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Chuck’s Place: How To Assume Conscious Authorship Of Your Life

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You are the Dream and the Dreamer…
-Artwork © 2026 Jan Ketchel

Carl Jung once had a dream where he was hiking in the mountains and came upon a Christian chapel. He went inside to discover a Yogi seated in a lotus position upon the altar.

As he approached he noticed that the Yogi was himself, Carl Jung, dreaming himself into physical life. Jung also had the clear realization that when the Yogi woke up his life would end.

This dream reflects the simple truth that some thought-centered part of ourselves is creating the physical life we are living. That thought center is the conscious mind that, through its suggestions to the subconscious mind, dreams us into our current lives.

When we fully become lucid to this basic genesis of our lives we are empowered to fully create the life we so desire. The hallmark of this technology is the power of suggestion to manifest physical reality.

Jung’s dream did not place Christ at the expected place upon the altar. Nor did it replace Christ with a Buddha. The central character was Jung himself, directing the show, in a lotus position, as his mind meditated on creating his waking life. Here the dream affirms that the power of creation is not to be projected beyond the self. The lives we are in are fully of our own creation.

By being shown this creation dynamic, Jung was empowered to take fuller responsibility for the direction of his life. One of his greatest contributions to achieving fulfillment was his technique of active imagination, where, through conscious interaction with dream characters, the conscious mind advances the health and healing of the self.

To actively imagine, still your mind and body into a calm state and turn attention to the dream scene or character you wish to engage, to either learn more from or have a different interaction than previously dreamed. State your intention to engage, and then wait, patiently.

The character or image may spontaneously arrive. Be with it and interact with it. Don’t feel pressure to create an interaction. Be with what is. It’s fine to allow yourself to imagine the changes you seek, fully feeling them to be real. Be accepting of whatever arises and know that your efforts are well received.

Going to sleep itself offers the ideal entrée into creating the waking life one desires. When we enter the hypnagogic state—where we are still awake but on the brink of dreaming, such that we slip in and out of it yet are still in conscious command—we have the greatest opportunity to influence the course of our lives.

What we feel and imagine at these moments powerfully impresses the subconscious mind, which then sets about bringing our intentions to life. The hypnagogic state is a time to exercise the psychic power of suggestion.

Neville Goddard introduced a practice he called revision of the day as one moves toward the hypnagogic state of sleep. The technique has one, in a restful state but before sleep, review the events of the day just lived, first completely forgiving oneself and others for any judged failures of self, or other, in events lived through the day being reviewed.

Next he instructs one to choose events from the day one wishes to revise, that is, to have lived differently. In the imagination, one revises these scenes to become the ideal one would have had them to be. These edits are then fully acted out in the imagination.

This revision is completed as the hypnagogic state gains the ascendence and the subconscious mind takes up these revisions as suggestions to manifest the desired changes within the self and toward others, just as imagined.

This then positively impacts the feelings and judgments one wakes up to; inner changes that free one from yesterday’s limiting habits. In waking life, the conscious mind can also purposefully change the habitual internal dialogue, to state the new “I Am” that one intends to embody.

Habits are efficiency shortcuts that the subconscious creates for ease of functioning in life. The subconscious will defer to new instructions to form new habits. Take command of the suggestive power of the internal dialogue to form desired new habits that manifest a changed physical reality.

If, for instance, the prevailing automatic internal dialogue states: “It won’t happen for me.” Counter that by stating incessantly: “It is happening for me, it has happened.” State these words hundreds of times each day, especially when the old script grabs your attention.

Remember, always: “In the beginning is the Word.” Use the words of your internal dialogue to edit and create your life, as you desire it. Then, let go into the knowing that your subconscious will publish your intended life story. Let go knowing that it will certainly happen, when and how is best.

Jung realized that his inner yogi waking up meant the end of his current life. When we wake up from the sleep of our habitual lives we can no longer live the old dream. This is the essence of death and resurrection. We cannot author the life we desire until we sacrifice the old habits that composed the old chapters of our life.

Use the tools of active imagination, revision and internal dialogue to thoroughly script that desired new life.

