A work model for the mind
May 3. The wriggling gold foliage
Today i start sharing my thoughts on the internet. I have made a deal
with my self about paying attention and following the pictures I get in of what
to do next, and trust that doing that I will be provided for. 5 minutes ago I
got the picture that I should sit down and write 30 minutes, and put it on my
webpage, so this is what I do.
I have a tendency to talk to my self all the time about what I have to
do or ask my self the question of what do I want to do, and It seems to get me
absolutely know where, so I will try this new approach of following the
pictures I get of actions to do, and trust that these are the right actions to
do at any present moment. To pay attention is merely to be present and enjoy
life, any moment, and open up for the endless power in the universe.
The first thing I got in was a funny gold foliage energy that wriggles
and has the potential to correct things. I had a cold which pretty much gave me
some problems with breathing, and I let the gold foliage go down my throat in
its wriggling manner and a few minutes later my breathing improved.
AS a magician I believe in healing and creating so it wasn’t a big
surprise for me, though for a long time I have had trouble manifesting anything
enjoyable.
I wrote most of a book about a theory of magic, as a tool for working
with mind or consciousness. The ideas in it is quite interesting (or I wouldn’t
have written it) but the writing seem to quite unclear and recently I
discovered that the ideas in the book pretty much is based on having control
over your life experience, instead of trusting the universe or the higher self,
when following intuition. Trying to control things have always kept me in the
dark, a place where everything stays the same and not much life is let in. And
my basic idea with writing the book in the first place was to let creativity
flow, but my belief about that material presented to a public should be oh so
clear and structured, had me go in to a mental mode that is far from creative. So
instead I will just write 30 minutes almost everyday and see what comes out of
it, and in the process enjoy where the energy takes me.
Control over life experience instead of experiencing life in the
present is not much fun. Have you ever tried a conversation where you either
arguing to be right or a conversation that is only meant to make you feel safe
or rater upholding the Status Quo, Ex.. Conversations about the weather? Have
you ever tried a conversation where you don’t know what you will learn or where
it will take you or what new thoughts will be created? The last type of
conversation is the one I prefer, though I rarely experience it since I always
put my self in the position of making people safe, and thereby not following my
intuitions of what to say in the conversation.
But I do not want to uphold the status quo since it is the dark place.
Not that I want the things to shift all the time, I jut want my experience to
be a live experience rather than a dead one. Death here means stagnation and no
movement at all, minus 273,15 ‘C.
Well it seems to me that I now have two approaches to life where one of
them is knowledge based and the other one is based on intuition and attention.
Maybe I can use them alongside each other.
The
above paragraph is from my ‘sometimes writing’ on my website, and I use it to
start somewhere. In this paragraph I mentioned that I almost wrote a book. I
wrote it in my native tongue (Danish) and I did it over a period about 6 months
where I had a severe cough from being to rational and not taking care of my
emotional well being and personal growth. It is kind of difficult reading
because I use a lot of pages to question natural science while still using
descriptions of how the world looks seen through the metaphorical contact
lenses of natural science. I also tend to have a philosophical discussion of
the truth value of my work model and magical approach, vs. the work model of
science and the rational approach to thing. For someone who already believes
that the all isn’t a giant mechanic coincidence it might be a waste of time
reading those paragraphs, because it comes down to convince people and my self
that it is perfectly valid and intelligible to believe in a magical work model
for our living experience. So here I will just offer the conclusions of that
work, instead of the whole argumentation for the validity of the work model.
Bridging worldviews
If
we start with the notion that we live in a world of matter: solids, liquids,
gasses. Seeing how one can turn into each other because of the proper intensity
of heat these solids can take a lot of different shapes like trees, lakes and
air. The solids can be worked in to different shapes by the solids of our body
and the light, winds and waters and so forth. A beautiful and plentiful world,
where matter can meet matter in a firm structure which seems to follows certain
patterns of behavior. A world where there lives animals and trees and live is
growing and where we can find our way and live in through our senses, and move
the solids, liquids and gasses of our bodies from place to place. We know what
to avoid: if a tree stands in your way, then change you course and move around it
(or you might want to give it a nice warm hug, but the tree will still be
standing).
Then
we can change our understanding of things from an understanding of a material
world to an understanding of a reality consisting of energy and empty space,
through which the energy can flow, merge and expand. We can call this the idea
that everything is energy. The matter in the old world view then becomes
something that is not solid, but energy on the move, merging and flowing in
various structures where electricity becomes the glue that binds the world together
and the movement of electrons that which ensures change and new connections of
the energetic cores of stuff. And then again: these cores are not solid either.
