Three Occult Sources of Our Action

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Human beings have a limited
range of perception with

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boundaries both above and below
the vibrational thresholds that

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we can consciously receive.
We know of various animals that

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can perceive things in ranges
above or below the human levels

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of perception with respect to
sound, light, scent, etc.

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And we are aware that the
spectrum of vibrations far

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exceeds our limited range and is
not limited solely to sense

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perceptions.
What we do not generally

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acknowledge is that vibrational
patterns that take place above

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or below our perceptive range
actually can and do influence

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our existence, our thoughts,
emotions, feelings, and physical

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responses to circumstances.
Although we will acknowledge

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that at the physical level, UV
or infrared waves can harm our

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physical bodies, provoke growth
of cancerous cells, or cause

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blindness, Sri Aurobindo refers
to three occult sources that

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impact us.
These are sources other than

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those we directly perceive and
acknowledge with our senses.

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These can be vibrations in the
electromagnetic spectrum or

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vibrations from forces active at
those levels as their native

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realms with consciousness,
intention, and will.

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Super conscient refers to those
vibrational patterns and forces

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that take place at a higher
vibration than what we can

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perceive.
Subliminal implies forces that

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are within our normal range but
do not gain sufficient notice,

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either through our own
inattention, the filtering

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process our brains use to limit
extraneous information, or

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through insufficient force of
the vibration to create an act

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of perception.
The all or nothing phenomenon in

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our eyes is such a situation.
Photons of light may be

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impinging on our visual sense,
but until a certain quanta of

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photons are active, we do not
perceive the action of the light

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as the senses are not yet
triggered to acknowledge them.

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Once the sufficient impulse is
received, we suddenly

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acknowledge the presence of the
light.

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Subconscient refers to those
things that vibrate below our

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level of perception.
Much of the long standing,

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habitual, and instinctive
reactions comes from this

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subconscious level.
The flow of forces throughout

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the universal creation are
constantly working upon,

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impacting, and influencing us,
and, as we become habituated to

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specific vibrational patterns,
set ourselves up to acknowledge

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them, receive them, and respond
to them.

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We create habits or grooves of
behavior that we identify as our

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personality, as who we are, and
as what sets us apart from

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others with a unique
individuality.

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This habituation process also
tends to further limit our

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ability to recognize and
experience vibrational patterns

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that fall outside of our
habitual range, even if they

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happen to fit generally within
our human perceptive range.

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Shriorobindo writes, Quote There
are three occult sources of our

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action, the superconcient, the
subliminal, the subconcient.

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But of none of them are we in
control or even aware.

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What we are aware of is the
surface being, which is only an

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instrumental arrangement.
The source of all is that

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general nature, universal
nature, individualizing itself

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in each person.
For this general nature deposits

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certain habits of movement,
personality, character,

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faculties, dispositions,
tendencies in US, and that

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whether form now or before our
birth, is what we usually call

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ourselves.
A good deal of this is in

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habitual movement and use in our
known conscious parts on the

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surface.
A great deal more is concealed

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in the other unknown 3, which
are below or behind the surface.

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But what we are on the surface
is being constantly set in

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motion, changed, developed, or
repeated by the waves of the

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general nature coming in on us,
either directly or else

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indirectly, through others,
through circumstances, through

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various agencies or channels.
Some of this flows straight into

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the conscious parts and acts
there, but our mind ignores its

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source, appropriates it, and
regards all that as its own.

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A part comes secretly into the
subcontinent, or sinks into it,

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and waits for an opportunity of
rising up into the conscious

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surface.
A good deal goes into the

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subliminal, and may at any time
come out, or may not, may rather

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rest there as unused matter part
passes through and is rejected,

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thrown back, or thrown out, or
spilt into the universal sea.

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Our nature is a constant
activity of forces supplied to

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us, out of which, or rather out
of a small amount of it, we

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make.
What we will or can.

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What we make seems fixed in form
for good, but in reality it is

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all a play of forces, a flux,
nothing fixed or stable.

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The appearance of stability is
given by constant repetition and

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recurrence of the same
vibrations and formations.

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End Quote Reference Sri Arobindo
and the Mother, The Hidden

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Forces of Life, Chapter 2,
Hidden Forces within pages 32 to

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33.