Mind
and its Repertoire
Mind
is a powerful entity with boundless energy within.
It
is very difficult to explain its repertoire.
Below
is a few descriptions extracted from Dhamma Pada.
Before
that, I will try to describe in Simple English how I describe the
“Entity called Mind”.
Mind
is Universal Entity in certain forms of life.
We
believe it is related to the existence of the brain but if I ask the
question myself, “Can I locate or pinpoint it for somebody to
scientifically investigate it?”, I run short of methodology to
project my mind out.
It
seems to be intrinsically bound to every cell in my body not heart or
brain.
I
do not like the word conscious and unconscious since mind is never at
rest even in one’s deep sleep.
It
is a living entity and part and parcel of life.
So
I prefer the word “Awareness” of itself and its surrounding
irrespective of its proximity (far or near) in space dimension.
I
can visit moon in a fraction of a second (faster than speed of light)
while pulling my cigar and exhaling rounds and rounds of smoke
circles in air.
Like
the smoke circles from a cigar appear and disappear, my thought
moments can appear and disappear with tremendous rapidity and next
moment my mind is in mars or outside the known universe.
That
is the beauty of the mind.
Next
thing I want to do is to address the “Level of Awareness”.
The
base level is Awake State.
A
lower level is Dream State.
Third
level is “Knocked Out State”, hit on the head by a club or live
electricity shock or ECT (Electro Convulsive Therapy) or Medical
Drugs with anaesthetic properties.
Knocked out by Alcohol also another state by itself.
Now
the bombshell.
Just
as we can have substandard levels to awake state, I want to propose
that there are seven or more levels of super-standard states of mind
(for the purpose of my argument- it may be much more than seven,
never less).
For
a person of Western upbringing brought up with God Concept, God is
another “Spiritual Level”of Awareness much more than our base
level.
Now
the second bombshell.
There
are life forms outside our domain, for the want of a better term I
use, Alien Beings have Awareness Levels (going up to seven or more)
far more superior to ours.
The
caveat here is some of these beings are very inquisitive especially
the level I (one) and II (two) that may or may not visit us from time
to time for formal investigations.
The
question is can we reach them?
I
tend to believe that we can.
How?
We
can increase our level of awareness with Mind Training.
That
Mind Training is Meditation.
It
is within our brain (for want of better term) potential.
All
this preamble is to find an answer to the question of “Mediums”
and “Channels” or the Ancient Wisdom Masters (of Red Indians, of
Aborigines and Indian Sages).
Christianity
has suppressed these phenomena by their world domination by “Military
Power” (both UK and USA).
Good
example is Madam Helena Blavatsky and the attack on her by the Western
authors (Theosophy) of profundity.
The
domain of Christianity is in its wane, so it time to address other
states of mind including the “Aliens who would visit us” when we
are ready.
For
the sake of my argument, “Mediums” and “Channels” are altered
states of mind of awareness of the bearer.
They
are usually females who are amenable to such states of “fantasy”.
They
should not be addressed as fakes (large majority are fakes for the
purpose of publicity).
I
should wind up this with few verses from Dhamma Pada.
Even
though, I try to “Zero in Digitally”, there is a section of web
visitors (my site) from far away places, encourage me to be active.
Thank
YOU guys and girls but soon I will be dormant but not dead.
I
do not like the English words, Ego, I, Soul and Spirituality.
To
drop those entities from our minds’ vocabulary one has to attain a
certain level of of meditative instances or Jhanas.
Mano
Puggamgamaa Dhamma
Mano
Setta Manomaya
Manasa
che Passannena
Basthi
va Karothi va
Tatho
Nam Sukka Manchethi
Chayava
Anupayini
Mind
precedes all mental states
Mind
is the chief chef,
They
are all mind-wrought (fashioned)
If
with pure (perfect) mind one speaks or acts happiness follows like
never departing shadow of oneself.
Durangaman
ekamchram
Asariram
guhasayam
Ye
sittam sangnamesanti
Mokkanthi
Marabandhana
Dwelling
in the cave
Without
form
The
Mind wonders far
And
moves alone.
Those
who subdue this mind
Are
liberated from the bond of Mara
(The
meaning of Mara here is somewhat equivalent to death in every being
but in philosophical terms means much more of the unsatisfactory
nature of all living phenomena including mental formations).
I
am not a Pali scholar and Pali scholars (neither in English) are hard
to come by and my humble attempt is to bring simple English
connotation into lifeforms.
Any
errors of commission and omission are all mine.
Please note that I do not academically or literaaly follow every bit of mystic phenomena but want the readers to be open minded.
I have had first hand encounters with similar ability but never tried to stop them or encourage them (kept my comfortable scientific dissociation) or assess them scientifically.
