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June 13, 2023

Environmental Consciousness — the Circumconscient

Environmental Consciousness — the Circumconscient

reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Our Many Selves: Practical Yogic Psychology, Introduction, Sri Aurobindo on Our Many Selves, Planes and Parts of the Being, pp. xxiii-xxiv This episode is also available as a blog post at: https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2023/06/10/environmental-consciousness-the-circumconscient/


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A feeling an emotion, a thought,
arises within us.

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Do we manufacture these or are
we the recipients of them from

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elsewhere if we manufacture
them?

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How exactly do we do that?
Where does the basis for that?

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Thought or feeling come from?
What causative factors are there

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for a specific feeling or
thought to come to our awareness

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at a specific time?
Most people have experienced

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suddenly arising feelings or
thoughts that seemed foreign to

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them or their current state of
mind, sometimes they experience

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the same thought at the same
time, as others, in their

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presence, people sometimes can
pick up the mood or atmosphere

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of another individual without
any obvious visual or verbal

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cues.
There are occasions when hunger

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suddenly arises after an
interaction with an individual,

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which is otherwise inexplicable
sexual.

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Energies are sometimes
transmitted from one individual

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to another through vibrations
that are almost visible and

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palpable to others.
Some individuals can see or

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sense.
What is known as the aura around

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an individual experiments.
Have shown that the aura can

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actually be photographed with
special equipment and that it

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changes color, intensity and
range beyond the confines of the

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body.
Based on specific, Focus,

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thoughts, or energetic action.
All of these type of things

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illustrate that forces are
moving, that are independent of

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an individual's own ability to
manufacture a thought, feeling,

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or emotion, and that we receive
these things from outside.

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And once tuned to them, we allow
them to arrive and manifest, in

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our minds, our hearts, and our
Vital centers.

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Dr. Dalal writes, quote, the
inner, or subliminal being

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receives the context of the
environment world through the

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environmental Consciousness.
Or the circum, conscient a

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formation of the subliminal
Consciousness which projects

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itself beyond the body SRI
aurobindo indicates quote.

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It is through this environmental
Consciousness that the thoughts

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feelings, Etc, of others pass to
enter into one.

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It is through this.
Also, that waves of the

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universal Force, desire sex,
Etc, come in and take possession

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of the Mind, vital or body, each
man has his own personal

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Consciousness, entrenched in his
body and gets into touch with

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his surroundings.
Only through his body and senses

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and the mind using the senses
yet all the time, the universal

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forces are pouring into him
without His knowing it, he is

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aware only of thoughts feelings
Etc that rise to the surface.

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And these he takes for his own,
really?

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They come from outside in mind
waves, vital waves, waves of

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feeling and sensation Etc which
take particular form in him and

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rise to the surface after they
have got inside.

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But they do not get into his
body at once.

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He carries about with him and
environmental Consciousness

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called by the theosophist the
aura into, which they first

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enter, if you can become
conscious of this environmental

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self of yours, then you can
catch the thought passion,

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suggestion, or force of illness
and prevent it from entering

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into you.
End quote, reference SRI

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aurobindo in the mother, our
many selves practical yogic

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psychology introduction.
SRI aurobindo on our many selves

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planes and parts of the bean
Pages Roman 23 to 24.

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End quote, reference SRI
aurobindo in the mother, our

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many selves practical yogic
psychology introduction.

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SRI aurobindo on our many selves
planes and parts of the bean

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Pages Roman 23 to 24.