What Are We? Greetings to All... What are we?... This may seem a very simple question... And it is in-deed... The surface answer may be quite simple to answer, for we can state quite easily, with full confidence that we are Human Beings... However, the Purpose of Life, the Reason for Life, of living, of existing, is not of the surface... It is beneath, it is below the surface, it is of the 'Inner'... The Body The body, be it male or female has the mind and the emotions present... The mind, the emotions are of the 'inner ' The physical body, the 'outer'... However, to start anywhere in explanation of what life is all about, a few basic facts will do no harm... So, to the answering of the opening question, it is quite safe to say, that we are Human Beings. Common to all, are bodies. Physical bodies. Blood pumps through our veins. Many veins in fact. Miles of veins. Many kilometres of tubes... The blood is what can be described as the life of the body, as without it, we would not have a very long life at all... Air, oxygen is inhaled and pumped through our lungs, into the bloodstream to keep our bodies and brain alive Blood is needed to carry oxygen, and without oxygen, we would have a very limited life span in-deed. These may seem very basic facts, but it is necessary to start somewhere, so the start has been made... As Human Beings, belonging to the mammal species, we have the five senses common to all mammals These five senses, moderated here and there to each individual entity, are in-deed... Sight, Hearing, Touch, Tasting, Smelling... For the readers who do not wish to understand basic principles and state that some folk are blind, maybe deaf, maybe dumb etc, then the words 'moderated here and there' covers those over-critical persons. The Senses... The five working senses have their own individual job to do... It is their 'nature' It is natural for them... The eyes are for seeing... to understand the qualities of sight, of colours, of shades, of depths, etc. The ears are for hearing... to understand qualities of sounds, vibrations, tones, etc.
The skin is for touching... to understand the qualities of feeling, of hot and cold, etc. The tongue is for tasting... to understand the qualities of sweetness, bitterness, sourness, etc. The nose is for smelling... to understand the qualities of aromas... be they of the pleasant variety or the not so pleasant. The five senses operate individually... The seeing eye cannot smell, taste, hear, or touch... The nose detecting aromas cannot see, taste, feel or hear... The skin detecting touch, cannot see, hear, taste or smell... The tasting tongue cannot see, hear, smell or feel... The hearing ears cannot see, smell, feel or taste... There will be a few reading these words who will state that the tongue can in-deed feel foodstuffs, or the eye can indeed feel an object embedded in it... Very true in-deed, but those who say this, are using their brains to pick fault with these words instead of using their minds to realise that it is the Sense of Touch that feels food on the tongue and objects in the eye or ear! Taste buds detect taste... Eyes detect sight... Ears detect sounds... The nose detects aromas... Skin surfaces detect touch, feeling... and the sound vibrations that the skin can detect from amplifiers etc, is the Sense of Touch that is in action, in operation, and not the Sense of Hearing. It may appear that these points are being laboured upon, but it is important to understand the basics of our individual senses that do operative individually... and yet, also work in conjunction with each other via the brain The brain is that which 'holds', or 'houses', the mind and thought It is also an individual 'unit' or 'quality'. The brain has many talents One of them, is to coordinate the senses to work in unison and harmony... The brain can survive with all, with limited, and without any of the five senses However, none of the senses can operate very successfully individually or in conjunction with the other senses without a brain to interpret and co-ordinate It must be stressed here, that it is important to try and understand the concept, grasp the principles of the individual 'qualities' of our five senses... because the same principles of 'reasoning' are applied to more 'deeper' issues that are on later pages. The simple way of understanding the individual senses is to liken them to other parts of our bodies... For example, our feet do the walking. Our hands do the handling... They work separately, yet work in unison with the brain as the co-ordinator. The stomach desires to be filled It cares not what it is filled with... The taste buds 'control' what enters the stomach... The eyes search for the foodstuffs... The feet take the body there... The hands pick up the foodstuffs by the quality of touch...
