I was never told, nor had I discovered in any of my college books that mental action is really a rate of vibration and that a higher state of vibration governs, modifies, controls, and can actually destroy a lower rate of vibration. This rate of vibration is governed by the character of the brain cells that we choose to create.
It slowly became obvious to me that in order to comprehend the possibilities of changing one's level of consciousness one had first to destroy or at least control all negative thoughts, which are such a powerful force in closing off our minds to new thoughts. There is a mind in every atom of the body. Each cell is endowed as a living organism, with sufficient intelligence to perform its necessary duties. It is also endowed with sufficient intelligence to conserve the energies and perpetuate its own life.
Each cell is born, reproduces itself, dies, and is absorbed. The maintenance of health and life is dependent upon the constant regeneration of these cells. This is the mind in every atom of the body, and this mind is negative mind. It is the power of the individual to think that makes him positive so that he can control his negative mind. Indeed this is also the scientific explanation for metaphysical healing and will enable anyone to understand the principle upon which this remarkable phenomena rests.
It is obvious to all of us that all things have their origin in the mind and appearances are the result of thought. Each man is a reflection of the thought he has entertained during his lifetime. Yet strange as it may seem, there are many men who are not yet ready to enter into the discipline necessary to think correctly, even though it is self evident that wrong thinking has brought failure. But in my own personal search, all the material I read and all the great thinkers I ferreted out and all the hours, and indeed weeks, and months I spent in India and other parts of the world, failed to give me the secrets of the gigantic jigsaw puzzle I sought. I did not know if it was my own lack of consciousness which made it impossible for me to totally grasp what I was reading, or what they were saying, or whether they were deliberately giving out only scraps of information to whet my appetite.
True seekers soon realize that many Eastern books have lost much in their translation. One even gets the impression that the Western mind is deliberately led off the track, because the knowledge has been hidden. Yet all Eastern mysticism attempts to teach you to increase your level of consciousness and all any author can really do is attempt, through the quality of his own brain cells, to refine the material he has read and accumulated and pass it on to the reader in the most coherent manner possible.
The more we search and the more we travel, the more we realize that the search is an inner one, not an external one. As long as we think it is external, we can never find it and therefore whether we call it meditation or simply sitting quietly in a silent room and concentrating in the beginning on a word, which can simply be your name or love, or God, we discover by sitting quietly, with our backs straight and using the word to still the mind, that this is the beginning of cooling down the body and starting to realize the possibility of expanded consciousness. It is like the peeling away of onion skins. It is very subtle. It happens slowly and without a quiet twenty minutes each day we cannot change, even subtly, our present level of consciousness. We can read all the books we can find, but all they do is stimulate the mind into possibilities bringing us hopefully to a point where our desire is strong enough to carry us to accepting new knowledge.
To Be Continued...
OVE alone is eternal and unconquerable.
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