What do I want to say? I'm not sure. Something about the idea that we all believe we are bodies.
Writing nothing these days. Everytime I sit down at the computer with the idea of writing some of the thoughts running through my mind, I freeze. Today, I'm going to persist. Even, if, I have to sit here all day and type one word a minute. The subject of this post has been buzzing me for the last few days. One way for me to begin is asking myself what is the meaning of those words and take it from there.
A thought is what I think. Is the thought mine? No matter what I think someone else has thought about it before me. Any idea, even crazy ones, that I think is original, comes up with many pages when I search the Internet. There's nothing original. It's all been done before. It will all be done again, over and over.
If I reverse this thought and accept that everything is known and that there is no such thing as original then all I am left with is the experience of being. And that leads to question the experience of being what?
Psychology is the study of the mind.
So, I focus on the experience of being mind. A major tenet of my education was that my mind is in my brain, in my body. And for me to perceive anything or be aware of anything it had to come through the senses of my body. I had to keep my eyes and ears open and my mouth shut.
There were many minor experiences that began to make me wonder. Simple things like thinking about someone and then meeting them without having planned it. Seeing people in my mind the way they wanted to be seen rarther than the way they looked.
The major thought reversal came when I studied A Course In Miracles and A.H. Almaas's "Pearl Beyond Price". A Course In Miracles explained that I am not a body, I'm mind, because mind is all there is. "Pearl Beyond Price" explained how I got myself into the belief that I am a body by convincing myself that I am an image or a collection of images.
When I studied Indian Philosophy one of the concepts that I found almost impossible to grasp was that it is all an illusion. Because I believed the evidence of my senses I found it difficult to accept that there was really nothing there.
Now I know that there is something there and the illusion is in the way I interpret it. When I see images and objects I am seeing with my eyes and brain and mainly projecting what I want to see onto what is there. Even when I close my eyes I'm seeing with the pineal gland and my brain is interpreting.
Beyond my eyes, my pineal gland, my brain and my body there is mind. And it is always my mind that is really doing the seeing. It is always my mind that is thinking. What I think about I see. If I think an objective world, I see images and objects. If I think subjectively I may still see images and objects, but I can also go beyond these and achieve an in-mind experience (many people refer to this as out-of-body).
So, Thought Reversal Psychology?
World view: object + eyes + brain = reality
Beyond view: mind = reality
Ultimate view: reality = heaven
Our minds create our reality. Reverse our thinking and there is no sickness, no suffering, no death. We are not bodies. We are free.
PS. Six hours later, I was tempted to edit the first few paragraphs out of this. I decided to leave them there to remind me that I can overcome my reluctance to type and just let myself let it happen.
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