Lying To Get To The Truth - #23 in the series

For this moment, in order to put some substance to this universe of no substance, I would like for you to mock-up this universe as being an infinite ocean of water that is completely around you in all three hundred and sixty degrees.  This ocean is a single body of water that goes on and on and on, in all directions, forever and ever. There is no center and there are no edges or levels. It is a single living entity and it is completely aware of being aware.  This living entity is fully and completely aware of its infinity and is fully and completely aware of that awareness.

If you alter your point of view within this ocean of infinity you will discover that it is composed of incredibly tiny individual molecules.  Each separate molecule, which from now on we’ll call a life unit, shares many identical characteristics with every other life unit that together compose this infinite ocean entity.  However, each single life unit has uniqueness peculiar to it and it alone.  In other words, each unit has its own unique identity, unique will, unique basic personality and is a single unit (individual) of infinite consciousness that is an integral part of the whole.
 
Every life unit in this infinite ocean entity is fully and completely aware of every other life unit as being an individual unit of a more expansive entity.  This includes having the complete awareness of every other life unit and being fully aware of having that awareness.  Also, each life unit has the full and complete awareness of the whole ocean entity as being the whole ocean entity, as well as, a full and complete awareness of any myriad of combined life units (groups) that have come together to represent and be a single unique composite identity.  Note: the divisions and subdivisions, groupings and combinations among the life units are, as you can imagine, completely without limitation.

Okay. So we now have ourselves a mocked-up image of this universe we’re putting our attention on.  Now, delete the mass of water without deleting any of the units of awareness.  Ah yes.  That’s better.  That’s a better lie.  That’s a little closer to a true perception of life.

It’s occurring to me that you may be somewhat puzzled by my continual reference to lies and using lies to take you closer to a perception of truth.  Let me attempt to clarify that issue.

This universe that we’re mocking up, which I refer to as life, is void of everything and anything that we have come to know and agree or disagree with.  In other words, this universe is completely void of matter, energy, space and time (the component parts of our shared physical universe).  Admittedly, that concept is very difficult for us, in our present condition, to get our wits around.  In fact, at this point in time, we can’t really even get close to doing so even if we think we can. But I digress.  Anyway, life is truth.  Life is actuality.  But this harmonic of truth and actuality in this universe (being outside of the apparent universal space) is an awareness or, more accurately, a knowingness.  In other words, it is not something you see.  If you think you see it (in some physical sense), it is not truth you are seeing but an illusion.  Truth does not persist long enough for you to see it because truth (actuality) is simultaneously both creation and destruction in the NOW.  The illusion, though, being a lie, will persist and can be perceived and agreed with and can become a being’s reality.

Everything emanates from life.  Life has a limitless ability to mock-up anything and everything it intends in any way it intends. That is to say that life has a limitless ability to create illusions. When life mocks something up to view and for other life to view (remember all life is aware of all life and what all of life is doing) then that mock-up, that illusion, if agreed upon, becomes reality beyond its source.  But the illusion is an illusion and is not truth.  It may be real but it is a lie.  And the only way something can be continuously viewed (persist), as an observable tangible thing in this universe called life, is if it is a lie - the more lies there are about something the greater its persistence. Yes, that would mean that our shared physical universe is a lie. It is an illusion. To see some of your own illusions that you are creating, look at your life.  If you have an unwanted condition that continues to persist, you can be sure that this condition is composed of numerous lies.  When you accurately spot the lies and the exact source of the lies (the exact moment in time and space when the lie was created) the unwanted condition will vanish.  It might have been very real but it was never the truth.  Knowing the truth unmocks the lies.

What is a lie?  A lie is an alteration.  It is saying that something is, which isn’t or saying that something that does exist doesn’t exist or any infinite number of variables of alterations one can mock-up.

