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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

or thought transference is primarily conditioned by the conscious life. The subconscious mind should therefore be studied as in every way as normal a function as eating or sleeping, with not the least suggestion of the occult or the uncanny.

The subconscious mind, then, is not a distinct mind; it is one phase of the general mental process. It embraces all that portion of our mental life which lies below the plane of conscious feeling, active thought, and will or volition. It is as much a part of one mind as the life of the plant below ground is a part of the same life which functions above ground, the difference being a difference in process. The above-ground life of the mind is attended by self-consciousness, that peculiar sentiment which differentiates every conscious mental state as belonging particularly to the ego or individual soul. When the soul is thus active, when the conscious mind feels, it not only feels but knows that it feels. It is likewise self-consciously aware of its thoughts and volitions. It gives conscious attention, for example, to an object moving before the eyes; it thinks about it; then chooses some line of conduct in relation to and suggested by it. While the mind is thus closely engaged, it cannot, of course, give an equal degree of attention to any other object. Our actively conscious life is limited to a single object or idea.

But this is not the whole mind. While the self-conscious process thus concentrates upon one object, it is more or less dimly aware of surrounding lights and shades, intrusive noes sensations and

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