THE MYSTICAL DIMENSION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
THE PLAUSIBILITY OF PANPROTOPSYCHISM.
The Intelligence of Nature.
The understanding of consciousness and of its relation to
the rest of the universe is the starting point of understanding the
difference between human intelligence and the intelligence of nature.
Consciousness is natural and universal because it is an identical
entity within all brains and this entity is primary, enlightenment may
be secondary, but in reality, thoughts are not
universal and should be valued last. The most significant things that
separate people are their different thoughts and beliefs. The human
brain is a natural organ that has the potential to cause intelligent,
but brains are merely vehicles for consciousness. However, there is a
type of intelligence within nature that is different to human
intelligence because it does not have mental properties. Once a natural
organism comes into existence, it takes on a life of its own, which
then adapts and evolves.
Everything in the universe is constantly changing and everything is
dynamically interrelated. According to what physicists have discovered,
there is no such thing as nothing because even in a void there is the
potential for things to come into being spontaneously, and they can
vanish again, into the void: these events happen continuously. From
this void all forms can come into being and it is the source of all
life.
There is also a void between one thought and another where there is
the potential for a different type of intelligence to come into being.
The new paradigm for future intelligence will be the ability to
perceive concepts that can only be defined as being mystical or
spiritual. The mind has the potential to experience new dimensions once
it learns how not to overvalue ‘things’ and thoughts. This new
paradigm will be an understanding that different states of
consciousness would result in different thoughts and feelings. For
instance, some people who had a near death experience or had a stroke
and lost some aspects of their left hemisphere brain activity (ego,
ambition, possessions, the external world, etc.) commenced to use the
more sensual right hemisphere, which caused them to sense experiences
differently because of the absence of ordinary thoughts emanating from
the left hemisphere of the brain: it seems the right portion of the
brain causes senses or feelings, which are usually dormant because they
become suppressed by the overvaluing of thoughts, beliefs and other
acquired forms of knowledge.
Altered states of consciousness cause some people to have
different values as they become less materialistic, but more
spiritual; more compassionate and more enlightened than before.The
object of enlightenment is to understand the nature of minds and to
understand the natural order of things. Living cells within any form of
life know how to function because of this natural intelligence.
The environment is not just a multitude of living organisms, it
contains a natural process that causes life to come into existence, or
causes life to act or react according to natural forces within their
environment. There are many organisms that do not have brains and so
they do not have the ability to think, but if they survive and evolve
then they are able to make intelligent use of internal and external
information. Human Intelligence.
The human species evolved over many thousands of years and there was a time when their thinking was limited to primitive means of survival. Eventually they acquired the ability to communicate with each other through languages and although this was an important step towards human development, this ability commenced with sounds and then words. Each isolated group of people invented their own language and when different groups met, there were conflicts and divisions because they had difficulty understanding each other.
In this the twenty-first century, even with all the information
available, the conceptual mind still misunderstands people who have
different customs and beliefs.
Yet, languages, customs and all beliefs are constructs of the human mind.
Languages became necessary but in the process the mind lost many of
its natural instincts and in particular the ability to actually sense
the environment from moment to moment. By overvaluing acquired
knowledge and beliefs the mind tends to suppress this sensual and
natural ability because the mind has evolved so that it experiences the
present by using knowledge that is relative to a past dimension.
The mind accumulates more and more knowledge and each experience
strengthens knowledge. The problem is, false knowledge and false beliefs
make it difficult to live and think intelligently. Knowledge means to
know and no matter how one is formally educated, if only a small
portion of what is known is relative to false information, then it is
difficult to make intelligent conclusions and the more that knowledge
becomes overvalued then the less likelihood that the mind can become
enlightened. Human intelligence should not be confused with natural
intelligence because the former would never have eventuated without some
primary and natural entity. It is this mystical entity that existed
even before life came into existence.
The mind can be conscious of thoughts or experiences but it can never be conscious of consciousness because this entity can never be directly seen or known.
All forms of life which survive over several generations are
intelligent, but intelligence wouldn’t exist without consciousness, yet
consciousness can exist without thought, therefore, the mind tends to
overvalue thoughts instead of valuing the entity that causes them. All
metal properties are physical, but this mystical universal
consciousness can never be actually experienced by the conceptual mind
because it is of a non-physical nature.