The Space Outside - We Have Arrived! #22 in the series

Here is where it gets exceptionally tricky for me as your guide.  I want to show you something that is impossible to show you.  We are going to attempt to leave a nothing that we are convinced is a never ending something and go to an actual something, which is truly infinite; yet we perceive it as a nothing.  Because there are no words that can come even close to symbolizing what we’re attempting to approach, I will use common words to describe uncommon things.  Essentially I am going to use a string of lies to get you as close to a perception of truth as I can.  I know.  It sounds crazy.

Through my words I am going to provide you with a light sketch of a particular scene.  To these sketches, you will have to add the dimension, color, sound, texture, etcetera. I assume that you will do so with concepts and images that are familiar to you, but I do encourage you to keep an eye out for any new unfamiliar images that happen to appear on the scene.  I have a feeling that, particularly at this stage of our journey, some might just show up.

We are now going to mock-up a universe.  We are going to begin with getting a sense of what is not in this universe and then see how it goes from there.

In this universe we are mocking up there is no matter.  There is no motion.  There is no space. There is no location.  There is no dimension.  There is no distance. There is no light.  There is no dark.  There is no wavelength.  There is no sound.  There is no form. There is no smell. There is no fast.  There is no slow. There is no energy.  There is no big.  There is no small.  There is no taste. There is no evil.  There is no sensation. There is no age. There are no numbers. There is no game. There is no start.  There is no end.

I realize that per this description you could easily assume that the universe we are mocking up is nothing but a void, but I assure you, this universe is most definitely not a void. This universe IS the space outside. The irony is, that once you’ve entered the space outside you are no longer in a space. Indeed, rather than to state that we have emerged into the space outside it would be more accurate to state, that we are now outside of space. And because we are outside of space we no longer have any location. We just ARE. We exist as a CAUSE, as a SOURCE, as a CONSCIOUSNOUS, as a ONE.

Before we continue I want to encourage you to just stop right here and take some time to stretch out your imagination as far as you possibly can and try to get some kind of feel for this universe.  Take some time and really mock this universe up. Take as long as you need.  There is no hurry. The next paragraph will wait patiently for as long as you need.

There are a few words that I am familiar with, which I have chosen to use in order to label this universe.  And though the concepts these words and phrases symbolize are so utterly and significantly less than adequate for this universe, they are the best lies I can find in the English language.  In no particular order, these words are; eternity, infinity, source, that which is aware of being aware, cause, truth, love, creation, serenity of being, integrity, actuality, élan vital, God, thought and my favorite - life.  There is another word and that is the word, home. And I suspect that you might know of or have other words that you would choose to represent this universe.

You see this universe we have begun to mock-up is actually our universe. It is our home. We can never go here because we are, in fact, always here and have never really left.  But this is a universe where there is no here or there. It is actually much more accurate to state that we ARE this universe.  It is not a separate thing from us.  It is you, it is I and it is we and we are it.  The universe that I like to call life is indeed a true static. 

And it is here, where there is no here, where our game begins.  But, I’m getting ahead of myself.

PART II - The Spiral Staircase - #21 in the series

We are now, both in time and space…very, very, very far away from The Confederation. Indeed, as we emerge from this rabbit hole we are brushing up against the space outside. We are brushing up against actuality.
 
The Spiral Staircase

Every single person is holding a position on hers or his very own spiral staircase which is peculiar to them.  Every family, every group of any kind, every fragment of any civilization, and the entire population as a whole are also positioned at some point on their own spiral staircase. And, all of these spiral staircases are intertwined. We’re all there in the mix somewhere as is the entire physical universe.

If you could look up from the step you are standing on your spiral staircase just goes up and up and up until it eventually disappears.  And if you could look down the staircase it would continue downward until it became a tiny speck then it would also disappear out of sight. So the first thing we discover is that one of the concepts the spiral staircase represents is infinity.  We also see that as the staircase goes higher the steps get progressively larger and less dense and as it goes lower the steps get progressively smaller and more condensed. Thus, it is both an expanding and a dwindling spiral staircase. So, its shape is actually that of a cone.

