M P ENTAL OISONS T A AND HEIR NTIDOTES Dr. Joseph Murphy Copyright © 2009 by Dr. Joseph Murphy. Edited by: Dr. Herminia Boyer Cover Design and Photography by: International Designer, W. Patrick Brooks Authorized by: The Jean L. Murphy Revocable Trust 3156 Toopal Drive Oceanside, California 92058-7490 ISBN: Hardcover 978-1-4415-7939-3 Softcover 978-1-4415-7938-6 ISBN: ebk 978-1-4653-2895-3 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner. This book was printed in the United States of America. To order additional copies of this book, contact: Xlibris Corporation 1-888-795-4274 www.Xlibris.com [email protected] 71886 C ONTENTS Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Chapter 18 Chapter 19 Chapter 20 Chapter 21 Chapter 22 Chapter 23 Chapter 24 Chapter 25 Chapter 26 C HAPTER 1 RIGHT MENTAL ATTITUDE INDUCES HEALING There are mental as well as physical poisons. Mental poisons are wrong thoughts which work underground in consciousness like a contaminated stream to emerge even after years in wrong experiences (illness, loss, unhappiness, etc.). I read some time ago of a scientific experiment in Russia in which six hypnotized and conditioned cats were given cyanide of potassium with no fatal effects, while six other unconditioned animals all died. If we had enough faith in the subjective power of God within ourselves, we could nullify all deadly poisons, mental and otherwise. What is the prophylaxis? The first step is not to be afraid of the cancer, tuberculosis, arthritis, or mental disorder from this moment. The second step is to realize the condition is the product of false thinking and will have no more power to continue its existence; then you are exalting the God in the midst of you. This will stop all toxicity in you or the person for whom you are praying. Pronounce the condition “false” and exalt God by seeing the perfect solution, the beauty, and wholeness made manifest where the trouble is. Among the most deadly mental poisons are the following: Fear, hatred, self pity, resentment, envy, vengeance, loneliness, melancholy, etc. All these are modifications of fear. The Biblical name for fear is a blind, false thought called Goliath. The word Goliath means an aggressive, domineering thought or idea that brags about its power, intimidates, bullies, browbeats, and frightens you into submission of its unrighteous reign. Perhaps you are afraid to meet this gangster, intruder, or marauder in your mind. Maybe you are afraid of results, and you hesitate to meet this sinister shadow openly and rout him out. The offspring of fear It is necessary to play the role of David in order to get rid of this gangster called fear. David means a man who loves God, who knows there is only One Sovereign Power Which moves as a Unity and knows no divisions or quarrels, and Whose name is Love. David, which is your awareness of the Presence and Power of God, killed the Philistine giant called Goliath, or fear, with a stone thrown from his shepherd’s sling. Fear is a shadow of the mind held by ignorance and darkness. When you hold your fear to the light of reason and intelligence, it can’t stand the light and it disappears. Among the offspring of fear are the following: a) Hatred, which is really inverted or misdirected love based on ignorance. b) Self-pity, which is really self-absorption. This mental poison creeps through the psychic blood stream poisoning the springs of hope and faith, leading to dementia praecox, melancholia, etc. The anti-dote is to find your other self (God) and become intoxicated by realizing your love of God, and your sense of union with the One Power will bring about a new birth of peace, health, confidence, and strength. c) Old age fear is another mental poison. Old age is not the flight of years, but the dawn of wisdom, truth, and beauty. d) Loneliness is a lack of love. The loveless seek love, but the loving find love and friendship everywhere. The antidote is to fall in love with God’s companions in your mind. Their names are goodwill, kindness, gentleness, peace, patience, understanding, and a sincere interest in others. Pour out God’s Love—a doable portion of the Spirit—on those around you; then you will banish loneliness immediately. God will give you a double reward also, and your good will be multiplied exceedingly. Fear is God upside down Your state of mind is your master. It is foolish to let that ignorant, blind, stupid monster fear push you around and direct your activities. Consider yourself too smart, too brilliant, for that to happen. Why not become David? Play the role; it will pay you fabulous dividends. David means your faith in God is greater than fear. Fear is faith upside down. Fear is a conglomeration of dark and sinister shadows in the mind. In short, fear is faith in the wrong thing. Become a spiritual giant, call David forth, (which is confidence in God) he is within you, summon him; at the same time you can call forth God’s Love. When we are full of fear, we have greater faith in evil than in God; this is shocking, but it is true. Fear is God upside down. Fear is faith in the wrong thing. You have faith that the sun will rise in the morning. You have faith that you can drive your car. You have faith that you will get an answer to your prayer when you pray for guidance, but many people have faith in the wrong thing. These are people who are looking forward to misfortune. But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint (Isaiah 40:31). It’s all in the mind The children of faith in God are love, peace, gentleness, goodness, kindness, joy, balance, tranquility, and serenity. When you realize that there is but One Power, One Cause—the Maker, you give all your allegiance, devotion, and loyalty to that One; then you become David, beloved of God. David (spiritual awareness) had no armor or material protection such as they used in those days. His power was his trust in the God of his fathers, knowing that Infinite Intelligence knew only the answer to any problem. The enemies are of thine own household (mind). And David put his hand in his bag, and took thence a stone, and slings it, and smote the Philistine in his forehead that the stone sunk unto his