The Environmental Consciousness

 The subliminal has besides a formation of consciousness which projects itself beyond all these sheaths [mental, vital, subtle-physical sheaths and forms a circumconscient, an environing part of itself, through which it receives the contacts of the world and can become aware of them and deal with them before they enter. The subliminal is able to widen indefinitely this circumconscient envelope and more and more enlarge its self- projection into the cosmic existence around it. A point comes where it can break through the separation altogether, unite, identify itself with cosmic being, feel itself universal, one with all existence.

SABCL
Vol 18 page 541
                             

[There is] a secret circumconscient or environmental consciousness in which are determined our unseen connections with the world outside us.

SABCL
Vol 19 page959
                         

The individual is not limited to the physical body -it is only the external consciousness which feels like that. As soon as one gets over this feeling of limitation, one can feel first the inner consciousness which is connected with the body, but does not belong to it, afterwards the planes of consciousness above the body, also a consciousness surrounding the body, but part of oneself, part of the individual being, through which one is in contact with the cosmic forces and with other beings. The last is what I have called the environmental consciousness.

SABCL
Vol 22 page 313

Each man has his own personal consciousness entrenched in his body and gets into touch with his surroundings only through his body and senses and the mind using the senses.
    Yet all the time the universal forces are pouring into him without his knowing it. He is aware only of thoughts, feelings, etc., that rise to the surface and these he takes for his own. Really they come from outside in mind waves, vital waves, waves of feeling and sensation, etc., which take particular form in him and rise to the surface after they have got inside.
    But they do not get into his body at once. He carries about with him an environmental consciousness (called by the Theosophists the Aura) into which they first enter. If you can become conscious of this environmental self of yours, then you can catch the thought, passion, suggestion or force of illness and prevent it from entering into you. If things in you are thrown out, they often do not go altogether but take refuge in this environmental atmosphere and from there they try to get in again.

SABCL
Vol 22 page 313-14

They [the subconscient and the environmental consciousness] are two quite different things. What is stored in the subconscient -impressions, memories, rise up from there into the conscious parts. In the environmental things are not stored up and fixed, although they move about there. It is full of mobility , a field of vibration or passage of forces.

SABCL
Vol 22 page 314

The environmental is not a world - it is an individual thing.

SABCL
Vol 22 page 314