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Krishnamurti said that liberation comes through understanding the ways of the self. Let me look at that self, ego, or mind.

The mind is a complex spiritual computer which:

(1) Stores memories from the past of things and events significantly related to its owner’s perceived interests and survival;

(2) Watches out for those interests and survival in the present; and

(3) Takes purposive action designed to enhance and protect them in the present and the future.

Considered from the standpoint of the soul, which is who we are (the big-S “Self”), the mind is the epitome of highly-advanced artificial intelligence. Truth be told, every one of our bodies is artificial intelligence. Everything about us is, except the Self (and some would argue that even that is).

The mind is capable of making an object of awareness of anything, including itself. It can think and even talk about things that are distant, invisible, and non-existent.

It can conceptualize and talk about things that, for most of us, have only a theoretical existence, like subatomic particles and numbers. Have you ever seen a number right there in front of you? I haven’t. Does it bother you to talk about something that has no form? Probably not. Thank the mind for those extensions of consciousness.

The most significant thing the mind is lacking is that it lacks a heart. I’ve been unable to find a mind with a heart, save one that has been placed in the service of the heart. It simply lacks it and everything that goes with it – compassion, generosity, mercy. An individual who has those has activated their heart and gained some mastery in conditioning the mind to its direction.

I’m not seeking to turn the mind into a little, grey, squishy thing that we chase around the room. I’m just saying that I consider its usefulness to have limits. I see the need to bring the mind under the heart’s direction. And I have the motivation to do it.

Mine is not yet under the heart’s direction. I’m walking through that process as we speak. And it has to be done because the new call to leadership from Archangel Michael raises the bar again.

I used to ask myself how I could cross the line that separated me from not caring to caring about others. I couldn’t see how it could be done. Not really.

I now see that I couldn’t because my heart was closed and I was only looking from the mind.

The passage from a mind-centered to a heart-centered consciousness is the very thing I was looking for, the very thing that would help with that transition.

Credit: the heartandmindconnection.com

(Concluded from Part 1.)

The mind reacts to things with defensiveness, anger, fear, etc. I asked Archangel Michael in my last reading how I could get on top of my own aggressiveness, my edge. The answer was again to put my anger under the control of love, of my heart:

Archangel Michael: Come back to the love, my brother. This is the most radical treatment in the entire Omniverse.

Steve Beckow: I understand. After the heart opening, I do. I probably wouldn’t have before.

AAM: Let it simply wash away this anger. When you feel that lightning strike, the match being struck, and you think, “here comes the anger,” acknowledge it for what it is: fear.

I will give you a magic word that will extinguish it.

SB: What’s that?

AAM: Michael.

SB: Undoubtedly!

AAM: If you say that, I will immediately be within you.

SB: Wow, radical intervention!

AAM: Yes. (1)

Now that is a friend.

I suspect that living from the mind only, without the mind knowing or serving the heart, is like being poverty-stricken. One is perpetually hungry, wanting, grasping and rejecting. Living from the mind has been described as eating the menu instead of the meal. There’s no experience in it and hence only superficial learning. (2)

Because so many of us live from the mind, it’s said that the progress we make in any one lifetime is not that great.

Living from the heart, and keeping the mind on a short leash, is like living beyond financial concern. The pleasure of the love that comes from the heart makes one forget about things and possessions. Hence financial concern goes out the window from a lack of desire.

Finally, there’s no waiting with love. No lineups. No credit cards. No insiders, galactics and discussion groups. Love is available instantly at a fountain that never runs dry. It’s a permanent feature of some locales, which you and I intend to visit. And maybe live in.

I’m almost sure that leaving the mind behind as a controlling and directing force in my life and looking to the heart for guidance is exactly what I’m looking for. I hear myself asking: “What does the heart say?” I know who planted that idea in my mind.

I’d never have seen any of this before. It wouldn’t have done much good to even tell me about it. Probably many people tried and are happy that I finally got it. (3)

In this new era we live in, archangels can bestow spiritual gifts and by that means came my sudden windfall. It now allows me to see that Archangel Michael’s heart consciousness is for me indeed the answer.

Footnotes

(1) Archangel Michael in a personal reading with Steve Beckow, through Linda Dillon, April 3, 2015. Everything he says here I assert he says to you too.

(2) Knowledge has to move from being intellectual to being experiential, to being realized for there to be motivation to action and lasting benefit.

How many times does it feel like you are the only person in your world who truly cares about sentient life? And if you are the only person who cares, does it really make a difference? YES, it does make a difference.

Every conscious or loving act sends a message out to the universe that it matters. All rivers all start out as a trickle of water from the mountain. It all has to start somewhere. If you don’t care, then who will?

Be the example.

Be the change.

In the ‘Starfish Story’, we look at how EVERY conscious choice, every act of benevolence, does make a difference!

with love,

Trinity

Once upon a time, there was an old man who used to go to the ocean to do his writing. He had a habit of walking on the beach every morning before he began his work. Early one morning, he was walking along the shore after a big storm had passed and found the vast beach littered with starfish as far as the eye could see, stretching in both directions.

Off in the distance, the old man noticed a small boy approaching. As the boy walked, he paused every so often and as he grew closer, the man could see that he was occasionally bending down to pick up an object and throw it into the sea. The boy came closer still and the man called out, “Good morning! May I ask what it is that you are doing?”

The young boy paused, looked up, and replied “Throwing starfish into the ocean. The tide has washed them up onto the beach and they can’t return to the sea by themselves,” the youth replied. “When the sun gets high, they will die, unless I throw them back into the water.”

The old man replied, “But there must be tens of thousands of starfish on this beach. I’m afraid you won’t really be able to make much of a difference.”

The boy bent down, picked up yet another starfish and threw it as far as he could into the ocean. Then he turned, smiled and said, “It made a difference to that one!”

adapted from The Star Thrower
by Loren Eiseley (1907 – 1977)

Trinity Bourne: “The Star Fish Story – Changing the World with Compassion”, March 31, 2015 at http://www.trinityskitchen.com/the-star-fish-story-changing-the-world-with-compassion/