The Magic Power Of Your Mind E-Book

Walter M. Germain

• Herausgeber: David De Angelis
• Kategorie: Ratgeber
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2022

Beschreibung

HOW THIS BOOK CAN WORK MAGIC IN YOUR LIFE
 
THE moment you picked up this book, you held the key to rebuilding your life.
 
In the 367 pages that follow, there is set forth in plain terms knowledge that is scientifically sound, easy to understand and easy to apply to your own affairs.
 
As you read these pages—and as you fill in the very important sections that deal with you alone—you find out:
How to make of your life anything you want it to be.
How to free your days of the deadly monster, monotony, and fill your days with interest and pleasure and health and love.
How to make happiness a habit with you.
How to use every hour of the day—even your sleeping hours—to add years to your life and life to your years.
 
In the sixteen carefully arranged chapters that make up this book, you will read exactly how these things are possible. You will see they are possible for you.
 
Hardly a person has not said to himself: "If only I could change myself and do better!" And it is not only older people who look back and sigh over wasted decades. Young people, too, look back and realize they are not using their full powers, and think: "If only
I could change myself!"
 
This book shows you how to change yourself from within.
 
You have the power now. This book shows you how to find it.
 
The one great key: your Superconscious mind

Leseprobe

The Magic Power

Of Your Mind

How to Unleash Your Hidden Powers

Walter M. Germain

1956

Edition 2022 by ©David De Angelis

All rights are reserved

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HOW THIS BOOK CAN WORK MAGIC IN YOUR LIFE

THE moment you picked up this book, you held the key to rebuilding your life.

In the 367 pages that follow, there is set forth in plain terms knowledge that is scientifically sound, easy to understand and easy to apply to your own affairs.

As you read these pages—and as you fill in the very important sections that deal with you alone—you find out:

1. How to make of your life anything you want it to be.

2. How to free your days of the deadly monster, monotony, and fill your days with interest and pleasure and health and love.

3. How to make happiness a habit with you.

4. How to use every hour of the day—even your sleeping hours—to add years to your life and life to your years.

In the sixteen carefully arranged chapters that make up this book, you will read exactly how these things are possible. You will see they are possible for you.

Hardly a person has not said to himself: "If only I could change myself and do better!" And it is not only older people who look back and sigh over wasted decades. Young people, too, look back and realize they are not using their full powers, and think: "If only

I could change myself!"

This book shows you how to change yourself from within.

You have the power now. This book shows you how to find it.

The one great key: your Superconscious mind

There has been a great deal of recent interest in the subject of reincarnation. The Bridey Murphy experiment—which stirred the current curiosity—does little, however, to prove reincarnation and much to prove the existence of the Superconscious.

The Superconscious is able to tap what is known as the "collective unconscious," and in this way any person can relate incidents out of the past with a facility that is awe-inspiring.

The "collective unconscious" and its great motivating power, the Superconscious, are part of God's Golden Gift to man—the brain.

This marvelous organ is divided into two parts—the Conscious and the Superconscious.

The Conscious is that part of your brain used every day during all your waking hours. It operates through the five senses of sight, smell, taste, touch and hearing. It thinks—on a conscious level— and controls much of your planning and living.

When you go to sleep, or when you are hypnotized, or when you find the secret of reaching beyond your limited, Conscious mind . . . then your marvelous Superconscious takes over.

There is absolute proof that the Superconscious gives the power of hypnotism, clairvoyance, autosuggestion, telepathy and teleaudience. For your Superconscious, unlike the limited Conscious part of the mind, works through a sixth sense and keeps in touch with the Superconscious minds of all other people.

History proves the existence of the Superconscious

The accumulated knowledge of mankind was transmitted from generation to generation long before there were means of writing down this information.

History proves that civilizations separated by vast seas and continents and unable to communicate with one another in any way, apparently did develop the same discoveries. Why? How?

Because in the mind of every living man the Superconscious is constantly at work—at once receiving and transmitting all knowledge to all other Superconscious minds, and thus to all other men.

Your Superconscious is a storehouse of knowledge so vast we hardly can look back to the beginning of it. Here lies the memory of the whole human race—the accumulated wisdom of the ages! This vast accumulation never ends, never pauses.

The Superconscious is the secret of the child prodigy, the adult genius, the wise man of history and of today. It is the secret of those people who seem to be guided by an inner voice that never fails them . . . the happy people, the successful people, the people who attract love, the people who find their way out of difficulties, the people who seem always to live in the sun.

The Superconscious, unlike your limited Conscious mind, always knows how to put together facts so that they lead to correct conclusions.

