The Superficial Self And The Transcendental Powers.

The superficial self, knows nothing of the attitude of this silent watcher who dwells in the innermost. The superficial self is wholly taken up by the world of senses and the constant messages she gets from the sense-world that she knows or understands nothing of the relationship of the real self and the unattainable object of all thoughts. What the mystic does is to become deliberately inattentive to the messages and inclinations of the senses and thereby the mystic brings the ground of the soul or the seat of Transcendental feeling into the area of consciousness. Once it is thus brought to the conscious level, it becomes amenable to the activity of the will. Such losing to find appears to be necessary, if man's transcendental powers are to be brought to its fullness.