Mind Player Update 1 January 2020

I continue to be absolutely amazed at this miracle we call life.  Here in Northern New South Wales, Australia we’re now in a transition from gardening in a very lush, green, and moderate sub-tropical coastal environment to engaging in fire prevention in an environment that is dry, hot and continually under threat of fire.  Adjusting to nature’s constant efforts to re-achieve equilibrium, contravening a pathological weather modification and population reduction agenda, seems to be an exercise in both humility and patience.

I was introduced to Robert Bosnak via a newspaper article* – initially discovered by my wife.  

The author said: “Bosnak, one of the world’s best-known dream workers/authors, believes dreams stem from a limitless internal ecosystem of the imagination where our ‘many dissociated selves’ – none of which has a monopoly on so-called reality – ‘live together in a particular kind of organisation.’”

It, like many articles that I have read over the years, indicates, and may be considered to be a validation of, the existence of what I refer to as the Mind Players.

It seemed reasonable to think that knowing the exact location of the Mind Players in the mind could possibly assist in the process of directing, controlling, and remembering dreams.

Hence, I thought there might be a need to modify the Mind Player concept to be more associated with dreaming.  I sensed that would be a big change, and a lot of work, but I was prepared to do what was required.  I was also prepared to keep an open mind – even to the point of scrapping the entire Mind Player project if it were to be the inevitable result of further research (if things were just not fitting together at all).

Then, on my seventieth birthday, something fairly serendipitous happened:  I received two books as gifts from two unconnected friends.  One was from the individual who got me going on this journey in 2013 with the statement concerning the Tarot Reader: “a Tarot reader is actually taking a client out of a trance in which he or she already dwells.”   The book’s title was Luminous Life by Jacob Israel Liberman.  The other book was entitled The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben – which, again somewhat serendipitously, was referred to on page 49 of Liberman’s book.  It’s fascinating that light itself seems to meld all matter together in the same way throughout the universe – including plants and animals, etc.  Lieberman refers to matter as “frozen light”; Australian Aboriginal people refer to matter as the crystallisation of the invisible through thought.

Lieberman  brought to my attention something that I thought quite extraordinary on page 13:  Albert Einstein, famous for his equation E = mc2, with “c” representing the speed of light, was quoted as saying: “For the rest of my life I will reflect on what Light is.”  Lieberman, further stated: “By 1951 he [Einstein] confessed that he had spent fifty years of ‘conscious brooding,’ trying to understand the nature of light yet was no closer to the answer than when he began.”  Einstein died in 1955.  Then on page 58 Liberman presented a conclusion from Arthur Zajonc’s 1995 book Catching the Light:  ”Zajonc’s experiment clearly demonstrated that light is the invisible potential that magically makes all things visible.”

It was fascinating to me that Liberman, a very highly revered optometrist, made mention of something outside of sight and the other four senses which are all controlled via light:  the “sixth sense” – which is also very much connected to the mysterious phenomenon known as light.  This sixth sense seems, to me, to be the mind’s ability to receive and process information via the heart.  On page 49 Liberman states:

“Scientists have long believed that the brain is the conductor of the body’s symphony, instructing the body on what to do, when to do it, and to what degree.  But research conducted at the Institute of HeartMath has demonstrated not only that the heart sends more signals to the brain than the brain sends to the heart, but that these heart-generated signals significantly affect brain function.  The heart generates the body’s most powerful and extensive electromagnetic field, sixty times greater in amplitude than that of the brain.  In addition, the heart’s magnetic field is five thousand times stronger than the brain’s and can be detected several feet from the body.”

This, I think – at least partially – answers a question that I had in mind while reading Liberman’s book: “How are minds able to function in blind people – without this invisible potential going to the brain via the eyes?”  There appears to be quite an elaborate envisioning synthesis process that takes place within the mind field that can produce very bright, full colour imaging, like dreams, etc, while fully by-passing the eyes (wherein it creates its own light?).

In my lifetime, up to this point, there have been only two books that I felt the need to re-read in their entirety three times in quick succession: one was The Ten Terrains of Consciousness, and the other was Luminous Life.

On the third time through Luminous Life I felt the need to ponder upon something I found on page 68. Liberman quoted physicist Amit Goswami – author of The Self-Aware Universe:

“The conscious self [the thinking left hemisphere of the brain] is unconscious of most things most of the time – and of everything in dreamless sleep.  Paradoxically, the unconscious [right hemisphere of the brain] is…conscious of all things all of the time.  It never sleeps.”

I must have re-read the previous quote at least a dozen times before I felt that I finally understood it.  I’ll explain shortly, but I sense that I need to provide you with some clarification beforehand.

Liberman, an optometrist by profession, was talking about the functions of the left and right hemispheres of the brain.  It’s all about how this mysterious and unexplainable and invisible potential called light magically sends information that’s received and processed through our brains…to make things visible.

I was initially moved to discover where the Mind Players dwelled in the Mind – and how, if at all, they had anything to do with dreaming – as Robert Bosnak may have implied.

To make a long story short, I discovered that many scientists have been working on the functioning of the left and right hemispheres of the brain for over seventy years.  As in many areas of research, there were conflicting results.  I then wanted to find out more about the corpus callosum which connects the two hemispheres of the brain – and what happens if this link is cut.  This study, as well, concluded with many different results amongst various patients and postulations amongst various researchers.  I soon discovered that this study, like many others, resulted in the familiar old expression popping up in one’s mind: “For every answer found, multitudes of new questions are generated.”  I realised that I could spend the rest of my life wandering down a never-ending rabbit hole.  I needed to move on.

