Where is Mind?

 https://off-guardian.org/2020/08/14/the-new-normal-covert-moral-enhancement-for-coronavirus-defectors/#comment-222986 

Where is 'mind'? You may locate it in your body, your head, your heart or even your gut but who or what locates it - but mind?

There is no outside to what Mind is - yet clearly we are in relational expression of meaning shared - where is it shared? What is is that is shared and knows itself alive?

The fragmentation or split of mind can be called 'separation trauma'

The masking of a persona serves to hide, limit and dissociate from or split from a sense of fear, attack and death or loss. You say you never gave energy to the expression of hate in rage, but I say this is how we willingly deny and forget the love that we are under the 'mind' of self justification.

If everything has all the meaning you give it, for you, then nothing of itself in your world has built in meaning. This is to say, that there are always other ways of looking at any event, situation, encounter or object - and you are thus Mind - under conditions that can be called conditionings or 'normalisation'.

We live in our conditioned human world or experience as victims of circumstance, unaware of our own core beliefs and definitions that run invisible to a surface reality of their effects. Garbage in; garbage out - pertains. But we live the result of conflicted mind set in hate or grievance, masked in virtue, or stripped away to its 'underlying pattern of self-blinding attack and defence' that must be denied in order to maintain the face of control against death.

But is that really life? Or is it a reiteration of an ancient script that robs us of a life in spirit and in freedom of shared being?

We live in Life - and our experience of self, world and other is known or received and shared in awareness. The model of life and world we have developed, adapted to, and grown as a consciousness and cultural expression of abilities has been predicated upon a 'separating from Self or Life', under fear and control given authority.

That I write this as an articulation should not take away from an awareness of the nature and expression of fear as a 'dispossession of Self' to a fearful and contested sense of lack seeking possession and control. For the most part, we live or maintain conscious focus, in such a way as to limit and deny fear, behind and beneath a masking that the mind is invoked to provide as protection. But this 'mind' is the same sense of lack, possession and control that confused itself in image and form to set itself in idol or ideal that Life then seems to break, reject, abandon, attack, betray, invalidate, shame and deny.

This is asking the power we gave to illusions , to save us from the consequence of our identity investment in illusions. Self-deceit thus operates AS IF set over and apart from others as a sense of self specialness, seeking and finding the justifications or witnesses to its claim to judge as if from a mind set outside and over the Living - indeed an 'alien will'. While you WANT this, it is your freedom to have its experience - even though the experience is of being done to, opposed, hated, denied, persecuted, rejected - but in truth and simply - unseen, unknown and unloved.

None of this will fit into a world of conflict set in reaction, nor would anyone engaged in conflict have the moment of awareness to notice, recognise, welcome and appreciate its implications. How we perceive must set the range or frame of response, and what we think - or better the thoughts accepted true of us in the moment of relationship - express in action - expressed or repressed, directly or indirectly.

The 'normal' of perception-response, is a conditioned subconscious routine that runs automatically as if a life of its own - and as if your own life. The complexity of applied judgement and masking in hindsight - even in the split second after an act, can reframe the sense of self in an instant to re-cast its own act in self-judging guilt and mask such guilt as a plausibly deniable self justification with insider versions for its own processing, and outer masking presentations for social reinforcement and acceptably 'passing off'.

So what's new? We have minds that are ingenious and yet cast us into impossible scenarios, that call on ever more layers of denial to 'survive' in - and which deny us the awareness of freedom by their uniquely profiled patterning to our own self-protective fear and defence. A defence that persists 'attack' as a masking displacement model, that feeds upon the very light and life it MUST deny to 'survive' as the face of control set over feared and demonised 'chaos' of loss.

Fear operates as belief and is acted from as true - unless owned and brought to awareness. This is no less so when fears are 'rationalised away' or masked over. Masking to hide is a mindset to hide in.

Mind as authority or coercive control is persisted in until it is put aside and walked out of. A Living Will is discerned in the heart of willingness and welcome. Free of coercion and reactive opposition.

To know and be truly known.

Let there be light.