Anthony North: Have we always had the mind we have today, or is the mind a constantly changing concept? If we read ancient mystical texts, or study concepts such as the Akashic Records, it appears we do not have a mind today that the ancients would recognize. Rather, the Akashic Records suggest a mind that is all-encompassing, holistic, and complete with all knowledge of the universe. They are a concept the mind can wander through, as if a great library of all knowledge, and all meaning.A different way of thinking: Could our ancients have understood such a concept? In ‘The White Goddess’ the writer Robert Graves put forward his idea that ancient civilizations had a different form of consciousness.Speaking of ‘lunar’ and ‘solar’ knowledge, solar is modern knowledge based on the rational, whereas lunar knowledge is intuitive and grasps things as a whole, compared to solar, which is compartmentalized, breaking knowledge up into manageable bits.Egyptologist Schwaller de Lubicz would agree. He argued that the ancient Egyptians had a totally different knowledge system to us, again seeing the world as a whole. To him, the modern mind acts as a spectator in the world, looking at things from the outside. Ancient knowledge involved taking part in the world; being connected to its totality.He even went as far as arguing that man has not evolved, but devolved to a near animal state in modern times. But more than this, he also believed that the ancient Egyptians had inherited this previous way of thinking from a previous civilization.

Data-processing mind: What kind of mind could they be talking about? Perhaps more importantly, could man have actually had a different kind of mind?Of late, a new mood has entered psychology which argues that the form of consciousness we presently have may not necessarily be the form of consciousness mankind has had since he evolved.Take, for instance, the modern computer game. We all know the stereotype of the computer nerd. Alien to many of us, he seems a different creation, existing in a reality of cyberspace and techno-babble.The stereotype is most likely a fiction, but a hint of reality can always be found behind such stereotyping. To see whether such people ARE different to most of us, during the mid-1990s a series of studies were made on computer game playing kids, including a study at the University of Washington.Although the findings do not constitute proof, evidence was found that over-use of computer games can cause a form of evolution of consciousness.For most of us, concentration is a straight forward process of clearing the mind in order to concentrate on one thing at a time. It seems this is not so with addictive computer gamesters.They seem to have evolved the ability to concentrate on several different elements in parallel. Finely tuning their minds to scan a mass of information, their consciousness is changing to form a data-processing mind in order to access the mass of information available through information technology.

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This isn't evolution, this is the same as becoming good at something with practice. How is it different than say a drummer who is playing something different with each limb, and maybe singing on top of that? You have to keep track of quite a few things at once to do that too.

Hmmm... that might help to explain why we only use a small percentage of our brains... maybe not. *shrugs
Kind of like how we can perceive no more than 4 dimensions of physical reality yet computers are able to generate images of multiple dimensions... it's just beyond most of us.
Or how many people have extra sensory perception. Those who don't possess the abilities can't really comprehend it or those who do possess it can't really explain it.
Cool Stuff.

Jungian psychology anyone?

I'm always interested in the depth of selfawareness. It is only ancient thought that seems to describe the world as a whole, and seems to place man in the middle - simply as a part of the whole. It's believed by some that mankind, in ancient time, communicated on a different plane of language. Something beyond spoken word - you know? LIke telepathy.... because everyone was more connected to the earth, and to a universal type of thought. There's just so much we'll never know.

That "We only use 10% of our brains" story is an urban myth. We use 100% of our brains.
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