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Discover .Your .Mind New .Ideas .in .Psychology .and .Idealism

Handling . New . Ideas

My ideas are likely to seem strange when they are first encountered. How should they be handled ? . It will depend on the approach to personal development that the reader is following. I will be most helpful to those who are attempting to make sense of their own experience of reality.

When going beyond the absorption in a material life there are three broad approaches to personal growth, and these centre on the dominance of either emotion, or mind, or will power.

Everyone starts with a teacher of some kind. Having faith in a teacher is basically an intermediate step for some and a final goal for others. Those who need to practise devotion require a teacher to show them the way. Those who prefer to work with the mind follow their own path eventually. And those who exercise will power need to achieve a goal, usually within a framework set by a teacher. So those who prefer either emotion or will power like to work close to a teacher. Those who work with the mind use the teacher both as a confidence builder and a starting point to enable them to explore their own line of development.

Don't push yourself too hard when studying my ideas. Just be content to be receptive to new ideas. Then they will do their own work within the creative side of your subconscious mind. What is happening is that you will be re-orientating your beliefs – some of the results of this process you will be aware of, and some results will come out of the blue and astonish you.

For example, before I begin to write a new article, I have already roughed-out the general outline. But once I seriously begin putting it together, ideas appear which I had never thought of. The process of writing sometimes takes its own course. I suppose that this happens to most or all writers.

Similarly, when I read some creative ideas, they lead me down directions that the author had not thought of.

So perhaps the best way to approach my ideas is to study the ones that interest you and let yourself be open to where they lead you. This may take months. It is a process of discovery and it needs to proceed at its own pace.

Don't be too concerned if you have understood me accurately. Accuracy comes with applying the ideas to problems and experiences. You are likely to approach problems differently from my ways, and so you may use ideas in ways that I have not foreseen.

Creativity versus Determinism

Any idea or system of ideas will always work for some people but not for others. The subconscious mind is the home of both creativity and of determinism and confusion. How much you can succeed depends on the particular ratio of creativity to determinism in your subconscious. If there is little determinism, then you are likely to be successful with theories that proclaim that you are the creator of your own reality. If determinism is a powerful factor of your subconscious mind, then such empowerment theories will not work for you.

Most teachers do not understand determinism or confusion. They tend to treat all students as the same, and become baffled at the different results that the students get. It is easy to rationalise that the problem lies only with the students. Any teacher will always be glad to broadcast his successes, but how often does he tell of his failures?

You need to bear in mind that whatever you aim at, there is always a price to be paid. This means that if you succeed in intensifying your creativity, you are also likely to intensify any confusion as well. When you energise the subconscious mind, you energise all of it, both the good and the bad.

 

Ian Heath
London, UK

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