CHAPTER THREE:MOVING DEEPLY INTO THE NOW. I feel that there is still a great deal I need to learn about the workings of my mind before I can get anywhere near full consciousness or spiritual enlightenment.

No,you don't.

The problems of the mind cannot be solved on the level of the mind.

Once you have understood the basic dysfunction, there isn't really much else that you need to learn or understand.

Studying the complexities of the mind may make you a good psychologist, but doing so won't take you beyond the mind,just as the study of madness isn't enough to create sanity.

You have already understood the basic mechanics of the unconscious state:identification with the mind, which creates a false self,the ego,as a substitute for your true self rooted in Being.

You become as a "branch cut off from the vine,"as Jesus puts it.

The ego's needs are endless.

It feels vulnerable and threatened and so lives in a state of fear and want.

Once you know how the basic dysfunction operates, there is no need to explore all its countless manifestations,no need to make it into a complex personal problem.