I think Edgar Cayce said something similar too. I haven't read that book but it's on my reading list now, thank you! It's possible that modern science just doesn't have the entire picture. Subconscious might play a role but we could also be a receiver tapping into the universe's field of intelligence. Us humans have a bad habit of thinking in terms of "one way or another" instead of the possibility that it could be both simultaneously. I've read the heart might play a role in being the "receiver"—which makes sense when you think about some of the lore and oral history that is passed down. So much of our ancient history that was once deemed, "fantasy" is proving to be true. Much of it could have been passed down from knowledge/memories from past advanced human civilizations before the Younger Dryas impact.
RE: What is Consciousness?