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Mind and Its Origin

POLARITY OF MIND: Mind goes through the same process as all energy. At its Source of concentration, in its positive pole, it is brilliant, super conscious and of high, intense activity. As the energy flow leaves this Source as radiant energy lines of force, it loses momentum, intensity and consciousness in proportion to the square of the distance of travel.[1] At the end of its travel, or the negative pole, which is in crystallization and matter, it has lost its intensity and consciousness.

THE UNCONSCIOUS OR SUBCONSCIOUS PHASE OF MIND is its activity in matter and form; crystallizing, rearranging and preserving function and flow, to keep the form alive. This is the phase we call Nature. In the body, the Vegetative Nervous System [autonomic nervous system] covers the major part of this function and links it with the larger field of Universal Mind and Matter. The flow of the four elements as energy fields is but the finer aspect of the exchange of solids, liquids, gases and energy or heat, with Nature outside.

Definite impressions on this phase of mind will be carried out, whether it is by the conscious mind of the person in the body, or by outside influence and conditioning.

Here lies the whole field of Suggestion, Hypnotism, Magnetic and Mesmeric influence, and all lower psychic impressions and controls. How great this darkness can be, in the absence of Light!

All psychic phenomena work through the five great plexuses of the Sympathetic Nervous System, also called the Vegetative Nervous System [autonomic nervous system].[2] The Hindus called these plexuses 'Chakras' or 'wheels' of revolving psychic energy. In ancient times there was a science of conscious development and control of these forces, taught especially in India. It started with the lowest center called the 'Muladhara Chakra', and step by step the energy was lifted up to the center of consciousness, between the eyes.

THE CONSCIOUS MIND has its place in the middle field of Mind Function. This is half way between the Ideal or Pattern World, and its negative pole in matter, called the Subconscious. The Conscious Mind has its seat in the center of the cerebrum, and functions through it as the governor of all voluntary actions and perceptions. It reaches up to the Superconscious or Ideal Mind for its inspiration, and influences the Subconscious. In the process called sleep, the Conscious Mind recedes into the Subconscious, the Sympathetic Nerve Plexuses; thus producing sleep and Unconsciousness. At that time the total energy is used

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1 The inverse-square law of physics.
2 The autonomic nervous system is made up of the sympathetic (fight or flight) and the parasympathetic (rest and digest) nervous systems. In some descriptions, the enteric (gastrointestinal) nervous system is also included as a distinct system.

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