The Superconscious remembers everything. Your Conscious mind feeds information to the Superconscious and then may forget it. But the Superconscious never forgets.

The Superconscious is the secret of the "hunch" that sometimes guides us—and can be developed into a constant, dependable guide.

The Superconscious can by-pass the limited Conscious mind and take absolute control of the functions and conditions of the body. The story of Alois Swaboda is an excellent example of how this occurs.

A famous story of mind over matter

The late Dr. Daniel Boone Herring, "Sage of the Desert," told me the story of Swaboda, whom he first met in 1899 in Omaha. Herring was at that time an inspector for the Pinkerton Detective Agency and first noticed Swaboda, then fifteen years old, taking his fill at a free-lunch counter in a saloon.

After seeing him eat the same way a second day, Herring arranged to get the youngster—whom he discovered was dying of consumption—a menial job at the saloon. The boy explained that he had hopped trains from New York, his birthplace, after his parents died of tuberculosis, determined to see the cow country. Three months later, his strength improved through regular eating, young Swaboda hopped another freight and continued on his way.

It was five years later that Herring next saw Swaboda, this time in New York City. He was robust and well dressed and looked little like the person who five years earlier was dying of tuberculosis. Herring said the boy was as robust as a timber wolf and his muscle control was fantastic. He was able to control every muscle in his body, down to the smallest.

Swaboda explained that a bum who came into the Omaha saloon one day to "mooch" a lemon started him on the trail to physical perfection. The bum sucked the juice from the lemon, and as he did Swaboda realized that the sight of a man doing this made him drool at the mouth. He reasoned—correctly—that thinking can make all the organs of the body function perfectly. Swaboda thus discovered the magic power of the Superconscious.

The boy went to Wyoming, got a ranch job there, and within the next few years built himself up to physical perfection. He had made the great discovery that cell structure can be renewed through the power of suggestion by the Superconscious.

The Superconscious is the key to achievement and self- betterment

If you turn to page 95 of this book, you can read the almost incredible story of Edgar Cayce of Virginia Beach, Virginia. Here was a man who, although he hardly knew what he was doing, was able to tap the powers of the collective unconscious—the wisdom of many gifted healers—through his own Superconscious mind.

Edgar Cayce, often working at a distance from the people he treated, was responsible for curing thousands of persons, in some cases those who had been given up as incurable by the most learned men in the medical profession.

Turn to page 147 and read the story of Mrs. John H. Curran of St. Louis. Mrs. Curran, a woman who had little education, tapped the knowledge of another woman, Patience Worth, who lived three centuries earlier in England. Actually, she found all the knowledge of this other woman in her own Superconscious. She wrote volumes of poetry and many best-selling novels—which she could not possibly have done through her own Conscious mind.

Turn to page 141 and read how Anne Wiltha of Windermere, England, has through the powers of her Superconscious found the ability to become a competent artist in oils and water-colors. Yet Mrs.

Wiltha never before had touched paints in her life. In fact, she had never even shown an aptitude for drawing!

There is the story of an English girl who spoke ancient Egyptian and helped linguists decipher the writings of that lost civilization. She did not learn ancient Egyptian in school; she found it stored in her Superconscious.

There is the story of Theresa Neumann who, after much suffering, was miraculously cured. In her waking moments she could speak nothing but the dialect of her own German village. But going into a trance she carried on whole conversations in ancient Hebrew, ancient Greek and Aramaic, the languages spoken in the Middle East at the time of Christ.

The famous attest to the power

Over and over, the world's famous and capable people have credited their ability to a power beyond their Conscious minds—the power we know as the Superconscious.

Thomas Alva Edison tells how "messages" came to him, directing his work to success. This was his Superconscious.

Robert Louis Stevenson spoke humorously of the "brownies" that guided him as he wrote his masterpieces. This was his Superconscious.

Today, G. C. Suite, director of research at the General Electric Company, tells how he and his staff get their best creative ideas from the limitless Superconscious.

Railroad pioneer Arthur Edward Stilwell's story of how he learned of the necessity of building a railroad in the West and how he avoided disaster by listening to the warnings of his Supra-conscious is startling reading.

These stories, and countless others, show how: you have within you the power to do with your life what you will.

The gift of the Superconscious is effective in healing, in learning, in getting other people to do what you want, in making yourself a better person.

The new psychology leads to unlimited accomplishment

In the pages that follow, a new world is opened to you.

In them is described the new psychology that will help you to understand yourself better. And having thus achieved understanding, you stand on the threshold of unlimited accomplishment.

This book shows you how to make what YOU want out of YOUR life.

The true stories you read about other people are only the first step you take in understanding yourself.

