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June 16, 2023

The Superconscient

The Superconscient

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. xxvii-xxviii This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2023/06/13/the-superconscient/


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Just as the electromagnetic
spectrum has ranges below those

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that we can consciously receive
and translate as well as ranges

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above those.
We can utilize So also

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Consciousness has ranges below
and above our limit.

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The range is below.
Our limits are called sub,

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continent and incontinent, those
above are called super Concha.

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Scientists have developed tools,
to measure ranges of vibration

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outside.
The normally perceptible ranges,

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we can capture with our senses,
thus, we know about infrared and

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UltraViolet, ranges as well as
sounds that vibrate at lower and

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higher levels.
While the limits of the sense,

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organs May prevent our directly
experiencing UV or infrared

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energy levels, we can experience
their effects and thus can

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develop strategies to either
utilize them or at least protect

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ourselves from deleterious
effects such as sunburns and the

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development of skin cancers that
can occur from too much UV

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exposure over time.
An analogous process can be

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understood with respect to the
action and impact of

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Consciousness, psychologists are
able to begin to unravel the

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process for understanding the
action of the subconscious

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levels on our lives.
Freud, you will and many others

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since then have delved into the
subconscious forces that provide

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motive Force to the actions and
reactions we experience in our

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lives.
Even if we do not fully

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appreciate or understand them.
Creative Geniuses, artists,

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inventors Visionaries.
Tell us through their

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description of how their novel
understanding came to them of

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levels above and beyond those of
the normal human mind, and they

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speak of inspiration and
intuition.

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The Vedic, rishi's explored, the
supercontinent Realms, and their

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forces and work to expand the
limits of human development, to

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begin to incorporate these
forces where possible into their

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experience and Consciousness.
Some of the code language, we

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find in the rig Veda, refer to
powers of light of Illumination

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of understanding that exceed,
the mental processes upon which

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our external lives are generally
found.

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Hundred SRI aurobindo took up
the work of exploring and Co

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defying.
The levels of consciousness

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above the Mind, both through
glimpses and experiences and

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through an understanding of
their effects.

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When the mind was touched by
these forces, by observing the

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stages of the evolution of
Consciousness, SRI, aurobindo

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was able to recognize that those
ranges above the mental level,

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that he was exploring and
Experiencing were representative

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of the next phase, in the
evolution of Consciousness.

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In the world, based on the
mechanism of the next phase

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developing at the level of the
highest prior development.

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He saw that, it was through
evolved Humanity that these more

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powerful levels of consciousness
and therefore of power of action

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in the world would necessarily
develop.

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Dr. Dalal notes quote, the
supercontinent consists of

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higher levels of consciousness
above the ordinary mind from

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which the higher Consciousness
comes down into the lower planes

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of the being, SRI aurobindo
explains quote, the role of the

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supercontinent has been to
evolve slowly.

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The spiritual man, out of the
mental, half animal and quote

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dr.
De la continues, the

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superconscious in, includes the
higher planes of Mind, higher

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mind, illumine mind intuition
and over mind, as well as what

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is beyond my namely, super mind
and the Supreme reality called

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such cheated on de existence,
Consciousness Bliss and quote

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reference SRI aurobindo in the
mother, our many shelves,

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practical, yogic psychology
introduction, SRI aurobindo on

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our many shelves, planes and
parts of the being Pages, Roman

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27 to 28, de existence,
Consciousness Bliss and quote

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reference SRI aurobindo in the
mother, our many shelves,

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practical, yogic psychology
introduction, SRI aurobindo on

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our many shelves, planes and
parts of the being Pages, Roman

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27 to 28,