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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

thoughts arising from within. There is thus a gradual transition from the chosen object of thought to the dimly perceived, the indistinct, and finally to the subconscious, or that of which we are not at the time aware at all. That all these minor objects are, however, noted more or less vividly by the semiconscious mind, is proved by the fact that when the mind relaxes the intensity of its concentration, it can, by an effort of will, recall events which happened while the attention was absorbed in the chosen direction.

Sometimes when reading aloud to a friend, one will suddenly discover that one has read half a page almost without knowing it. An attractive idea sent the mind off on a train of thinking of its own. This, for the time being, was the object of actively conscious thought, and the mind forgot that it was reading. After a moment or two the reverie becomes less pointed, and the mind has an opportunity to discover that the attention has wandered. But that a part of the mind was still absorbed in the reading is proved by the fact that the friend was not awe of the momentary shifting of conscious attention. It is in this way that all the phenomena which occur below the actively conscious point are discovered. Strictly speaking, we are never aware of our subconscious life; we know the subconscious only to far as it becomes conscious; we know it by inference, by retrospect, and by its effect on the mind and body.

In a normal state, for example, all the functions

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