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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

 

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Soulbyte for Tuesday July 21, 2026

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-Artwork © 2026 Jan Ketchel

Remind yourself often as you go through the day to return to balance, to inner peace and calm. You can even speak the words—peace and calm—to yourself and immediately feel their effect. Even just thinking those two words will have an effect because there is power in words and in thoughts. May you experience peace and calm today, and every day.

All our love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

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Chuck’s Place: Links To The Magical Journey

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A Magical Full Circle Experience…
-Artwork © 2026 Jan Ketchel

I mentioned to Jan that I was reading Castaneda again, a man whose works have had a profound impact upon me.

She handed me a book. “You should read this,” she said.

The book surprised me. It was a book I’d avoided reading for years: A Magical Journey With Carlos Castaneda by Margaret Runyan Castaneda, once Carlos’ wife.

Carlos and Margaret got together in the mid 1950’s, married on January 27, 1960 and divorced in 1973. In all actuality, they lived together for less than a year, as Carlos was quite preoccupied with visits to Mexico and his apprenticeship with don Juan Matus. I add here the trickster caveat that, as with all things Castaneda, there is no real documentation of anything.

Most striking to me in Margaret’s book was the discovery that Margaret’s guru was Neville Goddard, a prominent New Thought teacher, whom though aware of, I had never immersed myself in.

Particularly striking to me was the discovery that both Neville Goddard and Joseph Murphy were prominent students of a learned man, named Abdullah, a black rabbi in New York City, originally from Ethiopia.

There are several unknowns about the true origin of Abdullah, a bit of a mysterious character it seems, much like Carlos Castaneda and don Juan Matus, but he had a profound impact on both Murphy and Goddard.

I have extolled the virtues of Joseph Murphy’s The Power Of The Subconscious Mind in numerous blogs, and am now exploring the work of Neville Goddard.

What I never knew was that Carlos Castaneda was directly exposed to the New Thought lineage through Margaret, as she frequently spoke to him about the impact Goddard’s teachings had upon her, and she personally brought him to a Neville Goddard lecture.

For me, this unexpected knowledge brings the teachings of the shamans of ancient Mexico, in accessing the divine power of the subconscious mind, full circle into alignment with the New Thought lineage.

Rather than expound more upon the curious interconnectedness of what has preoccupied me most of my spiritual life, I share the following inks:

A magical Neville Goddard lecture

And a written interview with Joseph Murphy

For all who are interested, I invite you to have your own direct experience. In the final analysis, it’s all about INTENT.

See what happens!
Chuck