Into The Deep
I was going to go look for “nothing” and see if I could find a point of origin for the Mind and the Acausal. Until several conversations and coincidental internet posts I read caused me to take a major detour to maybe briefly talk about what exactly “mind” and specifically “consciousness” is; as I was taught to understand it.
I committed some sort of logical fallacy in assuming that my general audience and friends inherently knew what the word and concept “Mind” meant when I use it. There was this debate or talk about Consciousness that arose; then there were certain posts I stumbled upon about Consciousness written by people involved in “Luciferianism” and Satanism.
Every time I read something written about Consciousness by someone in the Occidental Occult mindset I can’t help but cringe a little. I get the same *eye-rolling* *Oh boy, here we go again* feeling when I read about Consciousness explained by the Hindus Gurus, Yoga instructors, Vedantists, Neo-trantrika, and Hare Krishnas. But I will say this: I would go with the Western apprehension of Consciousness any old day over the spiritual and mystical crap those Hindus got!
Facets Of Consciousness
I really like how the Western Occult is trying to figure out things about Consciousness in their own philosophical way; considering that the Occident has only recently emerged out of a very mind numbing restrictive magian religion and paradigm. I think what I am generally observing in the fringe segments of the “Western Tradition” [Satanism and related things] is like a gradual “awakening” of sorts. Which I think is cool, because it would seem as though the “zeitgeist” of Satanism [if it even has one] has out grown its 1970’s software, and had become more sophisticated and now need more stronger medicine. But I’m disappointed at the direction it seems to be going insofar as Consciousness is concerned. Because it seems to be going into the direction the Hindus went, where the greater Western Tradition later followed. What do I mean by this?
I mean these silly – and valueless – concepts like “Krishnaconsciousness,” “Christconsciousness,” “Guru Consciousness,” “Buddhaconsciousness,” “Godconsciousness,” etc; what the hell do those mean? I mean the Kabbalah in that they say it’s a way to develop “Higher States of Consciousness.” I mean the new agers when they say meditating on your “chakras” helps you develop “higher consciousness.” “Higher consciousness?” Higher where? What’s wrong with where it was at before? What is it in the first place, that it can even “go” to a place higher then it actually is?
Then now – mostly in Satanic and “Luciferian” circles – I’m starting to see how there is a growing fixation on Consciousness and how it’s for some reason either directly or indirectly associated with Life and Self and is gradually becoming some sort of self-deification universal penicillin.
These people never realize that they contaminate their apprehension of “Consciousness” with their world views or paradigm they are inside of. For example the Hindus and their theistic paradigm. They believe in gods. They are men. Thus there is perceived a “hierarchy,” of Man being somewhere at the bottom, and gods are somewhere at the top. Therefore – idealistically – it must be that one must evolve in consciousness to that perceived “better place/condition” of Being/Existence of Godhood, Christhood, Buddhahood, or whatever.
And in the Mystical Western circles – the understanding of “Consciousness” is also contaminated with their own paradigm; one which we may call a “Darwinian Paradigm.” In the Mystical West; generally; Consciousness seems to be like a monkey. It’s primitive and it needs to evolve to a more developed or “higher state” of being. And like the Hindus, in the Mystical West, Consciousness seems to be the Self or used interchangeably with what a Westerner identifies as “himself.” In other words – generally speaking – in some circles a Westerner will say such things like: “I am my consciousness,” or “I am conscious, therefore I am alive,” or “My conscious mind is that which thinks.” And so Consciousness is then confused with being alive, thinking and cognition, and thus it only makes sense that to achieve “higher” levels of consciousness means you become smarter and more alive in some special way.
What Is It?
What is “consciousness” in the first place? I don’t know what that word means any more as it is used in the English speaking occult subcultures. But I know what that concept means in my culture, as I was taught to understand it. It’s nothing spectacular really. Actually it’s rather mundane. When I use the word “consciousness” in speaking, I am trying to denote the Faculty of “Mind” that naturally kicks in and starts to do its job in the morning when we wake up and open our eye and say to ourselves: “Shit it’s Monday.”
The Buddha used the word “viññāṇ[a]” when he referred to “consciousness,” or the “conscious mind,” or the faculty of “recognition and discernment.” That word is used today by every Theravada culture to refer to the same thing. It’s a generic word. It looks like a challenging word to say, but it isn’t. The word is pronounced just like the “venien” part of the English word “convenience,” so for the sake of convenience I’ll spell it phonetically like this: Vinyin.
