WHERE WE GO AFTER DEATH

 

                                

                          AFTER UNIVERSAL DOOMSDAY:

                                  THE NEW UNIVERSE

                            THE UNIVERSAL DOOMSDAY WILL BE FOLLOWED BY THE RECREATION OF A NEW TYPE OF UNIVERSE SURAT ABRAHAM VERSE 48, THROWS LIGHT ON THIS HAPPENING IN THE FOLLOWING MANNER :

                              (LOOK FOR) THE DAY,

                              "WHEN THE EARTH WILL BE CHANGED

                               TO OTHER THAN THE EARTH AND ALSO

                               THE HEAVENS,

                               AND THEY WILL COME FOURTH UNTO ALLAH,

                               THE ONE, THE COMPELLER".

                               THE REVELATION PROVIDES A VERY IMPORTANT PIECE OF INFORMATION ABOUT WHAT WILL HAPPEN AFTER THE UNIVERAL DOOMSDAY. IT CLEARLY TELLS, THAT AFTER THAT GREAT EVENT, A NEW UNIVERSE WILL BE BORN, POSSIBLY FROM THE DEBITS OF THE PREVIOUS UNIVERSE. NEW UNIVERSE WILL HAVE NEW TYPES OF LIFE-SUPPORTING-BODIES, LIKE THE EARTH AND STARY WORLDS OF HEAVENS. HOLY QURAN INFORMS THAT, THOUGH THEY MAY RESEMBLE IN SHAPE AND STYLE WITH THE THINGS OF THIS WORLD BUT IN REALITY THEY WILL BE DIFFERENT.

                           AT THIS, ALL OF MANKING AND THE JINNS, FROM EVERYWHERE AND FROM ALL THE TIMES, WILL BE BROUGHT BACK TO LIFE, AND PRESENTED FOR THEIR ACCOUNTABILITY. THEIR DEEDS SHALL SPEAK FOR THEM. THIS WILL BE THE "DAY OF JUSTICE". FOR EVERY ONE.

                         THIS WILL HAPPEN ONCE AND FOR ALL, AND WILL INVOLVE THE WHOLE OF THE UNIVERSE. THAT WILL BE THE END OF EVERYTHING BUT WHOME ALLAH MAY SAVE.

                       THE FOLLOWING REVELATION OF THE HOLY QURAN PREDICT THIS TOTAL ANNIHILATION OF THE PRESENT COSMIC ORDER.

                        "AND CRY NOT ANY OTHER GOD

                          ALONG WITH ALLAH.

                          THERE ARE NO GOD SAVE HIM.

                          EVERYTHING WILL PERISH

                          EXCEPT HIS COUNTENANCE,

                          HIS IS THE COMMAND, AND 

                          UNTO HIM YE WILL BE BROUGHT BACK".

                     "ULTIMATELY)

                          

                              ALL THAT IS THERE WILL PERISH,

                              EXCEPT THE FACE OF YOUR LORD,

                              FULL OF MAJESTY, BOUNTY AND HONOUR".

                      THUS THE ULTIMATE EVENT MEANS THE ENDS OF THE ENTIRE ORDER OF THE PRESENT PHYSICAL UNIVERSE, REVERSING BACK TO THE ORGINAL, STATE OF EXISTENCE IN THE PRE-UNIVERSE PERIOD, WHEN THERE WAS NOTHING BUT GOD ALONE, A STATE OF "NOTHINGNESS".

                                                      THE RESURRECTION

                                  THIS IS THE LAST EVENT OF THE PRESENT OF EXISTENCE. ALL THE MINOR AND MAJOR DOOMSDAY WILL CULMINATE IN IT. THIS WILL ONLY HAPPEN ONCE AND WILL MARK THE BEGINNING OF A NEW UNIVERSE, MUCH LARGER AD GRAMDER THAN THE ENTIRE ORDER OF PRESENT EXISTENCE.

                               THE DAY OF RESURRECTION WILL ALSO BE INITIATED SUDDENLY. AT ITS PEAK, ALL PEOPLE OF ALL TIMES WILL BE BROUGHT BACK OF LIFE AND JUDGED ACCORDING TO THEIR DEEDS PERFORMED IN THEIR PREVIOUS LIVES. IN THE NEW UNIVERSE THERE WILL BE JANNAT THE ABODEOF THE RIGHTEOUS, AND JAHANNAM, THE ADOBE OF THE WICKED. THE FOLLOWING ARE SOME OF THE QURANIC VERSES HIGHLIGHTING THE EVENTS OF THE DAY OF RESURRECTION:

                         THE TRUMPET SHALL BE SOUNDED,'           

                          WHEN BEHOLD!