They also consist of energetic pulsations. Energy again, and everything is
energy. Looking at the world through this set of lenses can give you the idea
that the world we look at trough our senses is only tip of the iceberg a set of
3-dimensional points in a multidimensional coordinate system. The sensations we
have from the world only reveals a little bit about the energy movements that
goes on in every event we experience.
The
thing is that all we have is our experience, and changing worldviews might not
really change the sensation of banging our heads into something solid. But
eventually we can work in a different manner with that solid stuff than we
could before. Destroy it with a laser as an example, which is pretty much the
energy of light that is so concentrated that it has the potential to cut trough
stone, or rather to break the bindings of the electrons of the molecules in the
stone.
In
another model going further in to physics we end up with superstrings or not
unfolded dimensions within the realms of the energy particles we can deal with
through chemistry and physics. Superstring theory is as far as I know only a
non proven theory, but then again scientific prove is only prove with in work
models. If science comes up with a new theory that explains old empiric results
and new results, then the world might look different. Not through our senses
perhaps, we still have to go around the tree, but we might be able to take
different actions in the realm of matter and get different results. What is
great about the superstring theory is that it seems to open up for the idea
that there is an unending amount of not yet unfolded possibilities of
existence.
I
don’t know very much about the superstring theory, but I will like to use
another old idea: All is mind. At least mind is the only thing we really have
intimate knowledge of since we experience the world with or in our minds. In
Danish the words ‘mind’ and ‘consciousness’ covers somewhat the same concept so
I might use these words somewhat different than an English speaking person, and
I will therefore define them to my use.
Mind
is mind and cannot be described as anything else, and is the basis of having an
experience. Experience only takes place where there is a mind field. Consciousness is awareness of mind and what
goes on in the mind field. The mind field is what contains all there is, have
been and every will be existing and experienced.
I
don’t want to argue about it. Just as well as you can build up an entire theory
on the notion: ‘everything is matter’ or ‘everything is energy’ you can do the
same thing with ‘everything is mind’. These are 3 different assumptions and it
is possible to set up different systems from these assumptions. It is also
possible to combine them or bridge the seemingly gap between them.
If
we start looking at the world through the contact lenses or the world view ‘all
is mind’ then we can look at the world of matter, as mind, viewed from a
certain angle where we can only see a small part of what really goes on and we
can call: the physical bandwidth of mind. We can then put on the world view
that everything is energy and add some dimensions to our experience of life. If
we add the contact lenses of ‘all is mind’ then we will add further dimensions
to our living experience and new possible ways of working with our living
experience. We can keep the other two models in mind. If we say that the
experience of matter is the viewed creation of the mind and working with the
energy idea is what creates the world of matter within mind then we have
bridged the gap between the worldviews. This is exactly what I am going to do
in setting up this work model for how you can create the life you want to
experience.
But
first I will have to say a little bit about things that I don’t take for
granted.
Knowledge and truth
‘Well it seems to me that I now have two approaches to life where one
of them is knowledge based and the other one is based on intuition and
attention. Maybe I can use them alongside each other. ‘
Knowledge
as we know it in the linguistic framework of the human race, is in my view just
a symbolic representation of some patterns in mind that we have chosen to be
part of our living experience. You can say that they are points of reference so
we can find our way in our experience. So knowledge is a creative structure we
use for creating a certain framework of experience that we can build upon in a
structure we can call space and time. Knowledge is creative in the sense that
we can shift between frameworks of knowledge that does not have to be coherent
to each other. As an example we have some knowledge about societal concepts as
the price on a bottle of milk, but that is only given knowledge within a
certain financial structure. On the other hand we can have the knowledge of
what happened in a dream last night that do not exists in the same
knowledgeable framework as the financial structure. Knowledge is only knowledge
from certain assumptions and truth is just the trademark of coherence between
these assumptions and experience. Well there might be an absolute truth but
that truth can not be expressed as symbols but only exists as all there is.
When we use symbols do describe truth we only end up with these symbols and
some experiences that fits those symbols.
What
the concept knowledge can be used for is creating a frame of reference for
experience. Setting up a structure where the things we ‘know’ are reference
points for creating our living experience.
It
is like making a map of an area of existence, where the reference points keep
the experienced world in place. How the earth move around the sun is a point of
reference for life on earth as well as the earth is a reference point for our
lives. And we expect the sun and the earth to keep doing what they do, in a
framework of time and space.