Consciousness in Buddhism isn’t its own independent thing or even equated with life [Jiva] or being alive. Vinyin is a Faculty or function of Mind. In the same way that we can say Reason and Concentration are faculties and functions of Mind. So in this regard, it makes no real sense to say that “I am Reason,” “I am Reasonable therefore I am alive,” or that “Concentration is the part of me that thinks.” In English it seems to make a lot of general sense to say something like: “I am consciously alive,” but to a well aware Buddhist, this has the same feel as when one says: “I am concentrationally alive” which makes no sense at all.
Vinyin is the part of your Mind that tells you when you see curves on a body: “That’s a girl!” Or when you are grocery shopping and your brain says: “That is an orange, and those are apples.” Or that part of your Mind which says: “Green light means go!” We generally call this “recognition” and “discernment.” It’s a very useful function of “mind” for animals and people to have; but life, existence, and such are not wholly dependent on it. If you had trouble consciously discerning the difference between a red light and green light, you could kill yourself. And it’s a nice thing to have for animals because when things like winter comes and you are a duck, you can recognize the signs of the approach of winter and say to your duck buddies: “Let’s fly south, I reckon it’s gunna get cold.”
Vinyin has two sidekicks and 5 employees: Recognition and Awareness; and the 5 senses. Vinyin is like a police chief who sits in an office unconnected to the outside world. This police chief has two secretaries or dispatcher who send out 5 cops who write reports about everyday events in the city and turns those reports into the chief’s two secretaries. The chief starches his head and asks his secretaries: “Well, what do you two make of this report?” And the two secretaries say: “I Recognize the criminal sir,” and the other says: “I am Aware he’s in our file somewhere, here he is sir.” That’s when the chief say: “Oh, Right! Good job in bringing this to my conscious attention, had you not done so, I would have been completely unconscious of it.”
Awareness in the Mystical West seems to be fungible with the idea of “consciousness,” and sometimes it appears to be one entire thing: Conscious Awareness; which to me feels redundant. It’s like saying Reasonable Logic. Awareness is a subordinate function of Vinyin. In the same way that we can say that Critical Thinking is not Reason, but is a subordinate function of Reason whereby Reason apprehends a subject more Rationally.
Awareness in Thai and Khmer is “Arom,” or “Aram.” Most of the time Arom is used in context to a “dwelling near,” “lingering,” or “nearness.” For example my grandmother once looked tired and I asked why she looked tired, and she said: “I haven’t had much sleep lately. I’m an old woman. My Arom lingers most night around my children and grandchildren.” In English we would say that she had trouble sleeping because she was “thinking” too much about her children and things. But in this culture and “paradigm” it is one’s Awareness that lingers or is fixated or attached to “something” and not an unstoppable process of thinking that keeps her awake. Because Awareness predates language and “thinking.” It is a wordless function we inherited from the animals we evolved from.
Mindlessness
You don’t have to be Buddhist, or a mystic, or new ager to learn what consciousness is. Nature has provided many examples to learn from. The best teacher of what consciousness is in our own human terms is a baby. I have over 30 cousins, and I’m one of the older ones, so I got to raise and babysit many of my cousins.
When a new baby is born, it comes into the world Unconscious. Most of the time they sleep, and in those very early moments they aren’t very responsive to stimuli. Then their brain starts to kick into to that secondary stage of growth and development outside the uterus. There eyes opens for the first time, and that’s when their faculty of “consciousness” first begins to develop. They use their sight and ears first to learn to hone their Awareness on things. And the very first thing most of us humans come into Awareness of is our mother’s face when she holds us. Their eyes fixates or lingers or dwells on that face, and there is an emotional – wordless/thoughtless – imprinting of recognition of that face to a “feeling.” There is then a “knowing” of that face. Not an intellectual knowing; but a knowing that is wordless and thoughtless.
If you have pets, you’ll know what I am trying to get at. Your pet dog does not speak or think in English like we do. They do no intellectualize or philosophize in thought like we do. But yet they recognize you and are aware of you, and their recognition or awareness is primevally affixed to Feelings. It is a “Mindless Knowing” that is more Natural and Primal then intellectual knowing.
The coolest age to witness the real development of human consciousness in a baby it when they start to crawl and put every thing in their mouths. They’re like weird aliens with a big appetite for raw Awareness. You can see at that age where they learn to refine their awareness skills, because they stare at things that catches their attention with huge opened eyes, drooling. And they put everything in their mouths. One of my sociology groups I hung out with in school got together once and we did this one “experiment” where we all had to feel and become aware of things WITHOUT thinking or formulating thoughts by putting things in our mouths like babies. It feels silly when you do it, but in the end you learn that the mouth and tongue picks up very fine details of texture and tactile feel of things that works better then your fingers. It’s almost a more intimate way to directly apprehend things for the sake of raw awareness, if that makes any sense.