As you go deeper into this book you will find you can form more and more definite ideas about what you want in life and how to attain it—whether your wants are simple or complex, whether they depend upon other people or upon you alone.

Remember, your Superconscious can be controlled. The way to control it is to use suggestion.

By the time you reach page 55 you will be ready to learn the power of suggestion. You will see how to put it to work. You will see why it has been called the hidden, Golden Gift of mankind!

You will read of the control the Superconscious has over your Conscious mind and your body. You will see how to benefit others as well as yourself.

On page 87 you will begin to learn about the Supersense—or the "sixth sense" as many people call it—which explains the marvelous power of the Superconscious to gather the knowledge you need.

The marvelous power of your memory

Chapter 5, starting on page 127, gives you a startling new concept of something very familiar to you—your memory.

It will stagger you to realize how much you remember from your own experiences, let alone other persons'. How can you learn by experience if you don't instantly remember your experience? You can. You'll see how. You have knowledge enough to change the world—lying in the unexplored recesses of your mind, half forgotten!

When you reach page 157, you really will cross the threshold to mind power. Mind power, while it always has been the possession of mankind, only recently has become the basis of medicine's latest treatment. Medical science is finding out how great a power for health lies in the right kind of thinking.

Do you find it difficult to control your thinking? Mind power— YOUR mind power—is waiting for you to use it. Down through the ages, mind power has turned the ill into the well, the infirm into the active, the miserable into the happy.

The gift of gifts—a longer life

On page 179 a chapter begins that adds the final gift to health and happiness—the gift of longevity.

And not only that, but the gift of active, rewarding years not clouded with senility. Your increasing years can be your golden harvest years.

In Chapter 8, starting on page 201, you'll read how to use the power of prayer to keep body and mind functioning in health. See how the right kind of prayer becomes an education in self-

understanding and in making the greatest use of yourself. You are given five simple rules that help you generate this ability.

How about happiness?

Is happiness a matter of happenstance? Or is it a controllable matter, a state over which you have the power of creation or destruction?

The pages from 239 onward outline how you can develop the Happiness Habit. Happiness is a habit, and like all habits it remains for you to develop it. It is just as simple, too, to develop as any other habit.

Chapter 11, beginning on page 251, lists for you the rules of understanding disease—and conquering it. There is no medical jargon, or psychological terminology, to bog you down. In this chapter, in the plainest English, you will be shown how emotions can be destroyers equally as well as builders of health.

You will be shown the difference between the "knowing" of your emotions and the "understanding" of them. You will be given five easy rules to follow in your battle of health against disease and of ease against disease.

The new psychology discussed from page 269 onward, the psychology of positive-negative thinking, is the means to a new and better life for you. It is the key to the question of whether or not you can live your life over again.

The clue to the solution

There are hidden powers, magic powers, within you. This much has been shown thus far.

But how are you to use them? How are you to dig down into the complexities of the Supra-conscious and find these powers and utilize them?

On page 291 you will find the clue to the solution of this problem. The section that starts here shows where these powers lie within you and how you can reach into yourself to tap them and, when you have found them, how to make them work for you and your betterment.

The use of these powers is based on a seven-point hypothesis. This is:

1. The Superconscious is constantly amenable to control by the power of suggestion.

2. The Superconscious is incapable of independent reasoning by the processes of induction.

3. The power of the Superconscious to reason deductively from given premises to correct conclusions is practically perfect.

4. The Superconscious is endowed with perfect memory.

5. The Superconscious has absolute control of the functions and conditions of the body.

6. The Superconscious has the power to communicate by means other than the recognized channels of the five senses.

7. The Superconscious is capable of intuition and perception of the laws of nature.

Making your life thirty-three per cent longer

All these propositions are scientifically proven. They are the basis by which you are going to discover the magic power of your mind. They are the basis by which you are going to use the magic power of your mind. They are the basis by which you are going to make an entirely new life for yourself with this magic power.

Once you have acquired this knowledge, the problem then is to make the greatest use of it. That can only be done by increasing your life to a full twenty-four-hour day, every day. Only by using every single minute of the entire day can you make the greatest use of these magic powers. Chapter 14, which begins on page 317, outlines for you the method of making your life-function thirty-three per cent greater than it now is.

Your life can be vital and you alone can make it vital. There are twelve simple rules of living, a dozen easy ways of making yourself life limitless, happiness habitual, and giving yourself the wealth that is health.

A word to the unusually wise

Many people who read this Introduction will say it is an old story, told since the dawn of history, proved over and over again. Otherwise, how can we have human progress? Otherwise, how can even a fortunate few know happiness, serenity and success in whatever form they interpret success?

That is true. The secret is old. That is why we can depend on it.

