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Foreword by Eckhart T olle
Preface
 
1. The Hidden Cause of All Things
2. Discovering the Secret Self
3. The Greatest Magic of All
4. Self-Mastery
5. Mind over Matter
6. Mental Imagery
7. The Power of Choice
8. Overcoming Opposition
9. Developing Skills
10. Creating Y our Own T alent
11. How to Use Y our Sixth Sense
12. The Mental Attitude That Never Fails
 
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Foreword
 
“A work of enduring excellence.” This is one of the main dictionary
definitions of a “classic.” In the r ealm of books of fiction as well as
nonfiction, we should be car eful not to equate the rank of “bestseller”
with that of a “classic.” Most bestsellers have a limited life span,
especially if their popularity is mainly due to clever pr omotional
publicity , commonly called “hype.” Many such bestsellers lose their
readership after a few months or a few years at best. Some books, however , remain popular and widely read even though
decades or centuries have passed since their first publication. They become
classics. What are the characteristics of a classic? Although every book reflects, to a greater or lesser extent, the time period
and cultural environment of its author , a classic possesses an added
dimension of profound insight into the human condition that transcends
historical time and cultural space. From generation to generation, such
books add value and depth to the lives of their readers. This applies to
works of fiction and to an even greater degree to spiritual classics, which, I
would suggest, have a transformative power that exceeds even that of great
literature. That inherent power is impossible to define or understand
conceptually . As you read, something within you recognizes the truth to
which the words point, responds to it, and is strengthened by it. The act of
reading becomes a spiritual experience, and a subtle shift in consciousness
occurs. Spiritual writings that contain such transformative power are rare, and it is
those writings that become classics.The Magic in Y our Mind is one of those rar e books. Open randomly to any
page, start r eading, and you most likely won’ t want to put it down. As with
all spiritual classics, this will be the case even if you have alr eady r ead the
book several times. The hallmark of such a book is that the writing is
always experienced as fr esh and new , no matter how many times you have
read it befor e.
No author writes in a vacuum, of course, and every spiritual teacher uses
terminology that corresponds to and reflects their cultural and temporal
background. In the case of U. S. Andersen, a reader may discern echoes of
other great teachers of distinctly American spirituality , such as Ralph W aldo
Emerson and Ernest Holmes. Apparently , our author also studied the
writings of Mary Baker Eddy , founder of Christian Science. The power that is contained within the pages of this book, however , is
clearly not derived from any secondary sources, but from the author ’s own
spiritual realization and insights. The “Secret Self,” as he calls it, spoke
through him. This term corresponds to what I sometimes refer to as the
“Deep I,” as opposed to the “surface I” of ordinary egoic consciousness. It
is through identification with the Secret Self that, in Andersen’ s own words,
“the seeds of power are sown.”
The attentive reader will notice that the teachings contained within this
book strike a not easily achieved balance between creative participation in
the world through the art of manifestation and the realization of our
essential identity as pure consciousness, which Andersen calls “the
animating presence residing in all persons and in all things.” I call it the
balance between Being and Doing, or between the vertical and horizontal
dimensions of human existence. The book was first published in 1961. It seems that it reached a fairly
substantial number of readers in those early years but then, strangely ,
became almost for gotten, although it remained an under ground favorite
among a relatively small number of people with a special interest in the so-
called New Thought philosophy . I remember stumbling upon a secondhand
copy of it in the basement of W atkins Books in London in 1977, and I
immediately recognized its value.Given the book’ s power , why did it fail to achieve its deserved status of a
widely read “spiritual classic”? It sometimes happens that such a book falls
through the cracks, so to speak. In some cases, it may not be given enough
time to grow or ganically , so when initial sales are lower than expected, the
publisher decides prematurely to drop the book. Or it could be that a lull in
sales in a particular year causes the publisher to lose interest, and so the
book goes out of print. Be that as it may in this particular case, there is no
doubt in my mind that the book has the potential of belatedly becoming a
well-known classic and transforming the lives of many generations of
readers. We do not have a great deal of detailed information about the life of its
author , U. S. (Uell Stanley) Andersen. He was born in 1917 in Oregon and
passed away in 1986. It seems to me that in his lifetime he experienced
three incarnations, so to speak. He was a student at Stanfor d University and became the captain of its 1939
football team. Subsequently , he achieved some fame as a pr ofessional
football player in the NFL. That was his first incarnation. Then he became
a successful businessman and entr epreneur . His keen inter est in spirituality
must have led to a pr ofound awakening of consciousness that enabled him
to become a spiritual teacher and author in his thir d and final incarnation
in this lifetime. He wr ote one other notable and powerful book, entitled
Three Magic W ords. For this new edition, the book has gone thr ough some editing in or der to
make it mor e accessible and r elevant for our times. For example, as was
usual for the time period in which the book was written, the author used the
words man and men and the pr onoun he to signify all human beings. This
would be felt to be unacceptable by most contemporary r eaders, and for
this r eason it was decided to edit the text for gender neutrality , inclusivity ,
and gr eater accessibility . I am grateful to U. S. Andersen for leaving us the legacy of this jewel of a
book. May it play its part in the ur gently needed awakening of human
consciousness! — ECKHAR T TOLLEOceanofPDF .com 
Preface
 
