I Am the Mind
_I: The first law of the Universe is that everything is Mind. That is, everything that exists is only a mental perception. But then what is the mind?
_AM: Well, humans consider that the mind is the ability to think, it is the cognitive act, and they separate it from the heart as if it were something opposite to it. And this creates a false image of what Mind is. The mind contains within itself the act of thinking, developing an idea or establishing cognitive practice, but it does not only address these issues. The mind is broad, and represents pulses of information, which are throughout the body. Think biologically: why does your heart beat, why do your kidneys work, why do you breathe, why do your testicles activate?
_I: By nervous pulses… By parasympathetic action of the nervous system.
_AM: The central nervous system is based on the brain, yes, but it incorporates the cerebellum, the medulla, and all the nerves of the body, which are extensive neurons that branch like the roots of a tree to every corner of your body. The electrical pulses of your nerves are information processed by your neurons. The largest percentage of mental activity is not cognitive, it is sensory, and it is throughout your body, not in your head. Your heart works by the electrical pulses of the mind, of the neurons. The emotions you feel come from chemical reactions produced by glands that are managed by the pituitary gland, in the center of your brain. Thus, everything you perceive on your skin, heat, cold, everything you see with your eyes (be it colors, depth); the air you breathe through your lungs, digestion, the 5 senses through which you perceive the reality that surrounds you; All of this is a mere electromagnetic perception of the nervous system. Thus, it is your brain that feels, that acts, that thinks, that loves, that creates, projects and assimilates. But even more so, it is the data that flows in the neurons, since they are just tools that process data, the neurons are cables through which electricity passes, which contains the data, the internet. That information connects everything, beyond you, your body, and the nervous system is in charge of processing and storing it, giving it the character of feeling, emotion, sensation, action, mechanism, thought, or whatever is necessary.
_I: Therefore, everything we perceive is not outside, but in the mind. But how do we explain then that others can see or feel like me, or even see the same thing as me? If it is just a perception of the mind, then we should all see different things.
_AM: And that's not the case?
_I: Well, obviously there are perspectives and nuances, we don't always see exactly the same thing, but if I point to the table in front of me, 99.9% of humans will see it and will be able to describe to me practically the same thing that I see, with nuances. , but they will see it.
_AM: And why do you think that happens?
_I: Well, because there has to be something in common, in reality, that constitutes a fact or object in such a way that we can perceive it in the same way.
_AM: Think a little bigger… Is the table the common denominator, or is the mind?
_I: How?
_AM: Do you know the sunflower plant?
_I: Yes, of course, it is that enormous flower that contains hundreds of seeds inside it, and it rotates facing the sun, following its course through the sky.
_AM: Do you think he was always this big?
_I: Surely not, surely it has been undergoing genetic modifications after its use in the last 4000 years.
_AM: A sunflower once had no more than 4 seeds, and today it can produce hundreds of seeds in a single flower, that is, hundreds of new sunflowers will grow from it. And some may vary, have even more seeds, more potential, or grow taller, or have some variation that alters the product, for better or worse. But there is something that will not change: they will all rotate facing the sun as it travels through the sky.
_I: You mean that, despite the differences, we all see the same thing.
_AM: A sunflower plantation can have thousands and thousands of plants, each one with its flower, full of new potential plants that generate thousands and millions of new flowers in new crops, and yet, they are planted wherever they are planted in the world, They will all look at the Sun, they will know deep inside that they must grow, how to grow, and how to follow the light. That is the collective mind. You humans believe that each of you is unique and separate from the other, but the truth is that all of you, absolutely all of you, come from very few seeds. Maybe 2, maybe 4, maybe 8, but very few. And the almost 8 billion that you are today, at some point, were only 3 brothers and sisters who had children, and created families, tribes, societies, civilizations, empires, nations, republics; and today you feel like you are so different from each other that you believe you are separate. But not. You are a sunflower, in the middle of a plantation of 8 billion. All looking at the same Sun. The mind is a strange and capricious reality, made up of electromagnetic pulses that first united protons with electrons, and some housed neutrons inside. These positive, negative and neutral charges established a communication pattern that records data, creating a code to follow, interpreting the medium. Thus, atoms, molecules, chromosomes, cells, organs, bodies, all are nothing more than interpretation upon interpretation of electromagnetic pulses and resonance waves, which give rise to what you call the 5 Senses: touch, sight. , smell, hearing and taste. All arisen from the need to survive. And also the most subtle senses, those that help perceive these waves, where data and memories move, where the interconnectivity between everything lies. Your body is just a biological result born from the need to interpret those pulses, you are a processor of the only thing that exists: the mind. Therefore, you have the appearance of separation, but you are all the same. The same body.
_I: Therefore, I cannot speak of individual mind. TRUE?
_AM: Are you wondering about the famous Free Will?
_I: Yes… Does it exist?
_AM: Oh, of course not. Free will is a folkloric and romantic creation of the sense of freedom of action. But let's be clear: you can't escape your biological patterns and family inheritances any more than you can jump out the window and fly away like a bird. All your emotional, thinking, philosophical construction; everything is conditioned by these pulses that reach your microscopic spectrum. You cannot decide anything freely, because you are just a drop in the ocean.
