“MIND” and MEMORIES: When Nature’s “Assets” Become Warped into “Liabilities,” Part Three

[NOTE: To those trying to place an order, the server is not yet repaired. In the meantime, if you want to place an order, you can send a message to the book sales division at http://floydhenderson.com/contact.htm and arrangements will be made. Sorry for the temporary inconvenience. Thx. ]

Because of programming and conditioning and enculturation, that which had been an asset (memory) has became a liability.

FROM A SITE VISITOR: Loved your expression “brain-flush”?! Now that resonates. I’ve been visiting your site off-and-on since the early days - you did a piece one time on the brain and mind and consciousness but I can’t find it in the search. Can you tell me how to find that and then tie it in with “brain-flush”? LOL Thanks.

[Continued from yesterday]

F.: It is emphasized again that (1) it’s all energy at the core, that (2) nowadays natural living can only happen under the auspices of the brain and never while under the influence of the corrupted "mind," and that (3) all learned ignorance—stored as a “mind”—must be tossed if peace is to happen. Note how each step in the following analysis moves from something wrongly-perceived (such as "a human body") down to the most basic “ingredient” of the universe that is common to all in the universe. (Call it "strings," call it "that," call it "sparticles," or point toward it with any term you choose, but there is that single, most basic "whatever" that all is. Differences in appearance are caused by nothing more than a variance of the vibrational rate at which "that" moves when manifested.) Here’s how it works, as explained in earlier postings:

1. A human’s body mass is mostly water. Carbon, the basic unit of organic molecules, is the second most common element.

2. A “molecule” is a group of atoms in a definite arrangement held together by chemical bonds.

3. In August of 2005, this pointer was offered:

At the core of the sun, four hydrogen nuclei fuse together to form one helium nucleus, and that happens over and over. The part of the energy that process releases as light travels in particle and wave form. Plant photosynthesis sets the stage for another cycling of manifested energy-consciousness.

4. Likewise, the energy drawn into a cycle from the Absolute pool manifests in plants after it “travels” in a particle or wave form; humans consume the plants (or the animals that ate the plants), triggering a “transfer” of energy; multi-part atoms of energy are at the core of organic molecules, and organic molecules are at the core of the human body. Everything that is considered “body” can be traced back to its most basic ingredient and that ingredient can be seen to be a temporary manifestation of energy from that field of energy called the Absolute.

What does that have to do with clarifying for students the role of the brain, the “mind,” and the consciousness in the Teachings? Recall the earlier pointer: “Consciousness is rooted in the Absolute. The brain is rooted in the elements. The ‘mind’ is rooted in wrong programming and faulty conditioning and lies and concepts and ideas and superstitions and falsehoods.”

THE CONSCIOUSNESS: The conscious-energy, temporarily manifested, is “real” to the degree that it is a form of energy with specific levels of functioning that can be measured. (Why “real” in quotes? Because even this manifested consciousness is time-bound, a temporary expression of that which is truly and eternally real.) Among the triad of elements-breath-consciousness that sustains “life,” the manifest consciousness is required. The energy cannot be destroyed. It is and will be.

THE BRAIN: The science above shows that the brain, at its most basic level, is elemental and that conscious-energy is temporarily manifested via those elements; therefore, it is “real” to the degree that all is energy. (This differs not at all from what is revealed about a steel beam if it is studied under an electron microscope: what is not real is the beam as it appears; what is real is that swirling mass of energy that is not visible to the naked eye. Such is the case with the body and with parts such as the brain.) Among the triad of elements-breath-consciousness that sustains “life,” the elemental brain is required, the modern use of resuscitating equipment to sustain a body notwithstanding. The elements cannot be destroyed. They will be.

THE “MIND”: The “mind” is neither elemental nor energy, so it is not ...

