BODY AND MIND

Our genes and chromosomes, that which gives us characteristics as unique and individual as our fingerprints, did not just 'happen' to have within them the precisely coded information that will be needed as the body develops. This data is impressed upon them from within, but the knowledge existed before the their physical creation and will continue to exist after them. Your true identity existed before your physical form. One could say that your identity, existing in another dimension entirely, programs the medium of physical reality from which its own material existence will develop.

The Inner Self then, forms first the invisible structure which will later materialise in flesh. While this is happening, the conscious mind, as we think of it, obviously is not yet connected with the brain, which has not yet been formed in the flesh. The design and characteristics of the body are held and made physical by the conscious mind. In short, you choose ahead of time the kind of body you will inhabit. While you think of yourself as a material being instead of a pure spirit, you will not be able to differentiate between the real and the false self, and it is futile to speculate on the reasons behind the choice.

The portion of self that must 'wait for' the brains physical development, in terms of time, is the part you call in physical life. 'the conscious mind'. as we have not been taught to associate our attitudes and emotions with our body's condition it is only natural that we have no conscious mental control over our health.

Advanced medical science has discovered the connection between the mind and the body, and is saying that it can make no separation between them. That it is all really ONE. The placebo effect points the way.

Each cell in our body contains mind. We call this 'cellular memory', which seems to act independently from our conscious mind. For example, when we cut ourself there is an inner knowing of the accident, and the monocytes which are contained within the marrow of our bones are released into the immune system and rushed to heal the injury. Where does this knowing come from? Does it point to the existence of an inner self?

How dose a bird know how to build a nest, or a bee to construct the geometrical perfection of a hive? How does a new-born mammal know how to suckle? The knowing does not lie in the brain, for the brain is no older than the rest of the body, therefore it cannot on its own originate knowledge that preceded its own creation. If it is not the body and not the brain, it can only be the mind, and must therefore be related to but not dependent on the brain. As this knowledge is not conscious knowledge, we must look to the deep unconscious part of the mind and say that THERE life hidden the secrets of existence. The beauty of it all is that we can turn within and, through meditation, tap into this knowledge.

Dr. Carl Jung, commenting on Nietzche's Zarathustra writes, "A new man, a completely transformed man, is to appear on the scene, on who has broken the shell of the old, and who not only looks upon a new heaven and a new earth, but has CREATED them".

Stick around brothers and sisters, its all happening.

© David Hurst 1995
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