Man's supreme inheritance : $b Conscious guidance and control in relation to human evolution in civilizationAlexander, F. Matthias (Frederick Matthias)
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Man's supreme inheritance : $b Conscious guidance and control in relation to human evolution in civilization
To the uninitiated this may seem a simple matter, but if my reader will
put it to the test, it will not be necessary for me to convince him that
it is quite otherwise in the majority of cases. This is not surprising
when it is realised that as soon as the teacher places his hands on the
pupil and attempts to move him, he is at once in contact with his faulty
and deceptive sense of feeling, the dominating sense in the
subconsciously controlled person under such circumstances. My experience
has proved that the pupil at first will act in precisely the same way if
I attempt to perform the act for him as if I had asked him to do it
without my assistance. He is just as apprehensive as a result of one
request as of the other, and in this state of apprehensiveness he is,
mentally and physically, impossible to deal with from the standpoint of
re-education. He conjures up in his mind all kinds of fears that he will
do this or that incorrectly. If you mention that he did a certain thing
when you placed your hands on him, he will make an endeavour physically
to prevent himself the next time. This, of course, is one of the worst
errors a pupil can make. It is usually attended by far more tension and
apprehension than when he performed the act which you pointed out was
incorrect. The re-education work really begins here and it takes weeks,
nay, sometimes months to bring the pupil to a stage in his co-ordination
when he will be really once more in communication with his reason. With
these facts before us I feel that my reader will advocate with me the
necessity of adopting principles which will create new and correct
habits, and eradicate needless apprehension and fear from the souls of
human beings. To this end we must break the chains which have so long
held them to that directive mental plane which belongs to the early
stages of his evolution. The adoption of conscious guidance and control
(man’s supreme inheritance) must follow, and the outcome will be a race
of men and women who will outstrip their ancestors in every known
sphere, and enter new spheres as yet undreamt of by the great majority
of the civilised peoples of our time. The world will then make in one
century greater progress in evolution towards a real civilisation than
it has made in the past three.
VI
INDIVIDUAL ERRORS AND DELUSIONS
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