![]() ![]() Mostly, the bad that happens is in us already, waiting for the light of day. While there are some things that will happen to us that we had no role in creating, these are in fact rare. We blithely let negative thoughts drop into the subconscious every minute of our lives, then are surprised when they find expression in day to day experiences and relationships. Being totally neutral in a moral sense, it is happy to adopt any habit as 'normal' - good or bad. ![]() The subconscious responds to habit and habitual thinking. While the conscious mind sees an event, takes a picture of it and remembers it, the subconscious mind works backwards, 'seeing' something before it happens (why intuition is infallible). Murphy saw the subconscious mind as a darkroom within which we develop the images that are to be lived out in real life. It is a long way from the ancient East to 'LA', but Murphy felt that there were secrets he had found concerning the subconscious that were beyond time and culture, and that should find a wider audience. He was also, for 28 years, Minister at the Los Angeles branch of the Church of Divine Science, a New Thought church which promotes a practical spirituality, free of the usual religious creed and dogma. Dr Joseph Murphy spent a good part of his life studying Eastern religions, and was a scholar of the I-Ching, the Chinese book of divination whose origins are lost in history. ![]()
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