by John McIntosh
The mind can create ANYTHING within the vast framework of what most people think of as REALITY … they have been made well aware of this power these last 70+ years since the science of Self Development began to have widespread popularity. Some people have tangibly experienced this in their own lives and become what the world calls successful.
So powerful is this mind dynamic that the identity that has sprung up around it ‘makes-believe’ that you can be Awake to the Truth of Who You Are through the mind.
This is not so.
You can do nothing REAL with the mind. This is not somehow ‘wrong’ … it is simply a function of the ONE You Are, playing in the field of dreams. What seems to be wrong (but also was intentional) is the identification with the mind and its projections as Who You Are.
For most of humanity, who either know little about this power or do not understand it, those projections have created a very tiny prison with walls that can be seen and felt through extreme limitations … first noticed through the bodily senses, then through the emotions and finally through a deep inner longing for Freedom.
It is this very longing that eventually leads each one ‘inside’ from the tyranny of the mind’s dominance in their lives to the Grace of the Heart recognized through ‘feelings’ more and more as surrender of the mind’s control as it gives way to the gentle embrace of the Heart.
For those who ‘have’ recognized the power of the mind and utilized it to make their Dreams Come True, a strong identification with ‘mind power’ has usually taken over and the walls of the prison have expanded so far that they are no longer visible.
Freedom within a vast prison is still bondage.
Were it not for the simmering longing for ‘something more’ – the Divine Discontent – that is the ‘crumb trail’ Home … these ones would linger in this velvet cage for an eternity.
Spiritually oriented people are not exempt from this trap. The myriad of spiritual paths are full of mental ways and means to attain Freedom and Peace and identification with these ‘ways and means’ becomes ever harder to recognize as more and more PHENOMENA shows up in their lives masquerading as evidence that Freedom or Awakening or Enlightenment is near.
Again, the longing that persists beneath the surface of miraculous experiences eventually drives the weary seeker to full surrender of ALL mental ways and means and DIRECT to Source.
This Direct Pathless Path was not available before Now – in these early days of THE GOLDEN AGE in which humanity is Now immersed … and the longer path was required to (satisfy the mind) that spoke of unworthiness, sacrifices, hard work, discipline and long arduous practices under the guidance of a master or guru seemed like absolute necessities for full Liberation in the old energy dominated by the control of the mind.
Today, the frequency of the Heart ... the ‘ever fresh’ Truth available only in the Now Moment, is pulling the rug from beneath the ever changing dreams borne in the mind. The house of cards humanity has lived within and believed in for thousands of years is crumbling around it everywhere ‘emptying’ every illusion to leave ‘space’ for the Truth emanating from the Heart.
