We earlier asked about stubbornness when resisting authority. How serious is subconscious stubbornness resisting the authority of the conscious self?

We would say that this is a quite serious issue, indeed. Much of what governs a person’s life is, in effect, chosen and controlled by the subconscious mind. Even what you believe you want consciously is often a dish served up to you by the subconscious for you to savor and partake of, more so than what you prize as intellect and reason. There is certainly an interplay between the levels of the mind but it is seamless and will not be perceived as such. It is a kind of call and response where the conscious self seeks information, wants to devise a creative answer to a period of uncertainty, or to make decisions about differing choices being reviewed, and so on, and the subconscious will weigh in, floating ideas up for consideration. The conscious self naively believes it is doing all this work and the rumination and the choosing of alternatives to think about, and then to pick a winner, so to speak, as a decision to move forward, not understanding all the while, everything was biased by what the subconscious is bringing up from long-term memory about the facts weighing in that fully define the array of choices. When information is hidden, it will not be considered by the conscious self at all, so what the subconscious self chooses to show the conscious mind is a significant form of inner bias completely unappreciated by science, but will have much to do with how a person lives and who they are from day-to-day in their thoughts and feelings, as well as actions at all levels of their involvement in life. What this implies further is that those factors that govern the health and wellbeing of the subconscious, particularly the deep subconscious, unreachable by the conscious level of the mind and completely separate from oversight and awareness, can become a missed opportunity for growth, inner stability, and the attainment of wisdom and a state of enlightenment perceivable by the conscious self. The deep subconscious is the largest part of the mind and the most important because it is also interacting directly with a database of knowledge and awareness of who one truly is, as governed by having had many other lifetimes, all of which are accessible and reviewable by the deep subconscious, so it knows all your past doings, all your past failures, and will predict many things about what might develop in your life, and some of these will be dire predictions based on past failures and painful experiences of all kinds, because it is fearing those bad times will be coming again and will begin to influence your decisions in what you choose to do and not do. Many people who are timid and remain on the sidelines in life are the victim of these kinds of inner ruminations and conclusions, that life is to be feared and for good reason, but the conscious mind has no clue why they are so anxious and why they feel the way they do and, in effect, sit on the sidelines rather than take the risks their deep subconscious is so afraid of, but the conscious self is unaware of in terms of the facts of the matter, and will be influenced heavily by the severe anxiety the inner conflict creates and will be helpless to override the inner fear in choosing what, to many, is a stubborn refusal to join the party.