Mind Floss
Mind FlossDoug SneddenAbstractMind Floss represents an attempt to formulate a basic intellectual understanding and mind-expanding awareness that will stimulate the universal frame of hidden memories and fundamental knowledge. It is based on the premise that regardless of the uncertainties in life, the human mind is a self-organizing entity that will always find order and balance to sustain, extend and deepen the human experience.~.~Introduction
The aim of this small book is to bring out the positive side of human potential. In the interest of maintaining a focus and direction toward a clear and simple conclusion, it was necessary not to focus too much on the negative side of things. That being said it would be a misunderstanding to interpret the views suggested here as just simple philosophy or pseudo science rather than a way to transform and release the conscious mind from the burden of its conditioned structures. As with everything else in life, the best way to approach this material is to keep an open mind and suspend any reservations you may have long enough to let your natural ability to experience the wholeness of its meaning make you more than you were.
~.~1. This book is designed to distract the critical eye of the ego long enough to allow you to fully experience a refined process endeavoring to transform and release the conscious mind from the burden of its conditioned structures. The material is initially presented as a collection of random statements and summaries because the linear mind with its need to create order can cause a self-validating feedback-loop that will limit the significance of any new awareness. The essential information is first suggested, then repeatedly reinforced into a logical framework that will at the right time, emerge with compelling clarity.
2. Inner change must contain elements that you cannot initially understand, elements that astonish and fascinate the conscious mind into working on them until it comes to terms with a new level of awareness. Should the primary information in this material be prematurely presented, it will be rationalized to become just another common product of the conscious mind and not a principal basis for a deeper understanding.
3. There is nothing sacred about the use of words or definitions. We can use or define words how we like for our own purposes, provided we do so in a clear fashion. We know that words are far from complete when trying to relate what we are thinking, especially when we are trying to express something incomparable or original. The true power of words is not in their literal meaning but in the qualities or intentions that they conceal from our view. We use words because even in their shallowness, they can be used as a turning point to cause a person to look deeper within the depths of their being.
4. If a belief were true, it would be true even if no one believed it. Whatever we believe to be true has little value if it cannot be actively experienced in the present. All things guide us to our innermost truth because we have always been, and will always be, the perceiver and definer of everything our mind accepts or rejects.
5. The purpose of the time and space we have been provided in this life is to enable us to learn how to use time and space constructively. It is therefore a learning environment and a means to an end in itself.
6. Some people believe that what their physical eyes cannot see does not exist. Others say that life is a metaphor for a higher state of being. Whatever the saying or type of thinking, we must not deny the existence of our own awareness from intelligence. Without acknowledging our awareness from intelligence, we cannot see beyond the physical patterns of time and space or release our mind from the limits of our illusions.
7. Life needs nothing to occur except that which is occurring. The universe needs nothing to occur except that which is occurring. We may have imagined that something else needs to occur but this would be false, we have only believed it to be true. What we believe produces experience and when we experience our existence through what we believe, we have inadvertently imagined uncertainty, which in turn has created fear. When we fully understand this, we begin to understand our inner domain and our whole reality begins to change. We start to realize that our happiness is not created as a result of certain conditions. Certain conditions are created as a result of our happiness. Love in our lives is not created as a result of certain conditions. Certain conditions are created as a result of our love. Compassion is not created as a result of certain conditions. Certain conditions are created as a result of our compassion, et cetera. Because we may not have understood this before, we only imagined certain things must occur in order for us to live a more meaningful life.
8. Most of us started off by actually thinking we needed lots of things, and in order to get those things we thought we needed, we started to judge everything and everyone around us including ourselves. The truth of the matter is, need really does not exist. Everything we thought we actually needed, we already have. It lives inside of each one of us. What each one of us has been trying to find is actually ourselves. Yet, we cannot find our individual selves anywhere outside of ourselves. If we look closely at our lives we see that we have always had whatever we needed in order to exist, and ultimately, to bring us together here, right now at this very moment. The evidence of this fact is obvious. We may have wanted something more, but we never actually needed more.
