The Internet of Our Mind

If you had a computer, but no internet connection, you would be limited to only what is stored on your hard drive. You could access your documents and compose some stuff, but if you wanted to reach out and touch the world, that couldn’t happen.

In the same way, we can describe the part of our minds that is capable of touching God as the internet, and we can see that if we don’t have a connection to that internet; in other words, if our internet provider was down, we would be limited to only our own documents.

Our own documents are what we work with in everyday life, which are our thoughts and memory. These are what populate the document file, and they cannot get past this mundane filing function. Thoughts merely remember things that have happened before, play around with them, perhaps combine them in different ways that appear to be creative; but really are just reorganizing the same old stuff. Thoughts are never truly creative, they cannot see anything new, and they can’t access the internet of our mind.

Therefore, no matter how hard we think about God, or think about anything, we will never experience the true essence of it. It would be as if we are trying to log on to AOL without an internet connection. Thinking is merely a tool to keep this body of ours alive, not much different from breathing - a natural and necessary thing. But thinking cannot take us to God.

We may “think” that we have found God, or perhaps experienced God, but we have only experienced an image that our thoughts have conjured up, perhaps based on a picture or reproduction of what some artist imagined God to be (with a gray beard). Or our thoughts will take an emotional feeling and think that perhaps this feeling is God. But it can’t be; this is all coming from our tired document files of memory and thought.

To come face-to-face with God requires a break from memory and thinking. This is driven home throughout history by sage after sage. Why would the Christian contemplatives; St Teresa of Avila and St. John of the Cross, spend time in solitude and meditation, and council their students to do the same?

Long after they had experienced God at deeper levels than many of us probably have, (they were professionals!), they prayed and meditated day and night, because they had not yet accessed their spiritual internet, and they knew it.

These saints and countless others, especially from Eastern religions such as Buddhism, have offered detailed instructions on how to go about accessing this internet of our mind, but few sign up for the internet; it’s just too much trouble to hook it up! They just don’t understand what they are missing, and thought will never get them there.

This hook up is the only way to truly access God, who is far removed from our document files. When we gain access to the internet of our mind, the entire universe opens up to us, just as the internet on our computer opens us up to the world.

Thoughts get in the way when we first attempt to access the internet of our mind. Think of them as spam. Then, the thoughts calm down, and we begin to see something beyond those thoughts, beyond imagination, but now we need firewalls. So much is available (it is unlimited), that we must narrow our focus only on God, and not get carried away by other agendas. Why? Because coming face-to-face with God is what determines your destiny in the next world. It makes the difference.

So, if you ever want to access this internet of your mind, I recommend high speed optical fiber technology (meditation). Meditation cuts through all the BS quickly, and it does not proselytize – it is neutral regarding beliefs. You can keep all of your thought-induced beliefs safely tucked in your document files, and still access the internet of your mind. It’s an amazing thing.

It’s the last frontier . . .