The conscious mind is the father. Thoughts that the mind entertains are like sperm cells. The subconscious mind is the mother whose eggs become fertilized by these thoughts in the form of the suggestions she is attracted to, and, hence, opens to conceive.
This resulting pregnancy in the subconscious mind is the creative process of transforming thought into material reality. As matter is gathered and ordered according to the thought blueprint, an idea is born into a physical life. Thus a child of the mind is born.
This might involve the arrangement of events or encounters in the flow of everyday life that fulfill the requirements to materialize one’s intent. Here, you see the law of attraction operating upon physical reality to create, in the flesh, the original thought, belief, suggestion or intention of the conscious mind. This is a step-by-step process, often with many building blocks assembling over time.
Children of the mind can assume many forms. The child of a gratitude practice is the inner experience of a lightness of being and joy of being. As we express gratitude from the conscious mind, the subconscious mind receives this compassionate intent and instructs the body to release deeply calming hormones that bathe the body and mind in utter tranquility.
Should the conscious mind harbor negative thoughts, the subconscious mind will dutifully produce children of distress, as the physical body will be taxed with having to house the energy of negativity. This might result in an inner hormonally produced bad mood, low level depression, or a state of anxiety.
Sometimes people experience a pervasive state of anxiety seemingly not attached to thought. Often this is connected to trauma, where life was frozen in the thought of the constant need for defense, unable to resolve in the delivery of processing its experience.
This frozen state of vigilance becomes a forestalled birthing process, housed in the body, that awaits the conscious mind, in the form of a midwife, to be present to its experience and help deliver it to resolved new life.
Often, outside thoughts enter the conscious mind seeking to influence our beliefs and behaviors. These might result in illegitimate pregnancies, especially if we attach to these thoughts without soulful vetting.
Cautionary guidance here is to remain in a passive mode when excited by a passion-induced thought. This passive state is actually a receptive state where one allows oneself greater access to the broader picture, which might expose the one-sidedness of the outside influence.
Additionally, when we are in the receptive state, we are opened to the greater wisdom of our interconnected reality. Synchronicities come that punctuate and affirm thoughts that present.
In this process, ego, or conscious self, receives the guidance of higher wisdom, which points the way to appropriate action for the greater good of self. With this clarity, passivity gives way to activity, as vetted suggestion is presented to the subconscious mind.
All people are parents and children of their own minds. Claim ownership of these creative possibilities and lead life into greater fulfillment for self and all.
With conscious intention and subconscious joy,
Chuck
Upon her arrival at Auschwitz at 16 years of age, the late Edie Eger was forced to immediately dance for the notorious Josef Mengele, known as, the Angel of Death. She chose, as she writes about in her best seller, The Choice, to imagine herself waltzing on stage at the Budapest Opera House, in the arms of a boy she loved.
For her stunning performance Mengele let her live and gave her a loaf of bread. Like her future mentor and colleague, Victor Frankl (author of Man’s Search for Meaning), Edie chose to exercise the power of the imagination to manifest staying alive.
What we imagine, is the blueprint the subconscious mind uses to create the physical outcome of our lives. To not pay attention to what we imagine is to allow our lives to unfold without clear intention. To choose what to imagine is to assume conscious responsibility for the content of our imagination and hence, the direction and outcome of our lives.
When it comes to the state of our health, the quality of our thoughts, as played out in our imagination, is fundamental. We are daily flooded with messages of vulnerability to outside invasive bacteria and viruses. As well, we are saturated with influencers touting potential remedies and preventive measures.
The imagination is solicited to play out these scripts that irritate and activate the central nervous system (CNS) to manufacture neurotransmitters, as well as the endocrine system to produce hormones, to prepare our body and mind for simply a thought of invasion of no true substance.
The subconscious mind responds to the imagination the same way it responds to actual reality. What we imagine is reality to the subconscious mind, which in turn innervates the brain to respond accordingly.
Rather than fixate upon the alarming messages seeking to generate a false reality in the mind and body, we are free to choose to focus our attention upon thoughts that calm the imagination and, consequently, the CNS.
These thoughts generate the production of feel good hormones such as serotonin, dopamine and oxytocin. These promote deep states of relaxation, calm and peace. If, in fact, a genuine threat were to present itself, our resilience, accrued from such calm practice, provides confidence to meet the challenge, rather than being overwhelmed by a crisis.
