Get out of the mental - 2
MARCH 22, 2023
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In the previous article, I reviewed the different strategies that the mental-brain deploys in a loop to stay inside itself. It is as if it were programmed to wander endlessly in a labyrinth. We have seen that the mental-brain has cut itself off from the soul. What would happen if the soul came back to the fore? Would we go beyond the mental? This is what I propose to explore here.
At the frontiers of the mental
It all started with a dream. A dream in which I freed myself from a mental programming, perhaps the most insidious one: the one that does not allow us to become aware that we can go beyond the mental…
However, I realized after this dream – by an association of ideas of which only the mental has the secret – that this was not my first attempt to escape! There have been many of them, made from inside the mental. I might as well say that they were all in vain. And then there was the spectacular one where my mental was taken by surprise, which is why it worked. It happened when I had an aneurysm a few years ago. I experienced an expansion of consciousness that literally forced my mental to disengage from my perception [1].
From mental conformity to the breakthrough of the soul
The mental loves to conform, it is the very basis of its functioning. But conformity is not in the nature of the soul. So there comes a time when something has to change. My way of dealing with this paradox – seemingly conforming while providing an escape route behind the scenes – was to allow an aneurysm to develop in my meninges, like a silent guard. Then came what had to happen…
When the aneurysm ruptured, it was as if I had been watching my mental’s desperate attempts to put its strategies in place… until it was forced to recognize its limitations. The suddenness and urgency of the situation eclipsed any distraction, leaving it no choice but to focus on what was happening. Without being able to associate a similar event to know what to do, it was finally pushed to its limits… Temporarily at least. Because the mental being the mental, it does not give up so easily.
But a seed of consciousness was planted that night. Like a breakthrough of the soul. The clear and unequivocal realization that I am not trapped in this reality.
My mental-brain was not able to reproduce this spectacular escape (thankfully!), so I had to take another route to escape. All I knew at the time was that I was very committed to going beyond my mental and not letting it pull me back into it. I wanted to invite my soul into this reality. I took another step forward with the labyrinth dream. Or rather: my mental took a new step, as if it had itself decided to open the door of its prison…
The blossoming of the soul
My realization came in two stages. With the rupture of the aneurysm, I realized that the soul can, under certain circumstances, show the mental its limits. The dream taught me that the mental-brain will eventually observe itself and deliberately deviate from the path chosen by the soul. It will even become an ally for the soul here on earth.
This whole thing is about permission, and as you can see, it never comes from the mental. The real process of allowing comes from the soul, and when that process is mature enough, the mental-brain observes itself and recognizes that there is much more to this reality.
The soul does not function like the mental, it is not logical or rational. It does not need time or space. The brain-mental is like an information processing system, but the soul is our deepest self. It is the soul that brings awareness. The soul distills every experience we have into wisdom, filtering out the emotions and judgments that are attached to it.
It sends impulses to the mental so that the human realizes that he needs to go beyond the mental to evolve. If he chooses to do so.
On the collective level
Once our own brain-mental has observed itself, it observes others differently. One thing that disturbs me more than anything else is the mental imbalance around. I sometimes feel that the planet is on the verge of a nervous breakdown. I observe that many people are on a kind of very mental dimensional plane, while others are coming out of that plane.
Are people still anchored in the mental ready to change? To free themselves? And if so, where does their desire for freedom come from? Are they aware that if it comes from the mental, it will not really lead to freedom? It is possible that what will really bring about a change in these people is ultimately the overflow of suffering. The change will come when they no longer say to themselves “I am tired of suffering” but “I am tired of being tired of suffering”.
All beings who choose to come out of the mental are sending a light, a signal to the planet, that there are other ways to do things. Others may or may not agree with this, but there are other ways. It is possible to go beyond the mental.
Beyond the mental
It is thanks to the permission given by the soul that this opening is created which makes the mental leave its throne of king. Gradually, the mental is set aside and the soul can take its rightful place.
