The Semi-Conscious Life We Lead

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if we reflect carefully, we will
recognize that much of what

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takes place in our lives occurs
without our conscious awareness,

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participation or control The
activity of the cells, the

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nervous system, the internal
organs are all virtually

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automatic functions that allude
conscious oversight.

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Very rare exceptions involving
extreme disciplines.

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Bring an individual, the ability
to slow down the heartbeat or

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respiration.
Normally these things take place

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unconsciously.
If we move to the more purposive

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actions, we will note that much
of what we do is driven by

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automatic response habit or
Instinct consider that life

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forms on Earth.
Generally are known to have

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elaborate behavioral routines.
That cannot be explained by

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conscious intentional activity
but which seemed to be ingrained

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in them, certain species of
birds, for instance can build

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elaborate nests.
One generation after another

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creates the same type of nests.
Salmon return to the stream in

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which they were hatched
swimming.

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Sometimes thousands of miles
across the ocean and against the

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flow of a river to reach the
location to lay their clutch of

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eggs.
Monarch butterflies have a

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migration pattern between Mexico
and Canada that spans four

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generations of butterflies
without the possibility of one

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generation.
Educating the next these are all

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instances of activities that
seem to exhibit a focus and

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purpose but which in fact are
outside the realm of conscious

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intention.
Human being.

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Similarly, have a large segment
of their lives, orchestrated by

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instinctive and habitual
responses, add to this train,

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behaviors through socialization
and education and we can account

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for an overwhelming proportion
of what we believe to be our

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conscious lives.
Some have gone so far as to call

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our normal human life, a form of
sleepwalking.

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Rarely are we attending and
conscious enough to make

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deliberate decisions and carry
them out with a goal or purpose.

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In mind that goes beyond the
fixed boundaries of our ordinary

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lives.
Rarely do we even recognize

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consciously?
The unconscious drives and the

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Unseen forces that are moving us
through our daily life.

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The mother notes quote people
usually do things so

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automatically and spontaneously
without watching themselves

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doing them that if they were to
ask themselves how it comes

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about they would require some
time before the process.

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Um's conscious to them.
You are so used to living that

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you don't even know how it
happens.

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All the gestures and movements
of Life are made spontaneously

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automatically almost
unconsciously in a

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semi-conscious state and one
doesn't even realize.

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This very simple fact that in
order to do something, one, must

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first know what one is going to
do and then must want to do it.

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It is only when something goes
wrong with one of these

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elements, for instance, the
ability to make a plan in one's

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mind and the ability to carry
out this plan.

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When these to begin to go wrong
one, starts worrying about

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whether ones being is in good
order.

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For example, if one morning on
waking up in bed, you do not

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know or remember that you had to
get up wash and dress have your

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breakfast do.
Do this in that you would say to

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yourself.
Why what's the matter?

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Something is wrong?
I don't know what I ought to do

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anymore.
Something must be out of order.

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And if later knowing what you
have to do, you must get up go

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for your bath dress, you know
you have to do it but you can't

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do it.
There is something the stimulus

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of the will which is no longer
working has no effect on the

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body.
Then once again you begin to

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feel anxious you say, well well
could I be ill by any chance?

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Otherwise you are not even aware
that, the whole of life is like

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that.
It seems quite natural to you.

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It is like that, that means that
you act in a way which is hardly

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semi-conscious.
It is automatic.

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It is a kind of spontaneous
habit and you don't watch what

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you were doing.
And so if you want to have some

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control over your movements, the
first thing is to know what is

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happening.
And quote, reference SRI

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aurobindo, and the mother
growing within the psychology of

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inner development.
Chapter 1 emergence from

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unconsciousness Pages, 3 to 4,
And quote, reference SRI

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aurobindo, and the mother
growing within the psychology of

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inner development.
Chapter 1 emergence from

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unconsciousness Pages, 3 to 4,