One of the worst mistakes in the 20th century in terms of mind introspection was the development of the idea of the ‘subconsciousness’. There simply ain’t no such thing. It’s a condescending term used to supposedly point out right brain activity, but the problem is: it doesn’t. There is no ‘consciousness operating on a sub level’ which, even worse, some people equate with animalistic consciousness. Bollocks, bollocks! Let me explain.

First of all you have to understand that the human mind, after we are about 4 to 5 years old, moves towards the left brain and centers there. The ratio has an island function and all we know is that which has been placed on that island. That island is a divided island: it has again a ‘rational’ part and an ‘irrational’ part, but these are two sides of the same coin, two halves of the same island. Therefore the concept of a ‘God’ or whatever else concept one might deem irrational is no more than that: an irrational concept operating within a rational whole.

What then, is the right brain? The right brain is the imagination. The fantastic. The hallucinative. Something most people have hardly any experience with. They seem to be content to spend most of their lives roaming about the island of the ratio, shadow boxing with the ‘irrational’ which in reality is the very thing that defines their existence, since the rational can’t exist without the irrational. It’s a duality within a duality and the only escape out of it is by the wilderness of the feared imagination that surrounds it.

That’s why art and artists have traditionally always been seen as valuable. They are the ones that have crossed into the wilderness, unlike the ultra rational priests whose ‘God’ is simply a set of rational opinions, an extension lead of himself. They are the ones who know the way out of that horrible little island where anything is just a dull shadow fight between meaningless abstractions.

Subconsciousness? A ridiculous idea. The sort of idea people would vent who don’t want to be responsible for their actions. There is only one consciousness, there can be only one consciousness.
This consciousness experiences either left or right brain phenomenons. The idea that there would be a ‘consciousness’ operating besides the one we have is completely insane, because who, then, would witness these different ‘consciousnesses’? Who ‘has’ those consciousnesses? You get the picture: there seems to be a misunderstanding as to what ‘consciousness’ is.

‘Consciousness’ is simply what is left after we strip the mind of all its attributes. Thoughts aren’t ‘consciousness’ simply because if they were there would be no one to hear them!

Ergo: there is one consciousness that moves through a duality (left brain – right brain) but, strangely, has created a bootstrap within one half of that duality, a mirror, where some sort of eternal shadowboxing contest takes place. The consciousness is trapped in a false duality rather than a real one.