                          FROM THEIR GRAVES

                          MANKING WILL THEN RUSH FORTH TO

                         THEIR LORD"

                               IT WILL BE A DAY, SPREAD OVER, THOUSANDS OF OUR EARTHLY YEARS, MAY BE MILLIONS. THIS WILL BE THE DAY WHEN EACH SOULD WILL BE DULY AND JUSTLY REWARDED FOR ITS DEEDS IN ITS PREVIOUS LIFE, WHERE IT HAD THE FREEDOM TO CHOOSE BETWEEN THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG.

                            ON THAT DAY NO QUESTION WILL BE ASKED

                            OF MANKIND OR JINN AS TO THEIR SINS,

                            THEN WHICH OF THE FAVOURS OF YOUR LORD

                            WILL YED DENY?

                            FOR THE SINNERS WILL BE KNOWN BY THEIR MARKS.

                          AND THEY WILL BE SEIZED

                          BY THEIR FORE LOCKS, AND THEIR FEET,

                          THEN WHICH OF THE FAVOURS OF YOUR LORD

                          WILL YE, DENY?

                        AFTER THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF REWARDS AND PUNISHMENTS, PEOPLE WILL BE SENT TO THEIR FINAL ABODES. SOME WILL GO TO HELL AND SOME TO PARADISE. "DEATH UNTO DEATH" IS THE OUTCRY OF THAT DAY. THERE WILL BE EVERLASTING LIFE THEREAFTER. ABOUT THIS VERSES SAY:

                               THIS IS HELL WHICH THE SINNERS DENY,

                               IN ITS MIDST AND IN THE MIDST OF BOILING

                              HOT WATER, WHERE THEY WILL WANDER, AROUND,

                              THEN WHICH OF THE FAVOURS OF YOUR LORD

                              WILL YE DENY?

                              BUT FOR SUCH WHO FEAR THE TIME WHEN THEY STAND

                              BEFORE HIS LORD,

                              THERE WILL BE TWO GARDENS,

                              THEN WHICH OF THE FAVOURS OF YOUR LORD

                              WILL YE, DENY?

MIND AND THOUGHTS

 

                                      MIND BODY AND THOUGHTS

                                                              

                             THE ENTIRE WORK OF THE MEMORY IS PERFORMED IN THIS SUBCONSCIOUS REGION OF THE MIND. ONLY WHEN THE SUBCONSCIOUS RECORD IS REPRESENTED TO THE CONSCIOUS FIELD, AND RECOLLECTION OR REMEMBRANCE RESULTS, DOES THE MEMORIZED IDEA OR IMPRESSION EMERGE FROM THE SUBCONSCIOUS REGION. AN UNDERSTANDING OF THIS FACT SIMPLIFIES THE ENTIRE SUBJECT OF THE MEMROY, AND ENABLES US TO PERFECT PLANS AND METHODS WHEREBY THE MEMORY MAY BE DEVELOPED, IMPROVED AND TRAINED, BY MEANS OF THE DIRECTION OF THE SUBCONSCIOUS ACTIVITIES BY THE USE OF THE CONSCIOUS FACULTIES AND THE WILL.

                         BY ADOPTING THE OPINION THAT EVERY THOUGHT OR IMPRESSION THAT HAD ONECE BEEN CONSCIOUSLY BEFORE THE MIND IS EVER AFTERWARDS RETAINED, WE OBTAIN LIGHT ON MANY OBSCURE MENTAL PHENOMENA, AND ESPECIALLY DO WE DRAW FROM IT THE CONCLUTION OF THE PERFECTIBILITY OF THE MEMORY TO AN ALMOST UNLIMITED EXTENT.

