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 Our Multilevel Consciousness:
The Mind or Psyche
(Extract from the Ashati Theory, © 2010)
by Jerome Baudel
Whether we call it the mind, psyche or simply our consciousness, this
mysterious, unidentifiable and invisible sense of being and generator of
thoughts determines who we are, how we experience the world and what we manifest
in our future. Our thoughts are the very essence of who we are as individuals
and of what the world is to us.
The human psyche has been studied for a long time, in different manners and from
different perspectives. Even though science has achieved great advancements in
controlling or seemingly curing some mental conditions, it is still far from
fully under-standing what the mind really is.
Over time humans have approached the definition of the psyche from a purely
spiritual perspective, to a very physical one based on the studies of the brain
and central nervous system. Only since the 19th century have we started to move
away from this approach to find deeper levels of complexity within our psyche,
to even name part of our mind “unconscious”. Finally, New Age spirituality and
the re-emergence of ancient knowledge about the chakras and energy bodies are
starting to claim (again) that the mind is energy. In fact, these theories state
that our being is made of energies of different vibrations and therefore of
different colors and with different properties. This multilevel, energetic
perspective reveals much more about the mind and how it influences our emotions,
bodies and lives in various ways.
The waves of mental energy emitted from our beings are so powerful they slowly
alter the reality we perceive as solid and unmalleable. However, the physical
world is just like a dream. Our beliefs and thoughts, conscious and unconscious,
are creating opportunities, situations, obstacles, and even attracting specific
people into our lives. Unlike in our dreams though, physical reality isn’t
instantaneously created. Instead, it takes time, sometimes a very long time, for
thoughts and beliefs to manifest. This long manifestation process partly
explains why we live in the illusion of powerlessness over what happens to us
and around us.
The mind also filters and interprets what we consciously perceive of our
reality. There are too many stimuli at any time for our conscious mind, linked
to our brain activity, to pick up and analyze every single one of them. Instead,
our minds use this incomplete data about our world to “create” our own version
of it. In a literal way, on the conscious mind level, we all live in a slightly
different world and see what we want to see. This often is the source of tension
and argument between people.
We are now at a very interesting time when science and spirituality are quickly
moving closer to each other and starting to describe the same things with the
same terms. For example many quantum physics theories, such as matter being
nothing else than empty space and energy on the subatomic level, are exactly
describing what spiritual teachers have always claimed: We all are energy, or
rather energies, and everything starts from within as our psyche creates our
lives and our beings.
This understanding of who we are and what we are made of also renders plausible
the possibility that, after what we call “death”, part of our complex energy
being remains and lives on. In this new energetic state, it is not impossible to
believe we can travel to other dimensions, and in fact, we probably have to.
When referring to the word “dimension” in this context, we are not talking about
time travel dimensions or other possible presents. We are simply referring to a
scientifically known concept of different frequencies of energy occupying the
same space without affecting each other. For example, take an infra red lamp and
a regular lamp lit side by side. The energy radiated by the infra red lamp will
not be visible to us and will not affect the regular lamp’s light either. It
does not mean that the infra red light doesn’t exist. It just means our physical
senses are unable to detect it and we have grown accustomed to depend on and
connect only with our physical senses. The infra red light here is an analogy
for another dimension, or other world, probably with different physical laws but
occupying the same space as the one we are living in while in a physical body.
The spiritual dimensions exist in different levels of energy vibration, or
energy octaves, each of them connected to and affecting the ones close to it
(the dimension right above — higher vibrations, and the dimension right below —
lower vibrations). In other words, the world is just like our being: it is made
of many worlds with different energies and properties.
According to a new energy healing and mental abilities development system named
Ashati (www.ashati.org), the complexity of the mind as we know it is created by
the existence of three separate, yet linked, aspects or levels of the psyche.
Lower Mind – The Computer Processor
The lower mind constitutes a vast part of our personality or ego as it dictates
most of our behavioral habits and tendencies. It is also the source of our
mental power and potential.
In very simple terms, the lower mind contains many of our memories, skills and
knowledge acquired in this lifetime.
The lower mind’s activity is based on logical analysis of data and often goes
under the nose of the conscious awareness as it is mostly about our every day
behaviors; the things we regularly think, say or do without necessarily using
much conscious mental effort or attention.
These behavioral patterns have been acquired over time, mostly through cognitive
learning (intellectual and conscious learning using the middle mind) or through
what psychologists call instrumental conditioning, which is based on “reward”
and “punishment”. In simple terms, whenever we do something which brings us
rewards (of any kind), we have a natural automatic and strong tendency to do it
again in the future. This link between what we do and what we receive becomes
stronger each time and is especially true with our subconscious actions as no
higher mind reasoning is involved. Similarly, whenever our thoughts, words or
actions result in psychological or physical pain, discomfort or in some sort of
unpleasant result, we will naturally and automatically try to avoid them in the
future and in similar circumstances (unless the higher mind intervenes). Even
subconscious defense mechanisms are often acquired this way when one naturally
tries to avoid unpleasant situations (here called “punishments”).
