A healthy mind is dependent on three things, space, stability and silence. This doesn’t mean that I’m disregarding current research suggesting that genetics and environment play their part. What I am suggesting is that the root of mental disease can be found on the subtle levels of energy and consciousness – which means that people and non-physical beings can make you mentally ill or even steal your soul if you let them. So, don’t let them – as Bob Dylan entreats you.
That said; let’s start by debunking some bogus ideas about mental health that have been widely accepted by both the medical community and the lay public.
Bogus Idea # 1
The first bogus idea is that you’re a physical being with a big brain, who evolved from more primitive ancestors.
Sure, your physical-material body has evolved on this planet, and you do have a big brain. But you’re not exclusively a physical being and never have been. You’re an inter - dimensional being whose soul and spirit have been around long before your physical-material body became a vehicle for an advanced soul.
Your sentience is not unique either. You share the multiverse on both the physical-material and non-physical planes with many other beings.
The truth is that the multiverse is teeming with life because the life force animates everything it touches and serves as the medium that connects everything that lives together. It follows that the ubiquity of the life force is sufficient to animate your soul and spirit, which means they don’t require a physical-material body to exist. It also means that you may have incarnated into a physical-material body many times before your soul and spirit arrived on Earth, and some of your earliest incarnations may have been on other planets. In addition, given the fact that you’ve lived many times, it’s unlikely that your mental health has been influenced exclusively by the condition of your nervous system and the chemical interactions that have taken place during your present incarnation.
It’s clear that many factors influence your mental health, including your karmic heritage, attachments, subtle interactions on the levels of energy and consciousness, with other beings, in this life and earlier incarnations on Earth and other planets, as well as your relationship to Gaia and Universal Consciousness, the original source of your existence.
Bogus Idea # 2
The second bogus idea that I want to debunk is that you’re an individual being that communicates exclusively through touch, body language and the spoken word. This bogus idea doesn’t fly any further than the first for good reason: you’re not an isolated individual living on a small orb circling an unremarkable star. You’re a universal being because of your connection to Universal Consciousness – and you’re an individual being because you participate with Shakti (energy with universal qualities) in the evolving and involving multiverse of consciousness, energy and matter.
It’s because you’re connected to both Universal Consciousness and Shakti that you have the capacity to interact and communicate with other sentient beings on the subtle planes of energy and consciousness, even if you’re largely unaware of these interactions and the influence they have on your mental health and well-being.
Bogus Idea # 3
The foundation of mental disease can be found in the nervous system and chemical imbalances in the brain and physical-material body. First off – mental disease isn’t exactly a disease – and even if it was, it certainly isn’t caused exclusively by chemical imbalances. That’s because cause and effect relationships connect the physical-material world with the non-physical world of energy and consciousness. This means that your mental health can be influenced by negative projections and intrusions of subtle energy and consciousness as well as attachments created by people and non-physical beings. It also means that interactions between subtle energy and consciousness can create chemical imbalances in the physical-material body the same way stress does.
What’s more; like everyone else, you have two minds, an authentic mind of awareness and perception, which is life-affirming and has the capacity to radiate pleasure, love, intimacy and joy, and an inauthentic mind composed of the ‘I’, ego and fields of energy and consciousness with individual qualities, such as size, shape, density and level of activity that are self-limiting and interfere with the functions of your authentic mind.
Attachment to the ‘I’ can prevent you from experiencing bliss; attachment to the ego can prevent you from forming a strong, life-affirming identity, and attachment to fields with individual qualities can create blockages and self-limiting patterns as well as the internal dialogue – the incessant mental chatter that interferes with insight, intuition and discernment. In extreme cases, when the individual mind and ego has usurped enough space in your subtle field, it can become difficult, if not impossible, to express your feelings, engage in intimate relationships and participate in the normal activities of life.
The Three Aspects of Mind
Beside accepting bogus ideas, both orthodox medicine and classic psychology have been unable to create a model of mental health that is valid for everyone regardless of their gender, race, status, religion and nationality.
Fortunately, we can succeed where they’ve failed by expanding our view of the world to include non-physical dimensions and the myriad of physical and non-physical creatures that inhabit them.
Our model of mental health begins with the life force because it’s the foundation of energy, consciousness, time-space and the diversity of life that inhabits the multiverse.
It’s also the foundation of the authentic mind, which is composed of three essential elements.
