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The Levels of Consciousness
To establish a better understanding of consciousness, we need to have a clearer concept of the levels of man's mind. It is easy to observe man’s waking conscious mind. The mind is always conscious on some level, though man is not always consciously aware of it. He usually is only aware of the waking conscious portion – but this is a shallow concept of consciousness.
The study of the mind's levels — the waking conscious, the subconscious, the superconscious and the Wisdom Mind -- will require careful consideration. It will be of benefit to separate the information into segments so that the eye can more easily "see" what the conscious mind is attempting to comprehend.
1. The waking conscious mind is the mind we use in our daily living. It perceives the incidents of
passing time as marked by our every day.
2. The subconscious mind is a portion of the superconscious. This subconscious substance is
divided in its function: {a) it automatically controls the functions of the physical form; (b) it is
the portion of the superconscious which stores memories of fears and phobias, and brings
them into the waking conscious mind.
3. The Superconscious mind holds life's entire library of experience. It is man's book of life and
judgment in one. It is divided into three principal aspects: (a) the waking conscious mind,
(b) the subconscious mind, (c) the causal force field.
4. The Wisdom Mind sometimes called Adi-budha, the Supreme Wisdom, is the field of
consciousness which, overshadowing each individual, is the home of the Monad, the seat of
incomparable bliss where truth abides.
The study of the mind's levels — the waking conscious, the subconscious, the superconscious and the Wisdom Mind -- will require careful consideration. It will be of benefit to separate the information into segments so that the eye can more easily "see" what the conscious mind is attempting to comprehend.
1. The waking conscious mind is the mind we use in our daily living. It perceives the incidents of
passing time as marked by our every day.
2. The subconscious mind is a portion of the superconscious. This subconscious substance is
divided in its function: {a) it automatically controls the functions of the physical form; (b) it is
the portion of the superconscious which stores memories of fears and phobias, and brings
them into the waking conscious mind.
3. The Superconscious mind holds life's entire library of experience. It is man's book of life and
judgment in one. It is divided into three principal aspects: (a) the waking conscious mind,
(b) the subconscious mind, (c) the causal force field.
4. The Wisdom Mind sometimes called Adi-budha, the Supreme Wisdom, is the field of
consciousness which, overshadowing each individual, is the home of the Monad, the seat of
incomparable bliss where truth abides.
THE WAKING CONSCIOUS MIND
The seat of the waking conscious mind is the pineal gland which houses the mental seed atom. The pineal is also the terminal point of the consciousness cord which extends between the brain and the causal superconscious force field above the head.
The nadis, or etheric nerve threads which project into the mental field, flow into cells located in the posterior and central part of the cerebral cortex where we discover all the sense centers — the sight center in the occipital lobe, the hearing center in the temporal lobe, the speech center, the sleep center, etc,
The waking conscious mind operates through the cerebrospinal nervous system. This mind, experiencing some incident affecting the senses -- those of seeing, hearing, tasting, feeling and smelling — registers a mental impulse which strikes a cell of the brain and travels into the superconscious force field via the nadis. There it is relegated to its proper file --the causal force field, the subconscious or the waking conscious force field, according to its emotional vibration.
To bring the memory of the incident again into the waking conscious mind from the memory storehouse in the superconscious, a mental impulse, triggered by sense sensations, strikes the mind substance in the superconscious force field setting up a responding vibration. The impulse travels down the etheric cord of the nadis to strike a specific brain cell or center to which the etheric cord is attached. The vibration in the superconscious sets up the same vibration in the brain center. The brain center responds to the vibration in the mental substance — and man remembers.
It is like tones on the musical scale - A tone is sounded in the mind substance which sends its vibratory impulse down through the etheric thread, connecting it to the brain center. The responsive neuron in turn vibrates to and echoes the tone.
The brain has no power in or of itself to think or to remember. Memories are not stored in the brain cells but these cells react to impulses reaching them from both the upper reaches of the superconscious mind and from the world around you. The brain is only a way station through which memories or impulses flow.
The seat of the waking conscious mind is the pineal gland which houses the mental seed atom. The pineal is also the terminal point of the consciousness cord which extends between the brain and the causal superconscious force field above the head.
The nadis, or etheric nerve threads which project into the mental field, flow into cells located in the posterior and central part of the cerebral cortex where we discover all the sense centers — the sight center in the occipital lobe, the hearing center in the temporal lobe, the speech center, the sleep center, etc,
The waking conscious mind operates through the cerebrospinal nervous system. This mind, experiencing some incident affecting the senses -- those of seeing, hearing, tasting, feeling and smelling — registers a mental impulse which strikes a cell of the brain and travels into the superconscious force field via the nadis. There it is relegated to its proper file --the causal force field, the subconscious or the waking conscious force field, according to its emotional vibration.
To bring the memory of the incident again into the waking conscious mind from the memory storehouse in the superconscious, a mental impulse, triggered by sense sensations, strikes the mind substance in the superconscious force field setting up a responding vibration. The impulse travels down the etheric cord of the nadis to strike a specific brain cell or center to which the etheric cord is attached. The vibration in the superconscious sets up the same vibration in the brain center. The brain center responds to the vibration in the mental substance — and man remembers.
It is like tones on the musical scale - A tone is sounded in the mind substance which sends its vibratory impulse down through the etheric thread, connecting it to the brain center. The responsive neuron in turn vibrates to and echoes the tone.