9. We are free to believe what we choose. Moreover, what we do attest to what we believe. Some people believe we are separate from each other and this allows them to do all sorts of unthinkable things to others that they would have normally never dreamed of doing to themselves. By failing to see that they are also indirectly doing these unthinkable things to themselves, they produce and reproduce unwelcome results every day in their lives. Therefore as human beings, we are not, and cannot be, separate from each other. Separation is only an illusion.
10. Each of us is becoming more intense as the emotional and ethereal atmosphere around us continues to increase. As awareness from intelligence, each one of us is actually working in harmony as a collective trying to experience the happiness of a single reality. This truth cannot be threatened by any error in belief or judgment. Only an error in belief or judgment is vulnerable to this truth. Those who project errors in belief and judgment imprison themselves and others, but only to the extent in which they reinforce the errors, they have already made. This would also make them vulnerable to the distortions of others since their own perceptions are distorted and as human beings, we respond to what we perceive, and as we perceive, so shall we behave. We cannot behave correctly unless we perceive correctly. We should simultaneously look from the perception of our own well being in relationship to the well being of others. This way there is no judgment. Understand that there are not people who know more than others or people that know less than others; there are merely those who remember more and others who remember less of what has always been known.
11. Our purpose in life should be to make choices that advance our whole being to its maximum potential. The secret of life is being able to follow your heart and keep your mind open long enough to see every ordinary experience as a gift.
12. Life is not an illusion. We are not an illusion and what we experience within any illusion is not who or what we are as human beings. We must understand that the illusions of life are only illusions we created for purposes that were very real, but that the illusions themselves were not real. Illusions may appear real only because so many other people think they are real. We cannot escape illusions but we can be liberated from them.
13. We can step outside any illusion while continuing to live with them, but now with this realization we are free of their ability to control our reality. We have choices. We know the illusions in which each of us lives individually, are being created by ourselves, not for us by someone else. The illusions of life are truly meant to be our tools. They were never intended to be any kind of burden or sorrow. The illusions of life were meant to be nothing more and nothing less than happiness. The real purpose behind any illusion is to provide a space or context within which to experience every aspect of being. It is also an opportunity to choose the highest aspect of that which we can then conceive at any given moment in the reality we exist within. The right way to live with these illusions is without fear, including the inevitable outcome of our physical lives, which is death.
14. Nothing we have done in our entire lives is a failure. Everything we go through has a purpose. Nothing happens in life that is not ultimately beneficial to our growth. Everything we do is part of a process that we experience to achieve self-awareness. In other words, we cannot experience that which we are in the absence of or that which we are not aware. This is the best way for us to understand and step outside the illusion of failure. This way allows us to see everything as a part of what it takes to be successful in our life. Eventually, everything we do guides us to success, positive or negative, good or bad. You can never fail to succeed.
15. We are the offspring of many previous generations. Our bodies and minds are progressively adapting and improving within our environment on Earth. If we are to continue this process we must begin to understand our own individual nature and how to cooperate more generously and unselfishly as a culture. Especially when it comes to the common good that can be improved upon by each generation to follow.
16. Composed of our earliest childhood feelings and memories, our basic internal references were formed in response to the stresses of our environment. These basic references were mainly non-logical and primitive due to the survival nature exercised in their development. Once these basic internal references formed, they became the filters through which all of our experiences would have to pass. This may explain why some of us repeatedly choose the same kinds of behaviors that cause us to relive our lives through a series of recycled actions and reactions. It can also explain why so many of us fail to learn from the mistakes we have made in the past. We need to do something to break this limiting cycle. We need to start a process that will require us to think about or even relive the traumatic life-saving responses we built, in order to redefine our lives and fully experience reality. Once we do this, we become conscious of the truth of our experiences, which in turn enables us to focus on what lies beyond the energy conflicts. It is the truth of our past that will enable us to move forward on our inner journey, for this truth tells us who we are, the path we are on, what we are doing and why we are the way we are in the present. It also allows us to become more open and communicative in order to bring out the best in other people rather than just trying to control other people.
