
Frederic recalls earlier guidance about living more from the subconscious so that the Self expresses itself through the subconscious mind, and asks about the part of him that sabotages his expansion.
The Wonders describe the subconscious as an amazing but broadly directed tool: a repository of all the awareness, experience and knowledge gathered over many lifetimes, and also of the psychologies and belief structures applied over those lifetimes.
Out of these, a number of parts have been created, each pertaining to a lifetime and each designed to navigate the fear, judgment and guilt the mind uses.
Exploring the subconscious through dreams, meditation or reflection lets him move without the limits of present-life fear, judgment and guilt and can resolve issues far more easily than working around them consciously; unlike the conscious mind, however, it is not easily directed.
The sabotage arises because such parts infuse themselves into daily conscious decisions.
The remedy is for him, not merely his mind, to become sufficiently aware to observe where information is coming from and, when it comes from the subconscious, to direct it to stop supplying it.
That only slows things temporarily, so the fear-created part must then be resolved and matured, so it can recognize that he is no longer the person he was when it was created and see the beauty of who he now is.
Otherwise he believes he is exploring while a part of him refuses because it is too scary.
When he notes the mind is good at obfuscating and hiding this, they agree that this is what the mind does, and say the key is to observe all the time and without judgment, so that he sees it more quickly or at least can address it.

Frederic gives an example: while making his choices he suddenly caught a cold, and wonders whether that was significant beyond it simply being the season.
The Wonders reply that catching the cold was not his mind's decision, it was simply something that happened, but that the stress and movement beforehand which lowered his immune system was his mind's doing.
They add that how one deals with it matters: rather than feeling sorry for himself or resisting, as his mind and inner child would prefer, he can take some vitamin C and get on with life, supporting the body so it heals itself and taking the mind out of the equation.

Frederic asks whether this sabotaging ever stops or is simply how the mind is designed.
The Wonders state that the mind is a constant negative and that only he can command it to see the positive; on its own it will never choose the positive, and any positive in his life exists because the mind did not notice it.
The sabotage itself, they say, usually comes from the inner child who has not received the love and attention it feels it needs, or from a part created at thirteen, fifteen, nineteen or twenty years old out of fear, judgment and guilt in a moment of intensity, a part that never matured along with him, so that fear resurfaces just when he thinks he is choosing something.
Frederic finds the exploration exciting but seemingly endless; they answer that there is an end in the sense that it eventually becomes of less benefit to keep exploring, because he will observe things in the moment and address them in the moment.
The aim is not to change the contents of the subconscious repository but to observe when the subconscious insists on a choice while the conscious mind believes it is choosing something else, which Frederic restates as also choosing where to navigate in the subconscious.

Frederic asks whether the subconscious is also a repository of future lives.
The Wonders answer yes, provided the future life occurred previous to this one, because the mind is logical and linear and something can only be stored there if it existed before this existence, in a state where time is not the limiting factor.
Frederic asks whether, without time constraints, everything has therefore already happened; they confirm it has, while noting that the conscious, subconscious and unconscious are created at the moment of incarnation as tools for navigating third dimensional reality.
They offer a computer analogy: the conscious mind is RAM used to solve present problems, the subconscious is storage such as the hard drive and external drives holding the results, files and folders of everything ever done, and there is also a small automatic memory.
A past life is obviously before, while a future life is future relative to today's timeline yet is still on the hard drive because from the perspective of this moment it has already happened, even though from a time perspective it has not yet occurred.