In this episode of Psychic and Noetic Action, Helena Blavatsky moves beyond her critique of the scientific community’s materialistic blind spots to offer a profound exploration of the mind’s true nature. She reveals that the mind is not confined to the brain but operates as a vast network of intelligence relaying information between every organ and cell of the body, a system essential to human existence. Blavatsky redefines the term psychic as it pertains solely to the astral plane, distinguishing its function from higher spiritual realms. With her signature precision, she illuminates how the Higher and Lower Minds process different forms of information, enabling us to discern between impulsive desires and spiritually inspired insights—ultimately guiding us to more informed and intentional choices.

Initially, in Helena P. Blavatsky’s article on Psychic and Noetic Action - 1, she distinguishes between motivational inspiration that comes from the plane of the soul only to humans, versus actions that are more simply by-products from the thrust of our personalities. Though late 1800’s scientists dismissed free will as nonexistent, one by one, their methods of analysis and faulty logic are exposed. With scientists’ limited perception and overemphasis on gross matter toppled, she broadens the view, to reveal an understanding of our dual nature and how this affects what is in our minds.

Coming soon is the latter part of this article, delving more deeply into how this dual nature, which is unique to mankind, guides our actions.

The Secret Doctrine’s author and founder of Theosophy, Madame Helena P. Blavatsky, addressed her scientific contemporaries as not brilliant conveyers of newly discovered truths, but as fallible men, whose inquiries into the very subjects of the day they popularized, as being too shallow to accurately inform their public. At the time of her writings in the 1860s, scientific discoveries were propelling the industrial age and Western medicine forward, but in the subtle subjects such as psychology, understanding the precursors to thought entering the human mind and how to discern wisdom from falsehood, the coarseness of their mentalities impeded accuracy. She sites materialism, complete rejection of the soul and our Higher Self and more, as their fateful impediments, yet manages to she brightens the path to informed discernment for her readers.