The Power of Your Supermind Paperback – March 23, 2011

I was introduced to Vernon Howard through his famous student Guy Finley. Guy's writings really resonated with a cord inside me. It helped me a lot through one of the toughest periods in my life. One day I was listening to a radio show and incidentally the guest of the show was Guy Finely. He talked about his teacher, Vernon Howard. I started liking Vernon just from things I heard about him, before even knowing him. A couple of years later I came across this book, "The Power of Your Supermind" and remembering what I had heard about Howard I got the book, and I must say it was a WOW. I was not mistaken liking Vernon at the first sight. I read some reviews saying the book does not show you any practical way to improve yourself. This book is about showing you that you, and only you, have the answer to your happiness. This book is about making you think and want to try to get in touch with your True Self. This book is about showing how our own false-self makes us miserable and is the root of all our problems, until we wake up and stop letting it guide us, stop empowering its shadowy existence. It is about telling you things that you actually did always know, you knew deep inside, but always discounted them in favor of what your conditioned mind, society, snap emotions, ego, and others, have told you and keep telling you. Yes, that is the false self, a self that is defined by external conditioning and internal aimlessness.One lesson I learned from reading all these books is that you only benefit from them if you take them as a seed to start. Start self discovery and your soul-searching journey in life, a journey that sooner or later we all must take. What is the second most important lesson I learned? One would never start that journey until he is tiered by the status quo. The more disgusted you are with your miserable false-self and recognize how it is sucking your life away, the more likely you would dare to step into the unknown territory of True Self, which will eventually give you all the knowledge you would ever need. Nothing will change until you decide to change, until you recognize the failure as failure and only true happiness as happiness.

The media could not be loaded. “Since it is necessary to select a single word to indicate the Higher Force covered in this book, I choose to call it Supermind. The definition of Supermind is not complex; it is quite simple. I mean the mental faculty which is above and beyond the conditioned human thought. It is the same thing as awareness, consciousness, esoteric thinking. It is what an Eastern mystic would call the silent mind, or what the New Testament calls the Kingdom of Heaven within. It is your true self. Quite simply, it is the force within every man that is as high above the ordinary mind as the sky's above the earth.”“It is a mistake for anyone to think he has lived too long in his old, unsatisfactory ways to make the great change. If you switch on the light in a dark room, it makes no difference how long it was dark because the light will still shine. Be teachable. That is the whole secret.”“Supermind exists within everyone, but man is asleep to it. Our entire task on earth is to awaken to the unfoldments of Supermind.”~ Vernon Howard from The Power of Your SupermindVernon Howard is an amazing 20th century teacher.You may not’ve heard of him, but he’s sold over 7 million books and brings an incredibly lucid, old-school, straight-to-the-point kinda energy to his great books.I was originally introduced to his work by Tom Russell who runs SuperWisdom.com (thx again, Tom!) and I *HIGHLY* recommend you check out the book if you’re diggin’ it.Here are some of the Big Ideas:1. Switching - On the light.2. Mental Movies - Quit playing bad ones!3. Don’t Be Impatient - Practice and relax.4. Detecting Negativity - Is positive.5. Psychic Spankings - Are helpful.As we get our Supermind on, let’s remember we’ve *gotta* be true to ourselves!(More goodness--including PhilosophersNotes on 250+ books at http://www.brianjohnson.me)

I guess a lot of books speak to some more than others. This book spoke to me. What I like most about this book is that even though one man wrote this book it's not just one man's opinion. He quotes many notable people throughout time all the while telling you how it really is w/ no fluff. I like the metaphors he uses along w/ the question/answer portions at numerous times in this book. Let me give a small example. Let's take hope. I always thought hope was a great thing. He points out.... Have you ever noticed the anxiety in hope? If something goes like you hoped your happy. If something does not go your way you're sad. The truth is why should we depend on any exterior things (money,social status, fancy cars) to tell us how to feel? This does not mean you can't enjoy things as long as you don't depend upon those things for your happiness. Hope is subtle slavery. Do you hope for sun on a bright day? This book is filled w/ points like that. The one major counterpoint I do have is.... The author always refers to living from the Supermind or cosmic world if you will. But we are not in the cosmic world. We are here. In other words, from a cosmic standpoint there should be no need to consume food, but here on earth I need to for survival. I guess it's like anything else, you have to find a balance between spiritual and earthly. I've read many self help books over the years. This is the best I've read so far. Thankyou Mr. Howard for your wonderful book.