Page 402 - THE SILENT HEALING POWER By DR. MURDO MACDONALD-BAYNE

OCTOBER 1953

We have already begun to know that 90% of our mental life is under
the surface. What we hear, see etc., through the senses is absorbed into the
mind, then it is either accepted, rejected or becomes rearranged with other

impressions previously received.
It is quite easy to see if you are wide awake, what the individual
mind is made up of, the mind of most people is a conglomeration of ideas
which become the fixed expression of the mind. Now according to what your

mind is made up of so you will accept or reject, so you are just reacting
automatically without understanding.
A great deal of our mental make-up is hereditary, we follow tradition,

a belief in religion, belief in death, hell and the devil. We follow a pattern made
for us, so we are imitators and not thinkers. We conform, we believe, we
follow, we become mere mental robots without understanding.

If you are born into a European family you will probably follow the
Christian religion. Now this religion is subdivided into the many different
dogmas, each claiming that theirs is the true path, so you generally follow the

one your parents followed, you are conditioned before you are even born.
The same applies to the Hindu and the Mohammedan. So our outlook is
more or less the result of imitations which we have inherited from past
generations. So we are caught-up in the confusion of our forefathers, we

think we know but we don’t know.
The conditions existing today are caused by the ignorance of yesterday,
and the generation to come will follow in our footsteps and will inherit our

mistakes. Unless we begin to think clearly for ourselves now, we will perpetuate the
ignorance and confusion of the past, so will the next generation do the same, if
our transformation does not take place now. The great thing is, how can
we make the world a better place to live in? We can only do this by seeing

the cause of our confusion today.
We have a great deal of knowledge, but what we need is more wisdom,
unless we see that knowledge and wisdom are not the same we will never

progress.
Knowledge, being experience and memory can never bring wisdom
into being. Wisdom is from moment to moment, whereas knowledge can

never be free from the past, from time. Wisdom is free from Time. Knowl-
edge is accumulation which is binding, wisdom is immediate and is free
from accumulation and is not binding.

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