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Chuck’s Place: Honing A Relationship With Your Supreme Being

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The Two and the One…
-Artwork © 2026 Jan Ketchel

Carl Jung posited that human beings have an innate religious instinct, as distinct and powerful as the instincts of hunger or sex. This religious  instinct drives us to experience transcendent existence beyond the limits of human form.

At different epochs in human history the religious instinct has manifested as both wrathful or loving supreme beings, whom human beings have felt accountable to and sought support from.

With the rise of logic in the modern mind, the rational mind, for many, has become the current tenant of the religious instinct. Heaven, for the rational mind, is creation in the material world, its one and only true world.

Our current breakdown of civilization is actually a war on the god of rationality, as the power of the irrational breaks down the former dominance and felt stranglehold of the rational mind. We are actually experiencing the supreme power of just one person, one mind, manifesting an irrational, whole new world.

What is being mirrored for humanity, in this example, is the religious instinct being embodied as the supreme being within the human psyche rather than being projected outward onto some separate, invisible supreme being. Though this, of course, raises clinical concern around the consequences of a supreme ego inflation, let us not throw the baby out with the bathwater.

This caricature of the supreme human being, graphically projected upon the current world screen, also reveals the structure and potential impact of the human mind. The human psyche has a resident divine being within, in the person of its subconscious mind. The subconscious mind has the power to heal body and soul, as well as attract to it and manifest  suggestions that impress it deeply.

The subconscious has the power, as mimicked by AI, to search all of human history, and beyond, in an instant. The subconscious mind is non-local, capable of remote viewing the past, present, and future . All things are present in the subconscious self; it is one with everything. This is Omnipresence.

The interesting thing about the subconscious mind is that it puts itself completely at the beck and call of suggestion, particularly from the conscious mind in the form of its beliefs, thoughts, and intentions. The subconscious does not question the morality of the wishes presented to it. It manifests good as well as bad, self-serving impulses as well as magnanimous intentions.

The only check upon the power of the conscious mind to get what it wants from the subconscious mind is the law of cause and effect. The subconscious mind, for instance, cannot erase the impact upon the body and mind of the action of one choosing to minimally sleep. Eventually, a psychotic process will threaten the perception, judgment, and functioning of a conscious mind that refuses to sleep.

The subconscious mind appears to be a god that will grant us all our wishes, without judgment, leaving us to grow by having us experience the full impact of our suggestions. Thus, the impact of the disruptions to our current world order, as driven by the subconscious effects of one person, sows the seeds of its own destruction. What goes up will come down.

Many people are frustrated with the challenge of influencing the subconscious mind to manifest their intent. Actually, in many cases this reflects powerful beliefs, often unknown to consciousness, but deeply embedded in the subconscious mind that nullify the effect of one’s conscious intent.

In this case, the subconscious mind is manifesting the more powerful suggestion it is receiving or has received in the past. If, for instance, I want to feel attractive but have always hated my body, the suggestion of longstanding hate is the more likely to be manifested.

Our world leader demonstrates par excellence the rote method to have suggestions reach the subconscious mind. The incessant repetition of the same suggestions, accompanied by powerful emotions, will ultimately attract the attention and action of the subconscious mind. Word and emotion impress, perseverance furthers.

To counter the potential negative consequences of suggestions, it is wise to restrict one’s suggestions to the intent of the greater good for self and all. The subconscious mind, like all relationships, is highly receptive to positive emotions, like gratitude and genuine love.

Make it a practice to express gratitude often to the subconscious for the experiences of its responsiveness to a request. This can be as simple as having a name or word pop into your mind that you have asked to remember: Thank You Subconscious Mind!

As our world leader models, confidence that one’s suggestions will manifest is a critical quality in attracting the attention of the subconscious mind. Many feel a lack of confidence in their ability to impress the subconscious, particularly as they feel they are not seeing their suggestions manifest.

The gratitude practice for small requests being responded to will accrue to a growing confidence as the more rational side of the mind sees results. This will begin to bring genuine and greater confidence to such requests.

The 12-Step program wisdom, to “let go and let God” is particularly apropos in strengthening one’s relationship to the divine intelligence in the subconscious mind. The challenge for the conscious mind is to ask for what is truly right, then trust its divine partner to bring it to physical life as it knows best. No attachment to the outcome.

The human mind is one of a divine relationship between the conscious and subconscious minds, the two made whole. The current world is discovering this inner manifestation of its religious instinct. What now remains to be achieved is a loving relationship between these two sides of supreme being that responsibly exercises its divine power for the greater  good of self and all.