Now imagine that you are not on the staircase.  You are backed away from it a considerable distance.  In fact you are backed away so far that you are only seeing the staircase as being a thin vertical line with no apparent beginning or end. You cannot see a top or a bottom to this line.  But, as the line goes up it gets increasingly broader and seemingly translucent and as it goes down it gets increasingly thinner and darker.  You start to slowly move closer and before long you’re close enough to make out that this line is not exactly a straight line.  You are now close enough to distinguish that the line is actually a cone shaped spiral. You continue to go closer.  Finally you’re close enough to actually see that spiral is composed of seemingly never ending steps.  You move even closer and as you get really close to one of the steps, so close that the rest of the staircase disappears from view, you see that there is now another endless vertical line in front of you.  You don’t stop but continue zooming in closer and closer towards the line. As you do you once again discover the spiral in the line followed by the view of steps.  You go closer and very quickly find yourself on a duplicate step to the previous one and once again, you’re looking at another line.  You hesitate for a moment then stop.  You start to ponder the meaning of the phenomena you’re experiencing.  You wonder what will happen if you keep moving in closer.  What will you find?  Will there be yet another line that is really a spiral too?  What could possibly be at the end of this?  And then there’s the really important question, if you keep going forward will you be able to return to where you started?

The questions begin to gnaw away at you. The next thing you become aware of is that you have hesitated too long and have fallen into the maybe trap where decisions are nonexistent. You are now stuck in a state of limbo without motion or direction. You observe time and events moving past you as if you weren’t even there. Then something happens.  A whisper of intention floats by and you latch onto it with a death grip.  Without any delay whatsoever you make a decision! Voila! You have freed yourself from the maybe trap.  You’re now out and fluid again.

You muster up some courage and allow your adventuresome spirit to once again take the reins.  You decide to push on and see just how far this strange phenomenon will take you.  You continue moving closer to what is ever in front of you and as you do the bewildering phenomenon just keeps repeating itself over and over and over, again and again and again. Myriad of repetitions later you arrive at a step and there is no other line to be seen.  But the question now looms, where have you arrived?  And will you be able to find your path back the way you came in?

You are now standing on a single step.  You see no other step anywhere.  There’s just the one you’re on but you vaguely sense another step above this one and the more you adjust your perceptions you begin to see other steps just below.  But as one perception expands another fades.  You are unable to see from where you have journeyed.  In fact, you have no recollection of ever having been anywhere prior to where you are now. This is it. You are now located at your awareness level on a spiral staircase within a spiral staircase within a spiral staircase and so on and so on seemingly forever and ever.  Evidently you are located somewhere within eternity.
 
From your position on this step i.e., your level of awareness, is from where you perceive, create and live your life.  Your reality of your environment, the world and the universe is all contained right here on this step.  What is real to you, what is true for you is manifest for you by way of your agreements.  In other words, what is real for you is what you agree is real for you.  What is true for you is what you agree to be true for you.  And what you do or don’t do, what you perceive or don’t perceive, what you believe or don’t believe is completely determined and limited by your agreements. In other words, and more specifically, your decisions.
 
You are not alone.

Remember, you are on one step on a staircase of infinite steps.  There are many, many steps above and below you but those that are above, except for possibly the next step up, exist outside of your level of awareness.  The few steps that you are aware of that exist below yours are steps you have no desire or wish to even visit.  But as you look down you recognize people that you once used to know.  You see some old friends standing a few steps down and feel a pang of sadness drift into your space as the memories of a past time spent with those people parade by in front of you.

Occasionally, unknown circumstances will catapult someone briefly up to a higher step not ever even envisioned. When this event actually happens to someone and then they later return to “reality” where they feel obligated to share their experience, it is not uncommon for them to come face-to-face with ridicule from others. They have moved out of the accepted levels of group agreement.  Their reality is no longer the agreed upon reality and that immediately sets them apart making them undesirable and sometimes even considered dangerous to associate or communicate with.  Or, they become very attractive to a small percentage of others that hang on their every word and will do anything they are told to do by the person.  In other words, in the extreme, they can become cult leaders. 

