Seeing Our Mental Pictures Through E-Book

George Schubel

• Herausgeber: Andura Publishing
• Kategorie: Ratgeber
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2020

Beschreibung

Experience the life-changing power of George Schubel with this unforgettable book.

Leseprobe

Seeing Our Mental Pictures Through

George Schubel

CONTENTS

FOREWORD

The phenomenal sale of “ How To Make Our Mental Pictures Come True ” has dem­onstrated the wide-spread interest existing in the subject of Visualizing, and this, to­gether with the great demand for further enlightenment, has prompted the publica­tion of this second book.

The author is considered the foremost writer of the day on Visualizing, and in practically every instance where his instruc­tions have been faithfully carried out, the same remarkable results have been achieved which he has achieved in his own business and private career. His mental pictures of a newspaper, a prosperous business, fac­tory and office buildings, friends, and all the luxuries of life can be made realities by everyone who studies this book and ap­plies the principles explained therein.

The present supplementary volume re­states some of the fundamental principles of mental photography, and provides in de­tail many illuminating examples and experiences from real life to help illustrate the lessons set forth. Follow the instructions and you can make your hearts fondest desire come true.

Seeing Our Mental Pictures Through

CHAPTER I

SELECTING OUR MENTAL OBJECT

IT is expected that the previous lessons contained in the volume: — * ‘ How To Make Our Mental Pictures Come True M have made the student reasonably familiar with the mento-mechanical and men to- chemical principles involved in the science of Visualizing. The purpose of this present volume is to present to the student certain preliminaries and preparations which have been found to be of great value in the actual application of these principles in visualiz­ing work.

The first preliminary, of course, on the part of one interested in visualizing is to know just what is wanted to be reproduced.

One must have a definite object in view. This point may seem trite but not so when applied to visualizing work.

We find that many minds when con­fronted for the first time with the sugges­tion to fix upon some definite object which they would like to have materialized in their outward lives, are unable to do so.

All of us would like to have the u better things of life ” because that is the continual tendency which serves us in our outward de­velopment into ever finer men and women; but the outpush of this desire is general, and for this reason our minds are indefinite, wavering, and indetermined when we are asked to specialize this desire into some­thing definite. We say that we cannot “make up ” our minds, meaning thereby that we are mentally unable or disinclined to put forth the necessary mental effort to u make up ” a definite object out of the luminous primary substance upon which our minds work.

Why Your Mental Pictures Sometimes Fail

Minds which cannot form mental con­cepts in a definite, orderly and selective manner, are of many kinds. The faculties of some are weak, or undeveloped, and therefore unable to perform the structural work involved in mechanically formulating a definite object of thought, and in this class we place those whose inability has been as­cribed generally to mental laziness or in­dolence. We would say rather that in most cases this inability is due to mental weak­ness or undevelopment. Very often such minds 4 4 feel ” that they want “ something different ” but are unable to say just what it is that they want, indicating that the gen­eral urge within them is functioning normally in desire, but that they are unable mentally to manipulate and formulate it to a point where it becomes a definite concept of the mind.

Such minds in fulfilling the necessities of their outward existence can be assisted in two ways. One may be through the aid of another mind whose ability in formulat­ing mental concepts is strong and positive. This requires a visualizing instructor pos­sessing a strong, constructive mind, and who will work in love and in truth, for us and with us. In fact any friend, possessing this up-building power of mind, can assist by simple encouragement as we go on, and such a friend is a friend indeed who “ calls us out of ourselves,” meaning that we are helped to formulate our subjective thinking in the direction of outward things; such a friendly mind is able to show us what we want to be or do or have and can help us to establish definite mental objects for our out- picturing. The other method is to be found in the elementary actions and reactions on our natures whereby our outward lives are differentiated and formulated spontan­eously and by a general law outside of our immediate individual application. It is the elementary method by which we are fash­ioned by forces outside of our own con­trol and direction. We react against an unpleasant environment, condition, circum­stance, or affair in our lives, or in response or opposition to a powerful tendency or de­sire within, until by an elementary force of this kind we are driven, many times with suffering, to “ make a change ” which could have been accomplished by the definite and deliberate erection of mental concepts.

