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HOW TO PUT THE SUBCONSCIOUS
MIND TO WORK
Published by Stephen C Campbell

Alarm Clock
The Subconscious is the most wonderful thing in the human mind, and perhaps in all the
world we know; for it is the omnipotent part of man. A single illustration will suffice to
show this transcendent quality.

Did you ever go to bed at night desiring to awaken at a certain hour in the morning! The
time may be altogether different from your usual arising hour, but is it not a fact that
whatever it is, you generally awaken exactly on the dot. It may be two o'clock, three
o'clock, four o'clock, five o'clock, six o'clock, or any other o'clock; but in nine cases out
of ten you open your eyes on time.

This involves an operation of the omniscient part of man. The subconscious mind knows
everything though, of course, it must be properly directed. If you wish to awaken at five
o'clock in the morning, and are not used to rising at that hour, your conscious mind gives
a strong suggestion which the subconscious takes up, and as a result you actually do
emerge from sleep at the right moment, though without visible or external cause. Notice
the omniscient (all-knowing) part of this again. You do not have to take out your watch
and say ''eight hours from now will be five o'clock Standard Time--I shall get up at five
o'clock." No, it doesn't make any difference whether it is two hours or five hours, whether
it is eight minutes or 800 minutes. At the appointed time you will awaken. Just pause a
moment and see what this means.

You awaken at the appointed time, and there you are.

Time Changes
Travel westward, if you will, where the time changes. You go to bed saying to yourself
that you will awaken at five o'clock in the morning. You are traveling by sleeper on a fast
express. You go to bed by Eastern Time, and while crossing the land enter the belt of
Central Time, which is an hour slower; yet you awaken at literally five o'clock--not four
o'clock, the absolute hour which would have been five for you had you remained in the
Eastern belt; but the actual five o'clock of the new region, which is the Eastern six
o'clock. Marvelous are the understandings and workings of the subconscious mind!

Upon giving this illustration in my campaigns, I have often been asked with some
perplexity how is it that, if the subconscious mind is the omniscient and divine part of
man, this sensitive medium may take up wrong suggestions, such as fear, worry, doubt,
sorrow, fright, lack, limitation or poverty. The answer is very simple. All life is orderly
and scientific, and works according to certain rules and regulations of nature. The same
omniscient spirit which is within man is also within the acorn and the tree. The principle
of life is God-Power. The God-Power in the acorn makes the oak; in you, it makes the
man.

Divine In Man
There is a vast difference between the oak tree and man, just as there is a vast difference
between the primitive savage and the great example of the divine in man as manifested
by Jesus of Nazareth. All men have the divine in them. Jesus is the highest
exemplification of this divinity but it would be absurd to say that because the primitive-
man is not the Christ, the God spirit is not within him. In fact, Scripture tells us that man
was made in the image of God--that is, that the spirit within man rather than the mere
flesh of his body is the image. God spirit is in all living creatures, but is manifested
differently according to the planes on which they live.

But to return to the question of my perplexed auditors--if the spirit of man is omniscient,
why does his subconscious mind receive wrong impressions, and why must he make
conscious suggestions for their correction? The answer is really very simple. You see the
God power in the oak and know that the oak's growth is the result of what God and the
law of the tree can do. Similarly, the God power in man can accomplish as much as man
and God can do.

In other words, the omniscient part of man must work in accordance with the natural laws
of life. The spirit as within man is obviously different from the pure spirit as emancipated
from all earthly trammels. Of the one we may expect only inclinations toward complete
divinity; the other is pure divinity itself.

The butterfly has only those same potentialities within it which were once encased by the
lowly cocoon. The same God power was at work with the life in the cocoon, as that
which is at work in the well developed butterfly; but for a while that now gorgeous and
active spirit was limited and made outwardly dull by the sluggish primitiveness of the
cocoon environment. So with man.

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