The nose smells the foodstuff for approval... The ears listen for danger... The hands feed our mouths... Touch is working in our mouths to make sure the food is not too hot for our throats The stomach accepts what it is given and its digestion system operates to extract nutrients and to process The foodstuff is expelled. The process goes on. All body parts work in unison, yet all have their individual tasks... The kidneys do their work The lungs do their work... Yes, to understand the basics is necessary for any advancement... Walking is necessary before the action of running can be performed Learning as a child is necessary before the knowledge of an adult is acquired... and so it is with learning about what we take for granted, namely our working senses and the thing that makes it all happen... The brain... The Brain... Ah yes, the Brain is such a simple yet complicated thing Brain-surgeons around the world have much experience with this house-of-thought However, not one surgeon has ever claimed to have ever seen the actual thought in someone else s brain... You do not have to be a brain-surgeon to know that thoughts exist... We know thought exists, because we think Thought and thinking are different tenses of the same thing... However, it is of the same quality or energy... One cannot be present without the other Thinking cannot be without thought Thought cannot be... without thinking... There is no sunshine without the sun... The sun cannot be, unless sunshine is produced They are one and the same. One cannot exist without the other... Different words, same meaning, same principles... Think about it Using your own thoughts of course... Your own personal thoughts cannot be seen by anyone at all... Your own personal thoughts cannot be heard by anyone at all... Your own personal thoughts cannot be tasted by anyone at all... Your own personal thoughts cannot be smelt by anyone at all... Your own personal thoughts cannot be felt by anyone at all... In fact, your own thoughts cannot be detected by the material senses at all... There are indications of what a person may be thinking by way of actions, reactions, bodylanguage, etc, but your own personal actual thoughts cannot be realised by any person except yourself. There are various types of machinery that detect and record brain waves and their patterns... However, there is not a machine in the world that can detect what the thought is... There is definitely no machine that can know the actual contents of the thought, of the mind thinking... Sophisticated machinery can indicate this and that, but cannot detect and record
the actual thought, the actual content of thought. It is impossible. Thought cannot be tasted or touched nor be detected by the eye, nose, ear... I know what you are thinking... says everyone sooner or later to someone or other... and yet, it is pure speculation, it is simply guesswork, as we have found out when proven wrong... It is simply indications of thought we try and guess at... for in reality, we do not know what the actual thought is, in other minds In actual fact, not only can no person see our own thoughts... we cannot even see our own thought ourselves. Try it. Try seeing your thought... tasting it... hearing it... smelling it... touching it... Yes it is very difficult... So difficult that it is impossible. We can only know-of our thought. Know-of what we are thinking... Thought is thought It is the quality not of the material senses The quality, the nature of thought and thinking is not like the five working material senses... Thought is one of the most mysterious energies... and one we take for granted... The words written so far are the very basics of understanding... Understanding what life is all about Understanding the so-called Secrets of Life Understanding And if you cannot grasp the basic facts so far written, then it will be difficult for you to understand what is to come in the following pages... Understanding the five senses of sight, hearing, smelling, tasting and touching has little to do with what is to come... except that it is the understanding-the-principles of them, that are to be grasped... Then the differences between matter and spirit becomes very much easier to understand For example, to learn multiplications, divisions, adding, and subtracting numbers, then the individual numbers must be learnt If a person can only understand the numbers 1 2 3 4 5... then trying to work out what 6 + 7 becomes extremely difficult Only when a person learns the numbers of 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9, then the principles of learning what 1 + 1 becomes possible. 2 + 2 follows. 3 + 3 follows... and so on until multiplications and other mathematicals can be worked out... The Mind... The brain matter is the house of our individual mind... The mind is where our thoughts roam... It is where our thinking gets done. The difference between a dead brain and a live brain is that one has the ability to operate, to think... and the other does not. If you are reading these words, then you can be considered to have a live brain. It is one that can think. If your brain is dead, then it is not possible for you to read these words...
