... as material objects and the environment. Rogers states that only a portion of this reality is conscious, the rest is mostly subconscious or unconscious. The foreground of our field "conscious experience", is laid against a background of subliminally perceived reality, which may come into focus whenever this is deemed to be conducive to our actualisation [A concept which I will discuss further on]. e.g. The other day I was so immersed in study, I didn't "realise" that I had not eaten anything for hours, upon sensing hunger, I suddenly became "aware" of the bowl of fruit laid right under my nose. The fruit bowl "Reality" was there all the time, but I only consciously perceived it, when the need arose i.e. hunger. (Rogers 1951:483,487) As mentioned above, the field is subjective and relative to the individual, no one can ever fully understand the field of an other, simply because the ...

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