On non-physical dimensions, the authentic mind is composed of the subtle field of energy and consciousness, their organs, cavities bodies and vehicles – and the energy and consciousness that nourish them.
On the physical-material level, the authentic mind is composed of the brain and nervous system and the chemicals in the body, including hormones and enzymes that influence their structure and activities.
The combination of physical-material and non-physical elements creates the third part of the human mind – the network. All three elements have their own unique capabilities and needs.
The network is particularly important because it includes the subtle connections the mind has to its individual parts and to things beyond itself. These include consciousness and energy – as well as past-life attachments to other people and in some cases to non-physical beings that have the ability to influence a human being and their mental health.
The organs of perception (sight, sensation, hearing, etc.) are also part of the authentic mind. They can be directed inward into the mind itself or outward into the external environment. When they are directed outward, they can make contact with other networks and interact with them.
A Model of Mental Health
Because of the authentic mind’s inherent plasticity, our model of mental health doesn’t require any special external conditions. It only requires three things which are interconnected and apply to everyone during all stages of life.
Space: Without space on the subtle levels, suffering – the ubiquitous symptom of mental disease – is inevitable. In your mind, space is both structural and functional. Space is located in all your subtle fields and cavities, including your auric fields, your three dantians, domains and their associated cavities, chakra fields and resource fields. Space can also be found in the network because it contains vehicles of subtle energy and consciousness that can make contact with other sentient beings.
Without internal space, emotions and creativity will become stifled, and self-awareness will be severely restricted.
Stability: Movement in the mind is anathema to mental health. A healthy mind is stable, which means nothing within it moves independently. To remain stable, your mind must remain free from attachments to people and non-physical beings for good reason: Any sentient being that has become attached to you, via network interactions, can project self-limiting and anti-self thoughts, ideas, attitudes, emotions and feelings into your mind. These intrusions move erratically and unpredictably, which is why they inevitably lead to confusion, isolation and intense suffering.
Stability also requires strong boundaries. Boundaries in the form of thin membranes surround your auric fields, dantians and their subordinate cavities, chakra fields, energy gates and resource fields.
Pushing and pulling subtle energy and consciousness through these membranes and interacting with non-physical beings weaken boundaries and allow distorted fields and alien life-forms to enter your subtle field. Intrusions of this sort will weaken your personal will and identity and interfere with your ability to stay focused.
Silence: The authentic mind doesn’t think in words or try to understand anything; it observes till it knows. That’s why static in the form of the internal dialogue can disrupt mental health. The authentic mind, when functioning as designed, gains knowledge through insight, intuition and discernment – not through chewing on words, memories or ideas that are subjective and-or constantly changing. Persistently focusing your mind on cause and effect relationships and mental chatter in order to understand ‘what’s going on’ creates attachments to distorted fields and non-physical beings and can weaken your ability to stay centered in your authentic mind.
Why is Mental Disease Contagious?
There are three reasons why mental disease is contagious: Attachments created in this life and past life incarnations, subtle projections from other people and the influence of non-physical beings.
Attachments can make you look and feel like an African fetish doll. These dolls are carved in wood and then punctured by nails and other sharp objects. The sharp objects represent attachments, like those that can puncture your subtle field. Attachments will inevitably weaken your boundaries and introduce distorted energy and consciousness into the space occupied by your mind on the levels of soul and spirit.
The effects of attachments on mental health have been recognized by spiritual adepts for millennia. Yogic texts describe two types of attachments, samskaras (past life attachments) and vasanas (attachments created in this life). According to yogic texts, they both contribute to instability by disrupting boundaries and blocking access to the centers of pleasure, love, intimacy and joy in your authentic mind.
Projections
People can project distorted fields of energy and consciousness into your subtle field. Once these projections enter your field, they can create self-limiting and anti-self attitudes, ideas and core values as well as a myriad of negative emotions and feelings that support them.
The projection of distorted energy and consciousness explains how one person can influence another person’s physical and psychological health, how adults in authority can manipulate children and how autocrats can compel people to ignore their humanity and do what they’re told.
Non-physical beings can do everything that attachments and projections can do and more. Depending on their disposition towards humanity and their complexity, they can suck vital energy from your subtle field. They can badger you with anti-self feelings and ideas and in the worst case scenario they can violate your subtle field and take control of vital elements of your soul and spirit.