A Reasonable Hypothesis Concerning Co-Operation Between The Subconscious and Conscious 'Minds' And Approach To 'Infinite Intelligence'! (the images i found online, the text is direct from 'lesson' )
image courtesy of istock ‘Illustration of a man walking towards a huge shape of a person's head overlaid with an image of the cosmos’ (credit Yuri Arcurs1)
Note: this material i had copied in here and now amounts to a ‘stack’ and which constitutes the substance of a comment i posted earlier this week, is direct from Napoleon Hill’s series of Lessons that constituted the old volume known as ‘The Laws of Success’.2 It may prove of interest, and the first chapter on ‘The Master-Mind’ is highly recommended. As far back as 1928, when it was published, Hill had already gathered into this repository considerable of that which may be still considered ground breaking and unapproached knowledge in terms perhaps of it’s latent potential.
‘The Master Mind’ chapter long ago influenced my own understanding (and lack thereof!), and it’s further development, when i understood that the material aspect of the world we live in only constitutes the ‘impressions’ and apparent impacts of ostensibly and mostly several basic elements, among the ninety or so that are emphatically recognized. Modern psychologists have only begun, due to the ‘Covid’ era, their explorations of ‘crowd psychology’ and consider the sort of material that one will discover in the later lessons, and one will possess the advantage of appreciating it’s wider considerations as you read through the progressive series, and allow one sufficient time to assimilate. Of ‘course’, Hill later admitted that the motives and careers of many of his apparent interviewees had been suspect and this unfortunately is undeniable and obvious. Do not let that detract or distract from one’s reading. Also note, that financial wealth is but one, albeit in this era, and generally viewed and accepted as an important measure of success. At it’s opposite polarity remains the idea that genuine renouncement of same, and is rare and also may indicate spectacular success. Enjoy the material as you read, and do so with an open, and not however a perilously empty mind!
THE LAW OF SUCCESS
Lesson Thirteen
CO-OPERATION
"You Can Do It if You Believe You Can!”
CO-OPERATION is the beginning of all organized effort. As was stated in the second lesson of this course, Andrew Carnegie accumulated a gigantic fortune through the co-operative efforts of a small group of men numbering not more than a score.
You, too, can learn how to use this principle. There are two forms of Co-operation to which your attention will be directed in this lesson; namely:
First, the Co-operation between people who group themselves together or form alliances for the purpose of attaining a given end, under the principles known as the Law of the Master Mind.
Second, the Co-operation between the conscious and the subconscious minds, which forms a reasonable hypothesis of man's ability to contact, communicate with and draw upon infinite intelligence.
To one who has not given serious thought to this subject, the foregoing hypothesis may seem unreasonable; but follow the evidence of its soundness, and study the facts upon which the hypothesis is based, and then draw your own conclusions.
Let us begin with a brief review of the physical construction of the body: "We know that the whole body is traversed by a network of nerves which serve as the channels of communication between the indwelling spiritual ego, which we call mind, and the functions of the external organism.
"This nervous system is dual. One system, known as the Sympathetic, is the channel for all those activities which are not consciously directed by our volition, such as the operation of the digestive organs, the repair of the daily wear and tear of the tissues, and the like.
"The other system, known as the Voluntary or Cerebro-spinal system, is the channel through which we receive conscious perception from the physical senses and exercise control over the movements of the body. This system has its center in the brain, while the other has its center in the ganglionic mass at the back of the stomach known as the solar plexus, and sometimes spoken of as the abdominal brain. The cerebro-spinal system is the channel of our volitional or conscious mental action, and the sympathetic system is the channel of that mental action which unconsciously supports the vital functions of the body.
"Thus the cerebro-spinal system is the organ of the conscious mind and the sympathetic is that of the subconscious mind.
Regions of the human brain3
"But the interaction of conscious and sub-conscious minds requires a similar interaction between the corresponding systems of nerves, and one conspicuous connection by which this is provided is the "vagus" nerve. This nerve passes out of the cerebral region as a portion of the voluntary system, and through it we control the vocal organs; then it passes onward to the thorax, sending out branches to the heart and lungs; and finally, passing through the diaphragm, it loses the outer coating which distinguishes the nerves of the voluntary system and becomes identified with those of the sympathetic system, so forming a connecting link between the two and making the man physically a single entity.
