The Longest Journey I Ever Took Was from My Head to My Heart. (Part 2).

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Any dysfunction in life begins with the stories of the mind or the stories of the minds of others. The understanding of the wrong use of our mental capacities cannot be contemplated clearly until the idea of dual-consciousness is introduced.

Think of it in this simple way

Our intellect or mind (our mental consciousness), thinks of itself as our life’s entrusted driver as it speeds day by day towards what it thinks is your destiny. It gains momentum based on pressures and fears, either self-imposed or imposed by our parents, friends, lovers, culture or social environment. Most people do not think twice about making decisions with their minds. "Make up your mind", we hear endlessly.

We possess two consciousnesses

I will explain dual consciousness in depth below. For now, please consider that there is another consciousness at work and available within you.

Let's call it your instincts, gut feelings and intuition, but the idea I am introducing is that these instincts are aware. They are as conscious as you are, except you do not have any access to them – they act independently of your conscious thoughts.

Regardless of how strange and novel it sounds, this “other” consciousness, experiences life simultaneously, as it happens. It is also oblivious to the intellect and all its drama, because its awareness is instinctive.

Your instincts, intuition and gut feelings, because they are aware, know precisely where to go, with whom, how and when. Their decision process is not based on thoughts at all. This decision making ability, based on instincts and intuition, has always been there but practically ignored our whole life. It isn't anyone's fault.

We’ve all experienced these instances when something did not quite feel right, but we went ahead anyway because we "thought" it was a good idea; only to discover later that it wasn’t for us at all or that the experience left such a bad taste in our mouth.

It is not an easy task to realize that our mind is no longer equipped to rule our decision process.

Mind’s fears, distorted perceptions, deep-seated anxieties, false enthusiasm, and die-hard beliefs have ruined so many splendid opportunities.

Binary consciousness

Dual-consciousness is an extraordinary thing to contemplate in terms of our evolution. I came across it in 2010. It is taking years to catch up to its magic.

For example and to give it some validity, the Phoenicians, many centuries ago, used to practice dual burials. They buried the body and buried the spirit separately. They had an equal respect for the body as they had for the personality, our conscious self or spirit.

Here, we are not using dual-consciousness to describe the world-view of people who simultaneously hold two apparently inconsistent sets of beliefs or ideas as postulated in the realm of psychology.

Dual or binary consciousness as I came to understand it is literally like having two highly separate and different levels of consciousness with totally different purposes.

On one side, the body (our instincts, gut feelings and intuition) with its remarkably intelligent brain, and on the other, our personality consciousness or costume so to speak (who we think we are in the world.)

The potential of our minds at this level is to contribute its unique expression outwardly to others with intelligence and awareness.

Both processes are conscious and potentially aware if we can come to grips with our binary existence.

Mutation and neutrinos

Since the time of the industrial revolution, we have been going through an enormous collective mutation. We have evolved into no longer having a “single consciousness” dominated by conscious mind only.

Another phenomena was the emergence of receptivity different than the strategic orientation we were used to for centuries.

A fundamental aspect of this mutation is based on what is scientifically known as the Neutrino.

Neutrinos are unusual particles that carry an infinitesimal amount of mass. About 3 trillion neutrinos, and the material information they carry, pass through every square inch of the planet per second as it travels slightly below the speed of light.

For instance, our Sun produces about 70 percent of all neutrinos that travel through our solar system, with the remaining 30 percent emitted by other stars in our Galaxy, and a small amount from the planet Jupiter.

In 2015, the scientists Takaaki Kajita (Super-Kamiokande Collaboration) and Arthur B. McDonald (Sudbury Neutrino Observatory Collaboration) were awarded a Nobel Prize for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which showed that neutrinos have mass.

As the Neutrino stream passes through us, each Neutrino has an infinitesimally small amount of mass. It is therefore a stream of information traveling just below the speed of light and each of us is penetrated by these particles.

Technically, we all live in a vast cosmic ocean of information or information feed that is consequently connected to everything that lives.

At the moment of birth, we are imprinted by the information carried by the neutrino stream via the planets. This imprint determines your particular Genetic Design. This information provides us with the knowledge to understand our nature, our potential and our interaction with others.

Transformation and a new navigational system

Through this remarkable and unprecedented mutation, each individual inherited a very natural yet very powerful way of processing life’s decisions that have nothing to do with mind, nor the mental plane.

Quite extraordinary to think about!

