~ The Brain & the Mind ~

The mind and the Cosmos

At the end of the day, whatever is known experienced or believed is as a direct result of the accumulative workings of the brain. A whole bunch of neural actions collectively posses as something “meaningful”, for a pattern within the neural network matches other patterns already expressed as the mind. In a sane mind, that which does not match is simply “lost” as background energy, as it dissipates back into the depths of the Cosmos.

Since Mind is organized consciousness and since the Cosmos, with its subtle and gross universes, refers to that same organized consciousness, Mind is just another name for the Cosmos and the Cosmos another name for Mind. The two are one and the same.

Mind, the Cosmos, is Consciousness expressed (Self / God in pure energy form). It is thus the expression of Self/God.

The Brain vs. Mind

The brain is the gateway (dimension) to Mind, the Cosmos. Through this dimension, the mind is spawned representative of its accumulative, though limited understanding. For those attained to Self, Mind is known first-hand to actually to be the Cosmos Itself, for here Mind is but the expression of Self.

The Brain & Mind

The brain is a means (dimension) through which Mind, the Cosmos, is channeled and expressed as the mind. That part of Mind over which the brain has no control is called “intelligence”.

If you can get your brain into a desired position, anything can be known, for the brain is merely an electrochemical, physical machine capable of interfacing with Mind, the Cosmos, thereby producing the mind. When one dies, the mind produced by the brain is no longer. What remains though, is Mind for as long as Consciousness (Self / God), through the action of Will, is expresses Itself as the Cosmos.

As you can see, the brain and Mind are two completely separate entities, and should therefore not be confused one with the other. When you see a taxi cab drive past you for example, your brain sees it as external to itself and as a part of the physical world about you. This entire experience however, is Mind, the Cosmos, known through the brain and expressed as the mind. Seeing the world about you is therefore the process of “tapping into” Mind, the Cosmos. Now there are certain things about the car that you are unaware of. This remains a part of Mind as intelligence – constantly and consistently available to all. Intelligence is of course what gives rise to thought in the first place - the vehicle of energy. Intelligence is thus Love / Life / Energy and thought the vehicle or dimension through which the energy takes on form. It is positively in this way that this world is an illusion.

As you can see, intelligence is that part of Mind, the Cosmos, not yet known by the brain. So what we have so far is the following:

Creation is simply energy organized in specific ways. Anything known to be created, has been channeled by the brain and expressed as such as the mind. The mind then is all energy attained. This is why all of creation is known only through the brain as the mind, and why each of us live in our own little worlds (micro-creations). Upon death, the brain ceases, the mind then ceases to be expressed, and as a result, there is no creation. This is all the separates life from death – the living from the dead.

It is the brain that creates and houses the illusion of existence, the material world, reality, and of course all things known to the brain, including the spiritual planes. The brain bundles all of this illusion as the mind.

Ordered Chaos

It has been surmised that much of the electrochemical workings of the brain occur at random. If this is so then the brain would therefore be in a state of near chaos. Within this setting, an abstract mind is continuously spawned on the fly. To prevent an actualization of pure madness however, the brain fools itself into the allusive concept of “meaning” by developing a relationship with Mind. This relationship is called "the mind". When stable, this relationship is referred to as a “sound mind”. When the relationship is unstable or impure, the resultant mind is regarded to be “insane”. For as long as one is Oneself, one will be the sanest of all beings – still and without distraction or deviation; although the world will, in grave error, see this as positive insanity.

It is the intelligence of the brain that fools it into thinking that “all is well”. Without this intelligence, not only would we be free, but we would have no identity (personality). We would simply run wild without knowing of the world or of anything at all! Without intelligence, there is indeed nothing; for intelligence is but a corruption of consciousness. This is Life. This is Love. This is what brings on one's incarnation through further vibrational corruption. Ones incarnation then, is but the meaning of desire.

The Brain’s Relativity

The brain is a closed entity relative to itself. When you touch a desk for example, and “feel” it’s texture or what have you, you are only comparing one cognitive state of the brain with others already “in it”* that represent things that have already happened in “the past”.

* Never is there actually anything “in” the brain. Things that are said to be “in” the brain are but expressions of Mind, known as “the mind”.

If you think of an object for example, the sum total meaning of the object is merely the brain’s recognizing both the similarity and the disparity between the cognitive state that represents the object and other cognitive states already in the mind that represent at least one other related object from the “past”. Every cognitive state only has any meaning when compared to other already-existing cognitive states. Its entire meaning and substance is itself the comparison. So the brain asks, “In relative terms, to what extent is this state the same as another and to what extent is it different?” The comparison is always relative since there is only the comparison between any one state of cognition and one or more others.

