Beware Your Mind Cracks! - GODSEARCH Episode 7
Hi, this is Michael Chevak and welcome to God Search. This is podcast number seven. Seven is a holy number. It is the ancient number of perfection, ancient number of perfection. There are seven days in a week, the cycle, quarter cycle of the moon who was considered a goddess plays out through seven days.
The moon is still somewhat of a goddess to every woman every single month because her cycle follows the lunar cycle. Isn't that amazing? Isn't that absolutely amazing? Following the sabbatical, every Saturday there was a Shabbat, there was a Sabbath.
Then they had seven upon seven, which was jubilee years and festivals that went along with it these days. Seven chakras, which is part of the Hindu metaphysical system, is very popular corresponding to the seven central planets from Mercury above the crown of your head down to Uranus, pun intended, the root at the bottom, Uranus, Uranus, pretty interesting.
The same kind of thing in contemporary science begins to show up in macroevolutionary theory, which we'll talk about later when we need to reconcile some biblical problems with some evolutionary problems because seven is basically the number of years that it takes to generate massive quantities of new species, after which there is a lull, which, you know, a stasis it's called, and then more years transpires,
more eons take place, and then new waves of new species take place. Day seven is a number of harmony, central harmony to all of existence. here on the earth. It is amazing. However, now we have to deal with a problem.
Polarizations. We began to talk about polarizations. Since podcast number one, we've been dealing with polarizations. And in the last podcast, we talked about excess. We actually ended on excess. We did a little bit of a tour of good and evil.
And is there good? And is there evil? And are they equal competitors? Is there God versus the devil? All of these things are very, very controversial. And I began to talk about what I think is the fundamental problem in everything we do, whether it is personally, interpersonally, collectively, or transpersonally, is excess.
It's kind of like the yin-yang symbol, as I said last time, if you take anything to its extreme. It will create a limit, oftentimes an evil, and then it will implode on itself, explode into its opposite to balance it.
That will go to its limit, it will reach oftentimes an evil, that will implode on itself and explode into its opposite, and it keeps going around and around and around and around and around. A simple example, a diet.
Do you ever try to lose weight by controlling? Good luck. You will control it, you will lose weight, and then all of a sudden it will implode, and everything you were repressing comes back, overtakes you, you become possessed by it.
And before you know it, you're shoving chocolate cake in your face faster than your body can metabolize it, and the weight comes back. Then that continues to the point that you cannot bear yourself, you apply control again, and you lose weight, and it keeps going and going and going and going.
It's every single addiction, right? It is the source of obsessive-compulsive disorder, it is the source of everything that's wrong with control-based religion. Not that religion should not have controlling elements, you have to be able to toilet train your kids, otherwise there's a problem.
But when controlling elements are not put into place properly in the correct context, which as we've discussed before, the context is not authority systems. The context is life, how life is organized, how life is designed to produce good on all scales.
But when you do not put into play control mechanisms properly, what happens is you create mind cracks. Mind cracks. You take seven and slash it, and you know seven, you cannot divide equally. It's not even like five, which you can't divide equally, but you have four, the cardinal directions that are absolutely wonderful, and you have five, which we will talk about, because the key to this whole discussion is the mystery of the thumb,
which we will get to at the end of this thing, the mystery of the thumb. For right now, let's talk about a few examples of mind cracks. How about something impersonal first? You have a system called, let's say, free enterprise.
It's wonderful. Everyone is the commander of their destiny. They're working, they get ideas. That's great. Free enterprise then develops into capitalism, where the purpose of the free enterprise is not to serve life, but to garner huge quantities of capital.
Huge quantities of capital, and capital is great. But when you take capital out of context to life, What happens is you get capitalism where you have funny little things like young children with tiny little hands being perfect for weaving rugs and becoming enslaved in factories.
I had a few relatives and neighbors from a couple of generations ago that died in the triangle fires for immigrants. You have abuse, you have excess, and that excess goes to its extreme and creates an opposite ridiculous system called communism.