                      ASSOCIATION BY CONTIGUITY IS THAT FORM OF ASSOCIATION BY WHICH AN IDEA IS LINKED, CONNECTED, OR ASSOCIATED WITH THE SENSATION, THOUGHT, OR IDEA IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING IT, AND THAT, WHICH DIRECTLY FOLLOWS IT. EACH IDEA, OR THOUGHT, IS A LINK IN A GREAT CHAIN OF THOUGHT BEING CONNECTED WITH THE PRECEDING LINK AND THE SUCCEEDING LINK. ASSOCIATION BY SIMILARITY IS THAT FORM OF ASSOCIATION BY WHICH AS IDEA, THOUGHT, OR SENSATION IS LINKED, CONNECTED, OR ASSOCIATED WITH IDEAS, THOUGHTS, OR SENSATIONS OF A SIMILAR KIND, WHICH HAVE OCCURED PREVIOUSLY OR SUBSEQUENTLY. 

THE TRUTH ABOUT EARTH

 

                             THE NATURE OF DOOMSDAY

                          "IT IS ALLAH WHO CREATES AND RECREATES"

                            FROM THE VERY BEGINNING".

                         THE HOLY QURAN GIVES A DYNAMIC VIEW OF THE UNIVERSE HIGH LIGHTING THAT THE PROCESS OF CREATION AND RECREATION IS A CONTINUOUS ACTIVITY SINCE THE VERY BEGINNING. THERE CANNOT BE STALEMATE IN THE UNIVERSE. ALLAH CREATES AND RECREATES. HE ORIGINATES AND TAKES AWAY. IN THIS PROCESS, SOMETIMES THERE OCCUR MAJOR SHAKE-UPS AND REVOLUTIONARY CHANGES IN NATURE ALSO. DOOMSDAY REPRESENT SUCH CHANGES. THEY MAY BE CLASSIFIED INTO THE FOLLOWING FOUR CATOGORIES:

                            * MINOR EVENTS

                            * MAJOR EVENTS

                            * ULTIMATE EVENTS, THE UNIVERSAL DOOMSDAY

                            * THE RESURRECTION

                  IN THE FOLLOWING SECTION IS GIVEN A BRIEF REVIEW OF THESE EVENTS WHICH WE BE DISCUSSED IN DETAIL IN SUBSEQUENT CHAPTERS.

                                  👀 MINOR DOOMSDAYS

                               MINOR DOOMSDAYS ARE OF A ROUTINE NATURE, PART OF TEH CONTINUOUS DIVINE PROCESS OF CREATION RECREATION. THEY REPRESENT STEP CHANGES IN THE EVOLUTION OF THE WORLD. IN THEIR SCOPE, THEY ARE GENERALLY LIMITED TO A PARTICULAR EARTH, OR EVEN THEY MAY BE LOCALIZED AFFAIRS EFFECTING A SMALL REGION OF THE EARY ONLY DEATH OF AN INDIVIDUAL IS NOR LESS THAN THE DOOMSDAY FOR HIM. DEPENDING UPON THEIR SEVERITY. THEY CAN BE FURTHER CLASSIFIED IN THE FOLLOWING TYPES:

                           SUB EVENTS : THESE REPRESENT CATASTROPHIES ON A NATIONAL OR GLOBAL SCALE, BUT LIFE CONTINUES NORMALLY AFTER THEY HAVE PASSED OVER. THERE HAVE BEEN MANY SUCH EVENTS WHICH WIPED OUT ENTIRE CIVILIZATIONS IN THE PAST. EXAMPLES, ARE THE FLOOD OF NUH, THE ICE AGES, THE CATASTROPHIC FALL OF METEORS ETC. THE HOLY QURAN REFERS TO MANY SUCH EVENTS IN ITS VARIOUS VERSES AS A REMINDER FOR PEOPLE TO REFLECT INTO THE FATE OF THE EARLIER GENERATIONS OF MANKING ON THE EARTH. (SEE SURA HUD) THE RULE HAS BEEN :

                   "   AND EVERY NATION HAS ITS TERM

                         AND WHEN ITS TIME COMES,

                        THEY CANNOT PUT IT OFF EVEN

                        AN HOUR, NOR THEY CAN ADVANCE IT".

                         * STEPS LEADING TO THE UNIVERSAL DOOMSDAY. DOOMSDAY IS A ROUTINE PHENOMENA IN THE UNIVERSE, AS PART OF ITS DYNAMISM. FIGURE SHOWS FIVE TYPES OF DOOMSDAYS, STARTING WITH THE DEATH OF AN INDIVIDUAL, TO THE RECURRECTION.

