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The Twelfth Step Toward Riches — The Brain
“The Creative Imagination is the receiving set of the brain, which receives thoughts, released by the brains of others. It is the agency of communication between one’s conscious, or reasoning mind, and the four sources from which one may receive thought stimuli…” — Think And Grow Rich
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This chapter attempts to explain the process of creative breakthrough. Now here, there are thoughts that edge into the supernormal, having to do with brains picking up “vibrations” from other minds, or even “infinite intelligence.” Those whose belief patterns don’t allow the possibility of such communication would be well served to ask:
“Well, if there is a very real phenomenon the men who were interviewed for Think And Grow Rich had observed and believed in, if they were wrong about the mechanism, what might have been going on?”
It’s a little like meeting an indigenous tribe who believes the mold on their bread is the “hair of the gods” which heals their wounds…and you SEE people’s infections positively affected by the application, one might investigate the effect without believing in the stated mechanism.
Without any “psychic” component at all, then, what might be happening includes (but is not confined to):
- The subconscious mind. Old memories and factoids, long consciously forgotten, bumping up against each other.
- The subconscious mind extrapolating from the known to the unknown, much like…