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A Series of Lessons in Raja Yoga616
of psychic processes shows that the unconscious is the theater of the most
important mental phenomena. The conscious is always conditional upon
the unconscious.”
Creighton says: “Our conscious life is the sum of these entrances and
exits. Behind the scenes, as we infer, there lies a vast reserve which we call
‘the unconscious,’ finding a name for it by the simple device of prefixing
the negative article. The basis of all that lies behind the scene is the mere
negative of consciousness.”
Maudsley says: “The process of reasoning adds nothing to knowledge (in
the reasoner). It only displays what was there before, and brings to conscious
possession what before was unconscious.” And again: “Mind can do its work
without knowing it. Consciousness is the light that lightens the process, not
the agent that accomplishes it.”
Walstein says: “It is through the sub-conscious self that Shakespeare must
have perceived, without effort, great truths which are hidden from the
conscious mind of the student; that Phidias painted marble and bronze; that
Raphael painted Madonnas, and Beethoven composed symphonies.”
Ribot says: “The mind receives from experience certain data, and
elaborates them unconsciously by laws peculiar to itself, and the result
merges into consciousness.”
Newman says: “When the unaccustomed causes surprise, we do not
perceive the thing and then feel the surprise; but surprise comes first,
and then we search out the cause; so the theory must have acted on
the unconscious mind to create the feeling, before being perceived in
consciousness.”
A writer in an English magazine says: “Of what transcendent importance
is the fact that the unconscious part of the mind bears to the conscious
part such a relation as the magic lantern bears to the luminous disc which it
projects; that the greater part of the intentional action, the whole practical
life of the vast majority of men, is an effect of events as remote from
consciousness as the motion of the planets.”