It's ridiculous system. It attempts to erase differences. It has this absurd idea that truth is an economic class. Truth is measured by an economic class. And then it's so completely deficient that they have to link it to a state being in complete charge.
It becomes authoritarian, autocratic. All of a sudden you have a nightmare called communism, which is an excess. It is equally an excess in the opposite direction to capitalism when it becomes excessive.
And the two are excessive balancing each other. And if we don't realize we're dealing with a mind crack because the human beings have invented something in their own little brains that defies how life is supposed to operate for good, meaning it doesn't function on a living God search.
Well, of course, there's a battle that ensues. And the irony is this battle takes over the entire world. So here we go where we export our excesses from capitalism into the world. It creates another excess called, you know, Marxist Leninism where the state control all of a sudden the same authoritarian systems that were in Imperial China where they were elitist and their people poverty-stricken, pick up the excess movement called communism that was there to repair our capitalism.
Then they export it from the Soviet Union into China. China now becomes our great enemy when in fact, we were involved philosophically in the incredible mindcrack, the incredible mindcrack of dualism and excess.
Dualism is the enemy of God's search. Well, don't attack it for heaven's sakes. Then you'll have a dualism on a dualism and you'll have a mess. Dualism, which fractures reality, this incredible number seven perfect reality that is harmonized by its own nature, an incredible, amazing fabric and tissue of living reality that we have in front of us.
Dualism comes in and... Blows it up, blows it up, and creates two different ideas. They oppose each other. Now you have a war, a war. Same thing happened. 1970s, women started to rebel. They needed to rebel.
Men had become excessive, excessive. They were pumping up their own power, pumping up their own ego. The value and the gift of men having dominion, not to domination by the way, dominion, where they were helping women and children and the family and guarding them and looking for enemies and making sure everyone was safe had become perverted for simple power, base and ego.
Women properly rebelled to put us in our proper space. But then from one excess, you created the other excess. So now women became very powerful. And then what happened when women became very powerful, they oftentimes imitated because of the bias in society.
They imitated the power base of men, picked up a lot of male habits, including a lot of male diseases, including like heart disease and certain kinds of cancer that were exclusively male before. It now became not a male privilege, but a privilege for women also.
And then when women became more powerful, men got lost in the mind crack, all right? And they started to pull away. They started to pull away from driven left-brained power. They became more right-brain focused.
And you had men who tended to be adolescent. They would live with women. They would have a wonderful time with women, but they wouldn't commit. They wouldn't be married. They stayed adolescent. Boys, the women became Wendy to Peter Pan.
This is excess. This is a destruction of God's search where there is unity and harmony and a dynamism. between polarities that is turned into an excess which creates polarization. Polarization. Well you see it with the red team and the blue team which is a theme that we're all dealing with and I like to bring it up.
And the red team is dealing with certain structural norms that are very very ancient, very very biblical, and important to human life. Important to human life. But as I said before it's oftentimes out of context and it's linked to a capitalism which has its own philosophical issues and it's growing and improving and evolving.
The blue team has a value for the textures and the differences. The differences in race, the differences in gender, the differences between men and women, the differences between all the different variant colors of the rainbow.
That becomes a blue specialty, a blue specialty. In fact, It's really hilarious. I can't believe that when I didn't even realize it, that I became a living symbol of that. Here's my structural norms.
It's my red suspenders and I'm wearing a blue shirt. I value the both of them in the correct context, which is life, not me. Life. But the minute you don't do that and you create a mind crack and then you create an enemy, you create a war.
And the war, as we said earlier in earlier podcasts, if you remember, I said, if anything happens to me and I die, remember one thing. Wherever there is a conflict, there is missing knowledge, missing knowledge.
So remember that when you're getting upset about politics, there's just missing knowledge there and a lot of people who won't search the knowledge that the other person has and grow and learn. Similar things happen in science all the time.
