1 result for (book:nopr AND session:626 AND stemmed:portion)
5/44 (11%)
involuntary
brain
Bach
deride
functions
[... 15 paragraphs ...]
As I also mentioned (in the 614th session in Chapter Two), the conscious mind is not basically cut off from the inner self or from those deep inner sources of knowledge available to it. The aware mind is not any one event, for that matter; it represents various portions of the inner self that “surface” at any given time.
[... 11 paragraphs ...]
Now it is here that the seeming division in the self occurs, for in physical life the conscious mind must be connected with the brain, and in terms of time that organ itself must grow and develop. So all of your consciousness cannot be physically aware. The portion that must “wait for” the brain’s development is the part you call in life “the conscious mind.”
The other portions can be called the inner self. Now all of this inner self cannot become expressed even with its connection with the brain, since the brain must sift perception through the physical apparatus.
[... 4 paragraphs ...]
Therefore a seeming division occurs, in which a portion of the invisible conscious mind is connected with the physical brain, and a portion of it is free of that connection. That [latter] part forms what you think of as the involuntary system of the body.
[... 4 paragraphs ...]
— but we have a good portion of the material through. So (smiling) count your blessings.
[... 4 paragraphs ...]
