An "Idiot's Guide to Self-Realization", (or), How To Overcome Intellectualism.

[Ming the Merciful]

It's really not useful to stop at a single realization.

Thoughts are finite, while what we truly realize is the infinite. So oftentimes you realize something, yet later on come to need to realize its opposite. Then, you have to learn balance the two together. So much fun we can have with duality.

To my understanding or misunderstanding (depending on how distorted I am), thoughts create realities on all planes of existence and can even go on to create certain types of thought-forms which can be energized and have their own type of awareness though it be little.
I believe (and this is where I may be misguided), that we pereive thoughts within 3rd density as being finite and the balance to that is the realization that our thoughts create our reality ( but to infinity just as the Creator has made the entire universe(s) ) but on all planes of existence. Just as the words echoed many years ago still echo to this day. The spoken word was once a thought.

I have to admit I never resonated all that much with that concept that our every thought create realities on all planes of existence. I've resonated more with how it is presented in the Ra material, that everything you can think of, or many things that you never thought of are happening at some level of reality.

16.53 Questioner: All right. Continuing with what we were just talking about, namely densities: I understand then that each density has seven sub-densities which again have seven sub-densities which again have seven sub-densities. This expands at an extremely large rate as things are increased in powers of seven. Does this mean that in any density level anything that you can think of is happening? And many things that you never thought of are happening… are there… everything is happening… this is confusing…

Ra: I am Ra. From your confusion we select the concept with which you struggle, that being infinite opportunity. You may consider any possibility/probability complex as having an existence.

The way I interpret this illustration, of every thought having being as being infinite opportunity, is that as some level or another the Creator (us) will meet the opportunity of any possibility/complex as an experience. Anything that you can think of can then resonate with that complex having an existence, without necessarily meaning that from your mind you have manifested it. To me it goes back to another thing that Ra said, which is: The Creator does not properly create as much as it experiences Itself.

Now I'm not saying either that our thoughts do not have an effect, or cannot take form in some way either. Just that I never resonated with the entire notion of attributing to oneself the manifestation of any idea that crosses one's mind. Just the existence of our planet within this Octave is the product of an intricate journey of manifestation that is probably as old as time itself. So how any possibility/probability complex can have an existence is to me more likely to hold upon the complex nature of how that finite expression of infinity can be held as distant, or separate, within the infinite and endless context that surrounds it.

But yeah what I meant was really along the lines of what Ming said. To cultivate an empty mind and an unmediated relationship with your reality as to be transparent to it. This, to not attempt to constrain the dynamic and ever changing nature of your reality within the confines of finite thoughts within your mind. An example would be to not imprison the wordless within the limits of words. But ya I agree that any concept ultimately has an infinite nature. It's a bit like how people say a picture is worth a thousands words, well a word is also worth a thousand pictures.

I am not saying that Still Mind is something you can develop overnight. If anyone is interested, here are a couple of suggestions. When you are sitting alone, watching TV, listening to the radio, (it wouldn't work here because it takes too much concentration).You are watching TV and following a program. Continue watching the TV, and simply stop thinking for a few seconds. At the beginning, try five seconds. That is all you need to start. Once you have done that, slowly increase the time to ten seconds. Do it gradually. I have practised Still Mind for the last thirty years, and I can stay Mindless whenever I want. Mind on, Mind off. There are times when I remain in Still Mind more than thinking. It then occurs to me, I had not had a thought for the last five minutes. Then you return to thought and thinking, and for a few seconds it feels strange because I am thinking. Still Mind can also be used when you are in and ready for sleep. You close your eyes, and stop thinking. Then sleep. The time I enjoy it the most is when I am out in public. You are sitting on a bus, not thinking. All around you are conversations of the other passengers, and you are totally detached from it.

Eventually as you develop the practice you will begin to grow Spiritually because your concepts of Reality begin to change. Again, not overnight. Unfortunately, I am not near anyone to guide them, so this is why I want to be cautious. Not that Still Mind is dangerous, (but), it has to be learned slowly. Your Mind is used to being in control, and it does all the thinking for you. It does not like being controlled. Does your Mind control you, or do you control your Mind? When does Intuitive Mind develop? At the point when you begin to "Know Yourself". It is different for each person. As I mentioned in previous Posts, you will know the "Spark". Something clicks. Intuitive Mind will rise naturally, and you will know the difference between Intellectual and Intuitive Mind. Something that cannot be explained, it only comes from personal experience. If anyone wants to try it, I can always give tips and advice. For once, I am not talking Philosophically, (how strange)?