Professor Paul Davies made a statement on an Australian ABC
television programme several years ago that he thought consciousness
would soon be part of physics. If this theory of a natural Universal
Consciousness is correct, then it would confirm that a mystical
intelligence is devoid of thought and devoid of matter and that it
existed long before brains came into being.
There is an entity within all brains and objects that can only be
described as being part of the creative forces of nature. It is
difficult for the conceptual mind to accept that there is an
intelligence out there in nature that is an identical entity within all
life forms and even within all active forms of matter. This
intelligence is not inferior to the consciousness within human brains,
but the contents within minds are inferior to this universal entity.
Knowledge and intelligence can be compared and measured, but, there
is no comparison or measure for natural intelligence. This mystical
entity is universal because it is an identical entity within all
matter. When it is realised that the void is full of some invisible
mystical entity, then it should also be realised that there is no such
thing as nothing: For that which is empty has the potential to be full,
yet, the contents should never be valued, for they, like thoughts and
beliefs, are merely temporary things.
The conceptual mind cannot perceive of a Natural Entity that is too
intelligent for the need to think. No belief is true unless it is
proven to be true. The truly spiritual mind is one that is connected to
everyone and to everything through this silent Godly Consciousness. If
the mind does not understand new concepts or new theories, it simply
shuts them out because the mind tends to reject that which cannot be
experienced without thought. To examine proven facts, but retain
beliefs, then the new information is ignored or becomes distorted. To
cling to old beliefs, then it is difficult to accept new concepts. That
which is deemed to be true must always be questioned because there is
no common element to truth and because as soon as something is accepted
as being true, the next moment in time, it may no
longer be true. Also, there is no absolute truth in science because
new or improved theories will always continue.
Oxford University professor Susan Greenfield, a neuroscientist,
thinks that brains can change and be influenced by the way we think.
And, of course, the way we think influences the way we act. Brains seem
to be ‘warped’ by certain thought and belief systems. It also seems
that false gods were invented by minds that desire to know the unknown.
The mystical or spiritual dimension can be sensed but can never be
known, therefore there is no need to waste time thinking about it, or
praying to it. The spiritual mind is one that is free from all beliefs.
The understanding of time is very important because some concepts of
time can only be grasped by the intuitive mind. The conceptual mind
functions in the line of time, therefore the true nature of time needs
to be better understood. To continue with beliefs, if someone begins to
question a particular belief and decides to change to another, then
the new belief usually becomes ultimate because they think they became
more intelligent or more spiritual whilst becoming more conditioned
and sometimes more fanatical. This is evident when, for example,
someone who is born into the Christian faith and if later they accepted
the Buddhist doctrine of reincarnation then the new belief usually
becomes ultimate. Reincarnation can become an ultimate belief, but in
reality, it is wishful thinking by the temporal mind, which desires to
exist permanently or until it becomes perfect. Conditioned minds do not
realise that their existing natural consciousness is already an
unchanging perfection and although this entity is timeless, it does not
imply that individual consciousness continues after death, however,
some mystical entity is connected to every person and to every other
form of life and this theory postulates that it even exist in other
forms of matter. This mysterious entity may even exist somewhere in the
universe ‘waiting’ to spontaneously manifest itself in every form, as
each comes into existence.
A mind needs to sense each moment, or at least some moments, as
being new and meaningful. If the mind questions past concepts, then it
may be inspired by other conclusions, the ultimate of which is to learn
how to eliminate destructive thoughts and emotions and to find out why
it believes certain things that are not based on truth.
Some psychologists suggest that many religious people are more
content with their lives than non-believers. However, instead of
directing love, devotion and faith towards never to be known deity,
most people would benefit society and themselves more if they had the
same devotion directed towards other individuals and other forms of
life here on earth. An intelligent mind with a sense of purpose and a
compassion for all life may have a better feeling of well-being than a
mind that was conditioned by a belief system.
Parents, preachers and teachers endeavour to condition other minds to
their own point of view. Beliefs are only relative to what is taught by
others, but if the mind looks at facts and has no point of view
regarding any particular belief then there would be no influence from
others
because the mind would not rely on false concepts, or burden itself
with false conclusions. The mind does not need to have more faith, it
needs to be more intelligent. But no mind can be intelligent if it is
unable to perceive its own self-made prison. If the mind is locked into
any
belief system then it cannot possibly be free to experience the reality
of what is, and so, there
is no escape at all unless the mind learned how to achieve different states of consciousness.
