Product Description: In The Power of Your Subconscious Mind, Dr. Joseph Murphy gives you the tools you will need to unlock the awesome powers of your subconscious mind. You can improve your relationships, your finances, your physical well-being. Once you learn how to use this unbelievably powerful force there is nothing you will not be able to accomplish. Join the millions of people who have already unlocked the power of their subconscious minds. I urge you to study this book and apply the techniques outlined therein; and as you do, I feel absolutely convinced that you will lay hold of a miracle-working power that will lift you up from confusion, misery, melancholy, and failure, and guide you to your true place, solve your difficulties, sever you from emotional and physical bondage, and place you on the royal road to freedom, happiness, and peace of mind.- Dr. Joseph Murphy
The same uncertainty remains Joseph Murphy's book on the power of the subconscious mind is well written and studded with case studies in support of his claim that people can perform miracles if only they 'believe'. Now that's a strange word because belief is liable to change over time depending on the changes in the behavior pattern of both the subject and the object. If human beings are extremely cautious and reserved in believing his social counterpart in day to day interaction how can he put his unreserved faith on a 'substance' of things hoped for.
It is true that subconscious mind is the seat of emotions but then again men's inner world is too complex and too vast and nobody knows how and where these reactions would land him into. There is no deterministic pattern to achieve a thing through sheer belief. Even the very author in question cannot duplicate his previous success by relying on his subconscious power. It is difficult to experience a situation that one has not previously encountered. Mere repetition of a lullaby 'wealth' is no guarantee that one would be wealthy. Likewise, the quality of leadership to run a country can't be developed through such practices and Joesph Nye's book on leadership suggests some practical measures to that effect.
Nevertheless, this is an outstanding book in developing positive attitude so needed in a tension ridden contemporary world.
Gautam Maitra Author of 'Tracing the Eagle's Orbit: Illuminating Insights into Major US Foreign Policies Since Independence'.
A book that is a must read Book came in great conidtion, took a few extra days than others purchased. And it is the BEST book I have ever read.
The Power of Your Subconscious Mind I thought the ideas in this book were very good. The advice is solid and can help anyone overcome most challenges that life may hand them.The only item I found disappointing was the disclaimer near the front of the book that talks about the book not representing the values of today because it was a product of its time. I believe the book was written over 40 years ago. In my mind this book is a classic with the insight it gives. Tim Gibney
Some Good Ideas Tainted by a Dumbed-down Infomercial Style In an attempt to make his book accessible to the masses, Dr. Murphy has taken a useful truth that contemplatives throughout history have known for centuries and diluted it and dumbed it down to the point that it looses much of its believability. For example, on page 22, he relates a story in which a man says, he would, "...give his right arm" to see his daughter healed from her arthritis and psoriasis. He then goes on to say that, "one day" the family got into an automobile accident in which the man lost his arm, but from that point on the daughter's medical problems disappeared. Oh come on! I know an urban legend when I hear one! If your going to make a wild claim like that, you need to back it up with specific documentation, something Dr. Murphy fails to do. Another example of an extraordinary claim which he fails to back up is on page 19 where he states, "Your subjective mind can leave your body, travel to distant lands and bring back information that is often of the most exact and truthful character." A claim like that needs to be thoroughly backed up by pages of specific, documented accounts, not just thrown in to be believed without a challenge! I've studied at length the results of the CIA funded SRI study on remote viewing and I can tell you that there is no evidence whatsoever that such a thing is in any way possible! Another problem I have with the book is it's insistance on using Christian references and biblical verses as proof of the doctor's claims. While he does this in a more deistic fashion than mainstream Christianity, it still becomes an unwanted and unnecessary distraction. He also has a rather unique definition of prayer which he uses often when a more accurate word for what he proposes would be meditation or self-hypnosis. He also mentions nothing about the corresponding brainwave states - in this case alpha and theta - which relate to the proper mental state for self-healing. Finally, he looses what little credibility he has left with his use of infomercial-like "carny" sales technics. Phrases like, "Get the promotion you want...", and Miracles will happen to you, too..." make the book sound more like a Robert Tilton fundamentalist pep rally than a useful strategy for improving your life. If you're interested in this subject, I would recommend any of Ken Wilber's books, particularly, "The Simple Feeling of Being". Ken's books are extremely useful and don't insult your intelligence like Dr. Murphy's does.
Just the facts, ma'am. I am a psychologist and a 'dyed in the wool' Freudian one at that so I don't recognize "subconscious" as a legitimate name for a mind function. For me there is conscious and unconscious, the unconscious part coming into my recognition as a very legitimate, active and powerful force. The following thumnail sketch will explain.
About five years ago I had to undergo a surgical rebuilding of my right hand as the result of a condition called teno-synovitis. This disease causes rigidity and shortening of the tendons that allow the hand to grasp and relax in its healthy state. Rather than operate normally both my right and left hands had closed into tight fists. A long surgery had cut and freed the tendons of my right hand so that eventually I regained function once again. Then the time came for surgery on my left hand. That night before the operation I sat in front of a log fire and sipped a glass of red wine as I contemplated the ordeal that lay ahead. The wine and the fire had a soporofic effect and I fell asleep. When I awoke in a short while my left hand for whom the surgery was scheduled was as free and flexible as the day I was born. And it still is so.
I hadn't asked for this to happen and I certainly didn't recite any prayer. I am thoroughly appalled at the perfidy of religion in all its forms and I am quick to identify and shun any attempt to rope me into its incredulous beliefs.
But what's going on here??? Something incredible happened that I do not understand. I'm no mental slouch and if I don't know neither do I know, within scientific certainty, anyone who does. But if Joseph Murphy wants to tell me what works for him . . . I'll listen. He's welcome to his religious point of view but I'm not sure that's what he's proffering. I'm sure enough of my own mental (conscious) prowess to read what he has to say and pick out what I want. You never know. I might, at least, find a point of reference.
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Trevor
Megaton Man