This is an excerpt from the book
THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS “PEACE OF MIND”
(There Is Only Peace if You’re Out of Your Mind)

For information on the book, visit http://advaitavedantabooks.blogspot.com/

To order the book, visit
http://floydhenderson.com/order.htm
(You can use the Special Message box)

Please enter the silence of contemplation. [To be continued]

THE WORLD IS IN YOU...IN YOUR "MIND"

FROM A SITE VISITOR [Received 23 Feb 2007] Found your blog a few weeks ago and love it! Thank you! Today, when you answered one of Lisa’s question, I finally understood “you’re not in the world—the world is in you.” It’s in my mind, you said. Finally! But now, how to get it out after 38 years of having it “in there?” Please help. Many thanks, Ann

F.: Hello, Ann. Welcome to the site. First, if you were to remove the image of "the world" that is in your “mind,” that would be but a fraction of all that must be purged. That which is to be eliminated includes far more than a worldview. You've undergone thirty-eight years of collecting concepts and ideas, including beliefs about “you,” “others,” “relationships,” “values,” “religion and spirituality,” "them vs. us," "good vs. bad," "right vs. wrong," "punishment vs. reward," ad infinitum. If your approach is to expurgate each concept, one at a time, then Realization will never happen.

Consider: if ten days ago, you served fish for a meal and tossed the leftovers into a garbage bag, your home would be contaminated with the resulting odors by now. If seven days ago, you tossed into the same bag some rotten cabbage, there would be more contaminating odors. If five days ago, you tossed some putrid potatoes into the bag, the level of contamination would be almost unbearable. Soon, you would be overwhelmed and either driven to address the problem or to suffer misery. Weigh the effects of thirty-eight years of such accumulation and then you'll understand how persons (driven by the contaminated consciousness) reach the point where they proclaim, "My life is unbearable! I am being overwhelmed by my problems! I am suffering miserably!"

Would it be a reasonable approach, if your goal is to re-purify the place where you live, to dig through the bag and find all of the pieces of rotten cabbage and dispose of them in the trash bin outside and see if that improved your circumstances? Would it be reasonable, after waiting a few days and deciding that maybe the fish remains should also be tossed, to dig through the trash and gather all of those scraps and throw them away? Or would the logical approach be to toss the bag and all of it contents and then be done with the entire mess, once and for all?

In the book FROM THE I TO THE ABSOLUTE, this pointer is offered on page 164:

Now, if you know that the manifested consciousness lacks that stability, then know that impurities remain. Certain vestiges of conditioning and programming remain. You are not completely out of your mind, which is not your mind at all but is actually theirs. They have co-opted the 'mind' that they created in the first place. The journey does not involve taking back your mind from them. The journey involves seeing there is no mind. There is only a collection of ideas and emotions and beliefs that are all lies. Peace doesn't come when you 'take control of' your thoughts and your mind. Peace doesn't come when you find 'positive' thoughts to replace your 'negative' thoughts. Peace doesn't come when 'right thinking' replaces 'wrong thinking.' All thinking is a lie. Peace comes when you realize that all that you've ever been told is a lie, when you realize that all thoughts and ideas and concepts are lies, and when all the lies are seen to be lies. Then, the 'mind' ends and its influence on your relative existence ends. Peace and stability come when the last belief in their concepts goes."

When does “the search” begin for most persons? Typically, when the level of contamination becomes unbearable. Typically, when they feel overwhelmed and finally driven to address their problems. Yet most only want to give up some portion of their accumulation of ideas or attitudes or beliefs, picking through the garbage and being very selective about what goes and what stays. Maybe you have begun to seek before reaching the unbearable state, but the effects of contamination will continue to multiply if the consciousness is not purged of all bastardizing elements.

If your goal is to re-purify the consciousness completely, then the logical approach is to toss that bag of garbage (a.k.a., the “mind”) and all of it contents and be done with the entire mess, once and for all. There is no such thing as "peace of mind." Just as unattended garbage can result in disease, the "mind" (along with body and personality identification) is at the root of all dis-ease. Complete the entire seven-step "journey" to Full Realization and be free of that "world" that is in you, along with everything else that has been collected in that repository of false concepts known as "the mind." Please enter the silence of contemplation.