The Inner Consciousness

LESSON II.

THE PLANES OF CONSCIOUSNESS.

As we saw in the previous chapter, many prominent thinkers have recognized the existence and behaviors of certain Planes of Consciousness: different levels or states of mental awareness that exist beyond our everyday waking state. that lie outside (either below or above) the ordinary field of consciousness. If we set aside the various names and terms that have been applied to these fields of "inner consciousness" as unimportant, we can easily find common ground among all the experts original: "authorities". It is true that the subject has become somewhat clouded by certain investigators insisting on specific details of their own theories, but they all practically agree on the fundamental facts and phenomena. It is upon these basic and essential truths that we will base the arguments presented in this small book.

The student of psychology has heard much during the past decade regarding many theories—some of them quite fantastic—designed to account for and explain the behaviors that science has found to exist, which it has classified as belonging to the inner-conscious: mental activities occurring outside of our immediate, active awareness. plane of mental activity. Some of the theories advanced to account for the known facts and observed phenomena have attracted to their