“Mr. Kingsland: How does it arise that we have certain physical functions? You are simply tracing it back. I say those functions develop through innumerable ages by means of evolution; these things act through the Kama-rupa experience of past action.
Mr. Sargeant: You don’t mean that the past experiences are the very causes that set these influences at work?
Mr. Kingsland: I don’t. I carry that analogy up to what Old says about the conscious and the unconscious ratiocination. I say that the unconscious is simply that same result. By analogy you can put it in the same way: that your intuition is the result of all the past stages you have gone through in the stages of consciousness – in fact, your evolution.
Mr. B. Keightley: I think it works out from the known experience of the training of the muscles. You learn to do certain very complicated muscular actions at first with great pain and difficulty, such as writing. Gradually the thing becomes automatic; you do it without thinking of the different steps. You think of the sense you are going to express, and you do not think of the individual movement of your hand.
Mr. Kingsland: There is nothing you can do at the present moment but what is the result of your past experiences.
Mr. Old: I can trace it in what the physicists call inhibited action. If one gets into the way of nursing his thumb in his pocket, it is a strange thing how this will become habitual. First of all, it is generally voluntary, but it becomes a habit, and it is then called an inhibited action. And the seat of the cerebral forces is the [ ] {cerebrum}; it is supposed to be the lieutenant of the thinking brain. Then, when you have decided to walk home, you don’t have to think of putting more than the first foot foremost; the rest follow.
What I wish to say is this: I find some difficulty in tracing this inhabited {inhibited} action which has once been voluntary action. How can you say that vital action was ever inhibited, was ever involuntary? If you can prove that each pulsation of the aorta of the heart was controlled voluntarily, then you can prove the case.
Mr. Kingsland: Your present physical body is the result of several influences which can be traced back to a previous incarnation.
Mr. Keightley: The point is this: whether, for instance, the involuntary action of the muscles – as in the beating of the heart – is the result of evolution. I contend it is the result of the evolution of the molecules forming the heart.
Mr. Old: But not of conscious experiences.
Mr. Kingsland: Not in your present lifetime.”
H. P. Blavatsky
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