ABSTRACT
It is evident that at any one time we are using but a small portion of our available brain patterns. Only a small part of our mental store can be before us at any one moment of our existence. It is as with our eye vision, we see clearly only that upon which we focus. From this central point vision fades toward the margin where lie but the vaguest suggestions of sight, and here, at the margin, it finally ends. Beyond the margin, however, there lies, we know, a vast world not now seen at all, but which, piecemeal, can be brought into vision by changing the direction of our gaze. In our mental field, likewise, we see only that upon which we focus, that to which we give our attention. Beyond this appreciated field of our present consciousness lies the vastly greater field of unconsciousness, the field of the subconscious mind, where lie all the hundreds of thousands of experiences, brain patterns, and emotional potentialities which constitute our inheritance and our experience in life. “There are secret and individual parts in the nature of men, and mute conditions without show, sometimes unknown of their very possessors.” *