But the approach is new. Never before has the Superconscious been explained this way. Never before has it been tied so closely to the problems of modern life. Now, at last, you need not be a saint or a genius, nor need you take years of your life to understand what is going on.

Never before have the ancient truths been clearly revealed in the new concept of positive-negative thinking (page 269). Nor has the wonderful habit of happiness ever been shown in the easy-to-use form that is explained in the pages beginning with page 239.

Yes, a secret known to the Sphinx may be repeated in these pages—but never before has it been made so clear cut, so easy to use—for anybody, anywhere, right now.

Nevertheless, if you already have the understanding—if you already know the magic power of your mind—start making this book work for you immediately.

Skip the first 54 pages. Start reading on page 55.

Of course, when you buy this book as a gift for the many persons you want to help, or when you tell them about the book, instruct them—the neophytes in the mysteries of the mind—to read the book from the beginning.

So . . . for the unusually wise, this book begins on page 55.

For those who wish to be wise, and are wise enough to know it, it begins on page 1.

For anyone who reads it, this book leads to the same conclusion:

You can find and use and improve the limitless power of your Superconscious.

And when you have done this, you'll know you never before were really alive.

THE

MAGIC POWER

OF YOUR

MIND

THE AUTHOR AND HIS BOOK

WALTERMONTGOMERYGERMAINwas born in Saginaw, Michigan, on February 22, 1890, a member of a pioneer family which had built a large part of early Saginaw. He has lived there all his life, engaging in business until 1929. In 1931, he was appointed Clerk of the Saginaw Police Department and, in 1934, Police Inspector. He served with the Police Department for twenty years, establishing in 1938 the first program of its kind in this country, in the Crime Prevention Division of the Saginaw Police Department, of which he became superintendent. This program worked with children and adolescents in the prevention of juvenile delinquency. As a result of his work with young people, the American Legion Magazine called him "the cop who cared." He left the Police Department to carry on further study in the prevention of crime; this led him into the study of psychology from which this book results. Dr. Germain served in World War I as a first lieutenant in the Corps of Engineers. He is married and has three sons.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

This book is the outgrowth of extensive research study made during my association with the Saginaw (Mich.) Police Department as Inspector in charge of juvenile crime prevention. I wish to express my thanks to Jacques Romano of New York City for his special counsel on various phases of psychic phenomena. To Joseph Sadony, Valley of the Pines, Montague, Mich., I offer my gratitude for his encouragement. Above all, I want to thank Fred Kerner of New York City for his invaluable editorial assistance.

Contents

HOW THIS BOOK CAN WORK MAGIC IN YOUR LIFE

THE AUTHOR AND HIS BOOK

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

HOW TO REMAKE YOUR LIFE: AN INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER 1 THE MAGIC IN YOUR MIND

CHAPTER 2 HOW TO GENERATE BRAIN POWER

CHAPTER 3 HOW TO USE YOUR POWER OF SUGGESTION

CHAPTER 4 REDISCOVERING YOUR SUPERSENSE

CHAPTER 5 YOUR INCREDIBLE MEMORY AND WHAT IT CAN DO

CHAPTER 6 YOUR MIND CAN CONTROL MATTER

CHAPTER 7 LIVE LONGER AND LOVE IT

CHAPTER 8 HOW TO GENERATE PRAYER POWER

CHAPTER 9 HOW TO USE YOUR FAITH FOR ACCOMPLISHMENT

CHAPTER 10 HOW TO DEVELOP THE HAPPINESS HABIT

CHAPTER 11 HOW TO CONQUER DISEASE

CHAPTER 12 DISCOVERING THE NEW PSYCHOLOGY

CHAPTER 13 HOW TO USE TOUR HIDDEN POWERS

CHAPTER 14 HOW TO LIVE TWENTY-FOUR HOURS A DAY

CHAPTER 15 MAKING YOUR LIFE VITAL

CHAPTER 16 IT’S YOUR LIFE—TAKE IT FROM THERE!

INSPIRATION PAD

INSPIRATION PAD

MEBBE ‘TAIN’T SO . . . !

MEBBE ‘TAIN’T SO . . . !

THE BATTLE OF EASE AGAINST DISEASE

THE RULES FOR A NEW LIFE

THE PANIC-POISON RADAR TRAP

USING YOUR HIDDEN POWERS

HOW TO REMAKE YOUR LIFE: AN INTRODUCTION

"If only I had my life to live over again!"

Have you ever thought that? Have you ever found yourself dissatisfied with what you have made of your life? Have you ever wondered if anything could be done about it?

You are certainly not alone in your wondering. The desire to try to make a life over again is universal. Most people, however, think that the question "Can a life be made over?" is purely a rhetorical one.

