I am reading, "The Untethered Soul - The Journey beyond Yourself" by Michael Singer. Here are a few paragraphs that I find so remarkable as to how it is that we are not all seeing the same thing. Our minds are concocting a story first.
"Take a moment to examine the difference between your experience of the outside world and your interactions with the mental world. When you’re just thinking, you’re free to create whatever thoughts you want in your mind, and these thoughts are expressed through the voice. You are very accustomed to settling into the playground of the mind and creating and manipulating thoughts. This inner world is an alternate environment that is under your control. The outside world, however, marches to its own laws. When the voice narrates the outside world to you, those thoughts are now side by side, in parity, with all your other thoughts. All these thoughts intermix and actually influence your experience of the world around you. What you end up experiencing is really a personal presentation of the world according to you, rather than the stark, unfiltered experience of what is really out there. This mental manipulation of the outer experience allows you to buffer reality as it comes in. For example, there are myriad things that you see at any given moment, yet you only narrate a few of them. The ones you discuss in your mind are the ones that matter to you. With this subtle form of preprocessing, you manage to control the experience of reality so that it all fits together inside your mind. Your consciousness is actually experiencing your mental model of reality, not reality itself."
"Basically, you re-create the outside world inside yourself, and then you live in your mind. What if you decided not to do this? If you decide not to narrate and, instead, just consciously observe the world, you will feel more open and exposed. This is because you really don’t know what will happen next, and your mind is accustomed to helping you. It does this by processing your current experiences in a way that makes them fit with your views of the past and visions of the future. All of this helps to create a semblance of control. If your mind doesn’t do this, you simply become too uncomfortable. Reality is just too real for most of us, so we temper it with the mind." Michael Singer
The reasons we believe our minds, is that we want to stay in control of the world. And I believe, that those of us who were abused as children, hide further in the mind, that we truly don't want to see reality, for reality is terror.
To stop the words and thoughts imposing on reality seems like child's play...but try it. Try entering each moment silently without a thought.
What happened to me, is that the voices who were transposing reality were found out to be frauds. I had lived my whole 46 years in my mind...never once seeing what was really going on. My mind transposed a literal word world for me, and I believed it. I was in reality with my body, but living in my mind.
Each of us, who have been abused and who can't see that the abusers as an abuser and not a father or mother, sister, brother and friend...are living in their minds.
The difference between stepping out in the raw world without a mind first is to see what is...as it is. Making no excuses or going to your mind for a nicer cover. Just to let things be as they are...raw.
From my experience with my family and the FALC, is that very few are actually living outside of their minds. In fact, if you live in your mind, you can pretend to have life exactly as you wish. You can bless away any sin and return that man back into a father, you can have 'forgiveness' by staying in your mind...and never stepping into reality.
When you live in your mind, you don't even know that you are not in reality...the mind will not let you get there, for its task you assigned it was to create a dialogue to keep you from here.
Just like in the big malls, there is a map and then a spot, "You are Here."
The new challenge for humanity is to go out of their minds and into reality.