Thinking of a cat for example brings your mind to a cognitive state of recognizing something of another cognitive state that it was in when it realized before for itself the essence (meaning or substance) of “a cat”. The comparison itself, which gives rise to recognition, is alone what brings meaning to the current notion of “a cat”. Meaning then, is none other than a realization of Self; and of course this meaning is itself “the mind”. As you can see, never is there anything concrete observed. All that there is is faith - that is, faith in Self/God. This is the essence of consciousness throughout the execution of an incarnation.

The Garden of Eden

The Garden of Eden is all about the attainment and appreciation of consciousness. The serpent in the garden represents thought. This occurred when man first started thinking for himself. The tree of the “knowledge of good and evil” represents subjective judgment and reason – where one has the ability to personally judge something to be, amongst other things, “good” or “evil”. Eating of the fruit represents the attainment of that ability, whilst knowing yourself as individual represents the appreciation of that attainment. The appreciation itself is one’s personality – the meaning and nature of one’s incarnation.

The personality is the encapsulation of all attained consciousness, which is automatically separate from unattained consciousness, which, by definition, is what the brain knows to be “God”. This is what brought on the whole notion of the “Fall of Mankind” in the first place. The Truth though, is that we are all God incarnate, for all things are God indeed.

The Last Say

The brain always has the last say concerning anything and everything known to it. So even out of body experiences have still, at the end of the day, to be interpreted, finalized, and “stored” within it.

The brain almost always seeks the path of least mental resistance when attempting to draw a conclusion. Furthermore, it is uncomfortable with even a proposition of “no conclusion” since it greatly fears the unknown. So the brain will even lie to itself and actually believe that something is true when it just plain isn’t! One only need look at the world faiths to see this, for, on the level of the brain, they can’t all be right. So yes, the brain is always quick to draw conclusions about issues presented to it. It always tries to map against that which is already known via point of reference. For example if someone tells you they saw something outstanding, like a hot air balloon crash-landing in their back garden, the brain chooses to either momentarily believe or disbelieve it, for it is simply illogical to both believe and disbelieve at the same time.

But if one can think parallel, as in an altered state of consciousness, one can believe and disbelieve at the same time, as if one was two different people - thereby satisfying all rational possibilities and creating mental harmony. One would be both “right” and “wrong”, balanced, and in spiritual harmony where nothing relative matters – only realizations of the absolute.

The brain as a domain of cognizance

The brain is that entity through which all cognizances are realized. Cognizances are what define and establish the mind itself. A snapshot of the mind is known as a cognitive state. The brain is the dimension through which cognizance is established as the mind (or mental body). It is where all perceptions have their meaning as the mind. So the Cosmos (Mind) is channeled through the dimension of the brain and expressed (appreciated) as the mind – one of the four pillars of the personality.

The mind is spawned only in the present moment as and when the brain spawns it. It is for this precise reason that the mind, by definition, always transcends time and space. At any point in the brain's idea of time, the mind relays back to the brain, “materializing” as a single cognitive state, reassuring the brain of the fruits of the present moment. Basically it is the mind that confirms to the brain that "all is well". This of course is sanity – a comfortable delusion!

The brain knows only itself

Conventional thought has it that the brain is merely a sensory organ designed to perceive activities from the external world. The basic assumption here is that all things are outside of the brain and in the world, and that the brain merely holds the perceptions of these things as the mind. So only what the brain perceives through its five sensory faculties is processed and “stored within it” as the mind, whilst the object of view remains outside the brain as something separate from it.

There are likely to be many things outside of the brain that are not also inside. But the brain cannot know of such things since they reside outside of it. Even for this to be proven to the brain, the proof itself would have to enter the brain, thereby defeating the objectivity of sound proof. So the brain tells itself whatever it wishes, such as what it regards as being inside and outside of itself, including the makeup and functioning of the brain itself. If something occurs outside of the brain, one can only at best consider the notion of “that something’s occurring outside of the brain”. Again, the notion itself is produced by the brain, and expressed as mind.

Now this leads us to one of the greatest problems. I may try and explain something that, for example, resides in God alone. My brain tells me what's in God just like it does when it tells me what I see for example. Taking this thought a step further, the brain tells one what is in the brain concerning what's in God, just as it tells one what's in the brain concerning what's in the brain concerning what's in God. This encapsulated process of course goes on and on ad infinitum. As you can see, the brain knows only of itself and of whatever it fancies.

