Joseph Murphy views on Death
Joseph Murphy views on Death
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Hello everyone,
Recently, a fellow member of this sub asked if Joseph Murphy ever discussed what his views on death were.
I was reading a book by Dr Joseph Murphy called, "This is it: Or, The Art of Metaphysical Demonstration" you could find this book by searching "This is it by joseph Murphy" on google. In a chapter I was reading, Joseph Murphy gave his views on death.
I found a pdf of the book, I downloaded the file from the website in the image. I'm not going to link it, because it didn't work when I first clicked it because I didn't have a pdf viewer, so it might not work for everyone if you don't currently have a pdf viewer and I wouldn't want to cause confusion. If you would like the pdf version of it, just search "this is it joseph murphy pdf" like I did and click the first website that shows up. Then, if you don't currently have it, I recommend downloading a pdf reader/viewer, from one of the Microsoft word apps.
In the chapter of the book I was reading called, "SUBJECTIVE MIND IMPRESSIONS", Joseph Murphy gives some closure on the topic of death. I'm going to give excerpts from the chapter, I'm also going to add screenshots down below that I took from this chapter, if you prefer to read it in that form.
Here are the excerpts from the book;
The subjective mind of man is that which creates and gives form to all impressions made upon it through suggestion or feeling. This phase of man's mind takes cognizance of its environment by means independent of the physical senses. It perceives by intuition. It is the storehouse of memory and the seat of the emotions. It is the Father that doeth the works. It performs its highest functions when the objective senses are in abeyance, as in meditation. It sees without the use of the natural organs of vision. It can leave the body and assume another body and travel to distant lands.
In the absolute sense, man's subjective mind does not have to travel anywhere as the whole world is within it. "Be still and know that I am God." (Ps. 46:10). God does not travel—He is Omni-present. The subjective mind has the power to read the thoughts of others in the minutest detail. It can read the contents of sealed letters and of books locked in a safe. All wisdom and knowledge are locked within it, because it is the Higher Self of man or God.
For purposes of clarification we will say that the real distinction between the two minds consists in the fact that the "objective mind" is merely the function of the physical brain. On the other hand, the "subjective mind" is a distinct entity, possessing indepen-dent powers and functions. It has a mental organization of its own, and is capable of sustaining an existence independent of the body. In other words, it is the Soul. The most important point to remember is that the subjective mind accepts every suggestion given to it, no matter how good, bad or absurd without the slightest hesitation or doubt.
Man must, therefore, learn to entertain only good suggestions, ideas and moods. This is imperative due to the fact that man's subjective mind is amenable to the control of his objective mind, as well as to the suggestions of others. Through discipline he learns to reject all suggestions at variance with that which he wants to hear. The subjective mind expresses the feelings impressed upon it. This is the Law of cause and effect. The cause is the mood, and the effect is the manifestation of the mood.
In the subjective dream state we meet loved ones and we visit places thousands of miles away. This is real, because man is a psychological being and not bounded by space or time. Other people may tell us important things in our dreams. Tigers, lions and other wild animals talk in foreign languages to us, and it seems natural and logical while we are dreaming. However, it is when we awaken to this world of "make-believe," that we think our dream experiences are illogical or unreal. Life on this plane is truly a dream and nothing but a dream.
Is it not foolish to say man is suffering? Can God suffer; can God grow; can God expand; can God contract? It is the illusion of growth, the illusion of travel, the illusion of time and the illusion of suffering or death. If you have a toothache, who is suffering, you or the tooth? If you are hypnotized, for example, and the suggestion is given that "there is no pain," immediately the pain leaves you. On awakening you have no sense of pain. Where did it go? It was only an idea, belief or opinion accepted by your conscious-ness. A counter-suggestion removed it.
People talk about thousands being killed. Can God die? Can man die? God cannot be slain; neither can man be slain. God as man will come again. When we awaken—and we are beginning now to remove the scales from our eyes—we will truly become one with God, and shed His light, Love and Beauty to all the world.
We can only conjecture as to the length of time the process of awakening will take. On the other hand if time is not, it must only be the illusion of time. It may appear to be a year or a day, or eight hundred years—for in consciousness a thousand years are as a day. God is the eternal now. He is the God of the living and not of the dead.
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Comments from someone called old_pond
This is great. Being that JM was a student of Troward's, it makes sense that he shares his views on the so-called afterlife. In one of Troward's books (I think it's The Law and The Word, or The Creative Process in the Individual) he has a chapter on ghosts. In summary, Troward's hunch about what we call the afterlife is essentially that at the moment of death we drop the conscious mind generated by the brain and fully embody our subconscious in the next dimension, where thoughts materialize instantly and obiective reasoning is restricted.
This would also explain shamanic experiences of "soul retrievals" wherein the shaman tries to rescue lost souls from their self-generated state of hell (typically caught in a loop of a traumatic memory). We see the same archetypal process occur in the New Testiment where Jesus ventured into hell to rescue the souls trapped there. Aaron Abke shared a similar experience of one of these "soul retrievals" on his channel (I think it was a series on astral projection). This is also what alleged bodhisattvas do in the next dimension, which is why students of Buddhism are taught mantras to call on these bodhisattvas in the event they find themselves tossed about in the winds of their own subconscious sufferings. This is why forgiveness plays such a key role in the Science of Mind.
The importance of forgiveness is based on what Jesus said in Matthew 16:19, "whatever you bind in heaven is bound on earth, and whatever you loose in heaven is loosed on earth." If we understand that heaven refers to the subconscious mind, then forgiveness is important because whatever concepts we cling to in our subconscious are what we will inevitably experience.
I'd recommend reading what the Advaita Vedantists have to say about living in an illusory universe. Ultimately, love of other is love of oneself, not just because we're one, but because whatever you channel you experience. So channel love and goodwill, you'll be happier.
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