From the Unconscious to the Conscious 



1. No correlation between anatomic physiology and 



metapsychic manifestations. 



2. Metapsychic activity is in the inverse ratio to 



functional activity. 



3. Metapsychic activity (sensorial, dynamic, motor, 



intellectual, or ideoplastic) is separable from 



the organism. 



It may be affirmed without reserve, that everything 

 happens as if there were no psycho-physiological parallel- 

 ism for the supernormal subconsciousness. 



9. THE SUBCONSCIOUS OUTRANGES THE ORGANISM AND 



CONDITIONS IT 



The subconscious carries internal proof of this 

 truth. Not only do its manifestations, in fact, transcend 

 all dynamic and material contingencies, but it also 

 conditions them. 



We have seen this in psychology, for the conscious 

 psychism is but the smaller part of the whole, and is 

 actually conditioned by that subconscious psychism 

 which is the very foundation of the thinking being and 

 his essential characteristic. 



This is still more evident in physiology. It has 

 already been demonstrated that the organic substance 

 is resolvable into a superior dynamism, which has its 

 directive Idea in the subconscious. The subconscious 

 directive Idea shows itself even able, in supernormal 

 states, temporarily to disintegrate organic substance and 

 to reorganise it in new representations. It is therefore 

 certain that the organism, far from being generative 

 of the Idea, as the materialist theory teaches, is, on the 

 contrary, conditioned by the Idea. The organism 

 appears as only an ideoplastic product of that which is 

 essential in the being, that is, of its subconscious psychism. 



But even this is not all. 



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