I wasn't quite sure how to respond to your post TTP, so I'll just say: the only thing I can tell you is this: the mind is a tool. It is good for organizing things, and performing certain mechanical intellectual activities. And it is a wonderful tool.
You don't always need to be using that tool, however.
And in fact, if you are always using this tool, and most people are, you are slowly or quickly going mad most likely. Like I said, the mind is simply inner movement, inner turbulence. The mind has an agenda, and that is making itself separate from the rest of the universe. It latches onto events in time and space and proclaims certain aspects part of "me". Other events it rejects as "not me".
The mind does not unify, it segregates and divides, labels and distorts. That is its nature -- to discriminate among things.
The unifier is the spirit. Mind is inner movement, or thought ( the north pole), the body is outer movement, or tangible manifestation (the south pole), and the spirit is the integrator of these two magnetic poles.
Spirit is raw awareness. Mind is consciousness projected inwards, body is consciousness projected outwards. In between "inner" and "outer" is the self. The self, the inner, and the outer all come into being at virtually the same time. It's like looking in a mirror. The second you look into the mirror, there is a reflection (perhaps there is a brief delay, hardly worth mentioning haha).
It was the same way with spirit. The moment it started to "think", a self was formed, and before long, it started to collect those inner projections of thought as memory, and identify with them, and then reflect them outwards in the realm of tangible manifestation (as an inverted reflection). And tangible is relative (it doesn't have to be physical matter). If you were on the astral plane, your outer projected thoughts would appear like a vivid objective representation of your thoughts in full technicolor three dimensional imagery. So the "proto self" could be thought of as the Logos. As a subset of the Logos, you identify with less mind images than the Logos (it identifies with the totality). Though, identifying with the totality, is like not identifying with anything. You could say it either way, honestly (I know Ra says 7th density is no identity, which is why I want to make that distinction clear)
Anyway, I just gave you more to think about, which is unfortunate, because I want you to stop thinking, and just BE for a while. The point is to feel the power and peace and unity of the present. So here is your homework:
Next time you are walking, or sitting down comfortably, or whatever, just try to focus on the present moment to the exclusion of all thoughts. Try not to think about what's next, or what happened last, but simply what is being observed at this very moment. At first you will be inundated by thoughts as your monkey mind rails at the thought of quietude. But after awhile you will start to feel the sense of dissolving into the processes around you. It is very fleeting at first, and you will lose it almost straight away. Keep at it for a couple weeks, months, years and your ego (the sense of a separate self apart from creation) will start to dissolve. You might have some satori experiences. You'll still be looking in the mirror, but you won't be trying to "own" the image anymore.
Or you'll do it less, in anycase. Or perhaps I'm just rambling like a crazy person.
You don't always need to be using that tool, however.
And in fact, if you are always using this tool, and most people are, you are slowly or quickly going mad most likely. Like I said, the mind is simply inner movement, inner turbulence. The mind has an agenda, and that is making itself separate from the rest of the universe. It latches onto events in time and space and proclaims certain aspects part of "me". Other events it rejects as "not me".
The mind does not unify, it segregates and divides, labels and distorts. That is its nature -- to discriminate among things.
The unifier is the spirit. Mind is inner movement, or thought ( the north pole), the body is outer movement, or tangible manifestation (the south pole), and the spirit is the integrator of these two magnetic poles.
Spirit is raw awareness. Mind is consciousness projected inwards, body is consciousness projected outwards. In between "inner" and "outer" is the self. The self, the inner, and the outer all come into being at virtually the same time. It's like looking in a mirror. The second you look into the mirror, there is a reflection (perhaps there is a brief delay, hardly worth mentioning haha).
It was the same way with spirit. The moment it started to "think", a self was formed, and before long, it started to collect those inner projections of thought as memory, and identify with them, and then reflect them outwards in the realm of tangible manifestation (as an inverted reflection). And tangible is relative (it doesn't have to be physical matter). If you were on the astral plane, your outer projected thoughts would appear like a vivid objective representation of your thoughts in full technicolor three dimensional imagery. So the "proto self" could be thought of as the Logos. As a subset of the Logos, you identify with less mind images than the Logos (it identifies with the totality). Though, identifying with the totality, is like not identifying with anything. You could say it either way, honestly (I know Ra says 7th density is no identity, which is why I want to make that distinction clear)
Anyway, I just gave you more to think about, which is unfortunate, because I want you to stop thinking, and just BE for a while. The point is to feel the power and peace and unity of the present. So here is your homework:
Next time you are walking, or sitting down comfortably, or whatever, just try to focus on the present moment to the exclusion of all thoughts. Try not to think about what's next, or what happened last, but simply what is being observed at this very moment. At first you will be inundated by thoughts as your monkey mind rails at the thought of quietude. But after awhile you will start to feel the sense of dissolving into the processes around you. It is very fleeting at first, and you will lose it almost straight away. Keep at it for a couple weeks, months, years and your ego (the sense of a separate self apart from creation) will start to dissolve. You might have some satori experiences. You'll still be looking in the mirror, but you won't be trying to "own" the image anymore.
Or you'll do it less, in anycase. Or perhaps I'm just rambling like a crazy person.
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