The Mind Mirror—The Zone of Creativity

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The mirror has been used as a zone of transition in so many symbolic references. In the Harry Potter story; the mirror on the wall in Sleeping Beauty; The Magic Mirror; in Alice in Wonderland (Alice moves through into another world); in Raymond Moody’s replication of the psychomanteon of ancient Greece where one enters into the world of spirit; the mirror in Star Trek; the breaking through the time warp, which is the parallel of the mirror. All of these are sensed references to a state of mind, of creativity, of enlarged insight which lies close at hand. It is the state of mind we experience in lucid dreaming, or in lucid meditation. At such
times one is half-awake-half-asleep, dreaming, imaging and receiving inspiration while being consciously aware at the same time, knowing that all of this is happening. This is a time when the dream consciousness meets the waking consciousness and the two go forth, hand in hand, each acting as a guide for the traveler in the land of the other.

I have used the following as my model, and I have spoken of it, perhaps repeatedly, in earlier articles: In the beginning is the All, the “Ain Sof”, the nothingness out of which everything is created. Its tremendous energy filters down through seven levels, the fourth level called, in Sanskrit, Buddhi; in this domain resides the “Soul” and it is the messenger of the Spirit. The Spirit is the All, the ultimate Creator, and the inhabitant, at the same time, of each thing that is created. In the course of the human journey, the Soul, weaves out of itself, progressively lower vibrations which become the thought body (the mental body), the astral (the emotional body), and then the physical body, our physical self, infused by a life energy called the etheric net.

When me meditate and enter into lucid meditation we arrive at the mirror, we become creative and ready to receive inspiration.

How do we find the mirror? We find it by making the body comfortable and then forgetting it. We do the same with the emotional body and again with the mental body, letting “mind chatter” drift away until we move into the place of peace, “the zone.” This zone is the mirror of the mind. It is here that we transition to an always-present, always-powerful, always-fertile other world, an inner world.

All of this parallels discoveries of science. Bill Tiller, Professor Emeritus at Stanford University, describes a continuum of energy of all creation. Its fulcrum (of energy vibration) is the speed of light. Everything slower than the speed of light is the area of physical manifestation, our familiar world. Everything faster than the speed of light lives in the subtle realm. For want of a better word, we call it (the subtle realm) the “thought world”, but it is a world of thought far beyond ordinary thought; its mind energy is on the other side of the fulcrum. Everything in this area of subtle (invisible) energy obeys a different set of rules, those same rules that prevail in dreams. It is the “other world.” There, there is only creativity, no longer the restriction of time and space. When we cross the mirror, we access a world that surrounds us, and simultaneously infuses us, at all times. In order to make use of the energy of this world, in order to be enriched by it, we must set aside “doubt,” suspend ordinary beliefs (rooted in materiality), and open to other realms and sometimes strange possibilities. There may be receptions. In the zone, we become capable of super-athletic performance, high creation, poetic performance, visionary and high leadership capacity. We are in the mirror. We are like Alice passing through. If we live in the mirror we access our high potential.

The following are two meditation messages that I received at the mirror-fulcrum:

Beyond Attention

It seemed to me I couldn’t get beyond attention; everywhere I turned attention was watching, and being watched by a higher attention. And then it occurred to me that beyond attention, beyond our own attention, there is always a higher something, watching and directing. At the point at which we turn ourselves over to that higher entity, that higher attention, and pass through the fulcrum of the energetic spectrum. We pass through the speed of light and emerge on the other side. Rudolph Steiner has said that on the other side we are seized by the attention of higher entities, whereas, on this side the material realm, we seize the objects of our attention. I believe this is so. So many things seem to converge on the idea of the fulcrum:
• the fulcrum being the speed of light;
• the fulcrum being attention;
• the fulcrum being the veil;
• the fulcrum being the passage through death of the body;
• the fulcrum being the passage into the dream;
• the fulcrum being the Theta state of meditation.

We Should Live On the Other Side

I was in numerous vision-quest dreams, in all of which I was with some woman. We were teaching a new generation through meditation. It seemed to me that the veil between the two worlds was very transparent, and I would, so to speak, awaken from these visions with sudden realization that I was in them, and they were very real.

The most recent: I was in a church and woman came with a sheaf of papers. We were deciding how to teach meditation to our class, which class would be the world.

And then another: I had finished my meditation and walked through the door where I saw a teacher ready to bring her class to a conclusion with a colored square fabric. She was a long, lean honey-colored woman. When I opened the door, the very sound awoke her students in meditation. Then it came to me that our task is to live in the meditative world all the time with its powers of mind, spacelessness, timelessness and to teach that.

Let us strive to live in the zone of the mirror. This means living in two worlds at once, consciously, significantly, beneficently learning, receiving, teaching, growing.

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Contact Dr. Pressman by writing to: Maurie D. Pressman, M.D., 200 Locust Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106, or call 215/922-0204, email: mauriedavid@earthlink.net, or visit his website, www.mauriepressman.com.

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