Actually, it is not.

You can remake your life. The secret is the magic power of your mind.

Within the pages that follow you will find just what that magic is. You will discover your brain and learn how to use it. You will discover the power of suggestion.

You will have your eyes opened at the wonders of your Superconscious and your Supersense.

There is a great storehouse of memory in your brain. You have to draw upon it in remaking your life. You will be shown how to do this. And you will learn the truth of the theory of "mind over matter."

Your mind controls all the matter of your body. And you, with complete control over your mind, have within your very grasp complete control over your body. The ramifications of this are obvious.

An entirely new life is open to you. And, best of all, you will learn the secret of living longer so that you can attain the fullest enjoyment out of your new life.

You will learn of the great powers that prayer and faith hold for you. You will acquire the ability to be happy, to make happiness and to use happiness for your own advantage.

All these "hidden powers" of the brain are a magic key to helping you live your life over again. This magic is the source of health, of happiness, of longevity, of success, of anything you want out of life.

This magic power of your brain is within the grasp of your understanding and the reach of your powers. It is no abracadabra; it is no mumbo jumbo. It is pure, solid, scientific fact. It is proven knowledge which man has had available for generations but, more often than not, has failed to use.

The magic power of your mind lies within that portion called the Superconscious. The Superconscious level of the mind is the greatest wonder of nature. It is a vast memory machine; it is a powerful controlling unit; it is the segment of man's brain that automatically "runs" the human engine.

In comparison with the conscious level of the mind—that portion of your brain with which you think and consciously control your actions—it is massive, for it embodies the thinking processes of all time and of all men.

It is a powerful, superior, "upper level" thinking machine. It is "above" and "beyond" anything that man has realized heretofore. It is truly the Superconscious.

The Superconscious, the communicator with the "collective unconscious," as psychologist Carl Jung termed it, is the possessor of man's "hidden power." It is the means by which you can become consciously creative through employing the heretofore unused faculties of your mind. It is the means through which you can reach the solution to individual problems ordinarily unattainable by conventional mental processes.

The wise Greek philosopher Socrates admonished: "Know thyself!"

When you know as much about your own human organism as you do about the car you drive, you will discover the truth of what people have termed "miracles." These "miracles" are nothing more than a natural product of natural law.

Natural law is yours to use, and its natural products are yours to create. The power of miracles is within YOU.

Your emotions, not your intelligence, rule your behavior.

This is the magic of using your Superconscious.

"Habit, not reason, governs the lives of most people," wrote Dr. Walter Coutu in The Criminal Personality. Knowing this, you will understand better how the human organism works. You will understand why human conduct is the response to varied stimuli.

"If you would care to understand human behavior," Dr. Coutu said,

"investigate the stimuli which produce it."

You would not have an idea, a hope, a fear or a desire without the stimulus to bring such a reaction. You would not get hungry or thirsty or angry; you would not want to go fishing; you would not get an impulse to steal; nothing is possible unless there is the "push"—the stimulus.

And emotions play the leading role in offering you these stimuli. Writing in How to Live 365 Days a Year, Dr. John A. Schindler says that "your emotions affect a group of organs in your body called the endocrine glands even more than they affect your nervous system. These glands govern and regulate body functions.

"When the glands are activated by such depressing emotions as defeat, futility and discouragement, their production of hormones is changed and this can cause a great many ailments."

These depressing emotions which you experience are negativisms. Their natural enemies are your positive thoughts.

The positive thinking done by one eighty-year-old man shows distinctly that you do have your life to live over again—if you truly desire it.

This man died under the wheels of a truck which struck him down as he was crossing a street. When an autopsy was performed, pathologists found that the man's lungs were scarred with healed tuberculosis lesions. His stomach showed signs of long-forgotten ulcers. His arteries were hardened. His kidneys were damaged.

Yet his widow said he'd always believed be would feel better the next day.

This man had not fretted about aches and pains that would have made invalids out of others.

"Unpleasant emotions get you down," Dr. Schindler writes. "They often can make you sick.

"Pleasant emotions often can make you well—and keep you well."

You must fight fire with fire. You must fight "bad" emotion with "good" emotion.

Learn the emotion of love.

Learn to love God and your fellow man.

And above all, know thyself!

The means to this knowledge is yours to discover, yours to use, yours to benefit by. It is all in the following pages.

Go, then, and learn!

Learn of happiness, learn of health, learn of wisdom, learn of power.

A POSITIVE PROGRAM TO REMAKE

YOUR LIFE

Your life is governed by habit. Your habits are governed by you.

