Evolutionarily speaking, the mind is a very new development, and although it appears to be like a major advancement, it is not. The mind is still incredibly immature and caught up in the veil of Maya we so suffer from. Perhaps all creatures go through the equivalent suffering, but I doubt it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I believe most other creatures have an ability to be content, to be confident, and to have faith that ecosystems will provide what they need. This faith is an evolutionary development, but still it’s natural. Our fellow beings on this planet are like Wordsworth\u2019s newborn baby \u201ctrailing clouds of glory,\u201d who are still to some degree attached to the divinity (ecosystems) from which they came.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Human beings are capable of contentment, too, but we have produced a world of discontent. It’s a chicken or an egg sort of thing as to whether the peculiar human mind arose out of discontentment or the discontentment arose out of the first springs of the working of the mind. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
To mention the mind, we have to make a distinction between mind and brain, because brain and body are all part of the outer landscape<\/a>, the physical world, which is held together by qualia. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The mind is very qualiadelic. and holds us together with the concepts of self and, as civilization evolves, the rules and mores and laws of human societies and social interactions that develop. But mind, as opposed to brain, is fundamentally qualiadelic – fundamentally of qualia, of non-physical, non-measurable substance, thoughts, ideas, and intuitions that it is is connected to the brain, but only as a kite is connected to a hand by the thinnest of strings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The mind is capable of looking backward over the paths it has traveled, or ahead to what may be, while the body slothfully moves in comparison. The inertia of the mind even travels through geologic and biological time and space, and even into realms of multiverses and universal emptiness, while the body whirls along within its puny, self-oriented landscape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Like the brain, the mind has its landmarks and pathways, but instead of neurons that react to sensual input, the mind pauses, reflects, and does not always act. The ability to wonder – to bask in wonder so glorious yet simple as a songbird savors as it sits on a branch at dusk – is what we ought ever to be to striving for. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The mind, if we let it, will become our connection with some greater clear light of being or heaven, if only we can refocus ourselves on the divine that exists right here on earth: ecosystems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Alas, the landmarks and pathways in the human landscape, though they help us get what we want, eventually become barriers to what we ought to be. We must learn from the plants and animals to renew our innate faith in the bounty of ecosystems before it\u2019s too late.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Evolutionarily speaking, the mind is a very new development, and although it appears to be like a major advancement, it is not. The mind is still incredibly immature and caught up in the veil of Maya we so suffer from. Perhaps all creatures go through the equivalent suffering, but IContinue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","author-qualiens","post-3940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9QShd-11y","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3940"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4372,"href":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3940\/revisions\/4372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}