Note: On occasion a life unit, for whatever reason, will have the experience where its lower mind backs off far away from its vicinity and during this time is not exerting its negative influences upon the life unit, the life unit’s higher mind or the life unit’s organism.  In that finite period of time the life unit will perhaps suddenly find itself once again in possession of surprising “supernatural” abilities or will experience life altering changes of perception (epiphanies) that are usually categorized as being religious experiences.  These moments might only exist for seconds or might last throughout an entire lifetime of the identity one is temporarily being. 

On every spiral staircase including every spiral staircase within every spiral staircase within infinity and awareness, there is a very thin line of demarcation. Above the line of demarcation there is awareness and degrees of more and more awareness.  Below the line is unawareness and degrees of less and less awareness.  There are no absolutes on any part of this staircase.
 
The population on planet earth has always fluctuated only slightly between an incredibly small grouping of little steps on our collective staircase.  But, in this place and time, remains well below any line of demarcation. In other words, the population of planet earth has been pretty much “fixed” in a state of unknowing unconscious both spiritually and mentally.

There is more data to explore but we will now move on and possibly return to this mock-up later.

Checkmate... - #20 in the series

Bob pulled his attention out of his memory bank files and back into present time. He now focused his full attention onto the disseminator ship headed for the very, very remote little planet located way out on the rim of a small galaxy.

         
The cargo of this ship was a vast assortment of devices that were calibrated to frequencies that made them invisible to the prisoners on the planet.  The devices were in many different forms.  Some looked just like a book, some were exact copies of various familiar insects, some looked like rodents, some were boxes, some were spheres and so on and so forth.  If someone did happen across one of these devices and was able to see it then that meant that the person was emanating the same frequency of vibration as that of the device.  The fact that the prisoner was emanating this particular frequency revealed that the person was experiencing memory leakage of a specific kind.  The devices were calibrated to a multitude of different frequencies that scanned the environment for a frequency that duplicated that of the device.  When a match was found, the device would put itself in the path of the person.  The person would see it, have his or her attention compelled to lock onto the device and pick it up.  At this point, depending on the type of leakage, indicated by the frequency, the devices were programmed to do many different things.  One thing, though, that all the devices had in common was that once picked up, the device would go into a period of standby for various periods of time depending on how the device was programmed.  The purpose of this was to give the target time enough to locate other similar prisoners.  It was typical that prisoners that would begin to experience memory leakage would be drawn to others having the same type of leakage.  Their like frequencies would draw them together but without any awareness of the fact on their part. They just knew that they enjoyed being around one another.  Anyway, after a certain period of time when others, if there were others, came on the scene, the device would activate.  Of course, if there were others, they would be compelled to touch the device at which time the device made a recording of their unique identifying wavelength.

The devices did different things when they activated.  The one thing that they all did was emanate a specialized frequency of energy that would seal the leakage and basically act as a booster blast for the amnesia. But beyond this basic function there were devices with "accessories." For example: Some devices would project angel-like or god-like holograms that would give eloquent speeches and command the people to go off and do all sorts of odd things (many religions came into existence this way.  In fact, there are a few of these guys who have programs on present time TV.).  Some devices were designed to activate various programs in the lower mind that, until this point in time, had just floated along with the person in an inactivated dormant state.  Now, suddenly, this irrational program is activated and the person abruptly dedicates the rest of their life to discovering the true meaning of the June bug's reproductive cycle, or why chimpanzees are chimpanzees or isolating exactly why mice make a squeaking noise or something of the sort.  Or, worse, the person is suddenly compelled to kill, in a certain manner, any woman that fits an extremely precise profile or some such insanity.  And on and on it goes. 

Then some devices (usually sphere shaped) are programmed to detect and ratify cases of severe memory leakage.  These devices emit an invisible disintegrator wave that completely eradicates, without any visible evidence, the organism of anyone emanating a certain frequency. The device also blacks out the memory of anyone else who happens to be nearby but not manifesting the frequency. After such an occurrence the life units emanating frequencies matching the device suddenly find themselves once again captive at a Dept. of Conformity prison outpost operated by some technicians that are readying themselves to have some sadistic fun with their new arrivals.
 