Read every page of this book with the greatest care. Don't skip a word. Don't fail to absorb an idea.

Make your first habit that of reading some portion of this volume every day until you form positive habits that will work for you.

Chapter 1The Magic In Your Mind

Man is the most miraculous of all the living things on this earth!

Yet despite this undeniable fact, you have powers within you that you have not utilized.

You have within you the power to do anything you desire. You have the power to change your life so that you can accomplish all the things you want of it.

You are the owner of a power that, when you begin to use it, will open up the road to happiness and health, to wealth and long life.

Yes, you as a member of the human race are a part of that Godgiven miracle: man.

While all other living creatures have risen to heights of "adaptation to environment" in order to survive, your ancestors outstripped this mode of living.

Man has conquered his environment. More than that—man has continued to seek conquests as he discovers and utilizes the mysteries of life.

You can make these discoveries and utilize these powers. These are powers which are vast—far vaster than you realize at this moment. And before you are through reading these pages you will see how great they are and how easily they are to be tapped for your advantage.

So miraculous is this thing called man that—despite his great development as we have been able to trace it in history—he has hardly scratched the surface of his own abilities.

Were we to draw a picture of comparison, it might be fair to say that man has penetrated no deeper into himself than the depth of his own skin. Beneath, and yet to come, lie many things: the "flesh," the "bones" and, finally the "heart" of the matter.

The miracle that is man is no less a miracle than that of the mysterious setting in which he is found—the universe. The resources that man possesses are as untapped as the unknown resources of the universe.

Don't let the picture get out of hand. When you think of the resources of the universe, you conjure up a picture of things far beyond the ability of man's powers so far.

But the resources of man are near at hand. They are within himself.

That self is YOU.

Your resources are yours alone to utilize. Yet you probably have done nothing even to investigate what potential you possess. And this potential is so great that once you start to use it, there are no limits to what you can do.

You have a Golden Gift.

You use it every day—but you do nothing with it. Does that sound impossible? Well, take, for example, a child with a pencil. Each day the child takes up his pencil and scribbles. He cannot write, he cannot compute, he cannot draw. So, while he uses the pencil every day, he actually does nothing with it.

What, then, is your Golden Gift whose powers you use so casually?

Your Golden Gift is your brain.

In your brain lies the power to make use of all your untapped resources.

And your Golden Gift is more "Golden" and more of a "Gift" than that. Your brain not only supplies the power to use your potentialities—it also holds all the resources you possess.

Your Golden Gift, your brain, your mind, is the most vital of all your possessions. It is your greatest asset.

What the chapters that follow will show you is how to use this Golden Gift. You can use your mind and you can bring forth great powers from it.

Your Golden Gift can bring you longer life, better health, greater wealth, increased happiness, more vitality. In short, your brain gives you the power to control all the essential aspects of a full life and full living.

Before you jump into learning the secrets of using the Golden Gift, let us look back a great many centuries in a few short moments. You have to understand the meaning of this power. You have to study just what man is and what his mind is. You have to discover where man comes from, and why he has a mind.

There are many theories regarding man's beginning. But to realize that man, of all the living things on earth, has the Power of Mind makes it plain that man is the work of some great creative force.

His beginnings were purposive. And the greatest challenge that faces man—the challenge you will take up as you progress from chapter to chapter in this book—is to discover what that purpose is and utilize the power of that discovery.

The theory of man's beginnings varies according to who tells it.

Scientists trace this planet to its earliest days, each arriving at his own theory of how the universe we know came about. When it comes to the beginnings of life on our planet, however, most are agreed that the first faint stirring of life was a somewhat jellylike organic mass which floated on the waters of the sea.

Those who take the Bible literally are faced with less of an enigma than the scientists. For them the issue is final: the opening words of the Old Testament relieve them of any uncertainty. "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." Thereby was God's thought transmuted into fact.

The fundamentalist belief may not help us to understand ourselves as well as the scientific theory of the evolvement of man. But, in any case, man's evolution is part of an Infinite Plan in which man either progresses or regresses by his own efforts, both individually and collectively.

What matter if we believe that man's start was millions of years ago in the development of a single organic cell in the ocean or that he sprang full-grown from the mind of the Creator in some Garden of Eden? Each theory recognizes the prime cause—a Creator. Each theory hinges on the fact that some power brought to this earth the first germ of life. The creation of this miracle is no less wonderful regardless of the belief: whether it started in some lowly form of plant life and developed through countless ages to the highest product of today's civilization, or if the whole were created within six days.

To understand better why we behave as we do, let us look at earliest man as we have been able to trace him.

