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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

as one may judge from personal experience, the subconscious mind is capable. The conscious mind furnishes the data, the disconnected observations, and random thoughts. This process sometimes continues for weeks or months, even years, before any result appears. Then the central principle is revealed, the general law which was all the time latent in these fragmentary data, the bearing of which the conscious mind did not detect. But when all the facts were supplied, when that particular mood ended, the subconscious mind took the subject under advisement. The only conscious concomitant observable was a sort of abstractedness, that feeling of mental fulness which the close observer of the subconscious process learns after a time to associate with the last stages of induction, the preparation to bring forth a general synthetic result.

The subconscious mind evidently does not assume the pyramid form. It is capable of carrying on multiform processes at once, and a given process or train of connected ideas is spread out inner impossible to the conscious mind because of the limitations of the latter process. In this spread-out form in which great stretches of data are seen, as it were, from a mountain top, it is possible for the light of induction to illumine the whole vast array. It is this inductive illumination which forthwith flashes into consciousness and reveals the law exemplified but unperceived in all the preceding months of study and meditation.

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