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Subject: Making sense of things


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Cassie
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Date Posted: 00:28:58 02/13/01 Tue
 I've been thinking lately about something that the mind is always doing that we don't seem to have a name for. I call it "making sense of things".

This function of the mind seems to work in several different ways. For instance, the mind can make a snap judgment or decision based on what it already knows. Or it can come to conclusions when something happens over and over several or many times.

OR the mind can mull things over and wait until an answer appears. This is the mind as "kid brother". It takes awhile. In the Waking Down Process this seems to occur a lot. I think it's because so much happens here that the mind has no past experience to explain. It can't make snap judgments about something entirely new and strange. And so it is boggled.

Somehow then, if left to mull, it accesses mysterious sources that we also have no names for. Whole body wisdom might be an example.

An interesting thing that happens is that as young children our minds have often made snap decisions or conclusions based on limited knowledge. For instance, somewhere back in the murky depths of my infancy I made the decision that everybody hated me. That decision remained with me for years until it finally became conscious. It colored my life a certain way and it looked like that was the way it really was.

Those early decisions act like vows that we can't remember we've made and our outer world tends reinforce them. We see what we expect to see. This form of sense-making may not always serve us well.

Another interesting thing I notice is what happens when I try to explain the White Hot Way to others. Quite often their minds go to what they already know and put everything I say into that category. "Oh that's just like such and such," they say. Or, if they can't think of anything that's like it, they might decide it's nonsense. Or whatever. It's difficult for us to really hear something new AS something new. It's hard to step back and give our minds some time to mull.

Sometimes I like to read my mail and then take awhile to reflect on it before I reply, allowing time for my mind to access its mysterious sources. Often it suprises me with its wisdom and sometimes I never do get a clue. Usually there is an impulse to reply immediatly that I have to let burn and mostly I'm glad when I do. I love those mysterious sources. They have some very fine things to say.

And what does your mind have to say about itself?

Thoughtfully, Cassie
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