This book r eveals a mental magic that assur es success, that absolutely
guarantees incr eased achievement, whether your pr ofession is in the
arts or business, in science or sales, in sports or politics. Her e you will
learn the secr et way in which your mind is tied to the sour ce of all
power; you will learn how you ar e capable of becoming anything and
doing anything you can visualize. Every person’ s consciousness is constantly changing, is trapped at the
knife-edge overlap of past and futur e, reacts rather than acts, is incomplete
and partial, and eternally seeks itself, for since the mer e state of being
throws no light on that state, consciousness learns of itself thr ough r eaction
to outside stimuli. If a person comes to believe they ar e unsuccessful, it is
because they carry the impr ession they have been unsuccessful, and this
conclusion, once adopted, inescapably molds them into the shape of the
thing they believe and locks them in a prison of their own making. The magic by which we become free is imagination. By training ourselves
to cast up mental pictures of the things we desire, by resisting sensual
stimuli, even envisaging the exact opposite, we tend to assume a factual
position in accordance with our vision, for our vision then becomes our
experience, rather than the sensual stimuli that moved us before. Consciousness always assumes a form to suit its knowledge of itself, and
where such knowledge breaks beyond the limits imposed by sensory
experience, we begin to grow into the image of the Secret Self. There is only one mind in all creation; that mind is in everyone, is in its true
state of being not confined to anyone, not confined to the body . It is a
central, knowing consciousness in which everything dwells, which dwells
in everything. In a bodily confined state, it assumes the limitations imposed
upon it by the knowledge of itself which it receives through the senses, butwhen bondage to those senses is broken by development of an inner power
to perceive and know directly , then slavery to its embodiment is at an end. Perfect action and perfect works stem from an inner conviction of the
mental cause behind all things. W e change the state of our outer world by
first changing the state of our inner world. Everything that comes to us from
outside is the result of our own consciousness. When we change that
consciousness, we alter our perception and thus the world we see. By
coming to a clear understanding of the process and ef fect of mental imagery
we are led irrevocably along the correct path to our goal. By working with
this cause of all things — our own consciousness — we achieve infallibility
in works, for inasmuch as our mental imagery propels us into action, that
action is always true to the picture in our minds and will deliver us its
material counterpart certainly . In this book you will find a program for training the image power of the
mind, so that a scene or situation cast up in consciousness will arrive in
three dimensions, with color and sound, pulsing with life, as real for you as
the outside world. Haven’ t you ever dreamed such dreams? Haven’ t you
sometimes in sleep become immersed in a mental and spiritual world with
such solidity and dimension that you were certain it was real and the
material world a delusion? If ever you have known the overwhelming power of mental imagery to
influence your attitude and perception, then you will quickly see that the
salvation of each of us is to train our image power to obey us. In this
manner it is possible to become free from the promptings and ur gings of
nature, from death and disease and destruction, from inef fectuality and
frustration. For the person whose inner power of vision transcends the
constantly distracting stimuli of the outer world has taken char ge of their
own life and is truly master of their fate.OceanofPDF .com 
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The Hidden Cause of All Things
 
Shakespear e’s Hamlet in his famed soliloquy ponder ed, “T o be or not
to be,” and thus faced squar ely the primary challenge of life. Most
people only exist, and never truly ar e at all. They exist as pr edictable
equations, r eacting rather than acting, walking compendiums of
aphorisms and taboos, r eflexes and syndr omes. Sur ely the gods must
chuckle at the ir onic spectacle of r obots fancying themselves fr ee, but
still, when finally the embodied consciousness rises above the pain-
pleasur e principle of natur e, then the true meaning of fr eedom is made
appar ent at last. Action versus Reaction
 
We exist in order that we may become something more than we are, not
through favorable circumstance or auspicious occurrence, but through an
inner search for increased awareness. T o be, to become — these are the
commandments of evolving life, which is going somewhere, aspires to
some unsealed heights, and the awakened soul answers the call, seeks,
grows, expands. T o do less is to sink into the reactive prison of the ego,
with all its pain, suf fering, limitation, decay , and death. People who live
through reaction to the world about them are the victims of every change in
their environments, now happy , now sad, now victorious, now defeated,
affected but never af fecting. They may live many years in this manner , raptwith sensory perception and the ups and downs of their surface selves, but
one day pain so outweighs pleasure that they suddenly perceive their ego as
illusory , a product of outside circumstances only . Then they either sink into
complete animal lethar gy or , turning away from the senses, seek inner
awareness and self-mastery . Then they are on the road to really living, truly
becoming; then they begin to uncover their real potential; then they
discover the miracle of their own consciousness, the magic in their mind. Mastery over life is not attained by dominion over material things, but by
mental perception of their true cause and nature. The wise person does not
attempt to bend the world to fit their way or to coerce events into a replica
of their desires, but instead strives for a higher consciousness that enables
them to perceive the secret cause behind all things. Thus they find a
prominent place in events; by their utter harmony with those events they
actually appear to be molding them. They move ef fortlessly through the
most strenuous action, the most perilous times, because their attunement
with the mental force that controls the universe guides them to perform the
work that needs to be done. Electr omagnetic Mind
 
This mental force that controls the universe may be called anything you like
and visualized any way you choose. The important thing is to understand
that it exists, to know something about how it works, what your relationship
to it is. It might, for instance, be likened to an enormous electromagnetic
field. All conscious forms of life then would be tiny electromagnetic fields
within the universal field and finding positions within it, each according to
the kind and quality of its field. Where each individual field would wind up
within the main field then would be a matter of inexorable law and
absolutely unavoidable, as is illustrated by the millions of people who
perform the same tasks over and over with absolutely the same results,
almost as if following ritual. Perhaps they are always sick, always defeated,
“just barely missers,” perhaps always broke, always out of a job. If we givejust the slightest reflection to our own lives we cannot help but be startled
by how we seem dogged by the same situation in all things, year after year ,
time after time. This deadly recurrence is the source of most frustration and
mental illness, and is the bottom root of all failure. Yet it is avoidable. And the way by which it is avoidable brings complete
emancipation of the mind and spirit. For the tiny electr omagnetic field has
inher ent within it the ability to change the kind and quality of its field, so
that it will be moved about within the main field with all the power and
sureness of the main field until it arrives at the position its new quality of
consciousness demands. The important thing to r emember about this illustration is that the tiny
electr omagnetic field does not move itself. It is moved by the lar ge field. And behind its movement lies all the power of the lar ge field. Any attempt
by it to move itself is obviously futile, since it is held in place by a power
infinitely gr eater than itself. And it is held wher e it is because of what it is. The moment a change occurs within itself, it is moved by a power outside
itself to a new position in the field, one in keeping with its new potential. The Mental W orld
 
