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These limitations primarily make the outside world predictable, such that one can rely on its consistency, and thus one has security, can plan ahead and move around in the world with a fair degree of safety, knowing that the future will more than likely meet expectations known from the past. Much of this consistency can be considered as automatic, mundane and mechanical based on laws of probability. All of this consistency makes possible the operation of the person in the material world.
It is further premised that the conscious mind is the primary aspect, operator and director of the material self and the unconscious mind may be the primary aspect, operator and director of the of the spiritual self. The Materialist
Identity or Mundane Consciousness primarily and almost exclusively relies on the conscious mind for every aspect
of daily life, although men probably more than woman. The spiritual identity, or Symbolic Consciousness, while using
the conscious mind as much as the materialist, also has the
use of, or develops the ability to utilize the unconscious mind.
The problem for the spiritual self might be a too complete reliance on the logical conscious mind, that possesses diametrically opposed functions to the unconscious and shuts
it out. The conscious mind operates upon what it knows, with what is thought to be a fair degree of certainty, primarily based on what is termed Finite Context and Definitive Value. This means that everything may be identified, dealt with, experienced or treated in a conceptualized manner, as specifically by the affects, or results and products that a phenomenon, entity or event produces. Thus the experience of rain may systematically cause the associations of nasty weather. This means that associations are rigidly controlled. The sensory perception
of a tree may produce specific associations that identifies
it, categorizes it, makes determinations as to its value and consequence, all of which may determine how much attention one pay toward it if any, as one may never notice the elm tree they walk under everyday.
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