The Subconscient and the Inconscient
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.xxvi-xxvii
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0:02 We are conscious and aware of forces and energies that operate within a certain specified range. Anything that falls outside that range whether above or below remains unseen and unknown to us? Even if the forces operative in those Superior, or inferior, ranges impact, our thoughts, feelings, perceptions, and life Energies. We recognize that many operations of our lives. Our internal organs are basically self-regulating without conscious control or intervention by our self aware mental Consciousness.
0:45 We do not for instance, regulate consciously, the oxygen uptake into the blood or its dissemination into the cells of the body. Nor do we regulate consciously, the energy production functions of the cells Beyond these organic functions. However, there are also levels of consciousness that store up Impressions and encapsulate reactions without conscious mental control. Either various stimuli can then trigger responses from these levels that may surprise us with their suddenness and intensity Sometimes these subconscious elements arise in the state of dreaming, and we can get a brief view into what is hidden in those layers of our being for the most part.
1:37 However, they remain obscure and impact us without are consciously. Being aware of what is there and what they are actually able to effectuate in our lives and reactions. We tend to also believe that there is no consciousness in matter. Yet the only way for Consciousness to appear out of matter, is for it to evolve, they're from. And thus, we can understand that Consciousness is encoded involved in material nature, just as the tree is encoded in the purely material seed from which it develops.
2:18 Dr. Dalal writes quote, the subconscious in is what is below the mind and conscious life. Just as the subliminal is what is behind the outer Consciousness. Whereas the subliminal is an inner and larger Consciousness compared to the surface Consciousness, the subconscious is a Nether and inferior diminished consciousness. SRI aurobindo observes quote, the sub-continent covers, the purely physical and vital elements of our constitution, of bodily being unmeant alized, unobserved by the Mind uncontrolled by it, in their action.
3:01 It can be held to include the dumb occult Consciousness Dynamic, but not sent by us, which operates in the cells and nerves and all the Boreal stuff and adjust their life process and automatic responses. It covers also. Those lowest functionings of submerged since mind, which are more operative in the animal and plant life. in our Evolution, we have over past the need of any large organized action of this element but it remains submerged and obscure Lee at work below, our conscious nature this obscure activity extends to a hidden and hooded mental substratum into which past Impressions and all that is rejected from the surface mind sink and remain there dormant and can surge up in sleep or in any absence of the mind, taking dream forms forms of mechanical, mind action or suggestion forms of automatic vital reaction or impulse forms of physical, abnormality, or nervous, perturbance forms of morbidity, disease, unbalanced, Out of the subconscious. We bring ordinarily so much to the surface as our waking since mind, and intelligence need for their purpose in. So bringing them up, we are not
4:35 aware of their nature origin, operation and do not apprehend them in their own values, but by a translation into the values of our, waking human sense and intelligence, but the risings of the subconscious, it's a Effects upon the mind and body are mostly automatic uncalled for and involuntary. For we have no knowledge and therefore no control of the sub content. Dr. Dalal continues, quote below the subconscient is the incontinent, the nethermost plane of Consciousness. It is not really devoid of Consciousness as the term might imply, but a level of Consciousness, which represents a total involution of Consciousness, the inverse reproduction of the Supreme super conscience as SRI aurobindo describes it.
5:34 Evolution begins from the in content. The first emergence to evolve from it being matter and quote, reference SRI aurobindo, and the mother, our many shelves, practical yogic psychology introduction. SRI aurobindo on our many lives planes and parts of the being Pages. Roman 26 to 27, Evolution begins from the in content. The first emergence to evolve from it being matter and quote, reference SRI aurobindo, and the mother, our many shelves, practical yogic psychology introduction. SRI aurobindo on our many lives planes and parts of the being Pages. Roman 26 to 27,
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