SUPERCONSCIOUS MIND

The superconscious aspect of the mind is beyond the conscious and subconscious, arousing the soul’s consciousness in the present moment within any individual human mind. This precognitive section of the mind is that silent area of the brain where no past or future thoughts prevail. It spontaneously acquires immediate ability, due to which creativity emerges without the presence of the intellectual mind, instinctive and intuitively, through innovative intelligence.

Since it expresses beyond the conscious cognitive awareness, it is considered spiritual. The soul is where one discovers true creativity, that eureka, say when a scientist exclaims — bingo, I’ve got it. It is that divine section of the mind beyond cognition. Creativity in science, medicine, arts, music, and mathematics emerges from those unpredictable eureka moments leading to humanity’s most outstanding achievements. These creative insights are the domain of the superconscious mind which differ from analytical conscious thoughts and are the fundamental cause of all we know of the universe. Spirituality considers the same to be divine intelligence from which we discover the stars to the subatomic particles, followed by the intellectual ability of the conscious and the subconscious thoughts to take over and expand further from such divine innovativeness.

If you notice, it is futile to discipline, suppress, or control the mind. It bounces back to its original framework. We have no option but to go beyond cognition and enter into the zone of the superconscious field to awaken and kindle the universal spirit. To enter this superconscious state, we must first understand the mind inside out. It gives us that understanding to get a grip on our true self, which is beyond cognition, and consequently, be able to know the difference between the physical, the thinking, and the spiritual self.

Spiritual knowledge takes us beyond the physical body and brain to what Quantum Physics claims today; physical reality is an optical illusion (Maya). All that fundamentally exists is only waves of constant metaphysical energy flowing in unity and continuity, manifesting and expanding in different transient particles. It also elaborates that there is no physical reality unless there is an observer, implying after energy becomes aware through observation, there is consciousness to perceive and conceive.

Let us go deeper into these waves of energy from the spiritual aspect: a) body — the physical self, b) mind — the thinking self, c) soul — the witnessing/observing self, d) spirit — the beingness or the spontaneous flow of aware energy (spirit). The cognitive mind is nothing but thought. But who is aware and conscious of those thoughts flowing in the mind? The witness-er (soul). For anything to appear in your mind as ideas, someone needs to make the mind aware of making it conscious to feel, think, experience, and infer in the manner the mind desires. Meaning spiritual intelligence (awareness) is the universal self, and the observing self is that individual soul. Further, the cognitive mind is the thinking self, an operating system functioning mechanically on autopilot like a computer in sub or lower consciousness, unless checked and guided by the aware-conscious energy.

I rephrase; first, the universal energy makes the mind/soul spontaneously aware. Without an alert individual observer (soul), the mind before that is neither aware nor conscious nor feels, thinks, or experiences anything. It implies we are that subjective self in a state of ‘I-lessness’ as a witness/observation, and the nature of our actual reality is in its beingness or awareness. The individual objective self/soul, a part of the mind, takes the observer’s role in penetrating the inner state of consciousness, providing an ‘I-ness’, the identity of a gender in body and mind for both to perceive, conceive, feel and act in its physical body and brain.

Spiritually, you must be constantly alert, attentive and aware from moment to moment. You go deep into that superconscious section of the mind, which is untouched by the conscious or the subconscious thoughts, away from memory and intellect. It is that third eye or the sixth sense in total silence, which only watches and witnesses to make your cognitive mind aware and conscious. The superconscious/soul connects to the infinite cosmic expanse to transmit and receive aware energy. It justifies what our ancient sages declared, ‘That Art Thou — Shivohum’. It means the true self (soul) in its original, pure, and primordial state is identifiable and at par with the ultimate non-dual spirit or the absolute aware energy in its totality as one.

As a witness, the mind is free from all the entanglements it identifies and attaches to. However, as a witness-er, you become the objective, a notch less than the subjective universal self. The subjective witness is neither the seeker, knower, believer, doer, enjoyer, or experienc-er. As the soul, your mind witnesses all that body and mind engage, experience, and effectuate in absoluteness. We refer to such a sublime state as being super consciously spiritual.