There's the classic thing that people talk about where Einstein had a difficulty harmonizing the particle theory of light with the wave theory of light. And he had to invent a new concept. And the new concept was a quantum that included both particles and waves.
These kind of dualisms, if you look for the missing knowledge, they are there. The missing knowledge is there to take care of these difficulties and these polarizations and these horrible mind cracks, horrible mind cracks.
Another example, many of us choose pleasure and money and the search for pleasure and money over our health. Well, we get the pleasure and money and then bang, our mind crack creates an unhealthy old age.
and then we complain when they don't have medical insurance for us or it costs too much or there won't be any government help when in fact we've made some lousy decisions. Everyone talks about health care but no one talks about health.
We're going to do that in the next podcast. So I want you to imagine for a second to begin to harmonize some of these incredible excesses that produce the experience we call evil, which is not supportive of life.
I'm going to give you a little example to help frame this. Remember the word evil, spell it backwards, it's live. When we do things that are not supportive of life, that are degenerate, not degenerate, degenerate, that are not supportive of life, are not supportive of the harmony and the goodness and the expansion of life and the spirit and the joy.
that goes with life, well, we have problems. So, think of the little triangle, okay? On the bottom is a plus, on the bottom is a minus. We have two views, you know, light is a particle, light is a wave, communism, capitalism.
Now, if you take this to its extreme, you create the opposite mess here. If you take this to its extreme, you create the opposite mess here. What you want to do is identify what's the problem in one, what's the problem in the other, and then you bring them together in a prayer.
The triangle becomes a prayer. If we use our mind, not in a dialectic or a war between opposites, and the philosopher Hegel was absolutely great at identifying a rather false dialectic that became very, very popular.
But if you use a triangle to imagine the harmonization of opposites, whether it's the red team or the blue team, whether it's a particle or a wave, whether it's individual self-expression and freedom versus government control, and you identify the weaknesses in each of the excesses and begin to create the vertex of the triangle.
You triangulate it so that you have a capitalist system with freedom of enterprise, which also cares about the health and the well-being of its workers. And you have workers who teach a culture of individuality, a culture of self-sufficiency, a culture of creativity economically, so they become vibrant components of the economic system.
If you begin to change the culture, so these things come together. together, we don't have a war anymore and we don't need crazy mind cracks to interfere with the unity and the truth and the amazing harmonious number seven fabric of reality.
We need a to develop a way of thinking which is harmonious with our God search. That way of thinking is a tri-electic. It's not a dialectic where one is, you know, opposing the other and then one must die so that the second component is lifted up to the second to another level and that dies to get to a this one.
That was a Hegelian dialectic. Okay. We need a tri-electic where we support the opposing things and they are both valued, they're both living, they're both components and we sift through. errors in thinking that are in each polarity and we bring them together.
We re-engineer our lives personally and the lives of our culture collectively and we bring them together in a prayer so we begin to experience in our human civilization the sublime unity and truth that is the fabric of reality.
Now I'm saying it is the fabric of reality as my God search has continuously, and I'm an old guy now, continuously revealed itself to me over 60 plus years. So remember when you're in trouble in your life where there's a conflict, look for the missing knowledge and then identify the excesses, find the polarizations, and look for the truth in each polarity and bring it together, bring it together.
The most important thing is that we value life context. Life is the authority upon which we make correct judgments, correct judgments, correct use of our supernatural mind. So our supernatural mind can operate in harmony with our natural mind and we can experience truly what scripture describes as the experience called God, which is a kind of trans natural that includes it all.
We have to be able to unify these cracks in our minds so we don't see the cracks anymore. In fact, if you look at our bodies, our bodies are remarkable. If you draw a little line down here, you'll see we are walking duality.
Oh, we bridge earth and sky. We are the only... near perpendicular animal in the entire world. We are designed to be able to contemplate the relationship between the earth and the heavens. We are a perpendicular connecting them.