forehead; and he fell upon his face to the earth. (I Samuel 17:49). When you claim God’s guidance and God’s direction, you will always see the weak spots in the armor of Goliath or the person who threatens you with dire disaster. Actually it is never the person who has the power, but the thought in your own mind. The stone is your conviction of the One God, the One Power. A stone is hard and impervious, which means that your faith or confidence in the Spiritual Power is unyielding and inflexible. In other words you are unmoved, undisturbed, unyielding in your attitude, and you trust in the One, the Beautiful, and the Good. With this stone or mental conviction you shatter the forehead of the giant called fear or Goliath. Fear is prone to brag, and in that lies its weakness. David (love of Truth) went forth with one idea: to prove the supremacy of the God-Power. When you go forth in the assurance that “one with God is a majority,” you will find yourself guided in every way and you will become the inevitable victor. Don’t fight fear with fear; instead meet it with a direct declaration of God’s Presence and Power, which renders fear powerless. Say to yourself, “The Lord is my light and salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?” Psalm 27:1, 2. Don’t let thoughts bully you Are you afraid of some disease which has gripped you? You will notice that an erroneous thought in your mind can brag and boast of its pseudo-strength and it intimidates you. Don’t let these thoughts bully and browbeat you. Meet and subdue them now. Realize that all discord is manufactured by your own mind; it is not something you catch on the outside. You can change your mind by realizing that the Infinite Healing Presence Which made your body is healing it now. As you do this consciously and knowingly, there will be a rearrangement of the thought-patterns in your subconscious, and a healing will follow. Your present mental conviction determines your future and your experience. Meditate and persevere Meditate and pray upon positive and spiritual values. Claim your ideal, solution, health, or peace of mind upon the basis that the Spirit within you is supreme and omnipotent, and by thinking of your solution or ideal with confidence and faith you are conditioning your mind to the answer. Your mind is full of confidence or fear according to what you put into it. Become David, the ruddy-faced shepherd boy, by partaking of and appropriating your Divinity now. Get the insight to persevere and know that you will meet on life’s journey only those experiences which you consciously and unconsciously send before you. Claim God and His Love go before you; this means the mood of confidence, faith, and trust in an Almighty Power Which never falleth. As you do this, you are David going forth in might and right, clothed with the whole armor of God, preparing for yourself freedom, peace of mind, and happiness. The story in Samuel tells us that David cut the head off Goliath. This is what the spiritually minded man must do with all error, false belief, and superstitions in his mind; he must cremate, burn up, and consume all negative thoughts with the fire of Divine Love and right thinking. Goliath or fear is faith in a false god. You are David properly equipped when you realize you have faith in the One True God—the only Power and Presence. The fruit is the seed Recently I was talking to a husband and wife who were convinced that they would lose everything in a lawsuit which had dragged on for five years. They were very pessimistic; it seemed the other side were lying and were, as the saying goes, trying to get something for nothing. Their lawyer told them that in his opinion they didn’t stand a chance and they were hypnotized by that suggestion. I explained to them that the statement or suggestion of the lawyer had no power and that his words could not bring to pass what he suggested. They realized that the only power the suggestion of their attorney had was their mental acceptance of it. They had accepted the suggestion and had reacted accordingly, but the whole process took place in their own minds. They permitted their attorney to suggest the loss of the ease to them. All the time the power was in their own thought. They prayed as follows: “God is Absolute Harmony and Absolute Justice; therefore the result is justice, harmony, and satisfaction to every-body.” This was their simple prayer. Their premise was true; therefore the conclusion had to be true. Moreover, the beginning and the end were the same. If a man begins with God he ends with God, or the Good. The fruit is in the seed, the oak is in the acorn. There was a perfect, harmonious solution to the lawsuit and it was settled out of court. Remain loyal and faithful to God God is never late; the secret is in remaining loyal and faithful to that which you know to be true of God. Do not hesitate to draw the sword of Truth like David. Become armed with spiritual reasoning and understanding of Divine Law and the Eternal Verities. Slay ruthlessly and without pity all negative thought-patterns in your mind, order them out in a dynamic, forceful way, and let in the Light, Love, and Truth of God. Your spiritual awareness acts as a sword in that it severs you completely from the old way of thinking, race belief, other powers, malefic entities, and suppositional opposites to the One Supreme, Loving Power. The trouble was in her own thought-life A woman said to me, “I am so mad, I could kill May!” It seems May had spread lies about her and had also tried to undermine her in the position she held. The woman permitted May to disturb her; in other words she gave power to May which May did not possess. The trouble was in her own thought-life. May was not responsible for the way she was thinking about her; she realized suddenly that the whole trouble was in her own mental imagery and thought- patterns. She let Goliath (fear) run Riot in her own mind, browbeating, intimidating, bullying, and frightening her—the whole process being one of her own creation. The young lady had good common sense and she began to vent her spleen on the bacteria of fear, hatred, and resentment in her mind, casting