The for egoing is admittedly an analogy , but nevertheless the Dutch scientist
S. W. Tromp, in his r emarkable book Psychical Physics, has pr oved beyond
all doubt that the human being exudes certain electr omagnetic fields, that
the earth itself gives off an electr omagnetic field, and his illustrations ar e so
impeccably documented that ther e cannot possibly be any scientific quarr el
with them. W e indeed may be on the very thr eshold of scientific pr oof of
those invisible ar eas of human aspiration that have hitherto been the
province of philosophers, diviners, and priests. Departments of
investigation into the paranormal abilities of the human psyche have been
established at our leading universities, and it is now sur ely only a matter oftime until we ar e faced with the final irr evocable pr oof of our intuitive
perception — the power of mind over matter . It is a mental world we live in, not a physical one at all. The physical is
merely an extension of the mental, and an imperfect extension at that. Everything we see, hear , and feel is not a hard and inescapable fact at all,
but only the imperfect revelation to the senses of an idea held in mind. Preoccupation with sensory experience has focused attention on ef fects
instead of causes, has led scientific investigation down a blind alley where
everything grows smaller into infinity or lar ger into infinity and walls us of f
from the secrets that lie behind life. It is not the planets and stars, the
elements and winds, or even the existence of life itself that is the miracle
that demands our attention. It is consciousness. It is the mere fact of being,
the ability to say , “I.” Consciousness is an indisputable fact, the greatest
miracle of all, and all the sights and sounds of the world are merely side
effects. The Hidden “I”
 
To be conscious is to be conscious; there are not dif ferent kinds. The “I”
that is in your neighbor is the exact same “I” within you. It may appear to
be dif ferent through being attached to dif ferent sensory experience, but that
is only because it has allowed itself to be conditioned by such experience. In point of actual fact consciousness is never the result of experience but the
cause instead, and wherever we find it, it is primarily aware of existing, of
being “I.” There is only one basic consciousness in all creation; it takes up
its residence in all things, appears to be dif ferent according to the things it
enters into, but in essence is never changed at all. It is intelligence,
awareness, ener gy, power , creativeness, the stuf f from which all things are
made. It is the alpha and omega of existence, first cause; it is you. “Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is
made of one hidden stuf f,” wrote Ralph W aldo Emerson. He pierced theveil, perceived behind the sense-enamoring dance of nature’ s myriad forms
the workings of the one mind and one intelligence from which all life and
aspiration spring. There can be no inner peace or surety of action without
this basic spiritual knowledge. People who live isolated from the roots of
their being have cut themselves of f from the source of all power and dwell
alone and without resource in a hostile and threatening world. Let them
once perceive the true nature of life and their relationship to it, and they
soon see that the world always reflects their thoughts. The Mask
 
The surface mind or sense-self or ego is the villain of the play that is being
enacted on the human stage at present. As a form of life, we humans are
sufficiently evolved so as to understand our separateness and uniqueness. We look in the mirror and understand that the reflected animal is we. W e are
concerned with the appearance and welfare of this animal and ponder its
relationships with the world and others. W e do not truly understand what
we are, only that we are conscious and confined within a particular body ,
and the experience and knowledge we acquire, together with our disposition
as to their use, we label “I,” and thus we are deluded into calling a ghost by
our own name. Hidden behind this ghost, obscured by its struggles and fancies, is the
Secret Self, which even though hidden, ignored, or misunderstood,
nevertheless moves all things on the chessboard of life according to their
natures and aspirations. W e are never ego or sense-self. These are masks we
don as we play at the parts we find in life. What we truly are is not a
changing thing, but is whole and entire, powerful and serene, limitless and
eternal. It springs from the inexhaustible source of life itself, and when we
learn to identify ourselves with it, then we have hitched a ride on a power
so far beyond our tiny temporal selves that our lives are changed in the
most amazing manner . The Imprisoned Self
 
“To be what we are and to become what we are capable of being,” wrote
Robert Louis Stevenson, “is the only end of life.” But when we stultify our
divine birthright in manacles of mental and spiritual limitation, then we
have no alternative but stagnation and pain. As long as we are responsive
solely to the stimuli that impinge upon our senses from the outer world, we
have no choice but to be victims of every circumstance. Locked to the
senses, we reel under each stimulus, now aggressive, now afraid, now
joyful, now sad, now seeking death, now life, but always our inner serenity
and equilibrium are in the hands of something we neither understand nor
control; and so we are puppets, pulled by invisible and unknown strings,
swirling in the maelstrom of life like scraps of paper in the wind; and if
perchance we garner knowledge enough to perceive our helplessness, then
we often are overcome with such depths of sadness as to make ef fort
against our bonds an almost unimaginable thing. But the moment that we pause long enough in the headlong rush of life to
see that we are not moving in accord with or in response to our own
decisions but rather in reaction to the world around us, then we have taken
the first step toward freedom. Only someone who knows their slavery can
aspire to be free, just as true freedom is possible only to one who has
experienced chains. Our hates, loves, fears, envies, aspirations, deceits are
for the most part products of circumstance, of false and limiting codes and
mores — more often innate terrors of mountains that are molehills; and the
solution to all of them is to stand foursquare before them, daring them to do
their utmost, exposing them for what they are, thus forswearing allegiance
to the cupidity of the deluding and blinding ego, which forever keeps us
thinking we are greater than others and less than we truly are. The Liberating Power 
It is not necessary to become a mystic, even a philosopher , certainly not a
melancholy metaphysician in or der to come to grips with the spiritual side
of existence, to establish a mental causation in your life that will give you
contr ol of cir cumstance. What is necessary , however , is that you do not
immediately thr ow out the door everything that has to do with spirit simply
because it is the established pr ovince of r eligion. Y ou may be a Christian or
a Hindu, a Muslim or a Buddhist, a T aoist or a Shintoist, but that only
increases your individual human r esponsibility to think thr ough all issues
that bear on the world and life and death and your individual being. Only
when you come to grips with your own mental essence, only when you
arrive at a r ealization of the ephemeral, ever -changing natur e of “I” will it
become appar ent that everything is in a constant state of gr owth and
development and aspiration, and ther e are no limits and finalities and
defeats, and anything is possible to one who first conceives the image in
their mind. There is within us a power of complete liberation, descended there from
whatever mind or intelligence lies behind creation, and through it we are
capable of becoming anything and doing anything we can visualize. The
mental stuf f of which we are made is of such kind and quality that it
responds to the formation of images within it by the creation of a
counterpart that is discernible to the senses. Thus any picture we hold in our
minds is bound to resolve in the material world. W e cannot help ourselves
in this. As long as we live and think, we will hold images in our minds, and
these images develop into the things of our lives, and so long as we think a
certain way we must live a certain way , and no amount of willing or
wishing will change it, only the vision we carry within. The Law of Life
 It is astounding and sad to see the many thousands of people whose mental
machinery keeps delivering to them the very ef fects they say they do not
want. They bewail the fact that they are poor , but that doesn’ t make them
richer . They complain about their aches and pains, but they keep right on
being sick. They say that nobody likes them, which means they don’ t like
anybody . They aren’ t bold, they aren’ t aggressive, they aren’ t imaginative;
mentally they quiver and quake and are bound to negative delusions. It
simply doesn’ t matter what the picture in your mind is, it is delivered
nonetheless, with the same amount of faithfulness and promptness if it is a
picture of poverty or disease or fear or failure as it would be if it were a
picture of wealth or health or courage or success. The law of life is this: all
things both good and evil are constructed from an image held in mind. A tightrope walker edges swiftly out on her elastic and minuscule support. High in the air , wavering, suspended on a thin black line, she seems to
transgress all normal laws of behavior . What is astonishing is not that she is
able to do this thing so well but that she dares attempt it at all. Y et what she
is doing is an inescapable result of mental law . Long before she set her first
uncertain steps on the taut wire, she made a picture in her mind. Throughout
her early bumbling attempts the picture persisted. She saw herself, agile,
balanced, adroitly crossing the swaying wire, and this vision sustained her
through all early failures. Now she flaunts her skill and courage in the very
face of death, nonchalantly , as the spectators gasp. She is sure, poised,
confident, delivered of all fear and mishap by the sustaining picture within. Image Power
 
