Psychological Screens
(The Nature Of Reality)
It has been written that each individual, in his own way, must change God's commandments so he can follow them. However sad, this is true. The mechanism which Man uses to do this is called, by the science of the day, the individual's Psychological Screens (see fig. #1).
Every individual resides on more than one level at the same time; in that, their everyday type operations (such as seeing, thinking, talking, and interacting with others) take place from different levels of observations and different Planes of existence--that is why we say that each individual is a Weave unto itself.
For the TwinSpecies:Human, this is more important to understand than in the lower species, such as in the case of the cat or the dog. Man must walk two paths towards their respective Destiny--while the one path must be walked alone, the other path may not be walked alone. This becomes important because of Man's ability to communicate. During the process of communicating, Man receives input from different places at the same time... not all input is understood and not all input is welcomed.
To be able to function in such a complicated world... given all the information that is being thrown at Man, the powers of creation game Man his most valuable tool--his psychological Screens. Basically, the individual's Psychological Screens reside upon the path that must be walked alone--it is a part of Alfa's makeup.
Every Individual's psychological screens consist of the conglomeration of the individual's value system, belief system, attitudes, prejudices, likes, dislikes, purposes, hidden agendas, and secret fears. We call Man's tool psychological screens because of the effect it has upon incoming and outgoing information. Any data or any concept that an individual receives will be processed through the above mentioned facets of the personality. The psychological screens will determine whether the individual will be able to accept the information or not.
The many different individual screens that go into the makeup of the Psychological Screens may also cause the individual to corrupt or to convert said information so that it fits his present-day ruling concepts. All information is passed through the psychological screens. The only freedom an individual has is to change the nature of the screens, themselves--to change the specifics of each screen; such as, the values that is attached to different people places and things; the nature of the prejudices with respect to the hidden agenda that our emotions demand, for the moment. Each individual screen can and will be modified according to the needs of the moment, according to the needs of the emotions that drive the needs of the moment, and according to the specifics we use to convert the relationships between love and punishment. While it might seem odd, it is the inner relationship between the two that drives our prejudices and our hidden agenda.
The psychological screens are closely linked to the excessive ego. If the excessive ego is large, the individual will find it very difficult to accept new, and perhaps threatening, information--regardless of its validity. If the excessive ego is small, the individual will be more willing and able to update his illusions--he will be less apt to distort incoming information.
While everyone has Psychological Screens, those who are in the process of getting rid of excessive ego can also see the need for updating the Psychological Screens... and, are more willing to do so.
Those with large excessive egos are always too busy defending themselves, their ideas, and their actions to worry about Law or Truth. The state or the needs of their emotions are more apt to be in control; as such, there is less likely that reason will govern any given moment. They remain in their present state until pain forces them to change.
One can see that all of this is linked very closely to freedoms, and Automatic-pilot.
How do Psychological Screens develop? Where do Psychological Screens come from? Psychological Screens come from many sources. They come from the baggage of previous lives..., they come from parents..., they come from the environment..., they come from brothers..., from sisters..., from friends..., from enemies..., from grandparents..., they come from just about everywhere and from everything that Man encounters.
Any input from any external stimuli, regardless of the amplitude, the duration, or the frequency, will mix with the internal state of being of an individual who is in the process of creating a breeding ground for the steering currents that will limit his future... and, Automatic-pilot now limited and/or modified by those very steering currents will produce the individual's Psychological Screens. Once in operation, it is they who will modify the incoming data which will, in turn, govern the possibilities of the final thoughts and behaviors governing the individual's reality.
The process of believing is at the very base of Psychological Screens. One must believe something to be true or believe something to be false before a screen can be developed. A simple matter of a mother or a father telling their son that holy wars are good, but political wars are bad is all that it takes for a screen to be potentially built. The belief in that screen... the intensity of the belief in that screen comes from whatever further reinforcement the child may encounter from his parents, his siblings, his friends, or from his books etc.
