The term mind is misleading. From my experience, as spiritual practitioners we are prone to dismiss the mind or ‘ego’ too readily. And yet there is a higher mind by which we feel guided, in which we feel safe, a mind that feels like home.

Bruce Lipton on a recent podcast talked of the conscious and the subconscious mind, which can be an interesting way of differentiating the voice that we wish would shut up from the voice that wishes it would. My understanding is in no way perfect yet my experience is that there is one eschelon of mind which is completely wild, untame, it throws up random content, continuously. How we relate to that relentless deluge of randomness is (in my mind) what can help steer us from insanity to sanity. The scary thing is that perhaps most of the time we mostly identify with the randomness. We have a thought and it carries us wherever it wants. This is perhaps why so many spiritual teachers hark on about awareness, about noticing, or noting, or observing, or witnessing. Yet personally I find it misleading and futile to consider this ‘awareness’ as something blemish-free, pure and objective. On the contrary, this awareness is stuffed full of all the qualities of divinity. Everything that we have known to be true, truly true. This awareness is not neutral, it is not empty.

Bear with me, I am still figuring this all out, and in the figuring I am noticing where I like to hang out. Perhaps you’d like to join me in noticing which parts of the random, insane, subconscious meandering mind you identify with.