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Three Occult Sources of Our Action · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  Human beings have a limited range of perception with
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  boundaries both above and below the vibrational thresholds that
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  we can consciously receive. We know of various animals that
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  can perceive things in ranges above or below the human levels
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  of perception with respect to sound, light, scent, etc.
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  And we are aware that the spectrum of vibrations far
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  exceeds our limited range and is not limited solely to sense
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  perceptions. What we do not generally
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  acknowledge is that vibrational patterns that take place above
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  or below our perceptive range actually can and do influence
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  our existence, our thoughts, emotions, feelings, and physical
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  responses to circumstances. Although we will acknowledge
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  that at the physical level, UV or infrared waves can harm our
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  physical bodies, provoke growth of cancerous cells, or cause
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  blindness, Sri Aurobindo refers to three occult sources that
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  impact us. These are sources other than
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  those we directly perceive and acknowledge with our senses.
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  These can be vibrations in the electromagnetic spectrum or
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  vibrations from forces active at those levels as their native
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  realms with consciousness, intention, and will.
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  Super conscient refers to those vibrational patterns and forces
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  that take place at a higher vibration than what we can
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  perceive. Subliminal implies forces that
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  are within our normal range but do not gain sufficient notice,
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  either through our own inattention, the filtering
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  process our brains use to limit extraneous information, or
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  through insufficient force of the vibration to create an act
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  of perception. The all or nothing phenomenon in
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  our eyes is such a situation. Photons of light may be
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  impinging on our visual sense, but until a certain quanta of
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  photons are active, we do not perceive the action of the light
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  as the senses are not yet triggered to acknowledge them.
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  Once the sufficient impulse is received, we suddenly
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  acknowledge the presence of the light.
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  Subconscient refers to those things that vibrate below our
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  level of perception. Much of the long standing,
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  habitual, and instinctive reactions comes from this
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  subconscious level. The flow of forces throughout
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  the universal creation are constantly working upon,
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  impacting, and influencing us, and, as we become habituated to
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  specific vibrational patterns, set ourselves up to acknowledge
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  them, receive them, and respond to them.
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  We create habits or grooves of behavior that we identify as our
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  personality, as who we are, and as what sets us apart from
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  others with a unique individuality.
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  This habituation process also tends to further limit our
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  ability to recognize and experience vibrational patterns
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  that fall outside of our habitual range, even if they
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  happen to fit generally within our human perceptive range.
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  Shriorobindo writes, Quote There are three occult sources of our
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  action, the superconcient, the subliminal, the subconcient.
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  But of none of them are we in control or even aware.
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  What we are aware of is the surface being, which is only an
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  instrumental arrangement. The source of all is that
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  general nature, universal nature, individualizing itself
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  in each person. For this general nature deposits
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  certain habits of movement, personality, character,
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  faculties, dispositions, tendencies in US, and that
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  whether form now or before our birth, is what we usually call
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  ourselves. A good deal of this is in
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  habitual movement and use in our known conscious parts on the
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  surface. A great deal more is concealed
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  in the other unknown 3, which are below or behind the surface.
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  But what we are on the surface is being constantly set in
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  motion, changed, developed, or repeated by the waves of the
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  general nature coming in on us, either directly or else
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  indirectly, through others, through circumstances, through
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  various agencies or channels. Some of this flows straight into
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  the conscious parts and acts there, but our mind ignores its
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  source, appropriates it, and regards all that as its own.
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  A part comes secretly into the subcontinent, or sinks into it,
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  and waits for an opportunity of rising up into the conscious
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  surface. A good deal goes into the
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  subliminal, and may at any time come out, or may not, may rather
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  rest there as unused matter part passes through and is rejected,
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  thrown back, or thrown out, or spilt into the universal sea.
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  Our nature is a constant activity of forces supplied to
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  us, out of which, or rather out of a small amount of it, we
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  make. What we will or can.
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  What we make seems fixed in form for good, but in reality it is
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  all a play of forces, a flux, nothing fixed or stable.
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  The appearance of stability is given by constant repetition and
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  recurrence of the same vibrations and formations.
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  End Quote Reference Sri Arobindo and the Mother, The Hidden
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  Forces of Life, Chapter 2, Hidden Forces within pages 32 to
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  33.