In Buddhism and Buddhist cultures there is a word for that “Thing” which “Mindlessly Knows,” things, which “mindfully feels” for things in a more primal way sans word and thought. The word is “Chitta/Citta.” Chitta means “Heart.” But not the heart that beats in your chest. Heart as in the “Seat” or Source of your thoughtless feelings, opinionless emotions, and wordless knowings. Chitta is also the primal source of volition and intent. The first thing a baby comes into existence with is Chitta. It is the part of the baby which feels, desire, needs, and cries. The phrase, “One’s Chitta” can mean approximately “One’s Mindset,” or how you feel about something or one’s “Attitude.”
In English this word is almost always mistranslated as “Mind,” and I do it too, but only because the Modern English language seems to not have a word that comes close to Chitta. I think the Greeks had one and I have seen Old English words that mean Heart, Mind, and Soul at the same time, which I would say would better grasp what Chitta is. But not “Mind” as in your brain and its functions. Other times Chitta is abusively translated into English as “consciousness.”
The word Chitta is a generic everyday word in Thai and Khmer. It’s not mystical or magical. In every day speak we say it as “Chet,” or “Jet.” When you want to say you “Like” something as in to like a person or object, you say “Jol Chet,” which literally means “To Go Into One’s Heart/Emotions.”
There is a compound word that is very important in my family and to any civilized person with culture and manners called “Chet Kamnud.” Kamnud means like a sort of reflective thinking. So you are at WalMart and walking to the entrance and you see an old lady walking to the door with a cane. If you have Chet Kamnud, you are able to reflectively say to yourself: “What would it Feel like to be her? To be in her condition?” And when you are able to empathize with her inside your Chet/Chitta, you open the door for her. And the same thing with an old homeless man that you would walk by. If you are a person with Chet Kamnud your chet tugs at you and stops you, and you enter a reflective mood and “Feel” the homeless man’s condition inside your Chitta; and from that feeling the volition, will, intent to help is born. Chitta is the source of human volition, will, and intention. It is the Initiator, whereas consciousness (vinyin) is the Observer. That’s a very important “relationship” to keep in mind.
In my own family and culture, if you don’t have Chet Kamnud, you are said to be Barbaric and worse in condition to an animal, because even a dog Feels for its own and its own children. And the phrase to describe a barbaric human or a person without chet kamnud is “Chet Akrok” which literally means “Ugly Heart.”
Just last night at dinner my step dad was telling everybody present about his day at work with his American business partners at one of his places. His two partners are blood brothers old in age [~70-ish]; interestingly named David and Richard [lol]. David is the older and when he was young worked for NASA as an engineer working on the camera systems that got put into NASA satellites. But my step dad was gossiping to a large group of us about how David had ordered a large pizza and he saw Ta Dave [“Grampa Dave”] eat the entire pizza by himself! I thought it was going to be a real interesting and noteworthy story, but it was about “Grampa Dave” eating a pizza. And he said it like he was reporting to us a lethal car accident he saw on the freeway or something or like he saw a UFO in the sky.
And my grandma said: “A whole pizza, and his brother, did he get his own pizza? I hear those Americans eat big. They’re built like giants you know?” My step dad said: “No ma’am, Ta Dave didn’t call his brother to eat the pizza! Richard was STILL working! He didn’t get his own and Ta Dave didn’t leave any behind for his brother!” And then all of a sudden you can hear every aunt and lady and grandma in the room gasp and cry out: “Oh Buddha, the barbarity!” One of the grannies said: “What has the world come to when flesh and blood don’t even Recognize one another any more?!” Then my mom said: “Where do these kinds of people come from? They have no manners, culture, honour, or respect for anything. His own flesh and blood brother and he didn’t have the chet kamnud to call his brother and share! We even feed table scraps to the stray cats in our front yard. You see what I told you Chloe?! I beg you, if you love me as your mother, don’t ever marry one of them.”
So anyways. Now we have three things to take a close look at: 1) Awareness; 2) Consciousness; & 3) Chitta. How are these three related to each other and how do they work together? I can try and paint a picture so you can intuitively get a feel for how these three things work together.