Reincarnation
means the same thing as re-embodiment and rebirth. It is the human
soul returning to the earth again and again and taking up residence
each time in a new physical body in order to continue the soul’s
progressive journey of inner evolution, advancement, development, and
of unfold.
Death is not the end and birth is not the beginning.
The
soul reincarnates due to three main reasons –
(1) It still has
lessons to learn,
(2) It still has “karmic debts” which it needs
to work off in order to further balance its Karma,
(3) It has not yet
fully realized its own divine nature or its absolute oneness with the
Divine and thus with all life and has not yet re-become in
consciousness THAT
which it truly and
really is. Reincarnation is a Law in Nature. It is not true that
“only some souls
reincarnate” or that “reincarnation is the exception rather than
the rule,” as some have claimed. It is an ongoing cyclic process
and necessity for each soul.
There
are three possibilities regarding what happens to us when we die.
There is the view of the atheists and materialists, who say that we
are nothing more than a lump of soulless purposeless matter and that
we simply cease to be, when the physical body dies. Then there is the
“one life only” view held by some religions, who maintain that
the soul only lives once on Earth and that after the body dies the
soul either goes to Heaven for all eternity or burns in hell for all
eternity. The religions which teach this concept usually insist that
they are the only right religion and that only the people belonging
to that particular religion will go to Heaven.
The
third possibility is that of an ongoing process of reincarnation.
25-30% of people in the West today say that they believe in
reincarnation and it has been a standard belief in much of the East
for thousands of years, having its origin in Hinduism, which is the
world’s oldest religion. It is also a central feature of Buddhism
and other Indic religions. Human beings have the freedom to decide
which of these three possibilities sounds the most reasonable and
plausible to them.
The
world population has risen by nearly 6-billion within the last 120
years and is still on the increase, although it is expected to peak
between 2025 and 2050. One of the main causes for this dramatic
population increase is that people in general are nowadays
reincarnating far sooner, far more quickly, than they did 100 years
ago.
The
duration of the soul’s time in its state of Devachan in between
lifetimes is always determined in part by how “spiritualised” the
soul is. The more atheistic, agnostic, or materialistic a person is,
the shorter and less clearly defined that intermediary period will
be.
It
is undeniable that there has been a general decline worldwide in
spirituality and in higher thought over the last century. At the end
of the 19th century, the majority of people across the world still
had at least some degree of spiritual or religious inclination and
belief and thus their souls were “spiritualised” to at least some
extent and at least part of their consciousness was directed, even if
only occasionally, towards higher matters. This enabled the soul’s
time in the spiritual state of Devachan after death to be prolonged.
In
the West, the fall of the Christian Church and the parallel rise of
materialistic science had the combined effect of creating generations
of agnostics, atheists, materialists, and sensualists, since there
was nothing to fill the gap for human consciousness between blind
religious faith which insisted that the Bible is the infallible and
literal Word of God and the atheistic proclamations of the
scientists, who declared – and continue to declare – that there
is nothing but matter and that there is no such thing as soul,
spirit, or any actual purpose or meaning to anything whatsoever.
One
of the purposes of the founding of the Theosophical Movement at that
time was to help plug the gap and present mankind with an intelligent
and reasoned spirituality, based on the Esoteric Philosophy of the
East.
Unfortunately, after the death of H.P. Blavatsky, the teachings
and focus of Theosophy were purposely distorted and altered by
certain leaders within the Theosophical Society and the degree of
respect and effectiveness that Theosophy had managed to achieve in
the West was largely lost.
Today
the average Westerner is an agnostic, if not an atheist, and he
unquestioningly accepts and believes the views and pronouncements of
science just as unquestioningly and blindly as his forefathers
accepted and believed the pronouncements of the priest. Much of the
East is also now heading in the same direction, although not to the
same extent.
An
atheistic or materialistic worldview naturally leads to a complete
decrease in spirituality and ethics and a rise in sensuality and
superficiality. So it is not really surprising that a huge proportion
of souls, having developed no spiritual inclinations or qualities
whatsoever in their most recent incarnations due to the above, have
nothing within them at present to provide much – if anything – in
the way of a Devachanic interval for them and are thus returning to
earth life with disconcerting rapidity.
And
the more often and frequently they return, the more time and
opportunity they have to procreate again and thus help bring other
such souls back into incarnation. As science and sex are the gods of
the 21st century, this problem shows no signs of abating. All the
major problems and troubling issues which affect the world today are
spiritual problems, in their underlying nature, and until spiritual
people have the intelligence and initiative to address them in a
sane, selfless, and intelligent way, humanity’s problems will just
keep on increasing.
Just saying “Love and light, love and light”
and “We are all one” will not get the job done.