17. If we are ever going to stop the compulsive cycles of reliving our pain that is hard wired into our thinking, we need to start the healing process sooner rather than later. We need to trust ourselves. We need to trust others. We need to trust ourselves to trust others. Once we begin to move towards trust, we start the healing process by connecting with our feelings. When we make a connection with our feelings we start to express and release our feelings. Only then are we able to begin to bring closure to unfinished events and only then can we start to move forward with more energy for living and forgiving. Forgiveness takes us on a journey that enables us to understand compassion and unconditional love. When we forgive, we circumvent a situation that could become unbearable. Forgiveness empowers us to eliminate anger and resentment, allowing enormous amounts of positive energy to literally change our mental and physical well being and dispose of stress, nervousness, restlessness, sadness, anger or any associated trauma. Forgiveness and healing are aspects of the same reality. Forgiveness removes all energy blockages that prevent healing energy from flowing. Forgiveness is essential and possible under all circumstance, regardless of how much we hurt. We have the power to free ourselves and to free others of any interpersonal guilt. Commit to forgive and the surfacing of freedom and empowerment will lead towards a positive future with others. For this to occur it is necessary for us to let go of our identity as victims or prisoners of destructive energy. All forgiveness is an act of unconditional love. All forgiveness is self-forgiveness. Without forgiveness, there is no future. Not to forgive is to be imprisoned by the past. Forgiveness is reclaiming power over our own life. If we hate anyone, we dislike a part of ourselves. As we give the gift of forgiveness, we ourselves are healed.
18. Light is both a particle and a wave. It is a part of something and the whole of something. We see light but we never know light directly. The light that hits our eyes is known only through the energy it releases. This energy is translated into a visual image within our mind and the image seems to be composed of light but the light is only a quality of our mind. We never know the light itself. Light underlies every process in every present moment. Any exchange of energy between any two atoms in the universe involves the exchange of photons. Every interaction in the material world is determined by light. In this way, light penetrates and interconnects the known universe. Yet, physical light has no mass, and is not part of the material world. Without light as the source of everything that is or will be known, there would be no experience. Light is the accepted and sometimes misunderstood instrument of consciousness, a means of making the visible and the non-visible understandable to the human mind.
19. One way to understand light is to realize it is a two-phase process. First, the recognition that light is everywhere. This step usually entails acceptance. Secondly, the recognition that everything comes from light. When we are willing to embrace and accept light beyond scientific inquiry, we will be able to understand the true experience of our being the sum of something unequaled beyond any assumption.
20. The essence of any human being can never really be hidden from light but we can lead ourselves to believe that it can. This misunderstanding only makes us more uncertain because we soon realize deep within our mind we have created this block by the amount of energy we are exerting to sustain and manifest its continued resistance against light. Understanding light allows us to lift any veil and break the illusion of any block. Light therefore removes any false beliefs about our identity allowing us to embrace a more complete awareness of the reality in which we exist.
21. Light has no unique properties for light is an intervening substance through which our conscious expressions are transmitted. It is the force or impulse of our vitality, energy and strength. It is the same as the creative power and intelligence of the universe. From light all things emerge and manifest into consciousness, giving us a connection to everything. Through this realization there are many mental states created by a fundamental process of perception within our thought patterns or core energy patterns, providing us concrete, experimental or intellectual data to form or deform reality, internally or externally. This is what allows us to live in an energy conscious universe. It is the light within our essential being which is striving to know and fathom itself beyond the censoring role of the ego, beyond the external world. In understanding this one point, we understand the essence and true nature of our whole existence beyond the physical and intellectual influences that surround our corporeal life. Understand this truth within our being and we recognize ourselves within the truth.
