We feel justified in quoting further from Dr. Schofield, for he voices in the strongest manner that which the Yogi Philosophy teaches as fundamental truths regarding the mind.  Dr. Schofield is an English writer on Psychology, and so far as we know has no tendency toward occultism, his views having been arrived at by careful scientific study and investigation along the lines of Western psychology, which renders his testimony all the more valuable, showing as it does, how the human mind will instinctively find its way to the Truth, even if it has to blaze a new trail through the woods, departing from the beaten tracks of other minds around it, which lack the courage or enterprise to strike out for themselves.

Dr. Schofield writes:  “The mind, indeed, reaches all the way, and while on the one hand it is inspired by the Almighty, on the other it energizes the body, all whose purposive life it originates.  We may call the supra-conscious mind the sphere of the spirit life, the sub-conscious the sphere of the body life, and the conscious mind the middle region where both meet.”

Continuing, Dr. Schofield says:  “The Spirit of God is said to dwell in believers, and yet, as we have seen, His presence is not the subject of direct consciousness.  We would include, therefore, in the supra-conscious, all such spiritual ideas, together with conscience—­the voice of God, as Max Muller calls it—­which is surely a half-conscious faculty.  Moreover, the supra-conscious, like the sub-conscious, is, as we have said, best apprehended when the conscious mind is not active.  Visions, meditations, prayers, and even dreams have been undoubtedly occasions of spiritual revelations, and many instances may be adduced as illustrations of the workings of the Spirit apart from the action of reason or mind.  The truth apparently is that the mind as a whole is an unconscious state, by that its middle registers, excluding the highest spiritual and lowest physical manifestations, are fitfully illuminated in varying degree by consciousness; and that it is to this illuminated part of the dial that the word “mind,” which rightly appertains to the whole, has been limited.”

Oliver Wendell Holmes has said:  “The automatic flow of thought is often singularly favored by the fact of listening to a weak continuous discourse, with just enough ideas in it to keep the (conscious) mind busy.  The induced current of thought is often rapid and brilliant in inverse ratio to the force of the inducing current.”

Wundt says:  “The unconscious logical processes are carried on with a certainty and regularity which would be impossible where there exists the possibility of error.  Our mind is so happily designed that it prepares for us the most important foundations of cognition, whilst we have not the slightest apprehension of the modus operandi.  This unconscious soul, like a benevolent stranger, works and makes provisions for our benefit, pouring only the mature fruits into our laps.”