Perception
By The World Teacher

The human brain can be an instrument of self-tortured anxiety or struggles of ambition and conflict, but it can also be an organ of perception when the anxieties and struggles come to a stop.  Therefore, the seeing of the actual state of your own material brain is deeply significant for the development of heightened and extended awareness.

 

Since your brain is a physical part of your body, the level of purity and energy in your body will strongly affect the state of your brain, which is quite obvious.  Your brain state is therefore affected by both your body and your psychological disposition.  If you improve the psychological attitude, you can still undermine the brain with a bad diet; if you put your body on a better diet, you can still disturb your brain with wrong mental attitudes.

 

When the brain is dull or disturbed, it cannot clearly reflect awareness and function as an organ of perception.  Adhering to a particular religion, tradition or philosophy will not give you direct perception of the state of your brain and how it gets that way.  Krishnamurti endlessly pointed this out and he was basically correct.

 

Can you look at what is really happening to you in life without adding distorting beliefs or disbeliefs to your perception?  Can you see how beliefs and disbeliefs distort your perception and prevent higher extended awareness?  This of course includes your beliefs or denials about yourself, your own psychological attitudes, your brain and your body.  It also includes your judgments of other people you are in relationship with as to their being, their psychological states and motivations, their conditions of their brains and bodies.  So judgment in relationship obviously mirrors our beliefs and denials about ourselves.

 

Our social self is in many ways the product of our constantly active brain of anxiety and ambition, of fear and aggression coming from the heart of dark ignorance, which uses the brain for avoiding and getting.  Living primarily in their inner darkness, human beings keep their brain states dull or disturbed in avoidance of direct perception of what is really going on.  For the vast majority, real thinking, perception and self-awareness have not even begun.  The real or spirit self alone can do real thinking, perception and self-awareness.  The social self is just an unhappy, pitiful little condition that endlessly tries to avoid the truth of itself and of all the other billions of mediocre and pathetic entities like itself on the planet.  It is also this same social self that creates endless confusions and conflicts in its supposedly close and intimate relationships.

 

Higher awareness does not have fears, hidden pains, cover-ups, evasions, confusions, contradictions, arguments, conflicts, making of points to dominate, upsets or nervous breakdowns.  All such states of mind are of the biological robotics of the brain-self, the desperate little physical “me” with its self-defensive routines of self-deception, lying and pretence.  The functions of the nasty, selfish and insecure but proud everyday physical self are not functions of higher awareness.  This has to be fully seen and completely understood without secondary theories, interpretations or brain-explanations.

 

When we find ourselves in a painful situation with a difficult, upset and negative human being who cannot relate sincerely heart to heart, there is no place for us to go but into higher awareness where false relationship or inability to connect are no longer dragging us down into futile and exhausting persuasions and arguments.  Higher awareness is vastly beyond petty difficulties with the immature.  It is not that higher awareness is cold and evil, but rather that it alone can enter into genuine empathy with other higher awarenesses.  It is the disturbed, the insane, who accuse a higher awareness of being cold, of “lack of love”.

 

Higher awareness dwells in a universal, total realm of oneness, beauty and bliss.  There is no anguish, bad faith or self-division in higher awareness.  There are no existential problems there.  I am there now.  Fundamentally, I am never anywhere but there at any time in any apparent circumstance.  I am Spirit.  I am higher awareness.  I am not an emotionally tortured neurotic social self of humanity.  I refuse to identify with the wretched and false relationships and conflicts that human beings promote both individually and collectively.  Humanity is obviously mentally ill, both individually and collectively, because there is so little of self-awakening of higher awareness in people.  To be normal on this planet is to be ignorant, proud, emotionally upset, angry and afraid.  To become supranormal through self-awakening of higher awareness, through rising up to a better place for consciousness in oneself, is the only real solution to whatever the problem is.

 

Real living and true fulfillment begin with physical purity and higher awareness, not with attempts to dominate and control another, not with fear or anxiety keeping the brain noisy and blind.  Real perception, which is directly experiential and not a mere theory or adherence to a tradition or cult, is the magical gateway into a new life of exploration, discovery, learning, development, transcendence and far-out transformation of even our human flesh.