"the mind must be known to itself", what does that mean? What is the mind? Let's start there. Have we ever really conceived of that? I once read something in conversations with God where "God" said your mind is in every cell of your body, not just the brain. I have learned from a Quo session that Neale Donald Walsh was talking to his higher self, so I consider Conversations with God an ally in my spiritual quest. I also listened to a radiolab podcast once where they were discussing that paralysed people feel less emotion, which made me think of what I read in Conversations with God again.
We know it's our thinking apparatus. We know our emotions come from there. We know the body is a creature of the mind. We know it's lightning fast... when you open your hand and pick up something you barely think of doing it. We know it can be controlled or influenced by whatever reaches it through the five senses and dreams. We know it's a storehouse for memory. Not to steer this conversation off the rails, but from what I have gleaned thus far from my excursions all over the place, I think the mind is a tool of third density, and it should be stilled so that the spirit can start having an influence on it.
Why do all meditation gurus always say bypass the mind? Some of them even insinuate that it will benefit you to consider it an enemy of sorts. So what does "the mind must be known to itself" really mean? Please bare in mind that I conceive of the mind as much more than a faculty if intellect, or as Carla would say, a good game computer. One third of the the complex being that we are is something we don't understand...
We know it's our thinking apparatus. We know our emotions come from there. We know the body is a creature of the mind. We know it's lightning fast... when you open your hand and pick up something you barely think of doing it. We know it can be controlled or influenced by whatever reaches it through the five senses and dreams. We know it's a storehouse for memory. Not to steer this conversation off the rails, but from what I have gleaned thus far from my excursions all over the place, I think the mind is a tool of third density, and it should be stilled so that the spirit can start having an influence on it.
Why do all meditation gurus always say bypass the mind? Some of them even insinuate that it will benefit you to consider it an enemy of sorts. So what does "the mind must be known to itself" really mean? Please bare in mind that I conceive of the mind as much more than a faculty if intellect, or as Carla would say, a good game computer. One third of the the complex being that we are is something we don't understand...
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