Self Concept: The Four Bodies: 4: Mental Body
The Mental aspect of “Who You Are.”
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Mentally you are the “Determiner” - Judge - Assessor of Value - Acceptor |
All experiences in life are enjoyed by the Mind.
- It is your Mind that determines or judges whether or not “you” experience yourself as free, happy, balanced or miserable. You make every judgment yourself, each moment.
- It is your Mind that determines whether or not you believe that others are treating you in accordance with your sovereignty, you make that determination yourself.
It is your Mind that assesses the “value” of all you experience. This will become important when we wish to “accept for value and return the offer/presentments” we receive. All the waves that interact on our individual consciousness are translated by Mind into some value. What we do with a offer/presentment is dependent upon the “value” we give to it.
Mind itself is the thinking/observing phenomenon, a derivative state or mode of functioning of Consciousness:
The Mind is the extended activity of Consciousness, using magnetism as a traveling vehicle, and the senses as its instruments.
Individual Consciousness emerges as a fractional unit of the Universal Consciousness in the form of an energy-particle, that energy-particle extends itself via wave-form creating Mind. The Mind is characterized by the energy-particle from which it originates. The energy‑particle itself is characterized with three inseparable qualities;
· Pattern,
· Precision, and
· Regularity.
Here:
- Pattern means structural value;
- Precision means the character, the specific quality of the particle, starting from the natural quality at the time of its evolution and including all the additional qualities developed by its own actions and by its clashes with other phenomena all around it. In other words, the specific power of any one entity or phenomenon to resist and react with any other thing is the Precision.
- Regularity means the timing in the functional order of existence, movement and changes in a particle.
Consciousness in all so-called “inanimate” things, from the minutest particle to the greatest of suns, is working with these three principles, Pattern, Precision and Regularity.
In all living beings, regardless of the sensitivity or acuity or their senses, the Consciousness develops its activity beyond the above three principles of pattern, precision, and regularity, as Mind (perceptional faculty). Here the function of the Consciousness as Mind is threefold, (i.e.) Cognition, Experience, and Discrimination.
Cognition is to know the difference between two or more objects or experiences – relative definition of some “thing” in the field;
Experience is the feeling of pain and pleasure, which is due to the conversion, and consumption of bio-magnetism, caused by the action of cognition.
Discrimination is finding the difference between two or more objects or experiences. When one discriminates he perceives the relative field as opposed to the Unified field, which transcends the dimension of the mind.
As a result of Pattern, Precision, and Regularity, our consciousness, functioning as a Bio-Spiritual receiver/broadcaster, translates the wave-field of energy-particles into the experiences of sight, sound, touch, smell, taste, thought, emotion.



The closer you come to source awareness, the closer you come to seeing things as they are (rather than as you are), and the more control you have over your life.
When you can experience yourself as distinct from the intellect (the mind and its contents), you are able to see the patterns of assumptions and beliefs that filter and distort your observation and understanding of (and control over) reality. These beliefs, either because they were indoctrinated to serve someone else’s interest, or because they were embraced in a painful moment of fear, confusion, denial, or some other mental/emotional response that prevents absorption/integration/discharge in the now.
None of these beliefs, nor the conditions within you that engendered them, is useful to you. Because the results are un-discharged charges sustained in your energy field by continuous expenditure of life force, they are draining and self-sabotaging. In the worse case, they are completely debilitating. Collectively, they determine your viewpoint of life. They govern you from the dark because they are hidden from ordinary intellectual awareness.
Do not forget the terror that many people have for the truth that could set them free. You may think it is an exaggeration to say that people fear truth above all else. They have an emotional, psychological, professional, social, and physical investment in their cherished delusions. In such cases the slightest hint to such a man that he is not, for instance, the separate self he believes he is can make him terrified.
Telling him this can threaten many things within him, including his sense of identity, superiority, self-concept, profession, mode of interacting with others, and even his worldview and entire philosophical/intellectual underpinnings. More often than not, the result is “cognitive dissonance,” by which the mind rejects information that does not reinforce its perpetually self-sustained mode of thinking. This can also trigger a violent reaction against the imparter of such alternative perspectives, giving rise to the impulse to “shoot the messenger” and the admonition of Christ: “Cast not your pearls before swine [stubborn incomprehension], lest they trample them under foot and turn again and rend you.”



