God Arises
Challenge of Modern Knowledge
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external reality. In the words of a western scholar:
“God is nothing but a projection of man on a cosmic
screen.” The concept of another world was nothing
but “a beautiful idealisation of human wishes.”
Divine inspiration and revelation were merely an
“extraordinary expression of the childhood
repressions.”
All these ideas are based on the premise that there
is something called the subconscious. Modern
research has revealed that the human mind is
divided into two major parts, one being termed the
conscious mind, the centre of those of our ideas,
which take shape in a state of consciousness. The
other part is the subconscious. In this part of the
mind, ideas are not usually alive in the memory, but
exist below the surface and find expression either in
abnormal circumstances, or in sleep, in the form of
dreams. Most human thoughts are buried in this
subconscious cell, the conscious part of the mind
being the smaller part. The subconscious is like the
eight-ninths of the iceberg, which remain below
water, while only one ninth, the conscious part, is
visible.
