Infinite are the powers of Mind.Go to page Mind is not mental, this primal degree 
of conscience. Mind/mental recently became so intrusive that we forget mind/spirit.

To tackle these questions, an opened mind is needed. But to understand, it is necessary to exceed this mind, so opened it can be. Mind, or mental, seems to fabricate thoughts without break, as an assembly line fabricates cars. Past philosophers and scholars believed in it. For them, the cerebrum was the origin of mind, and that is all. A materialist will go to the point of saying: «The cerebrum secretes thought as the liver secretes bile.» (source)Pierre-Jean-Georges Cabanis, 1802. Wikipédia  It was two centuries ago.

Since then, if our knowledge of the cerebrum has improved a little - just a little - this organ and its connexion with thought, memory or creativity remain another big mystery. Today no searcher would probably support that "the cerebrum secretes thought". But very little assume that the cerebrum is not the cause of thought. Brain is the tool, not the source. This complex organ manages a lot of functions of our marvellous physical machine. As any computer, it runs a program which it didn't made.

As for thought, the brain is just the witness and the translator. The cerebrum, finally, makes nothing else than picking up thoughts, modeling, transforming them into words and into syntax according to the model of one acquired and memorized language, and finally to express them with the aid of talking and/or writing. Universal Mind is in all things, in every place at any time. Its modulations are translated, in the sphere mental, by  thoughts. They are accepted in our brightness or aura, which is  a microcosm of the world. 

All that exists outside also exists in the brightness of our aura. Here and now is a point shining in our aura, a light spot that Castaneda calls the point of assembling. Here and now, for the actual humanity, is a grey and lifeless place which rests on logic, hyper-rationalism and materialist vision of the world and life.  We can change the position of our connecting point. We did it every night while sleeping. Now the wizards and sorcerers can do it consciously, at will.

So they attain the different possible worlds, or different positions of space and time in the same world, for instance animal or ghost demonstrations. But for the contemporary man, all thinking comes from the cerebrum. Out of reason, no escape, argue some scientists. Without reason and logic, we would be only poor madmen, they sneer, forgetting the great enlightened people, mediums, clairvoyants and all other giants of spirituality who are empty headed, resolutely and definitely empty headed people.

Empty headed all right, but far from  crazy! Then? What is the philosophers' point of view? Descartes had definitely pointed out that our reason was not alone to aim us. "Descartes separates the body and the mind (that he identifies with soul) in a dualism: the body is a sprawling substance and releases from the mechanics (thus the Descartes' theory of the animals-machines), while soul is a thinking substance. As debit, mind is mind; as assets, it is will.

Unit of two remains a prickly problem, and Descartes sees in the pineal body the place of communication between two."  (source)Wikipedia Undoubtedly Descartes assimilates soul and thought. The body, according to him, is mechanical. The brain, as organ of the body, is therefore mechanical too. How could a mechanical organ produce the thought, which is the domain of soul? The animals are machines, according to him, because they do not think. "The man is a thinking reed" says Blaise Pascal.

Descartes clearly saw the first two principles aiming us: thought and will.He did not see the third, coming from these first two  : Love from the Heart. Go to page

Descartes a bien vu les deux principes qui nous dirigent : la pensée et la volonté.Il n'a pas vu le troisième, issu des précédent : l'Amour qui vient du Coeur. Voir page But, as Wikipedia points out, Descartes can not articulate them very well. He keeps on localizing the will in the brain, when it is only true for our conscious will, which has almost no power but to allow us to stop smoking. The conscious will belongs to the same field as thinking. But it's more a wish than a will. Our subtle body use a much more powerful kind of will.

The French translators of Castaneda'sGo to page call it either the will or the intention. For my part, I prefer the term Will with a W. Unlike the conscious will, the Will is not localized in the brain, but in our subtle bodyGo to 3 personnesat the level of the navel.Go to Chakras This is an invisible tentacle rooted between the pubis and the umbilicus. This tentacle is prehensile, tactile and telepath. As the subtle silver cord and as all of our subtle fibers and  tentacles, the Will tentacle is infinitely expandable.

Its powers are limited neither by time nor by space.Go to Pouvoir et Vouloir

But almost all of us ignore its existence. In this world that virtualizes day after day, paradoxically, the field of Reality is reduced to hardware. How can? And what does it mean? We know that the virtual is not true. We also know, and we are wrong, that our dreams have no reality. We attach importance to visible and palpable things. The rough has taken precedence over the subtle. That reminds ... Say, the Will, this invisible tentacle popping out of the subtle belly is drawn from what comic?

The Mediamania made us deaf, dumb and blind. Wake up, get out of the ground. You're not a body of material. You are a being of light in three persons. Your Will, this invisible and powerful fiber, is just waiting to get to your service, instead of working without your knowing - and most often against your interest. To harness your Will, you can view it in meditation, as a large burst of light that comes from your lower abdomen, just below the navel.

Let it flow, light and powerful. Then, by a flip of the mind, get into the light. Enter into your glory. Visualize yourself as a little child, graceful silhouette dancing and spinning in the light beam. And if you turn in your Will, it becomes soft and docile. You'll have tamed and harnessed your strongest power. From that moment, you will learn to use this powerful gift. It will open your door and show your dreams. It will give back to you, one by one, your lost powers. Now the Will is your ally.Go to page