It is now generally recognised that consciousness is separate to
thought, but it is difficult to accept that thoughts are insignificant
in comparison because no matter how wonderful or beautiful or
spiritual thoughts may seem, they cannot be compared to this implied
mystical and silent consciousness. Thoughts cannot come into existence
without this primary and natural entity. If the primary entity of all
life is their natural consciousness and to agree with the theory that
everything in the universe is interrelated and interconnected, then it
would seem that this mystical entity is actually the fundamental entity
of the universe because it is within all forms of life. Different
species will acquire different forms of knowledge, but as thought is
secondary to the primary entity then without this natural consciousness
thoughts would never have eventuated: It is exactly the same entity
within every brain and it never changes, but knowledge and thoughts
continually change.
Living things depend on a natural intelligence so as to be capable of
existing long enough to perpetuate their own species. Even the most
primitive forms of life without brains have the intelligence to adapt
and survive because they posses this identical natural intelligence.
All self-organising systems have a natural intelligence, but this
mystical intelligence is devoid of thoughts and devoid of mental
properties. The conceptual mind cannot comprehend that the fundamental
entity of thought, or the catalyst for thought, is consciousness.
After all, we are not brain-dead during deep sleep, or during
unconsciousness and we are not born brain-dead. The sperm that
struggles to cause life, somehow ‘knows’ it has a task to perform; it
is ‘driven’ by a natural intelligence and from the moment each life is
conceived every cell possesses the same natural intelligence as each
cell comes into being. This universal intelligence exists at conception
even before a single thought commences.
Humans and all other life-forms are part of an inseparable organic
whole and although each form of life has individuality, each is
inseparably linked to this universal entity. Every form of life possess
this natural intelligence and each is part of something greater than
itself. Every thinking living thing has the same identical
consciousness. What separates one from another is different thought
systems. Every brain is different to every other because each occupies a
different space, but each brain has a unique relationship to every
other by virtue of having exactly the same consciousness. Once thoughts
commence then each mind becomes a separate and independent entity.
There is something within the brain that can only be described as
being spiritual and it seems the brain is hard-wired to sense this
dimension, but the mind finds it difficult to articulate ‘spiritual
experiences’ except through religious interpretations. However, no
matter how convincing the interpretations seem to be, they can never
reflect reality (what is) because a true spiritual experience is always
beyond words or thoughts. The real dimension of natural consciousness
is a present moment ‘sense’ that can never be correctly interpreted by
the conceptual mind. If occasionally, the mind does not overvalue what
it knows, then it could be free to experience a different dimension
and if there is no longer any emphasis on relative knowledge, then the
mind becomes free of any fixed concepts regarding the ever-changing
world. There is a continuous flow of new information available, but
unless it helps the mind to understand that there is another more
important dimension, then it doesn’t matter how much information is
accumulated if it doesn’t actually help the mind to know anything of
real importance. For instance, if love is a thought then it is not
love; it is merely an intellectual interpretation of something that can
never be spoken of, or known.
As Lao Tzu said over two thousand years ago: He who knows (love) does not speak. He who speaks (about love) does not know.
Every
mind commences with very limited knowledge and what is accumulated
over time determines modes of thinking which, in turn, determines how
to live. Only when a mind is free from all conditioned thoughts,
beliefs and illusions, can it then attain a desired state of
consciousness. When ordinary thoughts commence then the mind is
transferred from a relatively timeless dimension, into the dimension of
time.
The mind cannot think about time without including space. But
space and time are also constructs of the mind. What is experienced in
space-time is an illusion as is evident when the mind experiences stars
that may not be there. It takes time for light to travel from the
observer to the observed even if it’s trillions of miles away, or just
in front of what the eye observes.
The mind may endeavour to live in the present, but because it takes
time to interpret an experience then the conceptual mind cannot really
comprehend the dimension of now.
The moment
time became a concept is the moment the mind became a slave to time
because all knowledge is relative to time; to the past. To experience
flow and change from moment to moment, then the mind is not functioning
from a past dimension. This transformation of the mind does not happen
in psychological time, it is virtually an instantaneous insight, but
as the mind normally functions in the line of time then everything is
merely an individual interpretation. Everyone is a separate observer
and each observer believes they are separate from others, however, it
is only conditioned minds which separate themselves from other minds
and from the environment and from that which is real becomes part of
memory; part of the past, and in this context the past doesn’t exist and
if the future doesn’t exist, then there is only this present moment,
but, even this present moment is not of time; this dimension can be
‘sensed’ but can never be know.