How to Regulate Your Visualizing

We must remember that in its elementary stage, the specialization of the light within us into thought-images, or pictures, is not a regulated specialization. We know by the experience of what we call dreams, and dur­ing our waking hours as well, that there is an uncontrolled imaging taking place, sometimes as unintermittently as a reel of moving pictures, yet without the order and meaning which a moving picture would have, appearing in rapid, often haphazard and unreasoned sequence, without an indi­vidual initiative on our part; and conse­quently disordered because mordered, without the stages of progression which conscious specialization through us brings. By the process of conscious specialization we mean the conscious action of our special­ized minds upon the thought-images as they present themselves, and this action, in all conscious visualizing, is very much like the censorship board which passes upon the pictures of the movies. It selects the pic­ture to be developed, making our visualiz­ing a governed visualizing.

In this regulated visualizing, we are able to select the picture which we want and can test its acceptability by asking ourselves 4 4 Is this the thought-image or picture of my life, my business, my home, my family, my surroundings which I want to specialize, or bring into concrete manifestation? ”

In many instances we try to resist this elementary outpush, yet have no deliberate mental method to take its place in express­ing and fulfilling our outward destiny. When this occurs we struggle against in­stead of working with, and giving direction to this urge within, proceeding with very little change in our outward lives, and con­tinuing poor indeed insofar as a wholesome, well-rounded, well-filled and fully evolved objective life on this plane is concerned.

Just as there are minds with weak and undeveloped mechanical faculties, unable to see and formulate definite mental objects, so there are minds with a directly opposite failing. Their faculties are prodigiously active; too active for normal development on the outward plane. They are able to glimpse the countless paradigms one after another as they disclose themselves subjectively in the pattern-world. We say that such minds have a rich and active imagination; their imaging faculties are constantly active in the mechanically struc­tural work of building or erecting thought- patterns. They are the minds with whom it is necessary for the mind weak in visual­izing and in object-building to associate, because they are rich in inspiration and il­lumination, but of course, their imaging power must be regulated and controlled otherwise they find themselves in the same unfortunate position of their opposites. They will go forth in life, very much like the camera-enthusiast who goes forth for the purpose of taking some snap-shots and then, coming amid scenes and views aplenty which catch the fancy of his eye, is unable to decide upon just what objects he wants to focus his camera.

In our wonderful inward lives we are given an unlimited wealth of choice and range of mental objects which we may re­produce outwardly for our greater joy and happiness; the prospect before us is un­limited ; all that we want to be, or have, or do is given unto us to outpicture, but in visualizing as in photography, we must de­cide upon a definite object and hold it in view.

How to Get Your Mental Energy Down to Business

There is another type of mind to which no object in life in particular occurs. Per­sons of this kind are very much in the same position as a person who might go forth with a Kodak on a Sunday afternoon with nothing in particular in mind which they desire to reproduce; the mind-camera of such persons is trained nowhere in particu­lar ; and they are just as well satisfied when no object occurs to them on their journey through life. Such minds have very few definite objects in life; and until they are animated by the glory, inspiration and en­thusiasm experienced by the amateur cam- era-enthusiast who takes joy in reproduc­ing the wonders and beauties of nature and of all things, they will not find interest in deliberately and scientifically providing those definite mental objects in the reproduction of which there is so much creational inspiration and in the rightful having of which we can find such intense joy and happiness.

Lastly we speak of the abstract-thinking mind which finds the deliberate formulation of a definite mental object difficult, We cannot mentally photograph an abstract thought, as little as a photographer can take a photograph of the sky or of a landscape unless these contain objects — clouds, birds, horizon-line, hills, cows, trees and roads. If these objects were not a part of his outlook the reproduced picture would appear as a blank. Visualizing cannot deal with mental abstractions and until this type of mind is educated and trained to develop and use its mechanical faculties, definite visualizing re­sults are impossible. It is only as we define our desires into modes or moulds of objec­tive thinking, and our objective thinking into terms of three dimensions — length, breadth and thickness — that we are able to establish definite objects of thought for reproduction.

It will be found helpful for such minds to formulate and establish definite mental concepts by direct means of visible objects.

Thus, a student of this type of mind, anxious to visualize let us say a home, should secure catalogues and books illus­trating homes, select the one most desirable and then hold it in consciousness until it can be seen very definitely in the mind with eyes closed and without the outward illustration. Rooms can be selected in a similar manner, together with their furnishings and all other details, until finally the mind has a very definite and detailed pattern of a home on which to work.

