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psychical centres (centres in the Sukshma body) is fraught with "horrible confusion".
According to these two writers there is a cleavage of opinion but Sri Aurobindo is true to the Upanishads, whereas Rele's is a hypothesis. Between them it is the Upanishads that have to prevail, so far and so long as we are studying the psychological aspect of the Upanishads.
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We shall next consider what the modern writers have to say regarding the psychonic theories of psychology independently.
The latest writers on the subject of Mind postulate a Psychon as different from a theory of Neuron and the proton. Two writers on the subject are Dr. Marston and Mr. Bousfield.
"Just as protons and electrons are aggregated into protoplasm, it is suggested that the psychons may be aggregated into psychoplasmic structures. The protons and electrons which constitute a protoplasmic structure are widely spread apart and hence there is no difficulty in the way of conception of an interpenetrating psychoplasmic structure. The psychoplasm may be regarded as a constituent of every living cell including the germplasm and also as capable of constituting psychic structures comparable with the complex structures which are built out of protoplasm. The protoplasm and the psychoplasm are thus regarded as 'concomitants' the one carrying the physical basis of life, the other its psychical basis, both interacting electrons and psychons belong to the physical realm. Psychonic psychoplasm is regarded as being of mass so small as to be practically negligible. says Bousfield. He further says regarding the brain, "we may conceive of the psychic brain as distributed through the open atomic network of the material brain, though this is not essential. In any case the material brain and the psychic brain are both bathed in the ether which separates them and yet links them by etheric vibrations without the necessity of any direct paths such as nerves."