Therefore, spontaneous awareness or the spirit exists outside the purview of the cognitive mind and is beyond the limitations of gender, space and time. It is present everywhere — non-local, inside (soul), and outside (cosmos) of the brain. For this reason, the spirit, being pure and aware, is considered absolute, independent, and eternally distinct from the conscious mind. It only watches and witnesses from within the superconscious section of the mind where no thinking prevails, allowing the brain to become aware and conscious of what it performs merely to check and guide the cognitive mind.

If you wish to be free from the mess and misery, the human mind has created for the material self, providing technology, money, power, and fame, the price we pay today for all the advances and comforts we enjoy. We must balance worldly life with spiritual means in higher consciousness. The level of consciousness, higher or lower, depends entirely upon the degree how which each mind reflects the quality of self-awareness from the extent of experiencing with the conscious (aware self), subconscious (thinking self), and superconscious (the witnessing or spiritual self), which the mind goes through during its psychological and physiological experiences in life.

The subconscious state of mind is that reservoir in the form of memory, forming ‘what’ you are as the ‘remember-er’. Since the mind primarily functions from the subconscious section in an auto mode from the memory and intellect, it becomes emotionally bound to the ego with a name, gender, and identification — continuously demanding and attaching what the mind unconsciously and mechanically desires for it’s me and mine. The conscious section represents the field, or the individual quantum of aware energy, and the superconscious area expresses the force or the unique quality of aware energy, presenting itself in an energetic force-field relationship as the true witness-er and observer of what you are within the human brain.

The intensity is designated by its suffix in the form of -ness (awareness/consciousness) Both the conscious and superconscious sections determine the level of your self-consciousness/self-awareness, whether it is flowing towards the divine or the devil. Therefore, consciousness presents itself in three different attributes — the first two play the role of consciously or subconsciously conducting the functions of the mind symbolizing what you are. Besides that, we have the third operating independently as the witness (spirit) originating from the superconscious sphere, representing the actual who you are in absolute awareness, that, too, in a realm of no mind, no thought, impersonal, and impartially signifying ‘That Art Thou’.

Therefore superconscious mind represents the subject-object relationship in any human mind between the spirit (awareness) and the individual soul (pure consciousness). The observer influences what the mind observes, deriving its understanding from the cosmic cloud of aware energy. Approximately 95 per cent of the mind’s functioning is in auto-mode at the subconscious level, about 4 per cent by the conscious, and the remaining 1 per cent by the superconscious: a disorderly mix, the primary reason for chaos to concerns in our imbalanced material world. I repeat spirit is that aware energy which turns on the ignition, making the mind active and alive from its frozen state. The mind becomes aware and responds, either proactively in choiceless thoughts super consciously to any stimulus or reactively thinking emotionally, consciously or subconsciously in desires.

Super-consciousness is the fountainhead of the actual ‘who you are’. It is that beingness in the profile of your third eye, between the eyebrows. That spiritual centre draws instantaneous cosmic energy to manifest in mind as awareness. It is responsible for your instincts, intuition, and intelligence and goes beyond the conscious and the subconscious. It is that creative eureka, the sixth sense, which is beyond the cognitive mind’s capacity. I repeat, the being is that body and mind comprising of ‘what you are’ which appears and disappears in the cycle of birth and death, and the beingness is that awakened awareness of the eternal divine of ‘who you are’.

The alertness divulged during the superconscious stage is the verity of any present moment. It is that pure and straightforward witnessing where no thinker, thinking of any thoughts, is required. It is that still and silent mind alertly observing and seeing any situation, as it is, where the mind focuses on the subject of its observation without any constraints from space and time. It is that wholesome meditative state where no psychic efforts are required. It is purely existential and full of aliveness. It is proactive, spontaneous, and immediate without allowing thoughts to interfere and analyze. This state of mind is what we refer to as the superconscious realm of who you are.

