Who Do You Think You Are?
by Richard Shining Thunder Francis
Electrifying and ecstatic, mind-boggling and sweet: This is how people have, from the beginning of time, described
the mystical experience-- the foundation of every great spiritual system in existence.
A close study of this altered state has given rise to an entirely new Way of life. This Way has many names-- Buddhism,
Taoism, Gnosticism, Sufism, and others. But it can be applied by anyone in everyday practical life-- including
atheists and agnostics.
For mystical psychology has answers to deep, ultimate questions that have confounded traditional religion and psychology.
It is a psychospiritual, metaphysical system of understanding that sees the Mind as consisting of many layers or
levels.
The unconscious mind, specifically, can be divided into two major sections: the subconscious and the superconscious.
These are both embedded very deeply in Mind, and express themselves through the actions, attitudes, and behavior
of the conscious mind.
Who do you think you are? Your answer to this question determines everything in your life. But the answer of mystical
psychology is stunning. For, it says, you are not your ego or name. You are not your body; you are not even your
mind.
Instead, you are the very One who is currently dreaming up the cosmos. Yes, it says that the entire world is a
dream. Illumination or enlightenment consists largely in awakening to this one single, crucial fact.
Living in a dream-world is a very different experience from living in a world of independent and random objects
and events. It has profound effects on psychology. Its total and final effect is to metamorphose one into a new
kind or order of being altogether. Upon realization that the world is a product of Mind, one is no longer simply
Homo sapiens, but Homo spiritualis.
Spiritual people who have had the illuminative or mystical experience hold one factor to be of extreme, ultimate,
supreme value in life, and that is the component called "universal love." If the world is a multiplex
mirror reflecting the Self everywhere, as is true of any dream, then, in order to love oneself entirely, it is
necessary to discover, cultivate, and nourish love for the entire world. This can occur only through the development
of detachment and a mindfulness of one's own thoughts and assumptions.
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