The Mindscope

Think of your mind like you think of a microscope or a telescope. What's commong to any 'scope' is that it alters the perspective - makes things more readily visible, readable and therefore accessible to your senses. You take one look through the scope and say 'hey, that's what a small bit of fungus looks like through a microscope' or 'wow, look at all those craters on the moon2! Your perspective is altered forever. The next time you look at the moon you think to yourself that that's not what it is. Our minds are much the same except that it is the 'machine' or the 'scope' that views through other 'scopes'. Imagine your mind is like the surface of a still lake on a bright sunny day. The sun is 'exposing' the brilliant colours of nature around you. You try and look to the sun but have to shut your eyes - you dont want to blind yourself, do you? You look at the shimmering vastness of millions of dancing images of the sun on the ripples of water on the lake instead. Each spark of light reflected is the sun but not the sun if you know what I mean. Its one perspective - albeit not an absolute one - but that's all we can muster at the time. Your mind is much like this analogy. What it percieves is what the neurones inside have allowed you to percieve. Its a perspective that your neurones creates - much like the gently undulating waves of the sheet of water in the lake. Is that all there is to reality - for isnt that what you label what your mind allows you to sense, think and feel? The mindscope spiral is the process that the human brain participates in. Starting from the physical brain with trillions of neurones or nerve cells which interact and communicate much like the pool of water in the lake, to give rise to the tool it creates to help us navigate and adapt to our environment - the mind. The mind reflects back to you what the brain allows it to - and on its surface you 'see' what the surface of the lake allows you to see. The mind links what is past with what it can currently sense, think and feel in order to project an image and associated expectation of the future - one where it percieves all that it has percieved in its past. Your future is therefore what you want it to be. What happens 'out there' first happens 'in here' (in your mental space). You imagine what you're going to do before you do it - well almost. Sometimes you also act instantaneously without thinking. But if you think and imagine that the future is bleak it will be so, if you think otherwise it will be so. Next time we'll talk a bit about this spiral or vortex. But does the water in the lake interact with its environment - you bet it does. That's how our minds are - it inter