You are sitting at a coffee shop drinking coffee or tea people watching. An attractive person walks into the shop that catches your attention. This person sits down in your line of sight and is talking on the phone. You now gaze into her direction. That catch of attention and gazing is Awareness. Something inside of you stirs because of this attractive person, and you focus on her in a more refined manner. Other people’s conversations are blocked out, you only hear her voice. You eyes focus on every strand of hair, every crease of flesh, every fold of clothing on this person. In essence you are absorbing as much data and detail as you can; almost as if to bring this person into sharper mental focus.
This act of absorption and sharpening of focus, where even this person’s voice and conversation can be discern above the loud chattering of the coffee house, is consciousness or is the act of the mind’s faculty of consciousness. Something inside – a wordless feeling, a impulse to act, a yearning, a desire – causes you to get up, walk to this person and ask for their name. That “something” which stirs beneath us in these moments, that “causes” or moves us or nudges us wordlessly and thoughtlessly to act is Chitta. And so from this simple explanation you can figure out on your own that Chitta – volition, will, intent, intuition – and thinking are two very different parts and often conflicting aspects of you.
For even when Chitta desires and stirs in us a primal impulse to act, we often stop ourselves and intellectualize the situation and say to ourselves: “No I can’t talk to this person, she’s out of my league,” or “He’ll never want to talk to me, I’ll make a fool out of myself.” That idiot part of us that is the source of so many of our life regrets is the conscious mind (vinyin). It has utilized its 5 senses to assess the situation, and its memory faculty then waves in front of it a memory of a time when it was rejected. Being now consciously reminded of such, it resist. That’s the power and weakness of consciousness. That conscious mind and its fearful chattering ruins the potential for relationships, great business opportunities, and in the battlefield, its idiotic chattering can get you and your men killed. There is an advice the Buddha gives, which is that if you don’t want to suffer in life, keep that consciousness in check at all times. The Buddha was asked once what single word he would pick to best explain his Dharma and Way. And Buddha said “Taming.” God-consciousness, can you imagine making a god out of a fool?
Primal Unconscious
I see no problem with people trying to intellectualize and philosophize about the Nature of Consciousness. I think it’s great, and I often read some very interesting new insights. The potential problem with how the Western Occult is approaching Consciousness is Fixation or Focus of their attention only on Consciousness, which plays on the weakness of the Chitta’s faculty of consciousness.
If we did not know what Reason was, or had a hard time understanding what Reason, was, we can get a general feel for what it is by studying and observing the subordinate functions of Reason. For example we can observe critical thinking, analytical thinking, logic, and so on, and from these, we can indirectly calibrate approximately what Reason is you see. And consciousness works in the same way. If we don’t know what it is or have a hard time understanding it we just observe closely the two primary subordinate functions of consciousness: Discernment and Awareness.
We know from studying animals and babies that Awareness has something to do with a “focusing” of what senses they have on “targets of awareness.” A cheetah in the hunt, crouched low in the savanna grass, with its eyes intensely fixated on its prey is awareness and consciousness working together. Except the more conscious you are of one thing, the more the rest of everything fades into a subconscious blur. If you have babies, pets, or even yourself, you can learn to figure this out. When your consciousness – your attention and all its sensory faculties – are intensely fixated at something, and somebody comes by you, they startle you and you loose that intense conscious fixation. Or you can just hold your hand up and focus your consciousness on that hand, and you’ll notice that the more focused you are on the hand, the less conscious you become of the background and surrounding.
I know there will be people who will say: “Well, if consciousness is dumb and we didn’t have it, wouldn’t we all be dead or zombies?” And that’s like me trying to tell you about how your eyes work at focusing in on visual targets to apprehend an object and saying: “But the eyes are weak, because they are prone to optical illusion, and they only work well at a certain natural resolution and lighting, so keep your eyes and what you see in check.” And then you complain: “Well, if eyes are dumb and we didn’t have it, wouldn’t we be blind?” Well yeah!
Consciousness or vinyin is to an animal’s eye ball, as an eye ball is to the primitive photoreceptors of a box jellyfish. It’s an evolutionary extra way or refined way of acquiring and interpreting data from one’s Natural environment.
Sometimes for a primitive animal that is struggling to adapt and evolve, total blindness doesn’t do much so you grow simple light receptors. There will come a time when those simple light receptors will have to be updated to retina powered eye balls. As you evolve on, you may decide to get a further sensory upgrade and get things like color vision and binocular vision you see. These are all add-ons to the Causal Organism’s Sensatory Data Plan. So as a creature with newly updated color and binocular vision trying to survive and maybe even dominate your territory, you might say to yourself and fellow fish: “You know what, I really like color vision, and the ability to discern depth comes in real handy, but I wish I had something that could tell me what the hell I was looking at. I see things clearly, but my brain doesn’t seem to register what the hell I’m looking at, and if we can’t consciously tell a predator apart from a potential mate, then our species is screwed.”
