Theos-Talk Archives (March 2006 Message tt01529)

Cass,


Most true indeed.

Carlos.




> From: Cass Silva <silva_cass@yahoo.com>
> Reply-To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com
> To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: Theos-World Ecology of Mind
> Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 16:30:47 -0800 (PST)
>
> Carlos
> Doesn't this simply come down to whether we are conscious,aware or awake to 
> the entrancement/seduction perpetrated through advertising and media 
> campaigns. We are now subject to subliminal messages under-imposed on the 
> image, i.e. the negative underlying the positive, or the real message 
> underlying the image before us.
>
> I can understand how many could be overloaded especially considering that 
> most people are still asleep while awake.  One can see this while driving.  
> Most drivers are off in a world of their own, while still being able to 
> drive their motor vehicle responsibly.
>
> Gurdgieff spoke of these "moments" as enlightening, however, they are 
> extremely difficult to maintain, as the thinker, superimposes itself and 
> the blah blah recommences.
>
> Cass
>
> carlosaveline cardoso aveline <carlosaveline@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
>
> PRESERVING THE ECOLOGY OF MIND
>
> oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
>
>
> Dear Friends,
>
> �World  Goodwill Newsletter� (1)  discusses  the problem of  
> �information
> overload� in our minds � due to the amound of information now arriving 
> to us
> through TV, print, internet, mobile phones, etc.
>
> The Newsletter says it  is not easy to �keep one�s head above this 
> tidal
> wave�. And it quotes the group �Adbusters�:
>
> �Our minds have become a virtual dumping ground of pollutants  �
> manipulative ads, distorted news, untold violence (...)  and there is a 
> need
> to reclaim our mental environment.�
>
> More:
>
> �Add to this picture even subtler channels of information reception, the
> nascent telepathic sensitivities that mean you may unwittingly pick up on
> patterns of emotion and thought from those around  you.�
>
> True, this mass of information will be processed during sleep. But there 
> are
> those who don�t sleep enough, or can�t sleep well.
>
> Important thoughts, indeed.  Yet I would question the idea that we are
> exposed to too much information.
> In fact, what surrounds us is mostly pseudo-information, and sometimes
> dis-information.
>
> Perhaps we cannot call �information� all those mental noises that  
> surround
> us.  Any clear view of  things will establish that �information" is that 
> bit
> of knowledge which helps you to take better decisions in life and to 
> achieve
> your goals.
>
> Even as we talk about Theosophy, the exercise of attention and discernment
> should tell us whether the thoughts arriving to us �  or  the thoughts
> formulated by us �  actually serve the purposes of expanding our
> consciousness, facing significant facts, preserving the foundations of our
> inner peace, establishing sane mutual help relationships with people -- or
> produce more noice than meaning.
>
> In order to be able to understand  information and dis-information
> processes, it is important to recognize and accept the significance of
> silence.
>
> Mental silence shows us the meaning of life without the need of words.
>
> It helps us see both the facts and the illusion in what we read or hear, 
> but
> also in what we ourselves  say or think.  Because sometimes unconscious
> mental games can be played at us by some  instintive layers of our own 
> mind.
>
> Paying  attention to the mental tides is a form of self-knowledge.
>
> As we gradually get rid of waves of illusion, we get to be able to learn
> more and better about esoteric philosophy or Theosophy.
>
> Such a learning liberates us -- but it needs inner peace and a degree of
> mental silence. It needs a healthy ecology of mind.
>
> That's why the practice of mental silence, MOUNA, is taught in eastern
> philosophies.
>
> Best regards,   Carlos.
>
>
> NOTE:
> (1) Number 01, 2006. Website: www.worldgoodwill.org.  World Goodwill is
> inspired  by Alice Bailey�s philosophy and gives a positive contribution 
> to
> human process now.  It cooperates with the United Nations system, strongly
> stimulating universal brotherhood.    The Newsletter is edited by the Lucis
> Trust, New York.
>
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