Consciousness and the creation of the mental body [IF56-6focus]

From what I said earlier it appears that io attribute a minor role to culture. You could not think anything more wrong: culture is an important acquisition for every human being because it provides him with the tools to better understand, through the appropriate use of his mental body, what he lives.

Moreover, as I mentioned earlier, it provides logical, entangled chains, possibilities of comparison, of connection, of comparison with what others have said or done over the centuries and which, perhaps, he has never experienced.

If we took an evolved and made him live a life located in a culturally very poor environment, theoretically he would be an individual who lives a life among the most unhappy and useless because he would lack the means to express his evolutionary level (even if, as always happens in every incarnation, theevolution personal is expressed only in a limited way with respect to the real evolution possessed).

This is true only theoretically, though, and I would like to explain why.
First of all, every individual who incarnates does so in the time and place most suited to expressing his or her evolutionary level.

Secondly, you must not think that your culture is given only by what you have learned in the course of your current life: the concept of culture it should be considered, in fact, much broader and more complex, and should embrace all that the individual has learned and known in the course of his various lives.

In fact, what has been experienced and learned during the various incarnations has not been lost but has left, within the Akasic body of the individual, those important and irreplaceable traces that we have defined understandings and which are essential to the constitution. and to the enlargement of consciousness, of feel of the individual and, consequently, of his evolution.

In other words: if it can be affirmed that the brain of the newborn, in the first moments of life, can be considered a "tabula rasa" (ie devoid of knowledge), the same cannot be said for the mental body which, due to its proximity to the Akasic body that "manages" its constitution, he easily finds the connections with what he has learned and understood in previous lives, giving rise to a basis on which the new incarnated individual will add the new knowledge and understandings that he will encounter in the course of his life that he will have to live.

This explains certain "inclinations" of the individual: for example, those who have spent a lifetime studying music can, in subsequent lives, show a particular ease with regard to everything related to music, finding in sé unsuspected abilities or particular learning speed (it would be better to say relearning!) in that area.

Let us not forget that the mental body is certainly constituted according to the evolutionary needs of the individual in the course of the life he goes on to live, however collecting the type of mental matter that the evolution reached (and therefore also the knowledge) allows him to attract to himself.

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To say - as is sometimes said - that the Akasic body "orders" the constitution of a particular mental body can, perhaps, be misleading: it is probably more accurate to say that the mental body is constituted, at each incarnation, thanks to the vibratory stimuli of the needs to understand Akasic in such a way that preeminence is given to the collection of that type of mental matter that can be more valid in helping, in fact, to reach the understandings that the Akasic feels the lack of.

Let's try to make a practical example.
Suppose the individual to be incarnated needs to understand that culture is not the most important thing in life.

Under the pressure of Akasic vibrations there can be - so as not to complicate things too much - at least two different possibilities (remember, of course, that we are simplifying things a lot: there is never just one vibratory factor of akasic demand, but multiple, and they combine to give life to an akasic body that responds to all these multiple factors depending on the urgency or the importance of things to understand).

In a first case the mental body mainly collects matter from the higher mental subplanes, the more rarefied and reasoning ones, thus providing the individual who is born with a mental body led to know, to correlate, to compare, that is, led to make the so-called "Human intelligence" is the pivot, the engine of one's existence.

It is evident that, having a mental body of this kind, his life will be led towards the experimentation of his own mental abilities with the temptation to consider them the main means to act in the days. This could lead him to the understanding that reasoning, culture, knowledge alone are not enough to make the individual better.

In a second case instead, the exact opposite could happen: the mental body is constituted (under the pressure of other needs considered by the akasic probably primary) by collecting matter from the densest subplanes of the mental, those to which instinctive life and physiological reactivity belong and physics.

In this case the individual would not have the right “intelligence” to deal more than so much with culture and knowledge, but could come to understand their usefulness and necessity in certain aspects of life; so he could come to realize - as in the other hypothesis we made - that the individual needs all his components and that when he uses only one to the detriment of the others he creates a disharmony and, therefore, a greater difficulty of understanding for the Akasic who receives partial data, hardly connected to the others that reach him, causing him to postpone the vibrations of requesting more useful information to a later life.

All this means that it can happen, absurdly, that the highly evolved individual does not have a mental body such as to shine for "intelligence" in the eyes of other men who observe him.

This still means that (we have already mentioned it previously, but being an element whose understanding is basic I want to repeat it) it is difficult to judge the evolution of an embodied individual on the basis of how he behaves in the course of life because, certainly, it does not show all the evolution it possesses but only the one that manages to make its way into the materials that make up, at that moment, its transitory bodies.

I can only address the advocates of knowledge by reminding them that, as the Guides often say, knowing does not mean having understood.

If this were the case, the way to the Truth would be very simple and well defined: it would be enough to read for a lifetime, storing data after data.

Certainly having a well-articulated base of knowledge helps the mental body to structure well, in turn, the data that come from physical experience but are not enough to give it an understanding of what it is experiencing. And this is demonstrated by the "reckless" or unintelligent "life of many of the so-called" geniuses "of science.

To those who are anxious to know, in the hope of making it easier to understand, I say instead that understanding is not a mathematical formula: I insert knowledge and derive understanding from it!

Many times the knowledge is wrong, it is incomplete, it is illusory, it is in contrast with each other, so that it is legitimate to say that it is better to know a little and get a little but heartfelt understanding from it, rather than knowing a lot and, perhaps, not getting any. .

To those who seek, however, to know the Supreme Truth I remember that the road towards it is built on the bricks made up of little everyday understandings and that every little daily understanding forgotten behind in the search for the supreme Truth does nothing but make this Truth more distant, unattainable and impossible to understand even if not to know.

But knowledge - and I remind everyone of this - alone is not enough to give evolution. Andrea