Chapter 7The Environmental Consciousness and the · Dealing with the Subconscient

As for the subconscient that is best dealt with when the opening of the consciousness to what comes down from above is complete. Then one becomes aware of the subconscient as a separate domain and can bring down into it the silence and all else that comes from above.

* The subconscient can be entirely dealt with only when the other parts are sufficiently open and changed — but meanwhile it can feel the pressure of the change in the mind and vital.

* The conscious parts have to be prepared first — impossible to deal successfully with the subconscient till then, except in points and details. Just as the musician has first to learn the right principle and execution of his music with his mind and vital (aesthetic) perception and will — and teach his fingers to execute it — afterwards the subconscient in his fingers will learn its work and do the right thing of itself — e.g. touching the right keys without his eyes having to follow.

* These [vital and physical weaknesses] are symptoms and feelings that can easily come in the period when the subconscient is being dealt with — tamas, age, decay, illness, death, weakness, inertia, the mechanical play (as if the inevitable round of a machine) of the lower vital have their seeds in the subconscient and when the subconscient rises up in its native power, these threaten to rise with them. Never consent to the attack or allow the faith and the will to go down before them. Affirm always the higher Truth against them and call down the Power and Light into the cells, into the whole body and plunge them into the subphysical below the body so that the very roots of the subconscient may get illuminated and change. It is only by doing this that realisation in the body will become possible.

* It [insincerity in the vital] can only be dangerous if the waking mind accepts it. All the same, so long as it remains in the sub-conscient, it keeps a seed of possibility — so it must be got out altogether.

* Just as one can concentrate the thought on an object or the vision on a point, so one can concentrate will on a particular part or point of the body and give an order to the consciousness there. That order reaches the subconscient.