Brain vs Mind

2005-9-20 10:01:00

Johan writes:

There is one vital thing required for the Path that leads to the Treasure: that is obtaining a True Balance between head and heart. The mind must learn to serve the heart, which is contrary to the current situation in this world where the mind is dominating and is constantly reasoning out things preferably by this lower world's logic and understanding at the cost of the heart. But evidently this attitude does not work when we are touching upon things supernatural.

Where in the world do you get the idea the mind is dominating? DK tells us that only about 10% of the populace are capable of using mind and from my experience I have difficulty in believing it is that many.

Ask any good salesman what sells his product, the emotions or the mind, feelings or reasoning and he'll tell you he must appeal to the emotions over mind and feelings over reasoning.

Perhaps you are referring to brain activity rather than mind. This would explain why you think the mind is dominating in the human race.

The heart is composed of two major aspects, love and wisdom. Love is the higher spiritual feelings and wisdom is the radiance of mind expressed as pure reason. Thus mind is not separate from the heart but has its beginnings of manifestation in the heart. The heart center also has a reflection in the head where even higher light and love is revealed.

Johan:

I am amazed. On the one hand you promote ultimate freedom, yet you censor my posts and even block one.

I do not have power to censor posts, only to accept and reject them.

I did reject one the other day because it contained wild-eyed conspiracy theories that was way off topic and would have distracted the class.

To keep a class on topic to a reasonable degree in no way violates the Principle of Freedom. Do you think an Algebra teacher is violating the freedom of the class by not allowing another teacher to come in and teach Spanish? If he did do this he would be taking away the freedom of the class members to study their elected course of Algebra.

The biggest complaint I receive from students is that I allow people like yourself to distract us too much and interfere with their freedom to learn as they have chosen. The Principle of Freedom looks at the maximum freedom for the whole, not at just one individual who wants to violate group will.

Johan:

On the one hand you promote receiving new principles which might help the group find and expand our understanding of the Truth and hence our consciousness, yet when something new is coming up and even a second Principle of HOW it would be possible to let our ego go, then this is negated, ridiculed and even outrightly denied.

What new principle is this? You have not explained any principle that I know of, let alone a new one. I cannot reject a thing if it does not exist.

Johan:

It seems to me that your ego has problems in accepting that there might be something new that you actually didn't know yet.

Like I say, I have to be presented with something new before I can reject it.

Johan:

When I touch upon the principle of Transfiguration, which is the one and most vital Principle on our way Home, which is to become truly Spiritual, or in a popular terminology "to become enlightened", then all I get is your comment "It would be interesting to see what you have to say about something other than the topic of duality." Sigh.... Transfiguration IS the effect of leaving duality, JJ.

You didn't touch on the principle of Transfiguration. You said nothing about how it works. You said it was a secret.

Johan:

Obviously you did not understand at all what I had to say about Transfiguration.

Maybe I missed something, but I do not recall you saying anything about it other than it being a secret.

Johan (referring to Gathering post)

Good piece, JJ. We must become pure in heart AND pure in mind, meaning empty, transparent, like a child. But it still did not say HOW to let go the ego.

Thanks for the compliment. I did cover quite a bit of material on this in the previous gathering posts over the past couple months if you want to check the archives.

Let me make a request to you and other newer members. Sometimes when members post they include the whole of the previous post. Some members have complained that this produces too much clutter for them. We therefore request that when responding to a post over a couple paragraphs that members delete all but a paragraph or two of the previous post.

Ruth writes:

When one starts to strangle their Ego, do other Egos come to the rescue of that ego being strangled? Meaning, if someone was killing off their ego and other people, friends, family etc started to notice the disintegration of this person's ego, would they try and stop that person from killing off his ego by feeding him/her with ego laced compliments etc etc, to keep that ego fed and alive still and keep you focused on the ego still? When one has killed off their own Ego, it must seem a lonely journey when the World is full of Egos ;-)

Whenever someone attempts to make a step forward, in any way, a vacuum is created that creates a force that attempts to pull him back to where he was before or worse.

A simple example of this is the person who is trying to quit smoking. It will seem that people will come out of the woodwork to offer him cigarettes.

The same applies to controlling the ego. When a person makes a step toward dominating the ego it creates a great force to move him backwards.

Anyone who's ever significantly changed the course of humanity has either been a Crackpot, a Heretic, or a Dissident. In the case of Albert Einstein, he was all three! Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996)