by Ted Little

Created on: March 21, 2009

The human mind has been defined as, "The most complex and mysterious object in the universe." Yet, any honest person will grant that his or her own mind is not infallible. What is the answer to this seeming paradox? This paradox of a perfect mind producing imperfect answers. I found the work of Ron Hubbard shed new light on this ancient mystery.

Hubbard's Dianetics has this to say. The human mind has one overriding goal, and that is to survive in a somewhat hostile world. It has a profound ability to provide needed solutions, until excess pain; either physical or mental impairs this native gift. Pain so intimidating that the event itself is removed from the conscious mind, to a more primitive part of the brain capable of managing events of this nature.

The conscious mind, not wishing to confront the pain associated with the event, apparently forgets it, but the primitive mind doesn't. The primitive mind now has the ability to control, through emotions, the outcome of events. Seeing a sequence of events unfolding in present time, it detects a repetition of the previous painful event. It tries to warn the person that an old injury is about to be repeated.

If its warnings are not heeded, the primitive mind speaks in a more persuasive language of emotions, and floods the person with vague fears, and apprehensions concerning events about to happen. The person affected by these emotions may react in an irrational way, or flee the area for no reason ____ No apparent reason that is.

His conscious mind, wishing to justify his unusual behavior, will manufacture a plausible explanation to qualify his behavior. In reality a primitive part of his mind has been in complete control of his actions. Fortunately, there is a solution to this problem.

The conscious mind is a recent addition to the evolution of the mind, and not as sturdy as the primitive mind. In moments of extreme stress, the conscious mind may have no recall of an event, but the primitive mind under hypnosis can recall details of an event, even an operation performed under anesthesia.

Hypnosis is not necessary. It is possible to move a memory from the primitive mind to the conscious mind by simply recounting the event over and over to another person. Each recounting releases more and more of the repressed memory, and restores it to the conscious mind.

This procedure allows the conscious mind to confront the pain involved on an acceptable gradient. When the memory of the event reaches a conscious level, it can then be controlled in a rational way, and the irrational behavior will depart.

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