The Critical Mind

John once whispered to me, “It's OK to be human, but try your best not to be.”

A drift away from humanism (the overuse of the calculating or critical mind).
Each centre in the body has its own energy, intelligence and ability to “think” (consider and work things out).
Each also has its own mood and function.
In a way each represents a dimension of our being.
Most have been forgotten about in our efforts to put the brain and its functions foremost.
Reality resides in each centre, not just in our head.
Without the fullness and completeness that comes from balance (having each centre working and aware) we cannot move from the human into the divine – pure connectedness.
People who have other centres working are generally called sensitive.
To cope with and properly use that sensitivity they must understand what it is they have that is unusual.
What inhibits and confuses is the act of processing through the calculating critical mind.
This mind distinguishes, discriminates and judges.
In the process it damages (it is always hard).
It will then reassemble in a more agreeable fashion.
The reality it contemplates is therefore the one it has constructed for itself rather than the one actually present.
It cannot connect so it has to construct.
Those that use it live in a capsule of disconnectedness.
It cannot create either, because creation requires connexion – in fact creation is what happens when you connect – it is the life between.
Reality is connexion and connectedness.
It is no more out there than it is in here.
The calculating critical mind negates connexion but it can be used to develop a type of energy that the Chinese call ch'i.
It is unpleasant, coarse and not particularly useful.
It is unnecessary, and it represents a cul-de-sac.
It will not take you deeper into connectedness (creation).
Neither it, nor its master - the mind, can be trusted.