3. The Conscious Process

The conscious process depends on spiritually nutritious values, just as our digestive system depends on healthy foods. Consciousness interfaces with physicality, divinity, and our soul. It is spiritually driven, not the product or correspondent of physical matter, as science would have us believe.

‘Life is the supreme value.’ All our faculties support life, and our biological cells, tissues and organs rely on nutrient transfer. Consciousness exists for the same purpose but in the mental realm. It is a value transfer process. This diagram, called the Value Transfer Wave (VTW), illustrates its sequential process.

Free will (left) enables us to think, reason, inquire, research, discover, and evaluate difficulties and benefits. Our choice opens or closes the gate to all ideas, truths, postulates, beliefs, wishes, whims, propaganda, and indoctrinations. Our choices may be subjective, but the process of life is objectively unalterable despite our free choices.

Subconscious Mind

Our subconscious mind draws on its memory database, our present moment goals and actions and the values we hold, all the information it needs to honour our goals, objectives and desires. Equating all this data with what we are doing in each moment, it monitors and adjusts our muscles, heart rate, adrenaline, and so forth to complete our tasks expeditiously.

Once that is done, the subconscious mind delivers two progress reports: perception shows what we have achieved, while feelings report success or distress. 

There is much more to this value transfer wave diagram the meets the eye.  It's all explained in my books. 

Life Values

Life is the reason we have values. Life-supporting values are our intellectual lifeblood. Akin to virtues, they may be described as those that bring spiritual purpose and meaning to our lives. Examples include truth, honesty, respect, commitment, honour, integrity, justness, responsibility, and prudence. We choose these values to benefit our lives. If we do not, we are prey to all manner of ills.

When we inform the subconscious about what we value, we gain control and empowerment over our lives, meaning the subconscious mind interfaces physicality with spirituality and our soul with divinity.

These spiritual values are transferred between our conscious and subconscious minds, just as our cardiovascular system transfers bodily nutrients. Consequently, our conscious ‘process’ is entirely objective in life terms; despite it may be called upon to process subjective (even harmful) ‘content.’ 

Do you see? The mental process is altogether different from the cognitive content that it processes. Either we respect nature and self-governance, or we disrespect ourselves. Do you see the simple truth? Intrinsically, we are self-governing individuals, as nature or nature’s God determined. Embace that principle, and you will enjoy sovereignty as nature intended. And that is Conscious intelligence. It annuls the whole problem discussed here. 

Reason

Reason allows us to change attitudes and traditions and convert beliefs into knowledge, all with free will and self-determination. The natural law of right reason states that reasoning discovers truths that are not self-evident, assisting us to adapt ideas and material existence to life-sustaining purposes.

‘Reason’ relates to ‘integrity’ and ‘courage.’ In like manner, reason is the testing point of all values. The bottom line is ‘life.’ To live as the Creator intended, we must accept ‘life’, authenticate its values, and have the will and fortitude to enact them.

Let’s not forget ‘logic.’ Its stabilising power allows us to analyse and validate information free from deceptions. Add this force to the imagination, and our mental powers are formidable. 

Will

Free will means our freedom to choose an action. Will is expressed as a conscious, calm, resolved determination. It is maintaining a mental attitude of intention and commitment despite temptations to the contrary. Will is of the conscious mind, while power is the subconscious mind’s ability to initiate, direct, execute, monitor, and complete our intention(s). ‘Will’ is of our conscious choice, while ‘power’ is the product of our subconscious mind.

Willpower is a term that connects our conscious intention with our subconscious mind’s empowered capacity to make it happen. Both minds are involved in exercising our willpower. 

Perception

The study of our five senses informs us that a complex neurological process is required to experience a sensation and integrate sensations into percepts. That automatic and non-volitional process is what we call perception. We are made consciously aware of the results but not the preceding process. Because our perceptions (and indeed our feelings) are abstractions, our cognitive mind is prompted to consider, learn, and understand what we perceive and feel then act on those findings.

Altogether, our two minds have three principle functions, viz…

1. Sensory ability includes light, sound, and tactile stimuli, as well as information received from our own body parts, joints, muscles, skin, and internal organs. It also includes emotions, thoughts, and memories from within.
2. Motor functionality. Our minds integrate, store, and retrieve signals for different mental processes, including thinking, remembering, and experiencing emotions. They also control muscle tone and balance, breath control, adrenaline release, sweat secretion, and much more.
3. Two-way communication. Communication unites all of our nine higher faculties. Bodily effectors, such as muscles and glands, communicate with other parts to control body functions, all in response to constantly changing factors.

Our mind and body are a convivial society consisting of some fifty trillion unique individuals, all functioning collaboratively. Separating the (free will) cognitive processes from the automated sub-conscious functions permits the study of their communication inside a closed (value-transfer) loop that mimics the body’s endocrine system. The process is shown above in a wave form.