Wondrous are the works of the infinite intelligence within,
Chuck

*** By the way: Just wanted to let everyone know that we have added a New Sidebar Feature: 365 Days of Drawing Meditation, just below the “Add Riverwalker to your phone” feature.

We thought we would share the drawings Jan has made so far to meet her 2026 New Year Challenge of drawing one drawing a day, with a wooden stick, in small scratchboard pads. Originally, we gave the scratchboard pads as Halloween treats and Jan soon began drawing in the leftovers. She loved it and has not stopped since! In fact, most of the drawings she has now been doing to illustrate our posts are done on the same scratchboard pads. Her New Year’s intention is to keep drawing, one a day, while meditating. So check back often to see how it’s going!

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Chuck’s Place: The Impact Of Faith Upon The Dual Mind

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Faith & Desire fuel manifestation…
-Artwork © 2025 Jan Ketchel

Thomson Jay Hudson’s 1893 publication of The Law Of Psychic Phenomena introduced an epochal distinction between the thinking of the conscious and subconscious minds. In a nutshell, the conscious mind is capable of a reasoning that can think outside the box whereas the subconscious mind never goes outside the box of its given, beginning premise.

Thus, for example, although all cloudy signs might suggest the coming of a rainstorm, the conscious mind might remain open to the possibility of a sunny day. In contrast, if the subconscious mind is told that the body has a cold, it will employ, without question, all its manifesting power to generate that state of illness in the body.

The subconscious mind takes, as absolute fact, what it is told—or the suggestions it is given, consciously or unconsciously—by the conscious mind. In contrast, the conscious mind is capable of seeing probabilities, but also possibilities, for outcomes that lie beyond a given premise.

Tell the subconscious mind that you are inadequate and it will package that suggestion, without contradiction, into a habit that becomes the overriding sense of self-definition that influences enduring moods, physical expression, social relationships and enduring beliefs about the self.

On the other hand, the conscious mind, while heavily under the impact of a negative belief, still has the possibility to imagine or believe that it can change, envisioning an adequate, if not thriving, sense of self. The conscious mind has the ability to exercise its will to logically create, change, or petition the subconscious mind to manifest a new possibility.

While the conscious mind has the freedom to assert life in new directions, the subconscious mind must contend with the power of the suggestions it receives from its evolutionary history, most intensely expressed through instinctive or hereditary reactions.

Despite the power of these reactions, as reflected in the archetypes of the collective unconscious, the subconscious mind does remain attuned to new suggestions issued from our conscious thoughts and intentions. The challenge for the conscious mind is to make positive suggestions for the greater good of self, and the world, rather than for the greater good of the ego, or lower desires within the self.

This is the greatest challenge for the modern world: Do I intend a world for the greater fulfillment of my own desires alone, or for the greater good of the entire world?

The dual mind reflects the human ability to both determine what is best and to fully manifest it into life. On the one side, the conscious mind has access to unlimited possibilities; on the other, the subconscious mind has access to the knowhow and substance to bring to life its accepted suggestion.

The overarching necessity for the conscious mind to deliver a successful suggestion to the subconscious mind is faith. Divorce faith, in this definition, from any spiritual association. I define faith here as acknowledging the possibility, despite all logical argument, that anything is possible.

That possibility alone is the hypothesis for any experiment. Scientific method asks us to be open to test any possibility. The methodology, in the case of suggestions to the subconscious mind, is to suspend judgment and imagine an outcome one desires. Desire is the motive power of suggestion. Desire attracts like manifestation.

If fear has been an old dominant experience in my life, my desired new outcome may be to exhibit a pervasive sense of courage. The suggestion I state is, “I Am Courage.” I visualize myself calm and confident in previously challenging circumstances. Coupled with imagination and positive feelings, I state my suggestion often, sometimes parrotlike, but always truly embodying the confidence of the intention.

As always, we must remind the conscious mind that its role is to suggest, not enact. When it delivers its suggestion to the subconscious mind, it must truly turn over control to the powers of the subconscious mind to manifest. The only job for the conscious mind is to remain persevering in its practice of the stating of its suggestion, feeling its desire, and imagining its materialization.

It often happens that the path the subconscious mind chooses brings synchronicities into our lives, which invite conscious realization and spur action toward the ultimate goal. However, the creative process and timetable of enactment are totally in the hands of the subconscious mind. Hands off!

The little bit of faith that the conscious mind requires, the faith that anything is possible, provides the legitimacy to experiment with the manifesting powers of the dual mind.

Set up your own experiments. See what happens! You won’t be disappointed.

Just a little bit of faith,
Chuck

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Chuck’s Place: Suggestion Is The New Science Of Matter

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Manifest for the greater good of self and all…
-Artwork © 2025 Jan Ketchel

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), the most prominent and evidenced based psychotherapy of today, is rooted in the principle that changing thought patterns manifests changes in physical life. Thought is a suggestion that creates change in matter.