The image power of the mind is imagination, but just what imagination is
and where it comes from nobody seems to know . A famous sur geon is
reputed to have remarked that he had sliced open many a brain without ever
having seen a picture or found a thought. The imagination certainly is no
more exclusive property of the brain than of an arm, a leg, or the stomach. Thinking is performed not by a part of the body or even the whole body butby the inhabitant within. It is that function which enables consciousness to
know its surroundings and to know itself. Only one who thinks is able to
say, “I.” Only one who can say , “I,” is able to cast up pictures within their
own being, known to no others. The eternal striving for knowledge and capacity , the most apparent thing
about life, is resolved always by two principal elements of the strife — the
knower and the thing to be known. By definition these appear to be
separate, and we observe that people ordinarily cope with the outer world
by tabulating the manner in which it impinges upon their senses. A thing is
so long and so wide and weighs so much and is so hard and a certain color . A name is given it, and as long as each subsequent time it is encountered it
maintains the majority of its original characteristics, people recognize it for
what it is and know it when they see it. If you ask them if it is near , they are
able to answer instantly , simply by glancing around. If its presence
produces some particular ef fect upon them, like fear or anger or love or
tension, then the mere presence or absence of this object may be said to
materially af fect their life. In that case, their state of mind is not a matter of
their own determination, but instead is the direct result of the object as they
encounter it or avoid it in the outer world. Inner V ision
 
Life in animal and vegetable forms is purely a matter of reaction. There is
first the or ganism, then there are the elements that intrude their presence
upon it. The conflict thus engendered resolves itself in the process of
evolution as each or ganism attempts to overcome the obstacles it meets, but
this influence, through the lower stages of evolution, apparently comes only
from outside and is the result of processes and forces beyond the control of
the or ganism. Nature holds the world and life in an iron grip, and lower
animal as well as vegetable life is led inexorably along a path it neither
understands nor can avoid. A thing is the kind of thing it is through a
creative process that appears to be outside it; existence itself, in any shapeor form, appears to be beyond the power and scope of the individual being. We are born and we die, and nothing within our known powers or
knowledge can aid or stop these events. And insofar as we live in response
to the senses, we are automatons only , and the shape of our lives is
predestined by the circumstances we encounter . Imagination is the tool by which we may be delivered from our bondage. We can decide what we will think. W e can decide to originate thought from
some secret wellspring within rather than in response to the stimuli of the
outer world. W e can resolve that the images in our minds will no longer be
products of the conditions we meet, but instead that our visualization will
be the result of our inner resources and strength, in conformance with our
goals and desires. Thus the quality of our consciousness will be tempered
by our true motivations and we are freed at once of the trap of defeating our
purposes through giving credence to every obstacle. The unalterable law is
this: only that which takes root in mind can become a fact in the world. Thus the person whose consciousness is influenced only by the goals and
purposes they have set within is delivered of all defeat and failure, for
obstacles then are only temporary and have no ef fect upon their inner being. Only that which conforms to their inner vision is accepted home at last and
allowed to take root in the plastic, creative medium of the Secret Self. The Secr et Self
 
It is knowledge about and faith in this Secret Self that is the key to correct
use of the imagination. No one lives in the dark when they learn where the
light is. T o understand the Secret Self is to free oneself from bondage to
circumstance, to loose within a power compounded upon itself, to provide
life with perfect working and perfect serenity . This entity within each of us,
not the ego, not experience, not time or circumstance or place or position,
but consciousness only , the “I” divested of all accoutrements except pure
sense of existence. This is the self that contains all power , whose essence is
greater than the individual, greater than ten thousand individuals, for it isthe supporting structure upon which all things are built, the evolving self of
the universe. It is not confined to the body , to a time or place or condition,
but is in all times and places and conditions. It is infinite and eternal and
only one, but being so as easily manifests as the finite and temporal and
many . All are contained within it, yet each contains it all, for by its very
nature all of it is everyplace at the same moment. The Secret Self is timeless and eternal. It is the self of the universe and it is
the self of each of us, the self of you. It was never born and it will never die. It enters into each of its creations and becomes that creation. What is going
on in life and the world and the universe is completely its working and the
result of its secret purpose and undivulged goal. The nature of its being is
mental; its essence is dynamic and creative. It is the eternal stuf f that
occupies all space and time and within which there is no dimension. It is all
ends and middles and opposites and extremes, and it is infinitely creative. The myriad forms of life are but a tiny indication of its vast potential for
plastic multiplicity out of its essential oneness. Mental Ascendancy
 