Imagination

Imagination is usually regarded as forming new ideas, images or concepts unavailable to the senses. Its fundamental purpose is to paint pictures of our values on the canvas of our subconscious mind. Imagination is the Creator’s gift of a paint box. Thus, our automated abilities are boosted beyond anything we can conceive of.

Intuition

It is commonly believed today that intuition is the ability to acquire knowledge without proof, evidence, or conscious reasoning. This description falls dismally short because it enables us to accept intuit information founded on values we are not aware of.

Intuition stems from integrating all the subconscious mind holds in its focus, particularly our values and present-moment activities. When the subconscious mind flawlessly matches past events and circumstances with present values and material goals, it fires! It sees the big picture. It offers a snapshot view of what we seek as though we had leapfrogged the discovery path and reached its end.

This intuitive tipoff is a mental abstraction appearing to us as a hitherto unknown realisation. There is no magic. Intuition utilises our perceptive ability to process vast sums of data instantaneously, and thus, like a lightning-fast software program, our discovery path is short-circuited. It is complete with spiritual overtones. Intuition is Creator’s gift of automated mental efficiency in the form of insight, and our life-values are its fuel. Tragically, no one teaches it, much less the conscious process..

If our values support and uphold our lives, intuit information will help our goals. Equally, it will support bogus ideologies and erroneous beliefs that we have accepted as truths that we have allowed our subconscious mind to assimilate as values. We should replace the common misconception that we must trust our intuition with trusting our values to (spiritually) guide it. 

Does imagination have a connection to intuition, which connects with perception? Absolutely!

Instinct - Reflex action

Instinct and intuition are close relatives. Both occur before any action takes place, but there is a vast difference.

• Intuition is an offer of information - to be considered and evaluated before acting on it.
• Reflexes deliver instant action - bypassing all consideration and evaluation.

That said, free will is not bypassed by instinctual action. The subconscious mind has already learned how to act in certain circumstances, and ‘life’ is its only concern. When life is threatened, the subconscious reacts instantly — according to (previously learned) free will choices. It could be said that our reflex actions are the mental equivalent of our bodily immune system. Both exist to arrest and/or correct errors.

Now add ‘feelings’ to this mix, with ‘conscience,’ since they both exist to keep our spiritual values on track. Do you see how richly we are blessed by our conscious process? Some faculties aid efficiency and efficacy. Others protect and correct. All function automatically while our free will mind provides physical, mental and spiritual values as fuel, in full accord with our choices.

Conscience

Conscience and intuition are effectively the same subconscious faculty. One alerts us where our values are headed—and the other alerts us where our thought train is headed.

Conscience checks and equates our ethical or unethical thoughts with the spiritual necessities of life that the subconscious mind is tasked to uphold.

This evaluation occurs before any action is committed. Thus —

• Intuition delivers valued insight before we act–like an automated search engine. (Bing or Google assistance)
• Conscience delivers value prompts before an action or behaviour. (Automated value check.)
• Feelings deliver value prompts concerning subsequent actions or behaviours. (Spiritual, moral and material reports.)

 Are you beginning to see how the Conscious Process is united and how all faculties work together cooperatively upholding every aspect of your life?

Memory

Memory is the subconscious process of storing and recalling information. It fuels our discoveries, imagination, intuition, instinct, conscience, and emotions. Its database records our values, knowledge, and experiences. Beliefs are included since they conform to our values or what we have deemed to be truthful knowledge. Extreme caution is advised.

When sensory ‘perception’ is thought to mean precisely what ‘awareness’ means, and when both are considered understanding, no need exists for further enquiry. Thus, spiritual values are rendered inconsequential when material goals satisfy our desires. We short-circuit spirituality at great peril because the value transfer loop delivers a disastrous result based on inappropriate input from our memory.

Given this circumstance, our whole intellectual process is starved of spiritual values, almost forcing us to exist in a state of animality deprived of free will and where our feelings make no sense.

Spiritual vacancy

Little of the above descriptions are taught. This deprived intellectual, emotional and spiritual state is the worldwide cause of most emotional stress, anxiety and trauma. Relying on the subconscious mind to garner values outside our knowing, from which to deliver our emotions, is a fast track to misery and stress.

Mistaken, erroneous, or imprecise values are the problem, not consciousness. When spiritual values are introduced to the conscious process, all of our mental faculties are inseparably united. It is a great human tragedy that science has not understood these looped functions and their astounding similarity, interconnectedness, and interdependence.

• Conscience, feelings and emotions are our mentors.
• Imagination translates values from word concepts into the subconscious vocabulary of images.
• Intuition taps unknown sources to offer valuable tips and information in keeping with our choices.
• Reflexes protect against material accidents like the immune system protects our bodies. 
• Each of our nine higher faculties plays a vital role in the value transfer loop. All are interconnected and interoperable thereby.
• Our higher faculties thrive on spiritual values, of which free will is the author.