Time and space
Time
and space are ways of viewing life. It is quite practical for setting up
reference points for a meeting between different persons in the physical
bandwidth of mind. The way we relate to time and space in the physical
bandwidth of mind is just one of many ways to view time and space. In the realm
of dreams, as an example, time and space can be totally different. I can attend
a tea party with the emperor of China directly from my apartment in Denmark.
Since I work from the basic assumption that ‘All is mind’, then thoughts and
dreams and these kind of experiences is of greater importance to this work
model than in a model focused mainly in the physical bandwidth. This means that
the notion of time and space as we are raised with is only practical in the
physical bandwidth of consciousness and we can work with our experiences from a
whole different time and space perspective if suitable for what we want to
create in our experience. I will return to alternate views on time and space
later in the book, for a more practical use in working with magic.
Frameworks of thoughts
Something
we often associate with mind is thoughts. Thoughts are part of our environment
in mind and we can choose what thoughts we want to focus on. Beliefs are
thoughts that structure our living experience. Thoughts happen both in time and
space as electrical impulses and outside conventional time and space as part of
the mind. I am not my thoughts. The one that experiences and chooses between
thoughts is who I am: a specific focus of all there is. Physical reference
points like smells, sounds and other sensations can call forward specific
thoughts so the physical bandwidth can be seen as a creation of reference
points that calls forward specific thoughts and vice versa: thoughts can be
used to create and place the reference
points in the physical bandwidth, just as in all other areas of mind.
Emotions and feelings
If
thoughts and beliefs placed as reference points can be seen as that which
structures our living experience then emotions are what fuels that structure.
In the paragraph where I tried to bridge different world views, I mentioned the
assumption ‘everything is energy’. I still work from the assumption ‘All is
mind’ and one of the forms mind takes is as energy. Energy then takes the
seemingly form of matter, but the underlying reality in this world view is
mind. In mind I will then define emotions as energy in motion, and feelings as
the field around this energy in motion. Just as an electro magnet where there
is a stream of energy through a leading material and a magnetic field around it.
I will take this analogy further by stating that if we experience a state of
stress it is because a lot of different emotional impulses go through our mind
and body. If we imagine a lot of threads of leading metal where electricity was
send through and these threads laid intertwined and crossing each other, then
the magnetic field would probably be quite disturbed, and maybe the threads
would melt down. If we have a feeling of love a lot of emotions might be
present but often they tend to be harmonic. In the cases where I have been in
love it was as if I almost had an energy bubble around me with a diameter about
3 meters.
Besides
dealing with our beliefs as spells the other part of doing magic from this work
model is working with creating clear emotional states and in these putting in a
new spell or belief, which can structure our living experience. This can be
done without trying to solve a problem but simply by making a metaphor for the
unwanted emotional state and then transform it in to a more desirable feeling
by telling a story. The metaphor tool is just one way of doing it. You can also
work directly with the energy by simply sensing the energy and then counteract
it with another energetic state. But then again to counteract something with
something you still need some reference points for the experience and reference
points are in a way always symbols.
Intuition presence and creativity
Working
with magic in this model of our living experience acquires some other tools
than the intellect or rational thinking.
The
intellect is a mental faculty designed to work in a framework of time and space
from the idea of cause and effect. The intellect also serves as a communicative
entity in our social and communicative frame works and works with words and
other symbols. It is the faculty that also structures and recognizes structures
or patterns and is therefore the rule follower or maker of the mind, most of
our sciences today is created from the intellects pattern recognition skills
and in a long time the intellect has been highly praised as the most desirable
mental faculty.
The
intuition shows you where the energy goes or where and how the most desirable
emotional or energetic state is to be found. It can both do it as creative symbols through
dreams and visions or/and as emotional impulses nudging us in the direction of
fulfilling our values. Intuition can also show us the way towards value
fulfillment and energy by shedding some light over choices the intellect presents
to us in the framework of time and space. Intuition can also help us help other
people. You could also say that intuition shows us, in whatever way possible,
where there is flow in the energy. Following your intuition in whatever manner
it reveals it self, most often makes you feel more alive and vibrant. Intuition
is not like the intellect designed to work in a time, space and causal
framework but can put all kind of things together, that seemingly has nothing
to do with each other, it communicates through dreams, daydreams, emotions and
often other people or books.
To
get messages from intuition acquires our presence in the now-experience rather
than the intellects focus on a timeline, and the cause and effect
considerations.
Being
present can be done easily, simply just by paying attention to what goes on
around you, in your physical surroundings, your body and your thoughts, without
having to change or control these different environments.
Creativity
serves as a tool of the mind where you
can actually work in different frame works than time, space and causality to
try new combinations of things, that does not involve that time only have one
direction, or that one event have to logically follow another.
