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...So, to work a pendulum, we must have a
human body, an alive human body at that. You cannot tie a
pendulum to a hook and expect it to work because there would
be no source of current.
Nor would it be of much use if we could tie our pendulum
to a hook and supply it with current because the current has to
be in pulses varying according to the type of action desired.
Just as in radio we have high notes, low notes, loud notes, and
soft notes, so with a pendulum we must have the necessary
current variation to do ‘the necessary’.
Who is going to vary the current? Well, the Overself, of
course. That is the brightest citizen we have around us, you
know. After all, you who read this are just one-tenth conscious,
so, knowing yourself, just think how brilliant you would be if
you could call in the other nine-tenths of consciousness. You
can certainly enlist its aid, the aid of the sub-conscious. The
sub-conscious is brilliant; it knows everything that you have
ever known, can do everything that you could ever do, and can
remember every single incident since long before you were
born. So if you could touch your sub-conscious you would get
to know a very considerable amount of things, wouldn’t you?
You can touch your sub-conscious—with practice and with
confidence.
The sub-conscious can also contact other sub-conscious
minds. There are truthfully no limits to the powers of the sub-
conscious mind and when the sub-conscious mind is allied to
other sub-conscious minds, then indeed results may be
achieved.
We cannot just ring up a telephone number and ask to speak
to our sub-conscious because we have to look upon that Mind
as being something like a very absent-minded professor who is
constantly sorting knowledge, storing knowledge, and acquiring knowledge. He is so busy that he can’t bother with other people. If you pester him enough in the politest way, then he
may answer your summons. So first of all you have to become
familiar with your sub-conscious. You see, the whole thing is
that the sub-conscious is the greater part of you, the much
greater part of you, and I suggest that you give your sub-
conscious a name. Call him or her whatever you like so long as
it is a name agreeable to you. Supposing it is a male, then you
could (purely as an illustration) use the name ‘George’. Or if it
is the sub-conscious of a female, then you could say ‘Georg-
ina’. But the whole point is that you must have some definite
name which you link inseparably with your sub-conscious. So
when you want to get in touch with your sub-conscious
you could say for example, ‘George, George, I want your help
very much, I want you to work with me, I want you to-
(here you specify what you want), and remember, George, that
really we are all one and what you do for me you are also
doing for yourself.’ You need to repeat that slowly and care-
fully, and with very great thought. Repeat it three times.
The first time ‘George’ will probably shrug his mental
shoulders and say, ‘Oh that pestiferous fellow, bothering me
again when I’ve got so much work to do,’ and ‘he’ will turn
back to his work. Next time you repeat it he will pay more
attention because he is being bothered, but still he won’t take
any action. But if you repeat it a third time, ‘George’ or
‘Peter’ or ‘Dave’ or ‘Bill’ or whoever it is will get the idea that
you are going to keep on until you get some action, so he will
give a metaphorical sigh and help.
This is not fantasy, it’s fact. I claim to know quite a lot
about it because for more years than I care to remember I have
done just this. My own sub-conscious is not called ‘George’, by
the way, but a name which I do not reveal to anyone else just
as you should not reveal to anyone else the name of your sub-
conscious. I never laugh or joke about it because this is deadly
serious. You are only one-tenth of a person, your sub-conscious
is nine-tenths, so you have to show respect, you have to show
affection, you have to show that you can be trusted because if
you do not gain the co-operation of your sub-conscious then
you won’t do any of the things that I write about. But if you
practice what you are reading, you can do the whole lot. So
make friends with your sub-conscious. Give him or her a
name, and be sure that you keep that name very, very private
indeed.
You can talk to your sub-conscious. It is better if you talk
slowly and repeat things. Imagine that you are telephoning
someone on the other side of the world and the telephone line
is a bit poor, you have to repeat yourself, you have quite a
difficult time making yourself understood. Your listener at the
other end of the telephone line is not an idiot for having diffi-
culty in understanding your message, but general communi-
cations are bad, and if you overcome the difficulties of com-
munications you can then find that you have a very intelligent
conversationalist, one who is far more intelligent than you are!...

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