“In your ordinary culture, you think of the ego as that brash and loud part of you that shows off and is very happy to talk about itself. You may say that someone who is arrogant or self-aggrandizing has a big ego, but in this text, we use the term ‘ego mind’ in a different way.
In your society, you think your brain creates your thoughts, your ideas, and your personality. As a secular society, you are repeatedly taught that thoughts arise from electrical circuits within the brain.
This is not the case. You are indeed walking around in a giant receiver of information and ideas that come through the body from the nonphysical. You literally are receiving information.
All your thoughts and ideas are not contained within the structure of the brain as you have been taught; they have been translated by the brain, the information comes through in the form of concepts actually being transmitted by the universal mind.
The ego mind is what you might consider a lower-vibration transmitting station. It contains all the negative and fearful low-vibration thoughts that have ever been thought. It is as if you are tuning into a dark and negative radio station that only talks about hateful things.
The higher mind — the universal mind, the mind of God, if you will — the consciousness that we reside in, is another station you can tune into. In that station, you can tune into inspiring ideas; motivations to do good works, peaceful, contemplative music; and other wonderful things that enliven your life and bring you information that is required for sound decision-making and all sorts of wonderful and delicious gifts.
The higher mind is the collection of thoughts that are high and loving in nature and are nonjudgmental, compassionate, creative, and appreciative of yourself and others.
These concepts are contained within the transmissions of higher mind, but if you do not understand you are the focusing device and do not know you are the one in control of what you receive, you have difficulty tapping into this higher mind because of the culture in which you live and particularly because of your culture’s focus on the body. As we have said, when you believe in the body — when you love or lust after the body and believe that it will bring you that which you need — then you are in the ego mind, the lower mind that is associated with all of these other thoughts and negativities, and you will not be able to reach the higher mind.
The higher mind — the spiritual realms, the divine realms, or the realms of miracles — is not physical and is not associated with the physical material world. Look at your thoughts to see whether you can discern which part of the mind they are coming from. Are they coming from the ego mind or the higher mind?
Spirit Of The Western Way – Wake Up To Your Power, Tina Louise Spalding, pgs. 16 – 19.
