The following chain of events began with a question posted in Substack which I could not resist.
"What are you made of - Mind or Matter? Which comes first?"
Applying what I had learned previously from the Upanishads about the 4 layers of the mind, I suggested the following:
The physical part of the mind, which forms as the brain develops, can only exist because of the brain. Therefore matter must precede mind.
But the awareness or consciousness, which is what survives the death of the body, already existed before the body was formed. Therefore that part of the mind surely precedes matter.
I thought I was being quite clever.
Gabriel, who had posed the question in the first place, came back with the following response.
"Agreed. Though I would go so far as to collapse the distinction. Maybe matter is the image of the localized mind?"
That was a startling thought which took me into exploration of an entirely different concept.
Is the world of maya that we live in really only a construct of our own mind? What are the implications for our day to day activities and in our interactions with the other beings we encounter in our maya?
I have examined the idea in my Blog essay for this week.
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