The origin of thought is not in the mental body [IF62focus]

If you remember, we had pointed out that desire does not arise on the astral body, but it manifests within it, right? And its genesis was placed in another portion of reality.

Now io I would add something more to all this (let's leave aside the concept of desire and stop at emotions): in reality the emotions that the individual feels do not arise from the astral body... and with this I think I will completely upset you!

This is the basic concept that you have not understood: emotions are not created by the astral body, they are consequences of what the astral body experiences, can you see the difference?

Hence the astral body in itself gives sé given that it cannot create anything at all: for emotions to be put into action, that must be there circle of energies running through the lower bodies and which is fueled by the needs of understanding of the Akasic body, that is, of consciousness. If this push were not present, the astral body would not have the possibility of vibrating in such a way as to obtain that effect which is called emotion.

So, of course, as we have said in the past, the astral body is in charge of emotions and desires, but is in charge of exteriorization, to the manifestation of emotions and desires, because it has such a matter that reacts to a certain type of vibration; just for this, not because the astral body, by itself, creates the emotions and desires.

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Now as far as the mental body is concerned you have not understood exactly the exact same thing: the mental body does not create thoughts, absolutely, and if you had thought this, creatures, you were very wrong! The mental body has a type of matter that processes the impulses coming from the Akasic body, from its needs for experience and, since it reacts to a certain type of vibration that creates logical concatenations, thoughts are formed from these logical concatenations, but the mental body by itself, as it happened with the astral body, does not think. Had any of you come to understand this aspect of the matter? It seems like no! This is a very important point to keep in mind.

Q - Thoughts, can they be born, have the impulse from the physical plane even before it has determined an effect on the Akasic plane, or does it take the full circle, always?

It is not possible that there is only a half circle, there may be the returning vibration that feeds a chain of thought that was already present within the mental bodyHowever, we keep in mind that, however it may be, all three lower bodies live, act and react under the impulses of the akasic body, so there is never anything that happens in the lower bodies that is disconnected from the akasic body. And the birth of what happens to the three lower bodies is always and in any case located within the Akasic body of the individual.

You will say: "There are, however, the influences of the external environment ... how do they fit into this picture?" This, creatures, it is very simple to understand how they fit: just observe yourself in everyday life, in the moments of every day you live: how many times do you find yourself in front of particular situations or facts that also slip on you without even noticing them?

This is because, evidently, under the impulses that come from your Akasic body, noticing, underlining or entering into the context of what was under your eyes as a possible experience at that moment, was not interesting and, therefore, it can be deduced that even the external physical environment can affect the lower bodies of the individual only when this influence enters the sphere of interest, of understanding the body of consciousness.

Now I would not want to go into much into the merits of a didactic or scholastic explanation of how the individual's mental body is composed and structured ... also because there will then be the "simplified" teaching part, which for the Ananda meetings this year will focus on right on the mental body, and in which we will give some element of the mechanics, of the functions of what happens, in general, in the mental body of the individual.

Instead, I would like to dwell for a moment on some concepts that must serve as the basis for the continuation of my tiring speech: lately it has been mentioned the division of the mental body into lower mental body and higher mental body. This, it seems to me almost useless to repeat it to you, is a continuing to find those elements of the "so high, so low" that in all these years we have always encountered in examining reality, as we unfold it before your eyes .

In fact, even in this case it is possible to examine the mental body by images, once again associating it with the famous image of the hourglass, in which there is a lower part - the one closest to the astral body -, an upper part - the one closest to the body. akasico - and, finally, this central pivot around which the whole mental body rotates a little in its various reactions. Remember this example that was done some time ago?

We have had to do this subdivision (even if we have not insisted much, over the years, on the subdivisions within each plane of existence, therefore on the various subplanes and so on, because all in all they are only mental cognitions and very little can help. if you do not enter into deep and learned - but also boring - disquisitions), because it could help you understand all the discourse that will concern the archetypes.

In this regard, I have heard some of you have doubts about some sentences that I have uttered at a distance of time from each other; now, in reality, the speech is linked to what was said at the beginning. It has been noted by some of you that I have stated that the archetypes reside within the akasic plane, while, lately, it has been stated that the transient archetypes they existed within the mental plane, the mental body to be precise, and that caused a moment of bewilderment in some of you, didn't it?