The mind is thoughtless when it independently and impartially watches and witnesses inwardly or outwardly, which is responsible for making the mind proactively aware and conscious. This sort of spontaneous observation emerges from the superconscious section, which our sages referred to as that divine residing within: ‘That Art Thou’. We refer to this flow of supreme energy as the ‘spirit’ in the subject of Spiritualism. It is that distinct, non-dual and absolute state of the mind that does not think or participate but purely assists the soul in witnessing. It neither discriminates nor chooses nor determines what the mind selfishly wishes for. It simply introspects the cognitive mind and, if utilized regularly, is enough to keep the mind in its rightful place. The mind is the software for the brain’s flow of electromagnetic chemical energies. Similarly, the soul containing the spirit is also a part of the mind; it is seated within to watch and witness its thoughts communicating internally and externally and directly connects to the heart.

The only way you can awaken the spirit or that inner divine is by reviving your superconscious section developing and enhancing it being mindfully alert. When the mind is alert, it becomes aware and, if attentive, becomes conscious. After that, the intellect takes over, making the mind function in autopilot mode in lower consciousness. It is called the subconscious grandstand, where your presence of awareness is no longer required. The mind is primarily a storehouse of all your emotions and desires, reacting from the memory and intellect from past understanding and experiences in lower or subconsciousness.

You already know the first two levels — the conscious and the subconscious. The emphasis here is more upon the superconscious state, the ignored state of mind, which you critically require to usher in a holistic balance in your life. The superconscious has the power of a supercomputer. Being the source of all creativity, it provides limitless, unique impulses of intelligence, instinct, and intuitive energy. It provides flashes of insights or those eureka moments which all scientists, composers, writers, and artists unthinkingly and spontaneously attain when they go beyond the capacity of their cognitive, intellectual minds. Superconscious energy gives the mind that extra boost to discover futuristic discoveries and innovations; people get ideas far beyond their intellect.

Therefore, the superconscious mind is nothing but pure creativity instinctively emerging when your mind is alert, attentive, determined and focused on any object. This state of mind is above the other two levels; it occurs when the mind functions in total meditative silence without your thoughts knowing about it. Say, if you go to sleep with a problem, this section of the mind, even then, works on its own and invariably has the answer ready for you the following day.

Therefore, watching and witnessing the inner thinking self, submerged in the emotional desires of this and that — is the highest introspective activity of the superconscious section of the mind. When you are alert, you are fully awake; the superconscious area awakens when you observe or introspect. It is an effortless state of meditative awareness where thoughts are silent during those moments. At this moment, the cosmic energy from the outside spontaneously manifests into your mind. Silent and effortless meditation is what we call constant ‘witnessing’ of all around with a still mind, acting both as a transmitter and receiver.

Let us again recapitulate. During the first stage of super consciousness, there are flashes of absolute non-dual perception with immediate awareness. In this state, the mind is most creative. Your mind unquestionably and unconditionally pro-acts and does not react at this stage. It is neither thinking nor emotionally desiring anything. We refer to this section as the potential divine within. The second stage commences with extended awareness, filtered by the mind’s attentive thinking in the duality of what the sensory organs perceive and feel of this and that, here and there. This comprehensive awareness makes the mind consciously perceive via thoughts of what it observes in dichotomy. The third stage occurs when the mind subconsciously thinks, chooses, and determines how it wishes to react to its past awareness from its memory and intellect. In this case, the mind is in auto mode and performs all its activities without support from the other two sections.

The spiritual state of every human mind demands more meditative awareness in the present moment, existential and spontaneous from one moment to the next. In this state, the mind is alert and attentive in every moment for any duration — pure and still — an I-less state of beingness in totality. Sigmund Freud was the first to discover the conscious, subconscious, and unknown unconscious sections of the mind. Later, another area arose by Carl Gustav Jung, called ‘the collective unconscious mind’. However, long before these discoveries, the Hindus had declared the third unknown section to be that divine, the third eye of the superconscious mind.