THE FIVE LEVELS OF MIND

JUST THE BEGINNING

I have been wrestling with just how I would begin this writing. Since this is usually done in a seminar format, I would ask that you get yourself a journal or notebook as it can be confusing if you are only reading or listening to this part of the explanation. My seminars are generally about 8 hours long which include introduction to the Higher Self, however that cannot be done in this format. None the less, it will be a long Journey as I explain my belief in how these levels of Mind function, one with the other.

So, I assume you now have your paper ready, on the first page, draw five circles in a vertical line.In the top circle, write God, in the next circle write Higher Self, the center circle write Ego/Rational, in the next write subconscious and finally in the last circle, write Supra Conscious. Each of these levels have their own particular function and stage of Being, so as I interrelate them, I would ask that you draw lines to each and take notes about their particular function as they relate to one another. This will be a very long process and I may break it at some point to finish at another time. My energy is finite and I apologize in advance.

I will begin with the Ego/Rational level of mind. There has been so much written about the ego and its true Nature that I will not delve too deeply as it can be a matter of opinion rather than a substantive fact suffice to say, it is our best friend and worst enemy. This level of mind is, so it thinks, in full control of the Being. The Ego is necessary as it is the seat of consciousness and rational thought. It has been fed with information since birth which through Natural process, get stored in the Data Bank, the subconscious. You may draw the first line of linkage from the Ego/Rational level to the Subconscious at this point. In fact, I would ask you to draw a larger circle at this point to encompass the lower three levels of mind to include the Supra Conscious level. These three levels are held within the human being's grasp.

The Ego has its own and only point of being, ITS SURVIVAL! Here is where all battles begin and end. It has a powerful job to do, it THINKS, THERE FOR IT IS! Well, that is partially true. This level of mind is the only place were we have rational thought, or reasoning ability. We cannot express Life without it, some are born without this level fully integrated and are considered mentally challenged in our society. They have an Angelic presence as the "I AM" doesn't get in the way of WHO they are. For the rest of us, here is the challenge. To be singularly significant, or the best of the best is the goal of the Ego. To be "on top" of thinking and thought, yet of itself, it has no power except to rule the conscious level of mind. Within the Ego, is our personality but again, not of itself but of Nurture.

We live life in cycles, for most it is cycles of 9 years and for others it is 7. I find that most Old Souls are on the 9 year cycle model. Of each full cycle, there are 3's, 3 full cycles equals a 9 year cycle. Everything in the Universe has a cycle, the Sun 11 years, the Moon 18 years, and that extrapolates out to every living thing, including star dust! Cosmic Mechanics as taught by Sir Issac Newton speaks to these cycles of stellar Life. We are just one of the many influenced by these same cycles. Our biggest stellar influence is the Moon. The Sun has a Life influence, without it, there would be no Life at all, but the Moon has an emotional influence. It rolls on 28 day cycle, just as the tides do as well as a woman's menstrual cycle. Far more than the physical, is the emotional and the Ego is influenced greatly!

In the first 9 year cycle of Life, the Ego is bombarded with facts and figures, it begins as a basic filter for the subconscious level. About 70% of everything we are EVER going to know, is loaded in by age 9. Becoming a human being is a difficult thing! We know what a chair is by association, what hot or cold, a table, a teacher, a policeman, THE BOGEYMAN, all these things we will know by age 9. The memories of past lives long gone by now, as they have left generally within the first three years. Even at this tender age, the Ego is struggling with memories it has no way of understanding, no Data Bank to draw from, therefore, it must not be real!

The Ancients new of the subconscious, in fact, I dare say that they understood the multiple layers better than we do today. Modern psychology began with Freud who I believe, got trapped up in the "ID" of it all and sexual expressions which evolved from it. In ancient times, there was a reference to a 360 degree spectrum of senses, which is now only credited with 5. Of these five senses, the Ego does not have a say in what they are but will recognize that they do exist as Nature cannot be fully understood by the Ego. Freud's representation of ego and id were revolutionary for the times and considered sacrilegious as they worked against the principles of religion. Here is where I also believe that psychology, science, religion and theology began to merge in our culture today. Carl Jung was a preeminent psychologist and to me, has made much more sense of the senses and how our known levels of mind communicate with each other.

So, more to my point today, the EGO/RATIONAL level of mind is simply the consciousness of a Being. It dies when the body dies and has no stake in future evolution. The subconscious is a data bank, it has no thought process of its own, it cannot describe a thing, it can only recall it and offer it up directly to the conscious level for rationing out what the thing is. Sadly, here is also the storage area for every good or bad thing that has ever happened to the Being in the current life time. All memory is stored here, for good or bad to be called up at the behest of the Ego for it's rational summoning. We can be about to start a new job, and the ego would have us recall our learning for this job. It would bring up guilt for having failed at something, teachers or parents negative reviews of our abilities. It would chip away at confidence in an effort to produce FEAR, as fear is its main control of the Being. It may also overdo confidence, remembering a great triumph of some sort and shield the Truth from you in an effort to control. The Ego is insidious in its attempt to control, again for good or for bad, it would have you up and down the scale of delusional thinking.

The Ego level and the Subconscious level are always in sync. One could not exist without the other. The SUPRA-CONSCIOUS is the lowest level in the physical realm of mind. Like the subconscious, it feeds directly upward into the data bank. Here is where, at birth is downloaded all we are meant to be, our likes, our dislikes and a veritable road map for our entire life. The ancients believed it was held in the Pineal gland, some the Hypothalamus, or the Thalamus and even the heart. I happen to believe that it goes much deeper than a mere gland, I believe that it is heal in the helix of our DNA. Since we have had such tremendous scientific study in the genetic structures of Human Beings, I feel that my beliefs have been justified. Just as the first human beings have been traced to a single African Woman, I too believe that we can follow that genetic material to uncover our "INNER" Journey to our current state of Being. All we have ever been physically, or ever will BE, IS RECORDED! This record is proven factual. How we will actually use it, or read, in the future remains to be seen, however I believe it is there for discovery.

The Supra-conscious material, supports the subconscious in many ways. It  holds the information of our past, present and future dreams, hope, influences and possibilities. There is nothing negative that can reside here. From birth, this level is active bringing in information of the Universe in its entirety, every Truth that can be known. Its power is Absolute, yet it cannot make you DO anything. It can only offer up the information in the sense of dreams, hunches, intuition and instinct. This is one level of mind that we can access through meditation and it is here that True Peace LIVES. Only the Ego has a rationale for judgement, for hatred and discontent. It may base these things on Nature or Nurture, culture and adaptation but never on pure Truth. We all have the capacity to reach this level of mind, but keeping the ego in its place is the hard part as the rational level of mind, is always active and as our Survival Tool, cannot and will not be turned off. The Ego in balance is key to discovering your True Self as it is represented at the Supra-conscious level of mind.

I will end this for today and post this first part of THE FIVE LEVELS OF MIND. Please keep your journal handy for the next installment and PLEASE write notes along the way. Once we begin these studies and recognize the other levels of mind, it is always astonishing how the mind will give out more information to the individual seeker. Your impressions of this information, good or bad, is critical if you are to understand "WHO" you truly are. Once understood, the Supra-conscious will begin to allow dreams and instinct to fuel your curiosity and deliver to you, information that is uniquely yours. I wish you VOLUMES of information and until next time, I wish you Peace.