In Quantum Mechanics particles exist in states of probability until observed by humans. This observer-effect influences the physical state of those particles. Suggestion, from the mind, impacts matter.

All the major spiritual traditions hold that some Divine Utterance of a word was the creative act that gave rise to the physical universe. Suggestion, in the form of a word, creates the physical world.

Shamanic traditions hold that human intent fixated upon a specific organization of energy becomes physical reality. Suggestion, in the form of the intent we call to us, becomes the reality of our physically manifested life.

Autosuggestion, in the form of words we speak to our subconscious mind, is the deliberate use of suggestion to generate the physical reality we seek to manifest. Suggestion manifests physical reality.

It is apparent that suggestion is the new science of matter. Even but a cursory look at current world changes demonstrates how a flood of suggestions is creating separate, but quite physical, realities.

Coexistent with the material world we live in is the mental or subtle world of the mind, which, although its thoughts might be considered to be impacting the cells of the brain, is not, of the brain. The mind is housed in the subtle body of the soul, which runs and cares for its intimate avatar, the physical body, until that physical body’s death, when the soul, with its mind, continues its journey in other dimensions of infinity.

The subtle dimension of the mind exists amid a world of boundless thoughts, in the form of suggestions, that barrage the subconscious dimension of mind to do their bidding. It is the subconscious dimension of mind that organizes matter, or physical reality, according to the suggestions impressed upon it.

Humankind has only recently, on a small scale, woken up, with consciousness, to the power of deliberate suggestion that, when delivered to the subconscious mind, manifests the reality it seeks. For the most part, we are still largely asleep at the wheel of time, unconscious of the fact that our supernatural ability to manifest the life we truly desire is so willingly given over to the thoughts, beliefs and, ultimately, the suggestions, of others.

Suggestions have their roots in desire. The motive power of desire is the fuel behind a verbal suggestion that impresses the subconscious mind. Words without emotion fall flat. Best, however, that the desire behind suggestion be the desire for growth for the greater good of self and all, as the karma of all suggestion is inevitable.

Since the redundancy of our internal dialogue is the major influencer to our subconscious mind, and is what most keeps us oppressed with habitual patterns, I recommend a constant conscious internal dialogue of positive suggestions.

Like rapidly repeating a positive prayer or mantra, a fast-paced reciting of a suggestion intensifies its emotional charge. Feel free to simply repeat them constantly throughout the day rather than indulge in passive fantasies and the thoughts they generate, the typical ongoing  internal dialogue that reinforces habitual reality.

Think not about how and when things will manifest; focus only on reinforcing the suggestion with persevering practice. Simply know that in the subtle dimension of the mind the suggestion is manifesting already at the creative center of the imagination.

The word will indeed become flesh when it is time to be lived at the level of dense matter, which is physical reality.

Exercise the science of suggestion, with consciousness and conscience,
Chuck 

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Chuck’s Place: The Sweet Spot Of The Subconscious Mind

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The Divine Couple working together…
-Artwork © 2025 Jan Ketchel

The Divine Spark of Spirit is expressed in the Soul through the agency of the High Self and the Subconscious Mind, the Yang and Yin of creation. The suggestions of the High Self are given material life through the creative process of the Subconscious Mind, the bridge between mind and matter.

The Soul is the architect and creator of the physical body it inhabits and runs for the duration of its journey in human form. The Divine couple of High Self and Subconscious Mind, within the Soul, also co-create and deliver the Spark of the Spirit to the center of the human personality,  the human ego.

The High Self, as parent guardian to the ego, is ever available to provide its wisdom and guidance to the ego, upon request. The ego has the free will to choose its actions, and this freedom is generally not overridden by the High Self, except perhaps in a necessary, lifesaving intervention.

The Subconscious Mind is the crown of creation. In contrast to the High Self, its total focus is upon manifestation and maintenance of life. It leaves the thinking function to the High Self and to the ego. Its focus is upon maintaining the health and functioning of the body according to Mother Nature’s laws and the wisdom of the ages.

The Subconscious Mind is extremely receptive to manifesting suggestions delivered to it by its Divine offspring, the ego. Most people are unaware of this fundamental fact of life.  In fact, the rational mind of the ego typically rejects the notion that it has the power to manifest its desires and intentions through autosuggestions to the Subconscious Mind.

