THE THREE LEVELS. |
The three levels of Consciousness. The Conscious, the Subconscious and the Higher Intelligence. The Conscious Mind. Imagine, which I know you can, that the Conscious Mind is one room of three. The other two being the Subconscious and the Higher Intelligence. In this Conscious Room sits an imaginary, little man, or lady, if you prefer and he or she sits in this windowless environment, surrounded by a mass of instruments. There are TV type monitors connected up to the eyes so that he can 'see' everything the eyes see. There are loud speakers so that he can 'hear' what your ears can hear. There is a microphone connected to your voice box so that he can make you speak through your mouth. There are numerous other dials and knobs that can all be used to control and monitor touch and sensations and the variety of other things that surround your body while you are awake and going about your waking business. For this little guy only works when you are awake. When you sleep, he sleeps. Not like his pal next door. So everything and that is everything, that happens within your surroundings and to you, while you are awake, this guy is aware of and it has been calculated, somewhere, that you can have up to half a million new experiences every single day. Things that you have not seen, heard or sensed ever before and I suppose, thinking about it, one of the first of the day must be waking up to a new and different day. So that little fellow, or charming lady, is one hell of a busy person but still not as busy as his colleague next door. So what about this chap next door? The Subconscious. Another windowless room, in which sits a poor guy who never sleeps. (He, as does Higher Intelligence, survives on shots of adrenalin.) He is kept at it every single second of your entire life. When he packs up you are history. You have gone to wherever and whatever, but as far as this world and this life are concerned, you are no more. So what does he do? He sits and collects information and then either issues instructions or presses, pulls, pushes or flicks, one or several buttons, levers, knobs and switches, that literally surround him, depending on what he wants to achieve or cause to happen relative to information received and knowledge stored in his massive filing cabinets. High on his control panel are several very important switches, that are just out of his reach, and would only be touched, by standing up on his chair, in the event of catastrophe brought about by a systems failure or in a dire emergency. For example, sitting up there, are those switches that control the heart beat and need to be permanently switched on. As does the one that controls breathing and any of the other automatic functions that need to operate, without interruption, day and night. You know the type of thing? All those necessary for your continued survival and all with control lights and dials attached to them, that our man has to constantly monitor. This little chap is constantly at it, is often under extreme pressure, and even when there might be the opportunity to ease up a little, say during the night or during periods of relatively little or no activity, he automatically turns to his daydream and/or dream machine and operates that. Higher Intelligence. The maintenance man; the IT technician; the DIY man; the make do and mend man. You name it and the occupant of this third room, which has no direct access to the outside world, has to do it all. He has to do his best, with the equipment he has been given, (that with which you were born), to operate and maintain all the equipment used and needed by the other two. Sadly as human beings have evolved he has been lumbered with a vast array of complex equipment, that ranges (and here I use recognisable every day items purely for illustration purposes and ease of understanding), from string and nails, used before electric wiring and fuse boards and circuit breakers, came along, (as we crawled out of caves, or thereabouts) to fibre optics and state of the art computers and several back up units. But despite the fact that the human brain is far superior to its material counter part, the PC or Mainframe, it is also prone to similar problems. It can and does crash and we know that because when it does, it is often given a medical label such as 'Nervous breakdown.' It can freeze and people will pass out. The Software is often suspect and that brings us very close to the whole basis of our current study. But not yet as you are presently concerned with the functioning and terms of reference of the three levels. So with several manuals in one hand and a vast array of soldering irons, bits of wire, fuses and very few spare parts of any value, our man, in Higher Intelligence, can only do his best and do it with what he has, and most of the time he does do a brilliant job. So how do they come together and, supposedly, work in your best interests? They communicate, but often