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Preface - Introduction - The New Point of View - Educational Ideals - Equanimity - The Subconscious Mind - The Spiritual Ideal in Childhood - An Experiment in Education - The Expression of the Spirit - An Ideal Summer Conference - The Ministry of the Spirit - The Mystery of Pain and Evil - The Philosophical Ideal - The Criteria of Truth - Organic Perfection - Immortality - Index - p. 247

superficially and in passing that regulates our lives, but the habitual state of our organisms as centres either of nervous discord or of harmonious adjustment. It is the deep undercurrent of life which sways us, and this is the synthesis of all we have thought and done in the past; it is thought and character made continuously dynamic.

It is still too early, perhaps, to formulate a wholly satisfactory theory of the subconscious mind. It is only recently that the subject has received scientific consideration, and the data of psychical research promise to be so rich that it will be long before there are established conclusions accepted by great numbers of scientific men. The literature of the subject is still in its formative period. There are any books on suggestion, hypnotism, and psychology in which subconsciousness is briefly treated, but no work which adequately considers the entire subject. ¹

Meanwhile, each observer has a wonderful laboratory in his own consciousness, where the deep activities of the mind may easily be studied without reference either to spiritistic or other occult phenomena. For the subconscious mind, whatever else it is, is first individual: it partakes of the characteristics of the particular temperament. Whatever may affect it during sleep, mediumship, hypnosis,

(1) For a statement of the various points of view consult Janet, L'Automatisms Psychologique; Hudson, The Law of Psychic Phenomena, (McClurg); Dr. H. T. Schofield, The Unconscious Mind (New York; Funk & Wagnalls); and the Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research (3 Boylston Place, Boston).

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