So consciousness is like a fast microchip that takes in all of your sensory input and allows you to not only recognize what you are looking at, but become aware of things around you. If you have an iPhone or a Droid, consciousness is like your Pinch & Zoom. Your awareness sees the initial environment [website], then you pinch and zoom to get a more refined or focused awareness of specific spots. Which is why most of the time people in general will feel their consciousness to be somewhere in the eye or eye brow region, and why in general, you are most consciously aware of what you are directly looking at.
Consciousness is; despite what many will assume or believe; is not the “thinking” part of a person. Consciousness is the Observer, it does process and interpret data, which we may call “intellectualizing,” “memorizing,” and “recalling.” It’s the faculty which you use to Observe [focus awareness on] the Natural environment, process, and store data with. It doesn’t create your thoughts.
You can ask: “How so, I’m consciously aware of thinking all the time.” No you’re not. You are consciously aware of having thought after the fact. You Observe yourself in the act of thinking, or in the act of speaking, and sometimes when your consciousness is fixated on other things you’re not even aware of what you think or say. What does this mean: “Think before you speak!” Who did the speaking and why weren’t you aware of it? What does this imply: “Think before you act!” Who did the acting and why weren’t you conscious of it? How many times have you driven a car, or taken a walk, and your mind drifted to recall something pleasant, and then you snap out of it realizing you made it to your destination somehow.
If you honestly ask yourself who is doing the speaking and thinking, and you study closely past conversations you had, you eventually come to notice that you don’t actually consciously plan out or script each word you say before you say them. You don’t even proof read them before they flow out of your mouth. All your consciousness is to the conversation is an Observer. You observe yourself speaking. Those words flows out of your mouth prefabricated from an unknown inner source. If you are a thinker, you’ll notice the same thing. You only Observe your thought, which flows into your awareness from an unseen source and thought provider. If you are a writer, musician, or artist, you will understand this concept intuitively. Or if you are a deep thinker, you’ll understand that none of the revelations, epiphanies, and new ideas you “had” are honestly yours which you consciously created. It came to you, from an unknown source.
All this time these mundanes glorify their egos, their Selves, and an aspect of their mental function that merely Observes, never realizing what lays beneath. Like Dorothy and her friends before the Wizard of Oz, that statute of smoke and thunderous voice. You believe that idol of consciousness is alive, is the thinker, is the speaker, is the life behind the form. Until Dorothy – the one with Empathy – walks behind the statue revealing to the Brainless, the Heartless, and the Gutless that the Wizard is just a statue. Just a tool of a hidden man. It’s not until that hidden speaker is pulled out of his hiding place, that the dumb is given a intelligence think with, the numb is given a Heart to feel with, and the scum are given the guts to walk around propped up idols of society.
Chitta is the unconscious primal mind, the hidden speaker, the hidden thinker, the feeler, the source of primal volition, will, and intention. It exists in a Natural state of non-consciousness which is its primordial realm. Like a neuron or octopus, it stretched out its arms up above to Feel for data. And with the data it acquires it initiates intent, will, or volition. It does not think with reason. It Feels with Empathy, “thinks” with intuition.
We’re not born Reasonable. We never take notice of that. Nature does not first endow her creatures at birth with logic and reason. She gives them first Chitta: intuition, empathy, intention, will, volition, and feeling. Every order of creature has the feeling of want of food and nourishment. An undeveloped kangaroo fetus intuitively “knows” where and how to find that source of nourishment without thinking. A baby penguin “knows” its mother, even after she has been gone for 6 months at sea hunting for fish. Without Chitta, an animal can’t survive in Nature. Everything else comes later. The eye sight, motor skills, refined awareness, discernment, thinking, etc, as a means to assist this primal mind in its causal environment.
At times this unconscious Chitta and our conscious mind enters painful conflict. If you are gay or bi then you’ll know this conflict. Primal Chitta just feels, just wills, just desires, just yearns with passion and need. And growing up young with certain feeling surfacing up deep within from somewhere unknown often conflicts with our consciousness and what it has been taught, trained, and conditioned to believe. And so we grow confused. But the confusion is an intellectual confusion; because deep down – chitta – we know what we are and what genuinely will make us happy.
