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This page tries to explore a continuum of thinking modes. On one side of the spectrum there is the mode that you can call the rational disconnected intellect and on the other side of this thinking continuum there is the mental body that only puts into words that what has been discovered by all other parts of yourself.
I noticed that I use the verb 'think' quite a lot in my texts on this site. It was mainly during my years as a student of this movement by Roberto Assagioli called 'Psychosynthesis' that I was often told by my very sensitive female co-students that I was too rational. The thing that many men are often told: they are too mental and as a result they are far too little sensitive for their feelings and emotions.
That's probably one of the reasons why I liked the works of Robert Monroe: it is his rational mode of approaching things that got him as far as he has come in his explorations of the worlds beyond the physical.
My fellow students, however, together with my wife were right: I was too mental and too intellectual in my approach to life. When I started working with the SSoA-perspective I was able to retrieve my emotional body (perhaps see: Subtle Bodies) and I cried through some early-life experiences that were probably at cause of the removal of my emotional body altogether.
During this period I learned to retrieve my other subtle bodies as well and I think that has made a big change. Even though my mental body is probably still the biggest of them all, it is no longer working on its own.
What I have come to believe is that the mental body is at the end of a process of information gathering by various other parts, including the other subtle bodies, but also any connection to my soul group, my source, Earth, ancestors, my body consciousness and probably also a number of distorted personality entities. All these forces combine and create a sound or signal that enters my mental body. The mental body then tries to make sense of it all by putting it into words. It is something that Mila has said in one of her articles as well.
What I am trying to convey is that this last mode of thinking is very different from the first mode of thinking, and whenever I use the verb 'to think' these days, I prefer to think that it is the second mode of thinking that I am talking about and not the rational-only mode of thinking without any connections to the rest of your system.
Feel free to share your thoughts.
Gibbon,
June 2006
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