11-20-2012, 02:27 AM
Interesting questions. I can offer a few thoughts.
The mind is our first stop when trying to understand phenomena. (The energy centers are more the places of real experience, but the mind interprets the narrative, and this aspect should not be underrated because our identity is linked therein.) It's very useful in worldly situations, but limited as things get farther out, if you will. Therefore, it's useful to know when the mind is telling things that are useful and when it is telling you things that are of no value. Additionally, through the steady mind--sometimes whether we like it or not--information can flow into consciousness regarding racial experience and so on into deeper realms.
I find that it's simplest to deal with what's already at hand.
To my mind--as it were--what's being said here is that you need consciously to know the tool you're using unconsciously most of the time. "Don't believe everything you think," in other words.
To the extent that you can become objective about the mind stuff, you can begin to see the thing at work and get some perspective on it's structure. "Ratios" and "geography," I expect, are terms used to describe the structure which for most of us is hidden because we are so close to it and dependent upon it. The balancing and other ways of observation and mitigation are tools to help one gain that objectivity. This then may lead to greater sensitivity to other modalities of perception.
One further thought...the completeness mentioned in the passage quoted above can at times be quite hard to take. Don't be surprised if you have an off-again on-again relationship with the process.
This may be more confusing than helpful, but there it is. Rots o' ruck!
The mind is our first stop when trying to understand phenomena. (The energy centers are more the places of real experience, but the mind interprets the narrative, and this aspect should not be underrated because our identity is linked therein.) It's very useful in worldly situations, but limited as things get farther out, if you will. Therefore, it's useful to know when the mind is telling things that are useful and when it is telling you things that are of no value. Additionally, through the steady mind--sometimes whether we like it or not--information can flow into consciousness regarding racial experience and so on into deeper realms.
I find that it's simplest to deal with what's already at hand.
Ra 5.2 Wrote:The disciplines of the mind involve, first of all, identifying both those things of which you approve and those things of which you disapprove within yourself, and then balancing each and every positive and negative charge with its equal. The mind contains all things. Therefore, you must discover this completeness within yourself.
To my mind--as it were--what's being said here is that you need consciously to know the tool you're using unconsciously most of the time. "Don't believe everything you think," in other words.
To the extent that you can become objective about the mind stuff, you can begin to see the thing at work and get some perspective on it's structure. "Ratios" and "geography," I expect, are terms used to describe the structure which for most of us is hidden because we are so close to it and dependent upon it. The balancing and other ways of observation and mitigation are tools to help one gain that objectivity. This then may lead to greater sensitivity to other modalities of perception.
One further thought...the completeness mentioned in the passage quoted above can at times be quite hard to take. Don't be surprised if you have an off-again on-again relationship with the process.
This may be more confusing than helpful, but there it is. Rots o' ruck!
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