We began to experience quantum leaps into not only undeniable technological advancements but into new signs of emotional awareness, sensitivity and receptivity.

It strongly suggests that we developed the potential to awaken emotionally, as well as develop our cognitive potential to new heights previously unattained, except in spurts.

As a species, we are slowly moving from a strategic “conquer all” modality to a more receptive “share all” one. This mutation happened fast relative to thousands of years of unchanged or ever so slow evolution, i.e. the printing press, the light bulb, the atom bomb, psychology, the telephone, the airplane, the germ theory of infection, the bicycle, quantum physics, the computer, etc, which are are all fairly recent inventions.

Duality, as described, is a wonderful upgrade to our spiritual humanity.

Evolution had it in its design to retire the mind as the main driver and decision maker for our lives. Mind, in this new evolutionary construct and mutative paradigm shift, has been reassigned to what is called “outer authority” while, before the mutation it did have “inner authority” and control over the direction and intentions of our lives.

The contradiction of mind

Mind, being so attached to its “old job”, distorts the way in which we make decisions and disconnects us from our true evolutionary path.

We are no longer mind bound.

It is enormously difficult for us human beings to understand that our minds are not in charge of our lives. We cannot think of a more challenging task. It is equally difficult to accept that our mind is not our real source of authority in this life; that it can’t be, even though we have habitually relied on and revered the mind for so long.

Yet, consider that your mind is no longer genetically designed to have authority over your decisions. So, there we are, every one of us, living in the strategic world of the mind. And in living in the world of mind and processing our day-to-day life through our mind, without knowing it.

Our minds, through trials, pursuits, battles, tribulations, ambitions, intellectual claims and certainties, desires, hopes, resistance, success or lack of success, love, peace, satisfaction, etc., somehow trick us into believing that we can actually do something about the direction of our lives.

It leads to all kinds of distortions, blindness and suffering.

Mind and awareness

To lay a foundation for awakening and to understand mind further, some insights are needed into the differences between awareness and consciousness.

The premise is that consciousness does not necessarily lead to awareness. Mind is run by strategic focuses regardless of whether it is desired or not.

No focus, no mind kind of catch-22. If you listen to your mind, it will pressure you to focus, measure and compare in order to make choices.

Regardless, mind pressures the body to act against its instincts, intuition and true feelings. After all, if you look at our history, mind can rationalize pretty much anything. It is the only means mind has over the body consciousness and our gut feelings: stories of fear, guilt and pressure. As an example, the mind speaks "what if I don't make that choice, what will happen?", etc.

It is mind that transforms us into modern upgraded slaves by hijacking our personal power, our inner authority and autonomy. It’s nobody’s fault, only ignorance could be blamed.

The point here is that every question that drives your mind is an attempt to enter into the body chemically in order to effectively control what is happening on the outside, on the mundane world of forms. © A. Diaz

What did some people try to do? Ignore the mind? How about “no mind”? Change your thoughts from this to that as if it was actually possible?

Ignoring the mind when a decision needs to be made is not a small picnic. Truth be told, there is simply no way that anyone can pretend they don't have a mind as a basic attitude to live their daily life, and continue to look and feel human. © A. Diaz

Mind and its old mechanical strategies

So, what do we do with the mind? Retrain it? Trick it? It tricks us! How? Mind not only tricks us but it distorts our lives; it does it through very specific strategies. Depending on your specific make up, personality and psychology, the mind captivates your attention in order to convince you it has all the answers.

Let’s review how the mind (our thoughts, our ego-identity or personality) creates the self-images we discussed above.

Think of the following examples as the clay the mind uses to protect and defend our basic ego-identity (our self-images).

It is important to stay open and relaxed as you contemplate these in your own psyche in order to clearly see the mechanics at play. From our experiments and understanding, most self-images are born out of the following attempts and strategies to deal with life.

They are:

(1) Being blinded by thinking about things that really don’t matter to you and never will, without much awareness around it. Pulling you away from things that do matter.

(2) Feeling certain about things, people and life, and taking action based on those certainties, which usually end in feelings of alienation or confusion.

(3) Attracting attention to oneself to feel important, thus robbing you of your rhythm and timing, as well as preventing you to attract the right people. One ends up with all kinds of toxic relationships.

(4) Constantly being concerned and worried about direction, love, self-image and reputation. Always getting closer and closer to burn-out.

(5) Hanging on to situations and people that are truly negative and detrimental to your wellbeing coupled with a rigid inability to let go.

