Mind liked people
CS: If you want to find people who are already on that frequency…
CC: It’s like they say in English, mind liked people.
CS: I don’t particularly like that expression, mind liked people, because… just yesterday I was transcribing a recording I made in the bathroom…
CC: Oh wow! (laughs)
CS: The most… I don’t record videos in the bathroom, because that would be too much, right! But it’s the moment when I feel most inspired, I must be connecting to the center of my wisdom (laughs).
CC: All the chakras are there, united and aligned! (laughs)
CS: Well united and aligned! (laughs) Anyway, back to the point… it was a recording where I was talking about being human. And as humans, we have four worlds within us. The first world is the physical, and the second is the mental world. The mental world corresponds to everything happening in our mind. But our mind constantly lies to us. And how does it lie?
When we enter this corporeal, earthly experience, we inevitably create a persona that allows us to deal with what’s around us. This happens because we come from a dimension that is not so dense, not so conflictual. We create a mental map (full of memories and references we carry in life) and a persona that allows us to navigate the world, to understand it, and to protect what is important and essential within us—the pearl inside.
This mental map creates traps, so that when you encounter a certain situation, you immediately identify which may be bad and which may be good. The moment you do this, you stop experiencing the situation itself and instead live an illusion, triggered by the memories your mind allows you to access.
What the mind is doing is preventing you from fully experiencing an event because it judges the situation based on past memories and judgments. This only makes you live in memories instead of the present.
Hence Eckhart Tolle’s idea of living in the Now! This liberation from the mind, what Osho called the non-mind, is hard to reach because we build this mental map as protection. That’s why I say the mind lies to us. The mind acts as a shield for life. But you only experience life by living it. If you shield yourself from certain experiences just because they remind you of something you’ve already lived…
CC: And all of that can be distorted, right?
CS: Exactly, because your memories are related to your perception and judgment of each situation. Everything the mind does ends up trapping us in something that is already in the past, something that no longer exists.
Anyway, I prefer to talk about similar souls, similar spirits, people on the same frequency.
CC: There it is—mind liked people—really, it can be misapplied because it points to something deeper. But here, the point is simply to talk about people interested in the same types of subjects.
CS: They are people who are in tune, who vibrate at the same frequency, and who end up traveling a very similar Path. The most important thing: the mind is not the deepest part of us!
CC: Right, it’s that protective shield.
CS: What’s behind that shield is the deepest part of us. And this relates to the third and fourth worlds of the human being: the emotional and the spiritual worlds. These worlds influence the others. In fact, all of them are interconnected and interact with one another. In the mind, you have thoughts, the way you see yourself, how you see the situations you experience, and how you see others. But in reality, it is in the emotional realm that you experience your relationship with yourself and with others. It is your emotions that define how you relate to yourself and to others.
CC: That’s true. I follow a YouTube channel called School of Life. Do you know it?
CS: Yes, yes, it’s very good. (I recommend it!)
CC: I watched a video where they talked about how emotional neglect affects us as adults. And it’s true! If you feel emotional neglect as a child, from one of your parents, it will strongly influence your adult life, especially your relationships with others.
CS: That’s true. Emotional care from parents in childhood positively or negatively affects your relationship with yourself and others in adulthood. And this happens because you were neglected by those who were supposed to protect you. This leads to a lack of trust in others, and also a feeling that you do not deserve care, which lowers your self-esteem, causing you not to trust yourself. Consequently, you feel a need to be loved and valued by the same people you do not trust, because you silently believe you are undeserving of love. Therefore, you give all you have—and all you don’t—to be loved, and you see Love as distorted, leading to relationships where you are constantly used and undervalued.
The post is already long, so I think this is a good moment to pause the conversation. As I said, this talk lasted more than two hours, and we covered so many different yet interconnected topics.
Anyway, next Saturday, October 20th, 2018 (in case someone reads this without noticing the date), I will share another excerpt from this conversation. We’ll talk about mindfulness, being what we think others think of us, and the balance between accepting ourselves and transforming ourselves.
Come join and comment!
See you later!