Wake up and live,
Chuck

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Chuck’s Place: Reconciling The Worlds Of New Thought And Trauma

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Phineas Parkhurst Quimby of New Thought

New Thought is a philosophical and practical healing paradigm that had its birth in America, specifically in New England, in the early 19th century. Phineas Parkhurst Quimby, a clockmaker, mesmerist and healer is, I believe, rightfully credited as the inadvertent founder of this movement.

Though locally famous throughout Maine for his miraculous healings, it was Mary Baker Eddy, one of Quimby’s patients, who founded Christian Science subsequent to his death, bringing his healing principles to worldwide attention. It should be noted that she took credit for his unique approach though largely misunderstood it and misrepresented it.

The essential principle that Quimby discovered and practiced was that one’s mental beliefs are fundamental to the state of one’s body. That is, you become what you believe you are. Changing a belief had the potential to effect a cure.

Quimby found organized religion largely abhorrent. However, he greatly appreciated Christ’s emphasis upon the state of one’s beliefs as the essential ingredient to one’s healing. Quimby used the term Christian Science frequently to define the exercise of a technology of unfettered consciousness, which emphasizes truth over illusion.

Great emphasis has been placed upon the power of positive thinking as an outgrowth of the New Thought movement, as evidenced in the 21st century by the 2006 bestseller, The Secret, by Rhonda Byrne. The tools of the Law of Attraction and the Power of Manifestation have woven their way into modern culture as a result of the popularity of this book.

One major criticism of New Thought is the notion that one can skip over trauma processing, or shadow integration, and achieve fulfillment and wholeness through positive intention alone.

By definition, trauma and shadow represent unprocessed lived experiences and complexes that create major divisions and sub-personalities within the psyche that defy wholeness. At best, these components are included in wholeness as triggers or in illegitimate suffering, as Jung defined neurosis, where necessary suffering is traded for a less painful obsession.

For the past few years I have highlighted the power of the subconscious mind to create desired change in one’s life. I was led to this emphasis through a variety of synchronistic phenomena and personal experiences that helped me to understand that we are in the midst of a major paradigm shift as a human race that explains the rock bottom Kali Yuga of our time. Kali Yuga is a spiritual season, of Hindu origin, which depicts humanity at its basest state of existence, much as we experience today. It’s the precursor to new life.

What is highlighted in our world now is the power of belief, right or wrong, and the warring competition to dominate the world’s belief system. This proves Quimby right. What we believe we become.

More fundamentally is the challenge to the belief systems that have governed health and healing. People are being empowered to discover their own latent healing powers. Certainly it is timely to wake up to the power of autosuggestion and the ability to have influence through the subconscious mind, especially in a time where many feel so outwardly powerless.

I have discovered that suggestions impressed upon the subconscious mind are indeed realized. However, the path to their manifestation cannot be controlled. Often the subconscious manifests challenges that appear diametrically opposed to the impressed suggestion.

However, it often becomes evident that solving the issue presented is prerequisite to fulfillment of a suggestion. Hence, if a trauma or complex must be encountered before a suggestion can manifest it comes forth to be processed.

I always suggest that intentions impressed upon the subconscious be for the greater good of self and other. This insures that the path to fulfillment includes and does not skip over needed integration of shadow.

Sometimes people present suggestions for selfish motives and the subconscious dutifully fulfills these requests. However, the karma or effect of those manifestations will inevitably ultimately be encountered. There’s no escaping, only postponing encounter with shadow.

The deeper we explore the shadow we may discover a black hole of trauma from past lives. If we take into consideration the 4th dimension of our being, our soul body, we are 3-dimensionally working with issues from prior lives at the behest of our soul.

From even more higher dimensions we are carrying the evolution of everything from the beginning. Trauma processing is processing and growing into coherence with our greater oneness.

Trauma, from this perspective, is necessary and normal and will likely always be present when we confront the unknown. To be able to be existentially fulfilled in the now of life while simultaneously carrying trauma to be processed is probably the true nature of all human life.

Of course, we could say there is trauma that’s come due and must be dealt with now if we are to proceed toward fulfillment, but it’s not necessary to push beyond what’s come due. The greater challenge that’s come due might be to dive deeper into life now with support from the subconscious manifesting the way.

The self-empowerment of New Thought and the processing of trauma from whatever source are complementary practices for greater individuation in this life and beyond.

