The Mind is the Window to Reality

Before I left for an outstanding work/vacation to Maine, I told you about Basic Attitude.  The vacation part was absolutely outstanding.  After a short visit with Barbara's folks we proceded to the Wells/Kennebunk part of Maine.  This was right on the rock-bound shore.  Our accomodations were an old hotel that was converted into condominiums.  We were fortunate enough to have a second-story apartment overlooking the road which stretched along the ocean.  The apartment itself was outstanding consisting of two bedrooms and a bath leading to a very large living room which opened out on the porch two stories above the street surface.

We were able to roam the streets of Wells and Kennebunk and pursue the shops and restaurants at will.  And of course we got presents for the kids and took care of ourselves as well by consuming gobs and gobs of lobster and other denizens of the deep.  But alas we also had to work.

Evenso, work was not work as I made a presentation, complete with slide projections on the wall, based on my 40 years experience in Astrolgy.  There were nine people in attendance with three or four experienced in Astrology.  I had been given six people, unidentified, mixed both male and female and only the appropriate details of birth.  I described the potential of these six people and received the approval of the audience and was delighted by the response of those more experienced in the Astrological techniques.  It is one of those techniques that I will describe for you today.

One of the areas that the Sabian approach to astrology explores is Mental Chemistry.  This is how one Conceives things on the one hand and how he Perceives things on the other.  I described this process in relationship to Consciousness back on March 25. 2010 in the post titled "Will The Real World Please Stand Up".  Sensory inputs from the external world are taken in through the sense organs and routed to the proper centers in the brain.  Here the brain does two things.  One is the determination whether this is pleasure or pain and sends that signal out through the motor neurons for proper action(fight or flight). But it also compares it to its data base, if you will,  for meaning and value.  And it is this area of the brain, that we perhaps know as mind, that we make or conceive of relationships of  things to all other things.

In Astrology, this leads to counseling in two areas.  When the mental chemistry shows a quick and rapid perception and a sharp conceptive ability then the person can be impatient and impulsive and need constant mental stimulation with new and interesting things.  When the mental chemistry shows a more deliberate perception with a slow constructive conceptive ability then the mind works with the pattern of things.  This is reminiscent of the way a computer works.  Once the pattern is recognized and established(program), the mind can reproduce that pattern tirelessly(output).  This is the Gestalt(form) type of mental chemistry.  It requires an induction period but then is quite effective in operation.

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Your Attitude determines your Altitude... or come fly with me

After all what is attitude?  Way back somewhere I described in one of these musings how we take in stimuli through the senses and somewhere the brain processes it and gives it meaning.  I won't go into that now, but these meanings form the basis of your attitude, your stance on things.  Somewhere back in the 60's I attended a seminar where an Industrial Psycologist defined attitude as the sum of your opinions and your experiences.  To me that was fascinating because for the first time I saw a mental or psychological process in the form or a mathematical equation...   i.e.  A = O + E where of course A is attitude, O is opinion and E is experience.  So if one were to change his attitude then he could change his opinion or experience as the case may be.  But more importantly if he could change either his opinion or his experience then his attitude would change.  And it is this change in attitude which determines the outcome of events that the devotees of the Secret propose.

Well that should give folks something to think about.  I am going on vacation next week and will be back sometime around Sept. 23 for the next post and perhaps those of you who have recognized the process in their own lives might be willing to share with us by leaving a comment or two.

Attitude is everything

Hello again folks.  I am a little late this week due to the need to catch up on my new duties as Treasurer of the Sabian Publishing Society.  Imagine me... with all that money?  OMG it makes me nervous.  Anyway, the people that have developed String Theory have postulated an infinite number of dimensions beside the four in which we have our reality.  The next stop on our mathematical journey would be the eleventh dimension, consisting of ten dimensions of space and one of time.  But even there the measurements are so small that it is hard to conceive of our human mass fitting in any way.  So we would have to become creatures of light, so to speak, if we were to go there.  In other words, the journey would be one on a quantum scale or quantum level as the case may be.  And the only thing that comes to mind is the mental processes that occur during thought, dreams....hypnosis perhaps..etc.  And what does this have to do with time travel?

The support for the arrow of time comes mostly from a paradox in which a time-travelor goes back in time and kills his grandfather before his grandfather can sire his father.  Then the the time-traveler cannot exist to go back in time and kill his grandfather.  Oh my!  There are people now who claim to have found loopholes in the grandfather paradox and as a result show that time travel is possible.  After all who would want to kill his own grandfather,  but I suppose even that is possible in this day and age.

So now back to time travel as a mental process.  There are many advocates of this process such as Burt Goldman, the American Monk who describes travel between here and parallel worlds where his doppleganger has already worked out  what are current problems in this existence. And can suggest solutions to those problems.  The folks who advocate The Secret are attempting to manipulate their current reality to bring in more favorable future outcomes.  Neuro-linguistic programmingm, self-hypnosis and the like are all processes of mind that use prior experience to effect future outcomes.  But if I could travel back in time with the purpose of making adjustments in my current or present condition, the one thing I would change above, all else. would be my attitude.  And tune in next week when I tell you about attitude and why and how it is important. 

Oh by the way, I sure would appreciate your comments and discussion.  If you cannot comment by clicking on the little pencil then please e-mail me directly at richard.charles.degeiso@gmail.com