Inspired Mind and Ratio Mind

Ratio mind looks to fit the world into its ratio-nale. What does not fit its ratio form is chopped off, seen as non-existent, derided. Ratio mind likes conclusions, seeks to bring things to an end, loves the bottom line.

Inspired mind keeps ratio mind in its pocket along with a measuring tape and pencil stub. Inspired mind breathes in the aspirations of the Divine, of the Source. With Inspired mind, all things are possible. Inspired mind is the mind of fresh beginning.

For the past 200 years or so, Western culture has put Ratio mind on the throne. In this year 2012, we put it back in its proper place -- a small, very small, subset of Inspired Mind, about the size of a dime in the vast Ocean.

We look to be ruled by Inspired Mind, not by Ratio.

two minds

Profane:
Pro ("in front of" or "outside")
Fanum ("temple" or "sacred")

Templum (temple): The clear and open space in which one receptively sits, open to the Divine and to the "divining" (seeking and finding) of Wisdom and Understanding.

Contemplation: Con-templum-ation. Sitting receptively in the clear and open space with either a question or problem for resolution or with open minded alert awareness.

Profane mind: Everyday chitter-chatter blah-blah-blah mind.

Sacred mind: Templum mind.

the laughter is our own

We love to scare ourselves, put ourselves in a bind. We tell ourselves we are an encapsulated ego. Separate and fearful, yet denying our fear, we seek security through power, power over, not power with. Faith and money are not far afield in this seeking. Faith is spiritual money. Money is physical faith. Ah! We feel better. We have woven a net over the Abyss. Something laughs. The net disappears. Once again we have no place to stand. We listen. The laughter is our own.

the realm of dynamic energy

Those who have made peace with their active intellect, who cam pick it up, use it, and put it down like the tool it is, find themselves in a realm of dynamic energy, of which portions are personified.

This is the imaginal realm, the realm of gods, of angels, of archetypes with whom one wrestles, dances, walks, and converses. This is the realm of those who have gone before and guide the way.

The active intellect and the emotional desire for security keep us pinned to the material world and our desire to be sucklings at its breast while making war on those seen as threatening our suck. We like to project this on other cultures, religions, and political groups but it is a tendency of us all. This has produced the divisive conditions of today.

The dynamic energy realm is here with us, IS us. To REAL-ize it is simple. All one has to do is go out of one's mind.

what is the sound of one flea sucking?

Every flea is sucking on the Lion. The leg fleas swear the leg is the only Lion. The chest fleas swear the chest is the only Lion. The throat fleas swear the throat is the only Lion. None of the fleas know they are the Lion. Those who do leap and jump with joy.

the two lemmas

The human body shows clearly our psychospiritual dilemma (di-lemma: caught between two lemmas). We are only roughly symmetrical. Our right half is different from our left half, yet the two are joined. We act as if we are one, yet we are forever caught between two opposing positions: "on the one hand" and "on the other hand." This is both hilarious and tragic.

The human body also shows a way out of this dualistic split in which we fight our daily duels (with ourselves, of course). A center line exists, our pivot point, our hinge on which we turn. When we reside at our center, when we ARE this centering, all contra-diction (contrary speaking) disappears. The two lemmas become one Cheshire Cat which becomes a smile which slowly fades away. An internal smile is born.

negating the negations

Becoming or being "friends" with all humanity, with the entire world, with the cosmos, with the universe is not about forming (FORM-ing) relationships or stepping outside of oneself, outside of one's small defined circle and looking to create some dynamic synthesis, is not an emergence, but is a submersion into the Ground of being, a step back, a negation of all the negations one has made and makes. The negations are not abolished, nor transcended, but are released through this stepping back into a richer deeper realm. The differentiation of self and other (via these negations) continues to exist but recedes in its significance due to this step back, this dwelling in the common Ground.

when we understand

When we understand -- deeply and truly understand -- that internal reality and external reality are the same reality, the world transforms. When I drop my bombs over there, I am killing and maiming myself. When I poison the Grand Canyon with my uranium mining and with the building of a huge Theme Park city at its gateway, I desecrate, eliminate forever a wild, unspoiled part of me. When profit is my god, I walk on the faces of the impoverished, of that portion of me that refuses to give up its open heart and stern dignity to my relentless tread. When I see that my soul and the world soul are the same soul, I tremble with fear and anticipation. For the world to change, I must change, for I and the world are the same.