The Barrier Between the Conscious and Subconscious Mind

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READING 900-25 EXPLAINED

In reading 900-25, Edgar Cayce is explaining why people often feel separated from their deeper spiritual guidance. He says there is a “barrier” between the conscious mind and the subconscious mind. The conscious mind is the everyday thinking mind—the part that reasons, worries, analyzes, doubts, and makes decisions. The subconscious mind is deeper. It is the soul-level mind, the spiritual memory, the inner knowing that is closer to God and truth.

Cayce says this barrier is created mainly by the human will trying too hard to control everything. He says, “The entity, through will, reasons with the condition. Hence the barrier as created.” This means when we overthink, overanalyze, and try to force understanding, we block the deeper guidance already within us. The conscious mind keeps interrupting the quiet voice of the subconscious. Instead of listening, it argues. Instead of trusting, it demands proof. That reasoning itself becomes the wall.

He gives the example of sleep. When the body begins to fall asleep, the conscious mind starts to relax and the subconscious naturally begins to rise. But if a person keeps trying to stay mentally awake, keeps checking physical reactions, or keeps forcing awareness, the barrier stays strong. He says, “The continual thought as is carried, to see physical reaction, creates barrier.” In simple words, if you keep watching yourself too much, you prevent the deeper mind from flowing naturally. This is why true prayer, meditation, and even sleep require surrender rather than control.

He also warns that some people try to force spiritual experiences in unhealthy ways—through mental imbalance or careless practices. He calls this “indiscreet condition” and says it can wrongly submerge the conscious mind instead of harmonizing it. This is not true spiritual development. True growth is not destroying the conscious mind, but bringing conscious mind, subconscious mind, body, and soul into harmony.

The solution, Cayce says, is “the One-ness of Mind, Soul and Body.” This is the real goal. When mind, soul, and body are aligned, the subconscious can guide naturally without confusion. Then the person becomes “spiritual minded, subconscious minded, subconscious directed, spiritual directed.” This means the person begins to live from inner truth rather than outer fear. Decisions become clearer. Peace becomes stronger. Guidance becomes more natural. The soul begins to lead instead of the restless surface mind.

The subconscious, according to Cayce, is always working. He calls it “those ever directing” forces that give “light and development to the soul.” The subconscious is not asleep—it is constantly connected to spiritual law. The problem is not that God is silent, but that the conscious mind is too noisy.

So the purpose is not to kill the conscious mind, but to train it into trust, stillness, and surrender. Prayer helps. Meditation helps. quiet reflection helps. Love helps. Faith helps. When the conscious mind stops fighting and begins cooperating, the barrier becomes thinner. Then a person begins to live from deeper wisdom.

In simple terms: the conscious mind asks, “What should I do?” The subconscious already knows. The barrier is fear, overthinking, and control. The path is oneness, trust, and spiritual alignment. Then the soul can lead the life instead of the surface mind leading alone.

Conscious Mind vs Subconscious Mind

The conscious mind is the part of you that is awake, thinking, choosing, and reacting right now. It is your daily awareness. It reasons, compares, judges, plans, worries, and makes decisions. It deals with the outer world—what you see, hear, touch, and experience. When you ask yourself, “What should I do today?” or “Why did that happen?”—that is the conscious mind working.

The subconscious mind is deeper. It is the hidden inner mind beneath the surface thoughts. It stores memory, emotion, habits, impressions, beliefs, and spiritual influence. It keeps working even when you are asleep. It affects your feelings, instincts, dreams, and deep reactions. According to Cayce, it is much closer to the soul and to God’s guidance. It is not just memory storage—it is the deeper spiritual pattern behind your life.

You can picture it like this: The conscious mind is like the captain standing on the deck of a ship, looking at the waves and deciding where to turn.

The subconscious mind is like the deep engine room below, where the real power is moving the ship.

The captain can give directions, but if the engine room is full of wrong programming, fear, wounds, or hidden beliefs, the ship will still move according to that deeper force.

The conscious mind says: “I want peace.”

The subconscious mind may hold: “I am not safe.”

So even if the conscious mind wants peace, the subconscious keeps producing anxiety until it is healed.

Cayce taught that the conscious mind is the chooser, but the subconscious mind is the builder. The conscious mind plants seeds through thought, choice, prayer, and action. The subconscious grows those seeds into character, habits, and destiny.

He often described it like this:

Conscious mind is the present awareness

Subconscious mind is soul memory plus inner pattern

Superconscious is the connection to the Divine

The goal is not to let the subconscious control blindly, but to bring all three into harmony—mind, body, and soul. When the conscious mind aligns with truth, the subconscious becomes purified, and spiritual guidance becomes clearer.

In simple terms: The conscious mind is what you are thinking. The subconscious mind is what is really shaping you underneath your thinking. One speaks loudly. The other rules quietly.

READING 900-25

(Q) Explain that barrier between conscious and subconscious mind. How may we eliminate it to allow the subconscious to direct?

(A) As would best be illustrated in this: We (individuals) find in the earth's plane those mental conditions wherein the conscious and subconscious would manifest by some given suggestion. The entity, through will, reasons with the condition. Hence the barrier as created. Again, we have as exemplified, or shown, in this: Any indiscreet condition, as regarding the mental development, that would be made as to submerge the subconscious forces, then the barrier that would bring the direct condition in the given condition. As we find when the mental forces are in that condition of submerging the conscious forces, the entity attempting to create the consciousness of the transition, creates barrier. As we would find illustrated in these conditions: As the physical body sinks into that state wherein slumber of the physical body takes hold of physical conditions, and the body becomes submerged into the earthly subconscious, the continual thought as is carried, to see physical reaction, creates barrier.

Now, to overcome such conditions, bring about the consciousness, the One-ness of Mind, Soul and Body, that when such submerged conditions are enacted, we find the subconscious takes the direction in the physical plane. Then such an entity is given, as spiritual minded, subconscious minded, subconscious directed, spiritual directed individuals. The more this becomes manifested, the more the entity may gain the impressions, the actual conditions of the subconscious forces, those ever directing, that gives the light and development to the soul's forces from the physical plane.