Life Supreme — Page 101
104. LIFE SUPREME examination he sat beside the bed of his boy and read aloud repeatedly that portion of his studies which he had difficulty in learning. The father reported that the following day the boy wrote a perfect paper. . Learning while you sleep is a recognised system for speedily mastering subjects; and special tape recording equipment having a small extended loud speaker for placing under the pillow is available on the market and even used in certain educational institutions. . The principle can be put to valuable use keeping in mind the development of spiritual virtues. The subconscious mind responds to instructions while the conscious mind is sleeping. There are few persons who have not at one time or another consciously or unconsciously instructed their subconscious to awaken them at a fixed time and accordingly they woke at the right time. . The subconscious is endowed with a perfect memory. It has been conclusively established that the subconscious permanently records the minutest details of everything communicated to it through the five senses of sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch. It may be likened to a tape recorder and a moving comera. Everything it sees, hears and senses is permanently registered. . The following experiments were were carried out by an American doctor. A young man was asked to read several times a short item which appeared in the centre of the page of a newspaper. He was then asked to repeat what he had read. This he did fairly well but not accurately. He was next hypnotised and again asked to repeat the passage from memory. Not only was he able to do so absolutely correctly but he was also able to repeat word for word the contents of the whole page. Though he had been concentrating only on one small section of the page, his eyes had photographed the whole of the page upon his subconscious and under hypnosis he was able to recall every word even though he had paid conscious attention only to the small central paragraph. In another experiment a young woman was asked to walk past the window of a large department store and at the same time to take a quick side glance at the things on display. She had hardly time to glimpse into the window. When asked to enumerate the items she saw she protested that how could she be expected to do so as she had no more than a bare glimpse of them. However, under hypnosis, she was able to describe everything in detail that was on display.