“Mrs. Gordon: It seems to me that the experiments that have been made in regard to hypnotism show that there is this higher consciousness which may be brought forward occasionally under exceptional circumstances – that is, with exceptional natures. It is not everyone in whom it can be developed. Don’t you think so, Madame? I am speaking of the latent soul. The other half which is not unconscious can be, as it were, more or less exhibited under some forms of hypnotism, in which the higher self becomes clairvoyant, and the other faculties always develop.
Mme. Blavatsky: Don’t you use the term “higher self”. That is the Atman.
Mr. B. Keightley: Say the higher ego. In most cases, that consciousness or ego refers to the personality in the third person speaking, for instance, of the name.
Mr. Kingsland: I take it in this way: that we have stored up, so to speak, in our Manas an enormous amount of experience that we have passed through in past incarnations, and we are not able by certain reasons of our physical constitution to assimilate and give expression to all that in our present lifetime, but the act of making use of your intuition is simply the act of getting at this storehouse that you have already in your Manas, and what is it that clouds our intuition is our connection with {the} physical plane, and if we can get rid of that, we can make use of our intuition.
Mme. Blavatsky: It is the amount of weeds and parasites that we have collected in our life which makes us positively fools.
Mrs. Gordon: You always see children much more intuitive than adults. Children have the intuition more prominent than we who live in the world and are more of the world, and our minds are exercised in connection with worldly things.
Mr. Kingsland: I think that also is the case.”
H. P. Blavatsky
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