                       1. DEATH OF THE INDIVIDUAL. 

                       2. EARTHLY DISTURBANCE.

                       3. COMPLETE DESTRUCTION OF THE EARTH

                       4. DOOMS DAY OF THE SOLAR SYSTEMS.

                       5. THE UNIVERSAL DOOMSDAY

                       6. THE RESURRECTION

                     IN UNIVERSE EACH THING HAS A PREFIXED DESTINY AND CREATED FOR A FINITE PERIOD ONLY. THE QURAN SAYS :

                    ALLAH CREATED NOT THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH AND ALL THAT IS BETWEEN THEM, SAE WITH TRUTH, AND FOR A DESTINED END. BUT TRULY MANY OF THE MANKING ARE DISBELIEVERS IN THE MEETING WITH THEIR LORD".

                    THUS HEAVENS AND THE EARTHS ARE NOT FOR EVER. THEY WILL PERISH AT THEIR TURNS AND SO IS THE UNIVERSE. THE SAME IS TRUE OF THE INDIVIDUALS AND OF THE NATIONS ALSO.

AFTER OUR DEATH (INTRODUCTION)

 

                                 

                                     LIFE AFTER DEATH

                          AND UNTO ALLAH BELONGS,

                         THE UNSEEN OF THE HEAVENS

                         AND THE EARTH.

                         AND THE MATTER OF THE HOUR (OF DOOMSDAY) IS,

                         BUT AS THE TWINKLING OF THE EYE,

                        OR IT IS NEARER STILL,

                         LO, ALLAH IS ABLE TO DO ALL THINGS".

                     ALL THE RELIGIONS OF THE WORLD AND ALSO MODERN SCIENCE, BELIEVE THAT THE WORLD IS GOING TO END, BUT THE QUESTION REMAINS, "HOW? WHEN WE LOOK AROUND AT TEH VAST SKIES STUDDED WITH STARS WE CANNOT REMAIN ASKING, WHAT WILL EVENTUALLY HAPPEN TO ALL THIS?  IN THE HEART OF OUR HEARTS, EACH ONE OF US IS ALSO CONCERNED ABOUT HIS OWN EXISTENCE. BELIEVERS AND ATHEISTS ARE EQUALLY BOTHERED BY THIS THOUGHTS. IN DEATH THE THROUGH THIS BEAUTIFUL WORLD OF OURS? IS THERE ANY PURPOSE IN THE UNIVERSE?

                     THESE ARE INDEED VERY PERTINENT QUESTIONS, BUT VERY FEW KNOW DEFINITE ANSWER TO ANY ONE OF THEM. RELIGION AND SCIENCE ARE BOTH DIVIDED ON THE ISSUE. IF THE FORMER  HAS MIXED IT WITH MYTHOLOGY, THE LATTER HAS ADULTRATED IT WITH DOUBT. IN THIS DOMAIN SCIENCE AND RELIGON HAVE DIFFERED MORE THAN ANY OTHER THING, ALTHOUGH BOTH CLAIM TO SEEK "THE TRUTH". THIS CHAPTER IS AN ATTEMPT TO BRING THEM CLOSER WITH REFERENCE TO THE HOLY QURAN. IT IS AN EFFORT TO PROBE INTO THE UNKNOWN, WITH THE HOPE TO ALTEAST PARTIALLY SATISFY THE CURIOSITY TO KNOW ABOUT THE ULTIMATE FATE OF OURSELVES AND THAT OF THE UNIVERSE.OUR THIS IS BASED UPON OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE HOLY QURAN, THE "LAST AND THE LATEST DIVINE GUIDANCE" REVEALED ON PROPHET MUHAMMED (PEACE BE UPON HIM) FOURTEEN CENTURIES AGO, AND THE CURRENT SCIENTIFIC THOUGHTS ON THIS SUBJECT.

                          IN THE OLDEN TIMES, GREEKS HAD ADVANCED THE HYPOTHESIS ABOUT THE ETERNITY OF THE UNIVERSE, MEANING IT HAD ALWAYS EXISTED LIKE IT. THIS NOTION, EVEN NOW PERSISTS AMONG SOME OF THE LEADING ASTRONOMERS, WHO BELIEVE IN THE CONTINUITY OF THE UNIVERSE.

                        ACCORDING TO THIS THEORY (1,18) MATTER CREATES MORE MATTER, AND THE COSMOS GOES ON EXPANDING FOR EVER. THEY SEE NO BEGINNING OR THE END OF THE UNIVERSE.