(6) Never knowing when enough is enough and exhausting yourself repeatedly.

(7) Avoiding truth or how you really feel about life. Avoiding confrontation or conflict at all costs thus, robbing you of your honesty and clarity.

(8) Constantly having to prove your worth and your place in the world, such as status and self-worth and incessantly being compromised by other people’s egos or will over yours, thus undervaluing yourself by being underpaid or unappreciated.

(9) Feeling pressured to push yourself and please other people at your own expense and at the expense of your own personal rhythm, freedom and autonomy. Taking on projects and burdens that are not meant for you and being pressured to do so to get them done and over with as fast as you can.

It is admittedly not so easy to recognize these signposts and try to avoid falling into these black holes while running frantically after our goals and trying to make sense out of it all.

Who has time to stop and see? yet, it is the essence of any awareness.

Is there a doorway? A Shaman’s pill or better still getting in touch with your “inner Shaman” so it can come and rescue you?

Mental dilemma and evolutionary orientation

There are two essential existential questions: who am I to myself and who are you (the other) to me? After all, here we all are, conscious of having a self (an identity) and then, there is this “other” (father, mother, friend, lover, teacher, colleague, etc.)

The French philosophers, J.P. Sartre and Albert Camus, pointed it out brilliantly in their famous declaration: “Hell is others” or “L’enfer, c’est les autres”, in French.

Well, here is what has come to our attention during our studies, inquiries and investigations: every single human being carries an inherent “mental dilemma question” that has the purpose of refocusing the mind away from the mundane concerns for survival and thus empowering the individual to discover new heights of awareness.

It becomes a process by which to keep your mind aligned with the natural flow of life. Everybody’s mind is trying to control their life, which is all we know and that’s all we have ever known.

However, the mind is not designed to enter into the body’s brain and any attempt to do so can only trigger severe anxiety.

Consider this, if we had to think about breathing or running the blood through our veins and all of the things that are involved with all of that, if we had to organize all of that every moment of every day—we simply wouldn’t make it. It would not be possible.

And yet, somehow we assume on the surface that we are in charge of it all. Are you in charge of the weather? All we can do is deal with the fact that we are in a movement. This is one of the basic laws of the universe, that everything is moving.

We are in movement as the universe is expanding at an unbelievable speed, and we are an integral part of it. It is one of the keys to see very clearly that if you are in movement, there is only one thing that can really disturb you and that is resistance and direction.

That resistance is going to slow your movement down, it is going to create friction and it is going to create enormous difficulties for you.

Mundane or existential reality?

As said earlier, each mental dilemma question is actually specifically designed to keep the mental awareness outside of the body, in the realm of the witness consciousness, which we will address in more details below.

These mental dilemmas are not questions that direct the mental awareness towards the mundane but rather, towards the existential. After all, there is as much difference between consciousness and awareness as there is between mundane preoccupations and existential ones.

Let’s go back to body-consciousness. At the heart of this new intuition and paradigm, “the body is the life”, while the mind is simply a self-reflected and conscious construct that shares its views on life, its interpretations, etc., without the need to control the overall direction.

The true role of the mind

Instead of interfering with the body’s life, mind, through a freer personality consciousness, becomes a formidable tool for self-expression, thus actualizing peace of mind and externalizing unique self-expression.

The other enormous benefit and by-product is being free from having to feel responsible for your life and constantly generating self-images to navigate the world. Mind, in the old paradigm can only project self-images, views, interpretations or stories; it does NOT generate life itself, as it is not connected to it.

As a result of mind insisting on controlling our lives through the projection of self-images, the wrong views and stories emerge and are given reign to make anyone frustrated, bitter, fearful, angry or disappointed to various frequencies and intensities; it can cause serious health issues and a disconnect from oneself and others.

With mind turned away from running our life, our personality has the potential to be a brilliant and fascinated creative spectator. When surrendered to the body’s inner guidance, the mind can relax and become what it was meant to be: a first-class entertainer.

Letting go

All that is necessary is letting go of the steering wheel. Very few people have a perspective on their minds and its projected contents trying to desperately shape their reality.

It is the correct relationship you have to your mind’s content that brings about realignment; not a Zen-like detachment but rather the discipline of watching your thinking, “think itself”.

You are not the thinker

This is worth meditating over and experimenting with, as it is the experiment that breeds the confidence and verification of the mutation within you.

