SHACK 4166 BABY MIND---- SATORI?

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Who are you before you were named? Was this the first brain washing, I did not chose my name then followed by cultural, religious, Life style etiquette. Yes First nations are to some extent brain washed however I feel to more sharing, caring for one another and the planet. Could there be a correlation between baby mind and 'no mind' in Eastern Philosophy?

                               No mind

 
 

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SHACK-----  aka--- GEOFF

SHACK 4162 UNDERSTANDING

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 In conversation with a Vicar he quoted me this as above from PROVERBS 3:5 and the rest of the text, as he felt I had Buddhistic and scientific leanings, I replied I am no authority of Buddhism or science and I certainly cannot speak for those in Buddhism or Science and can put forward my own view from my experiences.

I told him I felt that as far as I have heard read Jesus said ' "Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid" (John 14:27, and I have heard it was said that peace that passes all human understanding.

Well of course you have heard and read of my feelings about inculcation, brain washing and the conditioned mind (In April 2026 I will be doing a full explanation on www.geoff freed.com or online) I then went into my spiel as in article in brackets and he went away with deep frowns and said he would get back to me.

Basically everything we know are other people ideas and modified over different epochs we are mostly cloned minds. When human understanding or thoughts are suspended in inner bliss and peace, we lean not to our own understanding.

SHACK     aka       GEOFF

SHACK 4165 SECRET PLACE

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 Again as in previous Shack the Vicar and I got into 'the secret place of the Most High' He said in deep and earnest prayer he felt he entered a different Dimension, I felt the same in meditation and that Stillness was the highest form of prayer. We had a chat about deity and he prayed to Jesus and I have done on many occasions as well as Krishna and Buddha, however I felt the formless prayer or just to sit in stillness was for me the way I felt more comfortable.

The Secret Place for me was when thought naturally was absence not by suppression or act of will perhaps just surrendering to the quiet mind as natural as possible and perhaps acknowledging 'thy will be done or may my will be in tune with the Great Spirits Will' and the absence of images, not that Jesus, Buddha, Krishna images are displeasing but in that quiet empty space the spirt is felt behind the symbols that the pictures represent, they are human figures and images and in my view I need to get to the essence and feel the presence of that which is Most High.

We agreed to disagree and he felt I was a little if not wholly arrogant and that being a monotheist was somehow not a complete spiritual person.

SHACK    aka      GEOFF   

SHACK 4168 The Nectar of Love

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 Many of us have felt heart love, that deep emotional feeling around the heart chakra and heady feeling that accompanies it. Then the more general warm feeling sometimes with a tinge of sadness that is compassion. 

However on rare exquisite occasions there maybe a delicate fond a passing nuance, a gift of the angels so to speak, a sweetness beyond honey or any taste, a sort of delicate touch so sweet and light that it almost feels too much to bear or handle, it melts the heart so to speak and also is associated with a perfume of heavenly delight.  This I have found around a lovely female and some dogs or horses and certainly trees and even with male friends like deep celibate monks. It is like wafts, a breeze so fine that it is barely perceptible.

This I have found to be the Nectar of Love.

SHACK  aka   GEOFF

SHACK 4169 SEABED, SUBTERRANEN

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Many years ago my friend Roy Morris and I attended a meeting at the Piccadilly Hotel and it said on the notice outside 'Maharishi Mahesh Yogi' an Indian Yogi and Wise man' all welcome. I have described what happened elsewhere. He patted me on the head and said ' here is a man who has been the bottom of the sea and is bringing pearls up from the bottom' there is a bit more as written elsewhere.  

Just lately I have felt an increase in the energies as if a purging is going on a sort of intensity not only the political and pollution, wars, homelessness. poverty and horrendous crime but an invisible energy that is demanding ascension and spiritual (not religious) reform from the heart not the the brain and logic. 

As I sit quietly feel I am at the seabed not in real terms but a witness, an awareness, and as I gaze without thought at the surface there are these scurrying thoughts, feelings and emotions float aimlessly by on the surface with apparently no power or actual intention, only if grabbed as it were, hung onto and nurtured, these are the scatter brain of the collective thoughts bound in a volume of the past and an entity formed named ego.  