With regard to altered states of consciousness, it is the brain that is manipulated with vibrations of energy in order to make a stabbing guess as to whether or not the event did indeed happen, and if it did, what happened. Remember that everything - the event, which allegedly happened, along with memories of the event are all products of the brain, for they have to sit in the brain. The Crown chakra has nothing whatsoever to do with the brain. It is the brain that makes stabbing guesses. It guesses because it simply did not undergo the experience itself. The experience is wrapped up in Mind, the Cosmos, and the brain has to vibrate at a frequency sufficient enough to correctly perceive Mind. What then results is a mind representative of the experience.

Time and Space

The brain creates time and space in order to, in the easiest way, quickly make sense of that which it perceives.

The Movies!

Life on earth could well be viewed as a series of sequential realities and no time as opposed to one single reality with time.

To prove that the brain creates time, simply go to sleep or day dream and see how quickly time flies by. To prove that the brain creates space, simply close your eyes and remain still. There is no space. If you move, you create space by recalling that in the “past” the notion of movement was a way (dimension) of appreciating the concept of “space”. Open your eyes and see still further a reinforcement of what one has come to understand to be the “meaning of space”. The brain creates space because it's the easiest way for it to come to terms with, appreciate and understand the nature of the physical universe.

Instead of creating time, the brain could have considered the notion of the sequential presentation of numerous realities (much like the frames in a movie clip). Here one reality has it that one’s hand is in position A, the next reality that it's in position B, and the next (the current reality), that it's in position C. Here there's no time - only a series of realities perceived as being “one after the next”. It is, however, easier for the brain to assume only one reality and introduce the concept of time by saying that the hand was at position A, then moved on to position B, before finally arriving at its current location, C.

The Notion of Motion

Notice that both space and time are just two different ways (dimensions) of appreciating the “notion of motion”. Both of these exist only through the concept of motion and of each other. Space only has any meaning if something were to move “through” it, across time. Similarly, time only has any meaning if something were to move “through” it, across space. There is only any meaning if there is movement. Movement itself is thus the meaning of space and time. It is an aspect of consciousness corrupt enough to not be still and wrapped up and contained within itself. The notion of space and time is thus pure glamour (illusion).

The brain’s response continuum

The brain is a machine that naturally seeks stimulation. It therefore finds new events more interesting than older, more familiar ones. The diagram that follows illustrates the brain’s response to entities of varying degrees of familiarity to the observer.

Response Continuum

The more unknown an entity, the more the observer has the tendency to regard it with increased interest. After a point however, the entity becomes so unfamiliar that focus is required in order for it to remain comprehensible. Of such a nature are the many metaphysical concepts that require focus to comprehend.

The norm of everyday life occurs within the range AB. Here the brain responds normally. The brain, however, responds with boredom to boring, obvious things in the range OA, whilst with interest to things in the range BC. The brain responds and with awe to that which is found in range CD.

After point D, focus is needed to bend the curve OD to ODE for the subject to remain comprehensible. After point E, however that which was unknown is still unknown, for it is simply still currently unattainable. For man, E to infinity is the meaning of what he calls “God”.

For the master, the nature of his expression of Self (called Mind or the Cosmos) extends naturally from O to E - the greater his enlightenment, the greater the extent of DE. It is possible for the extent of DE to be infinite. This is arrived at only when one transcends Consciousness (God) Itself and becomes Will, the meaning of which is Transcendence. This is Buddha. For more information on this, refer to my chapters on Meditation and the chakras.

Mental Focus

For a normal person, mental focus, through an increase in vibrational consciousness, is required to perceive that which was previously incomprehensible. Sufficient distraction of the brain (uncontrolled thoughts) will initially result in the subject’s becoming somewhat incomprehensible. But once this vibrational fall in consciousness persists, if even for a moment, its almost impossible to stop, because all too often too much attention is directed towards the fact that the fall has commenced and is a threat to one’s quality of consciousness (and thus resultant perceptions).

It is the purpose of meditation to keep the subject comprehensible. Here the brain must not be at all distracted. It must be fixed in its realizations of the essence of the subject, without analyzing it, questioning it or attaining to any meaning or understanding of it to any degree. The brain must vibrate such that a “flat” mind is produced - where there are no uncontrolled thoughts. Since thought is the vehicle of energy, this ensures that there are no uncontrolled energies flying about. When thought is controlled in this way, the Cosmos is found to be in balance, and all things are Self/God. Consciousness must be evenly spread – flat, like a still lake. Such a Mind is the attainment of that Consciousness at the point just before creation/destruction. It is a Mind fully in synchronization with the nature of Will, the Creator.