                               ON THIS, THE CURRENT POPULAR SCIENTIFIC VIEWS WERE SUMMED UP IN GENEVA, IN A CONFERENCE OF COSMOLOGISTS AND PARTICLE PHYSICISTS HELD IN NOVEMBER 1983, "IT WAS SAID, WHAT WE LOOK BACK ON AS THE "BIG BANG" WAS A TIME OF VERY HIGH BUT NOT INFINITE DENSITY, A STATE TO WHICH THE UNIVERSE PHASE IS OVER. OUT OF THE HIGH DENSITY PHASE, IT WILL BE BORN AGAIN. (WITH AN EXPONENTIAL INFLATION PHASE), TO REPEAT THE CYCLE AND INFINITIUM.(2)

                     AS REGARDS THE VARIOUS RELIGIONS, ACCORDING TO PAUL DAVIES, THEY DIFFER GREATLY IN THEIR CONCEPTION OF THE MOMENT AND MANNER OF THIS COSMIC DEMISE. SOME WARN OF AN IMMINENT CATASTROPHE, OF A WORLD OVERTAKEN BY AN APOCALYPTIC DESTRUCTION WHEN THE SINFUL WILL BE JUDGED STERNLY. OTHERS TEACH ABOUT A FORTHCOMING KINGDOM OF HEAVEN WHICH WILL REPLACE THE HARSH AND UNCERTAIN WORLD  WE NOW LIVE IN. HINDUISM AND BUDDAISM INCLINE TOWARD A CYCLIC SYSTEM IN WHICH THE END OF THE CURRENT WORLD FOLLOWS WITH THE REBIRTH OF ANOTHER WORLD.

                          HOWEVER , ON THIS SUBJECT THE GUIDANCE RECEIVED FROM THE HOLY QURAN IS MOST COMPREHENSIVE AND UNPARRALLELED IN CLARITY. FIRST OF ALL, IT TELLS THAT THE UNIVERSE HAD A BEGINNING, IT IS A CREATED WORK IN TIME AND SPACE, WITH A PURPOSE, AND ALLAH IS ITS ORGININATOR, WHO SAYS IN THE QURAN:

                     "WE  HAVE NOT CREATED THE 

                       HEAVENS AND THE EARTH,

                      AND ALL THAT LIES BETWEEN THEM

                      BUT WITH A PURPOSE,

                     ACCORDING TO A PRE-FIXED MEASUREMENT".

THE POWER OF YOUR THOUGHTS

 

                                 

                                      THE MIND POWER 

                                           KEY POINTS

                    THE SUBCONSCIOUS REGIONS OF THE MIND ARE THE GREAT STROEHOUSES OF THE MENTAL RECORDS OF IMPRESSIONS FROM WITHIN AND WITHOUT.

                     ONE OF THE MOST COMMON CAUSES OF POOR ATTENTION IS TO BE FOUND IN THE LACK OF INTESTEST. WE ARE APT TO REMEMBER THE THING IN WHICH WE HAVE BEEN A HIGH DEGREE OF ATTENTION GIVEN.

                       INTEREST MAY BE DEVELOPED BY VOLUNTARY ATTENTION BESTOWED AND HELP UPON AN OBJECT.

                                                                               👀

       

                      THE THREE REQUISITES OF CULTIVATING ATTENTION:

                   DETERMINE TO USE THE WILL

                   DEVELOP STRONG BURNING DESIRE TO ACQUIRE 

                   THE ART OF VOLUNTARY ATTENTION

                   PRACTICE THIS FAITHFULLY.

                                        

                                                                                  👀

                         THERE ARE THREE GENERAL RULES THAT MAY BE GIVEN IN THIS MATTER OF BESTOWING THE VOLUNTARY ATTENTION IN THE DIRECTION  OF ACTUALLY SEEING THINGS, INSTEAD OF MERELY LOOKING AT THEM. THE FIRST : MAKE YOURSELF TAKE AN INTEREST IN THE THING. THE SECOND : SEE IT AS IF YOU WERE TAKING NOTE OF IT IN ORDER TO REPEAT ITS DETAILS TO A FRIEND - THIS WILL FORCE YOU TO "TAKE NOTICE". THE THIRD : GIVE TO YOUR SUBCONSCIOUS A MENTAL COMMAND TO TAKE NOTE OF WHAT YOU ARE LOOOKING AT.

