Controlled Reverie (for others)

Step by step

1. Enter a state of controlled reverie (passive, absorbed mind, objective senses diminished).
2. Mentally visualize the subject.
3. Imagine hearing their voice, establishing contact with their subjective mind.
4. Imagine them telling you what you want to hear (e.g., 'I have never felt better and I have never had more').
5. Mentally respond, expressing your joy in their good fortune.
6. Maintain absolute conviction and no doubt in the truth of this mental conversation.
7. Return to objective consciousness, knowing the subjective word will awaken what it affirmed.

Related Bible passages

• Ecclesiastes 10:20

Related ideas

Prayer The Art Of Believing

Enter a state of controlled reverie, where objective senses are diminished, and the mind is passive yet absorbed. In this state, mentally represent the subject as already having achieved your desired outcome for them. Engage in a mental conversation, hearing them confirm their good fortune and expressing your joy. Maintain absolute conviction in the truth of this mental assertion, as the subjective mind will transmit and objectify only fixed, undoubting ideas.

The subjective mind is completely controlled by suggestion. Ideas are best suggested when the objective mind is partly subjective, that is, when the objective senses are diminished or held in abeyance. This partly subjective state can best be described as controlled reverie, wherein the mind is passive but capable of functioning with absorption. It is a concentration of attention. There must be no conflict in your mind when you are praying. Turn from what is to what ought to be. Assume the mood of fulfilled desire, and by the universal law of reversibility you will realize your desire. Everyone is amenable to the same psychological laws which govern the ordinary hypnotic subject. He is amenable to control by suggestion. In hypnosis, the objective senses are partly or totally suspended. However, no matter how profoundly the objective senses are locked in hypnosis, the subjective faculties are alert, and the subject recognizes everything that goes on around him. The activity and power of the subjective mind are proportionate to the sleep of the objective mind. Suggestions which appear powerless when presented directly to objective consciousness are highly efficacious when the subject is in the hypnotic state. The hypnotic state is simply being unaware, objectively. In hypnotism, the conscious mind is put to sleep and the subconscious powers are exposed so as to be directly reached by suggestion. It is easy to see from this, providing you accept the truth of mental suggestions, that anyone not objectively aware of you is in a profound hypnotic state relative to you. Therefore, "Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber; for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter" (Ecc. 10:20). What you sincerely believe as true of another you awaken within him. No one need be entranced, in the ordinary manner, to be helped. If the subject is consciously unaware ot the suggestion, and if the suggestion is given with conviction and confidently accepted by the operator as true, then you have the ideal setting for a successful prayer. Represent the subject to yourself mentally as though he had already done that which you desire him to do. Mentally speak to him and congratulate him on having done what you want him to do. Mentally see him in the state you want him to obtain. Within the circle of its action, every word subjectively spoken awakens, objectively, what it affirms. Incredulity on the part of the subject is no hindrance when you are in control of your reverie. Bold assertion by you, while you are in a partly subjective state, awakens what you affirm. Self-confidence on your part and the thorough belief in the truth of your mental assertion are all that is needed to produce results. Visualize the subject and imagine that you hear his voice. This establishes contact with his subjective mind. Then imagine that he is telling you what you want to hear. If you want to send him words of health and wealth, then imagine that he is telling you, "I have never felt better and I have never had more," and mentally tell him of your joy in witnessing his good fortune. Imagine that you see and hear his joy. A mental conversation with the subjective image of another must be in a manner which does not express the slightest doubt as to the truth of what you hear and say. If you have the least idea that you do not believe what you have imagined you have heard and seen, the subject will not comply, for your subjective mind will transmit only your fixed ideas. Only fixed ideas can awaken their vibratory correlates in those toward whom they are directed. In the controlled reverie, ideas must be suggested with the utmost care. If you do not control your imagination in the reverie, your imagination will control you. Whatever you suggest with confidence is law to the subjective mind; it is under obligation to objectify that which you mentally affirm. Not only does the subject execute the state affirmed but he does it as though the decision had come of itself, or the idea had been originated by him.

This technique leverages the principle that the subjective mind is highly amenable to suggestion, especially when the objective mind is quiescent. By mentally affirming a desired state for another with conviction, one impresses the universal subjective mind, which then compels the subject to objectively express that state, often believing it originated from themselves.

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