But look carefully, we are also split right down the middle along with a bunch of other animals where we have left and right, left brain, right brain, left brain, tending to represent in the human species, logic functions which are called male.
It's not true, women have logic functions too. And your right brain, which tends to be more kinesthetic and more creative, it tends to be considered a female brain. It is dominant more in the female, but men have it too, obviously.
And you have left and right, and you have a right eye and a left eye. If you close your left eye, you'll notice the image will move. You close your right eye. the image will move. You're really not seeing reality.
You're seeing a brain which is compositing two views of your left and your right and bringing it together. That is triangulation. It's built right into your brain function so that you can take the duality that happens simply because you're human and that's how you process things cognitively and bring it together in your brain.
In your brain. The most important thing is to realize that there is an order here that is not obvious to our divided nature where we have two ears and two eyes and two hands. It's there's an order here and it is whole.
It is unified. It is beautiful and your God's search as you progress on this path and we will talk about the best ways to fuel your path so it zooms and and all the beauties of your God search will open up in front of you as you continue on this path.
You will increasingly see that we are living in a magnificent tissue and fabric of unity and beauty and triangulation of these opposites is a very very good way to approach things. There is an order here.
It's an order. God ordered it which is like a commandment. It's kind of a pun when you say God commanded. Well, there's an order here. Okay. If you want to view it as an order here, I mean, it's a scientific kind of perspective.
That's good. If you want to see it as God commanded it and you like that view, that's great. They're both basically the same. There are rules and regulations and design to how this works and we can't screw it up with our mind that creates mind cracks and excesses that turn into long-standing wars and conflicts that are not reconciled because.
The errors in each of the thinking is so subtle and so buried under tons and tons of thousands of years of archaeology, you cannot unveil it. So triangulation is a really, really good part. It's a good part of teaching your brain how to be really, really plastic, plastic and responsive and malleable, better word than plastic because plastics is kind of artificial and it messes up our oceans.
Malleable to taking these conflicts instead of getting emotionally, emotionally crushed, which is so, so terribly painful is to realize, aha, an excess, aha, a mind crack. Oh my God, a conflict. What can we learn?
What can we learn? wouldn't it be lovely if we trained ourselves to do that every time it came into our lives? I had a cousin, by the way, who had his, he had a first marriage that was absolutely terrible.
Terrible. It lasted for quite some time. And then one day he called me up and he says, hey, I'm dating this really absolutely wonderful lady. And I knew the first wife and I knew what she looked like.
And I knew how absolutely terrible it was. And I also know that the human mind creates mind cracks and they go from one extreme to the other extreme. Okay. One extreme to the other extreme. So I said to him immediately, oh, she's blonde.
Well, the first one had dark, dark, dark, almost jet black hair. I said, she's blonde, isn't she? He goes, yeah, how'd you know? It wasn't hard to figure out. He was emotionally triangulating. If you look in your life, you will oftentimes see you if you have a disaster with a relationship, you will oftentimes choose someone who looks opposite from the one you had the disaster to.
Then after that, you oftentimes have a relationship where you have a third in between. That's kind of like a more or less a rational combination of the two extremes. And usually there's a fourth after that, which is the right person in your life.
It's really mysterious how it works, but that's how it is because our hearts just have to work through the polarities of our mind cracks and begin to realize and re-synthesize through our human lives, the unity of everything, isn't it interesting?
Yeah, two eyes, we have two ears, we have two hands. We have one heart. It's not dual. We can discern with love. Love, great word, L-O-V-E, nice four letter word. We should use that one more. Love, we can with love, discern what are the problems in each of the cracks and begin to see with a single eye, a single eye.
Not a bad idea. Get a little help for this with our heart. Make decisions with our mind and our heart together. Fantastic strategy for changing the world. All right, we also have one liver, meaning we have to clean up and the liver is the great cleanup organ in our body.