Beyond Mind

The mind is not all that there is. I have on occasion undergone an “out of Mind” experience, were I went to a “place” that was outside the Cosmos. It was outside of creation, and transcended even the Creator. It was a “place” that transcended All. Even “nothingness” was not there. This “place” that I went to was Myself alone. I attained to the Crown Chakra in near fullness where even there all things rose from within me, and never was there anything outside of Myself. Initially I thought that I had actually fully attained to the Crown Chakra, but subsequently realized that I could not have, for the glamour of this world (as my incarnation) returned to me. I thus had enough carnal desire to come back here. If I had attained fully, all glamour would, in the moment, have been completely destroyed, and I would have found Myself to continue as pure Transcendence (Endless Nothingness). I would be Buddha. The true nature of Oneself has necessarily to be pure Transcendence (Endless Nothingness), for that which is spawned from out of an execution of Will falls short of Will.

Madness

Madness is diagnosed when the brain is out of control to a level of personal or social discomfort. This is where the brain cannot control the very mind that it spawns. An intelligence, for example, that double-guesses itself to the point of being an evolving consciousness in its own right, when left unchecked, will result in an exponentially catastrophic madness of note!

Of the people of this world, most of course, establish the norm. Others that are clairsensory get the brain into the position to receive energy, and to receive it correctly. Others are very natural at this and get there with little effort. These are the psychics of this world. Finally there are those that are permanently there, and cannot control their minds. There are many people in mental institutions that hear voices and hallucinate. The minds of many of these are able to connect with and remain in the Spiritual Kingdoms uncontrollably where voices, visions and the like are the order of the day. These people have to be treated with drugs to manipulate the brain back to the norm so as to spawn an appropriate mind.

Since intelligence is that part of Mind, the Cosmos, over which the brain has no control, intelligence is madness, though recognized as such only when liberally displayed.

Mind Plus

It is indeed possible to have more than one mind instance. The one instance maps to this realm, whilst the other to One’s Heavenly Kingdoms at the same time via the brow chakras. On occasion I experienced what I term a “spirit enlargement” – where my spirit was both inside and outside my body at the same time. It would happen rather instantaneously, much like squeezing a wet bar of soap – for a while it remains in the hand and then suddenly slips out of it. Whilst in this state of consciousness I was aware of two worlds – this world and My Spiritual Kingdoms; and I knew that my own particular state of consciousness had it that I alone linked these two worlds. In other words, the meaning of myself, my incarnation, was alone the glue that held together these two worlds. In truth this is anyway what an incarnation is.

It is my sincere belief then, that someone that can perform works of a miraculous nature with his own “worldly” * power has to have at least two mind instances. Having two minds means that there is a complete simultaneous co-existence of the physical with the metaphysical (that which projects it). Here one can freely have dominion over this space as energy flows uninhibited across the various dimensions (aspects of Self).

* I use the word “worldly” to indicate a carnal channeling of energy since in Truth, all things only ever happen through the action of One’s own Will.

Mind - One's Spiritual Kingdoms

Certain aspects of Mind, the Cosmos, are personified as the various spiritual planes, for they are all expressions of Consciousness. These planes are as follows:

The four planes above represent one’s attained consciousness. This is one’s personality - all that one is in this lifetime. It is the meaning of one’s incarnation, and is what is commonly termed your "lower self".

Transcending Mind

With regard to altered states of consciousness that transcend even Mind, the brain is bombarded with, if you like, “bi-product” radiations of energy representing the experiences of the Realities attained. A resultant mind is then formed from this energy, often a long time afterwards and over some time. The experience is often wrapped up in Mind, the Cosmos, and the brain has to vibrate at a frequency sufficient to correctly perceive it. What then results is a mind representative of the experience.

Have an open mind

To have an open mind is all-important. Now I’m not referring to the “open mind” cliché, but to an embracement of the entire Cosmos as a projection of Yourself alone. For an incarnate mind, one feels the envelope of Mind stretch out as it embraces, as itself, a greater understanding of the nature of Self that was previously unrealized. It is in this way that the awareness becomes not only heightened but also transcendental because it is an evolving entity in its own capacity with no confines and no limit. It transcends all things.

The Brain in Error!

The nature of God to Man is the present moment, for all things occur in and as the present moment. The present moment is all that there is. In error, the brain views man as separate from God. This is what defines and sustains the illusion of our own identity (personality) and what has in fact spawned the whole world through and as each our respective incarnations.

Our blind illusion has it that mankind is separate from all of creation and from God, and is therefore a “sinner”. Nothing could be further from the Truth. It is the foolhardy arrogance and actions of the brain alone that separate us from God. Without the brain, we would all simply be known to be Self/God, for all things are God, since God is not lacking in anything, to any degree. The sole purpose of the human plight is to marry the mind with Self, or what is commonly referred to as “returning to the Godhead”.

In Summary