HOW DO I EXPERIENCE ME?

Arrived on earth the very first day, everything was so new to me I cried like hell. Then I came face to face with the being I was within, whose emotional vibrations I knew too well. “This will be my place of comfort”, I said to myself, “As I explore this whole new world.”

This being, whom I was within, is a She, as I later on learned. She took me to her comfort zone and introduced me to everyone in it. I was scared of these so many beings. A few felt like her and a few felt different. But as long as she was with me, I felt safe to be among these beings.

I eventually extended my comfort zone to include these beings that she introduced me to. I also learned that these other beings that didn’t feel like her are a He. I was also a He. Each of these beings is known by a label and responds every time their label is called. I later on learned that this label is known as name. I had a name too.

By then, I had discarded my primary language (but not totally) and adopted these beings’ language. I began to relate the relational concepts I felt among these beings and started calling them Mother, Father, Brother, Sister, Uncle and Aunty, Family and so on and so forth.

I was introduced to a philosophy of how to live life on this planet earth by my Family. I was cautioned that I must strictly follow this philosophy or else something bad will happen to me and that they will be disappointed in me.

I was so zealous to follow the philosophy told to me that I was so totally, 100% into it all. I participated in their Religion and succeeded in the Education system and learned a lot of things about society and the world and world systems that exists on this planet earth. I was living and experiencing life.

Or was I?

A turning point happened within me. For the first time in my life growing up, I began to question myself and everything I learned. In fact there were a whole lot of questions I began to ask. I didn’t know or understood why I was asking a whole lot of questions. The one question that stood out from the rest was “Who Am I?” Whose life am I living?

My family and society became afraid when I starting asking “Who Am I?” They questioned me “Have you gone mad? Have you forgotten the philosophy we strictly told you to follow and to not question? This comfort zone is where you belong. You are this comfort zone and this comfort zone is you? You will surely not progress further in life and die if you leave this comfort zone?”

I told my family, “It is not you I am going against or questioning. It is me. I am questioning myself. Why are you all reacting when it is not you that I am questioning? Aren’t you your own individual and aren’t you responsible for your thoughts, beliefs, choices, actions and destiny?"

And so, I started a revolution, not from the outside, but from within.

I am starting a new journey to experience me and not society’s’.

All Is Mind - Everything is Mental Representation

By Daniel Kasou

Everything that we perceive as real in this universe becomes reality as mental representation. The mind plays a significant role in interpreting the external reality (world). The external environment is perceived through the five physical senses. The mind interprets and gives meaning to the physical world through the sense of sight, hearing, touch, smell and taste. The sensory nervous system composes of the brain, spinal cord and the five physical senses, which could also be regarded as the material extension of the mind to the physical body. The nervous system is critically important as it act as the medium of channeling and transmuting physical (material) sensations into mental-thought forms and vice-versa. This is how billions of information regarding the physical reality can be easily stored and retrieved in the memory banks of our mind.  The memories are merely mental representations of our physical experience stored in the subconscious mind.  Information gathered from the five senses are perceived through the conscious aspect of the mind and then stored in the subconscious.  Hence, our conscious contact with the external world is nothing but the mind making sense of physical reality through the medium of nervous networking system coordinating the body to its mental counterpart.  If our five physical senses were disconnected from the body, the physical world would cease existing in reality but mental existence would still prevail. Every thoughts, ideas and concepts about the material reality is an extension of mental representation - “the consciousness.”

 As a matter of fact, all things and encounters in our livelihood whether favorable or unfavorable are just reflections of our own mental creation. “Your own thoughts, desires, and aspirations comprise your world, and, to you, all that there is in the universe of beauty and joy and bliss, or of ugliness and sorrow and pain, is contained within yourself.” (James Allen). Problems that are created have their roots in the mental constructs and thus, solutions should also be found in the exact place of where it was created. If solutions are thought to be outside of the mind then, it is merely an illusion as the outer world exists because of the existence of the inner world.  Our mind maps the external world through representing those thoughts and images in the mental construct-memory cells. Psychologists had realized that we operate upon the world, not directly, but via a map of the world. It seems amazing that all physical reality (the three dimensional world including time-space continuum) exists via the mind (consciousness) of man interpreting it as real. If that was the case, doesn’t it mean that all situations and conditions that we encounter had their roots in the mind? Absolutely, they are mental representations that extend into physical manifestations.

We give meaning to situations and conditions due to the mental representations (maps) about physical reality. We even make it more complicated by giving names, descriptions, images and definitions to things and situations so we can have fair understanding of them in physical reality. Even such phenomena as corruption, prejudices, crime, poverty, racism etc… exists according to the meaning we give mentally causing their manifestations in physical forms. According to the universal law of cause and effect, the manifestations in physical forms are the effects of the causes in mental forms.  The aim is to deal with the causes to heal the effects.  Any best effort to deal directly with the effects externally are doomed to failure as it is like running through a brick wall with expectations of shattering the brick layers. If you are a person who always pursues to fight against corruption, crime, violence etc, I bet you to understand and fully embrace the principles discussed so you may heal the effects through dealing with the causes. We must also understand the law of polarity; everything is duality in nature- the opposing degree in nature (good & bad, pain & relief, war & peace etc.) If we think such situation is bad and set our focus on how bad it is, then we shall expand more of how bad it is. The required approach, is when you see things as bad or not good, change your focus on its opposite (i.e. good) and always work mentally to change its external (physical) result. See the end result as your wish by focusing on the optimistic state and keep working on that alone and not on the negative side of the coin.

The famous Mother Teresa saw evil and suffering in this world and devotes herself in sharing peace in her mission to those in need.  We might believe that she was driven by the pain that cause these sufferings, however; it was the other way around-she was motivated by love-“the unconditional love.” It is through love that the universe and man was created and in order to restore the order of creation man has to embrace the same essence of which, he was created. Any other means besides would result in chaos (suffering). Therefore; if individual differences, corruption, violence, crime etc…still persist in Papua New Guinea no matter how hard we try to fight against, we might be looking and fixing our minds at the wrong side. “Change the way you look at things and the things that you look at would change.”(Dr. Wayne. W.Dyer) Also quoted, “I think today the world is upside down, and there is suffering so much because there is so very little love in the home, and in family life.” (Mother Teresa) Do bear in mind that the outer world is merely the reflection of the inner and change starts from an individual and then extends to others. Everything has its roots in the consciousness (mind), seek and you shall find.