From the Unconscious to the Conscious 



the animal, where it appears as instinct, it acquires in 

 man the higher aspect of genius. 



The subconscious reveals itself not by inspiration 

 and intuition alone, but also by frequent intrusions of 

 emotional, aesthetic, or religious thought. Unexpected 

 decisions, abrupt changes of opinion, many unreasoned 

 feelings, originate largely in subconsciousness or from 

 subconscious collaboration. 



Who can say if even some ideas which seem to us 

 the result of reason, may not be the flowering of an 

 invisible and subconscious growth ? 



Finally, all the foundations of our being, that which 

 is the principal part of the Self, innate capacities, good 

 or bad dispositions, character all that makes the 

 essential difference between one mind and another all 

 that is not the results of personal effort, of education, 

 or of surrounding examples, are modes of subconscious- 

 ness. 



Effort, education, and surrounding examples may 

 develop that which is inborn and essential, they cannot 

 create it. The subconsciousness whose activity con- 

 stitutes that cryptopsychism whose far-reaching effects 

 we have reviewed, is the innate and essential groundwork 

 of our being. 



2. CRYPTOMNESIA 



CRYPTOMNESIA the subconscious memory follows 

 naturally on cryptopsychism. 



In point of fact, the subconscious not only contains 

 that which is psychically essential in the Self; it also 

 preserves and conceals all that the Self seems to have 

 acquired by conscious psychic action in the course of 

 existence. 



It does not forget; it keeps all, integrally. 



Cryptomnesia may be observed both in normal and 