At this time I feel the need to bring up something that both humours me and may help to clarify what I’m attempting to convey.  The right hemisphere of the brain is referred to by some scientists, researchers, etc. as the unconscious – and yet others refer to the right hemisphere as the subconscious.  I now sense that it is neither.  If the right hemisphere is conscious of all things all the time, it simply cannot be unconscious.  And as it has been proven in endless experiments, the right hemisphere processes information long before the left hemisphere is even aware of the information; hence, the right hemisphere cannot really take second position as the “subconscious”.  But, in order to not conflict with many other authors, I will continue to refer to the right hemisphere of the brain as the “unconscious” and the left hemisphere as the “conscious”.

It has been repeated by Liberman, and many others, that the unconscious mind is responsible for 95% of our functioning lives – where the conscious (or thinking part of the brain) is responsible for only 5%.  And through my own experiences, I can comfortably state that my Mind Players are definitely involved in the “thinking” part of my brain.  Hence, I find myself wondering if the Mind Players could possibly only be limited to the left hemisphere or conscious, thinking, part of the brain – which actually has very little function.

Now back to the understanding I stumbled upon after my dozen re-reads of that all important paragraph I mentioned earlier.  

If the right hemisphere of the brain, referred to by Amit Goswami as the unconscious, that is “conscious of all things all of the time.  It never sleeps.”, then it appears that I could safely assume that it must be fully aware of the Mind Players’ activities – wherever they may be domiciled.

In 2012 J. Alan Hobson gave a presentation on Dream Consciousness.  He coined the term “proto-consciousness”  – which means, in my summation, that the brain prepares itself during the night for the coming of the new day.  Of course he stipulates that there are those who believe that the day comes before the night, but we shall move on.  I believe the most significant comment Mr. Hobson made in that presentation was identifying the difference between lucid dreaming and REM dreaming.  He stated something to the effect that there was a door between the two hemispheres of the brain; and during lucid dreaming the door was open, but during REM dreaming the door was shut – allowing the right hemisphere to totally focus on preparing for the next day.  In other words, it appears that the only dreams one could possibly remember the next day would be those from lucid dreaming – wherein both spheres of the brain were conscious of each other.

Allen David Reed, co-author of The Ten Terrains of Consciousness, stated in recent correspondence with me: “Consciousness means ‘Internal Knowledge’ of being ‘aware’ (of what passes though one’s mind).  At one level you have the operating system – consciousness as sight, hearing, taste, smell, etc. (the level at which the medical model sees consciousness as a locally generated brain-induced phenomena).  Then there is the ability to witness the operating system and its compensatory ‘Mind Players’ all aiming (with their awareness at their Terrain) to ‘stay safe’ – this is the level of ‘programming’ (to run an internal program installed by others).  Then there is the ability to fully transcend the illusion and see the whole play of life.  This is when Infinite Consciousness is stepping far enough back to really take a good look at it’s Self.”  He added: “I'd even suggest Mind Players live in the DNA holographic matrix (the 97% junk), which is 'underneath' the left and right sides of the brain (one side processes the binary logic of the DNA, the other the symbol logic).”  He continued: “And in an Infinite 'non-local' steady-state Consciousness which I believe to be our ultimate reality – you can find evidence for anything!  So who's right?  Everybody!  It just depends on where you place your focus.  And at what iteration of the fractal matrix.  But that doesn't necessarily make it so in the bigger picture.  As everything is an interactive fractal, what are 'the laws of physics (newtonian)' at one level are meaningless at the next iteration.  Quantum physics is a good example – and lots of scientists are lock-horned into a debate as to which one is right (newton or quantum mechanics).  They both are, it is all a matter of perception.  And so it is with Terrains, one arguing from its Terrain it's perception and perspective is correct while the other is arguing they are more correct given their Terrain's perception, etc.  Hence perceptions on any of this can shift (even by the same scientists) as they expand to greater and greater iterations (Terrains).”

I now return to Robert Bosnak.  After viewing many of his YouTube presentations, it was clear that he was not interested in the meaning of dreams; he was only interested in the phenomena of dreams.  After forty years of research, and after interviewing many hundreds or thousands of people concerning their dreams, he felt confident that he could conclude that they all had the same experience in their dreams: “they went somewhere, and something happened.”  However, his statement: “many dissociated selves live together in a particular kind of organisation.” is what continues to hold my focus.

Doors open, doors closed, night before day, day before night, they went somewhere and something happened: something is beginning to materialise in my mind.   I’m seeing mental images of trillions times trillions of molecular elements surrounding me and flowing out of the ether to create multitudes of life forms; they’re all interconnected with each other – even though they may have separate time lines and separate spirits.   Although this has been an interesting journey, it appears that I have, in fact, come full circle.

I, personally, believe the Mind Players to be very real.  However, exactly where they dwell in the mind appears to be anyone’s guess or conjecture.   I’m continuing to ponder Mr. Reed’s  comment about “programming”… and much more.

As I was coming to the close of editing this update Allen David Reed sent me an email suggesting that I look into Holographic Kinetics.  I’m just starting to scratch the surface, but I can fairly safely say “Wow!”  The Australian Original Peoples seem to have been, to various degrees, onto this Mind Player concept for at least 60,000 years – which they, coincidentally enough, refer to as “Dreamtime”.  Looks as though I’ve embarked upon a large circular journey only to arrive at a place where I may simply be a  “Johnny-come-lately” to the Dreamtime scene.  I sense that I can be quite comfortable continuing in what I can now call a modern adaptation of the Dreamtime: Mind Players.  I’m currently considering how the Mind Player concept can be most beneficial to the world.  I think that I’ll be patient, and prepared, to assist those who’ve already experienced a terrain shift within The Ten Terrains of Consciousness, discovered the Mind Player concept, and wish to know more.

*Article by Frank Robson in the 7 September 2019 issue of Good Weekend Magazine of the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper, page 12

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