The practice I suggest to achieve such calm is quite simple. The internal dialogue within the mind never sleeps, but you can override it by taking charge of the words you say to yourself. Saturate yourself with positive words. Simply say them all the time, with intention.
If negative thought intruders momentarily steal your attention, simply shift to the positive words as soon as you notice the disruption. Don’t waste a second more thinking the negative thought.
Here are some positive word suggestions: peace, love, freedom, happiness, joy, comfort, relaxed, beauty, calm, pleasure, warmth, refreshed, happy, treasure, rested… Truthfully, the list is endless.
Choose a word. Perhaps say it many times at a chosen rhythm. Make up poems, jingles, or songs to play with the words. Saturate your inner experience with the words and positive feeling states they generate.
Also, when you say one of these words, they often bring up associations to similar words or experiences to be lived and enjoyed in the imagination. Go there.
One of the practices I enjoy is Vim Hof’s retentive breath work. I utilize the word method, choosing the word that feels right in the moment. I have been able to vastly achieve calm states during lengthy breath retention through this approach. These calm states are retained long after the practice has ended.
Positive saturation promotes deep states of calm to be readily available at the mere stating of a word. Positive saturation does not eliminate real challenges that must be met, but it removes the bulk of negative states manufactured in error.
Positively saturate yourself to your heart, mind and breath’s content,
Chuck
The fundamental dynamic of our New Age is the intentional use of the conscious and subconscious minds to manifest reality. The inherent power of this creative relationship of dual mind has always been there, but until recently its divine powers of manifestation were largely unknown, or innocently disowned.
In the New Age, we are claiming and exercising these divine abilities, which were previously projected onto divine beings above and beyond the human self. The key to using these powers resides in the volitional use of suggestion, or command, to the subconscious mind to physically, emotionally and mentally create the outcome one intends.
Suggestions can be delivered intentionally to the subconscious mind, from the conscious mind, through planned and often repeated autosuggestions.
Unintentional suggestions might also impress themselves upon the subconscious mind through the incessant internal dialogue of thoughts, beliefs and judgments that constantly play in the background of the mind.
What we think, believe and state, consciously or unconsciously, we become. The phenomenon of placebo is hardly an aberration. It reflects the normal divine action of the subconscious power in the human mind. As we believe within, so we create without.
Suggestions can also be delivered to the subconscious mind from sources outside the self, which impress themselves upon the subconscious mind with powerful emotions, manifesting in how one sees and relates to the world.
World leaders are presently demonstrating this power of influence in their incessant, redundant words that act as suggestions that impress themselves upon the subconscious minds of the masses. They become an actual interpretation of reality, often in spite of proven facts to the contrary.
The divine power of the human subconscious mind is that it will accept, as fact, what it is told, if the suggestion is powerful enough to impress itself upon it. That accepted fact then becomes expressed as physical reality.
The subconscious mind will never question a premise it is given. Stage hypnosis readily demonstrates this fact. A hypnotic human subject, who is told they are a dog, will bark and pant as if they genuinely were one, in full acceptance of this suggestion, by the hypnotist, as being the absolute truth.
The phenomenon of trance, which facilitates suggestion being delivered to a hypnotic subject, is actually universal. Contrary to an early psychological misconception, which defined and limited trance and hypnotic states to pathological expressions of hysteria, it turns out that hypnosis is one of the most normal, fundamental states of the human mind. It’s a natural brainwave state that we enter frequently, allowing our thoughts to reach and impress the subconscious mind.
When driving a car, most people enter a state of trance called highway hypnosis, where the mind is in two places at once—both driving the car, with an automatic awareness, while simultaneously off on a thinking adventure. Similar trance states are entered when we are tired, particularly before sleep.
Even in fully aware, active beta-brainwave states, the drone of the internal dialogue creates a neural pathway to the subconscious mind that leaves it receptive to the thoughts one is thinking about. These thoughts manifest as moods and actual perceptions, as the subconscious mind creates, in physical reality, the essence of our thoughts and beliefs.
This effect is particularly enhanced by the excitation of the Central Nervous System (CNS) by the mental ingestion of postings from social media. The intent of outside messaging is to excite our CNS to impress the subconscious mind, while we are seduced into the addiction of excitement.
To navigate the flood of messages that deliver us daily to our identity and state of being, we do well to severely limit outside messaging. Such messaging, now aided by the power of AI, constantly infiltrates our thought space, honing its suggestions to fit our unique lifestyle and preferences, seeking to influence our subconscious mind to adopt its causes.