22. The rational temporal framework of cause and effect only stands in the outer world of our reality. A new frame of reference can emerge to allow all of us to experience freely the embrace and completeness of our essential nature. This new dimension of reality is light, which is our path of transformation beyond physical existence. Physical existence is only a form of communication in which truth is conveyed and imparted by our awareness from intelligence onto this world.
23. Constant discontent for the most part is rooted in the animal impulses of self-preservation. Our interest and passion for light must rest upon a foundation of truth and compassion, without illusion or exception. Our true nature is in harmony with itself and the gateway to this harmony is deep within our mind. If only for a moment, we need to let the light sweep away the darkness, for in that moment we can purge ourselves of any distortions or deceptions to create a new path of sincerity and self-renewal.
24. Light is everywhere in our universe. It carries information from the inner and outer worlds yet light is a perplexing phenomenon when we try to understand it. Many scientists have spent their entire lifetimes trying to develop consistent physical, biological, chemical and mathematical explanations for light only to realize and conclude that light has no parts, extension, form, nor can it be subdivided. The existence of light can only begin or end all at once through its creation or through its destruction. Light has no openings through which anything may enter or exit. Still, light needs to have some qualities otherwise it would not exist. Therefore, if light did not differ at all in its qualities, there would be no means for us to perceive it. These variations must involve an intricacy in their composition since every change takes place by incremental levels or degrees. There must be something that changes and something that remains unchanged. Light must also have a variety of conditions and relations within itself although it has no parts. All light has an undeniable inner perfection whether we accept this fact or not. In any state, light can recover for light is always something more. If light is more and we are conscious of it, then we have become aware of its perfection through our rational imperfect human senses even if the reasons cannot be fully known by us at this time.
25. Every aspect of light by its very nature follows its own laws, making light a form of ultimate truth. When light is present, knowledge and wisdom are revealed in proportion to its abundance. Light is a good representative of our universe and its core. The core being the entire universe expressed through its interconnections with all matter and its assembly or as a continuous creation by the cause of its nature, a nature expressed through its prevailing light. This understanding allows our reasoning of reality to include light to be something more…something many describe as the cosmic flame of life or the primal stuff of creation...a place where there is never any separation from light and where light becomes a fundamental part of understanding a higher consciousness that manifests and fixes itself upon the deepest essence of our identity as awareness from intelligence. This quality of our higher consciousness as awareness from intelligence transcends our relationship with the outer world. It allows us a deeper understanding and sense beyond every pattern and form, where a new quality of consciousness can provide us the ability to recognize any sign or expression of a higher level of awareness in our daily lives. However, there are false perceptions that can camouflage any sign or expression from ever reaching our awareness. Most false perceptions come from the outer or external world. Others come from our fanciful distortions or twisted perceptions of reality. These distortions are generally vane attempts at controlling reality according to unnecessary desires or projections by our ego. The ego in its natural form is best suited to harmonize or give unity to the mind.
26. The ego in its simplest form is best equipped to organize and provide balance to the mind. However, a complex or inflated ego blocks us from understanding the source of any fundamental truth.
27. Light in essence is a simple vibration without parts. Each vibration of light must be different from every other light vibration, for there are never two of anything in nature precisely the same. Therefore, every light vibration is subject to change and this change must be continuous. This would make the natural changes of light vibrations come from an internal principle because an external cause can have no influence on the true nature of our understanding of light. In addition to this basic principle of change, there must also be something within light that changes. This something must be the specific nature of light for every change in nature takes place in incremental levels or degrees; there must be something that changes and something that remains unchanged. Consequently, there must also be a plurality of conditions and relations in light even though it has no parts.
