Spiritual concepts
Conscious
It may be helpful to have The Model of the Mind for reference whilst you read this definition.

The ‘Conscious’ is our rational reasoning self, the part of us that uses Memory and Reasoning and logic. The part of us that Learns and Remembers. This is where we find the ‘Will’, because ultimately it is the Will combined with our Personality that is the conscious self and it is the Personality that is ultimately in control.
More detail can be found on the functions of the conscious self in the section on the Brain and its Left brain and right brain functions
Both the Conscious and Subconscious mind are known by a number of alternative names both symbolic and not more detail can be found in Conscious and Subconscious synonyms
Observations
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- Ahmad Ahsai, Shaykh - Kitab Sharh al-Ziyara - Earth, Water, Air and Fire
- Ahmad Ahsai, Shaykh - Kitab Sharh al-Ziyara - The Breath of the Great Awakening
- Alastair I. McIntosh - A Commentary on the ‘Christos’ Technique
- Andrew Lang - Song by the Subconscious self
- Avicenna - The Canon of Medicine - The unbalanced mind
- Balzac, Honoré de - Louis Lambert - 07 Conscious, Subconscious and Higher spirit
- Bees – Lectures by Rudolf Steiner - What has consciousness?
- Blake, William - He called it Divine Analogy
- Boehme, Jacob - Aurora - The equality of all living things
- Brunton, Dr Paul - A Search in Secret India - Sees the vision of the Maharishee
- Burne-Jones, Edward - King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid
- Cabanel - Fallen angel
- Cannabis and OCD
- Carl Gustav Jung and the integration of the conscious and unconscious aspects
- Cartwright, Sir Fairfax Leighton - The Mystic Rose - The Gardeners
- Chartres and Amiens labyrinths
- Clark, Fay Marvin – Into the Light – The Nagual, the order of Creation in Mayan cosmology and the Three Worlds
- Classic of Embryonic Breathing - The embryo
- Cohen, Leonard - Raven and dove
- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor - The Picture
- Concept - Korean mystic shamanism – Higher spirit, Immortal soul or the Saryong
- Crowley - 05 The Hierophant
- Crowley - 06 The Lovers
- Crowley - 08 Lust
- Crowley, Aleister - Book of Lies - Windlestraws
- Custance, John - Adventure into the Unconscious - The need for Contrast
- Custance, John - Wisdom, Madness and Folly - The Positive and negative powers
- Dahl, Roald - The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar - Visualisation
- Daling Gomchen
- Descartes, Rene - I think therefore I am
- Descartes, Rene - On pain and the 5 senses
- Descartes, Rene - This 'I' is entirely and absolutely distinct from my body
- Eddington, Sir Arthur - The Expanding Universe - The stuff of the world is mind stuff
- Eleanor C Merry - The Flaming Door - Comments on the Pistis Sophia
- Father Bernabe Cobo - Inca Religion and Customs - Creation
- Genesis 02 - Garden of Eden
- Genesis 03 - The Fall
- Gentling the Bull – 01 Searching for the Bull
- Harmaline, 5-MeO-DMT & DMT - A theory of the universe
- Hell Hath No Fury on the Heart Like 5-MeO-DMT by Cibilian
- Hodler, Ferdinand - The Dream 1897
- Jean Noblet - 15 [and Hebreo and Payen] The Devil
- Jung, C G - The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious - Anima and animus
- Jung, C G - The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious - The Shadow
- Kabir - Between the conscious and the unconscious
- Kahuna - Reading the thoughts of others
- Khan, Hazrat Inayat - The Art of Being and Becoming - On aspects of soul
- Khnopff, Fernand - Des Caresses
- Koestler, Arthur - Misc. Quote - The dangers of reason
- Lalla - Who’s the garland maker, who’s his wife
- Leibniz - On the Higher spirit, soul and body
- Leibniz - The Monadology - 04
- M A Czaplicka - The Anagyat of Siberian shamanism
- Masters and Houston on the conscious
- Meister Eckhart - Selected writings - Question all beliefs
- Michaux, Henri - Plume
- Michelangelo - 1508 Sistine Chapel - 10 The Four Pendentives 4
- Mircea Eliade - On Plutarch
- Naglowska, Maria de - The Light of Sex - Overview
- Omar Khayyam - The Rubaiyat - No more of THEE and ME
- Pauli, Wolfgang - And the Pauli effect
- Pauli, Wolfgang - C G Jung – Preface to Psyche and Symbol
- Pauli, Wolfgang - The Dream of the Flaming Mountain
- Plotinus - The Enneads - But if soul is sinless, how come the expiations
- Plotinus - The Enneads - On death
- Plotinus - The Enneads - The Soul
- Plotinus - The Enneads - The use and act of Reason is a characteristic Act of the Soul
- Prasna Upanishad
- Prasna Upanishad
- Receiving wisdom when in a trance
- Reid, Gall, Mill, Bain and Hack-Tuke – On the nature of the Will
- Research paper - Visual Awareness and the Detection of Fearful Faces
- Rider-Waite - 06 The Lovers
- Rider-Waite - 08 Strength
- Rider-Waite - 13 Death
- Rider-Waite - 15 The Devil
- Rilke, Rainer Maria - 34 Eighth Elegy
- Rumi - The Book of Love - The way the soul is with the senses
- Schelling, F W J - Philosophical Inquiries into the Nature of Human Freedom – On Darkness and Light
- Schiller - from Die Künstler (The Artists)
- Schrodinger, Erwin - Mind and Matter - Where is Mind
- Shah, Idries - A Perfumed Scorpion - Human well-being is the minimum, not the maximum, duty of humanity
- Sinclair, Mary Craig - Experiments
- Stapledon, Olaf - Starmaker - Consciousness
- Steiner, Rudolf - Nature spirits - Architecture, design, function and form
- Swedenborg, Emanuel - The Infinite - Why are we here?
- Symbolism - Korean mystic shamanism - Androgyny and Grey
- Symbols – Picts – Sacred site - Crosses in Eggs [citadels]
- Tarot - 08 Minor Arcana - 02s Balance
- The Classic of Tai Shang's Embryonic Breathing for Life Nourishment
- The Secret of the Golden Flower - 02 The Original spirit and the Conscious spirit
- Thousands of Golden Important Prescriptions for Emergency; Scroll no 27, Temperament cultivation
- Trine, R W - In tune with the Infinite - The mystic force
- Turvey, Vincent – The beginnings of Seership – 'I,' 'Me,' and ‘It’
- Turvey, Vincent – The beginnings of Seership – Splitting into three
- Tyrrell, G N M - The Significance of the Whole – The main task of psychical research is to induce the right psychological conditions in the most promising types of individual
- van Ruysbroeck, Jan - The Three Worlds
- Villoldo, Dr Alberto - On the sacred feminine
- Von Stuck, Franz - 1897 The Expulsion from Paradise & The Lost Paradise
- What are little boys made of
- Wordsworth, William - Prelude - But to my conscious soul I now can say
- Yeats, W B - Collected poems - What if I bade you leave the cavern of the mind
- Yoga Sutras of Patanjali - Book IV - 02. The Atman
- Yoga Sutras of Patanjali - Book IV - 11. to 34.
- Zhang Guolao - Secrets of Embryonic Breathing
- Zohar - I 062a – The Three strands of spirit