Instead, I suggest choosing activity that promotes inner calm and harmony. Calming music, calm breathing, meditation, and being mindful during all activities protects our brainwave states from exhaustion and takeover by outside energy.
Thoughts are also things that telepathically can invade our mind-space. The trick here is to not take the bait of excitement nor engage the intrusive thought in inner dialogue. Refocus attention instead upon thoughts of gratitude and love.
A thankful, loving focus raises our brainwave states to deep calm and contentment, as we become impervious to the agitation of invasive thoughts seeking to plant themselves in our nourishing garden of mind.
Furthermore, the subconscious mind will attract to us outer conditions that match our inner feelings and brainwave states. Like attracts like. Positive feelings attract a positive outer reality.
The malevolent matrix of now is an attempt to steal our mental energy for its own construction, but we are fully capable of freeing the mind and destroying the errors of thought that keep us temporarily waylaid. Unleash, instead, the positive divine power of creation within the self.
Finally, take full charge of your our mind now! Take back its power and suggest, with utter confidence, that your subconscious mind deliver you to the world of your dreams, for yourself and your world, but also for the greater good of all.
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!
Matter comes from the Latin word materia, which means the physical substance that is born of mater, who is mother. Our physical body, our physical lives, and the life of our times is the creation of the father-of-suggestion in union with mother, the material substance of the subconscious mind.
Mother brings forth all physical life. The state of that life reflects the quality of the suggestions it has been impregnated with; are they of wisdom or are they of error? Wisdom is infused with impartial truth, error is filled with one-sided opinion.
Our current world is largely defined by the instant reactions of social media, from the White House on down, where the play and battle of opposites vie for dominance of public opinion, which serves as the ruling suggestions to the matter of our time.
Prior generations have struggled to establish union in response to this volatile battle of opposite opinions, often resorting to suppression, or to passing on to the future the insolvency of unrealized truth.
The founding fathers of America knew very well that slavery was immoral, but did not address it in the Constitution, forcing the future America, some 75 years later, into Civil War to resolve the issue. And though the outcome of that war ended slavery, the North and the South never came into real union.
The discontent over this imposed solution was suppressed and housed in the body of America, giving rise to a diseased nation, at war with itself, once again seeking solution in one-sided rule. Such is the karma of unsettled solutions, yet to be resolved into the peace of true Wisdom.
These unsolved issues—be they the equality of the sexes and races, an equitable outcome of Zionism, the divine might-makes-right of kings in imperialist acquisition, or the racist intent of Naziism that seeks its alchemical gold through the destruction of its projected shadow—have all broken through from the body of the world’s suppressed unconscious, once again begging completion, as we prepare to receive the advanced wisdom of the Aquarian age we are now physically living in.
The stupendous overarching truth of now is that human consciousness is on the cusp of a major evolutionary leap that requires a clearing of all the errors and opinions that have formed the ruling suggestions to our subconscious minds, and created our current reality. Take for instance the power of suggestion itself. Once an individual awakens to their personal power to create their physical life, the sky is the limit.
Donald Trump, a master hypnotist, astutely aware of the power of suggestion, recently offered this guidance when asked about the limits on his own global power: “Yeah, there is one thing. My own morality. My own mind. It’s the only thing that can stop me.”
This is indeed a fundamental truth for everyone in relation to their subconscious mind. The suggestions to the subconscious mind are all powerful. Mother subconscious will produce in matter that which is suggested to her. The question, as Donald Trump points out, is the state of one’s morality. Is it based on the wisdom of truth, or the error of opinion? Either way, those suggestions will be manifested.
The unsolved matters of prior times, currently living through us, cannot find peace until we face them squarely and submit to the truth of Wisdom. We cannot revert to old defenses or old beliefs. These unsolved matters demand truthful resolution before we can evolve.
Resolution requires that we suspend the judgment of blame. Full acceptance, of what was and what is, is the precursor to a morality that will produce suggestions to materialize our creative potential for the greater good of all.
Inwardly, we must face the isms that have ruled our sense of self and our sense of the world. Inwardly, we must ask: Is our morality narcissistically dominated by the desire of ego for its own aggrandizement, or is it serving the wisdom of what is truly right? Inwardly, we must free our beliefs from internalized false opinions about ourselves based upon the thoughts and actions of others.
I close with this matter, the guidance and support of Lady Wisdom from Proverbs 3:16-18:
“Long life is in her right hand; in her left hand are riches and honor.
Her ways are ways of pleasantness and all her paths are peace. She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her.”
