My Disagreement With Dr. Joseph Murphy: The Field Is Not Neutral, Amoral, Or Impersonal; He Is A Person

I have for many years NOT read Joseph Murphy's books nor listened to his lectures and sermons on YouTube. I know that he was contemporary with Neville, and I have read portions of his books and heard numbers of video clips, but something in what he says has always put me off. And when I hear it I know it and feel in myself, "That's not right," and turn away. Techniques in Prayer Therapy is the first book of his I've gotten anywhere near all the way through.

And here it is in this book again. Murphy says, "The subconscious mind is always amoral, impersonal, and has no ethics or sentiments" (p.77). This is so radically untrue in my opinion that I want to knock my head against the wall. It so contradicts Murphy's other comments about the subconscious and God that I find it hard to believe that he could hold both opinions simultaneously.

The subconscious mind is our connection with the field of the Ineffable's Consciousness--God. He is in no way amoral, impersonal, without ethics or sentiments. God-the-Field is holy, supra-moral, intensely personal, and hyper-ethical. And sentimental? O how He loves the Milta (Miltha), and wants US to be It; i.e., HIM!

I know what Joseph Murphy is talking about: God creates both weal and woe. What we think becomes actualized whether it be good or evil. But it isn't that God is indifferent and doesn't judge it. He certainly DOES. That is why there is both reward and punishment.

When Adam and Eve disbelieved what God had said in the Garden, it wasn't a pleasant encounter they had with Him later. GOD WAS PISSED! And He still is. God appeared to them as a raging storm theophany, possibly uprooting the trees they were trying to hide from Him amongst: "They heard the thunder of the LORD God thrashing through the garden in the wind of the storm, and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden."

"Where the heck do you think you're going?" He bellowed.

I remember the exact moment I realized that I had robbed God of the life He had made me alive with. I had taken HIS life as MY life to do whatever I pleased, using it under my direction with never an acknowledgement to Him nor even a thank you. I had robbed HIM, God Almighty, of whatever purpose He had for me when He made me to live. For some moments I was in utter terror--inexcusably guilty, and I had nowhere to run. I was suddenly very aware that God--the Field--is not "amoral, impersonal, without ethics or sentiments." I was ready for punishment, and oh, how I wanted to hide.

I cast my self-lordship out of myself, and cast myself upon His mercy. Thankfully, in the Milta He Himself had taken that well deserved punishment, and forgave me, and in my repentance He accepted me.

That is the reality of the Ineffable's Field of Consciousness and its manifestation as our subconscious mind--IT IS A PERSON. Deal with HIM as such.