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CHANGING MINDS

Posted by anthonynorth (Beyond the Blog)

Have we always had the mind we have today, or is the mind a constantly changing concept? If we read ancient mystical texts, or study concepts such as the Akashic Records, it appears we do not have a mind today that the ancients would recognize.

Rather, the Akashic Records suggest a mind that is all-encompassing, holistic, and complete with all knowledge of the universe. They are a concept the mind can wander through, as if a great library of all knowledge, and all meaning.

A DIFFERENT WAY OF THINKING

Could our ancients have understood such a concept? In ‘The White Goddess’ the writer Robert Graves put forward his idea that ancient civilizations had a different form of consciousness.

Speaking of ‘lunar’ and ‘solar’ knowledge, solar is modern knowledge based on the rational, whereas lunar knowledge is intuitive and grasps things as a whole, compared to solar, which is compartmentalized, breaking knowledge up into manageable bits.

Egyptologist Schwaller de Lubicz would agree. He argued that the ancient Egyptians had a totally different knowledge system to us, again seeing the world as a whole. To him, the modern mind acts as a spectator in the world, looking at things from the outside. Ancient knowledge involved taking part in the world; being connected to its totality.

He even went as far as arguing that man has not evolved, but devolved to a near animal state in modern times. But more than this, he also believed that the ancient Egyptians had inherited this previous way of thinking from a previous civilization.

DATA-PROCESSING MIND

CLASSICAL MIND

ALLEGORICAL MIND

EVOLVING MIND

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