Mind-6 Levels of Function

1. Higher consciousness. This non-physical mind is the knowing of the Being: the
Higher Self. It is non-verbal and therefore can only communicate to the other functions
of mind through intuitive channels. This is direct, fully awakened perception and
insight. It is an abstract quality, not a quantity; it is implicit, not explicit. It functions
increasingly as the “ego-defenses” (protection of the self-image) of the conscious and
subconscious mind are broken down. This mind of the spiritual essence of Being
consists of the Being’s considerations, postulates, opinions, evaluations, purposes,
intentions and goals. It is the essence that is aware of being aware. It is free choice and
creativity, what makes Man rise above the animal, the essence of life, love and truth.

2. Intuitive. This is a higher level of awareness that is non-verbal. It relates diverse
sources of information to create a holistic picture. It functions through the right cortical
hemisphere of the brain as its intermediary with the left hemisphere “ego” and the
body. ESP is the “release” of intuition into your conscious experience.

3. Conscious. This is the level of awareness of Man in our left-brain oriented culture
when he is not functioning automatically. It is verbalized thinking, reasoning and
analysis. It is “knowing about”. It is sequential and time-based. It uses the left cortical
hemisphere of the brain as its intermediary with the body. It gives a sense of “ego”
personality or self-identity, though this is transitory and shifts constantly and
unknowingly through many ego-states or sub-personalities in response to changes of
circumstances.

4. Pre-conscious. This contains all the things you know about and can recall but aren’t
examining at this moment. It is like the area of mind that the searchlight of
consciousness can readily illuminate.

5. Subconscious. This level of mind contains decisions that have been made
consciously at one time and which later became forgotten, though they are still active
and effective. Also it contains the memories that at one time were experienced but
which the conscious ego wants well out of the way of the pre-conscious, i.e. they are
suppressed, though they frequently emerge in dreams. The subconscious functions
beneath the surface, and the decisions which accompany suppressed memories act as
programming and are dramatized unknowingly, through a reactive stimulus-response
mechanism. Thus the mind becomes conditioned. Subconscious decisions are a left
brain function and subconscious emotional content is a right-brain function. The
harmful split between left and right brain is a result of the conscious ego defending
itself against painful memories and painful reality by the act of suppression, and the
construction of rationalizing beliefs and fixed ideas. It is necessary to break down these
barriers and re-integrate the brain, so that the intuitive function of insight is possible.
This is achieved by the method of analysis used on Meta-Programming.

6. Unconscious. The unconscious mind is never brought into consciousness. It contains
the most basic programming, the innate genetic blueprint of the human organism – the
survival, sexual and aggressive drives and instincts, and the “body knowledge” of
sensory and motor skills, innate and acquired. It automatically performs the millions of
simultaneous directives that are essential for the human being to function. It also
contains the “unexperienced experience” of traumatic incidents that caused
unconsciousness or were unconfrontable and repressed at the time, and therefore were
never absorbed into the database of the conscious mind. Nevertheless they are stored in
every detail at this level of mind, and their contents continue to have an effect on the
person in a stimulus-response manner.