While this society we live in has studied the mind for over a hundred years and made some considerable progress in understanding it, the mind is still baffling in its operation. It is especially baffling to those who have one and are trying to make some semblance of spiritual progress with its aid, or perhaps in spite of its aid. It seems logical that the mind, capable of doing incredible things, should also know or be able to find the true path home. Indeed, almost any spiritual persuasion will assure any who ask that indeed they have found the true path to man’s destiny. But the spiritual pilgrim can follow this path and that path and indeed many, many paths hither and yon and still at time’s command, return to the beginning of all paths, the newborn child. Here you must start again life’s great quest in the labyrinth in time.

          If time and life return you to the beginning of all paths, then it might be prudent to consider that perhaps you didn’t solve the labyrinth of life’s puzzle the last time through.  BUT, you don’t get to use the same mind you had last time in this new progression. All previous puzzles must be solved again. In essence, they must be looked at with a new mind. The being that we really are, the spark of life, brings with it into this new incarnation a vast momentum of past learning and experience. The ability to impress the new mind with the being’s past experiences varies from individual to individual and for now we will concede that this involves spiritual development. All progressions of the mind are horizontal progressions and will ALWAYS return the being to the beginning of the path of life, again and again and again.

          The progress of our physical sciences has given us the ability to fly in the air and even beyond this planet. We dream, plan to fly to the planets of this solar system and eventually to other solar systems. All of this goes no place spiritually. Man’s dream of flight cannot be satisfied in the physical world. While the mind follows paths, the spirit yearns to fly. The spirit can fly, but not while the mind is mired in the mud of life in the lower physical worlds.

          Conflict; the spirit yearns to fly, dreams to fly, needs to fly, but it cannot free itself from the mind that sees only the horizontal paths of life. The mind tends, in varying degrees, to look at the ground and not heed the spirit’s desire to look at the sky.  I suppose life cycles us into lives as birds to teach us we are not beasts but can see life from a higher perspective. But the flight our being desires is the ability to fly into the higher regions of creation, and from these realms we remain earthbound–slaves to the dictates of time and the destinies of physical life. We are slaves now, but we are meant to be the masters of time and its destinies.

          Your physical body has the power of sight and you use it all the time. Your mind has the power of sight, though it “sees” a bit differently than the physical eyes do, and we are taught not to believe the mind pictures. The spirit has the power of sight, the soul has the power of sight, and for that matter the being that you are has the power of sight, independent of all of these. In many cases these other sight faculties present information to the mind in children, but by the time they are around eight years old the attention is primarily turned to the physical eyes, and the other faculties are forgotten and tend to atrophy a little. In my late twenties and early thirties, I figured out what I needed to do to revitalize my being’s sight faculties. From this vantage point, what I could “see” was of course very much different than what appeared to my physical eyes. From this vantage point, there is only life and life is all there is. 

          Medical science and physiological science associate the mind with the brain. While it appears that the mind needs the brain to function, actually it is the other way around. The brain needs the mind to function. When you get into your car and drive off, your body is acting as the mind/brain of the car and the car is doing as it is instructed. The mind runs the brain just as your body runs your car. Ideally the being runs the spirit, which in turn runs the mind, which in turn runs the brain, which in turn runs the body, which in turn runs the car. But if we associate the mind with the brain, we are missing the greater part of its linkage with the physical, astral, and spiritual environment we actually live in. The physical world’s input into the mind through the five senses is obvious, and helps explain how the brain works, but doesn’t explain much in relation to how the mind works.

          The brain is in the head and therefore, we tend to locate the mind in the head also. From the vantage point of being, the mind is in the head, but it is also all around the head and roots itself in the whole body. The chakra system gives a great deal of information to the mind, which we tend to take for granted because we cannot see it (unless trained to). Depending on the horizons it is allowed, the mind may or may not listen to the chakra information it is presented with. If the mind doesn’t listen to the information the five senses give it, it can get the physical body into trouble. If the mind doesn’t listen to the information the chakras give it, it can get spirit vehicles into even greater trouble than the body is capable of. The physical body is separate from the mind, but the chakras are a part of it. The mind is capable of sight into the physical world without physical eyes, but without the chakras it cannot interpret the information it receives and is therefore robbed of comprehension. Comprehension of the incoming information is the major factor in spiritual development.

          Understanding how the mind works involves understanding how the chakras work and how they communicate with the mind. The chakras communicate with the mind by sending an energy charge and a color code up the spine to the mind. The color code upon reaching the mind excites an appropriate story line and will tend to relate the current experiences with the stored and similarly colored story line. Many chakra story line memories are stored in the disks between the vertebra in the spine. Even past life memories can be found in the spinal disks. Many back pain problems are stored past life memories. Remember the spine is a part of the mind.

          To control the mind, you must first learn to control the chakra system. This is because in most people the chakra system either controls or greatly influences the mind’s thought processes. Regulate and relate to the color system from a position of control and then you can control the mind. When you can control the mind, the spirit can fly. YES, FLY! …