The greatest paradoxical problem occurs when the human observer
examines matter because the outcome is never certain. It depends on how
scientists look at matter because sometimes electrons appear as
particles and sometimes they appear as waves. The activity within
matter functions almost instantaneously, but when the mind observes
something then it takes time to interpret the observation.
The meditative mind is one that does not overvalue what it knows, to
do so, would make it difficult for the mind to be quiet: it is the
constant activity that prevents it from experiencing reality. The
reality of ’experiencing’ the environment without naming it, or
thinking of it. The mind may interpret experiences from moment to
moment, but those moments are relative to past dimensions. This
present moment, which the conceptual mind cannot grasp, is again, in
this context, timeless. Once the meditative mind, (not the mind that
wastes time meditating) is liberated from time, then it may sense the
timeless dimension of now. Between one thought and another there is a
silent moment where time does not exist. An essential feature of the
dynamic nature of the universe is this timeless consciousness. It is an
unknown entity that is the essential catalyst for thought, but is
itself, devoid of thought. When conceptual thoughts begin then time
begins because all acquired knowledge is relative to a past dimension.
The Big Bang occurred in the past, this caused matter and space and
time to come into being. However, Universal Consciousness is not of time
and does not act alone because it requires some other entity before it
can manifest itself, and that which exists in all life and in all
matter is energy.
Energy.
The universe does not consist of bundles of matter, but consists of bundles of energy and nothing can function without energy, yet energy on its own is nothing and does nothing because energy is inactive until something causes it to become active. Although matter and energy are both manifestations of the same fundamental entity, there is a universal entity that is not matter, yet it is within all matter and within all living things.
Some scientists have stated that approximately 4% of the
universe is made up of Atoms (existing visible matter including you
and me and all other objects) 21% is Dark Matter, that no one can find
and 75% is Dark Energy, that nobody can understand, therefore, most of
natures secrets are yet to be discovered. Matter is visible, whereas
the field is invisible. If the invisible field interacts with matter
continuously then some mystical entity which is not matter nor is it
energy but is similar to an invisible energy field: this mystical entity
is the essence of energy and the essence of all matter and the
essence of all living things.
As Bertrand Russell said: “It is energy not matter that is
fundamental in physics”. However, as mentioned, energy on its own
cannot be the fundamental entity of the universe without some other
mysterious entity causing energy to act or react. According to the
quantum theory, when a light is turned on, the mind does not see
energy, it sees the effects of energy. And generally the mind does not
realise that the light is ‘pulsing’ - ‘on and off’ at the speed of
light because energy does not function continuously in matter. The
mind can only convey an approximate interpretation of this mystical
dimension because it must have existed long before life began and it
will undoubtedly continue to exist if all human life ended, which
confirms that this entity is eternal or at least timeless.
When life ends, it is absurd to think that minds or memories become eternal because if the brain/mind is matter then all
thoughts are materialistic. Many people support The Dualist Theory of
Mind or believe in reincarnation and others may favour the Materialist
Theory:
The latter theory has some merit because most things including the
body, brain and mind are matter. Most things, that is, except
consciousness, which exists in every cell in every body
and brain, which would then support the dualist theory or the theory
called panprotopsychism which suggests that every object in the
universe has an ‘inner’ being or that all matter has an intelligent
entity within. But all theories and all scientific knowledge are
limited and approximate. The understanding of the totality of existence
is an understanding that nothing can be fully explained by thought.
The mind needs to non-intellectually experience the nature of things
and the unity of them. The unity of all things and events is now one of
the most important revelations of modern physics. Everything in the
universe, whether known or unknown, is somehow interconnected. Human
life is a pulsing scrap of evolutionary matter linked to a cosmic
intelligence. The direct experience of a timeless present moment
transcends thought and can never be taught or conveyed. This means
there is a space between cause and effect, or a space between thoughts,
therefore there is a timeless moment between thoughts where thought
does not exist, but what continues to exist is the natural silent
consciousness.