                     REMEMBER FIRST, LAST AND ALWAYS, THAT BEFORE YOU CAN REMEMBER OR RECOLLECT, YOU MUST FIRST PERCEIVE: AND THAT PERCEPTION IS POSSIBLE ONLY THROUGH ATTENTION AND RESPONDS IN DEGREE TO THE LATTER.

                        FABULOUS MEMORIES HAVE BEEN REPORTED FROM ANCIENT TIMES AND CONTINUE TODAY. THEY ARE NOT LIMITED TO GENIUSES OF PEOPLE WITH IN-BORN TALENT. IT IS MANIFESTED IN PEOPLE AT ALL STRATA OF SOCIETY. ANYBODY WITH THE DESIRE TO ACQUIRE THIS SKILL CAN DO BY FOLLOWING THE PRINCIPLES TO BE DISCUSSED.

                                                                                ❤

                      YOU ARE FAR LESS LIABLE TO SUCCUMB TO BAD MENTAL INFLUENCE IF YOU SURROUND YOURSELF WITH A THOUGHT ATMOSPHERE FILLED WITH THE HIGHEST KIND OF THOUGHTS AND FREE FROM THOUGHTS AND DESIRE OF A BASE, SELFISH CHARACTER.

                       THERE RESIDES A SPARK FROM THE DIVINE FLAME OF LIFE AND POWER, WHICH IS CALLED THE INNER WILL, AND WHEN ONCE RECOGNIZED WILL BE A SOURCE OF UNENDING AND UNFAILLING STRENGTH.

                      PUT OUT OF YOUR MIND ALL FEAR OF OTHER PERSONS. CAST OUT FEAR AS UNWORTHY AND HURTFUL.

                    ASSERTION OF THE "I" WITHIN YOU WILL DISSIPATE THE INFLUENCE AROUND YOU, AND WILL NEUTRALIZE UNPLEASANT MENTAL ATMOSPHERES AND RENDER YOU IMMUNE FROM THE SAME.

                    THE MAJORITY OF PERSONS ARE SURROUNDED BY A MENTAL ATMOSPHERE ARISING FROM THE PREVAILING MENTAL STATES, THOUGHTS, FEELINGS, ETC. AND ALSO ARISING FROM THE THOUGHT-CURRENTS WHICH THEY HAVE ATTRACTED TO THEM BY THE LAW OF MENTAL ATTRACTION. THEY MAY BE GOOD OR EVIL.

                    THE WORK OF THE HELPER IS REALLY NEUTRALIZING AND DISSIPATING THE UNFAVORABLE MENTAL INFLUENCES SURROUNDING THE PEOPLE SEEKING HELP, AND THEREBY GIVING THESE PEOPLE A CHANCE TO WORK OUT THEIR OWN MENTAL SALVATION.

                    WE SEE AND HEAR OF THE MIGHTY POWER FOR GOOD MENTAL INFLUENCE THAT IS EXERTING AMONG THE PEOPLE TODAY, RAISING UP THE SICK, STRENGTHENING THE WEAK, PUTTING COURAGE INTO THE DESPONDENT AND MAKING SUCCESSESS OF FAILURES. ON THE OTHER HAND THERE IS THE HATEFUL SELFISHNESS AND GREED OF UNPRINCIPLED PERSONS IN TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THIS MIGHTY FORCE OF NATURE AND PROSTITUTING IT TO THEIR OWN HATEFUL ENDS.

                   THOSE WHO THINK HATE MAY BE AFFECTED BY HATE THOUGHTS, WHILE THOSE WHOSE MIND IS FILLED WITHG FAITH DEFLECT INVADING WAVES OR ELSE DRIVE THEM BACK TO THEIR SENDERS.

HOW TO DEVELOPE YOUR SELF-CONFIDENT

 

                

                        FEATURE OF NATURAL SPEAKING

                       WE ARE GOING TO DISCUSS HERE SOME OF THE FEATURES OF NATURAL SPEAKING IN ORDER TO MAKE THEM MORE CLEAR, MORE VIVID. I HAVE HESITATED ABOUT DOING IT, FOR SOMEONE IS ALMOST SURE TO SAY, "AH, I SEE, JUST FORCE MYSELF TO DO THESE THINGS AND I'LL BE ALL RIGHT". NO, YOU WON'T, FORCE YOURSELF TO DO THEM AND YOU WILL BE ALL WOODEN AND ALL MECHANICAL.

