Lotsa Questions

[rva_jeremy]

Truth is, I think the intellect is illusory and the true nature of mind is nothing like all this 'content' we experience here. Thinking as it is is a 'veiled' activity in my understanding.

Well said, Aion.  Q'uo often advises using the intellect "as a dray horse" to do rote analytical work, but Confederation friends always caution against depending on the intellect too much.  I think a lot of "rational" thought is more of a mental heuristic we use to reason from base facts to synthesized conclusions, but the mind and emotions certainly have more possibilities than just that.  Because rational intellectual thought often resembles an internal mental conversation, we must discontinue it in order to avail ourselves of the deeper portions, those portions that do not speak to the illusion as our mind has been conditioned to do for so long.  

Here's another oldie but a goldie:

My friends, we wish only to speak to you very briefly this evening. We are shepherds of your flock and we see the needs of the flock. Our only desire is to aid those of the flock who seek our aid. The aid you seek, my friends, has become very much focused upon true seeking than that of most of the sheep of the flock. Therefore, what can we say to you intellectually is more and more lacking in complete satisfaction. It is for this reason, my friends, that we stress to you, even as you are gaining advancement, the continued need for more and more meditation. For, my friends, what we can give you through use of the intellect and language is a very small percentage only of what we are able to give you by direct contact—mind to mind.

We would say this to you: there is an everlasting experience that’s cycled again and again within the physical illusion that you now enjoy. This experience is one of complexity. Events that happen are always events that are essentially unexplained. My friends, the unexplained sets up within your human intellect a great frustration and you seek the explanation with your intellect. But, my friends, the explanation for the cycle of experience within the physical is never within the physical.

The answer, my friends, is to be found within the spiritual consciousness. The flimsy craft of your physical intellectual ability is not designed to sail from the deep seas of spiritual reasons. Do not attempt to take it into the depths of reasons or else, I assure you, your flimsy craft will break apart and you will think that you are surely lost. (Hatonn, April 24, 1974--all emphasis mine)