When the mind is quiet only then can it sense something mystical,
which is the extraordinary dimension of a natural intelligence that
exists even before a single thought commences. A wise Mystic was asked
about the Ultimate Truth, but, at first, he did not answer. When asked
again, he replied: “I am teaching it to you, just listen to the
silence”. The silence or space between thoughts is the natural dimension
of the mind. When conceptual thoughts commence the silence ends and
the mind is left with words or thoughts about more words or thoughts,
some of which cause the mind to be calm, but most cause the mind to be
agitated.
Buddhists and others advise how to meditate in order to quieten the
mind, but the mind automatically becomes relatively quiet when it is
emptied of conditioned thoughts and beliefs - including what Buddhists
believe. Wisdom is not the chanting of a Mantra nor is wisdom the
utterances of wise thoughts. Wisdom is the cessation of thought because
the ending of preconceived concepts is the beginning of wisdom. Some
people endeavour to achieve spontaneous insights through meditation or
prayer which is almost impossible because of the constant activity
within the mind. Thought is unlimited and deemed to be real, but most
of what the mind thinks of is limited and unreal. Therefore, the mind
needs to examine whether or not there is a different way of thinking or
knowing.
The mind needs to sense the environment, or whatever, from moment to moment and to sense what is and not interpret what thought thinks what is, is. The mind also needs to understand why it overvalues structured and normative forms of knowledge. If not, it will lose touch with the more intuitive and spontaneous forms of knowing. It is not only the psycho- logical well-being that is not properly understood, but also, the understanding of the self within the environment. And it is only each individual mind which can provide the answer to intuitive enlightenment. To believe others, or to follow the path of others then the mind must be on the wrong path. The path to enlightenment is via natural senses and feelings, not via conditioned concepts.
Thoughts and false emotions are very much conditioned by conceptual frameworks. The mind usually fails to see things as they are and can only see them according it what it thinks they are. In contrast, to grasp the world intuitively is to cease imposing on individual views and concepts. The mind experiences the world as being flat and solid, yet most people accept that this is not so. Science can be compared to many philosophical mysticism’s, but the comparisons are difficult to make because one is derived from scientific facts and the other is derived from mystical concepts. The latter is mainly based on insight and cannot actually be communicated verbally. According to quantum physics the mind can sense an invisible intelligence that underlies the visible world, but even the quantum theory cannot be explained or conveyed by ordinary language.
Language is an important medium to describe the importance of logic and reason, but language dominates thinking, which prevents the understanding of this other very important natural dimension of the mind. We shouldn’t live in isolation from our environment because we are part of it. Everything on land and in the sea. Even ever blade of grass and every tree. All these things are part of you and me.
Present Moment Experiences.
The mind needs to free itself from past concepts and past
experiences because there is an enormous difference between thinking
about something and actually experiencing it. As long as the mind is
thinking then that prevents it from having new experiences. To
recognise something means it is already know. The new can never be
known. Once something is known then it is no longer new. To observe a
tree and to be part of the environment then there would be no
separation. But if the mind thinks the tree is beautiful or green or
whatever, then that knowledge was derived from a past perspective,
therefore, the mind is not experiencing the tree, it is merely
experiencing its knowledge of the tree. To take photographs of that
tree it may seem that there is no significant change for many months,
but change occurred even whilst the mind was thinking it was a tree.
The conceptual mind cannot experience present moment dimensions because it takes time for the cognitive mind to interpret an experience.
Thoughts or memories may seem real, but in the true sense most, like
dreams, are never real because everything the mind imagines are
illusions. Each event that the mind experiences is made up of separate
time-frame images. Another analogy is a movie-film. It is the blank
space between each image on the film that is identical or universal. The
projector-fan eliminates the blank spaces and the mind experiences the
blending of images. To watch a movie, the mind usually thinks the
images are present realities, yet, they are illusions. Einstein and
many Mystics endeavoured to teach that the material world is an illusion
because by endeavouring to grasp the real dimension is like grasping
the idea of things and missing the essence of them. Therefore, all
verbal descriptions of reality are inaccurate or incomplete. So as with
the mind, it believes experiences are present moment realities. Like
the film, the mystical dimension of the mind is the blank space between
thoughts. The blank space is the dimension of a natural silent
consciousness and, as mentioned, without this universal entity thoughts
would never eventuate and when they do they are never real.
The basic elements of the mind are not words or thoughts and the
basic elements of the universe are not matter or things. The brain and
the universe have dynamic patterns or dynamic energy forces that are in
constant flow and change. This transformation of the mind converts
energy into thought and converts energy into other forms of matter.
