The Inner Consciousness

is not a separate "Mind," as some claim, or the "Real Mind" as most people consider it. Instead, it is merely a "department" of the entire mental enterprise. In this department, the goods—articles in storage and products manufactured in other departments and workshops—are sorted, selected, packed, and sent out original: "expressed" to the outer world. If you keep this illustration in mind, you will easily be able to understand and consider the facts we will bring to your attention in the following lessons.

Now, you can see why we have adopted the term "The Inner Consciousness." It applies to both the higher and lower levels of mental activities that occur outside our normal awareness—what we call the "extra-conscious." The term "inner" simply means "further in," "interior," or "internal" as opposed to "outer." The word "Consciousness" itself is difficult to define precisely. In a general sense, it means "mental awareness." However, we have stuck to a stricter meaning of the term: the "awareness of mental action and energy," or the quality by which a mind in action is "aware" of its own activities.

There can be no mental activity without consciousness on some level; therefore, using the word "unconscious" The author argues against the psychological term "unconscious mind," preferring to see all mental states as conscious on different planes regarding mental activity is an absurdity. There is consciousness, to some degree and on some level, in everything—from the atom and electron This reflects a philosophical view called panpsychism, popular in some early 20th-century spiritual circles, which suggests that even subatomic particles possess a rudimentary form of awareness to the highest manifestation of a super-human mind. And what we call our "Outer Consciousness,"