Subliminal messages — good versus evil
Superman is one of the good guys, right? Or how about Spiderman? Sure he’s one of the nicest guys you will find fighting crime. If you agree with the above, you have been the victim of subliminal messages.
For years we have been slowly influenced by all manner of messages through a variety of media, and it has often shaped our perception of money, wealth and success.
Children have been programmed to believe that it is a sin to have money, rich guys are the evil ones and it is nobler to be poor. I mean, look at the two examples in the first paragraph. Superman, an orphan raised by the hardworking but certainly not wealthy, Kents. His archenemy is Lex Luther of Luther Corp, rich, powerful and totally evil! The same for old Peter Parker (aka Spiderman) raised by an aunt and uncle who can’t even raise the rent money, and he battles it out against rogues like Harry Osborn — again, filthy rich and rotten too!
Many of our so-called superheroes are painted in this way, just look at Batman, Wonderwoman, Harry Potter… all orphans. It’s little wonder then, that as we have watched these characters, even emulated them, the subliminal messages about good versus evil, poverty versus wealth and right over wrong have been firmly embedded in our minds.
Then, of course, we have the flip side — subliminal messages that can be used effectively to plant positive messages directly into our sub-conscious mind. These types of messages work so well because they by-pass our conscious mind, the part that applies rational thinking, judges things, decides if we are going to believe something or not.
Now if a message by-passes this step — it is accepted by the sub-conscious mind ‘as it is’, no bias, no judgment, no second guess — WYSIWYG (what you see, is what you get) to coin a phrase!
Imagine the potential if we could plant the seeds of some very powerful, positive, life changing suggestions directly to our ‘hard drive’ — we would soon start to replace all of those old school negative beliefs with some shiny new systems for success.
From: blog archive, 2007 (adapted).
Considering the text above, judge the item below.
Harry Osborn, mentioned in the text, is an unspoiled and pleasant character.