"Similarly different areas of the brain indicate their connection with the objective and subjective activities of the mind respectively, and, speaking in a general way, we may assign the frontal portion of the brain to the former, and the posterior portion to the latter, while the intermediate portion partakes of the character of both.
"The intuitional faculty has its correspondence in the upper area of the brain, situated between the frontal and the posterior portions, and, physiologically speaking, it is here that intuitive ideas find entrance. These, at first, are more or less unformed and generalized in character, but are, nevertheless, perceived by the conscious mind; otherwise, we should not be aware of them at all. Then the effort of Nature is to bring these ideas into more definite and usable shape, so the conscious mind lays hold on them and induces a corresponding vibratory current in the voluntary system of nerves, and this in turn induces a similar current in the involuntary system, thus handing the idea over to the subjective mind. The vibratory current which had first descended from the apex of the brain to the frontal brain and thus through the voluntary system to the solar plexus is now reversed and ascends from the solar plexus through the sympathetic system to the posterior brain, this return current indicating the action of the subjective mind."
If we were to remove the surface portion of the apex of the brain we should find immediately below it the shining belt of brain substance called the "corpus callous." This is the point of union between the subjective and objective, and, as the current returns from the solar plexus to this point, it is restored to the objective portion of the brain in a fresh form which it has acquired by the silent alchemy of the subjective mind. Thus the conception which was at first only vaguely recognized is restored to the objective mind in a definite and workable form, and then the objective mind, acting through the frontal brain - the area of comparison and analysis - proceeds to work upon a clearly perceived idea and to bring out the potentialities that are latent in it.*
The term "subjective mind" is the same as the term "sub-conscious mind," and the term "objective mind" is the same as the term "conscious mind."
Please understand these different terms. By studying this dual system through which the body transmits energy, we discover the exact points at which the two systems are connected, and the manner in which we may transmit a thought from the conscious to the subconscious mind.
This Co-operative dual nervous system is the (*Judge T. Toward, in The Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science4) most important form of co-operation known to man; for it is through the aid of this system that the principle of evolution carries on its work of developing accurate thought, as described in Lesson Eleven.
When you impress any idea on your sub-conscious mind, through the principle of Auto-suggestion, you do so with the aid of this dual nervous system: and when your sub-conscious mind works out a definite plan of any desire with which you impress it, the plan is delivered back to your conscious mind through this same dual nervous system.
This Co-operative system of nerves literally constitutes a direct line of communication between your ordinary conscious mind and infinite intelligence.
https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/open-your-mind-the-the-wonders-of-the-universe-gm520323859-50455566?searchscope=image%2Cfilm
https://teacherspage.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/law-of-success-napoleon-hill.pdf
https://imotions.com/blog/learning/research-fundamentals/what-is-the-subconscious-mind/
https://archive.org/download/edinburghlectur00trow/edinburghlectur00trow.pdf
here is a link to the ‘The DORÉ Lectures’ on ‘Mental Science’…
http://iapsop.com/ssoc/1909__troward___the_dore_lectures.pdf
Gerry,
Thanks for posting this. If has been quite a long time since I listened to Napoleon Hill.
In the mid 80s, here was a stretch when I listened to the same tape every weekday, while traveling from home to a 'satellite' type office in the market where I was selling Yellow Pages advertising.
The main benefit I derived from listening to the tape was that if I was focused, myself, and acted aggressively (vs. being aggressive), opportunities would manifest themselves. Typically, I would arrive at the office, make my initial phone calls and be gone before anyone else even made it to the office.
I believed in the product that I was selling and I believed that those with whom I worked would benefit from their visibility in our publication, so it was relatively easy making contacts with people I didn't know. I don't know if I would have had the success I enjoyed, if I hadn't listened to the tape, prior to making my daily calls.
Awesome Gerry, I'm convinced it's the blood from the arms resetting the vagus, the looking left and right is further opening the channels and are the most important avenues for our electron transport chain to work properly, I read somewhere years ago that long periods without resetting the nerve could cause mould on sites in the mitochondrial DNA, allowing glycolysis and the kerb cycle but it sounds like the electrical signal then aren't powerful enough to run ETC properly.
I'm glad we're not going electricity bills for that yet...