If the child already has a propensity to believe in a certain prejudices line of thinking (left over from previous lives), he will be even more prone to believe... to accept the reinforcement supporting this particular screen; and, thus, with respect to this particular prejudice, he will require a lesser degree of reinforcement for the screen to adhere to his personality... to his illusions of reality, and, is less likely to investigate its truth.
Because of these complex processes, it is easy for Man to develop masking strategies which protect the years of invested time it took to develop the screens themselves, regardless of validity of the truth in question. This type of protection is well known to Man. They are called defense mechanisms. Man has brought the means of defense mechanism to an art form... and thus, like any accomplish artist, does not look too kindly toward those individuals who would criticize his work.
Consequently, the relationships that Man finds himself are precarious at best; in that they are uncomfortable, fearsome, intriguing, and confusing... the list goes on and on. As a result, in order to maintain a measure of peace, an acceptable level of understanding, and love toward one another, each individual of the species Man learn the variations and manifestations of prejudice within himself before he can apply them to others. For some, this is an extremely daunting task. For still others, the task comes easier. The more open minded the individual is, the more he can see and perceive. The more closed minded the individual is, the less he can see and perceive. This simple relationship is, unfortunately, very difficult for most to see... because, most individuals believe they are open minded when, in truth, they are not.
Please take note that Psychological Screens do not exist in a vacuum, i.e., they are not an isolated phenomenon unto themselves. They are attached in many different ways, on many different levels, to steering currents and to Automatic-pilot.
There is a simple reason why steering currents, Automatic-pilot, and the Psychological Screens come about. It can be summed up with just one word--repetition! Through repetition, from whatever the source (usually from parents' teachings), man's mind becomes mentally shaped... it is molded into the image of what repetitious actions and thoughts were directed toward him during his training.
These thoughts and behaviors can be either passive, active, reflective, or interactive. There is an interactive circle that continues the process--Repetition pilots the belief system, and the belief is reinforced by repetition. This is an extremely powerful relationship that Man uses for either good or evil.
This, however, does not diminish nor does it take away from the core of an individuaL's state of being which is the seat for the propensities toward certain thoughts and behaviors... which could have been carried from lifetime to lifetime. By far, this will have the most affect upon an individual as he moves through life, with regards to what he quickly will accept or what he quickly will reject.
One of the biggest debates of our time is the nature/nurture affect. Scientist and would-be experts still argue over what shapes an individuaL's personality and associated steering currents. Is it the environment (the nurture effect, what happens to him after he is born) or is it genetic (the nature effect, what has happened to him before he was born)? Which aspect is in command of an individual's personality... what ratio between the two determines the outcome?
In the Arkashean belief system, responsibility for one's own actions is absolute--accepting the limits of freewill. It can be recognized that neither the Nature camp nor the Nurture camp can be quantified as the builder of any individual in a standard structure. Arkashean recognize that each individual, because of his karmic condition, will have varying ratios of the Nurture/Nature influence in any given moment... in any given life, depending upon what specific function that life will be serving for the individual, and depending upon the pre-birth assigned karmic lessons the individual has pre-programmed himself to learn, and finally, depending upon what lessons... what experiences Predestiny has decreed for the individual during that life.
There is, however, much hope for any individual who seeks to break the bonds of his Psychological Screens, steering currents, and Automatic-pilot. This hope, this energy, this power comes in the form of freewill. However little their may be in any given circumstance, it is nonetheless there. Through freewill, upon the path of enlightenment, the lighted points along the way will guide Man to his freedom from his bondage of Earth.
However, there is a catch. The catch is that the mere act of using One's freewill to, lets say, enact some positive behavior that is opposite to some negative behavior is not good enough to set one free.
To be freed from said behavior, one must repeat the acceptable behavior over and over again. Sometimes hundreds of times in order to have truly changed. Again, repetition is the key to forming good habits. Whether descending into Maya via repetition of inappropriate thoughts and behaviors or ascending from Maya via repetition of appropriate thoughts and behaviors, the mechanism (the due process of repetition) is the same. Through repetition comes belief, and once the belief is there, the illusion is there. Once the illusion is there, the reality is there. Once the reality is there, the individual becomes trapped within it.