Q.79

When altogether new spiritual perceptions are presented to a religiously indoctrinated mind, these are perceived as being from ‘Satan’ or sheer lunacy or imagination. (L8)

This is natural since when the emotions are severely aroused and challenged, as happens when deep beliefs are contradicted, the magnetic-emotional ‘bonding-rejection’ impulses of the ego-drive immediately come into action. (L8)

Any thesis or proposal which causes the conditioned mind acute mental discomfort, dismay or puzzlement, will be rejected instantly and a whole barrage of ‘proofs’ will be summoned from the beliefs in the conditioned mind to back up such rejection. But the proofs are merely beliefs. (L8)

This is an entirely natural mental-emotional process within the purely human dimension. (L8)

Therefore, if this ⎯ my TRUTH ⎯ is offered to those whose mindsets are firmly established and conditioned by fear or strengthened by the human will to adhere to such programmed beliefs, it is only natural that the TRUTH will arouse unruly emotions and be quite violently, possibly virulently rejected. (L8)

The foregoing is a description of normal mental-emotional activity within the human dimension. (L8)

It should not be criticised since a conditioned mind is made to feel completely insecure and ‘adrift’ or ‘all at sea’ when confronted with an entirely new concept. These human idioms describe exactly what happens when an indoctrinated mind is challenged by an entirely new perception of what was previously held to be so dear, so safe, so right! (L8)

When first reading these Letters you can determine for yourselves where you stand mentally and emotionally. (L8)

Are you blocked from spiritual progress by your stubborn adherence to present beliefs? (L8)

Are you able, after due thought, to realise that all you are so sturdily upholding is only ⎯‘belief’ ⎯ irrational belief? (L8)

It is absolutely vital to your spiritual development that you should, at long last, fully understand the principles of your human mind and emotional functioning. (L8)

You think you do, but you do not understand it at all. You can only understand it by coming out of it entirely, transcending it, moving into higher dimensions of perception and experience – entering into TRUTH ITSELF. (L8)

Only then do you begin to perceive that you and every other person in the world, have lived and directed your lives almost entirely by human ‘beliefs’ ⎯ not TRUTH. (L8)