From the Unconscious to the Conscious 



and of the full control by the Self. Ideas pass through 

 the mind according to habitual associations and affinities, 

 and the Self looks on as at a play; not interfering unless 

 to set aside a disturbing idea from time to time, to direct 

 ideas in a prescribed sense, or to make imaginative 

 additions. 



In order that intellectual work may reach its greatest 

 output and to ensure the full collaboration and direction 

 by the superior and extra-cerebral psychism, it is neces- 

 sary that there should be some relaxation in the centralised 

 direction of the individual grouping. 



It is for this reason that the extension of sub- 

 conscious collaboration and the occurrence of inspiration 

 are nearly always associated with the abnormal and 

 neuropathic states which this momentary and relative 

 decentralisation brings about. 



Now and then it seems that the limitation imposed 

 by cerebration is broken through; then the higher 

 faculties appear, but these will always be impeded or 

 even diverted by the alternations between effort (i.e. 

 centralised action), and relaxation of the synthesis, 

 which latter implies relaxation of cerebral limitations. 



Crypto-psychism and cryptomnesia, so incompre- 

 hensible as mere cerebral faculties, are readily explained 

 by the fact of the higher subconscious psychism. Though 

 not directly accessible to the will and knowledge of the 

 person, which are normally bounded by cerebral limita- 

 tions, they none the less contribute greatly, though in 

 an occult fashion, to the extension of the field of 

 psychic activity, of which they constitute the main 

 part. 



Innate proclivities, powers which are not inherited, 

 inspiration, talent, or genius appearing apart from 

 voluntary work, are all explicable by the essential nature 

 of the subconscious psychism and the part it plays in 

 the origin, the development, and the functioning of the 

 normal individual. 



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