New Scientific Insights into "Subconscious Mind"
The new science of "Cybernetics" has furnished us with
convincing proof that the so-called "subconscious mind"
is not a "mind" at all, but a mechanism—a goal-striving
"servo-mechanism" consisting of the brain and nervous
system, which is used by, and directed by mind. The
latest, and most usable concept is that man does not have
two "minds," but a mind, or consciousness, which "operates"
an automatic, goal-striving machine. This automatic,
goal-striving machine functions very similarly to the way
that electronic servo-mechanisms function, as far as basic
principles are concerned, but it is much more marvelous,
much more complex, than any electronic brain or guided
missile ever conceived by man.
This Creative Mechanism within you is impersonal. It
will work automatically and impersonally to achieve
goals of success and happiness, or unhappiness and failure,
depending upon the goals which you yourself set for
it. Present it with "success goals" and it functions as a
"Success Mechanism." Present it with negative goals, and
it operates just as impersonally, and just as faithfully as a
"Failure Mechanism."
Like any other servo-mechanism, it must have a clearcut
goal, objective, or "problem" to work upon.
The goals that our own Creative Mechanism seeks to
achieve are MENTAL IMAGES, or mental pictures,
which we create by the use of IMAGINATION.