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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

The subconscious mind is not, then, a separate mind, as Hudson contends. There is no sharp division between objective and subjective. Such divisions are always artificial, hypothetical, not natural. In nature, process insensibly blends with process, as colour blends with colour in the spectrum. Thus do the planes of consciousness blend. Physical sensation shades into perception by a process so subtle that no psychological examination can detect the transition. Perception leads to thought, and thought tends to become volition. There is no such mental experience as mere sensation, mere intellection, or mere will. These and all other terms employed by psychology to describe mental states simply denote certain conditions in which a particular phase of consciousness is more prominent than those states with which it is associated.

In the same way our intellectual processes blend with our moral and spiritual consciousness. The fact of telepathy does not mean the presence in us of another mind, but only another phase of consciousness. All these phases may become subconscious. Subconsciousness is one phase only of our total consciousness. All phases of consciousness, physical, intellectual, moral, psychic, and spiritual, self-consciousness, the so-called superconscious, and the subconscious mind, belong to one soul, whose many-sidedness enables it to function on all these varying, yet interrelated and blending planes.

Some might allege that there are two minds because we have "two selves" in us. But the

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