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Preface - Introduction - The New Point of View - Educational Ideals - Equanimity - The Subconscious Mind - The Spiritual Ideal in Childhood - An Experiment in Education - The Expression of the Spirit - An Ideal Summer Conference - The Ministry of the Spirit - The Mystery of Pain and Evil - The Philosophical Ideal - The Criteria of Truth - Organic Perfection - Immortality - Index - p. 247

wonderfully responsive agent is accompanied by the kind of mental state with which the thought is sent out.

It is our subconsciousness, then, which realises the ideals, volitions, and decisions of conscious thought. If a given suggestion, such as the child's desire to imitate its parents and learn to walk, is followed by repeated suggestions of a similar character, the ideal becomes a habit. All our habits are therefore subconscious activities. If you wish to change your habits you must first train your subconscious mind. If you would know how you have thought yourself into servitude or disease, how you have built character and acquired a method of conduct, you must trace the natural history of your moods and the resultant influences upon habit and the physical functions or bodily activities. There are possibilities here of growth, of reform and education, so great that the mind is awed by contemplation of them as one realises the scope of subconscious mental action.

Again, it is clear that the subconscious mind is at least as exhaustive in scope as memory. The term "memory'' conceals many mysteries, but these are at any rate no greater when grouped under another term. Just as a continuous succession of pictures is impressed on the camera, which seizes all the details of a living scene for reproduction in that wonderful panorama, the biograph, so the tireless receptive plate of subconsciousness registers the pictures, sensations, and thoughts of the mind, storing them

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