The supremacy of body (brain) over mind is helplessly exposed in personal relationships, where the power of sex, fear of or confrontation of intimacy and the genetic imperative to reproduce, reveal our deepest attachments to what we are not. Everybody’s false-self is a sucker for conditioning because this is the only way we know “ourselves” in connection to anything. The false-self is always struggling and the one thing it is struggling for the most is the betterment of its relationships; because it is there where everything “seems” to be at stake. © A. Diaz

Forget what you are not

Would it not be extraordinary to unearth information that shows you who you are and more important who you are not, early in life? Instead, we all cope with who we are not and avoid who we are by using our minds to navigate life. It leads to distraction and distortion.

You end up seeking out others to fill voids and make you feel whole, trying to work out problems created by your mind, neglecting who you truly are to “try” to become who you “think you should be.”

Our “human comedy”

To use another sobering example, mind cannot buy or produce love, as you cannot will yourself to fall in love. As a matter of fact, when you fall in love, it is the body that feels it and actually is in love, chemically speaking.

Other potent examples are physical attraction to the opposite sex, drug and alcohol addiction or what about the priest who is attracted to the boy in the choir; he may think he is a man of God but his body will have it otherwise.

Regardless of how shocking the example above might be, the mind is truly out of the loop when it comes to the body or if you should ever be struck by lightning.

We think the abuser chooses to abuse or that the drunk chooses to over drink.

The true function of mind

Mind can only measure, compare and interpret what the body is experiencing and what the grand illusion of life in movement brings; our minds are truly helpless.

When it tries to pretend to “be the body”, “take over the body” or insist on projecting a false image of self onto others, it only leads to the craziest rides not worth sharing at all.

We like to call this “bad drama” and a lot of existence is. It gives out a horrifying feeling and frequency of disconnection.

Consider that mind cannot bring love, or anything it thinks it wants, inside the body or the heart.

The more awake you are, the more visible it is to you that you have only a relationship to your mind as a tool for creativity and self-expression. The unhealthy signpost is feeling trapped in the mind’s endless scenarios and concerns for controlling and taking charge of who we are, where we are going, how, and with whom in endless fruitless pursuits.

Mind cannot be in control

When existential suffering is induced by the mind, it means we have let it use our strength, which means our innocence and true desires. Mind is trying once again to enter the body and take control of the material plane.

Mind is ethereal after all and has no direct connection to the body. Science studies the brain but is not very outspoken about the mind at all. Our friend Ra Uru Hu used to refer to mind as “brain gas”.

Mind’s only means to control us is through pressure, deception and by trying to emotionalize and motorize everything we come in contact with. As mind measures and compares across the past and the future, it couldn’t possibly know what we need, what we want, what we desire, what we have to say, etc.

Until it is at the service of our body’s inner awareness, mind will remain tense and anxious trying desperately to run the show at ever turn. Conversely, as long as mind is focused on anything BUT you or your life, it provides amazing relief and an extraordinary sense of relaxation.

Relief and relaxation continue when mind stops evaluating and judging your actions and what is happening in your life in order to make decisions for you. It continues to evaluate and judge our actions but you have stopped listening and mind can no longer force you to make decisions based on its measurements.

Right away you become more successful existentially, more satisfied and relaxed on the material plane because you technically switched allegiance.

The “letting go” of needing an acceptable “self-image” amounts to an “ego” death. Whether major or minor, the death of the false ego with its well-intentioned effort to protect the dignity of our imagined self is a shattering. Perhaps it can be described as a breakdown that in effect is a breakthrough. © K. Kabir

True authority

Some examples of instinct-based power of decisions are: respond to life instead of initiating, wait to be invited, while others are here to wait until emotional clarity comes.

They all have “waiting” in common, something that is very difficult. If you’re waiting to respond to life then you’re going to make decisions that are correct for you.

Out of that flowers the potential of awareness and true liberation. You are now trusting life instead of your mind. All you need to do is let life come to you. Honor your instincts, honor a strategy of waiting, and follow the mechanics of your energy.

The Allegory of the Cave

To leave behind the depth of our conditioning to discover who you really are is a transforming experience. A philosopher named Plato sought to dramatize this experience in works like “The Allegory of the Cave”, in which three prisoners have been chained deep inside a cave for their whole life.

They are chained so tightly that all they ever see or experience are the grotesque shadows cast on a wall from a fire that is burning behind them. This is the only reality they have ever known.