The two most formidable individual powers are logic and imagination.  

• Logic is grounding and stabilising. It allows you to analyse any situation or cluster of information and see its validity or invalidity beyond deception.
• Imagination allows the most splendid vision for your life and acts toward its fulfilment.

Supposed problems are explained by full consciousness

Given what the machinery of the eye does, now the sudden, breathtaking experience of depth and clarity turns out to be instant recognition and acceptance of one’s life values, manifested in one’s observation. No ‘hard problem of consciousness’ exists.

In the same way, all experiences of mental suffering and distress signify threats or challenges to the values we have (formerly) chosen to uphold and sustain our lives. We can change those values in minutes, as infants teach us. 

The question of why specific visible activity in the hypothalamus produces a feeling of hunger is fully answered. It is simply one’s conscious process reporting or communicating that our body process lacks nutritious food. No ‘hard problem‘ that troubles science exists. Life values confirm that a sudden, breathtaking experience of depth and clarity confirms is simply a mental, emotional, and spiritual process of identification and communication—the prime means of our success. 

Many people claim that we are spiritual beings living a physical life. Instead, we are spiritual beings living spiritual lives. Physicality is our toolbox for exercising spiritual accomplishment. 

Each of us has been given the ability to choose our course in life and put our most desired values on autopilot for the rest of our lives. That allows us to slash our mental workload to almost nothing. Joy leaps, and fears vanish.

The Conscious Process offers enormous benefits.

The more we awaken to conscious understanding, the simpler it becomes, even to its founding principles taught to five-year-olds. Revelations are astonishing–.

• They reveal undeniable connectivity between our nine (not six) higher mental faculties — which no philosopher or neuroscientist has yet mentioned.
• Free will is (deductively) found sandwiched between two different subconscious functionalities. Implications arising from that understanding blow the mind.
• Several different uses of our very powerful integration faculty are themselves wholly unified, from which the dynamic power of full consciousness is revealed.

These and many other insights smash the centuries-old conscious ignorance and ambivalence. They awaken the human mind to (soul-gratifying) deliverance from the torments of conscious ignorance.

One stands in awe of these revelations. Nothing in the history of psychology compares. Nothing in mainstream philosophy equates. Personal benefits are to be prized above anything taught today. Anyone prepared to apply these life-value principles will excel beyond measure.

We are each the author of our feelings. Nature obliges us to objectively back-engineer them to identify their causative values. Thus, we can retain these values, revise them, or change our future behaviour. That is a simple task if you put your values on auto-pilot! (Methods for uploading values to the subconscious mind are described in my book.

By those (conscious process) means, we can prosper mentally, emotionally, and spiritually, as never before taught. Full consciousness answers what science has yet to discover and what theologians have yet to glimpse. Spiritual values enhance material values, not vice versa. To have been denied understanding of nature’s greatest gift for centuries is a monumental tragedy. But no more! What consciousness is, what it does, and why it evolved are now explained.

We are each blessed with a mental partner devoted entirely to our lives. All it asks is that we consciously choose to accompany it by aligning our values.

Now look further. The cognitive mind cannot control the subconscious process because it is automated. Similarly, the subconscious mind cannot overrule the mental mind, or free will is a lie.

If the ‘non-aggression principle’ (NAP) springs to mind, you’re on a winner. Truth is, cooperative benefits and the ‘natural law of no trespass’ are encrypted in our complete conscious processes. That fact is many times more potent than the NAP and our Creator’s full approval cannot be disputed. 

Are you beginning to see where humanity ran off the rails and how conscious ignorance is never challenged? 

The conscious process offers free societies 

Philosophy has long regarded individuality as dangerous and thus promoted authoritarian rule as a moral ideal for all societies. With our independence trashed in this manner, what possible need exists to study human consciousness?

Sarcasm aside, the ‘collectivist’ or ‘socialist’ ideal, in which groups have priority over individuals, is usually expressed as the greatest good for the most significant number. Authoritarian government results in each living human being legally held to be an artificial person under state control and ruled by force. Individual rights are rejected as having no place whatsoever. As a result, the power of every newly born human being is stolen before they can learn of it. You and your children have been robbed, and this insanity is called a moral society!

But no more!

Once the conscious process is understood as an automated means of sustaining life-supporting values authored by your free will, self-mastery and self-governance assume vital importance. If that sounds like work, it’s not.

We can program our subconscious minds so that our desires become automated. Very few teach how, yet infants do it. My book ‘Conscious Ascendance’ describes how the few spiritual values we need are uploaded to auto-pilot. Our mental work markedly diminishes while emotional stress and anxiety vanish. Our creativity, productivity, and happiness soar free from stress and fear. Spiritual accomplishments excel, and joy floods our lives.

© Kenneth E. Bartle 2025