Definitions: (1) endowed with understanding or reason; sensible; (2) sane; lucid; (3) suprarational <above normal reasoning>
Balancing Quality: Heart
Quotes:
• A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational. — Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) Italian theologian
• Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different. — William James (1842-1910) American psychologist & philosopher
Note: The subconscious was proposed in 1889 by Pierre Marie Felix Janet (1859-1947) French psychotherapist & philosopher; the superconscious in 1928 by Henri Antoine Jules-Bois (1868-1943) French writer