I believe you are essentially correct Jeff.chefjeff said:
However, I think the terms conscious and sub-conscious are too simplistic to describe the working of the human mind. In fact we have a limited understanding of the mind and few appropriate words/terms to use in describing how it works. Take that into mind with my following definitions.
The mind can be said to comprise of a feeling-desire aspect and a rightness-reason aspect. Feeling and desire are opposite but complimentary aspects of one level of mind and rightness and reason are complimentary aspects of a higher mind. The base mind is refered to as the doer mind.
To give an example of how this operates I offer the following:
When one is governed by expediency, nature or sense impressions control feeling, feeling arouses desire, desire ignores rightness and forces reason and so desire has its way...controlling response / action / thought.
When one is self-governed from within, the process is very different, such that rightness guides feeling, which prompts desire, which agrees with reason...hence response / action / thought is governed by rightness and reason as is feeling and desire.
Hypnosis: is an artificial state of sleep produced on a subject who suffers himself to be hypnotized. The subject is or makes himself to be negative to the hypnotist, who must be positive. The subject surrenders his feeling-desire to the feeling-desire of the hypnotist and by so doing surrenders control of his breath-form (the storage base of memory) and use of his senses. The hypnotist hypnotizes the subject by using any or all of his own electric-magnetic force through the eyes or voice and hands of his subject and by repeatedly telling him that he is going to sleep and that he is asleep. Submitting to the suggestion of sleep the subject is put to sleep. Having submitted himself, his breath form and senses to the control of the hypnotist, the subject is in a condition to obey the orders and do anything commanded by the hypnotist without knowing what exactly he is doing -- except that he cannot be made to commit a crime or perform an immoral act unless he would in his waking state so do or act. A hypnotist assumes a grave responsibility when he hypnotizes anyone. The subject must suffer through long periods for allowing himself to be controlled by another. each should practice self-control until he is self-controlled. Then he will not control another or allow another to control him.
Self-Hypnosis: is the intentional putting oneself into the state of deep sleep by hypnotizing and controlling oneself by oneself. The purpose of the self-hypnotism is to be self-controlled. In self-hypnosis he considers what he would like to do that he is unable to do. Then, acting as the hypnotist, he clearly instructs himself to issue these commands to himself when he is in the hypnotic sleep. Then by suggestion he puts himself to sleep by telling himself that he is going to sleep, and finally that he is asleep. In the hypnotic sleep he commands himself to do the things in time and place. When he has so commanded himself, he returns to the waking state. Awake he does as bidden to do. In this practice one must in no respect deceive himself, esle he will be confused and fail in self-control.
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