Back at Bob's house with the group of twenty-nine......

As Bob heard and felt the click from the lever as it locked into its new position, he knew exactly what was going to happen next. Checkmate.

Life Force - #19 in the series

Now this may sound rather idiotic, but a life unit is a unit of life. As covered earlier, life units vary in order of magnitude from one to the next. Life units have x amount of life force in ratio to their own unique order of magnitude. Again, here’s a quantitative factor in regards to a life unit. When a life unit collides with the physical universe, while operating an organism, there is a degree of confusion that occurs. And, as we have discussed, the lower mind is brought online in these moments of impact, pain and unconsciousness so that everything that occurs during these incidents is recorded. But something else also happens during these finite moments of pain, unconsciousness and confusion. A degree of the life unit’s life force is somehow trapped and encapsulated within the confused energy of the lower mind and is held captive there in a unrelenting state of turbulence. This particular mechanic, of course, reduces the amount of life force that is available to the life unit. In effect this occurrence reduces the rational capability, intelligence and power of the life unit and the life unit is now predisposed to think and behave irrationally.

Well, as mentioned earlier, the life units have had minds for a very, very long time and during the course of this time they have had many, many collisions with the physical universe (such as hitting a hand with a hammer a few trillion times and much, much worse) and with each collision a fraction of confused life force was trapped and held captive by the lower mind. And each time the amount of free and pure life force available to the life unit became, to some degree, less. Thereby reducing the life unit’s abilities of reason and power.

Note: Life force is the essence of a life unit. Essentially the life force IS the life unit. They are one and the same.

As this process continues over time, the amount of trapped life force accumulates. And so long as the amount of free life force is greater than what is trapped the life unit can still hold its position against the irrational influences and commands exerted on it by the irrational mind and keep it held back and contained. However, there comes a time when a point is reached where the amount of free life force is equaled by the amount of trapped life force that is in a state of never ending confusion and agitation. The trapped life force is exerting a force, albeit a highly confused and turbulent force, against the free life force and this force against force, being equal creates a huge standing ridge of energy – and then comes another collision after which the irrational mind takes the upper-hand. This means that the free life force remaining is now in a condition where it can be much more easily overwhelmed, agitated, influenced and commanded via the contents of the recordings stored in the lower mind that are being “switched on” by circumstances in present time that approximate, in some way, the contents of a lower mind recording.

To put this in perspective, imagine the Empire State Building and let’s say that huge structure represents the trapped life force in the lower mind. To represent the amount of free and pure life force remaining, get the mental image of a postage stamp and hold it up next to the Empire State building and there you have a visual ratio between free life force and trapped life force. There isn’t a life unit one known to be in the Confederation, including the bulk of the nonconformists, that isn’t somewhere near this ratio of trapped versus free life force and that’s regardless of the life units order of magnitude. In other words, this ratio is relative to the order of magnitude of the life unit.

In view of the fact that we have been discussing life force, let’s see if we can get ourselves a better perspective regarding the power of free and pure life force. Lets take a life unit on the order of magnitude of a baby mouse. For the purposes of our example, the life force of this very small life unit is still completely free. It does not possess one speck of trapped or turbulent life force. If you were to meet and communicate with this particular life unit you would be one hundred percent certain that you had just been communicating with God Almighty. There is such an enormous quantity of intention, reason, understanding, compassion, love, power, creative force, etc. represented by the free life force of this one small life unit that this life unit, alone, is capable of manifesting an entire duplicate universe of the entire extant physical universe. This should give you an idea of how far down the dwindling spiral the life units have come.

The Dept. of Conformity knew a great deal about the mind and especially the mechanics of the lower mind. As the Confederation always looked at any new information or technology from the viewpoint of, how it could be used to make life more controllable, obedient and subservient i.e., a slave. That crew at the Dept. of Conformity never thought once about trying to repair and rehabilitate a mind. In any case, the research scientists of the dept. had really hit “pay dirt” with their research more than once over the millenniums, and they knew how to use the lower mind against the life unit, the rational mind of the life unit and the organism the life unit was associated with. In other words, they knew exactly how to write the programs and exactly how and when to install them in order to make them extremely effective in controlling life units.