And yet, as many brain-surgeons will tell you, the brain-matter in a person who has just died, looks the same as it did just seconds before... It is the mechanical machines that have told him that the spark that activates the brain has disappeared... The spark-of-life has gone! It has disappeared! The brain-surgeon cannot tell you where it has gone... nor tell you where it came from either... In fact, brain-surgeons cannot even tell you what the actual-mind, what the actual-thought looks like... or what it smells like, tastes like, sounds like, or even feels like... There is little hope of them telling you where the thoughts have disappeared... No hope at all... Brain-surgeons, even with all their studies and academic knowledge behind them, are still quite puzzled by the brain. Brain-cells, the brain-stuff, the brain-matter, can be worked upon, operated on, removed, examined... They can see it, feel it, smell it, and even taste it if they are so inclined. But as far as thought goes, they are puzzled. Very puzzled indeed. So puzzled, that they keep silent about it. Brain cells are there for the mind to work in. Thought can operate with few cells just as a computer can work with limited, minimum memory-chips Without a single brain-cell, thought cannot operate. Without thought, without a brain to house the thought, the body finds it extremely difficult to survive for very long without outside mechanical means to aid and help it survive The brain, the mind, the thought is the key to the greater understandings of life itself The understanding of the words so far written is to aid you in understanding that thought is of a different nature or quality that that of what you can see, smell, taste, hear and feel Matter Anything of a material-nature-quality is that which can be realised by one or more of our five working senses If it, if something can be seen, smelt, heard, tasted or felt then it can be considered of Material Quality Other words such as matter, material, materialness, materialistic are all such words meaning the same thing Different contexts, different tenses but of the same quality. Spirit That what cannot be seen, heard, smelt, tasted or touched can be considered of a different nature-quality than matter The word used for this quality, this energy, is called spirit The word spirit is, or can be a great stumbling block for many, as it implies to them straight away, Religion This is not the case at all In fact, the word spirit simply means That which is not Material Thought is of Spirit-quality Brain matter is of Material-quality
These are the two basic qualities that exist. Matter and Spirit They are opposites. One is seen, the other unseen. One is of the inner, the other is of the outer. Hot and cold, black and white, east and west Matter and Spirit. If this cannot be understood, or grasped or accepted as fact, then please do not read any further, as your mind, for one reason or another, is either very limited in logic, in thoughtpower, or you just may not wish to understand as it disagrees with your own ideas, your own perceptions, opinions Two basic energies exist That-which-is-Material That-which-is-Spirit If your own ideas, theories, perceptions in regards to thought and mind are different from these facts and if thought cannot be understood as being of a different type of substance or quality-nature than material matter then further reading will not be able to be understood by yourself However, all is not lost, for the simple reason being that, As there are many minds, there is therefore many different levels of understanding You may be able to grasp the differences in the many various qualities and natures of substances if it is put this way Density The density of any substance is generally defined by the closeness, the compactness of atoms. Iron, steel, granite rocks, diamonds, etc, are all very hard materials Their atoms are very closely packed together A finer, more-looser, or more subtle quality can be described in the way of vegetation, of tree-matter, of flower-matter Their atoms are looser for liquid sap to run through their veins for growth to occur. Finer, lighter or more subtle of quality, is the air. The air is composed of atoms. Very loose, very light. Air is so fine it can penetrate much. Grab a handful of air and there is still air. It is very light and much finer, more subtle than the heavier densities of iron, lead, rocks and mountains. Finer than air, is ether. Ether is the substance of space. It is what is-outside of this bubble of air that holds this speck of dirt which we call Planet Earth Ether is finer, more subtle of substances that has very little resistance. It means that we can aim and toss rockets high and far into space That space can be called ether Ether can be called space. Words are words It is important not to get entangled into exact precise meanings of words as the academics tend to do so For as long as you can grasp the essence, the basics of what is being said, then it matters not what words you wish to use as a substitute The moon remains the moon no matter what word you may wish to describe it