The Secret Self is within you. It is not visited upon a fortunate few and
withheld from others, but is totally existent in the heart of each of us. Insofar as we are able to divorce ourselves from the world and the ego and
sensual stimuli we will become increasingly aware of its existence within
and consciously strive to identify ourselves with it. It is through this
identification that the seeds of power are sown. One who is able to cast of f
the limitations of ego and improve the quality of their consciousness
through disciplinary use of the imagination is able by means of direct
identification to become one with the Secret Self and thus attain to a
measure of its power for perfection. The potential for achieving this
astounding goal lies within each of us. By means of inner mental
ascendancy and pictorial definition we may become one with the purposes
of the Secret Self and thus become infallible in our works and our goals.This is a pretty big capsule to swallow . Our materialistic society with its
reverence for the products of science has excised three-quarters of our
mentality . We have concerned ourselves too much with the world, what it
is, what is in it, how we can use it, and today we know little more of the
origins and purposes of life than we did before humans were able to read
and write. It is dif ficult when we know something of the principles of the
gasoline engine, the generation and transmission of electricity , the refining
and tempering of steel, of electronic and radio transmission, to admit the
possibility that something radically opposed to the viewpoint of science
could have a foundation in fact. Science says, “The laws of nature are
supreme, and humans must learn to live with them in order to prosper .”
Now comes this diametrically opposed theory: “Nature is subservient to
mind, not the human mind as we know it, but the Supreme Mind or Secret
Self that lies behind life, and this Secret Self is within each of us. W e can
come to know it and to use it, and thus transcend the laws of nature and free
ourselves from bondage to the senses and the material world.”
 
Thoughts Become Things
 
What is going on in life is the evolution of the individual to complete
oneness with the Secret Self. The universal being that lies behind creation
has dif ferentiated into finite form, taken disguise, so to speak, in order to
work out the manifold sides of its infinite and eternal nature. Therefore
those who expand their consciousness are fulfilling the fondest wish of life. It is not necessary that we become saints to understand as much of the
Secret Self as is necessary to use its power in our af fairs. T o know this law
is enough: whatever we accept as a permanent mental image in our
consciousness must manifest in our world, for we become in life what we
are in consciousness, and nothing can alter that fact. It takes a great deal of courage to admit to yourself that if you are sick,
frightened, frustrated, or defeated you have brought these conditions on
yourself and no one but yourself can get rid of them. Occasionally someoneso af flicted will experiment with the power of the mind to cure themself but
will give it only the most cursory trial. If, for example, they are ill and in
pain, they might say , “I visualized myself well and happy , but I hurt just as
much as ever .” What they didn’ t do above all things was visualize themself
well and happy . They visualized themself sick and in pain. The moment
they began to visualize themself well and happy , they would become well
and happy . This is not a law that works once in a while or part of the time or
on auspicious occasions. It works all of the time and it works in the exact
same way , and it is returning to you right now in the material world the
images you maintain in your mind. Y ou cannot escape them. They surround
you, sustain you, or torment you. They are good or evil or uplifting or
degrading or exalting or painful according to the vision that prompts them,
and as long as you are alive, as long as you think and imagine, you are
literally surrounded day and night by the images that predominate in your
consciousness. Thought Contr ol
 
The startling power of the Secret Self is that it always makes manifest the
image it beholds. Nothing illustrates this fact better than experiments with
hypnosis. Someone may be in such excruciating pain that even narcotics
will not relieve it, but they can be put under deep hypnosis and told that
there is no pain at all, and presto, there is no pain. They may have a deep
and abiding fear of crowds, but under hypnosis it can be suggested to them
that they like crowds, and lo and behold, they enjoy crowds most of all. They can become stronger , healed of disease, smarter , more aggressive,
possessed of endurance and indomitableness, all because these things are
impressed upon their psyche as facts and the image in their mind grows
from them. “Aha!” the cry goes up, “find me a good hypnotist. I want to be smart and
strong and successful and all those good things and to be rid of weakness
and pain and failure.” And hypnosis can do it too, if you are willing toabdicate as the person in char ge of your life. If you are willing that someone
else run it every hour of every day throughout the whole of it, then you can
turn your life over to a hypnotist and they can remake it in the image you
outline. However , it will make small dif ference to you. Y ou may still be in
the vehicle, but you no longer will be driving. If ef fort and strife and the
overcoming of obstacles are the spurs to growth that the Secret Self intends
them to be, then surely you will have abdicated from life itself. You need no hypnotist to put the power of the Secr et Self to constructive
work in your life. No hypnotist can over come the negative image making of
your mind unless they ar e with you twenty-four hours a day . You ar e the
only one in constant rapport with yourself, and thus you ar e the only one
able to police the thoughts and images you entertain. If you let the image be
prompted by something outside you, then you exer cise no contr ol over your
life. If you accept images only in accor d with your desir es, then life will
deliver your inner goals. In any case, the magnificent pr omise of the Secr et
Self is this: you can change your life by altering the images in your mind,
for what comes to you in the end is only that which you have been accepting
in consciousness. Now ther e are many people who agr ee with this pr emise but ar e quick to
point out that the images in the consciousness of most persons ar e projected
there from the subconscious and ar e not of their own choosing. Most
schools of psychotherapy appar ently feel this way , for they pr opose a
tedious and time-consuming tr eatment bent on expur gating fr om the
subconscious memories of painful and bitter occasions which might pr ompt
unpleasant images in the mind. Seven or eight years of this pr ocess have not
noticeably emptied painful memories fr om the subconscious of most
patients, and in any case, if a tr eatment is truly efficacious, it cannot
possibly consume so long a time. The saddest thing about the modern “put
the blame elsewher e” school of psychoanalysis is that the person
under going it accepts it as justification for their failur e to police their
consciousness and ther eafter expects such policing to be accomplished by
having the neighbor hood rid of criminals. If they achieve some semblance
of a changed consciousness in the hands of the psychiatrist, they soon go
back to a world full of negative thoughts and ideas, and just because they
do not police their own mind, they r eadily find acceptance ther e. You maynot be able to alter the positions of the stars, to stop the earth fr om
revolving, to cause the winds to blow or the sea to calm, but you can choose
what you will think. Y ou can think what you want to think. Y ou can think
only in r esponse to an inner vision and a secr et goal, and if you take your
stand with a firm heart and a high r esolve you will be successful and you
will not be intimidated and you will pr oject your image clear and true, and
its counterpart will r eturn to you in the world. “Dry Hole” Casey
 