More Mechanics of the Lower MInd - #18 in the series

The lower mind is the primary mind (perhaps it’s the only mind...Bob's notes are not clear on this) of the lower life forms. How it came to be part of the mind that the life unit uses will be discussed later. And while it might be workable as a tool of survival for a lower life form, it works just the opposite in regards to a life unit. The lower mind is not a logical mind. It is a stimulus response mind. Its memory filing system is quite crude, certainly no comparison to the sophisticated multilevel systems of the higher mind. The lower mind is incapable of differentiation. It does not distinguish any difference between past, present and future, which means that all its recordings are filed as happening in present time. “Now” is the only moment it recognizes in regards to time. Three other elements that are part of each recording made by the lower mind are impact, pain and unconsciousness. And the pain in the recordings is what gives the memories stored in the lower mind of the life unit power to apply sufficient force to the rational operation of the higher mind and override it. This is not a good thing. Now there is one more element that, if it’s part of a recording made by this mind, can wreck havoc on the operational effectiveness of the higher mind and the life unit. This element I’m referring to is language. Now in the lower life form’s mind language is not a detrimental factor but in the case of the operation of the life units’ lower mind, language is an extremely detrimental factor. All language in recordings of the lower mind is recorded as being literal. And, all language in these recordings, because of the inclusion of pain, has force (command value), which brings about very bad effects on the operation of the higher mind and the life unit. Remember, this is the mind of the crooked line. One cannot make sense out of what is in this mind because what is in this mind does not make any sense to begin with. However, that being said, in working with our higher minds we manage to come up with some of the wildest and most ludicrous answers possible in our attempts to explain and rationalize the actions and results spawned out of the lower mind.

All recordings, including the complete detailed content of these recordings, in this lower mind are filed as being identical or similar and they all equal, to greater and lesser degrees, pain and unconsciousness. Like I said, the filing system in this mind is very crude in comparison to that of the higher mind. But this mind does compartment off recordings into a few separate areas. For example, there is the compartment having to do with self, there is a compartment having to do with creation and that includes family and sex, and then there’s compartments that have to do with others, there is compartment having to do with the species the life unit is pretending to be a part of, there is a compartment having to do with all plant and animal life, there is a compartment having to do with the components of the physical universe i.e., matter, energy, space and time, there is a compartment having to do with life units and there is a compartment having to do with infinity and there may even be a few others. Now being that this mind functions totally as a stimulus-response mind it has to first receive stimulus in order to respond. Anything in the present time environment of the life unit, if in some way is similar to even a speck of content in the lower mind, can act as a switch i.e., the stimulus, which activates a response from the lower mind. And any response from this mind is always irrational and inappropriate. And because of the pain and unconsciousness part of the content of the recording, as well as any language that might happen to be in the recording’s content, the response exerts command over the operation of the higher mind, the organism and the life unit. The lower mind’s response, which is actually a certain grouping of recordings, as it relates to a life unit, is always a wrong answer.

One way we can visualize this lower mind is to compare it to a typical electrical panel or, as it is sometimes referred to, “breaker box“. As I’m sure you know, the electrical panel is located where the electrical service enters into a building from the outside. Inside the panel the main current of electricity is divided into independent circuits and each circuit is controlled by its own breaker switch. If a breaker switch is switched to the “on” position, a certain amount of electrical current is allowed to flow into the circuit that is controlled by that switch. If the breaker is switched to the off position no electrical current will flow into that circuit. Okay, using the electrical panel as an analogy, imagine such a panel that is filled with hundreds of thousands of breakers. In this imagined breaker box, each breaker represents a finite recording made by the lower mind. Each recording has a beginning, a middle and an end and each recording is loaded with many gigabytes of data. As the life unit moves through life and living, things in the present time environment that approximate something in one of these recordings, in the right circumstances, can cause that particular breaker to switch on and the content of that recording begins to run and has an adverse affect upon the life unit.