More subtle or finer quality than ether is what we call thought Thought can move at terrific speed Faster than light it can travel and is not stopped, not impeded by anything of a more denser substance Thought can travel to the moon in an instant Thought can flash here and there. Rocks cannot stop a thought and even if the rock strikes the head to make a person unconscious, thoughts do not cease They just become thoughts of the non-conscious-nature. Thoughts With thought as being of a finer, lighter energy than of rocks, of air, of ether there is also intelligence that goes along with the mind There are varying degrees of mind Varying levels and depths of thought These varying levels, depths, planes can be described as intelligence... The minds and the thoughts of children compared to adults are varied, but the common denominator is mind-thought With these factors, intelligence is also applied Age has a bearing on intelligence, however, we all know, realise and witness that there are many children who have more intelligence than many adults especially adults who suffer mental disorders. Aging or otherwise However, no matter what the age or the state-of-being of any person, mind is present and therefore intelligence of some degree is present Intelligence is present in many varying degrees Intelligence is present in the mind The dancer must perform, before dancing is to be The mind must exist, for intelligence to be A condensed statement of the senses and the mind, may be stated in this way The working senses are superior to dull denser material matter such as iron, rocks, and the such-like Mind is higher, more superior than the five working senses of seeing, hearing, smelling, feeling, tasting And intelligence is of a higher, more superior quality than the mind Emotion There is a higher nature-quality than thought. It is of emotion. Emotion is of Spirit-quality Emotion cannot be seen, heard, tasted, touched or smelt. We can realise, know-of the reaction of emotion through anger and love
This is the physical manifestation of emotion Tears are the reaction of emotion whether it be tears of joy, tears of anger, of sorrow... Tears are the material manifestation of emotion, the result of emotion Emotion stems from the heart-chest region. The actual physical material heart is not the actual holder of emotion. The heart is just in the area of where the emotion resides, of where it emanates from. We feel it most from there The actual heart is not the holder of personal emotion. Not the owner of love... The proof of this is quite simple There have been many heart-transplants in the world to date and one person receiving another person s heart does not receive the emotions with it. The receiver of the new heart retains the emotions they started with. The emotions are not replaced or transferred here and there with the physical material heart. If this was so, then there would sure be a lot more problems around There are many experiments with pig-hearts used as human heart substitutes. The receiver still has their original emotions, and not replaced by emotions from the pig... Emotions are separate from thought and the five material senses, yet still works in conjunction. Emotion and mind work separately at times, and hence the sayings Head is over-ruling the heart Heart is over-ruling the head Everyone has experienced sights in magazines, on the television or movies that have moved the heart Certain images make the heart melt or ache The result, the manifestation of that emotion is the watering of the eyes Tears are the result, the manifestation of emotion It is a release of emotion, whether the tears be of sorrow or of joy Quite often, the mind is not involved in the thinking of images that make the heart give a warm feeling or ache Those who have experienced love, know what it is like to feel the heart actually ache No machine or person can detect what the emotion consists of Machines can detect many things. Machines can record blood-pressure changes and the such-like. We may see visual changes in a person when they become emotional but it is impossible to know what the actual emotion consists of The actual content or make-up of the emotional-feeling cannot be seen, smelt, tasted, heard or felt by touch by others Emotions can be felt by our inner-body of course However, it is the manifestation of the emotion The actual content, cannot be actually touched, or seen, or Emotion Thought Emotion is of Spirit-quality Thought is of Spirit-quality They work together, but are of separate energies This can be likened to the body with different bits of pieces that are separate, work
independently, and yet part of the body It is the same principles that apply the thought and emotion If this can be understood logically with the mind instead of just reading the words without trying to understand, then the rest is easy For many individuals, these words explaining the difference between Matter and Spirit is already known, because they have already worked it out Other individuals, never really thinking about the qualities of Matter, Spirit, emotion and mind will either accept it, reject it, or say maybe yes, maybe not There will be others, when reading such material like this, will say to themselves, I know all this, even though I have never really thought about it! The understanding, or knowing or just having the idea that two qualities exist, namely Matter and Spirit, is all you really have to know to understand the basics of what life is all about what the Meaning of Life is all about Without grasping this difference between Matter and Spirit, or, refusing to believe this, simply means more confusion for your mind The result of this confusion will simply mean that it will take a little longer for you to become, unconfused Various Realisations For all individuals confused or not Take notice of yourself knowing the words, knowing the simplicity, knowing and yet not even had thoughts of such explanations Take notice of inner-self-realisations Take notice of tingles running along various parts of your body Sometimes the arms, sometimes the legs tingle Sometimes the back, sometimes the nape of the neck tingle Hair standing on end Goosebumps Shivers of pleasure Take notice of all inner-signals Take notice of heart-talk Take notice of heart-surges, of heart-expansions These are all the signals, the signs that are showing you, telling you, indicating to you, that you are on the right path It is the message for you to keep going in this quest for further knowledge It is the quest of self-realisation which you are on now and this simply means that you are working out who you really are
What and who, is the true you What you are here for What is the purpose of your life in this bodily incarnation What lessons in the world-of-experiences you are here to learn In other words, What is life all about and what you are existing for So Be It...