But there are many other times and situations where primal unconscious and consciousness conflicts. Only the conscious mind evaluates things based on right and wrong, good and evil. Chitta only feels, and initiates or creates intent, volition that gives rise and motion to act based on what it intuitively feels. If it is threatened and it is a baby, it cries from protection and solace. If it is threatened, and it is a capable mother bear, it kills without remorse. Only the conscious mind, with its college educated discourses, church acquired morals, and party ideologies gives abstract values to such primal acts, which for aeons since before its lofty judgment, have been wordless, thoughtless, and Natural. Only consciousness [human] ends up confused about the ethical rights and wrongs of killing, tribal war, premarital sex, herd conformity, etc.
Citta Santana
Chitta seems like a lonely thing locked up away inside your chest, but it really isn’t. It has a more colorful place in the universal scheme of things. Chitta Santana are two words which roughly means Mind-Continuum, Data-Stream, or Mind-Stream. The Buddha explains that Chitta is not a solitary “thing” but an aspect or part of a collective or hive of Chittas, where each Chitta is akin to a current of a flowing stream. Santana roughly means a Stream, but has the quality of a spectrum or a sort of continuum like the electromagnetic continuum would be a Santana, in that it flows together, but each portion of the flow maintains its own unique signature or identity. The light spectrum would also be a Santana for the same reason that the light flows together in unison, but each color remains its own color.
The Chitta Santana is said to be evolutionary in flow, meaning that collectively and as individual chittas there is a natural evolutionary progression beginning from the most simplest states of being towards more sophisticated states of being.
Each chitta stream is said to be eternal or non-temporal or beyond the confines of causal time and locality. At face value this sounds like a soul or spirit. But the Buddha curbs or flanks the ideation on the Mindstream with Sunyata [Impermanence] and a concept called Pannabhava.
Panna means Again and Bhava means Being or Becoming, together they mean a Re-Becoming. This word, because of its strangeness is mistranslated into English as “Re-Incarnation.”
We can illustrate and make intuitive sense of all this using modern ideas. For example lets say we were farmers, and that we had traveled to southern France and obtained a seed of a strain of grape from an old vineyard. We plant this seed to cultivate it for more seeds. The grape vine gives us seeds, and dies. This is sunyata in effect, because all things change. But before that vine died, it gave us something which if we planted it could carry on its DNA data and outward quality. So we plant these seeds. Each sapling – because they contain genetic information from their original parent can be said to be a “Re-Becoming” of the original vine, in the sense that the strain, kind, essence, germ, of the original plant has re-come into being. This is not to imply that the original dead plant reincarnated into an entire vineyard. Then we can say to ourselves: “If we continue to cultivate this strain of grapes and pass our vineyard to our children and their progeny for another thousands years, this Strain or Type of grapes or its genetic information would be like a Stream of Information that flows beyond the restrictions of time and locality.”
And from an aeonic and chronomorphic perspective, this stream appears to be a single, growing, evolving living amorphous begin. Such that we can say if this Stream and its plants were adaptable to the environment and the environment were to alter gradually over centuries, that this Lifestream of our crop would thus evolve to adapt to the changes producing new causal plants to come into existence. So we can say that this Lifestream of ours is not only eternal – insofar as the sun and earth continues to exist – it is evolutionary.
See, so when we take that mindset of streams of grapes, and use the same idea in the animal kingdom and begin 4 billion years ago we can say that the primordial lifeforms on earth is an eternal Lifestream which is a continuum of chittas, each kind as its own current in the greater collective stream, evolving symbiotically and collectively across and beyond the temporal confines of the causal world.
Except Chitta is not by Nature a causal “thing” dependent on or arising from organic chemistry. It is formless, primal, unconscious, and “acausal,” in the sense that its will, volition, intent, feelings, etc arise from within itself without causation. Although Chitta can be said to be “reactive” or reactionary, in that if it acquires data, it may react with its will or emotion in relation or according to the data it apprehends.
Chitta, and Mindstream because it is the initiator, speaker, and thinker, has the Nature of being the issuer or source of “thought-forms,” which carries the impression of its thought. Our conscious thoughts, our ideas, the words we speak, the visualizations we have, the images in our dreams, arise from our chitta. And so it is said that the universe is thus the manifestation of the collective thought-form of Mindstream.
Well, regardless of where the cosmos comes from or what the ultimate nature of Chitta is; Consciousness is only an “Outer Form” and tool of chitta which it uses to focus in on the Natural world. There is more than to a person then consciousness. When we deify or fixate our awareness on consciousness, we fail to see other things. And with something like a primal unconscious which most of us can’t even feel in the first place, looking for the holy grail in consciousness misdirects our attention from ever taking notice of or exploring chitta. But feeling this inner mind requires a stillness of the conscious mind and an honest quest to better understand what we each are in all our aspects and multifaceted Nature. Often the conscious mind only gets in the way. It’s unfortunate that the Western Occultniks have followed the insane Hindus and are continuing to make gods and idols of it. I suppose a Mundane/Anariya will always be Mundane in that they will always look for idols openly displayed in the most obvious and mundane of places; never venturing into primal darkness to discover what may lurks in the deep.
