CONSCIOUS AND SUBCONSCIOUS DEFINED
Question—Which has the most power, the conscious or the subconscious?
ANSWER—The conscious mind has the power of volition and of will. The subconscious cannot initiate a new chain of mental causation. But the subjective mind is infinite in its capacity to know and to do as compared to the objective mind.
PUZZLED AS TO DIET
Question—I am puzzled as to diet. If we try to diet, are we not giving power to food to upset us? What is best to do about eating?
ANSWER—If one feels that his diet is wrong he should seek the advice of an expert dietitian. But in the majority of cases it is probable that, provided we are eating normally, the less we think about our food the better. It is a mistake to believe that either feasting or fasting can have any salutary effect in the development of the intellect or of the spiritual faculties. A normally minded person will eat normally. If one is a glutton, it is because his mentality is filled with unexpressed longing which he is trying to sublimate with food. Probably you would be much better off to entirely forget your diet and to remember that food is given us to enjoy, but not to hold controversy over.
WHY WE BELIEVE IN IMMORTALITY
Question—Is it not true that remembering is the faculty in us which causes us to believe in immortality?
ANSWER-NO. The thing that causes us to believe in immortality is life, which cannot conceive of death, or nonexistence. It is fundamental, primordial, original, life itself,
(page 46) and that is why it is that there comes a time when people no longer think of immortality as such, as though it were a thing to be gained, for immortality now is. "If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death." They learn that they live. Immortality is, just as much now as it will be after we think we are dead and so it is that instinctive life in us, that knows nothing about dying, causes us all to believe in an endless existence. People believe in immortality unless they are educated otherwise—it is instinctive.
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