When I finally got around to reading Napoleon Hill’s work Think And Grow Rich a few years back it appeared to be a fairly straight forward book about developing the success mindset. I’d heard much of the stuff before in various philosophical teachings I had studied. I believed that I really wasn’t going to have any great revelations reading this book, at least until I got into what I refer to as the “Strangest Chapter of  The Book”.

In order to understand what I mean by this, you have to be somewhat familiar with the book and realize that it was a practical treatise on how to survive the depression era economy of the time. It is filled with very practical step by step advice like how to set goals, be determined to succeed, and be grateful for what you have. Yet unexpectedly, in  chapter 14, Napoleon Hill begins to talk about the Sixth Sense as he describes a process sometimes referred to as the “Invisible Counselor Technique”.

He describes having spiritual  council meetings with the likes of  Emerson, Burbank, Napoleon, Paine, Lincoln, Carnegie, Ford, Edison, Christ, St. Paul, Galileo, Copernicus, Aristotle, Plato, Socrates, Homer, Voltaire, Bruno, Spinoza, Drummond, Kant, Schopenhauer, Newton, Confucius, Elbert Hubbard, Brann, Ingersol, Wilson, and William James.

He claims to have gained insight and creative ideas from these meetings. The meetings were so realistic that he even stopped them for a time for fear he would lose track of the fact they were “imaginary constructs”.  Mr. Hill was reluctant to admit to this practice in his early years. The techniques were so controversial they were even censored from some of his publications by conservative editors.

The video below by Vishen Lakhiani describes the technique in detail:

I’ve personally had some very interesting results with this technique.

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So what do you think about this? Your comments are welcome…