In a little village on the western slopes of the Great Divide lived a man
whose entire life had followed one ignominious pattern. For thirty-five
years he had been an oil well driller and had followed the frontiers of oil
exploration throughout the United States. During that time he had drilled
forty-four wildcat wells and not one of them had made a strike. He had
drilled in T exas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Louisiana, California, New Mexico,
Arizona, Colorado, W yoming, and still he had not hit. Oil operators
wouldn’ t hire him anymore. He became known as “Dry Hole” Casey , a nice
guy, but strictly out of luck. Finally he took a job in a Colorado mine and
eked out his days without hope. He kept his drilling rig, though. It was his
first love. W eekends would find him in the backyard, lubricating and
cleaning its parts, handling them with ritualistic care. One day in late spring, when the snow stood in broad glittering fields on the
slopes of the mountains and the rivers and streams were high and roily , he
wandered up into the woods and sat gazing over the valley . The valley was
a basin hemmed in on three sides by precipitous intrusions of granite, and
these mountains had been productive of many minerals, lead, zinc, silver ,
tungsten, manganese. Our friend gazed to the west, to where the basin
sloped down to a plateau. Suddenly his mind formed the perfect picture of a
faulted anticline, a predominant type of subsurface oil trap. The image
seemed superimposed over the scene before his eyes, so that he could
almost see the oil below the surface of the ground. He trembled before hisvision, could not resist it. It seemed like a sudden visitation from heaven,
and he left the mountainside absolutely certain that within the small valley
lay a major oil field. Next day he quit his job in the mine and with his savings managed to
procure oil lease options on the land he visualized as being the most
favorable. Now he had to raise capital to complete his leasing arrangements
and provide funds to drill an initial well, a gar gantuan task, since everyone
who knew him knew also his history of failure. But the vision in his mind
persisted. It led him to take a bus to an eastern city in quest of funds. It led
him after a week of discouragement to a park bench and a seat alongside an
elderly man who quietly and patiently fed the squirrels. It was a bright warm day , and the squirrels were active, playing and
clowning over the prof fered food, and the two men laughed at their antics,
and each told stories of other squirrels and other times and agreed that the
foibles of humanity were not shared by animals. W armed at each other ’s
company , they agreed to lunch together at a nearby restaurant. In the course
of the luncheon, the oil driller told his newfound friend of his vision and his
problem. His friend was interested, questioned him closely about the vision
he had had on the mountainside, seemed impressed that it persisted. “How much money do you need?” he asked. “Fifty thousand dollars,” replied the oil well driller . “I will provide it,” the man said suddenly . “We will be equal partners.”
It seemed incredible, but there it was — a chance acquaintanceship on a
park bench, and the money was provided. It is almost anticlimactic to relate
that the subsequent well discovered a rich oil field. There simply was no
alternative. And the man who put up the money knew that it would. He had
had suf ficient experience with the power of inner vision to manifest in the
world to be absolutely sure of his position. He did not dwell for a moment
on his partner ’s previous failures, only on the vision that possessed him
now. Dissolving the Mask of V anity
 
What strange alchemy prompted our oil driller to have this clear vision in
his mind, a vision that subsequently made him a rich man, when his whole
previous life had been one unbroken line of failure? Surely the wells he had
drilled before had been drilled in response to a vision too. Why should they
have failed? They failed because the vision he possessed then was one of failure. Sure,
he would have denied it, but it was true. Perhaps a sense of the great hazard
connected with searching for oil lay at the crux of his subconscious. Perhaps he felt that the odds were against him. Perhaps he was conscious of
the fact that there are millions of acres of land without oil under them. In
any case, his vision was one of failure, from whatever cause, and he was led
into those arrangements that would inevitably cause him to put his drillbit
down in barren soil. And in two cases, where he actually had drilled on
productive land, he once had ceased making a hole only twenty-seven feet
above the productive formation and another time failed to make a test of a
sand that later produced several million barrels. But he could not help
himself. He was only following the dictates of the vision in his mind. See how differ ent his behavior was in the discovery of the basin field. He
saw the oil. He knew it was ther e. Ther e was not the slightest doubt in his
mind, and that is the way he acted. Ther e was no r esisting him this time. His
vision was for pr oduction, and that is what r esulted. Why? Why did he finally have a positive vision after harboring a negative
one for so many years? Such a question could not be answered with
certainty without making an intensive study of the man, but in all
probability the debilitating and crippling factor was fear . Fear more than
any other single thing warps and distorts our vision. Our oil driller most
likely was afraid of failure, and his apprehension twisted his inner vision
from success to defeat. He couldn’ t win as long as the fear stayed with him. Finally , when he had reached the absolute bottom, when the business he
loved had rejected him and the men in it no longer would hire him, fearsimply left him. Everything bad had happened already; what more was
there to fear? And in this psychologically relieved attitude, the Secret Self
was able to get through the mask of vanity , and the ensuing vision
inevitably brought success. Mind over Matter
 
“It is computed,” wrote Jonathan Swift, “that eleven thousand persons have,
at several times, suf fered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the
smaller end.” The resistance of the human mind to change is amazing,
especially when it appears so obvious that life itself is nothing more than
change. Multitudes of people, many of them very intelligent, ar gue that all
cause is in the physical world and that mentality only observes. They seem
determined to go down to their deaths with this frightfully erroneous
viewpoint, even though their own inner attitudes belie their stand, even
though their slogans extol the power of mind over matter . On locker room doors and conference room walls the framed and placarded
slogans emblazon their messages: “A quitter never wins. A winner never
quits.” “A team that won’ t be beat, can’ t be beat.” “Put your heart in it. All
else will follow .” “Make up your mind, and you make up the future.” But
these verbal expositions to thoughtful vision are regarded as having
precedence only in such matters as team ef fort, to bind together the group
for a purpose, and their tremendous importance to individual creativeness is
largely overlooked. From the inner vision all things are done — the bridge
is built, the tower constructed, the oil well drilled, the motion picture made,
the book written, the picture painted, music composed, outer space probed,
secrets of the atom exposed. There is absolutely no such thing as accomplishment unless it is preceded
by a vision of that accomplishment. Y ou simply can’ t reach across the table
and pick up a dish unless you first have the mental image. All things come
to all people according to the pictures that form in their minds, and theeffort that is expended in this world to escape fates that are inevitable is
sufficient to construct a tower to the sun. No amount of movement, of
physical ener gy expended, can prevail against a wrong mental image. Similarly , the possessor of the correct mental image is guided to perform
the work to be done, ef fortlessly , almost nonchalantly . Most of the
struggling and striving in the world is done by people who are trapped into
unwanted circumstances through incorrect mental visualization, and the fact
that they visualize the very thing that they profess to abhor is the
contradictory situation that is filling our psychiatrists’ couches. Mastery over Fate
 
