A Model of Mind

self

Reference: A Model of Self

The Universe begins as it emerges from non-awareness into awareness. It may appear at first as a vast field of awareness having the form of light. The physical universe evolves within this universal field of awareness. The perception of the physical universe agrees from person to person. This is like personal minds sharing this field of awareness, or universal mind.

The personal minds seem to exist within a vast field of awareness, or universal mind.

The personal mind seems to be produced by the condensation of awareness at locations within this vast field. This condensation is postulated to comprise of various stages as shown in the whirlpool model above.

The mind begins with awareness. Awareness consists of perception and recognition. According to Wikipedia, the process of perception involves the following steps:

  1. Body’s sensory organs are incited by means of light, sound or another physical process.
  2. These sensory organs transform the input energy into neural activity.
  3. These neural signals are transmitted to the brain.
  4. The brain organizes and interprets the signals.
  5. This creates awareness or understanding of the environment.

But the various elements of this process are themselves perceived in a way. Therefore, it is not quite definitive how we perceive and recognize things

We perceive only what awareness tells us through the mind.

.

As soon as perceptions are recognized, they become experience. Over time experience condenses as information. Experience and information seems to be stored in a very efficiently organized matrix constructed out of definitions and logics. It seems to have the form of an electromagnetic field supported by macromolecules and neurons in the body.

A matrix constructed out of definitions and logics seems to form the core of the mind.

From information the mind generates hypotheses. Certain hypotheses get confirmed as theories and can be relied upon for prediction. Hypotheses and theories help associate data in the mind.

Hypotheses and theories seem to aid the computation that occurs within the mind.

This leads to the generation of wider principles, which provide directions to thinking. Principles are followed by axioms, which are taken for granted to be true when one thinks.

Principles and axioms seem to provide the basis on which the mind operates.

Finally, there is self that represents the uniqueness of the mind. This is the final form of condensed awareness at a location in the field of awareness of the universal mind.

The uniqueness of the mind appears as Self.

.

The objectivity of awareness is determined by the basic field of awareness of the universal mind. Thus, the uncompressed awareness at the point of perception is the most objective in nature. When this perception is condensed as experience and information from some unique perspective of the mind it becomes subjective.

The awareness consistent with the universal field of awareness is the most objective in nature.

The awareness becomes more subjective as it is condensed through various stages of the mind in its unique way. The end product of that condensation is self, which is regarded as a unique individuality.

The most subjective form of awareness is the unique individuality of the self.

The reality is made of the objective awareness at the level of the universal mind. The subjective awareness of self then appears to be as real as it is consistent and coherent with the universal mind.

.

The minds are thus constructed out of condensations of awareness at various locations within the universal mind. The uniqueness of condensation is the self that is recognized by its individuality.

Mind relates the condensation from simple universal awareness to the complex self.

The simple and vast universal mind has the form of light. The unique and complex self has the form of the human body. Spirit and matter occur together as essence and form at every point of condensation.

Matter provides form to spirit, and spirit provides essence to matter.

.

As a summary of this model.

(1) Mind is a multi-dimensional matrix of definitions and logic.

(2) Self is the most condensed expression of the mind.

Also please refer to A Model of Self.

.

August 30, 2014 – 6:56 AM Categories: KHTK | Comments (77)

A Model of Self

Amsterdam 2008

BRAHMA (Vedas) – A postulated ground state that is beyond definition  or awareness.

GOD (Christianity) – A postulated Supreme Self to explain the appearance of existence

STATIC (Scientology) – A postulated Unmoved Mover that stands separate from the Universe.

GROUND STATE – The ground state has no awareness and no definition. The definition comes with awareness.

AWARENESS – Awareness is postulated to be the disturbance of ground state. It provides a definition. Awareness, as a disturbance, oscillates between perceiving and recognizing.

CONSCIOUSNESS – This is the awareness of the formed definition and properties. The physical form of consciousness is light. It has a frequency, wave-length and period. Consciousness is the divine principle that is fundamental to all existence.

SELF – Self is the definition or properties that arise. As frequency of consciousness increases, more and more definition comes about. The structures known as mind and ego are aspects of self at high frequencies. See A Model of Mind.

.

This seems to be a broad model of self.

  1. A self is a node in a very large matrix of selves in which communication flows.
  2. Each self is a compressed matrix of “definitions” (defined datums) among which logic flows.
  3. A communication particle arrives at the self and activates the flow of logic inside it.
  4. The logic flows through the complex matrix of definitions inside the self.
  5. These definitions are cross-indexed in a fantastically efficient way.
  6. This cross-indexing generates the framework of logic.
  7. The flow of logic consists of the sequences in which these relationships are activated.
  8. A score is kept in terms of the summation of the vectors of activated relationships.
  9. The final resultant vector is shaped into a communication particle.
  10. This communication particle is spitted out by the self.

We can probably make an animation out of the above model. This is a reality-centric model. There are an incredibly large numbers of variables here. How and in what sequence they could be activated provides an incredibly large number of choices for logic to flow. Here may lie the secret of “I”, “will” and “intention.”

This model may develop further.

August 28, 2014 – 9:05 PM Categories: KHTK | Comments (83)

Guide in KHTK

Affinity

In KHTK, a guide is one who helps another apply KHTK exercises. He may be a partner or a friend who is also interested in doing KHTK exercises. The two may do the exercises together encouraging and guiding each other.

