The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-11-18
How Real Thinking is Done
and Honest Success is Won

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attained is the first thing to be deslr-
ed" says Henry Ford, in late NUM-
Der Of the Dearborn Independent. The
members of the mental science class
at Newllano on Sunday night, Novem-
Der II, were considering the state
ment, This power Of thought, if un-
de-stood and correctly used, Us the
greatest labor-saving device ever
dreamed Of; but. if not understood
or improperly used, the result will in
all probability be disastrous, as we
have already seen lin a former les
sonl. By the help of this power you
can confidently undertake things thai
are seemingly impossible, because this
power is the secret Of all inspiration,
all genius"
Now, if right thinking is SO impor-
tant, isn't it about time for every one
to be on the job to do just that kind
of thinking? Let us see if the process
of Fright thinking can be made clear
to us. Consider that we never learn
to know anything about any subject
except as we give attention to it. And
the degree and character Of the atten-
ton given will determine the measure
of proficiency and value of the results
in the use of the knowledge thus gain
ed; for unwavering, persistent, right
eous thought alone will prove the sus-
tanning and noiseless moving power Of
this Colony. But this kind of think
ing requires the right attitude and en-
ployment of our objective conscious
ness. If the public educational sys-
TEN had not largely been divorced
from the active affairs of life, every
one would be more or less an accurate
and seIf-confident thinker. But the
public educational system has been
cunningly devised to forestall and con-
found the natural thinking disposition
Of the people and entrap them and en-
tanqle them and imprison them in an
intricate web of false sophistries and
assumptions that will make of them
docile victims of unprincipled enslav-
,rs and despoilers.
Desire is the basis of all human UNI
:oIdment. Let us view baby for In
stance. Its first desire is for food. And
everything that is placed within its
reach it will place in its mouth. W
ganfc life has so provided for this de-
sire on the part Of the baby that the
first thing placed within its reach is
The lactaI nipple of its mother. 1t is
concrete, tangible, tactual, sensual ex-
oerience, and all advance in the growth
Of the child's consciousness is attain
ed in the same identical way. 70
know about ANYTHING. we must come
in contact with that thing and have ex-
oerience with that thing. The differ
emit qualities of things are perceived
ov different sense organs, and the dis
.inct sense organs report their findings
to the sensorium, where thevNare ar
ranged in their contiguous relation.
You will notice that this process of
awakening consciousness is a concrete
process. 1t starts with things. that can
be seen. heard, smelled, tasted, and
contacted with by any por-
ion Of your body. And it is through
these sense organs that our conscious
ness is enabled to distinguish and dis
criminate between the different char
acteristics, qualities. and properties of
things in the world without. In Ba-
cons time, the properties and qualities
Of things were named the spirit of
things. This nomenclature is uncon-
sciously retained by US in reference to
human beings when we use the express
sion. i don't like the spirit of that fell
ow. meaning by it that an objection
able trait of character of the person
'noken of is not approved by us. Peo-
Die are induced NOWADAYS to give up
harmful habits and to discard anti-so-
cial traits of character, become thus
Invested of evil spirits; perhaps that is
ust what the writers Of the New Tes-
lament Of the Bible have been trying
o communicate through the instrument
atty of poor translators, who were
Unfamiliar with the subjects handled,
and lacked the knowledge to make
translation.
Perhaps the seven devils that were
EAST out of Mary Magdelene were in
reality seven harmful habits, bad char
that she was induced to give
Up. Who knows9
The process of thinking in its first
stage is one of learning Concrete facts.
4 child from the moment of ire fret