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Cooperation

THE WORLD BASICALLY AND 
FUNDAMENTALLY IS CONSTITUTED 
ON THE BASIS OF HARMONY. 
EVERYTHING WORKS IN COOPERATION 
WITH SOMETHING ELSE. 
-Preston Bradley 

COOPERATION IS THE BEGINNING OF ALL organized effort. Andrew Carnegie accumulated a gigantic fortune through the cooperative efforts of a small group of men numbering not more than twenty. You, too, can learn how to use this principle.

There are two forms of Cooperation that will be discussed in this lesson.

The first form is the Cooperation between people who group themselves together or form alliances for the purpose of attaining a given end, under the principles described throughout this course as
the law of the Master Mind.

The second is the Cooperation between the conscious and the subconscious minds, which is the basis upon which I have built my hypothesis that we can develop the ability to contact, communicate with, and draw upon infinite intelligence.

We know that the whole body is traversed by a network of nerves that serve as the channels of communication between the indwelling spiritual ego, which we call mind, and the functions of the external organism.

This nervous system is dual. One system, known as the sympathetic, is the channel for all those activities which are not consciously directed by our volition, such as the operation of the digestive organs, the repair of the daily wear and tear of the tissues, and the like.

The other system, known as the voluntary or cerebro-spinal system, is the channel through which we receive conscious perception from the physical senses and exercise control over the movements of the body. This system has its center in the brain, while the other has its center in the ganglionic mass at the back of the stomach known as the solar plexus, and sometimes spoken of as the abdominal brain. The cerebro-spinal system is the channel of our volitional or conscious mental action, and
the sympathetic system is the channel of that mental action which unconsciously supports the vital functions of the body. Thus the cerebro-spinal system is the organ of the conscious
mind and the sympathetic is that of the subconscious mind. But the interaction of conscious and subconscious minds requires a similar interaction between the corresponding systems of nerves, and one conspicuous connection by which this is provided is the "vagus" nerve. This nerve passes out of
the cerebral region as a portion of the voluntary system, and through it we control the vocal organs; then it passes onward to the thorax, sending out branches to the heart and lungs; and finally, passing through the diaphragm, it loses the outer coating which distinguishes the nerves of the voluntary system and becomes identified with those of the sympathetic system, so forming a connecting link between the two and making the man physically a single entity.

SOMETIMES THE SUBCONSCIOUS MIND 
MANIFESTS A WISDOM 
SEVERAL STEPS OR EVEN YEARS AHEAD 
OF THE CONSCIOUS MIND, 
AND HAS ITS OWN WAY OF 
LEADING US TOWARD OUR DESTINY. 
-Nathaniel Branden 

When you impress any idea on your subconscious mind, through the principle of autosuggestion, you do so with the aid of this dual nervous system, and when your subconscious mind works out a definite plan of any desire with which you impress it, the plan is delivered back to your conscious mind through this same dual nervous system.
This cooperative system of nerves literally constitutes a direct line of communication between your ordinary conscious mind and infinite intelligence.

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