Deep Mind often feels like an ocean with deep dark depths, full of fish and all kinds of other fascinating creatures.
Deep Mind is has become ignored. it’s such a deep, rich realm we draw on all the time.
Overview
Deep mind is where dreaming, and the imaginative life live. Creative ideas, visioning, memory, beliefs, prejudices arise from deep mind. In deep mind, deep transformation happens, that reshapes the psyche. Deep mind is a fundamental part of the recipe for life. We humans have a personal mind and a shared mind. It’s like Freud’s ‘unconscious’ mind. Deep mind is also similar to Jung’s descriptions of the collective unconscious.
It’s where the shift from the earth-consuming and climate-disruption paradigm we’re in now can shift to a sustainable Mother Nature-Archy.
Personal and spiritual practice
The following deep mind meditation and practices contribute to training the imagination, and to help build a trust in the transformation process –
Deities
Dream practice
Roots
Elements
Actions
Actions to cultivate deep mind transformation include
creative arts, such as art, story-telling, creative writing, drama, dance, music….
Deep listening
To change the current paradigm, we need to imagine how the world could be different. Visioning practices – imagining what it would be like to live is Mother Nature-Archy world – are useful for this. Do please bear in mind that even in such a world, we humans will still be – well – ‘human’, subject to greed, hatred and delusion.
It’s important to reflect on the values that guide one’s actions to reduce harm to climate, nature and people, and to use one’s imagination and creativity in this area. Scientific papers and political discourse is incredibly valuable, but what moves the dial on people’s capacity to act is usually something creative, something called forth from deep mind.
Summary