All of mind's contents are the accumulation of our experiences from the day we are born. If we can accept, from serious and extensive watchfulness, that the mind is relentless in its activity, and our moments of consciousness are very short and are separated by long intervals of completely unconscious, mechanical working of the machine. You can then see that you think, feel, act, work, without being conscious of it. 

People are automatons, their actions COMPLETELY governed by their environment. Our biggest mistake is thinking that we always have consciousness. In reality, consciousness is always in flux. Now you are conscious, and in the next you are not. Someone learning to drive for the first time requires total awareness of doing. Consciousness. After much practice, driving becomes mechanical. Unconscious. I am in india because it heightens my sense of consciousness. Everything is new, it is easier to be in the present. I am forced to be in the present. Self-observation becomes easier. Meditation is easier. I am 'at my best' when I'm in the present. I feel i am most myself. Too many months in one place, going through the usual daily activities of earning money, traveling the same route, meeting the same people, makes one unconscious. In unconsciousness, a person is COMPLETELY susceptible to external stimuli. If you don't have your mind, something else does. TV, radio, newspapers, magazines, advertising, a relentless barrage of cultural garbage created by other unconscious, materialistically hungry 
, ego-enhancing automatons. 

Even with all our good intentions, we are helpless to do anything different. We cannot change our circumstances because we dont have our minds. There are more wars and revolutions then ever before, and still we try change the outer. Elect a better president, Keppler 22b. We can only get what we've gotten in the past, because that is the basis our minds are operating from.