All that is required of a guide is

  • Apply mindfulness at all times
  • Be familiar with KHTK exercises
  • Have compassion for all

The first thing that a guide helps another with is the application of mindfulness. He encourages the other person to think for himself, or herself, and practice mindfulness exercises per The 12 Aspects of Mindfulness

.

The guide recommends the correct KHTK exercise for the other person to work on, giving his reason. He provides factual information with no inconsistencies.

The person needn’t give to the guide any personal details of what he looked at during the exercise. The guide does not analyze a person’s data and give advice.

If the guide is told something he makes sure that he understands it. He responds only in terms of sorting out difficulties with the application of the 12 aspects of mindfulness.

The guide encourages the person to come up with creative ways to look at the area of interest more closely.

If the person’s attention is fixed or dispersed, the guide helps restore it to optimum with proper KHTK exercises.

Almost all exercises in KHTK may be applied by oneself. The guide simply encourages and aids as needed.

The guide does not challenge what the other person is doing. He simply helps the person understand the exercise.

The guide also aids in the development of the subject of KHTK based on his, or her, actual experience.

The guide offers his services as possible for him, and without fee. The compensation, if any, for the services may only be determined by the person helped.

August 27, 2014 – 6:39 AM Categories: KHTK | Post a comment

Filter in KHTK

color2

A filter is a porous device for removing impurities or solid particles from a liquid or gas passed through it. We borrow that word and use it in KHTK in a more general sense as follows.

Filter is a device that is selective in what it lets through. It is designed to block out things that are supposedly unwanted.

A colored glass acts as a filter in that it is selective about what frequencies of light it lets through. It blocks all other frequencies. Similarly, our thinking may act as a filter and it may let only those thoughts through with which there is some agreement. In KHTK, anything that influences perception is looked upon as a filter.

When the viewpoint influences the perceptions of a person it is acting as a filter.

A viewpoint consists of a person’s physical location as well as his mental position determined by  experience, education, thinking and considerations.

A physical location obviously influences the angle from which one perceives. The experiences get stored and interpret incoming perceptions. Education from home, school and culture provides ideas with which to assess incoming information. Thinking makes one associate the data one has in a certain way. Considerations sets themselves as bias, prejudices, fixed ideas, etc., that directly filter one’s perception.

Thus, the world might appear very different to a person from what it actually is. The actions one takes may not be optimum for the situations one encounters in life. This may have a lot to do with the conditions a person finds himself in.

Examining the contents of this filter may help resolve unwanted conditions in one’s life.

The components of the viewpoint are tightly interwoven into each other like many strands in a rope. Mindfulness exercises can help one look at this filter objectively and become aware of hidden influences.

Hidden influences lose their power as they are brought into awareness.

.

August 26, 2014 – 9:21 AM Categories: Uncategorized | Post a comment

Inconsistency Defined

Inconsist1

Reference: Patanjali Sutra 1:7 as explained in Patanjali 1:3 – 1:7

When a person is running into problems with relationships, finances, or in living, he has a gut feeling that something is not right somewhere, but he can’t put his finger on it. Similar feeling haunts him in school when he cannot understand a subject, such as mathematics. We may refer this gut feeling as an inherent sense of inconsistency.

An inconsistency is characterized by incoherency or lack of harmony, which comes about when there is doubt, confusion, or simply a lack of understanding.

When a person is faced with inconsistency, it does something to his attention. It has been noted that,

“Attention is aberrated by becoming unfixed and sweeping at random or becoming too fixed without sweeping.” ~ L. Ron Hubbard

Normally we can freely direct our attention and put it wherever we want; but when a person is faced with inconsistency he cannot do so. In KHTK, we make use of this observation as follows.

Fixed or dispersed attention is a powerful indicator of where one should be looking.

Here is an example form Hubbard’s writings. “Engineer on duty, normal but experienced perception. Is observing his area. Hears a hiss that shouldn’t be. Scans the area and sees nothing out of order but a small white cloud. Combines sight and hearing. Moves forward to get a better look. Sees valve has broken. Shuts off steam line.”

One looks more closely at the area that is causing the attention to become fixed and/or dispersed and narrows down to the inconsistency.

Inconsistency is likely to be found in the area holding undue focus or which is difficult to focus upon.

As one becomes aware of the reason underlying the inconsistency, one’s attention gets freed up. One can now act to handle the problem.

Pursue non-optimum attention to discover what is amiss and handle the problem.

.

To resolve non-optimum attention fully one needs to look at the factors stacked up in the mind. These factors are interwoven with other factors in a complex manner. Complexities of the mind cannot be resolved through thinking alone.

However, it is possible to un-stack the mind by letting it do so. Mind is like a coiled spring. It uncoils itself when it is not interfered with. This principle is violated when one makes assumptions and pushes the mind. A much safer approach is to:

Allow the mind to un-stack itself. It is like letting a coiled spring to uncoil itself.

All one has to do is to follow the points of non-optimum attention without forcing the mind. Let the mind operate freely in a broad context.

Let the mind associate freely in a broad and unrestricted context to un-stack itself.

When left to itself the mind will bring up data that needs to be looked at. As one looks, questions may arise, and one may consult appropriate references, or carry out experiments to resolve the inconsistency.

.

August 24, 2014 – 11:21 PM Categories: Uncategorized | Comments (7)