Ironically, this rational prejudice materializes as a subconscious habit of  limiting beliefs, which the ego impresses upon the Subconscious Mind through its incessant internal dialogue. The Subconscious Mind does not discriminate. It is receptive and trusting. Be careful what you consistently tell yourself; it is taken quite seriously. What we tell ourselves we become. Like the High Self, the Subconscious Mind expects the ego to grow up and assume responsibility for its thought suggestions.

The greater challenge, for the ego, is the mastery of its desires. The ego was born into a material world that prizes sensual pleasure and material gain and accomplishment. These are all essential qualities that must find healthy balance in a human life. The maturation of the ego ultimately requires alignment with, and acquiescence to, the wisdom of the High Self. It might take the better part of a lifetime for ego to adjust its will to serve wisdom and right action.

In the meantime, ego and the physical body may suffer the negative consequences of ego decisions, despite the innate ability of the Subconscious Mind to heal many maladies. The Subconscious Mind will not override suggestions the ego makes, even though they may lead to ill health. Such is the imperative that the purpose of a human life is for true ego maturity.

Divine rescue would interrupt the opportunity for human growth. However, the ego can utilize the Divine power of the Subconscious Mind constructively, but it must first know how to find its sweet spot.

For the ego to intentionally reach the sweet spot of the Subconscious Mind it must silence the thinking mind with firm directives. This can begin with several minutes of stating autogenic phrases/directives to the physical body:

My feet are relaxed… My ankles are relaxed… my calf muscles are relaxed… My thigh muscles are relaxed… my pelvis is relaxed… my stomach is relaxed… My chest is relaxed… My shoulders, arms and fingers are relaxed… My back is relaxed… My neck is relaxed… My head is relaxed… My face and eyes are relaxed… My feet are relaxed…

These phrases are repeated several times as the body becomes relaxed and drowsy and the mind sinks into a light trance. The mind is no longer engaged in active thinking and building dramas through attaching to thoughts. The Subconscious Mind is now freed from the barrage of countless suggestions from random thoughts, and is fully receptive to a single autosuggestion.

And with this you have arrived at the sweet spot of the Subconscious Mind; you have its full attention.

State your suggestion calmly, confidently and rotely, repeating it for several minutes as you then slip off into the deeper trance of sleep. Do this every day with the calm knowing that, for what you ask, you will, in Divine Order, receive.

Chuck

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Chuck’s Place: Seize The Moment Before It Seizes You

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A fortunate result…
-Artwork © 2025 Jan Ketchel

Stepping down from a small ladder, I misjudged the final step. Suddenly I was falling backwards. I was able to turn slightly, allowing my wrist and hand to somewhat break the fall so I did not land flat on my back. But I hit the ground hard nonetheless.

Immediately, my consciousness flew to The Mother, Aurobindo’s guide and partner. She had painstakingly made clear that pretty much anything could be healed if we could fully gather our awareness and focus it on the experience at hand,  in the current moment, before it was defined.

I grabbed my wrist and hand before the expected pain arrived and incessantly told myself, “My hand and wrist are healing; my hand and wrist are healed.” The boomerang wave of expected pain did not arrive. I kept repeating my suggestion.

Soon, I couldn’t be sure which hand had broken the fall, since both hands felt identically calm and agile. The same still holds true, as if no fall had ever happened. Funny, Jan heard the fall from a distance but encountered no voice in crisis, hence moved on without feeling the need to check.

The critical factor in this definition of life experience is to assume control of defining it, before the absolutely expected outcome arrives. The Mother pointed out, that though one could still heal if the expected definition of pain and disjointedness arrived, it is so much more difficult to unseat a ruling expectation once it has set in.

We have all learned a myriad of cause and effect reactions to body mishaps in physical life. The subconscious mind readily offers its knowledge to consciousness as it prepares it to experience the consequence of its defined predicament. That is habit.

What I was able to do was seize hold of that energy and redirect its mission to total healing. The subconscious was all ears and it changed the expected outcome of my fall.

For the record, this was but a small three-step ladder. This was not a dramatic fall from an extension ladder. The rational mind has plenty of reasons to disavow anything special in this minor fall. Nor do
I claim any specialness in this instantaneous healing. However, it is a fact, a fact of my life.

The time we are in is wrought with extreme polarization. The Law of Opposites enables us to differentiate and define ourselves as specific personalities based on our beliefs. The rupture to our wholeness, which is the state of the union of those opposites, that we are currently experiencing, does have the enlightening effect of challenging the certainty we previously held of how energy must play out according to established order. Anything is possible.

In fact, we have free will. On the mental plane, we can indeed direct our intent, as we will, to manifest material results. Take advantage of the possibility of defining life in new ways as we traverse this time of breakdown. Direct it towards the greater good. Seize the moment before it seizes you.

Seizing the moment,
Chuck