Occult Knowledge or Perceptions Originate in the Inner Mental, Vital or Physical, Not the Psychic Being

0:00 People get intimations, intuitions, gut instincts, or simply a feeling about something, maybe a form of uneasiness or a sense of expectation, or some pressure or new thought process or emotional reaction. Sometimes these things occur during the waking state, but often they come as elements in dreams or in the twilight state between dream and waking. These things are generally subliminal and we experience them in a somewhat vague or indefinite or undefined manner, despite the confused usage of the term psychic that lumps all occult or subliminal activity into it. These things are for the most part not actually related to the soul or psychic being directly, but are sensed by the mental, vital, or physical being at a subtle inner level. The psychic being has its own types of intimations, but these are not generally directly related to the external life, personality and activities, but are more related to what we may term soul states, which exhibit responses such as aspiration, consecration, devotion, and an attraction to those things we experience in the world that have an uplifting and a nobling effect.

1:31 Those things that express an inmost truth of existence and those things that represent the highest and best that we can aspire for. Sri Aurobindo notes quote The psychic is not above but behind its seat is behind the heart. Its power is not knowledge, but an essential or spiritual feeling. It has the clearest sense of the truth, and a sort of inherent perception of it, which is of the nature of soul perception and soul feeling. It is our inmost being, and supports all the others, mental, vital, physical. But it is also much veiled by them and has to act upon them as an influence rather than by its sovereign right of direct action.

2:23 Its direct action becomes normal and preponderant only at a high stage of development or by yoga. It is not the psychic being which you feel gives you the intuitions of things to be, or warns you against the results of certain actions. That is some part of the inner being, sometimes the inner mental, sometimes the inner vital, sometimes it may be the inner or subtle physical purusha. The inner being, inner mind, inner vital, inner or subtle physical, knows much that is unknown to the outer mind, the outer vital, the outer physical, for it is in a more direct contact with the secret forces of nature.

3:10 The psychic is the inmost being of all, a perception of truth which is inherent in the deepest substance of the consciousness, a sense of the good, true, beautiful. The divine is its privilege. End Quote Reference Sri Orbindo and the Mother, the psychic being soul, its nature, mission and evolution Section 1 Meaning and Nature of the Psychic Being, pages 17 to 18.