Deep, deep inside us are the underlying mental processes which conditions each mental process, it is where no active process of consciousness occur, where nothing appears to be going on. This is where the forms of manifest cognitive awareness are mutually exclusive with these undercurrents of psychic life. The former ceases when the latter arises. It is the psychic province that defines the innemost character and capabilities of any given beings communication between him and himself, and which exerts a definite form of influence on conscious mental states. All mental cognition that arises is dependent on these subcurrents of the mind, as mental objects, and attention, this is the fundamental condition for the emergence of cognitive awareness. Its relinking with a consciousness is done early in our lives and it provides us with an elevated perception of psychological continuity and a sense of our life as a composite whole. In india this is conceptualized in the experience of bhavanga, and I think our connection to it can be used to explain why we have a sense of continuity of our personality in our lifetime. Psychological awareness normally arise conditioned by other mental expreriences. However, they also have an unspecified kind of energy and form that is formulated as a supporting condition as its absolute basis. These forms of energy arise in relation to active events in consciousness and then gradually form and expand the psychic process between them and the phenomena that is shaped by their subconscious energy as they approach the threshold of consciousness.
It is precisely here that I also find the ancient Egyptian psychological function of Maat conceptualized as a relation to this subconscious stream of forms. As the mind-image of a psychic balance and meditative equanimity. Today, perhaps most evident in the scientific use of mathematics and its work with symbolic equivalence and the meditative state required in the processes that arise when it is used as a tool to evoke images of the inner functionality of matter and in the individual instances of when ”bhavaṅga” is molding itself in our psychic consciousness, and we experience its elevated reconnection that it conjure up in us as we have our encounter with it.
”It functions as The underlying stream of consciousness that is ordinarily subsistent and can be perturbed by external stimuli, leading to arisen consciousness.. Acting as the foundational aspect that supports the mind process and the arising of mental activity.. A stream of subconsciousness that flows continuously unless interrupted by active consciousness.. And a state of consciousness that arises in the intervals of thought and cognition during meditation.. The foundational aspect that supports the mind process that underlies experiences, an indispensable cause or condition of existence, experienced passively as a foundational aspect of mental continuity, reflecting a vacant state of mind that remains passive unless activated by conscious experiences.. The factor of life that represents an indispensable cause or condition of existence, experienced passively during dreamless sleep and continually throughout life. A fundamental type of consciousness that underlies experiences, often referred to as the mind-door.”
Its sideeffect is expressed as Nibbida and as; ”The skillful turning away of the mind from the conditioned samsaric world towards the unconditoned, the transcendent – nibbana Source.” And: ”The state of disenchantment or a profound understanding of the futility of sensual craving and attachment, leading to mental peace.”
These sentences are extracts from wisdomlib https://www.wisdomlib.org/concept/bhavanga
In my experience this is not kamma. Kamma is to attach ourselves to its content. Which makes us cling to what has been, which in turn makes tomorrow its opposite consequence and put the mind on its potential future. It makes us constantly swing back and forth between them. This content in itself is not kamma, but the conscious content that we alternately observe as the content of enlightenment when we are receptive to it. It is the dormant undercurrent that reveals itself as truth when the fleeting content of personal consciousness pauses in its constant course between the past and the future. It is when that happens that we are able obtain the content that enables us to cognitively perceive the wisdom of nature that emerge from the subsistent sense of the absolute basis of our being.
I cannot resist to also mention that it resembles the psychological aspect of the Australian aboriginals Dreamtime and Dreaming. Where the Dreaming explains the origin of the universe and the workings of nature and humanity. That it also shapes and structures life.
”It seems like nature itself consists of probability waves, and the visible order of the world is then determined by the interference of these waves..” -Lothar Schäfer. Quote, ”These probability waves are empty and carry no mass or energy, just information on numerical relationships.” EOQ.
Here I put an equal sign between probability fields and the psychic impermanence of existence.
It appears to me as a kind of declaration given to consciousness as its intention. Like the function of the Old Egyptian concept of Nu, the primordial chaos or formless cosmic sea from which the interaction of birth and rebirth is made in the function of materialisation of psyche and energy into consciousness and matter by the concept of Nut. Or the meditative state of the subconscious as seen through the nightsky and beyond of its cosmic content. But on the condition of having in part a sense of the essence of the primordial whole, and at the same time experience beingness as a total emptiness and as an orphan.
This is the absolutely fundamental experience of the impermanence of existence, and the psychic interaction we can only observe when it is perceived in its independent association with various cognitive parts of consciousness.
Different cultures have used their own means and tools to put themselves in the meditative state required to experience this. Of which I have tried to demonstrate some above. The most original of them is probably rhythmic drumming. Like the Sami drum, the Goavddis, translated it means a tool to evoke images with. The bottom line is, there is a psychic realm of non-material forms, which do exist in the physical reality as the experimental basis of the visible world.
It is this reality that makes us part of nature from within, and something we cannot ignore without jeopardizing our mental health.