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The Subconscious, the Subliminal and the Superconscious Influence on Our External Lives · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  When we are focused on our external being, we tend not to
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  recognize that forces unseen actually not only impact how and
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  what we perceive, understand and respond to impressions and
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  pressures, but actually very much define who we believe we
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  are. There are forces that are
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  subconscious to our external awareness, which send up
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  suggestions, thoughts, impulses, drives, habits and instincts
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  that drive our action. There are also forces super
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  conscient to our external awareness that help us see and
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  grow beyond the limits of our physical, vital mental
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  existence. If we look carefully at the
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  sources or seeds of our external reactions, we can begin to trace
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  back much of the way we act to specific vital or mental
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  patterns that human beings have brought forward from animal
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  nature. The very way we respond to
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  pressure, the fight or flight response, the pecking order
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  response, all come from an earlier stage of evolution and
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  remain active in our existing lives.
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  Even our evolved mental life is very much conditioned by past
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  habits of human thought as well as by social conditioning,
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  education and interactions we have.
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  As we experience our human childhood, it becomes difficult
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  to determine what is unique within us other than the
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  specific assemblage of these pre-existing and trained
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  responses that are packaged to represent a specific external
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  personality. There are also many elements
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  which are subliminal which act without our conscious attention.
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  Many of the metabolic functions, for instance, are not controlled
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  by our conscience, thought and will, but take place at a level
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  that is not easily perceptible by our waking mind at a certain
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  point. We also find that as individuals
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  grow and evolve, as they optimize the powers of body,
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  life and mind, they experience what can only be named a calling
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  to another focus in life direction.
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  They begin to reorient their actions and thoughts towards
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  this higher calling, a response to the pressure coming from
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  regions of awareness super conscient to our normal human
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  range of perception. Srioro Bindo writes quote this
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  subconscious is the evolutionary basis in US.
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  It is not the whole of our hidden nature, nor is it the
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  whole origin of what we are. But things can rise from the
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  subconscient and take shape in the conscious parts, and much of
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  our smaller vital and physical instincts, movements, habits,
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  character forms has this source. There are three occult sources
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  of our action, the superconscient, the subliminal,
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  the subconscient, but of none of them are we in control or even
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  aware. What we are aware of is the
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  surface being, which is only an instrumental arrangement.
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  The source of all is the general nature, universal nature,
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  individualizing itself in each person.
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  For this general nature deposits certain habits of movement,
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  personality, character, faculties, dispositions,
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  tendencies in US, and that, whether formed now or before our
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  birth, is what we usually call ourselves.
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  A good deal of this is in habitual movement and use in our
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  known conscious parts on the surface.
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  A great deal more is concealed in the other unknown 3 which are
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  below or behind the surface. End Quote.
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  Reference Sri Aurobindo Bases of Yoga, Chapter 5 Physical
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  Consciousness, Subconscious Sleep and Dream illness page 88.