The Inner Consciousness

THE INNER CONSCIOUSNESS

"...every conscious state there are at work conscious, subconscious, and infraconscious infraconscious: mental activities occurring below the level of conscious awareness; similar to "subconscious" energies; the last are as indispensable as the first.”

It is now known that “inner-conscious” ideas, impressions, and thoughts play a most important part in the thought-world of every individual. Beyond every outer-conscious action, there may be found a vast inner-conscious background. It is held that of our entire mental processes, less than ten percent are performed in the field of outer consciousness. As a well-known writer has so well expressed it: “Our self is greater than we know; it has peaks above and lowlands below the plateau of our conscious experience.”

Professor Elmer Gates Elmer Gates (1859–1923) was an American psychologist and inventor who proposed that mental activity could physically change the structure of the brain and that the majority of human thought occurs without conscious effort. has forcibly put it: “At least ninety percent of our mental life is subconscious. If you analyze your mental operations, you will find that conscious thinking is never a continuous line of consciousness, but a series of conscious data with great intervals of subconsciousness. We sit and try to solve a problem and fail. We walk around, try again and fail. Suddenly, an idea dawns that leads to a solution of the problem. The subconscious processes were at work. We do not intentionally original: "volitionally" create our own thinking. It takes place within us. We are more or less passive recipients. We cannot change the nature of a thought, or of a truth, but we can, as it were, guide the ship by moving the helm.”