THE FIVE MINDS

Bill asked for a change of subject. “So soon?” was the amused response.
“Yes” Bill replied.  “ In every direction you look either in personal lives or in the world’s media, there is constant upheaval, breakdown, hostility, violence, wars, family breakups amid general confusion. Psychologists and psychiatrists are almost helpless both in the analysis and then in prescribing solutions. Too often they opt out by relying on chemical medications. Why hasn’t the science of psychology advanced with the other sciences?”
Once again, without hesitation or deliberation, this almost impossible problem was answered as if it were a very old subject and had already been solved somewhere else, in some other place, a very long time ago. The Visitor answered.
“If you consider psychology to be a science, then it is a very soft science. Psychology is a science that has not as yet been fully developed. Psychologists consider emotional breakdown to be only emotional and attempt to solve the problem with an intellectual approach. The approach is often times religious, but of course the end justifies the means. Emotions are considered to be good or bad, right or wrong. Bad or wrong must be changed to good or right. In the future, psychology will be much more successful and therefore it will be a true science. It will be discovered that there is more than one mind. He paused to wait for Bill to ponder this concept.
Bill asked. “The mind, as I understand it, is in the brain and the brain controls all attitudes and actions. Brain disturbances result in emotional or physical reactions. Is this not science, the action and the reaction?”
“That is true; emotions may be diagnosed often as a chemical imbalance. Medication relieves the symptom but does not address the cause. Usually, the imbalance itself is caused by the emotions.”
Bill then asked. “How then can psychology become a hard science?”
“There are five minds which always must be considered in mind analysis. The problem starts with one mind, which then affects the other minds. One must first isolate the troubled mind’s problems and then treat them.”
Bill asked. “These five minds which you have mentioned, would you describe them, and where are they located?”
“Now this is one question which has no answer for you at this time. Minds can not be defined. It is comparable to asking what is gravity. We can describe the effects of gravity, but we do not know the nature of gravity. We can also describe what we call ‘life’, but again we do not know what life is. We can classify the five minds but I cannot tell you what they are or where they are located. We might begin with what we call the physical mind. The physical mind controls all physical, chemical and electrical actions of the body’s responses. This mind speaks by the way it responds. For example, if the body experiences an injury, the body’s language is loud and clear.  When the body is sickly it asks for care. If the body is either over or under exercised it asks for help again by disclosing the way it feels. It might be tired and over worked. The body mind always speaks out loudly and clearly. We do not know what the body mind is but we always know that it is there, wherever ‘there’ might be. Even if we lose a body part or parts the body mind is still there.
Next, there is the emotional mind. Each emotion which one experiences, whether it is fear, hate, love, compassion, anger, and all other feelings, is due to the emotional mind which is speaking to the thinking mind.
Next is the thinking mind. This mind is the coordinating mind. All information enters the thinking mind for evaluation and decision making. It is this mind that communicates with society. Internal and external information educates the thinking mind.
The fourth mind is the soul mind. The soul mind is who you are. The soul mind enters the body with the first breath of life. The first cry is the cry of liberation, because the soul mind is free to continue its search for wisdom. Only by direct contact with nature and society can the soul mind achieve wisdom. Levels of wisdom are the steps in the evolutionary progress of life for all living organisms. When the body is no longer able to nurture the soul mind, the body dies and the soul mind returns to the spiritual condition and waits to be reborn again, again and again.”
The visitor was then silent, and looked at Bill with a quiet friendly smile. Bill stared back, then with a stutter said; “Do you really believe what you just described?”
The visitor answered. “I am not here to convince you of anything. I do not have beliefs. I only have knowledge. This knowledge awaits the people of Planet Earth. Have patience. The fifth mind is the spiritual mind. The spiritual mind is the universal mind that creates all living things. What you might consider to be a border between non-organic and organic is an organism that has finally achieved life. With the first signs of life the evolutionary spiral towards ultimate wisdom begins. Human kind is highly evolved but has much farther to go.”
Billed considered this information as he gazed at Mount Baker. His visitor sat quietly and also looked across the quiet water to the distant mountains. Bill then asked about the level of priorities between the five minds. “It seems to me”, he said, “that the thinking mind is the mind that has the greatest responsibility about the development of wisdom. Bill asked about wisdom. “What do you mean when you say that the soul mind seeks wisdom? How does the mind distinguish between a wise and an unwise decision?”
