“The awakening” of the conscience

As we’ve mentioned before, because of different causes, the ways in which a human being thinks are most of them copied from the cultural environment of the society in which he/she grew up without any analysis of them.
The society (the family, the friends, the colleagues, etc.) dictates to the children what and how to think vis-à-vis of different circumstances; so, all they have to do is to copy this ways of thinking of the society (he’s not encouraged to do in another way).

In this process of creating a mental automatic process specific to a person, the only problem is that the judgments presented by the society to the child are, most of them, wrong (the actual society approves the anger, the pride, the sadness, different doctrines, etc.); so that, at a given moment, he/she manifests these wrong judgments of the society in an automatic way from the “instinct of herd” and not necessarily because he/she would have observed that they are correct (after a deep analysis).

If these automatic process-automatically taken from the society- are continuously repeated and used, they become more and more stronger and they are deeper and deeper imprinted in the Subconscious.

And when the circumstances in which they were formed (or other similar) appear again, they have the tendency to manifest themselves without the approval or the intervention of the Conscious for this.

In this way an ill-fated moment appears, when the individual creates his own mental automatic processes of answering at the majority of the circumstances usually faced by him/her.

Then he/she starts to function on “automatic pilot” as long as he/she is faced with these familiar circumstances (or with other similar ones), his mental programmers become automatic processes which run one after another.

In this moment it can be said that the Conscious is “asleep” and that we are faced-more or less- with an automatic mechanism which gives the same answers in similar circumstances over and over again.

We can say that we deal with a “human robot” whose typical and stereotypical answers were programmed by the society which they belong to.
That’s why it is sometimes said that the children are more aware than the grow-ups who are already programmed and give stereotypical answers more or less suitable for the new circumstances; so, the grown –ups are more “sleepy “than the children, they being influenced by the automatic processes formed in their youth and strengthened through their continuous repetition.

By the contrary, the children have a more careful and active conscious because they don’t have previously prepared answers at different circumstances; or if they have them, they are not strengthened enough to manifest automatically.

But this situation doesn’t last too much because the parents take care of it - they start to remind them over and over how to behave and what to think (you are of the nationality X and that person of the nationality Z is your enemy; you have the religion C and you must believe unconditionally in W; if Y curses you of something, you must get angry and answer to him rudely).

Making these kinds of pressures upon the children, they begin to assimilate, more or less forced the way of thinking and the beliefs specific to the societies in which they grow up.

Up to their maturity they’ll be completely programmed and they will become some robots ready to behave in a certain way.

Which is the role of the individual’s conscious in this programmed and robotic process of the mental?

It’s a big one: without the implicit and tacit support of the conscious, this process couldn’t take place.

So it’s important not to forget that the conscious must be present when a contact it’s established - for the first time - with some circumstances and ways of thinking proposed as answers to them.

It’s also necessary to repeat these ways of thinking (judgments) as often as possible for their deep implementation in the Subconscious.

After this effort of paying attention and awareness, the conscious intervention is not compulsory anymore.

But it is absolutely necessary for the destruction of an old automatic process (if this thing is wanted), for the awareness of the new judgment and for its repetition until it becomes an automatic process.

When we learn to write, to cycle or to drive, the presence of the conscious is necessary in order to be aware of the each stage of these processes (letter, movement, etc.) and to repeat them in a deliberate way for a few times.
When they are not assimilated by the Subconscious, the conscious intervention is not necessary anymore for their running.

The same thing happens when we learn what to think (how to react) in certain circumstances; the presence of the conscious is necessary.
The problem is that when we are children only one single variant of judgment is given to us (that specific to the society in which we grow up) regarding some circumstances; and because we don’t have another alternative of choosing something else (we don’t know other variants or we don’t have enough experience to identify some other new ones), we are pleased with what we get.

Then we are made by the society to repeat these judgments otherwise we’ll be punished. So, we consciously assimilate –explicitly or tacitly-the automatic processes specific to the society in which we grow up.

That’s why the presence of the conscious is necessary when we assimilate a new judgment (action, behavior). It’s better not to forget about this thing.

The conscious is the one which creates our different ways of thinking which manifest themselves as automatic processes, but it is also the one able to destroy them and create new ones for the same circumstances in which the old automatic processes took place before.

The conscious is the one which has the capacity to analyze, to discern and to choose between two or more variants.

Making these choices through the process mentioned above, it can create or destroy the different ways of thinking (linked by belief, religion, economy, social behavior, etc.) we have at a given moment.

It’s the only one which can do this.

So, we have to make a clear distinction between the conscious (the instance which analyses and discerns the existing information at a certain moment) and the subconscious (different awareness and ways of thinking linked by the conscious and strengthened by it through their repetition).

The conscious creates and destroys the ways of thinking (the judgments) we have at a certain moment. It is the only one which can do this.

Because of all these and of the fact that we function on “automatic pilot” (most of the time), with our conscious inactivate or very little active, the first step absolutely necessary to be done –in order to make the Psychical Harmonization possible, is to activate the conscious and not to function on “automatic pilot” anymore; in this way we make the conscious to analyze the ways of thinking which were running automatically before and to see if they are really useful for us (we can make this useing the keys of the Psychical Harmonization).

So the conscious is the psychic instance which creates our different ways of thinking (our correct or wrong judgments)
The process through which the conscious is not activated anymore (letting the mental automatic process created by it, to lead the psyche) can be named the “falling asleep” or the “identification”.

“Falling asleep” because in that moment it is not activated as an updated instance of analysis and discrimination of the new circumstances; and of “identification’ because during the process of “falling asleep”, the judgment’s creator (the conscious) identifies itself with its own creations (with judgments).

It’s like a poet who thinks about himself that he is his own poems or a painter that he is his own paintings or a sculptor his own sculptures.

In certain circumstances, these people create some paintings, poems and sculptures which can be used later when they want to send an identical or similar message with the one had in sight when they created their works for the first time.
The problem of identification appears when the creator ceases to create anymore and when, at new circumstances, he continues to bring, as a form of expression, these old paintings, sculptures and poems, no matter if they are fitted or not with the new circumstances.

The creator’s identity is given by the fact of creating; his role is to create new answers for the new circumstances, to be a creator.

If we let the conscious to sleep, to identify itself, then we start to function on automatic pilot and we won’t adapt efficiently at the circumstances.
The signals sent by the Supra-conscious are meant to awake and activate the conscious, in order to adapt it at the new circumstances.

So it’s necessary an “awakening of the conscious” or a “detaching from its creations”.

The conscious must detach itself from its old creations (mental automatic processes), to stay away of them, to watch them from the distance in order to see if they fit anymore with the new circumstances or with those for which they were created.
Through this process of “awakening” or “detaching”, the conscious begins to manifest strongly, realizing an already known truth: it is something different from the thoughts and judgments created by it and that’s why it is also the only one which can destroy them if they don’t like it anymore.

As long as the conscious doesn’t awake or detach of its own creations and as long as the psyche continues to function on automatic pilot, the Psychical Harmonization can’t take place because it implies the obligatory presence of the conscious-it’s awakening.