Catalysts

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Now, the question is – can one leave the intellectual working aside? Or should one just stay in the normal state of mind and process the catalysts, work with them in order to understand them as seems to be a normal way to do it?

There are two complementary evaluation faculties of mind - thinking and feeling. The former is 'intellectual' (left brain) - that which is objective, causative or logical, the latter is 'affective' (right brain) and involves 'listening to the heart' and harmonizing. Both processes require the use of the will and both will will result in experience - which is the polarizing effort, if the experience is the result of honest assessment.

Thinking involves taking ones consciously subjective view in totality and focusing on a part of the objects/concepts in question. So its a process of integrating a part to the whole.

Feeling is the reciprocal process of taking one's unconscious, objective view in totality, as a background to contrast, and seeing where the object/concepts "fit" or "belong" - from whole to part.

With these honest assessments, there is more acceptance of self - and with more acceptance, there is more consciousness or the quality of 'faith' or access to the 'roots of mind'. The working does change with more consciousness available. It moves from gross to fine or subtle, and becomes less taxing due to catalyst being readily acknowledged. Ignored catalyst does tend to get to the point of limiting one's perceived opportunity or making things more difficult than necessary.