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WORLDS

The Neoplatonic world of Plotinus, the worlds of the Buddha, Milarepa, Ramana Maharshi; the worlds of Lao-tse and Confucius; the Muslim’s Paradise and Hell; the Biblical and the Christian worlds of eternal beatitude or eternal damnation; the mythical worlds of the ancients and those of the savage; the worlds of all the visionaries to be found in sanatoriums everywhere. A single planet and so many worlds within which every single individual has his own world rooted mainly on how he has been tutored or brainwashed in the prime of his life and the related environment.
The world as a mirage, an illusion created by our ignorance of the truth behind it and this existence of ours in a speck of time or the apparently real, too tangible world created by our senses? Mental images which influence the individual’s destiny: “As a thing is viewed, so it appears”. [1] After exploring in a cursory way or in deep research for several decades and thrashing a lot of junk my mind settled in the Far Eastern worlds but it is still in mid air as to where to drop its anchor in this vast body of knowledge. And this is mainly due to three words, ‘mind’, ‘psyche’, and ‘subconscious’, the pillars of our being.
India, China and Tibet insistingly ring their bells within my soft convolutions inside the bony box trying to show me the jewels hidden in the three words above mentioned. Going through many texts of western psychology and psychiatry quite many similarities with far eastern doctrines are discernible, topics that are still nebulous entities. Even related scholars have no exact views and strict concordance when it comes to the subject of the mind. The human mind [2] remains it own mystery.
For many reasons my subjective word has no doubts about its objective world, it can’t deny the feelings of having a finger hammered, or the taste of a fabulous pizza napoletana, nor the fact of having lost the ocular perception of the left side of the environment or a tinnitus which prevents me from understanding the spoken word in whatever language it may reach my ears. This does not quash my serenity but this boat on a calm sea has its crew (mind, psyche and subconscious) still struggling in the search of truth even if, in the last analysis ‘truth’ is a personal concept hardly in perfect agreement with some other’s truth.
When all bodily functions are subdued and all sense perceptions are completely transcended we may reach that state known as samadhi, (the highest state of meditation, wherewith complete unity is reached) and nothing but mind exists, an experience that cannot be related verbally; there are no words which can describe it, whether we call it nirvana, moksa, satori, or whatever hence we are compelled to rely on symbols which may somehow unlock the meaning of such state, envisioned as the experience of another dimension, another indescribable and unspeakable world far beyond any sensual sensation.
It is a blackout of the normal state of mind, a complete detachment from the physical world, its surroundings and stimuli. "Give up thy life, if thou would'st live". [3] This is an important concept since when the enlightened beings who had the good venture of transcending the material world to the same do return, quite often as enlightened gurus if not as divine teachers, they bring us diverse myths, gods, religions, doctrines. Not less so this experience of another dimension often is the root of the belief of a continued existence after death where, once and for good, beyond the threshold of life other more or less pleasant states are encountered: eternal beatitude in heaven, untold misery in purgatory, eternal suffering in hell if not diverse states of reincarnation: as humans, sub-humans or some more or less happy animal. And that would be the human soul’s destiny where it not that this soul of ours is nothing but an instilled mental concept with its imaginary qualities and defects.
Our microcosmic mind frame is encaged in a conceptual macrocosm which overflows beyond time and eternity but it hardly surrenders to its inability to understand such situation hence it creates and gives life to mental images which might put it at rest. The tendency to anthropomorphise these mental creations then is understandable, we cannot live in mid air, we must have a pillar or solid ground under our feet to maintain our sanity within our allotted lifetime, concerning which in all probability a countdown started at the moment of conception, when the egg was fertilized, but since we do not exactly know when that fateful moment was for practical reasons we start the count from when the fetus did exit the womb so that we can celebrate all the happy or unhappy birthdays of our life on this beautiful planet. As we stroll along the uncertain path of life we are aware that it is a one-way only due to inexorably terminate one day, preferably far away since we dread the unknown but that 'far away' may strike any of us out of the blue and snatch us, offhand, in that fearsome unknown which bedevils our imagination.
When on the threshold of death, most mortals are psychologically and psychically unprepared [4] since the hectic pace of the present technological age leaves little space to the quest of understanding the ethereal universe within our innermost bag of skin and bones and, if any, its purpose.
What has a beginning in time must inevitably have an end in time and this is true for both our physical organism as for its own mind. At the end of the countdown nothing personal remains. Nonetheless, the fact that humans can comprehend each other means that there is also a collective mind, which imply that that which our mind evidenced during its lifetime has had its impact on the collective mind. This may be taken as axiomatic as we look at the evolutionary human progress. Therefore, while there is an indisputable termination of the individual as such we are apt to think about the purpose of life as an unintelligible dilemma. We do not know the purpose of life, but the afore discourse about a collective mind might be a useful hint.
Among the multiplicity of worlds above mentioned there is also my personal world, the world of the subconscious. A somewhat inaccessible dark cave with many gems which I have been trying to get hold of for decades but which baffled me simply because man is its own mystery. That long search is recorded in the list of essays which follows. Unwisely I have never kept a chronological order of these writings. The first one, "The Bidimensional Being" goes back to 1987 while all the others followed the setup of my www.dankalia.com in 2002 but they are randomly listed below due to my chronological inadequacy. Obviously some points of view changed in the course of time and there are a few repetitions.

submind, psyche and archetypesThe Iconoclast Life, Brains and Mind The Canvas of the Mind A Falling Drop Life is a comedy The invention of God The Alien Within Brainwashed~Exploited~Befooled The Apologue of Life Not born, not dying [Brain Jam] Mental Relativity [Quirky cerebrations] The Dead Chrysalis Lady of the Two Lands in the Shrine is Thy Name The Bi-dimensional Being Beyond Human failure Kick a stone Yoga-Tremor Therapy [Taking control of that which controls yourself] Creating dragons yins and yangs Spacetime mind: which is what? Corrigenda Ferenji, ferenji, ferenji ••• The Magic Square ••• In 361 pictures & 361 unusual wallpapers plus the I Ching Apparatus for experimental research with magnetism in biomedicine and biota The Interlaced Asymmetrical Cores Transducer The magnetic pyramid The Cavity Resonator The Cone of Gravity The pi-coil

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[ 1] W. Y.Evans-Wentz – The Tibetan Book of Great Liberation - p. 232 – Oxford University Press, 1968.
[ 2] The human mind is, from my (erroneous?) point of view, a limited entity confined to an infinitesimal part of a universe which obeys to definite physical and psychical laws that ought to be subservient to that cosmic Mind which a multitude identifies with an anthropomorphic god somewhere up there in the sky.
[3]W. Y.Evans-Wentz – Tibetan Yoga and Secret Doctrines- p.66 – Oxford University Press, 1968.
[4]I never use the word 'spiritually' defined as "concerned with or affecting the spirit or soul" since, as stated above, "... this soul of ours is nothing but an instilled mental concept."