The Dutch philosopher Benedict de Spinoza wrote, “So long as a man
imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long is he determined not to do it;
and consequently , so long is it impossible to him that he should do it.” The
picture that forms in the mind, whether for good or ill, will deliver its
inevitable consequence. The problem is not with the mental or spiritual fact
of physical fulfillment of mental visualization, but rather of finding a key
that will enable each person to cast up mental images at will, hold them
until realization, and not have other images intruded by the recalcitrant
subconscious, which so often runs contrary to the wishes of the conscious
mind. In the deeper reaches of the human psyche the seeds are formed that
motivate a whole life, and we either accede to or take command of these
invisible prompters. If we accede, our lives will be run from a source
beyond our conscious control. If we take command, we become master of
our fate. Taking command is never as simple as it sounds. It requires a firmness and
boldness that only few people innately possess. Most of us live as complete
slaves to reaction, absolute victims of the commands of the subconscious,
and we seldom if ever even think it possible that we can overcome our
feelings and react in an entirely dif ferent way than circumstances would
have us do. For example, if you participate in a test and defeat seemsinevitable, you only make it certain by acceding. But if you keep your spirit
alive by a vision of victory , by an absolute resistance to the importunities of
defeat and disaster , who knows what miracles may occur? The mental
vision that resists all sensual stimuli becomes at length a thing unto itself
and its resolution as objective fact in the material world cries out for
utterance and will not be stifled. Nature’ s vast creativity springs from the
infinite potentiality of the Secret Self. Anything possible of conception is
sure to eventually be created as a solid material fact for all the world to
witness. There is no such thing as an idea without a visible resolution, for
the great plasticity of the Secret Self shapes every idea contained within it,
and whoever is possessed of a thought is possessed of a thing as well, as
long as they hold their image clear . Creativity
 
Creativeness is not part of the surface self, of the ego, the conscious mind,
the physical or sensual being. It emanates upward through the levels of
consciousness from the Secret Self, takes shape and form through a power
greatly beyond and infinitely more powerful than the small individual “I.”
That part of a person which is most powerful of all is invisible, seems apart
from them completely , is hidden in the deepest recesses of their being, is
not callable by name, is not recognizable through the physical senses,
cannot be coerced, but responds innately and completely to image. This is
the great plastic Secret Self from which all things are made, the creative self
of the universe, maintaining a sameness in all dif ferentiations, being
eternally one in the midst of multiplicity; this is the Secret Self within you,
which is not dif ferent from you, which in final analysis is altogether you. You are not conscious mind or ego or memory or sensual being, but were
born directly from the mind that formulated and constructed the universe,
and you are not dif ferent from that mind but attached to it by a mental and
spiritual construction that makes you and it the same.Abandonment of the surface self and seeking self-balance in the deeper
regions of consciousness is the pathway to power and perfection in works. For when we attune ourselves to the life force and mental entity that gives
us consciousness and lives within us, then we take on by a process of
identification the ef fectiveness and potency of the infinite and eternal entity
from which our individual lives have sprung. Our horizons expand, our
consciousness widens; there wells up from secret and subterranean springs
a constantly increasing and never -ceasing power for perfection and perfect
understanding. Our faith is placed with simplicity and unfailing trust in the
inherent power of the Secret Self to return in material fact those mental
images that live within us, and we need not have the key that unlocks the
universe in order to use ef fectively this basic law . It doesn’ t bother us that
there exist doors in the mental and spiritual realm that thus far have not
yielded. W e need not know all and understand all to use those truths we
thus far have discovered, and we live in the consciousness that life is a
mental adventure and not a physical journey . Knowledge — the Gr eat Lever
 
We all have seen people achieve great ends ef fortlessly . We have seen
others strive frantically toward some goal only to consistently fall short. W e
are assured on all sides that hard work makes a person successful, yet we
discern almost immediately that hard work sometimes fails of
accomplishment while fortune often smiles on people who seem to make
little ef fort at all. Shakespeare wrote, “There is a tide in the af fairs of men
which taken at the flood leads on to fortune.” The story is told of a
homeowner whose furnace refused to work and who subsequently called a
repairman. The repairman struck the furnace a blow with his hammer , and it
promptly resumed working. He presented a bill for one hundred dollars. “Outrageous,” sputtered the irate homeowner . “I want that bill itemized.”
“All right,” answered the repairman. He scribbled on the bill, “Striking one
blow with hammer — one dollar . Knowing where to strike — ninety-nine
dollars.”It is not how hard we work that matters, but what we get done. It is not the
wailing and gnashing of teeth that is the show , but the things that are built
and accomplished. The knowledge of the simple lever six thousand years
ago might have saved a million hours of backbreaking labor , and had
television existed in the time of Christ a dif ferent shape indeed might have
been given the Christian Church. Knowing where and when to strike, just as
the repairman so aptly illustrated, is the goal to be sought, and not the
energy to run a million circles around a field which does not need to be
circled even once. Knowledge is the thing, not physical ef fort; all things
exist because of mental causes, have risen in the physical world in response
to ideas held in mind. Mind is first cause, and those who are guided by this
knowledge discover the fountain of power . Your Secret Self is a giant self, dwarfing into nothingness your surface
mind and ego. It is a self without limits in space and time, and anything is
possible to it. Its manifestations on the human scene sometimes seem
supernatural. It outcrops in our geniuses, in those with “second sight,” in
our artists, our explorers, our pioneers, our adventurers. Its presence may be
intimately felt in the fields of parapsychology , extrasensory perception,
precognition, clairvoyance, thought transference. It stands behind all human
endeavor and aspiration as the guiding intelligence of evolution. Life is
going somewhere high and lofty and worthwhile, and the path by which the
heights are to be scaled is safe and secure and well known. Only in partial
knowledge is there confusion, and only through the separate and incomplete
view of the surface self are we rendered impotent and afraid in a world that
should be ours. The little mind that sits immediately behind our eyes has
not the horizons nor the expanded consciousness to see the lar ger picture,
the worthier and greater goal of the Secret Self. All individual suf fering,
frustration, and failure stem from the failure of the surface mind to find and
properly identify itself with the Divine. In isolating ourselves from the true
roots of our being, we are thrown out of kilter with the power and surety of
the Supreme. By fancying ourselves to be sense-minded only , we are like
the severed tail of a snake, possessed of movement still, but senseless now ,
without purpose or entity , helter -skelter , scratching out a crazy pattern in the
dust. The Giant W ithin
 