                     YOU USED MOST OF THESE PRINCIPLES YESTERDAY IN YOUR CONVERSATION, USED THEM AS UNCONSCIOUSLY AS YOU DEGESTED YOUR DINNER LAST NIGHT. THAT IS THE WAY TO USE THEM. IT IS THE ONLY WAY. AND IT WILL COME, AS FAR AS PUBLIC SPEAKING IS CONCERNED, AS WE HAVE ALREADY SAID, ONLY BY PRACTICE.

                       FIRST : STRESS IMPORTANT WORDS,

                       SUBORDINATE UNIMPORTANT ONES

                      IN CONVERSATION, WE HIT ONE SYLLABUS IN A WORD, AND HIT IT HARD, AND HURRY OVER THE OTHERS LIKE A PAY CAR PASSING A STRING OF HOBOES. FOR EXAMPLE, MASSACHUSETTS, AFLICTION, AT TRACTIVENESS, ENVIROMMENT. WE DO ALMOST THE SAME THING WITH A SENTENCE. WE MAKE ONE OR TWO IMPORTANT WORDS TOWER UP LIKE A SKYSCRAPER.

                     THIS IS NOT A STRANGE OR UNUSUAL PROCESS I AM DESCRIBING, LISTEN. YOU CAN HEAR IT GOING ON ABOUT YOU ALL THE TIME. YOU YOURSELF DID IT A HUNDRED, MAYBE A THOUSAND, TIMES YESTERDAY. YOU WILL DOUBLES DO IT A HUNDRED TIMES TOMORROW.

                 HERE IS AN EXAMPLE. READ THE FOLLOWING QUOTATION, STRIKING THE WORKS IN BIG TYPE HARD. RUN OVER THE OTHERS QUICKLY. WHAT IS THE EFFECT?

                I HAVE SUCCEEDED IN WHATEVER I HAVE UNDERTAKEN, BECAUSE I HAVE WILLED IT. I HAVE NEVER HESITATED WHICH HAS GIVEN ME AN ADVANTAGE OVER THE REST OF MANKIND" -NAPOLEON.

                  THIS IS NOT THE ONLY WAY TO READ THERE LINES. ANOTHER SPEAKER WOULD DO IT DIFFERENTLY PERHAPS. THERE ARE NO ORONCLAD RULES FOR EMPHASIS. IT ALL DEPENDS.

                  READ THESE SELECTIONS ALOUD IN AN EARNEST MANNER, TRYING TO MAKE THE IDEAS CLEAR AND CONVINCING. DON'T YOU FIND YOURSELF STRESSING THE BIG, IMPORTANT WORDS AND HURRYING OVER THE OTHERS?

                     IF YOU THINK YOU ARE BEATEN, YOU ARE.

                     IF YOU THINK YOU DARE NOT, YOU DON'T

                     IF YOU'D LIKE TO WIN, BUT THINK YOU CAN'T

                     IT'S ALMOST A CINCH YOU WON'T

                     LIFE'S BATTLES DON'T ALWAYS GO

                    TO THE STRONGER OF FASTER MAN.

                     BUT SOON OR LATE THE MAN WHO WINS

                     IS THE ONE WHO THINKS HE CAN.

                                                                                  ----- ANONYMOUS

HOW TO TALK WITH SELF-CONFIDENT

 

                      

                             THE WAY DOCTOR CONWELL 

                                PLANNED HIS SPEECHES

                   THERE ARE NOT, AS I HAVE ALREADY SAID, ANY INFALLIBLE RULES THAT WILL SOLVE THE QUESTION OF THE BEST ARRAGEMENT. THERE ARE NO DESIGNS OR SCHEMES OR CHARTS THAT WILL FIT ALL OR EVEN A MAJORITY OF SPEECHES. YET HERE ARE A FEW SPEECH PLANS THAT WILL PROVE USUABLE IN SOME INSTANCES. THE LATE DR.RUSSELL H. CONWELL, THE AUTHOR OF THE FAMOUS ACRES OF DIAMONDS - ONCE INFORMED ME THAT HE HAD BUILD MANY OF HIS INNUMERABLE SPEECHES OF THIS OUTLINE:

                     1. STATE YOUR FACTS.

                     2. ARGUE FROM THEM.

                     3. APPEAL FOR ACTION.

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                       MANY STUDENTS OF THIS COURSE HAVE FOUND THIS PLAN VERY HELPFUL AND STIMULATING.

