Eating Psychologically / Dead Man Explains
On the night of November 11, 2015, I had an encounter with Sir Paul Castagna who is deceased. He wanted to discuss some realization which he has in the astral world hereafter. First of all, this has value because it shows that one can make more spiritual advancement after leaving the body. One can do so even if one’s astral body does not go to a higher dimension. Even if it remains in an astral place which is adjacent to the physical world.
This is good news for flaky yogis. There is little or no chance of them attaining any of the higher astral regions. But if they can continue practice hereafter when they are left without a physical body, that will be to their advantage.
Sir Paul wanted to discuss a type of eating which we do on the psychological plane, but which we do not realize to be a form of digestion. Due to being hung up on physical food, we miss a great fact which is that we eat on the psychological level but we regard that as something else, as enjoyment for instance or as anguish as well.
When Sir Paul first arrived, I did not see or detect his presence, instead in my head, I began to hear a song of the Beatles. It was the song called “A Hard Day’s Night”. That song began playing just as it first did some years ago when it was first released on radio. I notice the crispness of the sound in my head and was just about to sing along with it, when I decided that it was not what I wanted to hear because I was in a meditation session.
The impulse to sing along with a song which appears playing in the mind, is the default operation of the mind. A yogi has to intercept this automatic response of cooperation with the activities of the mind because that is a requirement placed by Sri Patanjali Mahayogin in his Yoga Sutras. The feature of the mind, where it engages in some psychological activity through mental action or emotional feelings and where that conveys an energy of cooperation to the core-self, must be checkmated by the core-self if it is to gain freedom from mental dominance.
Even if the mind is trained not to follow that default behavior, it will on occasion, especially when it is dealing with a deeply engrained sound memory, resume the unwanted method. Therefore the yogi should patiently nudge the mind away from this behavior whenever the mind resumes it.
As soon as I stopped the mind from singing this song, I detected Sir Paul. He began to speak about his realization.
I want to explain that the singing of this song by Sir Paul in the astral world and its transfer into my mind, and my mind’s secret acquirement of the memory of when I first heard this song way back in 1964 in Guyana when my physical body was 13 years of age, was done with such rapidity that it is like it happened instantly. The mind did not reveal that it acquired the impression from Sir Paul’s mind, nor that it dug up a 50+ year memory. All of that was done secretly or covertly by the mind. It is left for the yogi to develop the sensitivity to perceive these instant mental operations. It is a wonder that student finds time to hawk about the lack of progress of others when the critical student have not developed the insight required to figure out his or her mind.
Sir Paul remarked:
- I am now realizing how the mind eats ideas. You spoke of such things before. It was abstract to me. Now that I have more time to focus into the mind; now that I am no longer occupied with the physical reality as much due to death of my instrument of participating in physical history, I am beginning to see.
- I went through some of my attachment to Beatles music. In retrospect the whole thing was child’s play, but I really was hung up with their music and really felt that their music relieved me from trauma and shift me to inner pleasure.
- Now that I see that my mind was eating the musical sounds, just the way one would eat ice-cream with the mouth. It is a wonder how the mind eats a flimsy thing like an idea and projects some satisfaction about it, when in fact nothing changed in the circumstance of the self, when the self has gained nothing but has, in fact, become more dependent on flimsy ideas and images and sounds. I wanted to thank you for directing me to meditate. I still have a long way to do to get to the bottom of my relationship to this existence.