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Interaction of the Powers of Consciousness in the Material World · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  While each power of consciousness, physical, vital,
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  mental, and others operates in its native mode, and strength in
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  its own plane or sphere of action, IT projects itself into
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  the world we inhabit by tying itself to the foundation of the
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  basic physical principle. This involves A watering down of
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  the native action of the power and question.
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  While also creating a mixing effect so that each level of
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  consciousness is not only attenuated but also forced to
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  interact with the other principles and thereby develop a
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  hybrid action, Sriorabindo writes Quote Each plane of our
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  being, mental, vital, physical, has its own consciousness,
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  separate though interconnected and interacting.
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  But to our outer mind and sense in our waking experience, they
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  are all confused together. There is the universal physical
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  consciousness of nature, and there is our own, which is a
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  part of it, moved by it and used by the central being for the
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  support of its expression in the physical world, and for a direct
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  dealing with all these external objects and movements and
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  forces. This physical consciousness
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  plane receives from the other planes their powers and
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  influences, and makes formations of them in its own province.
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  Therefore we have a physical mind as well as a vital mind and
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  the mind proper. We have a vital physical part in
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  us, the nervous being, as well as the vital proper, and both
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  are largely conditioned. By the gross material bodily
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  part, which is almost entirely subconscient to our experience.
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  End Quote reference Sriorobindo and the Mother Our Many Selves,
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  Practical Yogic Psychology, Chapter 2, Planes and Parts of
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  the Being, pages 14 to 15.