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The Subliminal, the Subconscient, the Superconscient and the Circumconscient Forces That Impact Our Responses to Life · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  Our surface awareness is basically the tip of the
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  iceberg. Most of what takes place in our
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  being occurs outside of the range of our active external
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  perception of the senses and mental awareness.
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  Even the interactions with the external reality we experience
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  represent only a small fraction of the input we are receiving
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  from that external reality. Our range of perception and
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  understanding is limited on all sides within a very narrow
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  framework. While forces, factors, and
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  influences from outside this range wind up impacting us, we
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  are simply blind to these forces and the ways in which they
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  influence how we perceive, respond to, and react to the
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  world around us. Much of what actually moves us
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  remains buried in subconscious memories, which can be triggered
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  based on appropriate circumstances impinging upon us.
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  It can be a sight, a scent, something we hear, or a location
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  we visit that somehow triggers reactions that we had no clue
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  were part of our being. We do not actually understand
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  most of the impulsions that we nevertheless adopt as our own
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  thoughts, feelings, emotions, ideas, concepts or directions,
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  Sri Aubindo writes in his epic poem Xavi Tree.
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  A legend and a symbol quote only a little of us foresees its
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  steps, only a little has will and purpose.
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  Pace, a vast subliminal is man's measureless part.
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  The dim subconscient is his cavern base, and a portion of us
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  lives in present time. A secret mass in dim
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  inconscience gropes out of the inconscient and subliminal
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  arisen. We live in minds, uncertain
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  light, and strive to know and master a dubious world whose
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  purpose and meaning are hidden from our sight.
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  Above us dwells A superconscient God hidden in the mystery of his
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  own light. Around us is a vast of ignorance
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  lit by the uncertain ray of human mind.
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  Below us sleeps the inconscient, dark and mute.
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  End Quote Reference Savitri, A Legend and a symbol.
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  Book 7. Canto 2.
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  Greater reference Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, The Hidden
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  Forces of Life, Chapter 2, Hidden Forces within page 28.