Parallels
I don’t hate or dislike the West. I just greatly dislike all forms of the Western Tradition, which includes the New Age Movement, Wicca, all those mystical orders, the Shishkabbalah, and the Western Occult. But I equally greatly hate the Eastern Occult Traditions as well, in all it’s forms and manifestations. Why? Because it’s stupid. What is it but a bunch of crazy gurus and vultures who philosophize about things they have no real direct experience of, intimate association or connexion with for self glory and profit?
Think about it: how many “magickians” in the east or west can honestly say without bullshitting that they have seen demons, studied them in their natural demonic habitat as an anthropologist? None, but yet the occult world is crawling with experts on gods, spirits, and demons. How many occultniks out there can say that they honestly study and research Nature, biology, zoology, and so on to know what they are talking about? None, the closest most of these occultniks have been exposed to Nature is a squirrel at a city park. Most of these occultniks haven’t even individuated themselves from their Urban Samsara: that Urban reality superimposed on Nature.
Everything they see and interprets is thus tainted with Urban perception. And so obviously if there are gods in heaven they must have governments like people. Which is why you often hear of gods being equated with political offices like “king,” and the occultniks will go so far as to invent a whole political system of princes, and earls, and lords, and jesters of hells and heavens.
Nowadays, if you notice, when most occultniks exist in and are born into an Urban reality which is democratic, you see the king and feudal shit down played, and you start seeing the spirit world taking on a democratic flavour too. Because before when gods were kings that ruled with absolute power, you as a human were a serf in the make believe kingdoms with no power or right to be gods yourself. But now what do you notice: Everybody has equal rights, the democratic opportunity, and liberty, to work at being gods too! Everybody’s free to achieving Christ-consciousness, Krishna-consciousness, Buddhahood, Godhood, or whatever. Some one once said: “If horses could draw, their gods would look like horses.” It’s a true statement, and if these fools could invent themselves a make believe spirit world, it would look like the world they live in too: a democratic one, where everyone can be president. But these ignorant clowns in the “Popocculture” [al la Kori H] industry can’t see the bullshit.
I have a great amount of respect the insights born from Westerners and Easterners that are sensible, rational, and that actually try to study and research their field of interest within the limits of or in approximation to the Scientific Method. Make an Observation; make a Hypothesis; Experiment, Experience Directly; then Theorize, Meditate on, and Analyze. It’s a simple methodology that is easily applicable. And when we start to follow a rational process of analyzing ourselves and our reality, then strive to either experiment or directly experience life and what we are studying we all basically end up with the same results.
These results aren’t as colorful and sensational as the beliefs and theories the Occult Clowns makes up and pull out of there ignorant asses, which is why you don’t often here much about them. When dealing with Mundanes, the most sensational stories and lunatic crackpot beliefs and action packed world views sell and circulate the best. Zazen would bore the hell out of these Mundanes. So would taking a nature walk and just feeling and noticing Nature directly and intimately. So would the idea of a quiet cosmos which just slowly undulates and evolves in harmony with all its parts and pieces. It’s gotta be a Darwinian Struggle; Class Struggle; a fight between good and evil for domination of the universe. Not even killing is sensible with these occult clowns. Killing happens all the time in Nature in a sensible and practical manner, and it’s been this way sense the emergence of organic creatures. But with these assclowns it’s either nothing or all. It’s either killing in any form is evil, or kill 2 billion of the stupid people [people who don’t think like you].
In the more sensible and rational arena of thought, there are parallels between East and West. Such parallel ideas have comes about independently at different times from people who gave such subjects deep thought. Where someone like Buddha – or those that engineered Buddhism – discovered the idea of Mindstream that is a collective; someone like Jung had the idea of the Collective Unconscious. Where in the rational East Chitta/Citta is the unconscious primal mind; in the West there was/is the idea of an unconscious mind also.