This concept of ‘things’ implies that everything is impermanent and in
constant change.
To go with the flow means the mind should eliminate all unnecessary
thoughts, otherwise it becomes attached to the stagnant magnet of the
past. To remain in the stagnant water, then belief systems, thought
systems, false concepts and false emotions will also remain. There is
ceaseless flow and change, if flow and change ceases then nothing would
exist. The movement of life is the same movement of the universe. The mind doesn’t see the necessity to change so it retains all the unnecessary past and by clinging to the past it remains in the stagnant water.
If new information is not compatible with what is already known,
then the new is rejected. At present, most minds are not capable of
eliminating the stagnant water because they are so comfortable with it:
It causes a feeling of security and the mind is afraid that something
terrible would happen if the comfortable old self ended. Yet, when past
conditioned thoughts end, enlightenment may begin.
Enlightenment
Enlightened is not derived from one’s accumulated formal knowledge.
What is paramount is the sense of wonder; the mystical experiences
which are real but can never be interpreted because if they are of the
(past) conceptual mind, then they are not relative to what is.
When conditioned thoughts end, enlightenment can transform the mind.
To rely on past knowledge and beliefs then, there is nothing real to
find.
The paradoxical problem is, no matter how many times the mind is
confronted with truth or reality, if what is put before it is not
compatible with what is already know, then the mind will reject it
because it doesn’t fit the image of what it thinks is real. But, no
image of anything, including God, can possibly be real. The word; the
thought; the concept; the interpretation is never actually real. The
spiritual or mystical dimension can only be sensed, therefore, it is
beyond words or thoughts; beyond the conceptual mind.
The mind needs to learn how to bring about fundamental changes, however, the mind must first understand the whole process of thought and its limitations. If the mind ceases to function from a past dimension, even momentarily, then it may experience a tranquillity that is not the product of the past mind and only then is there the potential for the mind to sense a present moment dimension; the dimension which is devoid of preconceived concepts.
The intuitive mind, or the genuine meditative mind, does not
interpret experiences except when it foolishly endeavours to explain
the unexplainable. Therein lies the paradoxical problem because the
conceptual mind cannot convey that which is beyond mechanical thoughts.
More and more knowledge will not necessarily cause the mind to be more
intelligent. The concept of intelligence depends on how much
information is known, but the overvaluing of what is known causes the
mind not realise that it is getting further and further away from
reality. But in the reality of living, thoughts and knowledge are very
important, however, the mind can never become enlightened unless it
learns how to be free of the conditioned past so as to sense new
experiences.
Mystical Experiences
When what is known or what is owned is overvalued, or when the mind
contemplates concepts of life, it tends to forget that thoughts and
‘things’ and life are only temporarily real. When the timeless
consciousness is perceived to be part of a universal ‘spirituality’,
then concepts of things should no longer be so important. Of course,
one can compare things and observe creation and destruction, however,
in reality, they are not different categories, they are merely
different aspects of the same reality, therefore, what is actually real
is always different to what the conceptual mind thinks is real. What
is important is to learn how to experience the natural environment as
if one is part of it. To begin experiencing everything as being new; as
if one has never experienced it before.
The environment would be a natural creation, but the mind would not
see creativity nor beauty it would just sense what is, and in that
there is beauty. The conceptual mind cannot see beauty as it is, it can
only interpret what it thinks it is, because that which the mind
thinks is beautiful or real only causes the beauty and the real to be
lost.
A mystical experience may occur at any time, unfortunately, it usually only occurs when death is accepted, but it can happen at any time. If it did happen, then the conceptual mind for a timeless moment would be devoid of thought and time and it would experience the extra-ordinary sense beyond the insignificant self. Once that feeling became a thought, then that would be the end of the mystical experience.
The end of a mystical experience is the beginning of thoughts and interpretations. Interpretations of experiences become thoughts which are imprisoned in the depths of the past; they may seem significant, but in reality, they become memories instead of being a sensual wonder about the mysterious unknown.
Again, this mystical dimension is devoid of conceptual thought, it
can be sensed but can never be known. And the more false information
the mind accepts then the less likelihood that it will understand this
important dimension because false knowledge of it may cause the mind to
think that it is already part of a spiritual dimension, whereas, that
dimension of the mind is the mystical and natural consciousness, which
exists even before a single thought commences and it existed even
before a single life-form came into being.
