the inner unknown consciousness...

This subterranean consciousness has paradoxically and misleadingly been called the unconscious.

Every modern young undergraduate now knows that we possess an ‘unconscious mind’ thanks partly to the efforts of our Freudian friends.

Actually it is that wider consciousness of which ordinary consciousness is only a part.

We can hardly call that unconscious which contains in itself all the potentialities of consciousness.

The fact is that the consciousness which mind possesses actually surpasses both the lower and higher limits of cerebral consciousness.

For it is the inscrutable complex mind that projects this limited consciousness into wakefulness and withdraws it into sleep.

Nevertheless let it not be thought that there are a pair of minds, the one conscious and the other unconscious.

There exists but a single mind in us but viewed from our side it is conscious in a finite human way only.

Our kind of consciousness is a state, not a separate and different kind of mind.

Mind therefore is present even before the work of conscious thinking has begun.

It is the inner unknown consciousness.



The Wisdom of the Overself, Chapter V, The Metaphysics of Sleep, "From the Conscious to the Unconscious”. Paul Brunton