And I’m not entirely stupid. I am aware that in modern Hindu psychology – which is a joke – that Citta is equated with what the Occident identifies as the Subconscious mind. Which I don’t buy for a number of reasons. Firstly they’re Hindu, nuff said. These are people that worship rats, statues, and got an outdated caste system. Secondly what’s the motive behind extricating a sectarian/philosophical ideation like Citta and repackaging it into a semiacceptable psychological conception? Why not just use they word “subconscious,” or use a different Sanskrit word? Why recycle the word and concept of Citta? Lastly, how did they come to that conclusion and theorization anyway? By directly experiencing and feeling Citta, or out of dead texts books and lectures given by other who have never themselves gone deep.
I disagree that Chitta is the Subconscious mind. I can’t bust out a book and bibliography; because everything I know and understand about Chitta comes from old monks who meditate and go deep to directly experience such things, and from my own amateur feeling/grasping for Chitta. Sambuddhi: Self Enlightenment, inherently means that you learn shit on your own, from your own efforts, experiences, pathe-mathos, and observation, not by beings spoon fed by text books and academic lectures.
The subconscious mind – minus the occult, new age, and new thought bullshit which constitutes 99% of the subject matter – is a not a “mind,” like you can say your brain is a mind. It doesn’t even have a truly defined topographical “area” or definition; actually Freud never used the word or term “subconscious.” In one sense it is – and this is my own personal assessment of it – the “subconscious mind” is a “place” between the unconscious and the conscious, that specializes in regulating and maintaining involuntary bodily functions. If you were an astronaut in the International Space Station, the subconscious “mind” would be the computer program and system that controls and regulates Life Support.
All the space stations sensory equipment and the software that specifically works in translating such sensory data would be the conscious mind. You as the person floating inside is/are the unconscious. If you think about it and pretended you were an astronaut out in deep space you’d gradually gain an intuitive feel for what this word “unconscious” feels like. As an astronaut you are completely ignorant about the environment of space and also nearly inoperable in this space environment. The Nature and way of space is not your Nature. We can say that space is the home environment of things like suns, stars, galaxies, planets, moon, and asteroids: things which came into being and evolved within that space environment and its natural laws. Whereas you are human, with a terrestrial animal nature, in an alien environment.
All you can do in this environment is float in your little space station you constructed, push a few buttons, manipulate electricity and digital data flow, and hope everything works ok. You don’t know anything about this environment without your station’s sensory equipment and the data they are streaming in for you to study and become aware of. You are “Non-conscious” of the vast majority of the environment of space, ignorant of its anything that is going on inside it anywhere.
Your space station’s computer software which takes in raw data from this environment which was specifically programmed and created to “understand” and compute data in relation to the natural way of space can be said to be “conscious” of space, insofar as it is able to discern, recognize, and be aware of aspects of that space environment such as electromagnetic and cosmic ray fluctuations, sun spot flairs, solar wind storms, orbital velocity, position and location in relation to things, etc, things which you are Naturally – by your very Nature – are Unconscious of. All you really do in that space station – all that you can do – is Initiate volition, exert will, give rise to intent, feel, and react according to what data you receive of your outside environment. You are the only “living” component inside the entire contraption, everything else is a machine with Functions and Faculties which you operate and use so you can remain in that environment for a while.
I wouldn’t say that the Collective Unconscious, and/or the Mindstream Collective is the Chitta of the Living Cosmos. I think the cosmos is fractal. I can observe in a fertilized egg a single whole zygote, which divided itself into many parts; and so from that small fractal pattern, I would assume that the Chitta or Unconscious of the Living Cosmos is “beneath” the Collective Unconscious, existing in a “pre-differentiated” state. What do we mean by the idea “collective?” We mean many “things” coming together as some sort of cohesive mass. What do I mean by “pre-differentiated” state? I mean to approximately suggest the concept that even beneath every unique cell we have in our bodies, there is a nucleus which contains DNA material which exists as it does in an “un-differentiated” state. How each cell ends up differentiated even though they all contain the same DNA blueprints, is a different – and more mysterious matter – which I don’t know about yet.
So we can hypothesize that the Chitta of the Living Cosmos – the Acausal from which Life Force arises – is like the nucleus of the Cosmos which contains undifferentiated data, or which exists in a state of undifferentiation. Then “on top” of it would be a collective yet differentiated layer: the Collective Unconsious Mindstream. “On top” of that is where individuation arises where each current in the Mindstream is its own datastream [unconscious]. And from the weaving of thought forms and waves etc, crystallizes the causal world. I think the word “weaving” is a great descriptive word which explains the process where things come together into a coherent structure don’t you think? Crystallization is just atoms weaving themselves together into a tightly woven structure, as how the cellular membrane is a woven or coherent structure made of lipid molecules. Now we just need to figure out where this “cosmic nucleus” came from.
Chloe 352
Order of Nine Angles
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