Our ancestors showed intellectual superiority over other animals that roamed the earth. The early man's ability to stand upright made him better able to do many things. Primarily he was able to put his forelimbs to uses no other animal could. Too, the height he thus achieved made it possible for him to see farther and over a wider area. He therefore was able to protect himself far more easily.

Using his eyes rather than his more limited sense of smell to see dangers far away, he also was able to use his arms and hands to ward off and fight these dangers when they were close at hand. Best of all, however, was the fact that his intelligence permitted him to make even greater use of his arms and hands. They became creative weapons and aided man in his fight for survival.

Kill or be killed was the law of the primeval world. Man's brain was in those early days necessarily motivated by greed, fear and anger. It was these things that made the instinct of self-preservation the first law of nature. Survival of the fittest became the primary driving force of human life.

Why have I started out to show you the beginnings of mankind? Simply because by looking at these beginnings you can see how primitive greed, fear and anger have left their mark on man. It is quite obvious that most of the mental and physical afflictions of modern man stem from these earliest conflicts.

It is important to understand that these primary urges of survival are buried deep in our biological background. Note that I use the word "understand." "Knowing" these things and "understanding" them are entirely different. We must understand and recognize certain basic facts if we are to utilize the power we possess.

Learned men in the past, discovering that the human mind is capable of amazing potentialities, did not recognize them as coming from the brain. These powers were attributed to the soul. Man's soul, according to the ancients, was in his solar plexus. We still have in our everyday language the reminder of this belief. The Greek word for diaphragm, the muscular section of the body that separates the abdomen from the chest cavity (in front of which is the nerve center we call the solar plexus), is phren. Its current usage as part of such words as frenzy, frantic, the no-longer credited "science" of phrenology, and even schizophrenia, is evidence of this original meaning.

We know today that the inner power of man—his wisdom— emanates from the mind.

Biologist Michael F. Guyer has stated that "man is an animal; but an animal with an analytical directing consciousness." Man, however, also possesses a deeper consciousness. This deeper consciousness—the Superconcious —has resources so astounding that they have often in the past—and even in this very age—been attributed to soul power or to so-called supernatural sources.

Herein you will have shown to you, backed up with concrete evidence, that the power and wisdom that are man's stem from his Superconscious. The Superconscious, the root of your mind's power, is a vast storehouse of memory from which you can tap uncalculated amounts of wisdom. It is the storehouse of what psychiatrist Carl Jung calls the "collective unconscious"—the sum total of all man's knowledge, wisdom and power since his creation. It is a storehouse you can easily enter; it is a storehouse of treasures you have the ability to use; it is a storehouse whose contents will give you the power to do.

Psychology, the science of mind, deals chiefly with the conscious mind, the so-called objective or analytical mind. But psychology sheds little light on the complexity of human impulses. It tells little about the perplexities that are the impulses, the emotions and the feelings of the human.

Psychology—or, as it should be called now, the old psychology— is an abstract consideration of human thoughts and behavior. For your purposes, it is entirely too academic to be of real help. It cannot help you solve the practical problems you are called on to face every day in the complex situations of modern society.

Man has a multiple nature. Most of his mental processes do not take place in the realm of the mind known as the conscious. Therefore any interpretation of human thoughts and conduct that deals only with the conscious perception and the reasoning processes of mind is entirely too limited in scope of understanding to be of use to you in comprehending yourself.

As the majority of your mental processes take place in the Superconscious, the process of conscious reasoning alone will not enable you to understand fully the true motives of what you think and do. Much less will the processes of conscious reasoning help you to understand the effects that the "emotional" thinking of the Superconscious has on your very health and well-being.

Consciousness is only the end result of the hidden processes of the human organism. The true nature of these hidden processes usually remains unknown to you, or at least obscure in the mental realm of the Superconscious.

The idea that man is endowed with a brain that functions as if he were fashioned with a dual mentality is not new. This dualism of the mind has been a matter for speculation by philosophers through many ages.

The ancient Greek philosophers believed that the dual character of man's mental apparatus represented a division of body and soul. Thus all mental phenomena were interpreted in terms of the socalled supernatural, the powers of gods or devils.

Victor Hugo seemed to grasp the real truth when he wrote: "I sense two natures within me." Certainly Robert Louis Stevenson, the great literary genius, had a clear understanding of human nature when he conceived his famous novel The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

In the seventh chapter of his Epistle to the Romans, Saint Paul confessed that he seemed to possess a double nature. He wrote:

"For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.

"Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.

"I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.

"For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:

"But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.

". . . So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin."

Several centuries before Saint Paul recorded his illuminating introspections, Plato likened man to a charioteer driving a white horse and a black horse, one noble and the other ignoble.

