RLWilson,
You must understand that you use your subconscious all the time without knowing. For example, when I ask you what your favorite song is, you can probably come up with one. It doesn't take long to come up with something, but yet you have subconsciously sorted hundreds of songs. You couldn't do that at a conscious level. Or when you look at your mother, do don't have to think very long at all to recognize who she is, but yet you processed a tremendous amount of information at a subconscious level to distinguish her from hundreds of other people. Nothing scary or occult about it, with PR you just learn a technique to memorize and process information with more of your subconscious, which is quite powerful. As a matter of fact, when you are praying, you are in so called alpha state (daydream state), which is a very healthy and relaxing.
Eric Seavey