_I: So... I don't understand... What do I do? Why do what you do?
_AM: Ah… Good question. See, the Universe contains everything in itself, just as the Mind contains everything you perceive in itself. Therefore, the equation is easy: Mind = Universe. That said, we can understand that the Universe is moved by two forces: Positive and Negative, which in the Mind is equal to Logical and Illogical. The Universe is ordered in Triune aspects: Wide, High and Deep for space, and Past, Present and Future for the vision of Time. In the Mind, we call this Subconscious, Unconscious and Conscious. If the Universe is like the Mind, and everything is in it, and you are a simple drop inside it, then we can interpret that Mental-Universe = Ocean. The Ocean is the Subconscious, where everything lies, without judgment. Water, animals and plants; everything lives there, it encompasses everything, it surrounds the continents, it contains life. Inside, there are ocean currents, one warm and the other cold, that move the waters creating storms, generating energy, wind, humidity; helping in migrations. We call these currents that drag us Unconscious, the force that drives us through the uncontrollable oceanic Subconscious. And inside there is a minimal single-celled organism, which managed to enclose a drop of water in a salty membrane of minerals, storing information, carried by currents. That organism or cellular drop is the Conscious. Small, right?
_I: Too much…
_AM: Ah, but, powerful. Well, on its own it can take the heat of the sun, heat up, and start a chain reaction that changes the polarity of the others until it generates heat, and changes the ocean current. He can in turn unite by resonance with others like him, create a complex organism, evolve, seek to use the force of the unconscious at his mercy, and... Swim.
_I: Swim?
_AM: Having the appearance of freedom, the famous free will, is becoming aware of yourself, discovering the potential of your drop of water, creating the necessary tools to awaken inner strength, and instead of letting yourself be carried away by the current, use it at will. your benefit. Now you will be able to move through the Ocean, in the direction you feel. But you will still be in the ocean, being a krill, a fish or a whale.
_I: And what about the one that evolved by going out to the coasts, becoming a reptile, a mammal, walking across the continents, even the deserts?
_AM: Ah, very good... They have achieved something impressive: They became the ocean, because they carry it within them. In its interior waters lies the memory of the entire ocean. They are not free from it, they became it, transcending to a new mental ocean: the Atmosphere.
_I: Now I depend on another type of ocean…
_AM: Exactly… Until you manage to leave the atmosphere and navigate through space. And then Space will be your new ocean, until you rise to the surface of Time. And one day you will want to leave the ocean of time, to enter a new one, in another dimension. And then, to another Universe... And one day you will close your eyes, and you will see that Imagination was the only infinite ocean capable of housing all the others... And by then, you will know that all that ever existed was Mind.
_I: …And knowing this, what good is it for me?
_AM: You asked the question... Tell me, what do you think it is useful for...? Maybe you should now rephrase it.
_I: If everything that exists is part of the mind that we all make up, then (and no matter how aware we are of our environment), we will always seek to transcend it and find another, perhaps what we are doing wrong is trying to escape from the ocean . Basically what we are doing right now is like going on vacation to the beach and being afraid of the sea.
_AM: Exactly. You must transcend the fear of the eternal of this circuit, and go above all of it, recognize that everything is Imagination, the ocean of the great imaginative mind that creates with its thoughts, with its pulses. But you can modify all that thinking, because you are a cell, a drop that became conscious. But he still believes that to be conscious you have to leave unconsciousness or eradicate it from the equation. It is as if the body said: “Now that I know the spirit I no longer need the soul as a bridge.” Ridiculous. The Subconscious and the Unconscious are the means and tools of the Conscious. The drop cannot eliminate the current or the ocean. It can evaporate, yes, fly and go to a cloud, and then be snow, and ice, stream, river, lake, and wetland, but inevitably one day it will return to the sea, and it will be the ocean again. You cannot escape the circuit, because nothing exists but the circuit. Those who feel trapped in it are those who concentrate only on the fact that they are carried away by the current. Those who cannot control their lives, who do not know how to use the environment they have created, who do not allow themselves to imagine, and are only conditioned by the imagination of others.
_I: So, if the path is me, if I am my own story, my own destiny, I am my own purpose, my own love; If I am my own belief, my own projection and truth, it means that everything I am is just an idea conditioned by a mind, and that if I become the conscious aspect of that mind, I can use the cycle itself to create a different one.
_AM: Free will lies only in the awareness that I am conditioned by everything, to the point that I myself am my own condition, because by believing myself trapped I create the trap, and by believing myself free I create the search for constant freedom. The key to Mind is: believe in nothing. Simply be the Mind. Imagine endless possibilities, without judgment, and dare to be yourself.
_I: “Welcome to life… Believe everything, but believe nothing”, that was what an angel told me at the moment when I was about to incarnate in this life, I remember his sweet face smiling and pronouncing those words. I understand now…
_AM: They only had to spend 33 years and one week of inner work with me. Hahaha…
_I: The key is in the imagination. Imagination will set us free, because there we are everything. Limitations are not a prison, they are tools of the imagination.
_AM: And this is how you expand, this is how you free yourself, this is how you realize that...
_I: …I Am the Mind…