The voice said to me, "Write something about the voice". And I wrote it down.
When I say inner voice I mean that if we think "what a good day it has been today" it says "well but it should rain more because there has been drought for a long time" with a deeper voice, and that we can feel it in a deeper part of our brain, I would say in the right center.
That voice is a different entity from us?
Is it a subordinate entity to us?
Or it is a higher entity, and what we believe it is, is only a superficial and kind manifestation of that higher being.
I have long ago differentiated three minds in myself, but these seem to function as one. Notice to the reader: what I am going to present is my interpretation of things, and I myself have created my own terminology. It works for me, it doesn't have to work for others.
The real mind:
It's the main mind that matters. The other two minds are (should be) at the service of this one. It is the one that handles (rather should handle) the emotions and the main discourse of the mind. It's who you really are, the true identity. It is the mind that asks, investigates, searches, observes, learns. It is also the decision-maker and it is vitally important that it is honest with itself and that it finds coherence. It must rule over the other two minds.
The unfolded mind:
It is, in a manner of speaking, our Jiminy Cricket. It is a kind of copy or substitute of the main mind but with two differences: it does not handle or feel emotions (but it does have the information they provide), and it sees everything that happens as a mere spectator, handling all the information. It does not make decisions, but it has all the answers that are within us. The problem is that it shuts up if you're not asked the right questions. It is the one that comes when you have a problem and you consult it with yourself doing introspection, showing us the answer and/or the way out. It is not afraid to be bold, nor to be politically incorrect. It' s like a spectator, watching everything that happens from the couch. If you don't go to it when you have a problem, it won't come on its own, and all it needs to do is make some popcorn. It neither feels nor suffers, and that is why it seems that it does not care what might happen (although it does, because you are yourself in reality, but "disidentified"), as if it knew itself to be untouchable. Although it' s always there, watching. It is vitally important to have an open dialogue with it.
The virtual mind:
It is the mind of the fictional character that we all represent in this world, the character that we present to society and that everyone can see. If it is not mastered, it is the great usurper of sovereignty who should have the main mind, to the point that it could be totally relegated. A priori, this mind should be a tool at the service of the main mind, just as the unfolded mind is. The problem is that most of the time each person identifies with the virtual mind, and not with the real one, polarizing it at all times so that misgovernment reigns. The virtual mind feeds on the emotions that the real mind handles, and polarizes them to the extreme. It is the mammalian, materialistic, biological mind... the beggar, the one that wants everything, like a badly raised child. Visceral and violent. It is the one that seeks to conquer and usurp (if necessary) all that it sees. And it will fight to the death to defend what it considers its own. Overstimulated and polarized. It is vitally important to govern it and depolarize it, and above all, to disidentify oneself from it so that the real mind assumes true identity.
Frequently, we become aware of the existence of the unfolded mind, we do not ask ourselves questions or find our own answers; we allow ourselves to usurp our particular reality, replacing it with the imposed virtual reality. The unfolded mind makes us depend on it to find the answers in all possible systemic fields (science, politics, economics, etc.). In turn, giving prominence to the virtual mind and that it usurps sovereignty from the real mind."
Sometimes such an unfolded mind is irreverent and takes a lot of trust, and can be very politically incorrect.
The biggest and greatest problem with this voice is that it is at the service of the virtual mind, and it will be exercising its work as Jiminy Cricket at the service of the desires of the virtual mind, whether conscious or unconscious. Hence the "but it should rain more..." thing, is that in our unconscious we wanted it to rain and, although the day was good, we had that thorn in our side.
So the key is to make the real mind the boss and put the virtual mind, the usurper (which in a sense does behave like an invader), in its place.
Then, that voice of the unfolded mind has the true function of being, as it were, "an entity subordinate to us"; but when the virtual mind usurps the throne, this unfolded voice is subordinated to the usurper and it seems to be a voice that is alien to us and that does nothing but annoy us.
But if we look at it and do an exercise of memory, we will see that, surely, more than once it has taken our chestnuts out of the fire, or has encouraged us as if it were our best friend.
Remember, this is my interpretation of things. If you see it differently, it doesn't have to be wrong, trust in their wisdom.
