SOME PHASES of the SUBJECTIVE LIFE
Ernest Holmes
The Subjective Mind
"We have already seen that what we call the soul is really the subjective part of us. We wish to look a little further into some of the phenomena of the soul.
We do not have two minds, but we do have a dual aspect of mentality in what we call the objective and subjective states of consciousness. The objective mind is that part of the mentality which functions consciously. It is the part of us which is self-knowing and without it we would not be self-conscious entities. Our conscious mind is the place where we consciously live and are aware that we are living. This is Spirit.
Our subjective mind is our mental emanation in Universal Subjectivity. It is our individual use of mental law. We certainly do not wish to deviate from that which psychology teaches about the mind of man in its conscious, subconscious, or subjective states. We merely wish to add this: the reason we have a subjective mind is that Subjectivity existed in the Universe prior to our use of It; and where we use It, It forms around us a subjective personification of ourselves, which is a result of the action and the reaction of our thought.
The subjective mind is the seat of memory and contains a remembrance of everything that has ever happened to the outer man. It also contains the family and race characteristics. It retains these memories, in a certain sense, as mental pictures. The subjective mind might be compared to a picture gallery, upon whose walls are hung the pictures of all the people whom the individual has ever known, and all the incidents which he has ever experienced."
Ernest Holmes
The Subjective Mind
"We have already seen that what we call the soul is really the subjective part of us. We wish to look a little further into some of the phenomena of the soul.
We do not have two minds, but we do have a dual aspect of mentality in what we call the objective and subjective states of consciousness. The objective mind is that part of the mentality which functions consciously. It is the part of us which is self-knowing and without it we would not be self-conscious entities. Our conscious mind is the place where we consciously live and are aware that we are living. This is Spirit.
Our subjective mind is our mental emanation in Universal Subjectivity. It is our individual use of mental law. We certainly do not wish to deviate from that which psychology teaches about the mind of man in its conscious, subconscious, or subjective states. We merely wish to add this: the reason we have a subjective mind is that Subjectivity existed in the Universe prior to our use of It; and where we use It, It forms around us a subjective personification of ourselves, which is a result of the action and the reaction of our thought.
The subjective mind is the seat of memory and contains a remembrance of everything that has ever happened to the outer man. It also contains the family and race characteristics. It retains these memories, in a certain sense, as mental pictures. The subjective mind might be compared to a picture gallery, upon whose walls are hung the pictures of all the people whom the individual has ever known, and all the incidents which he has ever experienced."
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