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of Integral cognition of the Supramental great universal rhythms of art and music,
plane, the repository of the creative essence innovative ideas, creative thoughts, universal
of everything, experientially worked upon by archetypes and healing vibrations enter the
Sri Aurobindo and The Mother and still to be inner being. However as long as the outer
generalised as an experience. Each stage of being is supported by the ego, the inner
ascent to the higher realms is accompanied mind cannot be consolidated in its pristine
by a descent of the higher powers that gets uniqueness and is susceptible to be invaded
initiated with the downpour of Light and from the cosmic consciousness by huge
peace. Each stage of ascent is also signified by negative influences that in Aurobindonian
the progressive synthesis of Knowledge and parlance emanate from the ‘cosmic ignorance’.
Will that culminate in the Supermind, where One can have the entry into the cosmic
Will becomes luminous and Knowledge consciousness without the experiential
becomes effective. Each stage of ascent to contact with the soul-principle, “but then
the higher realms is marked by a downpour there is no freedom anywhere in the being
of innovative, intuitive, progressive, creative from the lower nature and one may become in
ideas that reaches the zenith in the pre- one’s extended consciousness the playground
programmed, totipotent creative essence at of all kinds of forces without being able to be
the Supermind: either free and detached from the Prakriti or free
and master (4).” It is only if the inner being is
“Thoughts leaped down from a superconscient field supported by the soul-principle or Psychic
Like eagles swooping from a viewless peak…. (3)” Being that the inner mind can filter the really
creative and unique ideas:

“Thoughts gleamed up from the screened
subliminal depths
Like golden fishes from a hidden sea (5).”

Entry of the Creative Ideas

The creative ideas and rhythms enter the
inner mind from the cosmic consciousness
and from there they enter the outer mind
through channels of communication that
are half-closed, half-open. The outer mind
is usually full of everyday habitual thoughts
of the physical mind, which is that poise of
the mind enmeshed in the physical schemata
The Cosmic Consciousness and relies only on sensory feedback. It has to
be silenced to receive the influx of creative
The inner or subliminal mind is connected ideas that descend from the superconscient
with the cosmic or universal consciousness. ranges as well as the creative ideas that arrive
It is from the cosmic consciousness that from the cosmic consciousness, both being

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