False Spiritual Dimensions.
If the brain/mind is matter then all thoughts (even so called
spiritual thoughts) are materialistic. The mind has the potential to
be naturally intelligent, but what causes it to become stupefied by
what it knows is the reliance on false information and beliefs. If the
mind places more importance on knowledge than on living, then it means
it does not know how to live. That is, if the mind overvalues material
things, or a particular country or a particular political or religious
system more than more important things such as life and other human
beings, then it would mean that the mind would continue to perpetuate
conflicts and all the consequences of conflicts derived from
conditioned and selfish thoughts and desires. The mind should not
experience thoughts and feelings as being something exclusive to the
self because this restricts the mind to personal desires: it needs to be
free from this prison so as to be compassionate towards all living
creatures and the whole of nature and not to be conditioned by judging
life and the natural environment as being beautiful or ugly.
All natural phenomena in the universe are interrelated. When the mind
is harmoniously transcended then there is no need for explanations or
interpretations because when the mind is enlightened, then it has
direct experiences with a new reality that is not associated with the
non-existent past.
The mind tends to ignore the need to enrich thoughts with
various patterns of perception, but most conceptual minds do not sense
that they are interconnected to other minds so that they are as one
with others and become compassionate or ethical or selfless or
spiritual without having to think.
The mind usually thinks and then acts, but occasionally, it
spontaneously acts without thinking: It would act spontaneously if
confronted with genuine danger: It may cause one to jump into the water
to save a child from drowning, even if one couldn’t swim: It may help
strangers and feel genuine compassion
for them during a catastrophe: It may act selflessly during a war to
save a mate and, again, do so without thinking. However, if enough
individuals became
intelligent then intelligent societies would already exist and there
wouldn’t be any wars, but that is another subject. Suffice to say,
wars will cease when the demand to change society ceases because
individuals need to change with different thought systems and eliminate
all belief systems, before society will change.
At present, human minds are not united, but when they are able to
comprehend the unity of all things and all events then they will sense
the essential nature of the mind and of the universe. Selfish thoughts and desires do not allow minds to sense that they are inter-connected to all other beings through this universal consciousness and so conditioned minds despise or kill those who have different ideologies. But as long as minds cling to beliefs and continue to act as if they are selfless, then they will continue to be selfish.
All political systems will eventually fail because they were
invented by human concepts that fail to take into consideration
genuine freedom, compassion and ethics.
Those who manage a state need to be free of all political and
religious ideologies because false concepts cause unfair laws to be
enacted which adversely affect the majority of its citizens.
And most industrial and monetary systems will also eventually fail
because people with position and power become greedy at the expense of
those without position or power: Yet, those without position or power
actually have the power to change society because they are in the
majority, provided however, that they became intelligent, not through
acquiring formal knowledge, but by eliminating divisive belief systems,
which would then allow them to realise that they are related to every
other person.
Parents and educators endeavour to teach ethics, but a person acting
ethically and one
having an ethical nature is a different person. A businessperson is
torn between making as much money as possible and being ethical. A
balance is difficult to achieve if one is in a competitive business
environment. An ethical person is spontaneously ethical without
endeavouring to be ethical. Many people endeavour to be ethical or
unselfish, but they do not realise that the mind is capable of
extraordinary selfless actions without consciously setting out to act.
Instead of living as nature intended it, the mind causes one to live
according to how thought demands it. The mind is conditioned to be
dependant on thoughts and emotions, yet, if love is a thought, or a
desire, or an emotion, then it cannot possibly be love.
Love exists with wordless reason and is part of the same silent evolutionary forces of nature. Occasionally, the false self is not acting and the true self feels related to everyone else. Which means the life we spontaneously wish to save, is actually our own.
Everyone, loved ones and enemies too.
Each grain of sand, each drop of dew. Everything seen is something new. And every place and face is part of you.
A False Concept or a New Theory?
