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    The Subconscious & The Superconscious Planes of Mind (Unabridged): Psychology: Diverse States of Consciousness (From the American pioneer of the New Thought movement, known for The Secret of Success, The Arcane Teachings & Reincarnation and the Law of Karma
    The Subconscious & The Superconscious Planes of Mind (Unabridged): Psychology: Diverse States of Consciousness (From the American pioneer of the New Thought movement, known for The Secret of Success, The Arcane Teachings & Reincarnation and the Law of Karma
    The Subconscious & The Superconscious Planes of Mind (Unabridged): Psychology: Diverse States of Consciousness (From the American pioneer of the New Thought movement, known for The Secret of Success, The Arcane Teachings & Reincarnation and the Law of Karma
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    The Subconscious & The Superconscious Planes of Mind (Unabridged): Psychology: Diverse States of Consciousness (From the American pioneer of the New Thought movement, known for The Secret of Success, The Arcane Teachings & Reincarnation and the Law of Karma

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    "The great problems of modern psychology are found to consist largely of the phenomena of the mental operations and activities on planes other than those of ordinary consciousness. While the terminology of the subject is still in a state of transition, nevertheless certain terms have sprung into common use and are employed tentatively by those who write and teach of these wonderful regions of the mind."
    William Walker Atkinson (1862-1932) was a prolific writer. His works treat themes related to the mental world, occultism, divination, psychic reality, and mankind's nature. They constitute a basis for what Atkinson called "New Psychology" or "New Thought".
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    The Subconscious & The Superconscious Planes of Mind (Unabridged): Psychology: Diverse States of Consciousness (From the American pioneer of the New Thought movement, known for The Secret of Success, The Arcane Teachings & Reincarnation and the Law of Karma
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    William Walker Atkinson

    William Walker Atkinson (1862 – 1932) was a noted occultist and pioneer of the New Thought Movement. He wrote extensively throughout his lifetime, often using various psydonyms. He is widely credited with writing The Kybalion and was the founder of the Yogi Publication Society.

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      The Subconscious & The Superconscious Planes of Mind (Unabridged) - William Walker Atkinson

      Superconscious.

      Chapter I.

      Infra-Conscious Mentality.

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      THE great problems of modern psychology are found to consist largely of the phenomena of the mental operations and activities on planes other than those of ordinary consciousness. While the terminology of the subject is still in a state of transition, nevertheless certain terms have sprung into common use and are employed tentatively by those who write and teach of these wonderful regions of the mind. Among these terms we find infra­conscious, which is used to designate the planes of mental activity below and above the ordinary plane of consciousness. In this term, the word infra is used in the sense of inner, within, etc., rather than its more familiar sense of below. Hence infra­conscious means an inner consciousness, or within­consciousness, and includes the mental planes commonly known as the "sub conscious and super conscious," respectively. The term is far from being satisfactory, but it is used by psychologists, tentatively, and will be until some other more fitting term is evolved.

      The older school of psychology ignored, so far as possible, the infra­conscious planes and fields of mental activity, and regarded consciousness as synonymous with mind—and by consciousness was meant merely the plane of the ordinary consciousness. But the phenomena of the hidden planes of mentation would not stay in the dark corner in which the psychologists were compelled to place them, but would constantly present themselves most inopportunely, as if to perplex the teachers, and to confute their theories. And so, little by little, there was tacitly admitted to exist an unknown and unexplored region of the mind which was at first labeled unconscious mind, although the term was vigorously opposed by many of the authorities as contradictory and meaningless— but the quarrel was rather with the term than with the fact.

      The psychologists who began to use the term unconscious mind soon found sufficient authority among certain of the older writers, which served as a foundation for the newer theories and teachings which began to evolve when the conception of the unconscious mind had begun to take upon itself the garb of scientific orthodoxy. It was found that Leibnitz had asserted that there were certain mental activities in evidence, which certainly manifested in the unconscious region of the mind, and the influence of the older philosopher was added to the new teaching. As Carpenter said: The psychologists of Germany, from the time of Leibnitz, have taught that much of our mental work is done without consciousness. Sir William Hamilton said: To this great philosopher (Leibnitz) belongs the honor of having originated this opinion, and of having supplied some of the strongest arguments in its support. Kay said: Leibnitz was the first to confute this opinion (that consciousness was coextensive with mind), and to establish the doctrine that there are energies always at work, and modifications constantly taking place in the mind, of which we are quite unconscious.

      Basing the new conception upon Leibnitz and his followers, the psychologist began to write freely regarding this great unconscious area of the mind. But, nevertheless, it was regarded by many of the more conservative authorities as an unwarrantable extension of psychological inquiry into a field which properly belonged to metaphysics. Schofield says: "So many psychologists—the high priests of the religion of mind— being committed so generally to deny and refuse any extension of it outside consciousness, though they cannot refrain from what Ribot calls ‘a sly glance’ at the forbidden fruit, consistently ignore the existence of the Unconscious, their pupils naturally treading in their steps; while the physician of the period, revelling in the multiplication and elaboration of physical methods of diagnosis and experiment, is led to despise and contemptuously set aside as ‘only fancy’ those psychical agencies which can cure, if they cannot diagnose. It may be asked, why was not an attempt made sooner to give these unconscious faculties their proper place? It was made determinedly years ago in Germany, and since then in England, by men who, to their honor undeterred by ridicule and contempt, made noble and partially successful efforts to establish the truth."