Meditation and mental housecleaning
An
important tool for me when I work with magic is to be able to access a
meditative state of mind. Thoughts happen all by them selves and sometimes the
mind can get so clogged up with thoughts than it can be difficult to work with
intuition and pay attention to what goes on in the presence. So cleaning up the
mind from all unwanted problems the intellect displays and sees in your life and
your future is a good idea, if your want to magically create your own living
experience.
There
are a lot of guides to meditation. A problem I had at a time in my life where I
studied mathematics and philosophy was to relax both mentally and physically,
even though it throughout my life had been natural for me to enter a meditative
state. The Silva method has an excellent guided relaxation meditation, which
finally had me relax again. After I got my self relaxed again all it takes for
me to go in to a meditative state is to breathe deeply and close my eyes and
allow whatever comes in to my mind to be there and then let go. Or I can sit
near water and close my eyes and let some red energy flow out in the water and
be replaced with a golden energy after a while. The idea in the meditative
state is not try to control things, but rather let life flow. Between this
floating images and inner sensations you can then choose some reference points
for certain emotions and structures you want to see manifested in our life.
Mental
housecleaning is something I do fairly often, when I am with people I tend to
be presented with all kinds of intellectual problems, that there is no need to
deal with. Whether they like me, did I do the right thing in that situation,
what if something bad happens if I don’t do so or so… old ways of thinking I
learned during my childhood, from the framework of causality and the cultural framework
I was born in. These ways of thinking, these habits of thought, causes nothing
but fear and stress and the way to let it go is simply just letting go of them.
If your mind is flowing natural in a slow pace as the waves on the beach on a
sunny and quit day or as clouds on a clear blue sky on a windier day, then
there is no room for all kind of speedy concerns about irrelevant subjects.
Value fulfilment
In
this work model of the mind, values are defined as emotional states of minds
(feelings) that are important to us and desirable. It can be love, peace, vitality, joy,
connectedness and so forth. These feelings that are intrinsically valuable (we
want to feel them for their own sake) are the energetic states we each and
everyone try to fulfill, in manners we ourselves find suitable. Life is also of
intrinsic value. Many of us believe we live in an unsafe universe where life
can be taken away from us all of a sudden, so therefore many people are focused
mainly on maintaining life. And life should be maintained and cherished, but
that does not mean that we should forget those other values, as part of living
experience adding quality to that experience. Fear of losing those intrinsic
values is often laying blocks in our way on the path to fulfill them, so not
trying to hold on to them is a great idea if you want to have them. This is a
quite funny paradox just as if you love somebody let them go.
What
will be a good idea on the path to value fulfilment is to create some
reference points where it is easier to generate those energetic states of
intrinsically value, but these values are only experienced in the present. This
is good news whether it is old news to you or new news. It means that with
regards to value fulfilment in live, no matter what you beliefs about your
past is and how much you think you haven’t fulfilled on values, you can do it
right now, just by choosing and sharing
these values by being with people when your are in these emotional states. Value fulfilment then becomes easy and there
really is no strive to do anything.
Creating you own life
Beliefs
can be seen as the habits of thoughts that structure our living experience.
Beliefs are repeated over and over again and again in our mind and we often see
these beliefs displayed in our life, and therefore we continue to believe the
validity of them. Beliefs are good to have if you want a living experience in
the human framework of existence. But there are some beliefs that have a
tendency to stop us from following our intuitions and fulfilling our values and
purposes in life. The effectuation of these beliefs in the physical bandwidth
can diminish the quality of our lives and emotional states by setting us in an
emotional state of fear or depression (where life stops flowing) or stress
where life flows in all directions in a chaotic way. The beliefs you have is
yours. You have chosen them for a reason and you have reinforced them over and
over again, and the life you live now, are a manifestation of those beliefs.
The look and health condition of your present physical body is a manifestation
of your belief about your body and self. Your physical surroundings are the
display of which beliefs you have attached to you and choose to live in. Your
relationships, the quality of them and what problems and conversations that
goes on here is a display of which beliefs you’re focusing on in the present. You might have changed beliefs about something
in your life because you let your self be inspired to think something new, but
a lot of old beliefs might still stop you from creating the life you want. So
just change them, but also find out what you want to manifest instead in your
creation of experience. It is of great importance to the magician to know what
he or she or it wants to create or not create. To do that it might be good to
find a purpose of your live, as a reference point of which values you want to
work on fulfilling through out your life. The next chapter of the book is
dedicated to my own purpose and some practical ideas of how you can find yours
if you haven’t already become aware of your purpose.
