The Path of the Soul

Since reading Higher Creativity by Willis Harman, I got more and more interested in how the mind works. I'm reading now a book on NLP, which is quite interesting, although I am still on the early pages of it.
One thing I've noticed, is that all these management programs, mind training programs, stay away as much as possible from the spiritual aspect of it all. It is like if they do touch on the higher consciousness, the soul, or anything more 'out there', they will not be taken seriously in their courses anymore. A few years back in my previus job I took a training course in TMI and truth be told, I didn't feel close to the subject at all. But now, for example as I am reading the book on NLP, I make a lot of connections with what I have previously read and know about the 'other side', the spiritual, and all makes so much more sense now. Actually these are all but different sides of the same coin. And the funny thing is, when hanging out at various brain and mind 'management' forums, anything even slightly touching on spiritual is pretty much ridiculed and put down.

On another note, coming back to talking about how the subconscious mind works...a friend had an upcoming job interview as she was searching for a new job. The day before she was pretty nervous as to how to leave earlier from her job, as the boss is pretty inflexible with this regard, and also how to dress 'smart', but still do not look the part at work, since it will be pretty obvious that something is going on, when her clothing style is quite casual at work.

As things go, she got sick during the night, so that the next day didn't show up for work. But of course, in the afternoon she was ok enough to go to the interview.
And yes, she got indeed sick, she didn't just pretend to be so, although the previous day she did mention 'claiming to be sick to stay home', as a possible solution to her interview problem.

This is one of those weird mysteries of the mind, when the subconscious works towards what it has been given. This solution, although slightly uncofomfortable (due to the sudden illness), worked in her favour, because she ended up not feeling guilty about having to lie at work, as she now has a valid excuse to be away, so her ego is intact, and she actually managed what she set out to do: go to the interview without the additional problems of how to dress and how to leave from work earlier.

This reminded me of something I used to do at times as a kid. Well, 'used to do' is a bit strong, as consciously I didn't really 'do' anything. My mom used to be quite a severe, strict person at home with her kids, as she was working as a teacher and well, I guess it rubbed off on her at home as well. So sometimes when I managed to screw up 'big time', there was a tendency to become sick, ill by the time mom got home from work. And I swear I didn't eat chalk or anything else to induce becoming ill. It was psychological, something that my mind would do, to alleviate the pain I would suffer when mom found out about the mishap I did. Because her main priority was to get me well, so my boo-boo was conveniently tossed in the background :)
Oh the miracles of the subconscious mind...