From the Unconscious to the Conscious 



Is it necessary to point out that it is impossible to 

 find cerebral localisations for subconscious faculties ? 

 When the entire want of psycho-physiological parallelism 

 in all subconscious action is borne in mind, even the 

 search for it in this instance will seem absurd, a -priori. 

 Let us pass on. 



7. ABSENCE OF PARALLELISM BETWEEN THE SENSORIAL 



AND THE SUBCONSCIOUS POWERS 



It is affirmed that ' psychical activity is narrowly 

 conditioned by the extent of organic capacity. It is 

 strictly inseparable from it. The material which the 

 intelligence uses comes to it from the senses. The range 

 of the senses therefore limits the range of psychism.' 



There are as many errors as words in this, so far as 

 the subconscious is concerned. 



The origin of subconscious capacities is not sensorial, 

 for these capacities are inborn. The range of sub- 

 conscious capacities transcends in every direction the 

 categories of the sensorial powers. 



The higher inspiration, intuition, and genius, are 

 totally independent of acquired knowledge. 



8. ABSENCE OF PARALLELISM BETWEEN ORGANIC 



CAPACITY AND THE SUPERNORMAL SUBCONSCIOUS- 

 NESS 



Supernormal facts prove finally that the subconscious 

 psychism outranges all the organic capacities, since it 

 manifests itself without their aid or even altogether 

 externally to them. 



The phenomena of materialisation, described in 

 Chapter II., show a dynamo-psychism actually separable 

 from the organism. We have here the absolute negation 

 of classical parallelism. 



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