The brain has no power in or of itself to think or to remember. Memories are not stored in the brain cells but these cells react to impulses reaching them from both the upper reaches of the superconscious mind and from the world around you. The brain is only a way station through which memories or impulses flow.
The Mind and Karma
The question now arises: from where do the dark phobias of the mind come from? — The unexplained complexes?
The answer itself is complex. It can be explain better by using an example: Some neurotics suffer, let us say, from an unexplainable and constantly returning fear, which reaction builds a brain center in a particular brain cell or neuron. These obsessions rise out of the subconscious force field and flow into the brain cells of the frontal lobe, but only as the heart seed atom sends impulses into the brain cells to activate the flow of these memories. Remember, the subconscious actually is a part of the superconscious force field — that portion where all the fears and phobias are stored.
The picture images flow out of the heart seed atom and, carried by the blood, strike the brain cells which contain the etheric thread upon which is recorded this particular fear. The impact stimulates this brain center to discharge electrical impulses, activating a flow of mental ether out of the subconscious where the fear is recorded as a memory. The "fear" image flows downward from the subconscious field to strike the brain center and the personality "remembers" the "fear™ episode. If the fear is recalled often enough to create a permanent brain center, a phobia or an obsession results. It would seem that man is caught in a self- created mental hell.
THE SUBCONSCIOUS MTND
The subconscious is divided in its operations:
1. That which operates through the sympathetic nervous system, automatically controlling the
functions of the physical form — the heartbeat, breathing, etc -
2. That which operates through the cerebrospinal, bringing the memories of fears and phobias
into the waking conscious mind.
Superconscious mind substance flows through the subconscious force field into the frontal lobe of the cerebral cortex of the brain to converge in the pituitary gland. The pituitary, possessing two lobes, is also divided in its operation:
a. The frontal or anterior lobe is connected with the sympathetic nervous system. This anterior
pituitary, operating through the sympathetic, automatically controls the functions of the
physical form -- but only as directed by the heart seed atom, releasing picture images of
past karma.
b- The rear lobe, called the post-lobe, is connected with the cerebrospinal and the waking
conscious mind, and also with the solar plexus atom which constantly releases karmic
images being presently created through man's carnal desires.
Thus man's subconscious activities are definitely controlled by his past karma and by the karma he creates daily.
Let us consider first that portion of the subconscious which causes the functions of the physical form to operate automatically without any conscious thought - respiration, circulation, digestion, etc. This aspect of the subconscious is completely under the dominion of the life cord which extends from the Monad to the heart.
Prom the anterior lobe of pituitary, the subconscious mind substance travels downward through the sympathetic system which converges in the solar plexus brain, and again in the root brain.
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Karma - - Past and Present
The Subconscious mind substance flows out of the superxonscious field into the frontal lobe to converge into the pituitary. The pituitary controls the subconscious operations but only as directed by the heart seed atom releasing picture images of past karma and the solar plexus atom releasing karmic images being presently created.
The Subconscious mind substance flows out of the superxonscious field into the frontal lobe to converge into the pituitary. The pituitary controls the subconscious operations but only as directed by the heart seed atom releasing picture images of past karma and the solar plexus atom releasing karmic images being presently created.
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Both lobes of pituitary and the root brain in the reproductive center are, at man's present stage of evolution, subject to influence by the subconscious mind operating through the sympathetic nervous system. The pituitary releases the flow of chemical substances which cause the entire glandular system to release the proper hormones throughout the physical form.
Let us now consider the second aspect of the subconscious. We have already said that the subconscious mind substance flows out of the superconscious force field of which it is a part, into the frontal lobe of the brain to converge in the anterior lobe of the pituitary gland - We have said, too, that the subconscious is that portion of the superconscious which is the "filing cabinet" of all man's fears and phobias.
Let us say that the heart seed atom releases picture images of a fear episode. The impulse travels to the frontal lobe of the brain. There the impulse strikes a brain cell through which passes a thread of mental reflecting ether upon which is "recorded" this same fear episode. The stimulated brain cell projects the picture of the episode into the force field of the subconscious via the nadis thread of ether and the memory of the episode pours into the consciousness,
It would seem, then, that man has two "files" of memories; that which is stored in the superconscious force field and that which is recorded in the heart seed atom. It is well to explain that they are duplicate records. That which is recorded in the heart seed atom simply reflects that which is recorded in the akashic record of the superconscious.
It is out of this heart atom that the picture images of karma move into the blood stream to be carried through man's physical form. Thus it is through the seed atom that recorded karma is dissipated. "Erasing” the karmic record from the heart atom also erases it from the cells in the frontal, lobe of the cerebral cortex of the brain, seat of the subconscious — or rather, from the nadis which contain a record of the memory and which is "coiled" in the cells of the frontal lobe.
It is well to remember that as man's fears and phobias are gradually removed from these cells, more and more superconscious mind power can strike them until this frontal lobe, aligning with the Third Eye, ultimately becomes the seat of the superconscious.
Also, with the dissolution of the etheric web which now divides the post-lobe of pituitary from the anterior lobe, superconscious impulses and impressions can flow into the frontal lobe of the brain.
With the dissolution of this web, the force of the superconscious will pour more of its power directly into the entire pituitary. Future man then will experience little influence from this aspect of the subconscious — the fears and the phobias — they being dissolved with the purification of the heart seed atom.
With the dissolution of this web, the force of the superconscious will pour more of its power directly into the entire pituitary. Future man then will experience little influence from this aspect of the subconscious — the fears and the phobias — they being dissolved with the purification of the heart seed atom.
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