Healthy-mindedness works very well until melancholia comes, then fails utterly. Unhappiness is apt to characterize the period of order making and struggle. Tolstoy, more gradual. Sought meaning in God. John Bunyan , very gradual.
Geniuses seem to have much wider fields of consciousness than average people.
The border betweeen the conscious and subconscious is fuzzy, a gray area. Neurotic symptoms are identical to those of sudden religious conversion. Many are not converted at revivals. Feelings associated with conversion Sense of control by higher power. This page has been accessed times since September 28, 1996.