We are one body only , one mind only , one deep and abiding intelligence. We are not tiny infinitesimal parts of an infinite and incomprehensible
whole, but we are that very whole, that entire mind, that great and vast
intelligence from which the universe has evolved, and everything contained
within the universe is contained within us, and if we truly understand
ourselves we understand the world and everything in it. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you want to do, tread any
path you will to tread, become master of your fate, ordain your future, but
you will not do these things by railing against circumstance, by throwing
yourself frantically against events and persons simply because they do not
seem to be in accord with your plans. Only by perceiving the hidden
purpose behind events, the true motivations that actuate people, will you be
able to attune yourself to life, to act in accord with the gigantic tides that
bring the future. This faculty is yours once you have gleaned the existence
of the Secret Self and have set about striving to live in accord with it rather
than with the surface self that has moved you heretofore. We all aspire to goals, desire to improve our understanding and our abilities. We would not be alive if growth were not inherent in us. But oftentimes our
growth becomes calcified through being ringed around with impermeable
layers of selfishness and conceit. This selfishness is not necessarily just
acquisitiveness; it may even be exemplified by an overwhelming
generosity; it is simply primary concern for the ego, a living by and in
accordance with the little “I” that constitutes the average person’ s self-
knowledge. Such conceit makes knowledge of self a constant judgment, a
comparison with others, favorably or unfavorably . It feeds on flattery and
victory , is decimated by criticism and defeat. It has no true existence, but
depends entirely upon circumstance and the reactions those circumstances
set up within it. As a consequence, it is always exultant or sad, for its
impression of itself is that it is either better than or worse than everything
that confronts it. It has absolutely no knowledge of equality . The Ultimate Resour ce
 
Breaking through the limiting boundaries of the ego into the unimpaired
vision and knowledge and joy of the Secret Self is the undoubted goal of
evolution, the purpose of life. This transformation, truly a transfiguration of
the mind and spirit, is not an absolute thing but a matter of degree, is
partially achieved at this moment by thousands of living persons, is possible
of limited attainment by anyone who lives. T o exist immersed in the ego is
to live a restricted life, to realize only a small fraction of your potentiality . Such deliberate subordination to the dictates of nature is a subjection to
pain and suf fering and death and decay . Such subjection is normal to lower
forms of life, seems part of the plan by which the Secret Self is emer ging
from matter , but when consciousness has reached the point where it
recognizes its imprisonment, when it sees its subjection to circumstance and
pleasure and pain, then it must strive to be free, to establish a truer order for
its development. It then must break through the barriers of its awareness,
cease living in the ego and attain the widened horizons and powers of the
Secret Self, or it will fall back into the inertia of the sensual nature, lose its
capacity for growth and development, and so cease to represent the Secret
Self at all. T o the person trapped and resigned to be trapped in the ego, there
is no final end but suf fering and pain. Only in the Divine lie the ultimate
resources that overcome all obstacles, and only in seeking to discover the
Secret Self have we firmly set foot on the one and only path that leads to
success, serenity , and joy . Struggle and Sacrifice
 
Nothing, of course, can be accomplished without a fight. Life itself is a
struggle, and each of us enters it daily . It is simply a question of where toexpend the ef fort: pursuing the material wraiths of the physical world that
constantly seem to elude us or concentrating on an inner resource that
controls the outer world. It is a wise person who expends their ener gies
developing their consciousness. They shortly will find that all the aspects of
the world have assumed an order and a benignity they would not have
thought possible. All things appear to do their bidding, not because they
truly bid them, but because they understand them. It is this knowledge,
attained by inner perception, of the potentiality of each thing and
circumstance, that leads to beneficent power , that allows someone to move
through the most intense conflicts with serenity and surety . They see the
thing to be done because they know the outcome that must be achieved, and
because of this inherent perception of the laws of life and nature, they
appear to be modeling each event, shaping each thing, yet it is not they who
do this but the Secret Self within them, to which they have entrusted
themself completely and which guides their steps and actions with
omnipotent assurance. Will you have the power and assurance and serenity of the Secret Self? Then there is something you must give up. Y ou must give up the ego, that
thing within you that you always have thought to be your very self. Y ou
must seek to shed that sense of separateness that is a product of your
surface mind and to search deep within your consciousness for the pure
core of being that is the self of all things. It will not be easy . The sensual
nature with its constantly distracting stimuli brings daily clarion calls from
the outer world. But if your life has provided you full measure of pain and
frustration from chasing these tempters and deceivers, then you will face
them with resistance and resolve to pursue them no more. The path to
power lies within you. All things will be found there. The fight is not
between the world and you, but between your ego and your true self. Simply choose to find your true self, and in the end you cannot lose. When the fight begins within himself,
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Discovering the Secret Self
 
Human personality is immensely complex. A person is far mor e than a
name and certain physical, mental, and emotional characteristics. It is
strange that we ever feel we know others at all, when the slightest
examination of our own psyche r eveals at once that we know scar cely
anything about ourselves.
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Who wrote the book "The Magic in Your Mind"?
Eckhart Tolle
Who wrote the foreword for this book?
The book teaches that one's thoughts and imagination have the power to shape reality, and that by changing one's consciousness, one can achieve success and fulfillment.
What is the main idea of the book "The Magic in Your Mind"?
The author believes that the "I" is an illusion, and that it is not the true self. He emphasizes the importance of identifying with the "Secret Self" instead.
What is the author's view on the concept of the "I"?
The book explores the idea that one's consciousness and imagination have the power to shape reality, and that by changing one's consciousness, one can achieve success and fulfillment.
What is the main theme of the book "The Magic in Your Mind"?