also knew when the war would start.
Dr Rhine, director of the Department of Psychology at Duke University, has gathered together a vast amount of evidence showing that a great number of people all over the world see events before they happen, and in many instances are, therefore, able to avoid the tragic event which was foreseen vividly in a dream.
The dream I had, showed clearly the headlines in the New York Timesabout three years prior to the tragedy of Pearl Harbor. In consequence of this dream, I immediately canceled the trip as I felt a subconscious compulsion to do so. Three years later the Second World War proved the truth of the inner voice of intuition.
Your Future Is In Your Subconscious Mind
Remember that the future, the result of your habitual thinking, is already in your mind except when you change it through prayer. The future of a country, likewise, is in the collective subconscious of the people of that nation. There is nothing strange in the dream I had wherein I saw the headlines of the New York newspapers long before the war began. The war had already taken place in mind, and all the plans of attack were already engraved on that great recording instrument, the subconscious mind or collective unconscious of the universal mind. Tomorrow's events are in your subconscious mind, so are next week's and next month's and they may be seen by a highly psychic or clairvoyant person.
No disaster or tragedy can happen to you if you decide to pray. Nothing is predetermined or foreordained. Your mental attitude, i.e. the way you think, feel and believe determines your destiny. You can, through scientific prayer, which is explained in a previous chapter, mold, fashion and create your own future. Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
A Catnap Nets Him $15,000
One of my students mailed me a newspaper clipping three or four years ago about a man called Ray Hammerstrom, a roller at the steel works in Pittsburgh, operated by Jones and Laughlin Steel Corporation. He received $15,000 for his dream.
According to the article , the engineers could not fix a faulty switch in a newly installed bar mill which controlled the delivery of straight bars to the cooling beds. The engineers worked on the switch about eleven or twelve times to no avail.
Hammerstrom thought a lot about the problem and tried to figure out a new design which might work. Nothing worked. One afternoon he lay down for a nap and prior to sleep he began to think about the answer to the switch problem. He had a dream in which the perfect design for the switch was portrayed. When he awoke, he sketched his new design according to the outline of his dream.
This visionary catnap won Hammerstrom a check for $15,000, the largest award the firm ever gave an employee for a new idea.
How A Famous Professor Solved His Problem In Sleep
Dr H V Helprecht, Professor of Assyrian at the University of Pennsylvania, wrote as follows: “One Saturday evening I had been wearying myself in the vain attempt to decipher two small fragments of agate which were supposed to belong to the finger rings of some Babylonians.
“About midnight, weary and exhausted, I went to bed and dreamed the following remarkable dream: A tall thin priest of Nippur, about forty years of age, led me to the treasure chamber of the temple...a small, low-ceilinged room without windows, with scraps of agate and lapis-lazuli scattered on the floor. Here he addressed me as follows: The two fragments, which you have published separately on pages 22 and 26 belong together, and are not finger rings. The first two rings served as earrings for the statue of god; the two fragments you have are the portions of them. If you will put them together you will have confirmation of my words.”
I awoke at once. I examined the fragments and to my astonishment found the dream verified. The problem was then at last solved.”
This demonstrates clearly the creative manifestation of his subconscious mind which knew the answer to all his problems.
How The Subconscious Worked For A Famous Write While He Slept
Robert Louis Stevenson in one of his books, Across the Plains, devotes a whole chapter to dreams. He was a vivid dreamer and had the persistent habit of giving specific instructions to his subconscious every night prior to sleep. He would request his subconscious to evolve stories for him while he slept. For example, if Stevenson's funds were at a low ebb, his command to his subconscious would be something like this: “Give me a good thrilling novel which will be marketable and profitable.” His subconscious responded magnificently.
Stevenson says, “These little brownies (the intelligences and powers of his subconscious) can tell me a story piece by piece, like a serial, and keep me, its supposed creator, all the while in total ignorance of where they aim.” And he added: “That part of my work which is done when I am up and about (which he is consciously aware and awake) is by no means necessarily mine, since all goes to show that the brownies have a hand in it even then.”
Sleep In Peace & Wake In Joy
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