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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

harmonises with gradual evolution and the rhythmic functioning of the body. The prime essential is the discovery that one has a subconscious mind, or rather that the soul functions subconsciously, never wholly ceases to be active. The discovery once made, it rests with the observer to choose what types of consciousness shall be most persistently cultivated.

Some occultists make it a point to recall their dreams from subconsciousness. Some claim that the soul travels during sleep. But these experiences, if possible, may be overcome by those who desire to become wholly normal and reposeful. In my own case, dreams have failed to teach me anything except in two instances, and in neither of these was there any evidence that the soul travelled. My own experience also shows that as equanimity grows, dreams come less and less frequently, until finally they cease, except in cases of extreme fatigue.

Of sleep, F. W. H. Myers says ': " I regard sleep as an alternating phase of our personality, distinguished from the waking phase by the shutting off of the supraliminal [conscious] attention upon the profounder organic life. To sleep's concentrated inward attention I ascribe its unique recuperative power. . . . In waking consciousness I am like the proprietor of a factory whose machinery I do not understand. My foreman—my subliminal self

(1) Proeeedings of the Society for Psychical Research. part xxxiv., P. 107.
(2) Myers uses this term instead of "subconsciousness."

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