This is what seems to be happening: the right side of the brain, which has always been present but repressed [2], is now coming forward. From it comes the ability to connect and communicate with the soul, without using words, time or space. It allows us to perceive realities in a much larger and wider way than ever before [3].
When the mental-brain opens the door, it is as if it is saying “from now on I will always be with the soul”. And this moment can only happen when the mental has learned to trust us as a soulful being. Then, little by little, it no longer limits what flows through us, such as intuition and creativity.
Intuition
As the mental is in the process of withdrawing, of moving aside, we begin to reopen to our intuitive understanding, through which we do not need words. We no longer need qualia to make associations with something that the mental can recognize. Then there is no longer an attempt to take control, the mental goes into a cooperative mode with the soul.
All of this is gradual, it will probably take some patience before we can work with a kind of natural intuitive knowledge that goes beyond the definitions of the mental. It will still take some time for the soul to be fluid, to merge with the neural activities of the brain and the emotional activities of the mental.
Creativity
The soul comes from a creative background, but very often creativity is overshadowed by the mental. However, more and more, the mental will let us open up to all that we are, to all our energy flows, to all our potentials. It will offer us a true energetic experience, rather than trying to put things in one form or another.
Then, suddenly, real creativity will come to us, from our soul. We will realize that there are creative and fun ways to take control of everything. We won’t necessarily get the same answers anymore because they won’t come from our limited brain-mental. We will finally realize the depth of our true creative experience here on the planet.
Natural perception
Our true desire is to return to our natural state, which is multidimensional.
The mental is trained to repress our energetic perceptions. It only knows how to build and limit, but it will gradually learn to make room for the soul. The soul has a natural flow, which allows our energy to circulate, to flow easily. In this flow, there are no more qualia associations to make, there is no mental aggregation of images to create reality. This is simply not how energy works. Energy comes and goes, so fast that the mental has no time to grasp this dynamic.
Thus, there is much more information and energy than the mental has access to. Our natural state is to perceive, through the soul, these different levels and layers, these energy patterns. Finally, energy is simply a communication of the soul [4], the song of the soul that constantly rejoices in its existence.
To return to natural perception is also to have a different perception of ourselves. Because our deepest identity does not come from the mental. It comes from the soul. There comes a time when, although we continue to experience ourselves both from the inside and the outside [5], we no longer need the feedback of others to understand ourselves. Our perception of ourselves becomes the only truth. That is what it has always been.
When even the door fades
My mental went through a door, so to speak, during the labyrinth dream. But there may not actually be any door to go through to get back to our natural state. Because there is no separation. Everything is right here. Everything is happening simultaneously.
When the mental is in its rightful place and position, it will allow what we might call the divine energies to pass through. Thus we will be able to live and experience in multiple realities.
Beyond the mental, but still in balance
The next step is to be able to return to the mass consciousness at will and according to our desire. Being at the same time in the mass consciousness and out of the mass consciousness, or only in this consciousness or only out of this consciousness. But suddenly realizing that we are no longer trapped there.
We could also realize that we are permanently balanced. We no longer need to go through our mental to keep our balance, because the mental-brain no longer needs to have tight control over everything that passes through it. It has never controlled us in the true sense of the word, we have given up control to it. Besides, anyone who tries to go to other realities from a place of power or control, without wisdom, will be unbalanced and unstable in the human reality.
For the others, the mental will now always be there, as a processor of energies and information, to create the illusion of the realities in which we evolve. But it will no longer limit what passes through us. And most importantly, we will no longer need our mental to validate us.
Notes & references
[1] Read My Story to know the details of this adventure.
[2] I know something about it, it is predominant in left-handed people (see previous article), even if it remains largely dormant even in these people, waiting until they are ready.
[3] See Jill Bolte Taylor’s story on her right-brain experience.
[4] If you would like to know the physics behind the fact that energy is communication, you can read the article Energy is Communication.
[5] This is the dynamic of awareness. It is based on a double movement: outward (observation) and inward (feedback), thus offering the human being the incredible possibility of experiencing himself both from the outside and from the inside.
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