Be so empowered,
Chuck

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Chuck’s Place: Reason As Guardian Of The Subconscious Mind

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The Subconscious Mind Creates What is Impressed Upon It…
-Artwork © 2026 Jan Ketchel

A good hypnotic subject reveals, in dramatic form, the innermost workings of the human mind. Once in trance a subject will bark like a dog, get drunk from a sip of water or freeze like a statue, all in obligatory response to suggestions delivered by a stage hypnotist.

When, under the influence of a hypnotist, a hypnotic subject enters a state of trance, they voluntarily let go of their conscious mind’s controlling influence over their own subconscious mind. This controlling influence over their subconscious mind is transferred to the hypnotist who assumes control via the use of suggestion.

Although there is a broad range of receptivity among different individuals to entering such trance states, what is revealed in hypnosis is a universal dynamic operational in all human minds. Suggestions that are impressed upon the subconscious mind, from whatever source, will be expressed in the physical life of that individual. We are beings whose lives are completely shaped by the power of suggestion.

Take, for example, the common experience of being in a bad mood. A thoughtful reflection upon it might reveal a negative comment one has internalized that the subconscious mind dutifully expresses through a shift in brain chemistry, which results in depressed feelings and sensations. Belief becomes physical reality.

The subconscious mind is the absolute truth-teller. It treats the beliefs and feelings that reach it as absolute facts, which they are, in that they precisely reflect the beliefs and feelings the conscious mind is indeed experiencing.

The subconscious mind does not alter or challenge these facts. It is the divine creator that religiously creates the word or desire presented to it. Once the subconscious is impressed, it employs its creative powers to bring to physical life an exact expression of the impression it has received.

The events in our daily lives, the state of our bodies, the condition of our emotional well being, and the quality of our relationships are completely shaped by the beliefs and feelings we hold in our conscious minds that the subconscious mind is charged to make real.

In some mysterious way the subconscious mind has access to infinite knowledge and the ability to transform mental and emotional energy into its physical equivalents. The subconscious mind plays no favorites. It applies equal effort to bringing into physical life positive and negative suggestions. Its job is to bring to life the absolute truth of what we think and feel.

Obviously, responsibility for the life we manifest is pervasively lodged in the beliefs and feelings we harbor. If our goal in life is the realization of our greatest good, the conscious mind must align its beliefs and feelings with suggestions that will manifest such an intention.

The subconscious mind can only be protected by the conscious mind providing it with suggestions that employ its energy to manifest its highest ideals. Obviously, we often miss the mark with this intention, manifesting stumbling blocks that impede our progress.

Nonetheless, given the subconscious mind’s indifference to the morality of the suggestions it receives, our stumbling blocks are very accurately mirrored back to our conscious minds, offering us the opportunity to rationally discover our errors.

Typically, we project responsibility for our circumstances onto outer events and other people. The conscious mind can employ its reason to observe itself and reflect upon its beliefs and feelings that shape the suggestions that create its life.

If we can assume responsibility for our errors, we are freed to shift our beliefs and feelings to better manifest our truly desired state of happiness and fulfillment.

In my experience, as reflected in the knowledge of the shamans of ancient Mexico, the number one spoiler of beliefs and feelings is the pervasive hold of self-importance upon our conscious minds. Self-importance magnifies our sense of entitlement and renders us victims, based on its suggestions to the subconscious mind.

If we can truly call for the greater good of all in our beliefs and feelings our suggestions are cleansed of self-importance and our  subconscious mind is freed to physically create a fulfilled life for self and all.

May untainted reason guard the keys to the kingdom, the quality of suggestions impressed upon the subconscious mind.

The Greater Good only,
Chuck

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Chuck’s Place: The Relationship Between Ego & High Self

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Ego Influences Above and Below…
-Artwork © 2026 Jan Ketchel

Ego is the hero in the hero’s journey of a human life. Human life is a finite affair. It has a beginning and an ending. We are born, assigned a name and a set of people, called family, who largely influence the identity we will assume throughout our human life.

The center of our consciousness, in this limited duration of time-space we will occupy in our human life, is the ego. Ego can think and act as it confronts the core challenges of its life, which include becoming a self-sufficient adult and solving the trials that must be surmounted to achieve fulfillment.

