In Mental Dynamics we need to know how and why the mind functions.
Unquestionably, the mind is an instrument which we should learn to use consciously. But it would be absurd for such an instrument to be efficient if we first did not know the how and why of the mind.
When one knows the how and the why of the mind, when one knows the different functionalisms of the mind, one can control it and the latter becomes a useful and perfect instrument, a marvellous instrument through which we can work for the benefit of humanity.
Truly, one needs a realistic system if we really want to know the potential of the human mind.
In these times, many systems abound for the control of the mind. There are those who think that certain artificial exercises can be magnificent for the control of the mind. There are schools; much theory exists about the mind, many systems exist, but, how would it be possible to make something useful of the mind? Let us reflect that if we do not know the how and the why of the mind, we will not be able to get the latter to be perfect.
We need to know the different functionalisms of the mind if we want the latter to be perfect. How does it function? Why does it function? That how and why are definitive.
If, for example, we throw a stone into a lake, we will see that waves are formed, these are the reactions of the lake, of the water, against the stone. Similarly, if someone tells us an ironic word, this word reaches the mind and the mind reacts against such a word; conflicts then follow.
The entire world is in problems, the entire world lives in conflicts. I have carefully observed the debate panels of many organizations, schools, etc.; they do not respect each other. Why? Because they do not respect themselves.
Observe a Senate, a Chamber of Representatives or simply a school board: if someone says something, another feels alluded to, become angry and says something worse, they quarrel among themselves and the members of the Board of Directors end up in a great chaos. This reaction of the mind of each of them against the impacts of the exterior world is very serious.
One has to truly appeal to introspective psychoanalysis to explore one’s own mind. It is necessary to know ourselves a little more within the intellectual sphere. For example, why do we react before the words of a fellowman? In these conditions, we are always victims… If someone wants us to be content, it is enough for that person to give us a few pats on the shoulder and tell us a few amiable words. If someone wants to see us upset, it would be enough to tell us a few unpleasant words.
Therefore, where is our true intellectual freedom? Which one is it? We concretely depend on others, we are slaves, our psychological processes depend exclusively on other persons, we do not rule over our own psychological processes and this is terrible.
Others are the ones who rule in us and in our intimate processes. A friend, all of a sudden comes and invites us to a party, we go to the friend’s house, he gives us a drink, we feel shy accepting it, we drink it, another drink follows and we also drink it, then another, and another until we end up drunk. The friend was the lord and master of our psychological processes.
Could a mind like that be good for anything? If someone rules in us, if the entire world has the right to rule us, then where is our intellectual freedom? Which is it?
Suddenly, we are before a person of the opposite sex, we become very identified with that person finally, we end up in fornications and adulteries. It means that that person of the opposite sex had the upper hand and overcame our psychological process, that person controlled us, subjected us to his or her own will. Is this freedom?
The intellectual animal, falsely called man, in the reality of truth has been educated to deny his identity, values and image. Which is the authentic identity, values and intimate image of each of us? Is it perhaps the ego or the personality? No! By means of introspective psychoanalysis we can go beyond the ego and discover the Being.
Unquestionably, the Being in himself is our authentic identity, values and image. The Being in himself is the K – M, the Kosmos Man or Man Kosmos. Unfortunately, as I have already said it, the animal, falsely called man, has educated himself to deny his inner values, has fallen into the materialism of this degenerated era, has surrendered himself to all the vices of the Earth and treads the path of error.
To accept the negative culture subjectively inspired in our interior, following the path of least resistance, is an error. Unfortunately, people of today enjoy following the path of least resistance and accept the false materialistic culture of these times, they allow it to become installed in their psyche and this is how they arrive at the denial of the true values of the Being.
Samael Aun weor
