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A Series of Lessons in Raja Yoga614
threatened with palsy. After some hours the natural solution of the question
came to him, worked out, as he believed, in that troubled interval.”
Dr. Schofield mentions several instances of this phase of the workings
of the unconscious planes of the mind. We mention a couple that seem
interesting and to the point:
“Last year,” says Dr. Schofield, “I was driving to Phillmore Gardens to give
some letters to a friend. On the way, a vague uneasiness sprang up, and a
voice seemed to say, ‘I doubt if you have those letters.’ Conscious reason
rebuked it, and said, ‘Of course you have; you took them out of the drawer
specially.’ The vague feeling was not satisfied, but could not reply. On arrival
I found the letters were in none of my pockets. On returning I found them
on the hall table, where they had been placed a moment while putting on
my gloves.”
“The other day I had to go to see a patient in Folkestone, in Shakespeare
Terrace. I got there very late, and did not stay but drove down to the Pavilion
for the night, it being dark and rainy. Next morning at eleven I walked up to
find the house, knowing the general direction, though never having walked
there before. I went up the main road, and, after passing a certain turning,
began to feel a vague uneasiness coming into consciousness, that I had
passed the terrace. On asking the way, I found it was so; and the turning was
where the uneasiness began. The night before was pitch dark, and very wet,
and anything seen from a close carriage was quite unconsciously impressed
on my mind.”
Prof. Kirchener says: “Our consciousness can only grasp one quite clear
idea at once. All other ideas are for the time somewhat obscure. They are
really existing, but only potentially for consciousness, i.e., they hover, as it
were, on our horizon, or beneath the threshold of consciousness. The fact
that former ideas suddenly return to consciousness is simply explained
by the fact that they have continued psychic existence; and attention is
sometimes voluntarily or involuntarily turned away from the present, and
the appearance of former ideas is thus made possible.”