Now, if you think about what has been said before about emotions regarding the astral plane, and about thoughts about the mental body, you can easily find an answer to this apparent contradiction: in fact, when I stated that the archetypes exist inside the mental body, I meant «they exist» precisely in the sense of «they have existence» not that they reside; it seems to me that there is quite a difference between "reside" and "exist", right? Hence it was meant to mean that within the mental body of individuals there is a part of the mental body from which what we have defined transitory archetypes take shape, take existence.

D - Then the transitory archetypes come into existence residing on the Akasic plane?

Exactly. Now, however, we don't want you to be very fixated on the localization of things: we have always said that when we theoretically divided reality into planes, subplanes, lower and higher and so on, they were only schematizations used to help your mental capacity. to understand the arguments, but - in reality - things are not that simple, they are not even that easily separable from each other!

And always keep this in mind, please, because otherwise, you run the risk of discussing for hours and hours about something completely irrelevant as it can be if the transitory archetypes are located on the lower seventh subplane of the akasic body or on the sixth: it has no primary importance, the important thing for these things that go so far beyond your normal, daily, general and cultural knowledge is to understand the basic concept and have as much as possible an idea of together of what the situation is and the way in which Reality is structured.

D - It was said that the "thinker" is on the Akasic plane, and that he can be assimilated to the "mind". IS right or wrong?

It can be right and it can be wrong! It's not a way to get away from the question, it just depends on the point of view from which the thing is observed. I would say that, in principle, the thinker can be imagined in the akasic body, as it is precisely this body that sets in motion, with its needs, the constitution of thoughts inside the mental body.

This is if we stop to observe the individual in his lower part and in that pivot of his constitution which is precisely the Akasic body; of course this exists circle that unites the Akasic body and the lower bodies, in which thoughts within the mental body are also born.

But let's not forget, however, that there is also another circle: the one that circulates inside the other part of the hourglass of individuality and not only of the individual, that is, the one that goes precisely from the spark to the Akasic body and brings the thrusts from the spark to the Akasic body which in turn sends the energies back and forth, creating and receiving impulses and in turn feeding the lower circle.

It is a very complicated thing, obviously. So if you look from the side of the Be (or Scintilla, ed), one realizes that, after all, the free thinker is the Self, he is no longer the akasic body, because the akasic body, in turn, thinks or causes thoughts to be created on the mental body as a result of what comes from the Self.

If we then wanted to observe (still with a moment more breadth, climbing to the top of the mountain) all this highly complex set of situations, we would realize that not even the Self is the true thinker but that the true thinker can be none other than the Absolute , who, despite his immobility, has thought of everything that exists! As you can see, the conclusions of what we arrive at always depend on the point of view from which what we are trying to deduce is observed.

Let's go back to the mental body. Why the need to emphasize the division between higher mental and lower mental? In the meantime, for something very important, for the consequences that will come later. And then to show you the difference in action of the matter of the higher mental body from that of the lower mental body.

The lower mental body (and, by convention, as inferior we define the one closest to the astral body), reasons, puts together thoughts, gives shape to thoughts, through - as we said - a deductive process: one plus one equals two. But how does it do it?

It does so through the cognitions possessed by the embodied individual, and it does so through words or images; therefore something concrete that belongs to his everyday life and that you have repercussions within your terminal, your brain, so you identify your thought as being located in this organ which, in reality, does nothing else than to act as an intermediary between what is processed in the mental body and what must reach the conscience in order to arrive at manifesting itself on the physical plane, so that the individual draws juice from the experience he has.

In the higher mental body, on the other hand, the processes that are put in place are of a different type: they are processes that are no longer based on words, on images, but rather processes that are put into action through symbols, then through something abstract, to something less easily grasped by your understanding within the physical plane. There is therefore this different dichotomy of work on the part of the two parts of the mental body which complement each other in their internal circle, giving shape and patterns and covering with superstructures that passage of vibration which then becomes the thought.

I can anticipate that the lower mental is connected to what are the transient archetypes, and the higher mental, on the other hand, is connected to those who are the permanent archetypes. You will say: «why? ". But you will know her answer at a next opportunity. Scifo