Our aim should be to invert our consciousness from near sightedness to far sightedness.  However, there can be no change unless we accept the truth about ourselves.  Before the trek into the terrible barren wilderness of our limited mind circuitry it is necessary to build a conviction that we are indeed headed in the right direction of correction, because if we are to succeed we must have some degree of spiritual stamina in order to complete the journey. 

This quest is not for cowards, nor the faint hearted. We are talking about self examination. As a guidance system lets take the example of the Hebrews as a metaphor from which we can examine ourselves. Those who followed Moses through the Red Sea into the desert only lasted three days before they were complaining and wanted to turn back. Many there be that say yes, yes I want to change and grow but they can’t handle the heat. This attitude was never eradicated in the wilderness wanderings of the Hebrews, and was with them through out their trek causing them many sorrows. All but two of the multitudes died never gaining deliverance from their faulty and limited mind circuits.  They wandered and circled for 40 years in the hot desert. Their external circling was a manifestation of their inner mind network.

Do you ever feel as though you keep circling and never get out of the rut?  Wake up and realize you suffer from a short sightedness and limited mind possibility. Most people never get to the promised land of a liberated mind because they refuse to change, and re-examine what they believe.

There will always be an inner conflict when long excepted ideas that have served as bed rock foundation are confronted by more radiant light. But if our basic view of God is steadfast, in that He loves us unconditionally, then we should not fear to embrace what confronts and may contradict our core beliefs. But be forewarned and know for certain there will be the heat of the inner conflict.

The Hebrews in the wilderness kept looking back to Egypt and forgot how they were harshly treated but could only focus on the memory of their food and the security that was provided in the land of Egypt. In the land of the pharaoh their temporal needs were met, but they had no life. They were slaves to do the bidding of the overlords. They lived to eat but had no purpose. They developed a security in Egypt, but when they were pressed to move on the balked from the inner conflict.

If we can look at their history as a metaphor their experience speaks to us today.  Let’s see if we can identify some of their bondages (limited mind circuits) and try to apply them to ourselves, and what we must leave behind in our past if we want to succeed and grow into a spiritual mind. While Egypt at first was intended as blessing for Jacob and his family when they fled from the famine in the land of Canaan, their sojourn to Egypt evolved into a prison experience that necessitated a savior in the person of Moses to be sent to lead them out.

The Hebrews, as a result of living in Egypt, had to overcome the mental conditioning from 400 years of their confinement. A conditioning, that over the centuries, overwhelmed and dominated how they conceptualized reality and themselves. They developed conditioned mind circuits, with which they learned to reason.

Consider, Egypt whose culture at that time in human history, had become the most advance and civilized in the world. Who could deny and stand against the mighty achievements of the Egyptians; their temples their form of communication, their pyramids. Take, for example, Egypt’s religious and cultural affect on the Hebrews when Joseph body, after he died, was mummified in the same fashion as those during the Pharaoh’s day. Mummification was practiced as a means of preventing reincarnation so that the spirit of the deceased would never return to that body, thus insuring the person would never  have to return to this world again.

This is just a small window that indicates how Egyptian culture and religion affected the burial practices of the Hebrews, and there were many more issues that affected the minds of the Hebrews in Egypt. 

The point is that the Hebrews had developed over the centuries in the foreign land a corporate mind circuitry that they then carried with them in the Exodus or the way out. This conditioned was then passed onto their children.  This historic picture of the ancient Jews serves to illustrate the conditioning that also rests upon the entire human race, and alerts to the recognition that there is a higher ground of understanding and consciousness that must and can be attained too.

If we do not accept this being a real issue within ourselves, then we assume a position of self righteousness, and cannot grow out of our limited mind circuits.

The truth is we live in a subjective reality, and just as the universe is spinning away from it’s epi-center ( it’s beginning point), earth life is spinning away (the convolution) from an objective view of  reality; the inhabitants stunned to a kind of spiritual blindness and enveloped by a pervasive shadow world where the human race has been sentenced to live out lives in the darkness of a sub-atomic world.

But it’s not just the nature of a world subject to vanity, limited mind circuitry can also be caused by genetic transference handed down from father to son, generation after generation.  Factor in the conditioning that comes from the external environment: such as culture, media, historic tradition, religious dogma, or in the secular world of scientific knowledge, human theories that are accepted and believed to be absolutes.

This is the awful truth of our present existence and why our minds are thus conditioned to smallness, or near sightedness, preventing our ascension to higher states of consciousness.

The critical factor to understand, if we hope to escape the dilemma of  mind bondages, is that we must wake up to the fact that all humanity is in a spinning away from objective reality, deeply affected by environment and limited by the genetics we have inherited. In the failure to come to terms with this truth we continue on in the redundant limited and short sighted circles of our natural mind, circling but rarely attaining.

By and large we do not stop to consider that what we have chosen to accept as our belief system, our foundational core beliefs, is the software we calculate with. All that we process is automatically submitted to that software foundation and then our conscious thoughts are rendered by those subconscious calculations. 

Try to imagine building a bigger house in which you presently live on the existing foundation; can’t do it.  If you want to build bigger you have to have a larger foundation. If we want to function with spiritual minds (the bigger house) we must revisit our foundations, our core beliefs.