not as efficiently as perhaps they should, and that is why people have problems and are prepared to hear me out. Why you and I are working together now to try and solve some of these problems. So now let us consider and understand how and why they communicate. The 'why' is simple. They do it because they are designed to do it and because they are a collective and integral part of your very 'being.' They need to do it for you to survive. So how? For this you need to go back to the three rooms and take another close look at those. Remember there are three of them and you may have imagined that they were side by side. Fine! But lets just change that a little to make things easier to follow. Imagine, if you will, that Conscious is on the left side with Subconscious, next to it, on the right side and finally Higher Intelligence, in a larger room, is perched on top of them. Higher Intelligence is upstairs, if you like, but there is no staircase. Higher Intelligence is sealed in, with no means of getting either in or out, nor has anyone or anything direct access to him. He can only be accessed via the great mass of wiring and tubing that spills out of the innumerable holes in the walls and cascades down, like spaghetti, before disappearing through the walls and into the room occupied by Subconscious. Nothing of importance or value, to our present argument, goes from Higher Intelligence to Conscious. Inside Subconscious all the wiring, that comes down from upstairs, is connected to all the instruments, buttons and levers that clutter the place. Conscious, on the other hand and quite independently, has an ingenious method of communicating with Subconscious and thereafter leaves all communication with Higher Intelligence to him. Conscious has, on his desk, a large scrap pad, a note pad, and so anything he wants to communicate to Subconscious, he does so by scribbling a quick and very brief note. He then rolls back, in his swivel chair, reaches up to a very tiny chute, set in the wall, and pushing the note through the flap allows it to go down and fall out onto the floor of the room occupied by Subconscious. That is their prime method of communication and it is virtually all one way, from Conscious to Subconscious. Nothing, or very little, comes back the other way except speech. Speech is the only thing that Subconscious can pass back to Conscious for him to use when vocal chords are activated. But back to Subconscious. Subconscious reads the note and then according to the information received, turns dials, pulls levers or presses buttons. If Higher Intelligence, upstairs, has got it programmed right then the appropriate response will be automatic. However if it is something new and strange and Subconscious starts pull all sorts of levers in an attempt to deal with it, Higher Intelligence will be aware of this fact and he will have to jump up and attend to it. Referring to the manual as and when necessary. So with that rather crude, yet effective, picture in mind why does it not work, if that is what I am suggesting? Indeed that is just what I am suggesting, it does not always work as it should. Otherwise if it did work perfectly, then none of us would have any problems, would we? So once again and still keeping it as simple as I possibly can, let us look at some of the issues, for illustration purposes, of why things often don't quite work out as we hoped they would. The hardest part to come to terms with here, is to understand that the areas of the mind that create dissatisfaction and physical disease are part and parcel of the same set-up that produces satisfaction and ease. (The difference in both cases being that DIS, that we mentioned way back at the beginning). So that is something that needs to be clarified and fully understood. |
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Conventional Cure Physical Well-being Healthy Body Healthy Mind Perfect Health Happiness Health Self Body Mind Therapy. Complimentary Complementary Mental Weight Loss Weight Control. |
Retired Therapies Teaching Self-help Analysis Philosopher Psychologist Scarborough North Yorkshire. Yorkshire UK. Conventional Medicine. Alternative Philosophy |
Body Mind Therapy. Complimentary Complementary Mental Weight Loss Weight Control. |
Retired Therapies Teaching Self-help Analysis Philosopher Psychologist Scarborough North Yorkshire. Yorkshire UK. Conventional Medicine. Alternative Philosophy Conventional Cure Physical Well-being Healthy Body Healthy Mind Perfect Health Happiness Health Self |
Retired Therapies Teaching Self-help Analysis Philosopher Psychologist Scarborough North Yorkshire. Yorkshire UK. |
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Retired Therapies Teaching Self-help Analysis Philosopher Psychologist Scarborough North Yorkshire. Yorkshire UK. Conventional Medicine. Alternative Philosophy Conventional Cure Physical Well-being Healthy Body Healthy Mind Perfect Health Happiness Health Self |