Until a particular lower mind recording is switched on it will just float along in time remaining dormant and exerting no adverse effect upon the higher mind, the life unit or the organism. However, once a particular memory is switched on it will exert an adverse effect on the higher mind, the organism and the life unit for usually several days (a week or so) and then minimize into a sort of stand-by mode for the remainder of that organism’s life. But in this stand-by mode it takes incredibly little to reactivate it and have it once again take control of the operation of the organism and life unit. And if the life unit happens to be so unlucky as to be living in an environment that is acting as a held down switch (switch locked in activation mode) for the lower mind, the activated recordings will be exerting control over the higher mind, the organism and the life unit 24-7. In which case, the life unit usually just concludes that this manner of acting and behaving is just “the way he or she is.” In other words, the life unit mistakenly identifies its irrational behavior that’s actually being enforced upon it by the lower mind, to be what he or she is. It’s insidious!

The mechanical form of this lower mind having its recordings compartmented as to what they’re in reference to, means that you can have a perfectly “normal” person that happens to enter an environment where something switches on a breaker within that enormous “breaker box” and causes the person to display an inappropriate irrational response to the extant set of circumstances. For example, it could be the lower mind’s storage compartment having to do with family and sex that something in the present environment triggers a particular breaker to switch to the “on” position. The activated recording takes over control and the person begins acting out the highly irrational and inappropriate content of the recording in present time meaning, in this example, the person becomes a sexual pervert. However, as far as this person’s behavior goes in other areas of life, such as how he performs and acts at work is quite rational. Perhaps he’s well known and admired for his athletic abilities and high degree of good sportsmanship or he might be recognized as a “pillar of the community” in reference to his civic service. In any case, this simply means that this person, in those areas, has not experienced a set of circumstances that has acted to switch on a breaker and activate an irrational response from one of the compartments in the lower mind that pertains to those areas of existence. Hence, the situation of any one person being “totally insane” is highly unlikely. To be totally insane they would have to have every compartment and sub-compartment in the lower mind in a state of simultaneous activation.

One more thing and that is, the contents of the lower mind are highly contagious in a progressive geometric sort of way. This means that a person who is being controlled by their lower mind, which means they are acting and behaving as dictated by “crooked thought,” can pass their irrationality on to anyone else that happens to be in a receptive state, i.e., to some degree experiencing a moment of impact, pain and unconsciousness. This particular mechanic of the lower mind is why it is so important to remain totally silent (definitely no talking) around anyone who is experiencing and degree of unconsciousness and pain and that includes anyone who has just received some bad news or is in a state of depression. Any words spoken around a person who is experiencing some degree of pain and unconsciousness are words that are being recorded in the lower mind as being literal commands. There is a possibility that these recordings might sooner or later be triggered by something in the person’s environment and go into action creating an adverse impact on the individual, the individual’s mind and the organism the individual is operating. Not to mention the ripple effect out into the person’s environment where it infects others.

There is so much more detailed information available on the mind in Bob’s story but I just can’t, as much as I would like to, get into those files right now. As it is, I’m already digressing more onto this topic than I intended and, due to the tediousness of this subject, you might be feeling a bit bogged down about now. But, please try to hang in there as there is one more point that I do want to tack on here at the end about the mind and the life unit and then we’ll move on. Speaking of moving on, you might be pleased to hear that we’re going to be leaving Bob’s story here pretty soon and be going off to a place that is far far away in time from here. In fact, where we're going there is no time. However, before we backtrack our steps through the looking glasses and come back to what’s “real,” there will be one or two more segments of Bob’s story that I’ll write down for you in the Space Outside.