By grabbing one and repeating it as an intention there is no doubt an intended outcome as a laid out by the intention can come about, many healings and so called miracles have come through this. There is a debate, do we know if even a wonderful healing is brought about is this our destiny, is it in accord with the Divine will?  Some might say yes, God, the Great Spirit gave us the gift of 'free will' and Spirit wants and loves us so this is fine. There are those who might bear the burden of their affliction and just lay bare their minds and free will and wait upon the Spirit and whatever occurs this is the 'will of that which created and sent me'. For me I am never sure which one to go for so I hang out at the bottom staring up or whatever staring at the flotsam and jetsam and like the old Zen saying ' a leaf blown by the wind. Even this does nothing to motivate me and I ask who is this me anyway? 

SHACK    aka     GEOFF

In a way subterranean is a appropriate word for not of this Earth and of the spirit might be more to the point. 

 

SHACK 4167 DELAYED TRAUMA

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Talking with some Shamans, psychologists, scientists and priests of various denominations and we all pondered on the Einstein quote 'reality is an illusion albeit a persistent one' leading onto my input of the 28 billion, billion, billion atoms we are supposedly have in the average human body and these so called atoms are said to be 99.99% empty, do we really exist or over the millions of years come to believe we exist and various other inputs of a similar vain were put into the mix?

This led to several voicing that this is a sort of Koan, a paradox of deep significance and they shared there were disturbing features to the convers and the aftermath was a kind of delayed trauma and some went for therapy and counselling.

Some said it led them into distractions to avoid some dark hankering for their reality being negative or they really did not exist in a corporeal body and yet they were in one and yet did they really believe it to some an extent as to its authenticity? Like a great Koan the process torments one until the explosion or shift or catalyst that unhinges the mind from a strong adhesive attachment , a fixation and then the process finishes the fermentation until the ' chemical, consciousness or whatever alchemical factors blow the cork to freedom.'

SHACK   aka     GEOFF

SHACK 4163 THE BLACK HOLE

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 I have heard and experienced a 'mind black hole' a very well known spiritual teacher was swallowed and consumed at this type of hole and by surrendering to it became an enlightened spiritual leader.

There are others that are clamouring for the light and love they never had or are joined to a timeline of incarnations that were pursued, harassed, tortured and killed and some of those beings come to a life where they feel and recognise this bereft lonely existence and torments them and some become traumatised and depressed while other seek to explore this hole.  

For many this becomes their 'quest or spiritual path'  and they find that a lack of love they never had as a child or in any other incarnation, means as they live this hoe can like in the image at heading suck or lure them back to fantasies, mind movies and many seek a distraction from the pain that is an ache in the heart so to speak yearning for approval with real love not for their abilities and for many out of sheer despair turn to religion or spiritual practices.

Some yearn for the death of the hole that like black holes in astronomy consume and cannot get enough debris to fill it very much like the voracious ego and is never satisfied. They may pray and feel relieved at times, yet the feeling that this stalking black hole will haunt them and ever seek to devour the light of the fleeing host and put it in fear and so the challenge and duality can and does exist. So a background 'low tension' field pervades and it is noisy.

When I retired from Forensics and presenting workshops and one to ones, it was a subtle build up of the horror of forensics, the pain in healing workshops and the dross of negativity and I became to burn out and suspected lung and prostate cancer which through meditation, TCM and other strategies never took hold and I craved a simple quiet life and have now found a modicum of it. I also realised that I carried the Karmic back log of being brought up Jewish and freeing myself to some extent by the 'nowhere to hang my Hat The NDE, at The Empty Atom, and Inculcation'.  All intellectually enlightening  now to be 'walking my Talk' so to say, yes I maybe an awakened person but not the so called spiritual enlightened one.

The black hole of the mind can derange people and cause enormous damage and lead to madness, not a clinical madness as such, but a karmic force backed up by the energy of the hole and can cause dictators, wars, carnage of the utmost devastation and yet can hold the seeds of liberation and gracious peace. Such is the nature of some holes.

SHACK----aka------GEOFF