The Visitor answered, “Only the eventual consequences can determine the difference. The thinking mind decides the action or monologue and then waits for the outcome. Is the action or idea well received, was it constructive, or destructive, did it solve a problem or create a problem? Was it considered good or bad? Here is a simple example. Stealing is considered bad, but is it good or bad to steal food for your starving family. Many questions are considered as ‘the gray area’. Right and wrong are often relative and circumstances determine cases. When the decision or action proves to be positive, then the soul mind learns and absorbs. When the outcome proves to be negative, then a lesson has been learned and future actions are guarded against a repeat. The soul mind often learns more from mistakes than from successes. The soul mind carries wisdom from life to life. You have heard the description ‘he is an old soul’. That means he was born with an advanced wisdom. For the lower animals, what you refer to as instinct is really wisdom that has been learned from the evolution of the species.”
Bill then asked about the method of communication between the soul mind and thinking mind. The visitor answered. “Whenever you feel restless to do something or to go somewhere or to have an adventure, that is the urging of the soul mind to strive for experiences. It is only through experiences that decisions can be made that result in the development of wisdom. Remember that the only reason that the soul mind has been reborn is for the opportunity to gain further wisdom.
Bill asked about those who have no wish to be active or adventurous. The visitor replied. “It is the thinking mind that makes the decision to pursue the urging of the soul mind. The physical and emotional minds are also influencing the thinking mind. There is often conflict between the minds and therefore alternative decisions must be made. For example, the mind of a sickly body may insist on rest or recuperation. The emotional mind may feel a strong sense of fear, distress, anger, or have other thoughts about a particular experience.
The thinking mind may ask for diagnostic help from a person specialized in counseling and guidance. This specialized person will be knowledgeable in the nature of the five minds and be able to prescribe a procedure to guide the thinking mind in its decision-making process. Wisdom can also be achieved from general education and experimentation. As scientists and mathematicians strive toward truth they are also gaining wisdom.”
Bill next asked. “When the soul leaves the body, when and where does it enter a new body and does it have choices?”
“Yes! Between lives, the soul mind exists within the spiritual mind in a state that you may refer to as ‘lives between lives’. The soul’s only concern is for it’s continuing development; however, selection is limited. The soul may be confused as to where a suitable country, race or family situation may be located.”
Bill asked, “Wouldn’t the soul automatically wait for what it considers to be the ideal body, family, or society in which to be reborn?”
The Visitor replied that the ideal was not as simple as that. “A gifted soul will attempt to find an environment that will be the most conducive for its continuing development. Unfortunately, environments can be unpredictable.  To be reborn into a wealthy family may become unproductive and such a lifetime may reduce rather than improve the expected wisdom. Many wise and successful people have emerged from ordinary or depressed families or societies. Average parents and ordinary family members have raised many so-called gifted people.
Good school systems are of great importance. Wise and progressive schools will greatly speed the journey toward improved wisdom. Children taught the power of meditation will develop the necessary skills for communicating between the five minds. This self communication will enhance the development of wisdom.”
The visitor fell silent as if in meditation and gazed once again across the quiet ocean framed by the distant mountains. Bill pondered this nature-nurture analysis, then asked. “If wisdom is to follow the law of evolution, then why wouldn’t wisdom be continuous rather than be governed by haphazard circumstances?”
The visitor returned from his brief distraction and answered. “The laws of evolution recognize only change. The pursuit of wisdom can be one step forward and two steps backward or the reverse. The unborn soul does become impatient and often gambles for a birthright. It is wise, if only for selfish reasons, to leave a progressive legacy.” Once again there was the mutual silence as Bill pondered what was now the obvious consequences of this analysis.
Yes, mass confusion is now understandable. All institutions that have a vested interest in a corporate agenda will be actively involved in the mind control of the population. Religious and political agendas require large public and financial support. They gain this support from special interest groups. Their propaganda then enables them to influence public policy. This policy is to maintain a status quo, but the status quo is the money system, and the money system has reached the end of its evolutionary cycle. Evolution always wins!”
The Visitor sensed Bill’s thoughts and smiled at Bill’s rate of progress. “Most people would argue or disagree with some or most of the information.
Bill had heard or read all the arguments over a lifetime of careful concern. Mind control by institutions was now quite obvious, he thought. Children and young adults were the main victims. Bill’s thinking mind sensed that his emotional mind was rebelling at the total power and selfish control of these economic and political institutions. True democracy does not exist! Why do people allow themselves to go to war, to die and to murder? It is not people who go to war; it is politicians who go to war. People fight and die to protect political agendas. Each country has its own set of politicians, agendas and propaganda controls.
Bill was shivering from this sudden emotional insight. His immediate impulse was a desire to get up and leave, because he had had enough! It was an overload of information! For the first time, the Visitor looked directly into Bill’s eyes, touched his arm, then said, and “Let’s move on I know that you are not finished with your questions. Let us assume that sanity does exist and that the industrial societies will finally realize the natural end to the money system and succeed in entering the Energy Society.”
Suddenly, Bill felt an unusual sense of wonder. This was effective psychology. The Visitor was very, very gifted.