28. The passing condition that involves and represents a multiplicity in the unity of light can be nothing more than perception to a human being. All light has a certain perfection and sufficiency that makes its source infinite within our elementary understanding and definition of infinity or perfection. Every present state of light is a natural consequence of its preceding state. Therefore, the ultimate reason for light must be a necessary vibration in which the detail of all changes must be present. We can conclude that light is unique, universal and necessary, with nothing that is independent or outside of it, making it incapable of limitation, so it must contain as much reality as possible. Light must therefore be perfect within the context of human understanding. Accordingly, perfection would be understood as a magnitude of positive reality in the strictest sense, especially when limitations or boundaries are removed. Where there are no limits, perfection is absolute or infinite. A logical deduction at this point could be that within perfection we can find not only the source of all existence but also the essence of all that is real. If light is perfect and infinite, then light could be considered a core element of something unequaled because created things can only derive perfection through the influence of something infinite. Whereas, imperfections in created things come from there own nature, which cannot exist without limits.
29. At this stage if we understand or accept any of this light logic, we could substitute the word perfection with the word love (or any prime word). Love alone is the ultimate vibration and all light is a product that reaches out to or from the infinity of one ultimate vibration, for everything in our universe is influenced by everything else. Everything in our universe is connected through a mysterious form of energy. Or we could say that everything comes from a seed in which there is no doubt of some deliberate formation, making everything in the universe fitted to each other by virtue of a prearranged harmony between all vibrations. Alternatively, we could even say that light is the glue that binds everything in the universe into a universal matrix or oneness.
30. Consciousness is awareness from intelligence. It is that which is timeless and uninterrupted throughout the universe. When consciousness becomes sentient, it emerges simultaneously inside space-time and outside space-time to form and awaken the human genius within each of us. This multidimensional union links both human consciousness and cosmic consciousness with form (metaphysical with physical). It allows us to subjectively experience the world of nature and the world of the metaphysical as illuminated beings in the openness of physical reality. Everything we experience in the openness of reality is actually a visual experience. The world that we observe and perceive is nothing more than an adjustment of our consciousness, the natural status of which remains an enigma without recognizing light as its source. This fact about visual experience does not mean that what our senses are experiencing is only fantasy, it just means that what we experience or bring into consciousness is first arranged, modified or amplified by our nervous system. For each neuron that receives its data from the outside world there are dozens of others that do not. Our brain is therefore communicating mainly with itself and almost no other information from the outer world moves directly from our sensory receptors to the cortex where the contents of our consciousness first emerges. However, there are usually a few breaks in the wiring where our synapses give our neurons a chance to combine feed back data or data from other parts of the brain. This sort of exchange of signal or data explains how synthetic chemicals alter emotions or certain insights can alter our state of mind and experience.
31. Our brain is set up to deliver the visual presentation of the world we are experiencing right now. We have the power to alter this visual presentation of the world we receive from our brain anytime we decide to make an adjustment in our daily physical or mental routines. Some people choose to do this by simply being more open-minded. Just having the willingness to change causes change within the context of our view of the world. It also causes a form of revitalization of hope for a world that can be deeply rational even as it makes clear there may be limits to our reasoning. This type of open-mindedness towards any evidence and discussion is the key to securing a common world for all of us. We usually draw together on similar experiences and insights when given the same process of questioning. The only real difference there is between us is the type of language we use to express ourselves or the level of effort we are willing to provide to change our mind with new information. Language is actually a way to reflect on language. It is our way of self-reflection where by each symbol, rule or meaning reflects a part of our inside or outside world in its own unusual way. As language reflects itself, it gradually changes itself, evolving not only new meaning but also new information. The basic root of language is mental abstraction, which can lead our mind to create symbols, signifying conceptual patterns that actually do not physically exist in the world but give us an idea of the world. Language creates an inner reality that is capable of competing with our outer reality, therefore separating our mind from the physical world. If we merely watch and feel the expansion of language in and around us, we can begin to understand our own continuous journey within time towards infinite time.
32. Our life will never exceed our beliefs. Our mind is a dynamically productive creator of beliefs based largely on its capacity to evaluate new statements or propositions of truth, regardless of how many other truths we may have already accepted.Next Pagedougsnedden@hotmail.comLast Updated: October 10, 2008.
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