      But we may find many important references to this great unconscious area of mind in the writings of the earlier of the older writers on the subject in the Nineteenth Century. Sir William Hamilton, Lewes, Carpenter and others referred freely to it, and taught it as a truth of psychology. Lewes said: The teaching of most modern psychologists is that consciousness forms but a small item in the total of psychical processes. Unconscious sensations, ideas and judgments are made to play a great part in their explanations. It is very certain that in every conscious volition—every act that is so characterized—the larger part of it is quite unconscious. It is equally certain that in every perception there are unconscious processes of reproduction and inference,—there is a middle distance of subconsciousness, and a background of unconsciousness. Sir William Hamilton said: I do not hesitate to affirm that what we are conscious of is constructed out of what we are not conscious of—that our whole knowledge in fact is made up of the unknown and incognizable. The sphere of our consciousness is only a small circle in the centre of a far wider sphere of action and passion, of which we are only conscious through its effects…. The fact of such latent mental modifications is now established beyond a rational doubt; and, on the supposition of their reality, we are able to solve various psychological phenomena otherwise inexplicable.

      Taine said: Mental events imperceptible to consciousness are far more numerous than the others, and of the world which makes up our being we only perceive the highest points—the lighted­up peaks of a continent whose lower levels remain in the shade. Beneath ordinary sensations are their components— that is to say, the elementary sensations, which must be combined into groups to reach our consciousness. Outside a little luminous circle lies a large ring of twilight, and beyond this an indefinite night; but the events of this twilight and this night are as real as those within the luminous circle. Maudsley says: Examine closely, and without bias, the ordinary mental operations of daily life, and you will surely discover that consciousness has not one­tenth part of the function therein which it is commonly assumed to have…In every conscious state there are at work conscious, sub­conscious, and infra­conscious energies, the last as indispensable as the first.

      Kay said: Every impression or thought that has once been before consciousness remains ever after impressed in the mind. It may never again come up before consciousness, but it will doubtless remain in that vast ultra­conscious region of the mind, unconsciously moulding and fashioning our subsequent thoughts and actions. It is only a small part of what exists in the mind that we are at any time conscious of. There is always much that is known to be in the mind that exists in it unconsciously, and must be stored away somewhere. We may be able to recall it into consciousness when we wish to do so, but at other times the mind is unconscious of its existence.

      Morrell said: We have every reason to believe that mental power when once called forth follows the analogy of everything we see in the material universe in the fact of its perpetuity. Every single effort of mind is a creation which can never go back again into nonentity. It may slumber in the depths of forgetfulness as light and heat slumber in the coal seams, but there it is, ready at the bidding of some appropriate stimulus to come again out of the darkness into the light of consciousness…. What is termed ‘common sense’ is nothing but a substratum of experiences out of which our judgments flow, while the experiences themselves are hidden away in the unconscious depths of our intellectual nature; and even the flow of public opinion is formed by ideas which lie tacitly in the national mind, and come into consciousness, generally, a long time after they have been really operating and shaping the course of events in human history. Carpenter said: Man’s ordinary common­sense is the resultant of the unconscious co­ordination of a long succession of small experiences mostly forgotten, or perhaps never brought out into distinct consciousness.

      The study of the subject of Memory led many of the psychologists of the last generation to assume as a necessity the existence of a great unconscious storehouse in which all the records impressed upon the mind were preserved. Other branches of psychology forced their investigators to assume a great area of the mind, lying outside of the field of consciousness, to account for certain phenomena. And, so, gradually the idea of the existence of this undiscovered and unexplored country of the mind came to be accepted as orthodox by all except the ultra­conservatives, and investigation in the said direction was encouraged instead of discouraged or forbidden as has been the case previously. And arising from the thought on the subject of the un­conscious mind we find the evolving conception of there being various strata, planes, or regions of mind of varying stages of consciousness—that, instead of there being but one plane of consciousness, there were many—that instead of there being an unconscious region there was one, or more, additional plane of consciousness, operating under general laws and being as much a part of the general consciousness as is that plane which we speak of as the ordinary consciousness. This was the beginning of the various dual­mind theories, which we shall now consider.

      Chapter II.

      The Manifold Mind.

      Table of Content

      ARISING naturally from the speculations regarding the unconscious mind we find the conception of the dual­mind taking a prominent place on the stage of psychological consideration. From the idea of an unconscious area of mind was evolved the conception of two minds possessed by the individual, each independent and yet both working together in the production of mental phenomena. It is difficult to determine the beginning of this conception. Traces of it and vague hints regarding it may be found in many of the earlier writings. While there seems to have been a dawning conception of the subconscious mind as a separate mind on the part of many thinkers and writers in the latter part of the Twentieth Century, yet to two men must be given the credit of attracting the public notice to the

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