THE HEART AND THE SUBCONSCIOUS MIND ©

BY

Paul C. Woodward

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER 1     SUSTAINED THOUGHT

CHAPTER 2     POWER IN SPACES

CHAPTER 3     DEFRAGGING THE MIND

CHAPTER 4   (Watch for future posting)

CHAPTER 5

CHAPTER 6

CHAPTER 7

CHAPTER 8

CHAPTER 9

INTRODUCTION

This book is my attempted to introduce what I have come to discover in my research on this matter of the heart and the subconscious mind. It is my purpose now to at least give some back ground to this study and experience, so that as it progresses you will be able to follow my thoughts.

Years ago, in moments of feeling helpless, I turned to learning how to use this area called the subconscious mind. The first book that came my way was a book by John K. Williams, called "The Knack of Using the Subconscious mind." This was a "how to do" book, which gave no consideration to God at all. It only revealed the power potential of the subconscious mind. Peter, the Apostle, in the book of Acts, encountered such a man as me then.  A young man desiring POWER, thinking that the power Peter possessed was from this ability to tap into the latent powers of the subconscious mind. Peter gave a strong rebuke to this young man in the following statement...."I perceive that you are in the bowels of iniquity, and in the gall of bitterness." (Acts 8:23) 

This very verse was used of the Holy Spirit to stop me dead in my tracks and reveal to me the error of my pursuit of power.  God had been attempting to get me to see things in my life, and I, in bitterness, sought to go around Him. I had sought a short cut to POWER.  I found in my experiments with that book, that this area of the subconscious mind is real and does have the power that is said of it.  Watchman Nee's book, "The Latent Power of the Soul" was only one of the many books that the Lord sent my way to correct me and guide me back to Him and His power, but not until many heartaches and moments of regret.  The damage was done. Its effects haunted me for years until by His sweet of grace was relieved.  I understand what Paul meant in the book of Romans (Rom. 1:28) when he spoke of a Reprobate mind. I have felt its effect on my mind. Reprobate meaning, "Using the mind for that which it was not intended."  God never intended that we, Independent from Him, use the great powers of the subconscious mind. To protect us, after the fall of Adam, a shroud of weak flesh began to form around the power of this area of our mind.  Yet, mankind, over the years found "Short-Cuts", back doors, to this hidden area.  We see it even today in this New Age movement.  Man showing great power by their being able to tap into this restricted area forbidden of God and demonstrated in the story of Eden...an Angel with a flaming sword blocking its door. (Gen. 3:24)  You may sneak past the angel, but the sword of fire with surely burn you. 

I call myself ADDFIRE on the web, now you know why.  Fire has been added to my life....fire and brokenness... then surrender to His will to power....His way.  So, this warning goes to all who dare to follow this study.  The only purpose to learning about the subconscious mind is to bring us to a place of KNOWING what it is that we have to surrender.  It is not a study on using it independent from God. .  I have come to learn that its use was to be that of only a TRANSMITTER, not a receiver.  This defines an expression given to me...."God's power is THROUGH you, not TO YOU."  In this you can see how one would not want to try to contain such power, because what was intended to do good could be destructive.  One cannot be selfish with this and stop its flow...it must be through us, to those around us, from Him, and to His Glory.  You can see this expressed in Paul's experience with it..."Woe unto me, if I do not preach the gospel (good news of Christ in us the hope of GLORY and Power).

 

Let’s begin.  I will not clutter this study with to many references to Books and Authors.  Many times I would receive books in strange ways.  Their purpose was “ONLY” to give me a vocabulary which the Holy Spirit would, as scriptures says, “Give Spirit given words, to reveal Spirit given truths.”  One example of abuse was my going beyond just gaining words from John Williams book, and attempting to experiment with the principles of that book.

 So, I will share, many times without proving what I share, things that you may or may not already know.  Do not let those things that sound familiar to you cloud your thinking.  Reach beyond to new things in this study that you now may not know.

This area of the human subconscious mind is an area of higher vibration; that area of the human mind that has the capacity to make God contact, who dwells in an area beyond our lower area of vibrations. (Don’t let the fact that those of the New Age movement use this term “Vibrations” turn you off.  The Bible expressed it long before their twisted idea of it, though the Bible may not use the term “vibrations”, it is implied, something I will bring out in another chapter.)  It is said this way in scriptures....”If you would confess with your month, (conscious mind, starting lower vibration), the Lordship of Jesus Christ,....”AND”.... believe in your HEART, (initiate higher vibrations of the subconscious area of the human mind), that God has raised him from the dead, you will be saved.”

Note, the area of the conscious mind, is heavy dependent upon the five human senses, whereas the Unconscious mind has the ability to reach beyond these limited senses.  Paul’s experience revealed this in this manner....”forever learning (conscious mind), but never coming to an Unconscious experience beyond mental capabilities.”    He continued to say in the previous text....”It is with the HEART (subconscious mind’s ability) a man believes, and can hear from God.  This hearing brings salvation, God Contact.   God, and His substance (faith) comes from this Unconscious ability to hear from God, and this hearing ability is initiated by the simple conscious effort, beyond our reasoning it possible, by its confession of our mouth, even in disbelief.  (You can see why the HEART must be cleansed “first” for this to occur.  At first, with our being cut off from God, what comes up out of the “abundance” of the heart is deceptive.  You do not want to follow this any longer; it must be surrendered, cleansed so that once this is accomplished by the Holy Spirit, out of your inter being will “FLOW” living water; the present condition of our subconscious mind blocks this flow.  This will be developed in later chapters.)

No one, from what the above is saying, can with their limited conscious mind, ever think they can hear from God.  Yet, they are not without an area of their mind which can.  God, as Solomon said, has SET eternity in the HEART of mankind; or, an unconscious area of the human mind that can reach beyond the seen into that UNSEEN, transverse from one reality to another.  So, it is truly with the heart (unconscious mind) that we can believe, once it is cleansed and not until then.

Know this, this area of the human Subconscious mind does not have in it the capacity to chose what is real or not real, right or wrong.  This is, as Paul said, “Our reasonable services.” (Rom.12).    It, the unconscious mind, when we choose to place a matter into it, will without judging the matter, make it possible;  we need only to initiate, with reasonable free will, to choose to speak what the human conscious mind sees in its limited surroundings as impossible......CONTACT WITH GOD.  Jesus Christ became the door, giving us the right to do so and is IN US.  That door is found in this area of the unconscious mind.  It is what we mean when we say, “He is in my heart.” (Note; I will be explaining deeper how the subconscious mind itself is not this door but only the way to this door).

One more added note.  With the reasonable service of the Conscious mind, we can also go with what the lower vibrations of this seen world says to us and thus place into our Subconscious mind this limitation, and so, it will enforce what we desire.  Paul warns against this by saying, “Look not (long gaze, fixed) upon the things seen, but the things not seen, for the things seen are only temporary (of a lower vibration), “BUT”...the things NOT SEEN (of a higher vibration) are enduring, the true reality, and the higher law that sustains these temporary lower laws and can, if we will initiate them, supersede the lower law when needed.”  So, what to that world is natural, to this world would be called a miracle.  What I am saying is NOT THE INITIATION OF THE SUBCONSCIOUS POWERS, but a surrendering of this for something GREATER.

This gives you the reader some idea of where we are going with this subject matter.  In chapter one we will address the sustaining ability of the Mind of God in comparison to the human mind cut off from God.