A post submitted by CGI member, Morgan...

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This blog is an aperture. It is an entryway into the virtual world that leads, depending on the direction you take, into your own being, or outward into the mind's conversation about the journey into your own being. I am suddenly reminded of that song by the Amboy Dukes, ♫Journey to the Center of the Mind♫ I 'had' fond memories of the '60s (I try not to remember ANYTHING NOW). It was a time of Self Discovery, before the arrival of bad drugs and bad music and The Culture of Greed. I was incarcerated for the entire year in which that song showed up but I was relentlessly engaged in the Inward Reflection upon Self the whole time.

Perhaps there is a center of the mind BUT... to me, it would be a portal out of the mind, not a place per se. Nothing of any lasting significance or meaning is to be found in the mind and the mind KNOWS this. The mind knows what happens, or rather let us say, 'the mind thinks it knows what happens' when the attention is directed beyond the mind, which cannot be accomplished until the mind is stilled and for the mind, Stillness is Death. The mind fights you all the time. It wants all of your attention. It feeds on it. The one thing the mind refuses to contemplate is its own mortality and limitations. The Mind is the staging ground for the ego and most definitely, most definitely, it tells you what you want to hear. Then it explains the sorrow that comes from believing in what you want to hear as... well... it has many an explanation for anything. As long as it can captivate your attention, it does not care what it captivates you with.