There are three things about the mind, that men do not take into consideration, which bear specifically on the continual and unpredictable shifts in their emotional state.
The three things about your mind:
It is inseparably tied to man’s collective mind;
it is directly reflective of your genetic temperament,
and it is acutely attuned to danger.
There is a common source of all thought, a kind of collective human mind which supplies each individual mind with its ideas. This collective mind has ever shifting subdivisions relating to specific groups of people, whereby while one group is being fed certain ideas and a nearby group may be receiving conflicting ones, but regardless of the apparent local divisions of thoughts, the collective mind remains the single source for all. No matter who you are or where you are, your mind receives all of its normal thoughts from this common source for all humanity.
Although the collective mind is not visible, its existence is no subjective theory. Its reality is inescapably manifest everywhere, and all you need do is look. If you want to see, it is plainly there, at work, all the time. Yours and everyone else’s ordinary mind is totally dependent-on and completely captive-of whatever the collective mind sends you.
How your individual mind handles the neural energy that life sends you from the collective mind, directly reflects your genetic temperament. Thus, two people in the same location can receive the same thought from the collective mind and react to it differently. The thought may frighten one, and make the other angry. So while the collective mind is the source of all news, your own personal temperament is its editorial interpreter, and you can no more escape your own genes than you can the collective mind. The third feature is that everyone’s mind is constructed to be acutely alert to danger, and not just actual danger, but especially threats of danger, the handling of which is done exclusively by the mind, not by the instincts of the body.
J.