The Thought Adjuster is the book's most-quoted idea and the one readers say changed something. It is described as an actual fragment of the Universal Father, not a metaphor, arriving in a child's mind around the age of six with the first genuine moral decision, working in the unconscious, and surviving with those who choose survival. Prayer in this system is largely a matter of getting quiet enough to cooperate with it — the practice readers call the stillness. It gives the book a mysticism that its administrative cosmology otherwise conceals.