In many ways, an important part of the foundation of our mental health in this
lifetime, its balance, control and power lies in the lower mind.
A lot of clearing, “cleaning” and re-organizing is often needed on this level
for those who wish to heal and evolve personally and spiritually. This is what
the level 1 energies of the Ashati system focus on. Mostly mental, this work can
also lead to emotional clearing as thoughts are often associated to emotions and
may need to be released before the thoughts can be too.
The lower mind is linked to the solar plexus chakra and the mental body.
The Middle (or Conscious) Mind
The Computer Screen
The middle mind is the conscious mind. It is purely the result of the brain
activity “translating” mental energies into electrical and chemical messages. It
is that little window of conscious sight we have of what goes on within our full
consciousness.
However, not all the brain activity constitutes the middle mind, as only a part
of it becomes conscious.
The middle mind is a small fraction of our consciousness. However, for a very
long time, it was the only acknowledged part of the psyche. This partly explains
why humans still understand so little about the mind and control it with such
difficulties. We cannot try to understand, heal, control and develop the mind if
we do not take into account and focus on all its parts.
The middle mind, and therefore the brain, can access and translate energies from
the lower and higher levels of the mind at any time and at the same time (this
is linked to the different brain waves recorded simultaneously in any brain). It
is often linked to the use of a language. This can however be “unlearned” and
thinking can be done through images or pure intentions which is part of the
Ashati level 2 and 3 trainings. Using a language actually slows down the mental
activity and forces us to think in a linear way, one idea at a time. Avoiding
the use of words, sentences and inner dialogs frees us from these limitations
and helps us connect with our higher senses and Higher Self much more easily.
The Ashati training helps access more and more of your higher mind, as well as
understand and even choose what level of your psyche you mostly connect with and
use at any time.
The Higher Mind – The Operator
The higher mind is an aspect of our consciousness that is quite different to the
above. This much higher level of our psyche is part of our spiritual self and is
therefore linked to our soul, our higher senses and our Higher Self. Its primary
mode of communication is through pure intentions but also through images and
symbols, just like in dreams. Each one of us will create our own symbols based
on our own acquired knowledge and life experiences. Therefore, even though many
general symbols are shared by all humans (archetypes), the only person able to
fully interpret and understand a symbol is the person whose higher self created
it or the person for whom it was created. It, however, does require skills in
analyzing symbols to fully understand these messages as the middle mind is
naturally quite oblivious to symbols at first (in our modern societies at
least). A new perspective must therefore be gained first.
This soul level consciousness is, for some people, almost disconnected from the
conscious mind. Such people will feel cut off from their spiritual self. They
will have little intuition or inner guidance. They usually won’t sense that
there is something else in this world than what their eyes can see. They will
often think that they navigate alone in a sea of chaotic and random events which
they call “life”. Their upbringing, the beliefs they acquired then (which are
now deeply anchored in their psyche) are often responsible for this.
For other people, this connection is already there and quite developed. They
have always felt, at least at times, a spiritual meaning to their life and to
life itself. They have felt guided as they have been able to “sense” the
thoughts from their spiritual self or even from their guides or other higher
energy beings.
The word used here is “sense” because the energy from that higher part of our
mind is of a very different vibration. It is not received as a thought like
those from our mental body which we can easily express with a corresponding word
or expression from a human language. It is more like a subtle sense of knowing
and a peaceful and rightful feeling when we act upon it. This is where the
expression “following your heart” originates from. The heart being the connector
between the human and the spiritual self, it is logical that the energy would
flow through it when the connection is happening and when we see the spiritual
meaning of our actions (consciously or subconsciously).
This higher mind is also our direct link to what is often referred to as our
Higher Self. This is that even higher part of our being that is fully conscious
of who we are, what experiences we have lived and what lessons we are still
seeking to learn. This part of our psyche is conscious of our unconscious mind
and is fully involved when one undergoes energy healing as it directs and
controls the healing process. The Higher Self is the step between oneness and
individuality.
The connection to this part of the mind is often only partial and a matter of
degree. Not the entire unconscious mind gets revealed to the human self, but
only parts of it. However, each major energy attunement and milestone in our
spiritual development will help us grow and strengthen this connection,
therefore bringing a little more of our Higher Self into this world and our
conscious awareness. This process slowly helps us become who we truly are and
take back our power.
The higher mind is related to the third eye and crown chakras. The third eye is
its main center, translating pure intentions from our higher self into images
and symbols. The mind is therefore a very complex tool. |
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