The Ghost in the White House: Some suggestions as to how a hundred million people (who are supposed in a vague, helpless way to haunt the white house) can make themselves felt with a president, how they can back him up, express themselves to him, be expressed by him, and get what they wantLee, Gerald Stanley
Philosophy
The Ghost in the White House: Some suggestions as to how a hundred million people (who are supposed in a vague, helpless way to haunt the white house) can make themselves felt with a president, how they can back him up, express themselves to him, be expressed by him, and get what they want
Lee, Gerald Stanley
Democracy; United States -- Politics and government
I pick out one man, to try out the principle on, because it is safer and
fairer to try out a principle other people are supposed to be asked to
risk, on one man first.
Because I happen to know him better than I know anybody else, and because
my experience is, he will stand more from me than anybody else, I have
picked out myself.
When the technique has been tried out on one man the people who know him
will believe it and try it. Then we will try it on one hundred men one
after the other. Then as I have been working it out in this book, try it
on the body-politic, the soul and body of a nation, try it on a hundred
million people.
Then with a technique for having a body and for not being fooled by
ourselves and having some substance in what we say and what we do, we
would have the spectacle of a hundred million people making themselves
felt in political conventions, making themselves felt in The White House
and even being noticed perhaps in time at the other end of Pennsylvania
Avenue by the great I AM, or I CAN'T, or I WON'T tucked under the come of
all of us--called The United States Senate.
II
CONSCIOUS CONTROL OF BRAIN TRACKS
My experience is that the first thing for me to attend to and know, in
getting people to let me have my way, is to know when and how to discover
and open up in people new brain tracks and when and how to make my main
dependence on their old ones.
Getting what one wants from people turns on seeing the situation--the
brain track situation in one's own mind at a particular time, and in
other people's, as it really is.
In other words, the way to get one's way with people is to know and
extend one's consciousness down deeper into one's subconsciousness in
one's own mind, so that one draws on the conscious and the subconscious
in one's own mind at will, so that gradually having the habit of drawing
on the conscious and the subconscious in one's own mind at will, one soon
makes oneself master of the conscious and the subconscious in the minds
of others.
I do not precisely know this, of course, because I have never practiced
having my own way with other people as much as I would like, but my
theory and my observation of others who have practiced on me leads me, in
speaking for all of us to believe this: The way for a man to do who wants
to get his own way with people is to heighten his consciousness, deepen
his consciousness down into his subconsciousness, live more abundantly in
soul and body, deeper down and higher up and further over into himself
than others. Then he gets his way with others because everybody wants him
to, almost without knowing it or anybody's else knowing it.
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