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You are not your mind. Consciousness/spirit/soul is what you are. You are immortal, because it is impossible to be conscious of being unconscious (see page 2 of The Present). You mind is not immortal; it can be destroyed by a brain injury, disease, and death. That tells you they are separate for certain. Have you ever seen someone that has been in a bad car accident? They can be fully conscious, but not be able to think or know anything. People in vegetative states that are not unconscious prove the mind can be destroyed without consciousness or your essential self being affected. What about a newborn baby? They are fully conscious, without a thinking mind.
Xavier Moutoux
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When you see the truth, everything becomes obvious and self-evident. The question is, why is it so difficult to see and express the truth clearly now?
Something has to be hiding the truth and life and hiding itself.
Why do we have so much trouble seeing the true nature of our lives? It should be the most obvious thing there is. Why do people have so many different opinions and beliefs about what the ultimate truth is when it should be self-evident?
We all live in the same world; why does everyone see it differently? The truth is just what it looks like it is. The problem is, people cannot see clearly.
Your inner environment: This is your environment from your skin in, from your senses in. This environment is where your mind lives. It is between life and your spiritual-self. The mind is the closest thing to you. The mind is so close to your spirit that most people do not realize that they are two separate things. The mind creates the illusion that it is the spirit.
Sixth sense: People do have a sixth sense; their own mind. You have the sense of sight, hearing, smell, touch, taste and mind. Your mind is like a sense, because your consciousness, or spiritual-self, senses/experiences the mind’s thoughts, emotions and feelings the same way it does light, sounds, sensations, scents and tastes.
The mind is blocking what God is creating with what it is creating.
You receive the input from your mind the same way you receive input from your five life senses, but what the mind creates is not real; it is not God’s world.
Word/life: Your five life senses sense life. Your mind produces and sends you things that do not come from life; it sends you things it makes up itself. It creates and sends you emotions, desires, thoughts, guilt, fears and worries etc.
Your mind blocks most of the life coming to you, and what it does not block, it converts into words, the mental code for life. Your mind attempts to reduce all life to words, mental pictures, abstract thoughts, or bites of data. Example: your sense of sight sees a rose. Instead of coming to you directly as all that a rose really is, it is turned into the word “rose.” It is then disregarded or filed away as a memory without letting you experience it.
Editing your life: If you have seen something before, your mind does not consider it important to see it again, and does not let you see it; it edits your life. When you see a rose through the mind, you do not see it as it truly is. Your mind does this with everything, unless it perceives it as new, special, or dangerous. By reducing real things to words or thoughts, they can be processed in your mind. A real thing cannot be. We are paying a high price for this; we pay with our life.
It was necessary in the past to be able to process life this way to help us get control of an unknown and dangerous world. It is no longer necessary to do it most of the time, but people still do it all the time anyway. It is like a bad habit.
All of this is going on between your spiritual-self and life. It is the reason why people cannot see the truth and experience true life.
We paid a high price to get where we are now. The time has come to stop giving all our life to our minds. To do it, you just have to see things like you are seeing them for the first time. It is that simple, but you have to know the truth to do it.
from pages 33-34 of "The Present (with religion)" at www.truthcontest.com