, From the Unconscious to the Conscious 



Scnsorial manifestations All these phenomena are 

 outside the organs of explicable by the action 

 sense : mysterious. of the vital dynamism act- 



Motor manifestations out- ing outside the organism, 

 side the muscular sys- This dynamism conditions 

 tern: mysterious. the organism in place of 



Ideoplastic manifestations: being conditioned by it. 

 mysterious. It can therefore separate 



Materialisations: itself from it, and even 



mysterious. partially disorganise and 

 reorganise it in diverse 

 forms and representations. 



It is clear that the mystery in which physiology 

 was enveloped is in some measure dispelled; the triple 

 concept of the unity of substance, the organising 

 dynamism, and the conditioning of this latter by the 

 Idea, enables us to make a decided step towards truth. 



But how much still remains unknown! 



What are the origin, the end, and the exact nature 

 of this dynamo-psychism which organises, centralises 

 and directs the cellular complex ? How does this 

 mysterious dynamo-psychism exist potentially in the 

 fertilised ovum, in the cutting, or in the bud, whence a 

 new creature will grow ? What, in a word, is its exact 

 relation to all vital process ? We have spoken of ideo- 

 plastic power. But what exactly is this power ? The 

 directing idea, and the ideoplastic capacities which 

 normal and supernormal physiology reveal, do not 

 depend on the consciousness in which we are accustomed 

 to sum up and localise our ' Self.' They arise from the 

 depths of a mysterious and impenetrable unconscious- 

 ness. 



The conscious directing will of our being has no 

 action on the great organic functions, and does not come 

 into play for the ideoplastic materialisations. These, 

 produced at the expense of the substance of the organism, 



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