Then one day, a prisoner is released. He is blinded by the light outside the cave and astonished to see a completely new reality of people, animals, and objects casting these shadows into the cave.

He scurries back to tell the prisoners the news, but to his dismay, the prisoners do not believe his fantastic stories of the world outside of the cave. For the shadows on the wall are the only reality the prisoners have ever known, and therefore, to them, that is all that will ever exist.

Paradoxically, life is not about searching for all kinds of psychological venues, experiences or depths and going through all kinds of therapies and working on yourself endlessly.

So many people say that they are “working on themselves”. They think they know whom they actually work on! In truth, they are just trapped in their minds without knowing it. © Jovian Archive

The body is consciousness

The body is the proper Atlas. Mind cannot solve existential angst by running the show. Life is not about working on yourself and finding new ways to be in charge.

Life is just about being yourself. For that, you have to disconnect from your mind and surrender to your body’s energy, the only instrumentation that knows where to go and how to get there to fulfill your destiny.

We have come to understand serendipitously that two sets of information were required to illuminate both the conscious and unconscious aspects of our being.

For many years psychologists have been searching to define the unconscious, as clearly over time they’ve discovered people have “hidden” parts.

We ourselves know that as we move through life, more and more people have commented about aspects of ourselves that we’re not aware of, we sometimes call them blind spots.

Over time, we come to accept these aspects of ourselves even though we have no conscious access as to their operation. It has been established for decades that there exists an unconscious nature to each being, which is keyed at a point in our fetal development, as well as our conscious nature, which begins at the moment of our birth. The new information we came across brings the information from the outside, inside and into the body.

The 64 Codons of our DNA would complete our understanding of the relationship between the conscious and the unconscious forming an extraordinary mutative juxtaposition of two separate entities.

To us, it meant that the discoveries and claims made on the “classic” unconscious do not find their answers in the unconscious within one construct (the universal mind) but rather in the body’s brain, which our conscious self does not have direct access to.

Thus, by synthesizing ancient methods with quantum physics and modern genetics, what got revealed is our unique individual place in the larger whole.

The brain is not afraid

Like acupuncture is to meridians in the body, our DNA information acts as doorways to unlocking higher frequencies of participating in the rapture and serendipity of our existence.

The brain isn’t about fear. The brain is an organ, a biological storage vessel for ideas, memories and mapping out the multitude of territories we call reality. It is the mind that is conditioned to be fearful.

It was our ancestors that were fearful and we are their descendants with their baggage to contend with. The moment you renounce the tyrannical authority of your mind, you embark on a great journey to overcome this inherited fear.

You have to breakthrough all of those layers and layers of “I am responsible for myself, my life, the planet, etc.” This is the great trap of mind—“I am responsible. I’m always responsible.”

When you consistently make decisions as yourself, you begin to develop a fearlessness, which opens up these possibilities to watch the beauty of your life unfolding. © Jovian Archive

Note: these articles are essays in intuitive awareness offered as creative inspiration and education about the mind.

Knowledge is power, but self-knowledge is the greatest power.

Science uses intuition to establish new paths of inquiry and advance theories to experiment with. We have synthesized our professional expertise and experience with contemporary scientific knowledge & time-tested techniques to create a wheel of self-knowledge and emotional intelligence.

It is a mapping and very precise methodology we call Quantum Design Mechanics. Think of it as having the technology to very accurately pinpoint key conscious and unconscious aspects of your DNA matrix.

We favor a practical exploration through intuition rather than fit-all or outdated reasoning. My wife Amy and I see ourselves as emotional spirits filtering universal consciousness in the now.

Regardless of circumstances, self-knowledge is a formidable tool designed to help us appreciate our time on this earth, the good, the bad and the ugly, inside the tremendous beauty and mystery of life.

Written by Philippe Stonebeck and inspired by our daily conversations and musings, along with precious insights by Ra Uru Hu, the founder of Jovian Archive, and the recipient of the modern revelation on binary consciousness, also called the Science of Differentiation.

Other contributors: our dear friend, the late J.R. (Randy) Richmond, who has shed much light on our path with his profound knowledge, kindness and exquisite humor. With a very special thank you to the caring expertise of Kumud Kabir and Alokanand Diaz as well as the graciousness and wonderful genius of our friend Mark Volpe.

"My Spirit has Ways of Seeing that my Mind cannot Comprehend."

© Philippe Stonebeck