SOMEBODY ELSE’S MIND!
August 27, 2008 · Print This Article
Odds are that you think that all the thoughts that occur in your head are your own. Much of what we are is a composite of what we have been exposed to right along with what we are innately. What we are innately is what we have inherited from our progenitors (parents- lineage). Have you ever heard the saying that “you are what you eat?” Dr. Ted Brower, a biochemist and nutritionist, says that because the pig’s physiology is so similar to that of humans we take on the physical characteristics of the parts of the pig that we eat regularly.
Yes! He says that those that love certain cuts of the pig take on the very same physical attributes of that particular cut. Wow!
This can easily be compared with what we are exposed to in thoughts and words and ideas. We become like that which we focus on the most. It is said that if we hate someone we become just like them. Why? Because we are so focused and perhaps obsessed with them. Thus, it can be said that we are what our minds consume.
There is a principle in the natural world that bears this out. Consider birds hatched from an egg. They immediately identify with the first thing they see moving. They follow it and mimic its every move. We’ve all seen the biologists trying to save a species dress like the mother and mimic her activities for the new born birds in order to teach them how to survive in the world and not get fixed on human behavior which would not support their ability to survive in the wild.
Now, let’s look at human behavior. Human children have the longest period of dependence on the parents and absorb all that they see and are exposed to. Not only do they have the same physical characteristics as the parents but they adopt very similar mental and emotional characteristics. It is likely that humans never stop being impressionable and moldable for most of their lives. What does that mean? It simply means that humans are much like chameleons that take on the appearance of its surroundings.
People know these things about people. Brain washers and corporate mind controllers, using techniques of mind control learned in years of marketing research are brainwashing people who are manipulated into behaviors desired by the manipulators. They use graphic images, clever jingles, constant repetition of ideas in and through various media. Did you think that we had our “own minds?”
So, as we look around us, how can we be sure that we are seeing truth? How can we be sure that what we believe is real? We become identified with the realities that we are exposed to. And all this to such a degree that we can actually see contradictions in opposition to what we believe to be true and never give it a second thought. We can know that we are being lied to and never do a solitary thing about it. We are lambs in the slaughter house. They can do anything to us they want to do.
We must realize that the person we think we are is not usually the result of our own thoughts. It is most often somebody else’s mind; somebody else’s image and idea. To a large degree, we come into this world with an impressionable slate awaiting programming. Well, if that’s the case, who can we say we are? Enormous consideration, huh? We are a composite of what we have been told, how we have treated; what we have observed through that which has been portrayed by others. Of course this has significant implications 
depending upon what we have seen and been told. If those impressions are consistent with positive, life sustaining behaviors we are in good shape but if those impressions and portrayals are life defeating and life destroying images catastrophe follows.
Is there an answer for this dilemma? Of course there is! When we realize all these factors exist, we can allow ourselves to be reprogrammed by limiting or displacing exposure to defeating self concepts and behaviors and concentrating on, or even meditating on positive behaviors. This may be accomplished by trust in God! The first step is, stop being the victim and be responsible.
Psychologists are always attempting to determine what is normal and what is abnormal often with catastrophic results. They themselves cannot help but be doubtful and conflicted in many cases. But where is the real answer? I submit to you that what is normal is found in the original creation of mankind in his state of innocence. This is normal and everything else is perverse.
Let’s examine the case of Dr. Spock, a pediatrician who began to teach parents how to parent their children and he was not even a psychologist. He taught parents not to censure or discipline their children for selfish outbursts or tantrums stating that they would grow out of it. “It’s just a phase” he said. Now I image that black people were slow getting exposed to this but we’ve caught up now in many cases. He wrote books and changed the entire landscape of parental ideologies in the country. His advice was offered in order to protect the self-esteem of the children he said. He was very popular among many people in this country.
To make a long story short, after a generation of children grew up, Dr. Spock when confronted with his own spoiled children, publicly recanted and said that he had been wrong. He said that he could not stand spoiled children after polluting generations of children. He died soon after. It matters what one believes in. Every belief is not conducive to good health and longevity. Every belief is not right. Some beliefs are deadly lullabies intended to be deceptive and destructive.
Like those baby birds that follow the first thing moving, disaster looms big if they should happen not to have benefit of the parent bird to emulate but happen to see humans when they arrive in this world. They identify with those humans and cannot exist as they were meant to exist as adult birds. Unfortunately, there is no known recovery for the birds so impressed. There is, however, every hope for the ever impressionable human who opens his heart to real truth from the most reliable source there is. Jesus Christ!
It’s a matter of trust! I am so glad I learned to trust Him. Let me be a bit more honest. My trust is not perfect yet. I should rather say I am learning to trust Him more each day. Actually, I am kind of a hard case and they say a hard head makes for a soft behind. I am frequently compelled to sit very gingerly. The bottom line is that my Father in heaven is much more of a father to me than my earthly father. I’m glad about what I becoming. The bible is clear that there is a plan to change our course, change our minds and hearts and to make us glad about what we are. One expression of this process is:
2 Cor 3:16-18
Nevertheless when one turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. 17 Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. 18 But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord. NKJV
The Bible also says that we must come to God as little children. Children are especially impressionable and trusting. AS those children observe God in Jesus Christ they become chips off the old block. They become just like Jesus. Jesus is so wonderful to look at. He is my hero.
It is very possible to become brand new. I’m on my way. Want to come? I am being born again step by step and day by day.
Rev.
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Keep up the good work! You’re on the very best track. That impresionabliliy never leaves and we can never be completely independent of outside influences. We are either being pulled into undesireable thinking without abiity to resist or we are displacing the negaives with God. We are dependent creatures like the baby birds, we follow what we see, we image on something. The unfortunate thiing is, like the bird who first sees the fox and follows him, our misjudgements can be disasterous.
Displacing evil with good as we see in God, we displace the negative with the positive.
Rev.