                     1. SLOW SOMETHING THAT IS WRONG.

                     2. SHOW HOW TO REMEDY IT.

                     3. ASK FOR COOPERATION.

                       OR TO PUT IT IN ANOTHER WAY:

                   1. HERE IS A SITUATION THAT OUGHT TO BE REMEDIED.

                   2. WE OUGHT TO DO SO ABOUT THE MATTER.

                   3. YOU OUGHT TO HELP FOR THESE REASONS. 

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                 YET ANOTHER SPEECH PLAN COULD BE :

                  1. SECURE INTERESTED ATTENTION.

                  2. WIN CONFIDENCE.

                  3. STATE YOUR FACTS, EDUCATE PEOPLE REGARDING THE MERITS OF YOUR PROPOSITION.

                  4.  APPEAL TO THE MOTIVES THAT MAKE MEN ACT.

                    SECRETS OF GREAT SPEAKERS

                  WOODROW WILSON

                     "I BEGIN", SAID WOODROW WILSON WHEN ASKED TO EXPLAIN HIS METHODS, "WITH A LIST OF THE TOPICS I WANT TO COVER,  ARRANGING THEM IN MY MIND IN THEIR NATURAL RELATIONS - THAT IS, I FIT THE BONES OF THE THING TOGHETER, THEN I WRITE IT OUR IN SHORTHAND. I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN ACCUSTOMED TO WRITING IN SHORTHAND, FINDING IT A GREAT SAVER OF TIME. THIS DONE. I COPY IT ON MY OWN TYPEWRITER, CHANGING PHRASES, CORRECTING SENTENCE,  AND ADDING MATERIAL AS I GO ALONG".

                              THEODORE ROOSEVELT

                       THEODORE ROOSEVELT PREPARED HIS TALKS IN THE CHARACTERISTIC ROOSEVELTIAN MANNER: HE DUG ALL THE FACTS, REVIEWED THEM, APPRAISED THEM, DETERMINED THEIR FINDINGS, ARRIVED AT HIS CONCLUSONS, ARRIVED WITH A FEELING OF CERTAINLY THAT WAS UNSHAKABLE.

                    THEN, WITH A PAD OF NOTES BEFORE HIM, HE STARTED DICTATING AND HE DICTATE HIS SPEECH VERY RAPIDLY SO THAT IT WOULD HAVE RUSH SPONTANEITY AND THE SPIRIT OF LIFE. THEN HE OVER THIS TYPEWRTTEN COPY, REVISED IT, DICTATED IT ALL OVER AGAIN. "I NEVER WON ANYTHING ". SAID HE, "WITHOUT HARD LABOUT AND THE EXERCISE OF MY BEST JUDGMENT AND CAREFUL PLANNING AND WORKING LONG IN ADVANCE."

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                  OFTEN HE CALLED IN CRITICS TO LISTEN TO HIM AS HE DICTATED OR READ HIS SPEECH TO THEM. HE REFUSED TO DEBATE WITH THEM THE WISDOM OF WHAT HE HAD SAID. HIS MIND WAS ALREADY MADE UP ON THAT POINT, AND MADE UP IRREVOCABLY. HE WANTED TO BE TOLD, NOT WHAT TO SAY, BUT HOW TO SAY IT. AGAIN AND AGAIN HE WENT OVER HIS TYPEWRITTEN COPIES, CUTTING, CORRECTING, IMPROVING. THAT WAS THE SPEECH THAT THE NEWSPAPERS PRINTED. OF COURSE, HE DID NOT MEMORIZE IT. HE SPOKE EXTEMPORANEOUSLY. SO THE TALK HE ACTUALLY DELIVERED OFTEN DIFFERED SOMEWHAT FROM THE PUBLISHED AND POLISHED ONE. BUT THE TASK OF DICTATING AND REVISING WAS EXCELLENT PREPARATION. IT MADE HIM FAMILIAR WITH HIS MATERIAL, WITH THE ORDER OF HIS POINTS. IT GAVE HIM A SMOOTHNESS AND SURENESS AND POLISH THAT HE COULD HARDLY HAVE OBTAINED IN ANY OTHER FASHION.