I am my Subconscious Mind [not a non-doer]

09-03-2001, 08:06 AM

A viewpoint from a different perspective.

I have not seen the subconscious mind mentioned in any spiritual group or
writings.
Yet we are our subconscious minds! Our conscious mind is only an
afterthought. [Animals function very well without a conscious mind]. The
conscious mind has no direct access to the vast resources of our
subconscious minds. Most decisions are already made by our subconscious
minds thus the mistaken concept of non-doer ship. In fact scientists have
recently discovered that the decisions already made by our subconscious
minds appear 1/2 a second later in our conscious minds and are rightly
regarded by our conscious minds as our own decisions.

What we do, how we react in different circumstances depends on what is
stored in our subconscious minds. Our subconscious minds not only store raw
data but also sequences of script that could be played out in different
circumstances. That is the learned survival mechanisms passed down in our
genes from the time when life first appeared on earth.

In a set of circumstances we can guess how an Italian, a German and an
Englishman will react. [This is true all over the world with different
tribes, sub-tribes and even families.] In India different tribes do
different jobs. For example "Goldsmith" is a name of a tribe! Why are
groups predictable? It is because of their similar genetic make-up and
similar upbringing. Remember the subconscious mind is built on the
foundations of genes + environment.

I think perhaps the main reason for having a conscious mind is not to
rubber stamp the decisions made by the subconscious mind but to stay quiet
and experience the Ultimate Reality !? Thus in a person like Ramana the
subconscious mind was the sole 'doer' for the body/mind to survive. Whereas
the conscious mind had merged with the Greater Consciousness !? [To put it
in the non-dual way, our conscious mind is part of the Greater
Consciousness already. It just 'mistakenly' identifies with the
subconscious mind it is inhabiting !?]

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With Love,
Cyber Dervish
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