For this we need an integrated mind capable of directly perceiving relatedness in the world. There is little question that intense motivation is the prime ingredient fueling the beginnings of creative thought since only assiduous, concentrated self-application can enable us to lift ourselves out of the quagmire of convention and distraction. Einstein, for instance, could not have attained his vision of relativity without burning interest and sufficient self-respect to take his own counter current intuitions seriously, and the conviction necessary to follow through against all odds. The subconscious, comprising the content of essence, is our inborn, hard-wired, coded knowledge of the world. It can be awakened to any significant degree only through intense, direct contact with reality and, to some extent, through the exercise of intuition that aims at the heart of essence.
Instinct provides the only common ground shared by the unconscious and subconscious.
Instinct is recorded in essence and rendered manifest through automatic, unconscious action. To the extent we allow ourselves to be absorbed in the framework of ready-made meanings that we encounter in the world, we are matter and thus subject to the vagaries of fate. To the extent that we are sufficiently active to absorb and transform our environment within the orbit of our personal meaning, we are mind, and thus connected to our destiny. To the extent that the world provides us with our meanings, we are distracted and subjective. To the extent that we bestow meaning to the world, we are conscious and objective.