Man, then, does have a double nature. One part of it is emotional, or animalistic. The other part is spiritual, or intellectual. But while this has been accepted fact for centuries, it has only been recently that scientists have started to discover the psychological and neurological significance of this multiple nature.

As wonderful as has been man's physical evolution, it has been surpassed by the growth of his mental faculties.

Most people are inclined to believe that man's conscious mind represents his greatest mental advancement. There is no doubt as to the greatness of this. But in comparison to the vast development of man's Superconscious, the growth of the conscious is infinitesimal.

For in man's Superconscious lie outstanding powers. Therein lies vast wisdom. And all these powers and this wisdom are there to be used. They need only to be tapped. You need only to realize that they are there and that they can be used. You will then find that these powers and this wisdom are yours to do greater things with, yours to achieve things you have dreamed of but you never believed possible.

In your Superconscious lies the key to success, the clue to happiness, the formula to health.

Your Superconscious mind contains a vast storehouse of "how to do it"—how to do anything you want to do.

Your Superconscious mind is even more than a storehouse of knowledge, of wisdom and of power. It also is a transmitter and receiver of ideas from the Superconscious minds of others.

By opening the channels of your Superconscious, you stand on the threshold of life as it should be lived.

Living will take on new meaning, new wonder, new power, new belief, new health.

Your Superconscious holds the secret of your new life.

A DAILY EXERCISE TO GET TO KNOW THE MAGIC IN YOUR MIND

Every night before you fall asleep there are simple exercises which you can perform to help you open the channels to your own Supra-conscious:

1. Lie flat on your back and relax every muscle in your body. Start with the ends of your toes and little by little work your way upward until you are completely untensed.

2. Concentrate mentally on having a full night's relaxed and peaceful sleep.

3. When you have reached the depth of conscious relaxation and well implanted the idea of fear-free sleep, gently move into the position in which you normally sleep.

If you have performed these exercises perfectly, you will find yourself falling into a restful, calm sleep almost immediately and discover that the next morning will present itself to you in a brightness you have never before known.

Chapter 2 How To Generate Brain Power

The power to create a new life for yourself lies within your own brain.

Your brain has capacities that have been proven and used—but used by few persons so far.

Now the time has come for these capacities, these powers, these abilities, to be shown to you—for the simple purpose of illustrating to you how they may be used and how you may benefit by them.

All these great and wondrous gifts of God are contained in the organ that is absorbing these words right at this moment—your brain.

Your brain is the one thing that has made man different from other of God's creatures. Yet so new is the conception of man's thinking organ that the Greeks didn't even have a word for it.

Man had progressed through countless centuries and numberless generations to that first great golden age of Greek civilization. Yet these people, who are credited with having had a word for everything, called the brain merely "the thing in the head."

To the Greeks, the brain was completely negligible. In seeking the whereabouts of the mind, the learned men of ancient Greece chose the solar plexus. It seemed to them that the rhythmic movements of the midriff were closely linked with what went on in what was their concept of the mind.

It took two thousand years for the brain to emerge from the darkness of man's ignorance of himself. By the time the anatomists discovered the brain, it was already believed to be the possible secret storehouse of man's intelligence. By then thinkers had moved the habitation of the mind from the diaphragm to the head. Shakespeare, writing of the brain, called it that "which some suppose the soul's frail dwelling-house."

But the anatomist could do little more than weigh the brain. He discovered that the "gray matter" in man weighed about fifty ounces, in woman about forty-five ounces. He made sketches of the complicated series of nerves and cells that his knife revealed.

It was not until the latter part of the nineteenth century that the dawn started to break over the knowledge of the brain. Two medical officers of the Prussian army, wandering among the stricken men on the Sedan battlefield in 1870, had the brilliant—if somewhat ghoulish—notion of testing the effect of electrical current on the exposed brains of some of the casualties.

There began the first medical experiments that led to discovery of what the brain truly is.

It seems strange that in the entire history of man and his miraculous development it has been only within the last eighty-odd years that there has been serious realization of the intricacies of that wonderful Golden Gift, the brain.

In reality man has two brains. But these are not like the two brains of one species of dinosaur of millions of years ago. That enormous animal had one small brain in the head and a second at the base of the spine so that it could control its huge body without taxing its "higher" brain.

Man's two brains are together. The second is but a development of the first. As man has grown emotionally, as he has learned to reason and to think, so he has developed a newer section of the brain.

It is man's brain, the wonderful "enchanted loom," that has made him rise above the other species. This "enchanted loom" which helps him spin his imagination has given man the ability to reason. Without it, he would be no better off than the lion, the elephant or the monkey. Without it he could have progressed no farther than his simian "relative" the ape.