THE ORIGIN OF MIND

The basis of reality is pure consciousness. This consciousness in its pure state is what we call God. It has no cause. It is eternal, omnipresent and is the creative source of all that exists. All that exists including our experiences flows forth from this one universal divine, omnipotent consciousness.

This consciousness for its own reasons, which we cannot comprehend, began a process of expression starting with the Big Bang in which, according to most physicists, a tiny particle of incredibly dense matter exploded creating the whole of the universe as we know it. The vehicles of this expression; cells, plants, fish, reptiles, mammals and human beings evolved very slowly throughout millions of years, becoming more and more capable of expressing ever greater powers of creation latent within this consciousness.

The survival of the fittest; gradually lead to the development of the mind as the superior organ of survival. Through these various previous experiences as animals and primitive humans the mind learned to function in a way so as to recognize immediate and long term danger, gradually becoming almost totally focused on searching for, establishing and ensuring safety and abundance. The mind learned to perceive all others as competitors for those basic needs.

This competition for basic needs such as food, shelter, and territory gradually spilled over into other arenas as humanities interests evolved. We would then compete for a mate, or for affirmation, power or for a special place in society. Gradually, we descended into ever deeper feelings of separateness and alienation from others, which caused us to develop various defense mechanisms so as to protect our material, psychological and social status.

We learned to identify our security with our self worth and social acceptance, and thus began to seek affirmation of our self worth through success in various arenas of "combat", such as money, power, appearance, professional status, sexual prowess, intelligence, morality, spiritual attainment etc.

Thus we who is spirit, which is evolving in our ability to express our divinity, because we are identified with our body and personality, have lost contact with our spiritual source and is engaged in the fight for "survival", affirmation, pleasure and power.

This causes us to become attached to specific persons, objects, situations, positions, and roles in our attempt to feel that we have secured our needs. We fight to obtain what we need. If we do not achieve what we believe we need, we feel that we are a failure, perhaps becoming depressive if we feel impotent to obtain what we desire. Or we may become bitter and angry towards those who have "obstructed" us from or "cheated" us out of what we need. We develop positive feelings towards those who help us obtain what we "need" and negative feelings towards those who obstruct us. We harbor jealousy towards those who have what we need. We fear those who might take what we need from us.

We fear losing what we have. We spend much energy trying to protect what we have. The more we feel we need, the more energy we lose in trying to obtain, sustain and protect what we believe we need.

These attachments become the cause of our conflicts with others. Our relationships with family, friends and coworkers are strained because we frequently fear that their behavior embodies some type of danger for our person, usually that some of our needs will not be fulfilled.
Most of our needs can be listed in one or more of these categories. Our happiness and our emotional-mental-physical harmony depend on how we manage the relationship between our needs and what we have.

Management of our needs consists of three basic methods.

1. The first is learning to diminish the strength of our needs so that they are transformed from attachments to preferences. When are attached to something, we are unhappy when we cannot have it, and we fear losing it when we have it. When we prefer something, we are happy when we have it, but can also be happy if we do not, and are not overcome with anxiety with the fear of losing when we have it.

2. The second method is to become more adept at fulfilling needs, so that there is not such a great gap between what we want and what we have.

3. The third method is to allow our needs to evolve naturally. It is natural that in a process of evolution, that our needs will gradually change if we allow them to. Needs and desires are the natural powers of nature moving us in various directions. As spiritual evolution is the purpose of all creation, then our needs and desires will lead us in that direction, if we allow them to evolve naturally. ...... Love and Light Christina