Thought can only give an abstract ‘snapshot’ of reality, but thought
can never give the whole picture because even if the mind has
countless images of anything, all the images can never give even a tiny
picture of reality. However, if we ignore all the images and thoughts
and concentrate on finding the answer to what is thought, then we come
to the conclusion that there is ordinary thought, which is mostly
conditioned and mechanical, and there is intuitive thought, which goes
beyond memory; beyond the known past. But the real puzzle is to find out
what causes thought. Thought could not have come into being without a
natural entity that existed before thought commenced to formulate. If
so, then there must be a similar intelligent entity within all forms of
life and within all fauna and flora. And if this mystical entity is
also in other forms of matter then it may be the fundamental entity of
the universe, therefore, the implication is, without this entity there
wouldn’t be any thought and there wouldn’t be any matter and the
universe wouldn’t have existed.
Physicists claim that nothing existed before the Big Bang. If this
is true, then it is possible that some entity, such as a Universal
Consciousness, came into existence at the same instant that matter and
time-space came into being, but if consciousness is timeless, then it
must have existed just before matter and time-space. As previously
suggested, it is everywhere in the universe (maybe as Dark Energy)
entering matter as it comes into being, or, from the void, it causes
matter to come into being.
Some mysteries of the universe will always be inaccessible to human
minds. Scientists will continue to discover more secrets concerning the
universe and if the theory of a Universal Consciousness is proven
correct, then they may also discover more secrets of the mind. There is
also a theory that life originally came from outer space and another
theory that life originated here on earth.
Whatever their origin, every form of life has the intelligence to
know how to function which supports the theory that all life commences
with a natural consciousness before an individual secondary type of
intelligence comes into being.
Living cells, including those in brains, may have adapted and
changed over time, but they function in present moment dimensions,
whereas, when the conceptual mind commences to function then it relies
on knowledge relative to what was acquired in the past. Every cell
within any life form has a non-physical entity within; this entity does
not control the cell, it exists so as to give ‘life’ to each cell; this
entity is the seat of consciousness but being non-physical we may
never learn its true nature, however, it may be the universal unifying
theory that scientists and philosophers have been searching for.
The human species learned to adapt and make use of thought, but
thoughts are not just thoughts because they are also manifestations of
energy and any thought needs to be recognised as a secondary event and
the fundamental entity is consciousness or an energy field.
Consciousness is also an active intelligence because it interacts with,
and is connected to, every other living thing and to every particle of
matter, which would mean that everything is ‘tied’ together and that
any one part can affect every other part, in the universe: it is this
universal entity that causes forms of life and forms of matter to come
into being, then each form adapts and evolves according to internal and
external influences or forces.
Things in nature cannot be reduced to fundamental entities.
Everything that exists is connected to everything else. In order to
explain how Consciousness is interconnected to everything, one needs to
understand everything, which is impossible.
All scientific
theories will eventually be replaced or altered when more accurate
information is discovered. But whatever is discovered in the future,
will always be creations of the human mind, whereas the real dimension
of the universe and of the mind is consciousness - a natural entity that
is devoid of mental properties such as thoughts, experiences and
observations.
The mind is physical but needs the non-physical
consciousness in order to think. And consciousness will remain a
mystery whilst it is thought that intelligence is an exclusive property
of minds. Therefore, one needs to re-examine concepts of intelligence.
By eliminating belief systems and by not overvaluing acquired
knowledge and possessions one may automatically begin to utilise the
natural dimension which is associated with feelings and senses
emanating from a presently unused portion of the brain. Buddha and many Zen Masters never answered questions regarding the nature of things, or the meaning of life, because they knew there was nothing to be explained. Yet, the meaning of life is to firstly understand it, then to put meaning into it.
The Indian discipline of Vedanta and Mahayana, a later school of
Buddhism, maintained that the primary cause of creation is
consciousness, because consciousness controls both the gross and subtle
molecular and atomic structures.
And some Indian disciplines question the nature of God, not as a
being, but as a cosmic consciousness and that God cannot be know by the
conditioned non-transcendental mind. But most people find it difficult
to comprehend different states of consciousness: They understand that
there is a conscious mind, but fail to comprehend the omniscient level
of consciousness. Once the mind endeavours to explain the unexplainable, then it
becomes trapped in words or thoughts, which are wrongly deemed to be
real. Some mysteries of the universe will always be inaccessible to human
minds. If conceptual thoughts are real then why do they continually
change? Change can occur when the mind ceases to eliminate people who
have false concepts or different ideologies: And the mind can change
when it ceases to destroy the environment and other forms of life.
However, real change can only occur when it is realised that all human
beings are related.
Therefore, our true nature is our silent and unchanging consciousness.
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