The Lower Mind - #17 in the series

The lower mind records in image form the same way as the higher level mind. Its recordings are also made as energy imprints in picture form and include all the percepts as those recorded by the higher mind. The life unit, however, has no awareness of this mind or the content of its memory banks. This mind and its contents are buried beneath the awareness of the life unit and are closed off to access by the life unit. If a life unit, at present time on earth, does contemplate the existence of this lower mind, it is usually in reference to the speculations and significances generated and disseminated by the field of psychology regarding what is referred to as the subconscious or unconscious mind. Also some spiritual practices refer to this mind as the "ego self" or the "me" as opposed to being the "I". In any case, either concept of subconscious or unconscious mind as put forth is completely arbitrary and copiously littered with falsehoods. In examining this lower mind it would be best if one would disabuse themselves of any former authoritative data received regarding the subconscious or unconscious mind. But, then again, don’t you accept a word of this. Remain skeptical and continually compare this new information to your own perceptions of reality and what is true for you.

The lower mind is a rugged mind. It is designed to take over the duty of recording and filing everything that happens to the life unit when the life unit has gone unconscious and the higher mind has been temporarily turned off. This condition occurs when the life unit collides too forcefully with the physical universe resulting in pain and unconsciousness. For example, when the nonconformists were subjected to the tremendous amnesia producing force, their higher mind would shut down, the life unit, not being able to confront that degree of force, went unconscious but the lower mind was right there recording everything that occurred.

When I say pain and unconscious I’m speaking in terms of degrees of. As a demonstration, place one of your hands palm down on a solid flat surface. Now grab a piece of paper, napkin, business card or the like and using that paper product hit this hand as hard as you can. So what happens? Not much. Right? While force and impact were a part of this action the degree of impact was not sufficient to pull more than a small fraction of your attention from your immediate surroundings onto your hand and the point of contact where the paper struck it. Now grab a pen or pencil and hold it up and just let it drop onto your hand. The impact of the pen or pencil hitting your hand, while being greater than the paper, does still not pull more than a fraction of your attention from your immediate surroundings to your hand and the point of impact. Okay. Go get yourself a hammer. Now take the hammer and mock-up hitting your hand as hard as you possibly can. Well, in reality, if you were to actually hit your hand with the hammer, the instant that hammer strikes your hand there is sufficient impact, and now pain is there too, in the blow that your complete attention is pulled from your immediate environment to the precise point of impact and pain. In that moment, your body most likely did not fall over totally unconscious but you were, for all practical purposes, unconscious of your immediate environment. In this moment of impact, pain and unconsciousness; the life unit has essentially withdrawn, the higher-level mind stops recording and the lower level mind, not missing a beat, activates and records everything going on, all fifty plus perceptions, in 24th of a second increments. As the pain subsides, the life unit slowly returns its attention to the area i.e., consciousness, first to the injury then moving further and further out into the immediate environment, the lower mind passes the torch, so to speak, back to the higher mind and goes into standby mode. So here we have a finite period in time that includes degrees of pain and unconsciousness where the lower mind took over the recording and filing duties for the higher mind and all those recordings are stored in memory banks that are beneath the awareness of the life unit. The life unit doesn’t even have a clue that any recordings were even made. However, the life unit does have an awareness of a few moments of being stunned and sort of “blacked out.” Now, what happens in that incident where the lower mind is engaged and recording, has the potential to be very detrimental to the life unit.

If you were to draw a picture to represent the concept of reason or rationality it would simply be the drawing of a straight line going from point A to point B. If you were to apply force against this straight line of reason the line would bend and become crooked. It would cease to go from A to B and now might twist around or zig zag randomly from point to point. This crooked line represents irrationality. The Latin word aberrare means to deviate from or wander away from. The English forms of the word aberrare we use instead are, aberrant, aberrate or aberration. You could say that aberration is force applied against reason to such an extent that it pushes reason off its course. In any event, the higher mind is a mind of reason or the rational mind or the mind of the straight line. The lower mind is the aberrated mind. It is the irrational mind or the mind of the crooked line and it has the power to apply sufficient amounts of force against the inherent reason of the life unit to aberrate the rational behavior of the life unit by adversely affecting the rational operations of the higher mind.