Reclusland

But how does this tie into my recent series insights? (continued from here)

Nice of you to ask…  =)

What this all boils down to is the realization that the best way to prepare for future problems is to practice being as aware of the present moment as possible.  It is only in the present moment that any “true” anxiety/fear/suffering arises, and it’s only in dealing with this “true” suffering that we can ever hope to find its roots, detach them, and begin emptying our “glass”.

But if creating illusory experiences with the mind is not helpful, is the mind good for anything?  Should we just go back to being animals?

No.  I’m not saying imagination/memory is a bad thing, just that it needs to be repurposed.  We haven’t yet been able to successfully integrate our mind with our other sensory apparatus.

The mind is meant to be used to become aware of the potentials around us. When we are fully in touch with the information streaming at us from our present reality, the mind falls into the background and keeps track of the pathway-possibilities that arise outwards through time-space, away from the matrix of information that makes up our here-and-now reality.

When we are fully present, the mind is freed to track the potential quantum possibility waves around us (which exit in the 5th dimension outside of the linear 4th dimensional time-line) and we can more accurately guide our awareness-vehicle through time-space toward ever improving possibilities.

It is a continual cultivation of potential that, when properly used, builds a wave which lifts us (and everyone we’re involved with) in the direction of God/truth/goodness/beauty, all of which, I maintain, can best thought thought of as a direction within the higher dimensions, and that the movement in this direction is what fulfills the task for which all of creation was brought into existence (whatever that might actually be).

To be prepared is to be aware.  Nothing else matters as much as that.