This happens unconsciously in many cases where a certain mental object of the mind is acted upon by outside conditions and circumstances favorable to the estab­lishment and development of the picture. An intern, for instance, attends patients just as if he were a physician, and even though he does do a lot of damage to us at this time, he talks, acts and feels like a “ regular ” and glides into his career as a physician almost without any conscious evi­dence of the transition.

We observe this still more in the girl who, for instance, is unconsciously visualizing a home of her own. We see her fussing about the kitchen, attempting to bake cakes, and persisting in making biscuits which every- me tries to excuse themselves from eating. CJnwittingly she is making her picture by the help of these outward related things to which she applies herself with such interest.

A Mental Picture that Came True

Another instance is interestingly told by a successful business man:

“One of the strongest patterns outlined in my own mind was a long while materi­alizing. It was etched upon my mind as a lad of twelve growing up in Kentucky.

“On our main street was the county’s only bank, and in the president’s office was the county’s only roll-top desk. From the hour I first laid eyes upon it, the enchant­ment was enslaving. Once when selling a newspaper to this money king, I had dared to raise and lower its folding mechanism and my imagination continued the opera­tion far into the night. I began to visualize the future in the terms of a roll-top desk.

“From my mother’s millinery shop I se­cured an old-fashioned spool case which, thanks to rare flights of imagination, I im­provised into my first roll-top desk. This mechanical success was achieved only to find a roll-top desk of little consequence in the absence of mail to be answered from it or filed away in its pigeon holes. This handicap was short lived, for a travelling man who shared my confidence was quick to suggest that I would find in the mail-order houses of New York and Chicago prolific correspondents. I recall the day my postal cards were sent to the big mail-order houses, asking them to put me on their mailing lists for catalogues, circular letters, etc. Soon I began to reccive all the mail I could answer. We had in our town what we called a tri-daily mail service, — that is, the train ran around the foot-hills to the trunk line every morning and tried to get back that night. That train never came in late enough to find me in bed. I was always at the Post Office with the village merchants, waiting for my mail: moreover, I took it home, spread it out on my roll-top desk, and answered it with all the promptness of a man who had money with which to buy. My friends said that I was spending all my time and postage for nothing, because I could not buy anything. Years later, upon reach­ing New York and taking possession of my first roll-top desk, I found how true it was to the mental pattern.

“Thus my roll-top desk became the re­minder of one of life’s most valued lessons —  that I am always seeing what I look for. My roll-top desk has been u seed-corn ” which sent in an abundant harvest on the first incoming ship. Since that* day I have taught myself to expect nothing for which I cannot construct the concrete mental life; that every great career has had its air- castle stage; that the world’s greatest em­pire builders first ran toy trains over toy railroad tracks. One of life’s best hours was when the drayman moved that roll-top desk into my home study.”

You Can Consciously Establish Your Concept

However, we can consciously and deliber­ately establish our mental concepts just as this business man did in an unconscious manner. We are acquainted with a dress goods merchant in a prosperous small town who makes it a practice to visit the large department stores of New York City once a week. He goes there, he says, to browse and dream, and saturate himself with the atmosphere of the place. He makes himself cognizant of big things and then mentally appropriates them for the purpose of the enlarged picture of his own store which he is establishing in his mind.

This method of establishing mental con­cepts is by means of what we call outer re­actions, whereby our mechanical faculties are heated by desire to a degree where they begin to move into self-operation, impress­ing upon the invisible substance of mind a corresponding reproduction in the form of an object of thought of what has been ob­served in an outward way. But there is a higher method which the master mind prac­tices; the method of going into the pattern- world of thought and there seeing the para­digm of what we want, and wanting it to an extent where it causes an inner reaction, thereby setting into operation the same mcchanical faculties which the outer reac­tions do. In fact the inner reaction must occur. We cannot make a mental object which has been stimulated as the result of some reaction from without, a truly definite object, unless it comes through the same form of evolvement by means of which the pattern-thought forms itself into a mental object. Whether from within or without, our mental object must originate as the re­sult of a primary desire ingenerated within ourselves.