Well, we got to do our own cleanup work too and our own work on ourselves. If you want to enter into a God search, it is not for the faint of heart. You got to look at yourself and you got to clean things up.
Okay, so just remember that there is a God search. let's not get lost in in good and evil and this was bad to you and this was good to you and this person did this to you and this person did that to you and this party is doing this to that party and that party is doing this to the party and and and this system of government is a conflict with this system and this one's a conflict with this and we should change this and it becomes that and this one changes to that and we and it keeps going and it's an absolutely horrible dance a horrible dance of cracked minds mirroring the cracks in the everyone else's minds and you have mirrors reflecting cracks upon cracks upon cracks upon cracks upon cracks upon cracks until we can't see anything anymore let's not do that let's recognize the nature of mind cracks the nature of excess identify the cracks look at the error in each of the polarizations and bring them together with a unity that comes from our heart thumbs up to that one okay opposition opposition out of mind cracks out of excess that mind cracks create opposition happens well we're actually in the universe do you see things that are opposed to each other and horribly unproductively destructive i mean you're sure there is anti-matter in nature and this matter in nature but they are nicely housed and kind of kept away from each other so that they don't cause the complete destruction of everything when they come together you know we don't have enormous natural opposition which is not part of the dynamism of life you know it's kind of like like warrior cells or phagocytes in our bodies that protect us from disease.
They go in, they attack, they oppose. But that opposition is there to protect, just like a good, clean, well-trained, virtuous army taking care of a virtuous war. Opposition in the kind of trashy opposition that we do with our minds and our mind cracks to our lives and our world.
It's a human invention, honestly. Okay, we add it to life, we take the ability to divide and oppose and we amplify it and make it worse. We need to learn from our thumbs. This is an opposable thumb. That's what it's called.
It's a very highly specialized organ. It goes with tool making so we can do things. How does it oppose? Let's learn. from our thumbs. These thumbs oppose directionally, directionally for the purpose of achieving something, like picking something up and achieving something.
The purpose of our democratic system is to have a thumb and a pointer finger, right? And they oppose each other. It's not just to oppose. You oppose for the perfect purpose of lifting something up, of doing something wonderful, of doing something glorious, of cooperating together to achieve, okay?
If either party, and it's a paradigm for what we do for our brains, if either party wins 100%, we destroy the entire system of democracy and debate, which is there, not for itself, not for the party, not for mind cracks, okay?
It's there to search for the truth, to triangulate through the polarizations and sift out with delicacy, the central truth that is there on how to take these polarities that are part of life, remove the contaminants that create polarizations, harmonize them and blend them together in a way that has the dynamism of both sides triangulated together as a prayer.
Opposition is in direction for a higher purpose. If you compost something, it gets destroyed. Nature opposes the poop you leave on the ground. But its opposition is there to turn it into fertilizer and feed new life.
So please, you can consider this podcast an extension of the previous one, which is how do you avoid a gigantic amount of evil in our world? Everyone is responsible for avoiding mind cracks. There are blue team mind cracks that are unbelievable to me from a theological and a philosophical and a scientific point of view.
There are red team mind cracks. Men are having mind cracks, women are having mind cracks, straights, gays, everyone is lost in mind cracks. Can we please enter into a God search? Go to yourgodsearch.com Enter into a dialogue, please, we need to all get on a God search which seeks for unity and seeks for truth for the purpose of expansion and goodness and to learn how to operate the incredible supernatural power of free will which we're going to begin on in the next podcast as well.
So thank you so much for being here yet again. I'm really honored that those people who here and seeing this every single week continue to do so and I'm getting good feedback. I got to change a lot of things.
I want to tighten it up a little bit and bring in guests. Bear with me as I grow. I'm just a toddler tripping over my knickers right now, but really I do thank you for being here. This is Michael Chevak for God search, uncover God, discover God, and recover God.
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Enter into a God search. It's the best adventure of your lifetime. You'll have fun too. God bless. Next time. Thank you so very, very much.