In contrast to the ego’s limited time-space existence, the High Self exists at the infinite dimension of our being; always was and always will be. The High Self is a growing identity shaped by the many finite lifetimes it has launched, only one of which is us now, in this lifetime.

The growing need of the High Self is reflected in the circumstances of the life we are currently in. Ego, solving the core challenge of now, benefits completion in this life, as well as contributes to greater harmony and knowledge within the greater High Self identity in infinity. As we learn and grow, our High Self also learns and grows.

The High Self has greater wisdom than the ego but largely leaves the ego to find its own way, which may lead to discovery that even the High Self knows not of. The High Self needs the ego in order to grow yet looks after the ego, and is quite responsive to its solicitations as it tries to find its way through life.

By definition, ego, as a finite being, is in a poor position to solve the challenges of human life. Typically, it gets caught in bipolar attitudes. Either it puffs itself up in the inflation of self-importance to feel superior and capable, or it deflates itself considerably, just trying to survive as a felt inferior being.

Experiences along the hero’s journey offer it the opportunity to gain confidence by facing life in a truthful way and accepting guidance from the High Self that supports its goals for this life. This guidance is always available but must be actively requested of High Self by ego.

When the ego asks the subconscious mind to provide guidance from the High Self it often results in a dream, a synchronicity, or a direct experience within the self that delivers its response.

Currently, our world is in the midst of rapid and comprehensive transformation. Those in human form at this time are part of a planetary ego at an evolutionary crossroads.

Heretofore, we have been dominated by a materialist worldview that is no longer tenable for planetary survival. Materialism is burdened with the belief that the causes in one’s life originate from outside the self.

The more sublime shift, however, is taking ownership of the divine power of manifestation inherent in the human mind. No one is a barrier to your full realization and expression of self. The responsible exercise of these powers advances Earth itself on its spiritual journey of love.

High Self is available to guide this massive transition. Every time we go to the heart and ask, “What is right for me to do in this situation?”, we are tapping into the guidance of the High Self.

For ego to then focus its intent to resonate with the wisdom of the
High Self will hasten our planetary ego, and our world, manifesting in alignment with truth and the greater good.

Gratitude to all,
Chuck

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Chuck’s Place: Infinite Intelligence In The Subconscious Mind

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We are all a Drop in the Ocean of Infinite Intelligence…
-Artwork © 2026 Jan Ketchel

Infinite intelligence is an ocean of oneness that exists at the  subconscious level of everything.

Our conscious minds are like a droplet from that ocean spray that, for the moment of a human lifetime, rises above that ocean and participates, as an individual identity, in an intimate creative partnership with its underlying infinite oneness of intelligence.

Both conscious and subconscious minds are of the same divine oneness. However, their temporary separateness affords consciousness the power to create by accessing the knowledge and manifesting the capabilities latent in the subconscious mind.

The subconscious, while deeply impressed with the instinctive knowhow of infinite intelligence, quite willingly opens to the suggestions that the conscious mind impresses upon it through its strong beliefs. The subconscious does not judge, it reflects, via its physical constructions, the intentions of the conscious mind.

This is its teaching contribution to the conscious mind. It constructs our lives in accordance with our thoughts. These experiences give us concrete physical experiences of who we are on the inside, and the opportunity to change our thoughts for the betterment of our spiritual, emotional and physical lives.

As we grow, we deepen our knowledge of the effects of our thoughts and beliefs as they manifest in our health and fulfillment in life. With this growing wisdom, gained from observing, and often through suffering the cause and effect of our core beliefs, we learn that we can make changes to our lives by exercising new thoughts that break us out of old habitual patterns. Change your mind, change your life.

We also learn that we are deeply connected to our subconscious minds and can call upon its infinite intelligence to mold our lives for the greater good of self and all. We hold the power within.

Appealing with passionate speech, or thought, to the infinite intelligence in your subconscious mind, as your most trusted and appreciated partner, for the changes you deeply desire, is an interaction that won’t be ignored.

Remember, though, that just like in any true partnership, you cannot control the behavior of your partner. Trust in the intelligent ways of infinite intelligence.

Chuck