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The Eighth Lesson: The Highlands and Lowlands of Mind.611
the Truth, even if it has to blaze a new trail through the woods, departing
from the beaten tracks of other minds around it, which lack the courage or
enterprise to strike out for themselves.
Dr. Schofield writes: “The mind, indeed, reaches all the way, and while
on the one hand it is inspired by the Almighty, on the other it energizes the
body, all whose purposive life it originates. We may call the supra-conscious
mind the sphere of the spirit life, the sub-conscious the sphere of the body
life, and the conscious mind the middle region where both meet.”
Continuing, Dr. Schofield says: “The Spirit of God is said to dwell in
believers, and yet, as we have seen. His presence is not the subject of direct
consciousness. We would include, therefore, in the supra-conscious, all
such spiritual ideas, together with conscience—the voice of God, as Max
Muller calls it—which is surely a half-conscious faculty. Moreover, the supraconscious,
like the sub-conscious, is, as we have said, best apprehended
when the conscious mind is not active. Visions, meditations, prayers, and
even dreams have been undoubtedly occasions of spiritual revelations, and
many instances may be adduced as illustrations of the workings of the Spirit
apart from the action of reason or mind. The truth apparently is that the mind
as a whole is an unconscious state, by that its middle registers, excluding the
highest spiritual and lowest physical manifestations, are fitfully illuminated
in varying degree by consciousness; and that it is to this illuminated part
of the dial that the word “mind,” which rightly appertains to the whole, has
been limited.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes has said: “The automatic flow of thought is often
singularly favored by the fact of listening to a weak continuous discourse,
with just enough ideas in it to keep the (conscious) mind busy. The induced
current of thought is often rapid and brilliant in inverse ratio to the force of
the inducing current.”
Wundt says: “The unconscious logical processes are carried on with
a certainty and regularity which would be impossible where there exists
the possibility of error. Our mind is so happily designed that it prepares